If Twitter Had Been Invented In The '80s (VIDEOS)

Twitter Goes Totally '80s (VIDEOS)

These days it seems like everything old is new again. MySpace connects to Facebook. You can download and play a revamped version of the Oregon Trail on your iPhone. But what if something new -- and, not to mention, crucial to the exchange of information as we know it -- were somehow made to be old?

A viral video by the low-bandwidth-obsessed brain of web editor Jo Luijten has posed the whimsical question: "What if Twitter had been invented in the '80s?"

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Padded with 8-bit graphics, obscure 1980s easter eggs and the soothing sounds of a dial-up modem connection, the video is a plea for viewers to connect with current Twitter personality, L.A.-based actress Kinna McInroe.

McInore, who played Nina in the movie "Office Space," has also contributed to other similarly campy throwback content on Luijten's website, Squirrel-Monkey, such as a 90s-style spoof of Facebook.

The site also features Luijten's nostalgic send-ups of Google and popular apps like Angry Birds and Draw Something.

Luijten told Wired that he dreamed up the concept for "creating a nonexistent world in the past" after watching the BBC program "Look Around You," which parodies educational shows from the 70s and 80s.

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