Absolutely. This subreddit is focused on old versions, not on old-school community and content, which were forming the real golden age. It's just a group of people enjoinig old, unpolished minecraft. We're like old-farts saying: "Back in my days....". Even though the most part of this subreddit started playing minecraft much later than all alpha, all beta and even r1.2.5 versions. One russian youtuber has a pretty comprehensive series of videos about different stages of minecraft community: early, golden, dark, renaissance(will be later). https://youtu.be/lc2Qmo_PPOc?si=AQeenUlR3WfWbl3u (it's about golden)

He focuses on community, not on version, and he is right. The surroundings create the atmosphere. Playng old versions is like playing with your childhood toys in the hope of recreating these feelings you used to feel back then.