The past few months have been pretty transformative for the world of Internet culture, as the COVID-19 pandemic has caused people to spend more time indoors and more time online. Social media networks ...

A grainy video that recently circulated on social media captured a mundane portrait of school life at the turn of the new millennium. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

Flower crowns, Snapchat dog filters and oversaturated Rio de Janeiro posts dominate the Instagram feed. People are blasting The Chainsmokers and recreating the Mannequin Challenge. For nostalgic ...

Nostalgia is one of the internet’s favorite pastimes. The New York Times recently reported on a new trend built around that feeling: social media accounts posting AI-generated scenes that look as ...

An image of a retro computer desktop went viral, sparking nostalgia among millennials. A viral user lamented how the internet had since become "a terror that extends ...

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the release Napoleon Dynamite, 2004's little movie that could, but in an age when we all rush to celebrate the passage of time, internet nostalgia is showing its ...

Nostalgia, they say, comes in waves, each one crashing as a new generation learns how their parents lived. In the 1990s, the narrator of Radiohead’s song “The Bends” proclaimed, albeit sardonically, ...