Things you don't miss at all - The counter-nostalgia thread

PyrrhicRustle said:
I think I know which one you mean and it’s also long gone now, not that that’s a surprise. They’ve still got the Drive-In theater at least.
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Saw Pet Sematary there when it released, I was five. Brother was three. My mom was counting on us both to be asleep-it was a midnight showing. She only brought us because she couldn't find a sitter, nonetheless we were awake for pretty much all of it. Brother babbles happily to my grandmother the next day (God rest her soul) about seeing the movie, she berates the shit out of my mom, asked "the hell's the mattah with you?!" in the regional Boston patois. Mom apologizes. In retrospect, lol. lmao even. Also saw Men in Black there when it released.
 
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Hitman One said:
Having to use the one phone in the house to phone your friend and hoping that their mum or dad didn't pick up, especially if you were phoning a girl.
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If you were calling a guy friend, that was NBD if a parent picked up, but calling girls was the worst. Not just because the dad might pick up, but in my home if either of my parents or siblings heard I was on the phone to a girl you'd have to endure some form of mockery from one or more of them. Bastards.
 
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  • Every vehicle being carbed. EFI is better in every way.
  • I can join many others in their hatred of rewinding tapes.
  • Every portable electronic device consuming massive quantities of non-rechargeable batteries.
  • Having to reboot your PC to connect a peripheral device e.g. the printer. If you wanted to print something you had to remember to turn the printer on before booting the PC cos Windurrrz only checked for devices during startup. A news article about USB (when it was still in the lab) marvelled about how peripherals just worked instantly when you plugged them in.
  • The bottom left corner of a GameBoy.
  • Loading puter games off an audio cassette. Imagine listening to a dial up modem handshake for like 20 minutes and then it failing to load the game. You'd also get a load of flashing colours on the screen which were reminiscent of this Simpsons gag:

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Console wars. They were funny in retrospect but even living through it, the blind consumerist loyalty to a random product was annoying.

It's still around in some regard now, but it isn't as nearly as bad as it was during the late 2000's.
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Before Xbox vs. PS vs. Nintendo there was Nintendo vs. SEGA and before Nintendo vs. SEGA there was Atari vs. Commodore 64.
Poppavalyim Andropoff said:
drum brakes
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Still used but only on rear axles and usually small cars. Probably not on any US market ones.
 
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  • Low rise jeans
  • The sugar free fad
  • The fat free fad
  • Having to go to the store to get photographs processed
  • Not having WiFi
  • Having to call someone to order takeout
  • Having to physically go to a store to hope what you want/need is available instead of buying online
  • All headphones having wires
  • Having to worry about CDs getting scratched, because outside of cassette tapes, that was the only other option
  • Having to rely even more on mainstream news
  • Having to physically print out directions when going new places
 
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Womble of Wimbledon said:
Paying $20 for a single CD or video and being limited to what was available in the shop. Once I realised you could get whatever you want on Napster, those days were way the fuck over.
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And still the industry pretended the writing on the wall didn't exist. By the time they decided to get with the times it was too late. I haven't bought a CD in over a decade.
 
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Looking things up without the internet.
You zoomers have no clue how difficult it was to find something up until around 2000.
You had to buy magazines so that you could find out how to mail order more obscure magazines, just so you can look up some random band that didn't have music videos on MTV.

Trying to find where the fuck someone is without a cell phone.
Think about it: you want to meet up with a friend, he's not home, it's 1998.... what the hell do you do?
You had to walk around the city to find the bastard.
The kids of today will never understand.
 
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  • Dialup Modems: Once I got a cable modem, I never looked back.
  • Windows XP: Pre SP3, you were liable to get pwned the second you hook up the internet. Post SP3, I still had to clean up gobs of spyware/rootkits of PCs of friends and family.
  • Broadcast/Cable Television: The writing was on the wall in 2012 and I was losing interest. This was before, it became woke. I can stream Youtube content of special interest channels, I couldn't dream of seeing in days past. I look at what is on today. It's completely dead, but still costs a fortune.
  • Broadcast Radio: Unless you like EDR/Mumble rap the content of radio stations with listenable music has had a static for over 20 years.
  • Early smartphones: The internet speeds weren't much better than dialup and the CPU and RAM was completely insufficient for web browsing. Loved the podcasts. The phones of the time were great at that.
  • Early 3D gaming. Standard Definition graphics, low polygon count, bad camera controls. The PS3/360 era is when modern gaming was born.
  • Carburetors and points ignition in automobiles. This shit was responsible for the majority of problems. Revival of old fuel injected cars on car restoration channels is boring because once they fixed the fuel pump and got fresh gas going to the engine it just ran. Half the content of these channels is, gotta fix the points, gotta fix the carb.
  • Linux sysvinit: When you create your own user deamons systemd makes things hell of a lot easier. No locksfiles, STDOUT already directed to a logger. Start/stop/restart re-spawn on daemon crash almost foolproof.
 
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Coding in Visual Basic.

Managing databases in Microsoft Access.

Having to back up the server using magnetic tape (still better than muh cloud I guess).

Fuckers smoking on planes, trains and in restaurants. Absolutely disgusting. Pubs too, fucking hell.

British Rail.

The stink of diesel in mainline railway stations from the locomotives and multiple units running all day under the canopies. Class 43 HSTs with their original Valenta engines used to spew acrid blue smoke when power was applied. Sounded cool though
 
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