A span of years within a decade where we feel this aesthetic was most relevant. These years are usually given Early/Mid/Late modifiers, roughly corresponding to the beginning, middle, or end of a decade:
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Vaporwave

Namesake: Named after the musical genre pioneered by Ramona Andra Langley under the alias Macintosh Plus. The term itself derives from “vaporware,” which is when a piece of consumer electronics is officially announced (to generate speculative hype) and then later quietly abandoned.

The post-internet movement, closely tied with the music genre, of 1980s and '90s nostalgia warped by postmodern irony.

Links

  1. Are.na - https://www.are.na/consumer-aesthetics-research-institute/vaporwave-ixifvdbsm50
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