Tell me about references in older media lost on modern audiences

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Tell me about references in older media lost on modern audiences

MJP: Jun 17, 2007; Are you looking at me Senpai?; Grimey Drawer

Kilroy Was Here. I was a kid in the 80s watching Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon and I just kept on seeing that in so many places. Back then I had to ask my dad what it was.

It was lost on modern audiences before we were really a modern audience :stare:

Also another good one, in Wargames, Matthew Broderick's computer had a LOT of references that were ultramodern at the time but lost by the early 90s, e.g. acoustic coupler modems and the external box sound card thingy.

Maybe more about an older-media reference lost today, the use of the phrase "pinko" without some form of referencing it to being communist would probably cause head-scratching and googling. Maybe even WITH referencing communists.

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