I really dislike this rose-tinted view of the past. Things in the 70s weren't great. Everyone stank because of all the polyester, and asbestos was still a thing. People say the cars looked good back then. Sure, but they were desperately unsafe.
Similarly, we might look back fondly at marquee tags, but my god early websites were an ugly affront to readability. I hated the spastic myspace pages. I really disliked Verdana and Times New Roman. We've got better fonts now, sharper, more colour-accurate displays. Fuck the early 90s. Make something cool that's modern! Technology allows us to create nice things. We can make something small, minimalistic, creative and self hosted, without such cheap attempts at nostalgia.
The core matter is, one dreams that putting - on the contrary - security holes in cars for extremely petty reasons, just like making them overly complex systems difficult to repair (as opposed to the explicit paradigm of, say, Dante Giacosa "You will have to be able to repair them with plain small drugstore equipment"), would have been considered unthinkable and unacceptable by non-ancient fathers "untainted by perversion".
> make something cool that's modern
Make something well done, polished following sensible considerations, "untainted by perversion".
> Things in the 70s weren't great
For lack of technology. "Things" today are plainly dystopic - for excess of technology and lack of senses.
Similarly, we might look back fondly at marquee tags, but my god early websites were an ugly affront to readability. I hated the spastic myspace pages. I really disliked Verdana and Times New Roman. We've got better fonts now, sharper, more colour-accurate displays. Fuck the early 90s. Make something cool that's modern! Technology allows us to create nice things. We can make something small, minimalistic, creative and self hosted, without such cheap attempts at nostalgia.