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There is no hard line, just what you yourself would feel silly reenacting.
So just brush the dust off that office beige PC and CRT monitor and have a lan party with your friends.
I feel like it would be kind of silly to reenact, like, the 1980s. Or, even though it was hugely historical, the Vietnam War. It was terrible and people who had to deal with it are still alive; what would be the point of trying to show people what it was like? Do people really have trouble imagining what life was like in the 1980s? Wasn't it basically like now, unlike, say, the 1890s?
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Destroy smartphones and limit internet access to universities and youd get back to the 1980s pretty quick.
Also downgrade the ram in your pc (which you likely wouldnt own if you weren't a nerd) to 512kb.
And do cocaine.
Society was very different in many ways: