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The video game Vice City, set in the year 1986, was released in 2002 (16 years later). It has now been 20 years since 2002. Why was there such a strongly defined nostalgia for the 80s by 2002, and why don't we have an equivalent for 2002 now?

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I'm an English wool merchant in 1100 CE. What system (if any) of accounting do I use, and how sophisticated is it?

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What was the public opinion of Churchill in Australia between the wars?

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The video game Vice City, set in the year 1986, was released in 2002 (16 years later). It has now been 20 years since 2002. Why was there such a strongly defined nostalgia for the 80s by 2002, and why don't we have an equivalent for 2002 now?	160
I'm an English wool merchant in 1100 CE. What system (if any) of accounting do I use, and how sophisticated is it?	42
What was the public opinion of Churchill in Australia between the wars?	3