If you can historically re-enact the 1890s, can you do the 1990s? Where does it end?
20 years is the unofficial date history starts.
The entire 1980s? I’m not sure anyone could.
Not without bannable slurs, no
I reenacted what I did yesterday, today.
go to work. show up to meetings. jerk it. food. sleep.
What is 2000s club night if not an immersive historical re-enactment?
Define “legitimate”.
If you want to go for comedic reenactment, Saturday Night Live does it for events within a week.
The assault on the Capitol
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I feel like I’ve been historically recreating the previous day for the past few years.
Isn’t the When We Were Young festival just 90s reenactment?
You’re not wrong…
There is no hard line, just what you yourself would feel silly reenacting.
So just brush the dust off that office beige PC and CRT monitor and have a lan party with your friends.
I feel like it would be kind of silly to reenact, like, the 1980s. Or, even though it was hugely historical, the Vietnam War. It was terrible and people who had to deal with it are still alive; what would be the point of trying to show people what it was like? Do people really have trouble imagining what life was like in the 1980s? Wasn’t it basically like now, unlike, say, the 1890s?
Destroy smartphones and limit internet access to universities and youd get back to the 1980s pretty quick.
Also downgrade the ram in your pc (which you likely wouldnt own if you weren’t a nerd) to 512kb.
And do cocaine.
Do people really have trouble imagining what life was like in the 1980s? Wasn’t it basically like now?
Society was very different in many ways:
- Personal computers were only just starting to become common. The Apple Macintosh launched in 1984, the IBM PC a few years before. There was no Microsoft Windows, no Linux. If you didn’t type your paperwork yourself, most large workplaces had a typing pool to do it for you
- There was no Internet. If you wanted to send a message to someone, you could write a letter and post it, or phone them, or send a telegram
- mobile phones were uncommon, and usually only in cars
- the Sony Walkman had only just come out in 1979, and you listened to your music on cassettes
- cancer, AIDS, heart conditions were almost always untreatable and terminal within years, if not months
- US involvement in the Middle East and Afghanistan hadn’t happened yet. Britain had a war with Argentina in the Falkland Islands. Ireland was still fighting with Britain
- LA Law and Miami Vice were considered cool
Personal computers were only just starting to become common. The Apple Macintosh launched in 1984, the IBM PC a few years before. There was no Microsoft Windows, no Linux. If you didn’t type your paperwork yourself, most large workplaces had a typing pool to do it for you
I was given a failing grade in school because I used a computer to type an essay and print it. Dot matrix gave me away. It was considered cheating back then. My Dad was so pissed he went and bought a letter quality printer so that the teacher couldn’t tell that it wasn’t typed.
And now typing on a computer keyboard is a more useful skill than typing on a typewriter.
Wasn’t it basically like now, unlike, say, the 1890s?
I can re-enact a person sleeping
I reenact all of the stupid things I said during the day at 3am. Does that count?
The hard line is the 1st of Januray 1970
You can reenact the first part of NYE 1969 but you have to stop when the ball drops
I’ve spent the last few days reenacting the Chicago Bears @ Philadelphia Eagles game. So, pretty new, I think?
If we’re talking re-enacting the way the folks who wear historish costumes and blank-fire muskets at each other mean it, then the cutoff is “whatever the last war was fought locally and then ended.”
If you mean it the way the folks who wear even sillier costumes, drink, and walk around with swords mean it, then the cutoff is “whenever the clothes we want to wear were last plausibly worn.”
If you mean it the way a TV reporter, producer, or academic might mean it, however, there’s no cutoff beyond “isn’t happening now.”. (There’s a famous story about someone who won the lottery after playing on a whim, was egged on by a reporter to re-enact buying the ticket, and won again.)
