Wickie and online remembrances: Surmises about a revival of the 1970s

About three years ago, a group of 30-year-olds began exchanging remembrance s of their 1970s childhood through an email forum. A non-fiction bestseller entitled 'Wickie, Slime and Paiper' was crafted out of the collected email s, and under this name an entire revival movement has emerged int he meanti me that includes club meetings, evening cabarets and other performances. Th e author here pursues the question of what the term 'online remembrances' m ight mean, why it is that memories of childhood in particular mark the imag ery of the 1970s, and why such remembrances have been so successful in Aust ria.