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The Last Stand said:
I'm old enough to have a vague memory of the Vine app before TikTok became its unofficial replacement. Hell, I remember MySpace and those custom backgrounds they'd have on their pages with music playing upon opening a friend's page.

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Myspace!! Honestly if they didn't try to mess it up by making it a music site now and left it as it was I would probably still use it for nostalgia's sake. Hell I remember the AOL chatroom back in the late 90s when I was first getting on the net when we used to drop our ASLs and stuff. Honestly it's kind of crazy to think of twelve/thirteen year old me just engaging in conversations with randoms without my parents being aware of what I was doing, but this was a few years before To Catch a Predator so the potential dangers of what could happen if you let your child run wild on the Internet weren't well known yet to the general public yet.
 
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Just body things. I never get to really sit for a long time, but a few weeks ago, I was able to sit down for a good 2 hours and I got back up and I felt like an Orthon squeezed me from head to heels. Speaking of, my heel that I injured again whilst recovering from a sports injury has been acting up. My ankles and wrists click on demand and will feel out of place randomly.
Businesses closing down. My husband and I were doing streetview showing each other around places we lived in, areas we had formative experiences in, and like 70% are gone. He's older than I am so it's even worse for him, but his area developed slower than mine so it wasn't too jarring in its contrast.
Also, everyone I know dying lmao.
On a jollier note, which is weird to type since I'd generally sound like an insane person for following up with this, I remember Kimveer Gill failing at his mass shooting and the media reporting on his death and hobbies, so I immediately ran to VampireFreaks and found him- read the whole of his publications before they took them down. I'm sure there is an archive, but I remember the thirst for knowledge and feeling of perhaps being one of the last people to read it live.
Stumbleupon, I used to waste time there whilst writing essays. I'd write a page and allow myself 10 clicks.
Postsecret, I used to read those as personal proto-lolcows.
Piczo. All the girls in my school had one, but I was too busy doing my user lookups on Neopets.
 
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.iota. said:
the are two words in particular that elicit my inner marge simpson grumble.

'tranny', which in my mind is simply a flamboyant gay man in drag, not a predator or 'person of gender'.
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On that note.....
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That said I came across this and this and those posts make me feel ancient. Thats right, advertisements for being able to preorder a patch for an mmo on cd months in advance of release for the oh so low cost of $9.95. The patch in question is a grand total of 81mb in size. and that was only back in 1998. Show that to a zoomer gamer now and you can already picture the absolutely shocked and dumfounded look they'd get at doing something like that and how slow the internet was at the time on dialup to need to order a cd for an 81mb patch and pay for doing so

and for shits and giggles if you think mmo sub fees are a bitch now take a look at this thats right, unlimited play for only $14.95 a month....down from $2.49 a day or $29.88 a month. For what is today a tiny commercial mmo with barely any content. Funny thing is its free on steam these days and is now open sourced. It'll run on a fucking toaster as well. I'm still shocked that after the price fuckup killed the game because everyone quit a couple idiot former devs were dumb enough to pay six figures for the rights and try to run it on their own. Unsurprisingly that didn't work out within a few years and it ended up sold back to its original developers in a weird twist of fate who also said fuck it and released the source and set up a couple free servers. Not sure why they bother running it because nobody who isn't an original player bothers with it, modern mmo players ragequit real quick after then get pk'd in ten seconds flat wandering around with low hitpoints and realizing they lose everything in their inventory and some of their stats every time they die
 
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Found a picture of my sister and me at our grandparents house. We were standing next to the HUGE console TV (with all the family photos on it). Those things were massive pieces of furniture. Theirs even had a radio. I doubt anyone born in the 80’s or older has ever seen one of those dinosaurs.
 
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deputydogshit2.0 said:
Found a picture of my sister and me at our grandparents house. We were standing next to the HUGE console TV (with all the family photos on it). Those things were massive pieces of furniture. Theirs even had a radio. I doubt anyone born in the 80’s or older has ever seen one of those dinosaurs.
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Ah the good old days when flat screens were for rich people only.
 
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Festivus said:
I keep seeing athletes with names like Kenyon Martin Jr. and I can remember their dad's Rookie years. Scottie Pippen Jr. and Tim Hardaway Jr. were in back to back games I watched the other night. :stress:
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Sports is definitely one of the big things that really has been making me feel old and I've been meaning to post about it. I'm not really a basketball guy, but I'm big into baseball and hockey in particular and it kills me sometimes when I see sons getting drafted of making their debuts at the highest professional level. Then I look up the dads and see their age and look at the last year that they played and it makes me feel a sense of dread.

For baseball in particular the 2022 draft made me feel old. The first overall selection was Matt Holliday's son, Jackson. Then right after him was Andruw Jones' son, Druw. Then in the middle of the first round, 17th overall, was Carl Crawford's son, Justin. Now to be fair, all of the dads fathered them at relatively young ages by today's standards (24, 22 and 26, respectively) so none of them are really old now, but then I look at Andruw's last game in the Majors and it was 12 years ago, Crawford's was 8 and Holliday's was 6 years ago.

I'm sure that most have tuned out of this post by this point, but for those who don't know much about baseball, those three dads combined for 47 years at the highest level, played over 5800 games in the regular season, and combined to be selected as All-Stars 17 times.
 
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Local Fed said:
Sports is definitely one of the big things that really has been making me feel old and I've been meaning to post about it. I'm not really a basketball guy, but I'm big into baseball and hockey in particular and it kills me sometimes when I see sons getting drafted of making their debuts at the highest professional level. Then I look up the dads and see their age and look at the last year that they played and it makes me feel a sense of dread.

For baseball in particular the 2022 draft made me feel old. The first overall selection was Matt Holliday's son, Jackson. Then right after him was Andruw Jones' son, Druw. Then in the middle of the first round, 17th overall, was Carl Crawford's son, Justin. Now to be fair, all of the dads fathered them at relatively young ages by today's standards (24, 22 and 26, respectively) so none of them are really old now, but then I look at Andruw's last game in the Majors and it was 12 years ago, Crawford's was 8 and Holliday's was 6 years ago.

I'm sure that most have tuned out of this post by this point, but for those who don't know much about baseball, those three dads combined for 47 years at the highest level, played over 5800 games in the regular season, and combined to be selected as All-Stars 17 times.
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Yeah it's especially prevalent in basketball because a lot of these black dudes have kids before they hit 20. It's literally gotten to the point where LeBron has played against multiple people and their sons due to his career longevity. I remember last year when Jabari Smith Jr. walked up to Lebron and told him he played against his dad in his first NBA game and then I remembered that I had watched that game too... It does make sense that some of the tallest people in the world have really tall kids who also have access to high level coaching (so they make the league) but the number of second and third generation NBA players is starting to get pretty wild. I've never really had a team in baseball or hockey so it's harder for me to get into but I did go to school with Steve Garvey's kid and everyone in my town was super bummed out when he didn't go anywhere as a prospect. Dude had rocks for brains and was the 2nd best player at our school, which didn't have any decent sports teams, so it really shouldn't have surprised anyone.
 
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Festivus said:
I keep seeing athletes with names like Kenyon Martin Jr. and I can remember their dad's Rookie years. Scottie Pippen Jr. and Tim Hardaway Jr. were in back to back games I watched the other night. :stress:
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Seeing an F1 lineup with both a Verstappen and a Schumacher is this for me. Fernando Alonso being the "old guy showing these whippersnappers how it's done" type when I can still remember his first win over 20 years ago.
 
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SomeSpook said:
GameStop actually selling games. Now they just sell faggot shit.
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They're fighting to survive and stay relevant with digital downloads.

I remember back in the day when you could go to the Hollywood Video to rent vidya. Sure it wasn't as convenient as just digitally downloading your games and streaming your movies but it was just an awesome feeling when you would be sleeping over at your friend's house and his old man would drive the two of you to the video store to rent a film or game for the evening.
 
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Derrick said:
They're fighting to survive and stay relevant with digital downloads.

I remember back in the day when you could go to the Hollywood Video to rent vidya. Sure it wasn't as convenient as just digitally downloading your games and streaming your movies but it was just an awesome feeling when you would be sleeping over at your friend's house and his old man would drive the two of you to the video store to rent a film or game for the evening.
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I was a little kid, and down the road from my childhood home was a Walgreens pharmacy. It had a RedBox movie rental thing and we'd rent movies from it, time from time. It was great. I didn't have any friends I could watch films with so I always watched them with my family. There was a Gamestop not far from there and me and my dad would get games from there for the Xbox I had. I'm saddened that kids now won't get to experience that.
 
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I was looking up pictures of the Arkbird high altitude sub orbital drone weapon from Ace Combat 5 for inspiration when I took a small trip down memory lane when I first played AC5. I got the game in 2005 when it had barely just released and in the story, the war takes place in 2010. That 5 years in the future difference felt to big at that time and really added to the future air combat feeling of the game. Now we're 12+ years past that future war in AC5.
 
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Car Won't Crank said:
I was looking up pictures of the Arkbird high altitude sub orbital drone weapon from Ace Combat 5 for inspiration when I took a small trip down memory lane when I first played AC5. I got the game in 2005 when it had barely just released and in the story, the war takes place in 2010. That 5 years in the future difference felt to big at that time and really added to the future air combat feeling of the game. Now we're 12+ years past that future war in AC5.
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So many games are like this now. I remember all the 80s/90s futuristic films that used the 2000s as this far off futuristic time. Remember Back to the Future Part 2? That took place in the far out future of 2015, which is almost a decade ago now.

My favorite futuristic piece of media is 2012's Call of Duty Black Ops 2, which takes place in 2025 (so technically next year). In it they predict, among other things, that then CIA director David Pretraeus would be Secretary of Defense. In reality the real Pretraeus would be forced to resign from the CIA literally three days before the game released due to an Extra-Marital Affair, he would subsequently be convicted in 2015 for leaking classified documents

Also one of the ships is the USS Barack Obama, which hasn't happened either.
 
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I remember going to the opening of the first McDonald's restaurant in our country.
I remember going to the movies to see Star Wars. The first one. When people didn't know anything about it yet.

Also, I remember when we got the first microwave in our area and everyone in the neighbourhood came over and took turn putting a cup of water in it and being amazed that you could make it boil in one minute!
 
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