going by the date of its initial release as a dev prototype, minecraft will turn ten years old on May 17 this year

there are adults now who regard minecraft (especially its soundtrack if youtube is anything to go by) as a cherished, nostalgic childhood memory the same way i think of tony hawk's underground

there are kids who were born after minecraft, who will spend their whole youth in a culture suffused with the background radiation of its influence, and who will grow up regarding it as some kind of cultural eigenvalue

i was thinking earlier about how hard it is for me to imagine that starbucks will ever go away, likely just because it's been around since a few decades before i was born - a long time from my perspective, but not particularly long at all in terms of human culture. then i thought about the concept of minecraft nostalgia and i realized that time is a spiral