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by analognoise 1556 days ago
No, I know they cost less for a while, but the 90's were 30 years ago.

That's vintage, isn't it? In the 90's, stuff from the 60's was 'vintage'. By 2022... the 90's are vintage?

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We look back on the 60s with nostalgia. The 90s? Not so much. I think that colors our definition of what is "vintage".
This might just be your perspective. No idea your age, but personally as someone who was a teen/young adult in the 90s participating in the emerging rave culture, the 90s are dripping with nostalgia.

That being said, I have to agree that the word 'vintage' evokes the 50-70s more than the 90s. Maybe the word has just come to mean that era in the english language, just like 'olden days' tends to mean a pre/semi-industrialized era that's somewhat locked in time.

Perhaps we're running out of words for the past and we simply call these eras by their decades now.