Nostalgia Blog brings back childhood memories, old habits, family moments and everyday details from simpler times. We remember school days, toys, TV evenings, retro places and small things that stayed with us. This category is for warm stories about the past and the memories many people still carry.
I’m leafing through the official guide to Belgrade Beer Fest 2013, looking at the names printed in the programme. Riblja Čorba, Alen Islamović, Kerber, Dubioza Kolektiv, Bajaga, Orthodox Celts, Partibrejkers. Just reading that list takes me back to the earlier years of the festival. To me, that was the real Beer Fest. You could go
I bought this issue of Svet kompjutera in 2009, when the first Android phone, the G1, and Google’s new mobile operating system still looked like a glimpse of something completely new. I kept the magazine, and opening it again today feels like more than revisiting an old phone review. It is a small record of
Before movie night became a menu on a screen, it often began with a trip outside the house. Renting a VHS tape meant walking into a neighborhood video store and looking along crowded shelves. You turned boxes over, read their summaries, and tried to choose the one movie worthy of the weekend. The tape might
There was a time when recording music from the radio onto cassette tapes was one of the few ways to build a personal music collection. There was no YouTube, no streaming service and no phone where you could type the name of a song and hear it immediately. If you wanted to save a song,
The games we played before smartphones, tablets and endless online entertainment often began with one simple question that could bring an entire afternoon to life: “Are you coming outside?” There was no group chat and nobody shared their location. Someone called from the pavement, knocked on a door or rang the bell. Within minutes, a
Gifts for vinyl lovers can offer much more than another decorative object. Choosing an album, carefully removing it from its sleeve and lowering the stylus onto the record turns listening into a small ritual rather than something that simply happens in the background. Well-chosen gifts for vinyl lovers can help organise a growing collection, make
Nadežda and Budimir left behind several photographs, their names in old documents, a death notice and one preserved transcript of a letter. Yet that letter does something no official record can—it gives Nadežda her voice back. In the first part of this family story, my mother Slavica spoke about the life of her mother, Slobodanka,
Some 90s TV memories begin with a favourite programme. Others begin with a remote control that has disappeared again. Nobody had moved it, and nobody remembered using it last. Everyone believed it had been on the coffee table only a minute earlier. The television was on, and a favourite show was about to begin. Suddenly,
Before streaming platforms, smartphones and endless recommendations, television had a very different place in everyday life. One programme that defined that experience was the Survival wildlife series, known to generations of viewers across the former Yugoslavia as Opstanak. A bulky CRT set stood in the corner, coffee was being prepared, and a calm voice introduced
My Svet Kompjutera magazine collection now contains 77 physical magazines and preserves more than a decade of technological change. Every issue carries a small part of the time in which it appeared. When I arrange the magazines together today, I remember the years when we discovered new games, computers, graphics cards, mobile phones and the
