>>717884740
It's actually a slight bit more complicated than that.
It usually starts as a few people with an interest in something slowly learning more about how that thing used to be done long before they were around, then picking up those older things to learn more about them and actually see first hand how they worked.
Then it slowly bleeds into
>well these guys that are autistically obsessed with this stuff have it, and they kinda look smart, so I should try getting that to look smart too
Then slowly everyone starts buying in to it, it goes from being a "look how smart I look" thing to "everyone's doing this thing, I should do it too so I fit in".
It's really annoying because then shit ends up getting so meta that you have to explain to people
>no I don't own this to look smart or fit in, I own it because I'm genuinely interested in the subject matter
t. got into vintage computers because I like low level development, learning about how hardware works on a fundamental level, and the development of computers through history, and now have to share a space with mouth breathing wintodlers trying to bumble through a DOS prompt so they can brag about playing shareware doom to their friends on reddit
