Original Lore — turn your birth year into a personal nostalgia reel of the music, movies and feeling of the summer you were fifteen

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going back…

THE SUMMER OF

1991

you were 15 · born 1976

the mixtape of your year

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why this one mattered

screen · 1991

The movies you were watching

The TV shows you were binging

The games you were playing

the world that year · 1991

What things cost

What was trending

What was in the news

The gadgets you'd just got

What everyone was snacking on

What everyone was drinking

What everyone was saying

Top performing stocks that year

Worst performing stocks that year

Anything you'd add to your year?

You lived it — we didn't. Tell us what else you'd love to see here, or anything you'd show differently.

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before we begin

Original Lore is a look back for grown-ups. Are you 16 or older?

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Original Lore is for ages 16 and up. Thanks for stopping by — we'll be here when the time is right.

play your reel with sound?

Turn the sound on and the year comes alive — your #1 song, its cover art, the trailers. They stream straight from YouTube & Apple, so those two see your IP and set a cookie. Rather keep it quiet? “continue muted” loads none of that. Full details.

SET IT RIGHT

Set your year right.

You lived it — we didn't. Tell us what you'd love to see, what you'd show differently, or anything that's off.

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Image credits

Era imagery is drawn from public-domain, Creative Commons, and other freely-licensed sources (incl. UK OGL and GPL/LGPL icons). Public-domain / CC0 works need no attribution; CC-BY and CC-BY-SA works are credited below with author, license, and source. Images may be resized or cropped for display. Brand names, logos, and film/TV/game titles are trademarks or copyrights of their respective owners, shown for identification and reference only; their inclusion does not imply endorsement. Film & TV data and posters are provided by The Movie Database (TMDB) — this product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. Video-game cover art is provided by IGDB.com, and game store/platform data by RAWG. Music previews are provided courtesy of Apple / iTunes. A few non-game nostalgia cards (café table-football, Sueca, a console) use freely-licensed photographs from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0 / public domain), credited on each card. Game-console photographs are courtesy of Evan Amos / Vanamo Media (public domain) and Wikimedia Commons contributors (CC BY / CC BY-SA). Store, platform, and developer logos are drawn from Simple Icons (CC0), Material Design Icons, and Wikimedia Commons, and are shown for identification only — all trademarks belong to their respective owners.

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