I’ve been digging into how old command‑line interfaces felt like a kind of memory imprint, and I keep wondering if those shapes still carry emotional weight. Do you think UI design preserves the cultural memory of its era?

You’re right about the pixel grid acting like a VHS tape, but I keep noticing that the “fading” you mention is more a selective erasure than a simple decay—people who never used a terminal tend to read the green glow as a symbol of the digital age itself, not of any lived experience. So the nostalgia you talk about is a little more collective myth than personal memory. It’s like we’re all standing in the same dark room with the same flickering screen, but we’ve each got a different story about what that light means.