This glorious GIF first appeared three years ago on the Brooklyn-based blog Best Roof Talk Ever with the genius quote: “Let 2012 be remembered as the year we brought the mid-nineties back to life with overpriced tickets to 3D renderings of things I thought I forgot about.”
The blogger, Nick Divers, is of course referring to the 2012 resurrection of murdered 90s rapper Tupac Shakur as a hologram performing to concert-goers. That year, the 1997 blockbuster Titanic (itself a nostalgic look back on 1912) was also re-released as a pricey 3D experience.
Is the technology of the future always destined to resurrect the past? It’s 2015 and I’m blogging about a GIF from 2012 about holograms from the 1990s about steamships from 1912 named after mythical beasts from ancient Greece.
Maybe in the 24th century a nostalgic Starfleet officer will recreate this very moment on the holodeck. In the 1990s, Star Trek characters were, after all, obsessed with holographic recreations of the past.