I do lament some old things while at the same time being happy things have changed.
I do miss not being expected to have my phone with me all the time - but I’m also happy that I can contact my teenage daughter wherever she is.
I do miss the era of physical media, especially video stores - but I also like being able to download any media I like (arr!) and have a lot of it streaming too, and fitting all of it into a tiny amount of space.
I do miss my old tiny 1980s manual Toyota Corrola - but I also like only spending a fraction of my paycheck on gas because I drive a Prius now. And I certainly don’t miss leaded gasoline.
I do miss the internet of the 1990s when it was more like the Wild West - but I also like things like adblockers and anti-tracking extensions and not having to clean your cookies regularly.
I’m sure I could think of others, but these are off the top of my head.
One of the things I deeply miss is sleeping under the stars. I grew up in a tiny rural town, and we used to have long power cuts during summer. I am talking like more than 9 hrs every day. During nights, we used to sleep on terrace to stay cool. I don’t miss the power cuts, but I also miss those uncomplicated days.
I do miss not being expected to have my phone with me all the time
I didn’t have a cell phone for long after they became mainstream. I still remember a friend hitting me up on Facebook with a message saying he had been calling me all day and kept getting VM, asking why I don’t answer my phone. I thoroughly enjoyed saying “I wasn’t home and don’t take my landline with me when I go out”. I do have a cellphone now, and I dislike how people freak out if you don’t respond within 10 minutes. Like, chill the fuck out dude, I’m doing things.
I do miss the era of physical media
I still buy vinyl records, and love listening to them. Thankfully they’re hipster now, so you can get high quality, deep cut records for just about any album. I buy CDs at the thrift store for $0.25-$1.00. I’ve managed to buy every CD I lost throughout my life, plus everything else I always wanted, but couldn’t afford. I even found the Pink Floyd Pulse album in perfect condition for $2.
Thankfully they’re hipster now, so you can get high quality, deep cut records for just about any album
Yeah, but super expensive. My daughter loves vinyl, but we never buy anything new because you’re going to spend at least $30 for anything decent.
I figure that’s about what a CD used to cost back in the day, adjusted for inflation. We were paying $16 for a CD back in the early 90’s. Records are probably more expensive to make, and often have really cool artwork as inserts. There’s the thrift store too though. About half of my record collection are original presses that I got from the thrift store for twenty five cents each. They don’t sound as good, but they’re pretty neat. Sometimes I buy a record at the thrift store just because it has cool artwork, like the Chicago album that has pressed engraving artwork, like dollar bills.
Edit: wow, CDs actually cost more back then adjusted for inflation. $36.12 in 1992.
Adjusted for inflation, maybe. But records used to be cheaper than CDs.
Having a few hours of the day where you went offline because you wanted to because either you couldn’t find anything interesting, your downloads were going to take hours, your PC was down, the internet was down or someone else wanted to use the computer.
So you had no choice but to go spend time going something else … go for a walk, play a sport, hang out with your friends, read a book or just walk downtown for no reason. And in all that time you were out, you had no phone and no connection to the internet which meant your mind was free to not really think of much for a few hours.
I like the internet and I like social media but I dislike the ability of everyone having, wanting, needing a perpetual connection to everyone and everything all the time.
I feel like a junky sometimes … I want to go offline but I’m so addicted to it that I never leave.
I’m glad I don’t have to be alone with my thoughts anymore. My thoughts are dangerous.
True to a degree … sometimes the most dangerous thoughts are not your own … but other people’s
Porn is definitely easier today, kids can just go on Twitch
But at the same time when kids want go have fun they go on Twitch but we had Pogs
I had to read it three times, because I didn’t find it funny at all in any sense and I was trying to find a funny twist, but I didn’t succeed. It’s too real for me
It’s just funny-sad. We both have it the easiest and the hardest.
Eh, low hanging, pandering humor. Perfect for syndication
Yeah, because if there’s one thing everyone knows about Extra Fabulous it’s that it’s perfect for syndication! Why, there’s only TWO instances of the world’s most versatile word in this one and literally no ejaculate!
Kidding aside, it’s fine if you didn’t like the comic, but that was one of the worst takes I’ve seen in all of 2023 🤦😄
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Dude came full circle.
Edit: I now realise it’s actually a half circle, but hey.
As usual, it’s actually somewhere in-between the two.
I would like to request two extra panels where they explain to him how life is worse now and then he changes his mind.
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Name a perfect time for everybody
4:20? 🤷
—Every. Single. YouTube comment section. For videos of vintage media
“back when good music was made” ad nauseum
Oh, not just music. I’ve seen people comment about the ‘80s, when they made… [heavy, plaintive sigh]… REAL cartoons. For christ’s sake…
Rinse, repeat, ad infinitum. Every generation thinks exactly the same way.
