Nostalgia, Art, and Culture

i just read glenn's resonses to a few of my last posts... and i felt like following up those comments with another post.
watch out.. it's a FLURRY OF BACK TO BACK POSTING!!!!
ok. on with the meat of the post:

i agree that it is kind of a fad, and visually i think that the generation that is in the mainstream right now (in art, fasion, etc) is the kids of the 80s.. so yeah, a lot of the 80s and early 90s style is definately coming back. i think that this style preference combined with the tendancy of new art ot be counter culture creates the visuals that we see. i am in no way waying that his style is bad... i actually quite enjoy the pixelated look of old comupter graphics and ASCII images... (but maybe that's just my age showing)
to me, besides being a bit nostaligic it also has a more minimalist effect for me. why make big elaborate webpages (for example) when you can just bust out a few words and pixels and have an entertaining site, and the minimal one will most likely be easier to navigate. but, i am not saing that all flash sites are bad... just that sometimes it's just not needed..
this topic leads to another idea, with next generation, or even just kids who are in elementary or junion-high school feel nostalgic and have a liking towards 3d rendered inages and illustrator styles? One day kids will be talking about how xbox360 and playstation 3 are "old school" just as you can see t-shirts today with the original nintendo controller printed on it with the text "know your roots". but those two will never be exactly the same, because the original nintendo was the first major (yeah, i know atari came first) home system which started this whole crazy industry rolling...
this idea of nostalgia and the cyclical nature of fasion is totally prevalent in art as it is with all history. just as fasion and mass media icons are a part of our culture so too is art, and it is not impervious to the trappings of culture.

i had a friend that had a TI-81or82... can't remember.