I had a computer when I was very young, and was raised on mid 2000's internet. I saw a lot of art, memes, and weird websites. I miss when you could find weird websites with an outdated and pixelated user interface. I used to go around looking at random websites, and a lot of them were cryptic and bizarre or creepy. Some of them were quite the opposite. Either way, the aesthetic of that saturated low resolution RGB is dear to my heart. In a lot of the art that I like and create, I feel like that retro internet aesthetic carries over. One of my favorite vaporwave (I use this term loosely) visual artists uses that format of the old internet, and uses it to critique or satire culture today. That old internet style is not at all limited to this specific artist, they are just one of my favorites (Lordess Foudre). The vaporwave genre in general is full of commercial pop culture references between the 80's and mid-late 2000's. Loud, busy colorful neon imagery comes from the 80s mostly, and carries over, flip phones, old retro computers, and any old technology or software really are all probably the most important and used imagery you will see in Vaporwave art. Vaporwave is where that old digital internet art lives on. Obnoxious word art, Windows XP, etc, you see all of this in the vaporwave genre. Vaporwave is also a genre of music, and is typically a sampled 80s song that has been slowed down and looped. I believe it is supposed to sound like some kind of nostalgia fueled and drug induced 80s fever, but that isn't too important for right now. What is important is that Net.art lives on.
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