I just wondered, for all the pop culture historians on this website, how long has pop culture history been a part of you, and how did you become interested in it? For me it was Back To The Future, when I first saw the movie as a child I didn't think much of it. But then I re-watched it many years later in 2010 when I was 12 and I was fascinated how the movie showed how the 50's had its own identity and so did the 80's, so I then began to wonder what the other decades were like, and this led to the strong interest I have in 20th century pop culture (and world) history all these years later. How did you become interested in this topic?

In 2012, when I was 13....I saw a bunch of '90s kids posts on Facebook and that sparked my interest in decades and the whole pop culture surrounding the 1950s-1990s. This has led me to my liking of the years 1987-1996 in particular.

I was very obsessive with my childhood in the 2000s during the mid 2010s. I just couldn't stand seeing anything related to the 2010s because it just wasn't up to my taste. Around 2016, I started to get more tolerant with the 2010s. But even with that, it's still a bit too late to say otherwise. I could say that I'm fascinated with past decades, but I'm more into my childhood nostalgia.

My whole life I've always had a huge interest in pop culture from the different decades.

2005.

I've sort of always been fascinated by the history of popular culture, but I don't think it was until roughly the early 2000s that I was familiar enough with past decades to form an impression on what was popular in the past. Before that, I distinctly remember considering 1996 an absolutely ancient year by 2002 just because it wasn't completely current.

I don't know when Backtrax USA started, but I, myself, first heard the 1980's show back in 2001. Then ever since then I was obsessed with how pop culture shifts and changes. That's how and when I became interested in the decades.

In 2012, when I was 13....I saw a bunch of '90s kids posts on Facebook and that sparked my interest in decades and the whole pop culture surrounding the 1950s-1990s. This has led me to my liking of the years 1987-1996 in particular.


TheReignMan99,

those are awesome pop culture pictures you have of the 1980's and 1990's!  8)  8)  8)

TheReignMan99,

those are awesome pop culture pictures you have of the 1980's and 1990's!  8)  8)  8)

Thanks bro 8).

I love history whcih is what got me interested in it. With decades in particular, it happened two years ago, because I started looking at music history, video game history, movie history, etc. Pop culture in general.

I never worried about it until around 4 years ago when I suddenly became nostalgic for the "good old days" when life felt more exciting. Then I discovered this place a while later.

During my late teens and early 20's when I became interested in the 80's decades.

I've told the story before, so for me this is an easy question to answer. I had been interested in pop culture since I was about 9 or 10, but my particular interest in decades and nostalgia didn't begin until February 2005. At that time, I discovered a VHS tape I had recorded off of Fox Kids in March 1994 and watched it for the first time since I was a kid. Seeing the old cartoons, bumpers and commercials on that grainy tape just gave a rush of nostalgia that I had never felt before up to that point.

In particular it was this commercial that really got to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzP-UscIg9g

I can't really explain why, but we had a Rally's fast food place near us growing up, and it was something about seeing that classic storefront with all of those big boxy cars at the drive-thru that just took me back to my childhood in a big way. I found some other old VHS tapes after that, which expanded my interest in nostalgia even further, and ultimately led me to inthe00s later in 2005.

A lot of people becoming "genre junkies" when it comes to reading books. Some people read young adult novels, others read sci-fis. Me, personally, I became addicted to reading to biographies, diaries, or just fiction books set in the 1920s-1940s (and sometimes 1890s-1910s). I also got interested in fashion changes through the decades, especially 1850s-1960s (and then later 1970s-2010s), just looking at old pictures or news reports and seeing what people were wearing (@HistoricalPics is an amazing Twitter feed for that). I also just love me some jazz! Especially 1920s-1960s.

I would say mid '00s.  I remember thinking about how my parents' generation had the 60s, 70s, and 80s, each with it's own unique and distinct identity.  I thought about how the '90s had an identity but at that point it seemed like the '00s were just a more evolved version of the '90s and didn't have their own distinct identity.  In retrospect, the '00s had a lot more of an identity than it seemed at the time, but I do think there was less of a difference between the '90s and '00s than any decade transition since the '40s into the '50s.

I have always had an interest in history. I could never really get into a lot of the pop culture from when I was a kid, so I had a big interest in a lot of cartoons from the early-mid 20th Century and I was also intrigued by events of the past. It's probably why i'm not as nostalgic about 2000s kids culture as some other people on inthe00s are. A lot of it never really appealed to me, to be honest.

In regards to the pop culture of decades, I never really gave it a second thought until last year, in all honesty. It's not something that really crossed my mind too often, until I joined inthe00s in August last year.

About 2014/2015  I became obsessed with the late 2000's early 2010's as they were the best years of my life and I missed them. I started to see how different things were in the space of a few years and that made me realise that every decade is different and there are transitional periods. So I started to become fascinated by the past!