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[Kagey K]

We all know with the proliferation of the internet nothing is really gone or lost forever, but what do you feel is out of the general zeitgeist or lost in time?

For me.
Batman ‘69 - I get he’s a super popular character, but for some reason the only thing preserved from his time is the movie.

The Wuzzles - A Disney property where 2 animals were merged together. Like Bumblelion.

Captain Power - A Tv show/ toy line, where you could play along to the episodes. It was like Laser Tag with your tv.

 

[SJRB]

 

[Kagey K]

I just dealt with the crunchy tracker ball.

Some thing satisfying about that sandy gritty feel as I scrolled.

It reminded me I was about to do something bad, like wait 10 mins for a nasty top less Teri Hatcher pic to populate my screen.

 

[Kev Kev]

Some thing satisfying about that sandy gritty feel as I scrolled.

 

[Star-Lord]

I miss the days where I was actually susceptible to shock at certain things. Unfortunately, the internet has made me somewhat immune to videos of suicide, beheadings, etc because it’s just so commonplace these days. I no longer feel shock or shame or disgust or anything really. I’m just a shell.

 

[nush]

When America was far away and full of cool stuff you'd never get to experience. Like, it was an alternate universe shown to you only through movies and TV.

Meanwhile in Thatchers Britain...

 

[Spaceman292]

Has anyone ever actually seen a fax machine?

 

[Sidney Prescott]

Tamagotchis

 

[Star-Lord]

Has anyone ever actually seen a fax machine?

Not only seen one, used one. I used to work in a hotel many years ago, and one of the jobs was faxing across a newspaper order for our guests to the supplier. I mean, who the fuck faxes? This was in 2010, man, email that shit.

 

[nush]

Has anyone ever actually seen a fax machine?

Yes, and used them before the internet became standard in businesses.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

The last one always gets me. Disappeared overnight, never got to own one, my inner teenager never recovered.

 

[V1LÆM]

open your ears and delight in this beautiful sound. wait for the breakdown.

Has anyone ever actually seen a fax machine?

i probably have but if you asked me where the fax machine is i wouldn't know what to do.

edit: brb gonna ddg it so i know what they look like

edit 2: i have in fact never seen such a thing in my life

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[Sidney Prescott]

When was the last time one of you guys went to the video store?

I miss browsing Blockbuster forever trying to find a film.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Speaking of Fax machines, I was in Natwest the other day and had to get a large sum out, no one told me I had to arrange a day for a large amount. In the end the manager said he'd fax over to another branch for a chaps payment..

I said 'Fax'? I'll be waiting a week then before some bugger sees it at the other end. I had visions of some old fax machine covered in cobwebs booting into life randomly in some basement

 

[cormack12]

When America was far away and full of cool stuff you'd never get to experience. Like, it was an alternate universe shown to you only through movies and TV.

Meanwhile in Thatchers Britain...

Haha remember youd see awesome shit for like $12.95, wait 18months till it got here then it would be in woolies for £89.99

Remember the lemmo man and the video man lmao

 

[Irobot82]

Speaking of Fax machines, I was in Natwest the other day and had to get a large sum out, no one told me I had to arrange a day for a large amount. In the end the manager said he'd fax over to another branch for a chaps payment..

I said 'Fax'? I'll be waiting a week then before some bugger sees it at the other end. I had visions of some old fax machine covered in cobwebs booting into life randomly in some basement

you'd be surprised the amount of business that somehow still use Fax machines.....it's nuts.

 

[nush]

Haha remember youd see awesome shit for like $12.95, wait 18months till it got here then it would be in woolies for £89.99

Remember the lemmo man and the video man lmao

Or toys you'd never get the chance to own.

 

[highrider]

Masculine men.

 

[V1LÆM]

"what instrument do you play?" "the nokia 3310"

When was the last time one of you guys went to the video store?

I miss browsing Blockbuster forever trying to find a film.

i don't think i've ever been to a blockbuster but there was a video rental store in my town in the mid 90's to early 00's. i was just a kid then and only movie i remember getting was Titanic probably in 1998. well, i didn't get it my dad rented it. it was always such an exciting time when my dad would take me down and we'd get a movie to rent. it's not the same browsing on netflix. we'd talk about what kind of film we wanted as we walked into the town and then we'd spend ages walking around the store looking at covers and reading about it. making that final decision on what to get was so much fun. you had to hope the movie was good cause if it sucked then too bad.

in 2001 the shop across the street from me started renting VHS, dvds, and video games! it was in the wall like a kind of ATM machine next to the real ATM machine (it wasn't a Redbox) you went into the shop and signed up to get a card (like a debit/credit card). you would top it up in the store and you could go to the rental machine outside. you picked what movie/game you wanted from the screen and it would come out a slot just like cash would in an ATM. the one game i remember renting from it was GTA III that's how i know this was around 2001. maybe very early 2002. my friend had done the except same and i played it in house so i begged my dad to sign up for the machine and rent GTA II for me.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

you'd be surprised the amount of business that somehow still use Fax machines.....it's nuts.

Aye it did shock me, it only took them two hours as well. You cant beat old tech!

 

[nush]

When was the last time one of you guys went to the video store?

I miss browsing Blockbuster forever trying to find a film.

(Pirate) DVD shops in China were just like that. But they all died last year due to the pandemic lockdown

Spending ages deciding what 10+ films you were going to buy for 50* pence on a Friday night.

* Blu Rays were a quid, UHD 4 quid.

 

[poppabk]

When America was far away and full of cool stuff you'd never get to experience. Like, it was an alternate universe shown to you only through movies and TV.

Meanwhile in Thatchers Britain...

Not just that but movies that might come out a year later.
Staggered international movie releases were the norm not so long ago but it seems crazy now.

 

[nush]

Not just that but movies that might come out a year later.
Staggered international movie releases were the norm not so long ago but it seems crazy now.

They had to ship physical cans of films around the world, so rather then making extra prints they just used the US ones when they had finished the theatrical run there. Also scheduling actors for press trips for TV promos was done after the US.

 

[Star-Lord]

Not just that but movies that might come out a year later.
Staggered international movie releases were the norm not so long ago but it seems crazy now.

It wasn’t too long ago that we’d have to wait up to a year after the theatrical release for a film to release on VHS/DVD. Now it can be a few short months, depending on the title.

 

[AJUMP23]

Human Decency.

The American Dream.

 

[Punished Miku]

Polio, small pox.

 

[The Cockatrice]

When americans were not afraid to make fun of people.

 

[BigBooper]

I used a fax machine multiple times this year.

How about car blinkers? I don't think anyone uses those anymore.

And these too.

 

[Star-Lord]

I miss MySpace and Bebo.

 

[AJUMP23]

The Floppy disc

The rotary telephone and the pay phone are gone too.

 

[Star-Lord]

The rotary telephone and the pay phone are gone too.

The telephone boxes are still here in my area at least, but now you can send emails from them. Like, what the hell? I remember the days of ringing directory enquiries from them and chatting the operator up.

 

[AJUMP23]

The telephone boxes are still here in my area at least, but now you can send emails from them. Like, what the hell? I remember the days of ringing directory enquiries from them and chatting the operator up.

I haven't seen a pay phone in North America in probably a decade. Unless it was a museum.

 

[V1LÆM]

I miss MySpace and Bebo.

me too. i saw this on reddit the other day and made an account: https://spacehey.com/

apparently there are 150,000 users (neogaf has 154,000). i would love myspace to come back. bebo was fun too.

if you make a spacehey account add me

 

[Kev Kev]

 

[*Nightwing]

 

[EverydayBeast]

 

[th4tguy]

I worked at a video rental store for 5 years through highschool/ first year and half of college.
I will forever remember the sound of the cassette rewinders going nonstop behind me as I checked out people.
Towers of returned VHS tapes stacked on the counter, clients asking if we had xyz move in the stack somewhere....
I was pretty thrilled when we started transitioning to DVD as the primary source of stock.

 

[Colsic]

I would also like to find such a job

 

[poppabk]

The last one always gets me. Disappeared overnight, never got to own one, my inner teenager never recovered.

The rotary telephone is a big one. I used one throughout my childhood but it is hard to believe I did, it seems like a technology that would have been on its way out in the 50s. It does live on in 'dialing' a number and a still fairly universal symbol for a telephone, like most kids today who have never seen a real rotary telephone would recognize the telephone emoji .

 

[The Rain King]

Remember pagers?

 

[Star-Lord]

me too. i saw this on reddit the other day and made an account: https://spacehey.com/

Holy crap, that’s amazing, that’s exactly how MySpace was back in the day. I’m going to have to think about signing up. I’m not a big fan of modern social media these days, but if SpaceHey sticks to as it is, I could be tempted.

 

[SpiceRacz]

When was the last time one of you guys went to the video store?

I miss browsing Blockbuster forever trying to find a film.

Came here to say this. Always looked forward to the video store on Friday nights.

There was actually a huge video store near me up until about 2017. They had over 45,000 movies. It was incredible. 5 movies for 5 days for $5.

Anyone in the Chandler, Az area probably knows which place I'm talking about.

 

[Cattlyst]

I don't know if it's just nostalgia or a rose tinted view of the past, but as a bit of a tech geek I miss the way so many competing formats or devices used to always be coming out, always offering something new or unique. Seems like throuoit the 90s and early 2000s there were always new technologies or gadgets or formats coming out, most of which went nowhere...but it was nice to see innovation and also rans. It doesn't feel the same anymore. Folks born after the early 2000s will never get to experience the sheer number of new things coming to market and having so many opportunities to back failing horses. I'm probably just a sentimental old man but I do miss all the failed consoles, formats, video players etc etc. Just seemed like there was more choice. Yes I understand that the people making these failed things didn't see the fun side of it, but yeah. I dunno. I just miss those days.

 

[T8SC]

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I miss the time when people were not pressured to always hussle and always do work-related things, whether it be reading professional books, doing online classes, etc. People do not understand the benefits of downtime nowadays.

 

[jason10mm]

Firmer staples of schools and colleges everywhere

 

[poppabk]

When was the last time one of you guys went to the video store?

I miss browsing Blockbuster forever trying to find a film.

I remember the pre dedicated video store days where some local shop would just add a small VHS rental section. My local electronics store, would rent tapes alongside multimeters and audio cables. Also they would happily rent the Running Man or Predator (18 certificate in the UK) to an 11 year old.

 

[rofif]

The feeling of playing a new game without any internet existing.
Imagine - no internet, no social media, no smartphones, new game straight from the store in the evening. care free....
I think I am going to cry

 

[Kagey K]

The feeling of playing a new game without any internet existing.
Imagine - no internet, no social media, no smartphones, new game straight from the store in the evening. care free....
I think I am going to cry

First thing I’d do when I rented or bought a new game was go the bathroom and read that bible sized manual cover to cover before starting the game.

Another item time forgot (probably for the best) The McPizza