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Raygun Gothic

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Raygun Gothic refers to any creative work from 1900 through about 1959, predicting the future before it became possible. Think rockets and rayguns, flying cars and futuristic cities - especially if the vision never quite panned out in reality. We find this aesthetic in product design, book covers, films, radio & TV. "A tomorrow that never was". The same style as in the Fallout games, The Jetsons and so on but focused on the time period through the 50s.

See also: Raygun Gothic at TVTropes

Post and discuss anything with these aesthetics.


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So this community's instance (and mine!) -- lemm.ee -- is shutting down on June 30.

https://lemm.ee/post/65824884

I'm going to see if the posts can be migrated somewhere (tbd)

Thanks so much to everyone who made this a great place to share retro things for the last little while.

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[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Personally, no preference really, other than the instance needs to be inclusive but well moderated.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep, cool. I'm going through some stuff rn but will get something done when I can.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Some have had good results with Piefed's community migration feature.

EDIT: example: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45876780

I'm trying Piefed.social (just as a user) and am quite liking it.