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

[Alex Hogendorp]

Here are many things I don't miss.
- The Let It Go Song being played so often 10 years ago.
- Having to sign out and log into a different account on social media when wanting to switch accounts.
- 240p videos having to pause to buffer back in the 2000s.
- Jacob Rothschild
- George H W Bush
- Trump's Presidency
- Syrian Civil War
- Iraq Civil War
- The September 11 Attacks
- Elliot Rodger
- Outdated anime character designs that were never good to begin with
- Russia under Boris Yeltsin
- Alex Jones Show
- CNN Plus
- The Alt Right
- Antifa
- The Tories when they ruled England (Though I don't like it's Liberal Party (or any political party for that matter)).
- Disney's unnecessary sequels in the 2000s (I bet they'll never make these pointless things again, oh wait).
- YouTube reply girls.
- Nintendo copyright claiming videos that used their content.
- Elsagate (I bet that's gone forever, or wait, it has evolved)
- Henry Kissinger
- COVID Lockdowns

 

[Granada Granola]

Haven't seen screamers anywhere in a very long time. Can't say I miss them.

Those were replaced with EARRAPE memes.

Youtube seems to have done a quiet purge of that shit too and I don’t miss those weaponized shitposts either.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Having to wait for your fave episode of a TV show to come on when all you had was either cable or Goodness forbid syndication on network TV.

As bat ship crazy as the streaming "wars." Are and binge watching is practically a community worth its own watch. I do not miss the alternative by any means

 

[Shart Attack]

Phones without caller ID.

Limewire. I don't want to think about how much of my life was wasted on fixing the family computer because my family couldn't stop downloading shit like "Linkin Park - Breaking the Habit.ObviousTrojan.exe" from Limewire.

 

[Pissmaster]

These obnoxious commercials:

 

[innocent jogger]

I don't miss:

Blockbuster - I don't understand nostalgia for that piece of shit. EVERY video store was better than Blockbuster, even slightly better shit like Hollywood Video. Family Video was my favorite chain store, but mom and pop's always had the coolest stuff like Troma movies.

Two-sided DVDs - I forgot these existed until I dl one recently and realized the uploader only ripped the widescreen side and half of the extras were on the other side. I used to own a bunch of these and would always put the wrong side down first because I'm retarded. Just use a regular dual layer you stupid fucks.

Bad DVD authoring - While I'm grinding my gears: stupid shit you can't skip, menus that have to play a two minute clip EVERY time before you can use them, "ironically" confusing menus (I'm looking at you, Adult Swim), "Easter eggs" (why make something just to hide it?) and just poorly authored discs in general. How about a useless AUDIO_TS folder on every disc? A JACKET folder to see how gay your DVD manufacturer is? lol

Starter Jackets - Every mid 90's HS hood rat and preppie douchebag alike wore those things. (See It's Always Sunny - The Gang Buys a Roller Rink if you don't know what these were.)

Commercials - I cut off cable a decade ago and streaming for five years or so now. YARR!

Windows - I haven't used it outside of work and VMs at home in about 8 years now-and I rarely use the VMs. All the gay updates+reboots+updates+reboots that do jack shit and usually make things worse, fucking viruses and garbage spyware in everything, the retarded non-resizable/relocatable taskbar, default tiny fonts, the useless utilities that say "Checking [whatever] ...." that run forever and NEVER produce a useful result, I could go on but if you have been there then you know.

My ex - All of them.

My youth - While I wish my body was still young, I can look back at myself and see a retarded nigger faggot moron. I'm much happier with who I am now,

Your mom - It was great fucking her and all but I got fat from all the sandwiches she made me afterwards.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I don’t really miss my twenties that much. Everyone wants to wax poetic about how that’s “the prime of your life” I was happy sure but I was still pretty dumb a lot of the time, still working wagie jobs living paycheck to paycheck a good portion of it, still felt like my teenage self trying to figure out what the hell I’m supposed to be doing. Wasn’t until my 30s things started falling into place and I felt like that was the beginning of “the prime of my life” I see my twenties as just training wheels for my true adult life. I think if more people were being honest with themselves they’d agree with me.

 

[Day of the Cope]

I don’t really miss my twenties that much. Everyone wants to wax poetic about how that’s “the prime of your life”

Keep in mind that everyone tell you that was a boomer. It's not so much as "it's the best years of your life" so much as they had the most opportunities of any generation at that point in their lives.

Thread Tax: I don't miss mini/micro-usb cables. As much as a fucking dogs dinner as the USB-C standard has turned into over the years, it's better than the fucking mess of previous mobile standards.

 

[skjora]

Computer viruses and anti-virus software (which in practice was at least as disruptive as actual malware). You don't get them any more from just browsing, and for little specialized utility programs you can usually find them on github where there's transparency. Gotta admit MS has done well with Defender.

 

[Monsieur Guillotine]

Old versions of Windows that couldn't apply changes in real time, and you had to restart the computer every time you installed any software or even renewed your IP address.

 

[cybertoaster]

To this day I still don't know how taxi drivers worked in a world without GPS and Google Maps.

Half of them didn't and would ask you for directions.

"WOKE" has been in media for a while. Mainstream American stuff from the 80s and 90s also pandered to faggots, it was just a lot less insulting about it.

90s "woke" was just "don't be an asshole" and the message applied to the left too, but nowadays it only goes only one direction and there are no hints or subtlety, it just hits you over the head with the propaganda.

Those big projection TVs that would house every living room in the 90s-2000s.

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How would you even get those in the house?

We had one when I was little then my dad got rid of it because the image quality in ALL of these was absolute shit, and you couldn't game on one because the HUD would burn in. Bought a 36" CRT that weighted a ton and we used that until plasma flatscreens would cost less than a friggin' car.

That's another thing I don't miss, back in the day any TV above 21" was sort of expensive.

I think if more people were being honest with themselves they’d agree with me.

The only people I know who had a blast in their 20s are rich kids (that didn't die in a yatch accident or OD'd in a penthouse pool) and kids who came from truly horrible homes so just getting out of there was a massive upgrade even if it meant flipping burgers for a living.

 

[toilet_rainbow]

I don’t really miss my twenties that much. Everyone wants to wax poetic about how that’s “the prime of your life” I was happy sure but I was still pretty dumb a lot of the time, still working wagie jobs living paycheck to paycheck a good portion of it, still felt like my teenage self trying to figure out what the hell I’m supposed to be doing. Wasn’t until my 30s things started falling into place and I felt like that was the beginning of “the prime of my life” I see my twenties as just training wheels for my true adult life. I think if more people were being honest with themselves they’d agree with me.

I feel much the same as you do. I don't know if it's from being literally older and wiser or what, but I definitely am enjoying my 30s much more than my 20s despite everything. There is no way in fuck that I would've been able to do much of the stuff that I do nowadays a decade ago (and not just because I became incredibly ill during college).

Other things I don't miss:

Floppy discs. Barely any space for documents or the occasional jpeg and it was super easy to break them by pulling that pin they had
MapQuest. Hated having to print that stuff out. Similarly, I remember when I'd get something like a birthday party invitation and half the card would be handwritten instructions to x skating rink or whatever
Sunscreen quality has vastly improved in even the past ten years
I really don't miss when "the Kardashian look" was popular. That looked even more ghastly in real life than on Instagram.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

I don’t really miss my twenties that much. Everyone wants to wax poetic about how that’s “the prime of your life” I was happy sure but I was still pretty dumb a lot of the time, still working wagie jobs living paycheck to paycheck a good portion of it, still felt like my teenage self trying to figure out what the hell I’m supposed to be doing. Wasn’t until my 30s things started falling into place and I felt like that was the beginning of “the prime of my life” I see my twenties as just training wheels for my true adult life. I think if more people were being honest with themselves they’d agree with me.

I felt like I hit peak...womanhood, for lack of a better phrase, when I hit my forties.

My twenties and thirties, I was still crashing into stuff.

 

[Lady Bizness]

I do not miss having to pour over the Thomas Brothers maps before planning a trip, whether that was 300 miles away, or a trip a neighborhood over that you just weren't familiar with.
However, this experience means that I have some sense when I use Google maps. I've noticed young people have no navigation instincts even when they're using Google. Anyway, still keep physical maps in the car. It's been useful a handful of times. Not even in an emergency, sometimes it's just nice to have something physical in your hand to get a broad idea of a new area you're going to explore.

 

[The Feline Solution]

Public phone boxes, you only needed to use one when it was important. Finding one, finding one working, finding the right change to use it, hope it does not smell like a homeless toilet.

Thanks to drug-related stuff i put a fortune in these things in my teens. Calling a cell phone from a payphone was ridiculously priced, put in 2,- DM and you could talk for like 10-15 seconds. Peak jew. Really don't miss them, too.

Getting up for school

Hardest feels.

Ed Hardy.
Affliction.

Dark, dark times. Ed Hardy was some of the most tasteless shit to ever be mainstream. I'd rather put on some 80's neon abomination than a fucking Ed Hardy shirt, shit was absolutely hideous. Affliction was the same, i remember when PUA first got big on the internet, Affliction shirts were the basic uniform of the suckers who fell for the grift.

 

[isalaide]

Changing nappies. I will never miss that, ever.

 

[The Last Stand]

MapQuest. Hated having to print that stuff out. Similarly, I remember when I'd get something like a birthday party invitation and half the card would be handwritten instructions to x skating rink or whatever

Oh, I remember those days. If you didn't have a printer, you'd needed to borrow somebody's or go to a public library. If you were lost, you'd need to find somebody and shout for instructions. If you were in charge of directions, you'd better pay attention. Thank God phones have GPS built in to them.

I don't miss DSL Internet. Way too slow. Dial up was worse. If somebody was on the phone, you'd get knocked off the Internet.

 

[Banquet Meal]

I felt like I hit peak...womanhood, for lack of a better phrase, when I hit my forties.

My twenties and thirties, I was still crashing into stuff.

i can relate to this SO much. my twenties sucked so bad, and my 30s weren't much better..late 40s onward? i feel like i know myself so much better.

Spoiler: Minor power level

i ran my car through a party supply building when i was 20, which really summed up my younger years quite well.

 

[Dysnomia]

Phones without caller ID.

Limewire. I don't want to think about how much of my life was wasted on fixing the family computer because my family couldn't stop downloading shit like "Linkin Park - Breaking the Habit.ObviousTrojan.exe" from Limewire.

Once I stupidly forgot to lock my computer while at school. I let other family use it and never had an issue before so I had it in the basement. My sister's boyfriend used Limewire to download porn. A lot of porn. On my computer. Like I wouldn't even notice right? Well to be fair his mom drank a lot and he was borderline retarded so I think he had FAS. When I came home my computer was desktop hijacked. Luckily I was a member of a community run by a programmer and he gave me instructions on how to get rid of the hijack virus. After that I locked my computer and put it in my bedroom. That went over real well with my sister.

So I don't miss Limewire either. Also, never let anyone use your computer. Nothing good can come from being nice. Just assume everyone in the world but you is a tech retard that will download a virus or spill some stupid drink all over your keyboard.

 

[Monsieur Guillotine]

When almost every business and utility only had 9-5 Mon-Fri business hours and getting anything done on a Sunday was absolutely unheard of.