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.
Nah, that sense of adventure and exploration was great. Nothing like pedaling your bike to a new neighborhood or across town and unexpectedly meeting up with other friends or new people instead. I miss it.
The popularity of the Saw and Hostel franchises taking over horror.
The endless sequel-itis ruined them but the original Hostel and first 3 Saw movies were legitimately great. The Conjuring movies are the current ruination of the horror genre (and Patrick Wilson's career).
Looking back with what we have now, things like slow download speeds or piss-poor media are in retrospect not good. But when that's all we had, it wasn't too bad. But one thing that someone else already posted above, those retardedly expensive rear-projection TVs were horrible. I distinctly remember a friend getting one in the mid-90s and being absolutely jacked when we were setting up his original PS1 on it to play Crash Bandicoot and Twisted Metal.... until it became glaringly apparent that unless you were seated
RIGHT IN THE EXACT CENTER LINE OF SIGHT, the screen was annoyingly dark and fuzzy. Good for watching a TV show or a single player game. But trying to do a 4 person battle in Twisted Metal, if you were too far off to the side, you legitimately couldn't see what the hell was going on. I'm pretty sure that thing is still sitting in his parent's basement, probably with a burnt out projection bulb, collecting dust and being used as a storage shelf for God knows what.
Another thing I don't miss, and seemed to be a short term fad, were the mechanical pencils. No, not the normal "click" type, which I can't stand either, but these faggoty pieces of shit:
For those that never had to deal with them, they were replaceable tips that were stacked inside of the pencil, with a tiny bit of lead in each one. So when one broke or wore out, you'd take the bottom of the pencil apart, push out the entire stack of tips, replace the broken tip with the next one in line, and reassemble. Entirely too tedious, and entirely too time consuming, especially if you were in a crunch with a timed quiz or something. And God forbid if you lost one, because then you'd never be able to write with it again, because the entire stack would push up into the pencil much like a pen retracting if you hit the top button.
