The strange nostalgia of Google Street View

There's a line in the movie Kicking and Screaming — the 1995, Noah Baumbach directed, postgrad coming-of-age film — where a character half-jokingly tells a friend, "I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday."

I love that movie and I love that line. I identify with it way too much. Just...way too much.

What I'm saying is, I'm nostalgic by nature, perhaps to a fault.  

I guess it's not surprising, then, that I was struck by a wave of nostalgia while bopping around Google Street View a while back. But it was different — an odd nostalgia. We'll get to that. But first let's backtrack. 

It was 2019. So, you know, before the world turned the hellscape rating up to 11. And somehow as I fumbled around the internet I ended up on Street View, outside my childhood home in Wilmington, Delaware.  Read more...

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