George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽What year do you consider vintage?
Sterling Ericsson@georgetakei If it's more than 15 years old, then you're edging into an entirely new generation of people reaching adulthood since that time point.
So I'd consider anything older than that vintage.
Cleo of Topless Topics@georgetakei I prefer to call it "retro" and I go by video games, so, Sega Genesis or SNES. I still refuse to call the Gamecube retro XD
@toplesstopics @georgetakei The Gamecube came out in 2001. There are people born on the day it came out that have been able to drink alcohol in the US for 2 years now.
So...yeah, that's retro.
Charlie@georgetakei I dunno, 20 years old seems vintage so… 2003; give or take. Give a generation enough time to get out of highschool and spend a year or two suffering with the rest of us
KolaMagpie@georgetakei "vintage" just means older than [my birth year] - 5 years, clearly XD
Lawrence@georgetakei go to your room!
Sam J Sharpe@georgetakei when we're you born?
Ash_Crow@georgetakei depends on what we are talking about. For a vintage car, I'd say older than a century, give or take.
For a vintage video game, maybe a quarter or a fifth of that?
Wolf Munroe ☎That's hard, but given the way things are now, I would probably consider anything before the iPhone release to be vintage, because smartphones are all people know now.
George Dinwiddie@georgetakei
last Thursday. 🙃
last Thursday. 🙃
Silversalty@georgetakei
Old memories.
Smell of alcohol from early Salk polio vac clinic.
McGill grad on McGill Student Union wall TV playing spaceship captain on new scifi series.
Describing moon walk to college students with glazed eyes.
Jeremiah Driscoll@georgetakei 20 years and older, up to 99. And then vintage celebrates its 100 birthday by becoming an antique.
Daniele Pantaleo 🦥
@georgetakei when it's phased out and makes a comeback for fashion reasons (see vinyls)
Thus, since they've never stopped being manufactured, CDs are not to be considered as vintage to me
Steve's Place@georgetakei An interesting question. I consider 50's and 60's TV vintage. Clothing styles change frequently enough that those suggesting 15-20 years are probably right. The same goes for music. Shoes are probably 10 years. Vintage technology starts at 5 years, lol.
HowToPhil@georgetakei Which winery is it from?
PetterOfCats@georgetakei still waiting for 8Tracks to make a comeback.
D1g1talDrag0n@georgetakei id say 25 years like a classic car. It is weird to think of a cd as vintage but generations each grow up differently.
As a random bit of information you didn’t need, the CD has been around since 1982. The cassette tape since 1963 and LP records since 1948.
My favorite medium unfortunately never really caught on and was the MiniDisc although I do still collect CD’s since they are the best format after all.
Andrew Tempest@D1g1talDrag0n @georgetakei LPs have been around since 1948. The first discs were in the 1880s.
Mad Dog Ace Run@D1g1talDrag0n
Yup. I still buy CDs because you can get them for cheap. Also CD players these days can be had for almost nothing.
MiniDisc was pretty cool.
klx@georgetakei use of the word 'vintage' is more rude and cruel than it is inaccurate. lol
The Incredible G@georgetakei I'd go by thirty years as a standard. 90's ain't quite vintage yet, but that will change. :3
@georgetakei I base it on who was living at the time. If an item was in fashion or used by my grandparents, that is vintage.
enoch_exe_inc@georgetakei Any time prior to the decade I was born…so, the 1980s, I guess. I do expect this definition will change when I turn thirty.
@georgetakei Also, this depends on the technology behind the product. CDs are outdated tech, but the underlying technology of optical storage has come a long way. A 4K Blu-Ray disc has roughly the same proportions as a first-gen CD, yet it can store fifty times as much data.
Toadman628@georgetakei Now it's VINTAGE TO A 5 YEAR OLD as age compared to statement. Being that my youngest is near 40, I knew the name of dirt long ago.
The Doctor@georgetakei Pre-2000.
@georgetakei I like when Ab Fab's Edie found some hideous clothing from the 60's in her closet and put it on and gran told her "I think you'll find that that's not vintage, it's just old."
Wyatt (🏳️⚧️♀?)@georgetakei 1976 is the earliest 'vintage' year because it predates the Atari 2600.
@georgetakei When I was young, music was considered to belong into the "oldies" category as at least 20 years old. Based on that definition, everything 2004 and earlier would be oldies/vintage.
However, for me it depends on the object itself and their lifecycles. A simple object like e.g. a pot or cupboard and so on would need something like a hundred years to be considered vintage, for software I would say last release at least five years ago.
However, for me it depends on the object itself and their lifecycles. A simple object like e.g. a pot or cupboard and so on would need something like a hundred years to be considered vintage, for software I would say last release at least five years ago.
Fil Tribble@georgetakei Y’all are answering the wrong question. The Redwood Forest is older than any of these items in the comments but nobody talks about as vintage because it is still very fresh and alive. Vintage has to do with production and availability. If a product is not produced any more then it is out of style. Then when there are less of them around they are becoming historic. One day they will become nostalgic. But vintage happens when it is produced again or found somehow.
marcus@georgetakei
In the audio world I would say anything from the 70s and possibly 80s, depending on what it is.
For cars, I believe they have to be 25 years old or more.
@georgetakei
It all depends on the product category.
- The 1977 computer in my cellar is vintage, possibly antique.
- Recorded music media older than the year CDs first topped LPs in sales are vintage, even if they're early CDs.
- Recorded movies older than the first Bluray are vintage.
- Books from before the time when paperbacks started being routinely printed on acid-free paper are vintage, as are books adapted to screen at least twice.
- Vehicles from before fuel injection displaced carburetors are vintage.
- Furniture is vintage if it's handmade from solid wood, even if new. Particle board furniture is never vintage; it skips directly from new to junk. Veneer over real wood if it is sturdy enough that it has lasted a couple of generations.
- Appliances are vintage if they were built to be repairable.
It all depends on the product category.
- The 1977 computer in my cellar is vintage, possibly antique.
- Recorded music media older than the year CDs first topped LPs in sales are vintage, even if they're early CDs.
- Recorded movies older than the first Bluray are vintage.
- Books from before the time when paperbacks started being routinely printed on acid-free paper are vintage, as are books adapted to screen at least twice.
- Vehicles from before fuel injection displaced carburetors are vintage.
- Furniture is vintage if it's handmade from solid wood, even if new. Particle board furniture is never vintage; it skips directly from new to junk. Veneer over real wood if it is sturdy enough that it has lasted a couple of generations.
- Appliances are vintage if they were built to be repairable.
alba@georgetakei when my niece was about 4 or 5, she wanted to watch Beauty & the Beast. I rarely saw her, so it was a real treat to spend time with her.
I put the tape into the VCR, and I realized that she was there next to me, staring at the VCR.
"What's that box?".
"It plays movies. Does mom have one?".
"We have CDs!" this sweet child looks at me & says, "you must be old! Is this gonna be black and white!?".
Jfc, I had a midlife crisis that day, at the ripe old age of 22.