I don’t miss dial-up internet, I just don’t. I don’t even like the sound because it’s just digital screeches and it’s a sound that makes me cringe a little upon hearing it. Because I remember the times when I’d be listening to music with headphones with volume high and then that fucking digital screech just blares into my ears.

I don’t miss waiting 30 minutes to load a page. I don’t miss a bit of it.

  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    15 days ago

    Gay jokes on TV. You know the kind. “it’s funny because it’s gay”, very prevalent on series like Friends. Friends is a great show even today, but I do not miss the gay jokes.

    • NevelioKrejall@ttrpg.network
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      15 days ago

      I love monty python’s flying circus, but they had multiple sketches across several different episodes where the punchline was a gay person getting murdered. Kinda hard to watch some of them now.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      15 days ago

      I watched ace Ventura the other day and I cringed so hard at the transphobia and I remember laughing at it in the theaters too when it was new.

  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    I don’t miss being in my 20s. I was broke, miserable, sometimes homeless and kind of a shit. I had a lot of fun and good memories but my living situation was miserable.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    VHS tapes, and having to rewind them.

    Although the ability to record almost anything on a cheap VHS tape was nice, now everything has copy protection.

  • enbyecho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I don’t miss dial-up internet,

    Nobody “misses” 56kbit/s.

    I don’t even like the sound because it’s just digital screeches

    When I hear that sound now I am very briefly returned to the excitement I felt in the 90s. It was an age of wide-open possibilities, free from commercial influence. Full of patience and anticipation.

    Oh well.

  • Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    16 days ago

    I actually miss that all the things take a wile to start or function. Im not happy with this fast life were all its instantly. That only give me anxiety.

  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Non-shitty affordable gaming. No Internet required, no updates, no game breaking bugs if you bought it on day one. Just bring your Game Boy Colour in the back seat of the car on vacation, bring a shitload of AA’s and finish Pokémon Blue 3 times in a few weeks.

  • Hugin@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    CRT displays. The day I replaced my old CRT with a LCD I thought I hope I never use one of these again.

  • Nasan@sopuli.xyz
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    15 days ago

    Changing CDs just to listen to a few songs from a different album. Also carrying around CDs.

    • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
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      15 days ago

      I’m conflicted. I enjoy being able to listen to anything anywhere but it makes me not listen to full albums anymore, possibly missing out on good music.

        • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
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          15 days ago

          Thank you Mr obvious. The point is that streaming platforms are changing the mentality and behavior to listen to random titles of different artists instead of full albums and that is also why albums don’t have a „story“ anymore. It’s too easy to click away to something different, skip a title (was already easy with CDs), be distracted. I personally own a vinyl player to combat this for myself.

          • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
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            15 days ago

            You have free will and can make your own choices about how to consume music. And drag wants you to use that free will to not misgender drag as “mister”.

      • Nasan@sopuli.xyz
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        15 days ago

        Same, I tend to reserve full album listens for working and long car/plane/train rides. With the current standard of streaming services over mobile, I find myself mostly listening to previously downloaded stuff because of inconsistent US mobile data service in my area occasionally. I’ve also gone the route of upgrading my old iPod with more storage (160GB -> 1TB) and battery life and just carry all of my music with me.

  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    As trivial as it sounds, pornography.
    Imagine having to pull out the trench from the winter drawer and drive to another town’s smutt shop, so they don’t recognize you, every time you feel like wanking

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      15 days ago

      For a long time, I thought porno mags in bushes at parks was a ruse invented by the previous generation to confound the current

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Oh man. Finding porno mags in bushes as a kid was like finding buried treasure. Especially if the pages weren’t sticky.

  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
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    15 days ago

    My childhood. I don’t understand people who do. Mine was mostly loneliness, confusion, trauma, emotional neglect, guilt, shame, some abandonment, some physical abuse, etc. Every day has been a step towards better than the previous. I don’t want to or miss anything going backwards.

  • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
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    15 days ago

    Not that gasoline cars are gone (unfortunately) but I personally won’t ever go back to it. Electric cars are just so much better in any way except range and charge time. But those are honestly overblown topics that you won’t think much about in your daily life once you got used to it.