What do you consider “retro”?

Not exactly nostalgic, but technology and fashion that wouldn’t represent the current times. Given how quickly technology’s been evolving for the past 35 years, the dates people use for their cut-off having been getting more recent. I couldn’t blame someone for saying 2007-2010 due to the emergence of touchscreen iProducts, and saying you think stuff made before 1995 is “fairly recent” would get you labelled as an old man.

It’s a rather interesting question, as it changes the longer we live. I personally believe some point around 2005 is the last point that I can look back and say Western society was rather different (HDTV was a big new thing, cell phones were hard to use for anything other than calling, the internet wasn’t fast enough for us to post our current situation whenever we wanted), but how about you?

If I wanna talk Retro, I'd say anything from the 80's or prior. However, if we're talking from the use of the word retro from Employee's standpoint, then I would consider 2005 to be the last year of a Retro, different world.

Yesterday.

anything that's in ready player one, which is ERNEST CLINE'S HOLY GRAIL OF POP CULTURE

I'd say anything 80's/90's. It's hard to explain but anything like PS1, NES, old cartoons etc have a "retro" feeling to them.

It's somewhat subjective, but I think a piece of media would have to at least be around 7-10 years old to be considered retro. Even then, some people would say that's pushing it. For me, around 2010 would be the latest you could consider something retro, maybe 2011 at the very latest. I can't call something from 2012 retro, it just seems too recent at that point. A lot of people wouldn't consider things from most of the 2000s retro though, they might say that the 90s or maybe the early 2000s is the cut off point. I would say the 90s and early 2000s are undoubtedly retro at this point. For me, the last point when I can say that Western society was significantly different would be somewhere around 2005-2010 because of things like the rise of the internet and smartphones.

For me, the cut-off is around the mid-90's.

There's something about post 90's media that doesn't strike me as retro. I think there's definitely a quality there that for me makes some things retro and other things not, but I don't really know how to describe that, TBH.

I consider 2010 to be the cut-off date, but I'll change that to 2020 once this decade ends.

Really, when I think "retro" I think of bright flashy lights, Scanimate, and cheesy electronic music so probably the mid 80s

When I think of retro I feel like I think about it in terms of games which I might cut off in the early 2000's at this point. Really depends on what it is I guess. Other stuff I'd think of mid or early 90s. Guess the perspective just changes over time as we all get older though. This topic while be retro in no time :P