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- May 11, 2021
Boomers telling others what they don't miss, like, who the fuck cares? You are old, lol
Things you don't miss at all - The counter-nostalgia thread
- Thread starter cybertoaster
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- Joined
- Jul 2, 2021
I know of exactly one payphone left where I live, though the phone itself vanished well over twenty years ago. Only the platform remains. Last time I used one was in 2004, so also quite awhile ago.
- Joined
- Jun 13, 2020
Popup ads.
Wired headphones without Bluetooth.
Not being able to have a portable pen-sized marijuana vaporizer (I don't use anymore though).
Shitty taxi monopoly where I live.
Endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as their drunk / suicidal veterans making a scene in every restaurant I went to seemingly literally every time I went out.
Wired headphones without Bluetooth.
Not being able to have a portable pen-sized marijuana vaporizer (I don't use anymore though).
Shitty taxi monopoly where I live.
Endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as their drunk / suicidal veterans making a scene in every restaurant I went to seemingly literally every time I went out.
- Joined
- May 29, 2024
this might be an american thing but not being able to buy beer on a sunday sucked shit.
- Joined
- Oct 17, 2021
I still wear my mask out of honor and nostalgia.
It has been easier times with the lockdown as something that everybody cared and talked about.
I miss making quarantine dances with the girls from my office and bullying anti-vaxxers online.
Hopefully, the WHO will gift us another pandemics soon
- Joined
- Dec 2, 2023
Peak zoomer opinion. Bluetooth anything is fucking gay.
Aside from that, off the top of my head, the discman and its clones. I remember getting one for Christmas in the early 2000s and being disappointed how fragile it was with even a minor movement would cause the disc to skip. I don't think I miss CDs at all.
Oh yeah, mp3 players also. 100% happy with the convenience provided by Spotify.
>b-but you don't even own the songs!!!1
$5 a month beats having to manually extract every song from the albums I own and then converting it to something the phone will actually fucking read.
- Joined
- Jun 13, 2020
Whatever dude. I love wiping my ass without my phone going flying because I forgot I was plugged into it.
- Joined
- Apr 20, 2017
Having to keep track of paper invoices instead of handling your monthly bills in less than ten minutes.
Having to calculate and manually track my power consumption instead of just looking at a graph in an app.
Paying $5 for a ringtone or a phone wallpaper (as a dumb kid).
Having to calculate and manually track my power consumption instead of just looking at a graph in an app.
Paying $5 for a ringtone or a phone wallpaper (as a dumb kid).
When I shit, it's hard, and I get off.
- Joined
- Feb 12, 2024
I don't miss CDs skipping in the car because you hit a bump. I don't miss having to download from sketchy sites or use a YouTube converter later on for free music. I just stream it (for free) now. I also don't miss when you couldn't use the internet because a call was incoming lmao. I also don't miss when you couldn't find everything online to order. One of the main gripes of small town life is lack of choice with stuff to buy but since everything can be delivered super easy now that's no longer a complaint. The occasional visit to a more metropolitan area to visit some museums and shit and I'm good.
That being said:
One thing I do miss about Blockbuster was video game rentals. You don't get shit like that anymore. Even if a game will only take you a day to get through you have to buy the whole thing and shit is usually like 40 plus dollars and that's for non-mainstream big dev games. Wired headphones are still better IMO. All of the wireless ones have some sort of feedback and I've been using the same wired headphones for 6+ years, shit have been slammed in doors, dropped in a coffee cup, let out in the rain trapped in the car door when I went into the store and they still work. Your AirPods could never. They can suffer abuse.
That being said:
One thing I do miss about Blockbuster was video game rentals. You don't get shit like that anymore. Even if a game will only take you a day to get through you have to buy the whole thing and shit is usually like 40 plus dollars and that's for non-mainstream big dev games. Wired headphones are still better IMO. All of the wireless ones have some sort of feedback and I've been using the same wired headphones for 6+ years, shit have been slammed in doors, dropped in a coffee cup, let out in the rain trapped in the car door when I went into the store and they still work. Your AirPods could never. They can suffer abuse.
parsnip
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Jan 24, 2024
When one of my older sisters was in college, some girl took issue with her. Probably for trying to steal her boyfriend because my sister was kind of a hoe. The girl phoned the phone company and pretended to be my mom and got our phone disconnected. I thought it was hilarious. My mom and sister did not.
- Joined
- Aug 30, 2015
I do not miss school
All libraries being closed on Sunday without exception
All libraries being closed on Sunday without exception
- Joined
- Oct 3, 2022
depends on the state/municipality/county etc
I absolutely don't miss
- waiting until the next time I could get to the library to find out more about something
- mailing blank vhs tapes to Canada to get fansubs
- Joined
- Nov 15, 2021
I don't miss the 90s music scene. It basically sucked. I spent the entire decade listening to music from the 70s and 80s.
- Joined
- Sep 27, 2019
I don’t miss the era when nu-metal was popular. Horrible fucking music I couldn’t get away from.
- Joined
- Nov 21, 2022
Fax machines, never worked right ever. Had to have a dedicated line, paper jams and illegible text.
KYC policies. I liked the idea I could have a bank account without having scrutiny of a law enforcement employment level background check.
Personal checks. Were they good? Bad? You never knew till about a week later when you got that "bounced check" fee subtracted from your account because you trusted some asshole nigger.
Dial up 56K was like chewing sand.
Cars have become so reliable and self correcting over the last couple of decades. A car made in 2001 could easily just destroy it's own engine if not checked. If you hit a large pothole it broke oil pan or filter and the lack of oil pressure wouldn't warn you unless it was too late and you bricked the engine.
Since about 2001 it's almost impossible to steal a car with basic hand tools, parking in a shitty neighborhood was always a gamble.
The average phone cord of a landline corded phone was about 4 feet. Even if you had a phone in the kitchen you couldn't even cook dinner and have a conversation at the same time.
CD's music cassettes and VHS being so incredibly delicate.
Realizing missing your favorite TV show meant you genuinely might never get to see that episode ever.
Having to wait for 20 mins to burn a CD and then finding it not being compatible with some devices for some unknown reason.
No GPS devices. Then GPS devices becoming available to the public costing $400-$500 and having to use a fucking Thomas guide. IIRC The FCC literally regulated the accuracy of public GPS devices for years to no better than 40-50 feet as they thought people would use them for things like mortar attacks and self guided homemade ordinance like bombs. Today it's about 3 yards?
Giant fucking CRT monitors and and CRT Televisions that weighed 40-100lbs took up half the workspace on your desk.
hardware drivers, and installation of software in general. Nothing was ever plug and play.
A fucking CD album adjusted for inflation was like $40. They are all now worthless unless it's a well known band with an actual fan base that collects original produced audio recordings.
A good car sound system either came factory a luxury car or you installed a set yourself.
A good power tool required a cord to plug into a wall, the cordless drills and power-tools were under powered total utter shit.
Cable TV would go out for no known reason at all.
Having to update your operating system for the latest game/software and then also some software NOT being backward compatible for the previous OS. Some software making no sense at all why it wouldn't run despite meeting all system requirements.
The RIAA suing people for $50,000 for downloading/uploading media worth $50 at the most.
Your TV input was RCA, the cable box/console was coaxial, now you had to go find an adapter.
Trying to time the television commercials to take a piss or run to the kitchen and make it back before the show came back.
Used cars for sale having no VIN report, you inspected it yourself and hoped it wasn't glued together just to last long enough for a test drive and you hope the odometer wasn't rolled back.
No self checkout at the retail store.
magnets seemed to be able to destroy everything back in the day, TV screens, media cassetes, credit cards.
KYC policies. I liked the idea I could have a bank account without having scrutiny of a law enforcement employment level background check.
Personal checks. Were they good? Bad? You never knew till about a week later when you got that "bounced check" fee subtracted from your account because you trusted some asshole nigger.
Dial up 56K was like chewing sand.
Cars have become so reliable and self correcting over the last couple of decades. A car made in 2001 could easily just destroy it's own engine if not checked. If you hit a large pothole it broke oil pan or filter and the lack of oil pressure wouldn't warn you unless it was too late and you bricked the engine.
Since about 2001 it's almost impossible to steal a car with basic hand tools, parking in a shitty neighborhood was always a gamble.
The average phone cord of a landline corded phone was about 4 feet. Even if you had a phone in the kitchen you couldn't even cook dinner and have a conversation at the same time.
CD's music cassettes and VHS being so incredibly delicate.
Realizing missing your favorite TV show meant you genuinely might never get to see that episode ever.
Having to wait for 20 mins to burn a CD and then finding it not being compatible with some devices for some unknown reason.
No GPS devices. Then GPS devices becoming available to the public costing $400-$500 and having to use a fucking Thomas guide. IIRC The FCC literally regulated the accuracy of public GPS devices for years to no better than 40-50 feet as they thought people would use them for things like mortar attacks and self guided homemade ordinance like bombs. Today it's about 3 yards?
Giant fucking CRT monitors and and CRT Televisions that weighed 40-100lbs took up half the workspace on your desk.
hardware drivers, and installation of software in general. Nothing was ever plug and play.
A fucking CD album adjusted for inflation was like $40. They are all now worthless unless it's a well known band with an actual fan base that collects original produced audio recordings.
A good car sound system either came factory a luxury car or you installed a set yourself.
A good power tool required a cord to plug into a wall, the cordless drills and power-tools were under powered total utter shit.
Cable TV would go out for no known reason at all.
Having to update your operating system for the latest game/software and then also some software NOT being backward compatible for the previous OS. Some software making no sense at all why it wouldn't run despite meeting all system requirements.
The RIAA suing people for $50,000 for downloading/uploading media worth $50 at the most.
Your TV input was RCA, the cable box/console was coaxial, now you had to go find an adapter.
Trying to time the television commercials to take a piss or run to the kitchen and make it back before the show came back.
Used cars for sale having no VIN report, you inspected it yourself and hoped it wasn't glued together just to last long enough for a test drive and you hope the odometer wasn't rolled back.
No self checkout at the retail store.
magnets seemed to be able to destroy everything back in the day, TV screens, media cassetes, credit cards.
- Joined
- Dec 20, 2021
The PS3/360 era was hilarious for this. Sony fans for the first time had their superiorority challenged and they lost their shit. I remember the hours soent on YouTube videos arguing about them. Desteuctoid even made an article about ps3 fanboys being terrible. But now all consoles are gimoed computers so it makes no difference tbh.
- Joined
- Jan 15, 2017
While I enjoyed Blockbuster as a kid, I grew to dislike its more limited selection, how easy it was to accumulate fees, etc. That's actually how Netflix came to be- the founder was ass fucked hard over by Blockbuster fees over an overdue rental to the point of saying "fuck this shit." And fuck it he did.
My brother did too towards the end. Shortly before all the stores closed, there they had a MoviePass type subscription where you paid x a month for unlimited rentals. He started gaming the system to the point that he was renting movies, going straight home to watch them, then rinse and repeat until the store closed "to get his money's worth." That was actually pretty fun, NGL
I always found BitTorrent a hassle to seed and wait to load. Easy to stream pirate sites are a godsend. As fucked as YouTube is getting lately, I still appreciate how easy it is to find more shows available for completely free. Probably the only real good thing to come out of the pandemic. I definitely don't miss people cutting old shows into multiple parts to evade copyright strikes on ye olde YouTube, either, even if I am overall nostalgic for its original less overproduced vibe.
As much as I love SNES and its library, thank fuck that video games eventually transitioned into disc format. Blowing into cartridge slots to troubleshoot was an ass.
Limp Bizkit is so shit that it's not even fun to make fun of like how, say, Nickelback was. Something like "Photograph" is endearing from how stupid yet sincere it is. Never got that vibe from the likes of Fred Durst.
Wireless headphones are great for while I'm cooking and listening to Caleb Hammer or some other podcast-y type show from my laptop. Otherwise I much prefer wired. Fuckin' hate earbuds. Over the ear is vastly more comfortable (and much harder to lose).
My brother did too towards the end. Shortly before all the stores closed, there they had a MoviePass type subscription where you paid x a month for unlimited rentals. He started gaming the system to the point that he was renting movies, going straight home to watch them, then rinse and repeat until the store closed "to get his money's worth." That was actually pretty fun, NGL
I always found BitTorrent a hassle to seed and wait to load. Easy to stream pirate sites are a godsend. As fucked as YouTube is getting lately, I still appreciate how easy it is to find more shows available for completely free. Probably the only real good thing to come out of the pandemic. I definitely don't miss people cutting old shows into multiple parts to evade copyright strikes on ye olde YouTube, either, even if I am overall nostalgic for its original less overproduced vibe.
As much as I love SNES and its library, thank fuck that video games eventually transitioned into disc format. Blowing into cartridge slots to troubleshoot was an ass.
Limp Bizkit is so shit that it's not even fun to make fun of like how, say, Nickelback was. Something like "Photograph" is endearing from how stupid yet sincere it is. Never got that vibe from the likes of Fred Durst.
Wireless headphones are great for while I'm cooking and listening to Caleb Hammer or some other podcast-y type show from my laptop. Otherwise I much prefer wired. Fuckin' hate earbuds. Over the ear is vastly more comfortable (and much harder to lose).
- Joined
- Dec 16, 2019
I do not miss printing directions and hoping that construction didn't render them useless. Thank Christ I learned how to read maps.
I can vouch for Blockbuster being awful. Mom and pop stores were much better.
I can vouch for Blockbuster being awful. Mom and pop stores were much better.
Floor Chicken
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2022
Chewable vitamins. Eugh.
Blockbuster was depressing but their kettle corn was on point.
Blockbuster was depressing but their kettle corn was on point.