Kyle adds to it

Drew and Lynda - although Derrida would be proud of you (drew) for
generating the term "ghostmodernity," I think what you are discussing
is a necessary condition of remediation, the inscription of prior
media onto "new" media, which is material not spectral.

Of course, you could always go psychoanalytic and call it a
melancholic response to the trauma we call the 80's.

But I was a toddler then so I couldn't really say.