You Will Never Know Nostalgia Like I Did...

[Keith Justice]

....and now........ neither will I.

It just struck me as I'm sitting at the bottom of a near limitless pit of digital entertainment that the age of nostalgia is gone.

While Voltron had only cut his last monster in half maybe four years prior to my friend Romero and I geeking out of it it, there was once a time when your favorite show left the airwaves............ that was fucking it.

There was no searching the internet for a place to buy obscure tapes, YouTube to watch it at a click, or Bit Torrent to download it from.

Finding another geek was like finding another immortal in the Highlander universe and only you two remembered the forgotten Time of Heroes. Where once you stood side by side with Rainbow Brite and Chris to stand against the Starstealer....... where you saw the first ordinance exchanged between Autobots and Decepticons............... where you stood when Optimus died.

THAT WAS IT!

I wasn't even there when Optimus was felled. My friend Bryan came back to me to tell me the tale that THE Autobot leader was gone.

While it's cool and better now that I can call up Hank, Alan, Sheila and the crew from Dungeons and Dragons, go for a beer with the Might Orbots by simply clicking on my lap......... the Time of Nostalgia is forever gone.

I'm just sayin'.

 

[Undrave]

I find myself nostalgic for other things now. Digimon for exemple evokes, more than the show itself, the friends I made on a certain message board that was my very first "Internet Home' where I made many dear friends (including some I still communicate with).

I didn't feel 'at home' on a board until I found HJU and I still feel nostalgic about the text RPGs we had back then.

 

[NAND NOR]

Looks like Keith's been drinkin' again.


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[Dark Kabuto]

But thanks to the digital age, we can experience that nostalgia again, what with youtube and bit torrents, and P2P software

 

[Gryphman]

Na, it's still around. Nastalgia is merely fond memories of things from the past. You can't kill something like that.

 

[bluesilver12]

Thats how I discovered toku. I visited my cousin in Canada back in summer 2006 and he showed me youtube for the first time. At the time, I really wanted to relive my old PR days when they were good and I stumbled upon this. Nostagia can really take you places.

 

[VengeanceGOD]

Hey man, I feel you. I remember when the only way to get certain things was bootleg videos at conventions.

Of course, now it's bootleg DVDs.

 

[Keith Justice]

Na, it's still around. Nastalgia is merely fond memories of things from the past. You can't kill something like that.

It is derived from Greek in meaning, "The pain one feels regarding the place to which you cannot return...."

But... now you can always return.

It's not a bad thing, I just noticed today that once upon a time, you could only speak of Voltron in the way that immortals in the Lord of the Rings universe talked about the years of forgotten heroes.

That Keith and the Voltron Force could remain in only one place.... in our memories.

And now... they will never become memories.

 

[Ragna "D" BloodEdge]

God, man...I know EXACTLY what you mean. From the first time I saw Mighty Orbots to the weeks I spent mourning Optimus' death in the movie...*sigh*

This is why I have 10 Veoh channels dedicated to preserving my childhood memories. And I plan on making more very soon.

 

[Fox-Chan]

Well of course you can never really revisit your childhood without being somewhat disappointed. But that doesn't mean it's not there at all and that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the shows as adults.

That twinge of excitement you feel whenever Voltron takes out his Blazing Sword and cuts a Robeast in half? That's nostalgia.

The tear on your face whenever you watch Optimus Prime's death? That's nostalgia.

Sure, you won't ever be a child again...none of us will, but the reason why there are DVDs and other paraphanelia is because people thought that their memories were worth immortalizing in tangible form.