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Anemoia

Nostalgia for a time you never knew — the 1980s mall, the 2007 internet, the summer of 1962 — coined in 2014 and adopted by the vaporwave and Frutiger Aero revivals as the name for what they were doing. The record's entry for the feeling this dictionary sells.

Born
2014
Peak
2022
Died
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Cause of death
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First sighting
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig, 2014
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Memory @speedrun_stella · Archivist 26 May 2022

There was a version of Anemoia that went round my family group chat about a month late, presented as new. I did not correct anyone. It was, for them, new, and that has to count for something.

Definition @dotcom_debris · Coroner 2 Nov 2016

The record notes that half its entries produce anemoia in readers who were not there, and that the word is, in effect, the record's business model.

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