hyper2What is the newest thing you can legitimately historically re-enact?
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If you can historically re-enact the 1890s, can you do the 1990s? Where does it end?
What is 2000s club night if not an immersive historical re-enactment?
Define “legitimate”.
If you want to go for comedic reenactment, Saturday Night Live does it for events within a week.
I feel like I’ve been historically recreating the previous day for the past few years.
The assault on the Capitol
There is no hard line, just what you yourself would feel silly reenacting.
So just brush the dust off that office beige PC and CRT monitor and have a lan party with your friends.
I feel like it would be kind of silly to reenact, like, the 1980s. Or, even though it was hugely historical, the Vietnam War. It was terrible and people who had to deal with it are still alive; what would be the point of trying to show people what it was like? Do people really have trouble imagining what life was like in the 1980s? Wasn’t it basically like now, unlike, say, the 1890s?
Society was very different in many ways:
I was given a failing grade in school because I used a computer to type an essay and print it. Dot matrix gave me away. It was considered cheating back then. My Dad was so pissed he went and bought a letter quality printer so that the teacher couldn’t tell that it wasn’t typed.
And now typing on a computer keyboard is a more useful skill than typing on a typewriter.
Destroy smartphones and limit internet access to universities and youd get back to the 1980s pretty quick.
Also downgrade the ram in your pc (which you likely wouldnt own if you weren’t a nerd) to 512kb.
And do cocaine.
I reenact all of the stupid things I said during the day at 3am. Does that count?
I reenacted what I did yesterday, today.
go to work. show up to meetings. jerk it. food. sleep.
I can re-enact a person sleeping
The hard line is the 1st of Januray 1970
You can reenact the first part of NYE 1969 but you have to stop when the ball drops
Isn’t the When We Were Young festival just 90s reenactment?
You’re not wrong…
For this example, I would loosely define an event or item as historical if it was characteristic to a recognizable time period that people can instantly associate it with, or if it evokes feelings of nostalgia.
This. Anything that’s recognisably from a previous era, even if it’s just a hairstyle or a fashion trend, can be a re-enactment of that era if someone knowingly and willingly chooses to style themselves that way.
TV Movies of the week reenact things have happpened months ago..
If we’re talking re-enacting the way the folks who wear historish costumes and blank-fire muskets at each other mean it, then the cutoff is “whatever the last war was fought locally and then ended.”
If you mean it the way the folks who wear even sillier costumes, drink, and walk around with swords mean it, then the cutoff is “whenever the clothes we want to wear were last plausibly worn.”
If you mean it the way a TV reporter, producer, or academic might mean it, however, there’s no cutoff beyond “isn’t happening now.”. (There’s a famous story about someone who won the lottery after playing on a whim, was egged on by a reporter to re-enact buying the ticket, and won again.)
Cooking without any mechanical or electrical tools (including stove)
The entire 1980s? I’m not sure anyone could.
Not without bannable slurs, no
I’ve spent the last few days reenacting the Chicago Bears @ Philadelphia Eagles game. So, pretty new, I think?
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20 years is the unofficial date history starts.