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[nush]

I remember the days of ringing directory enquiries from them and chatting the operator up.

I used to know some engineer codes, I'd dial 17676 (Or something like that), and automated voice would say start test then you put down the receiver. Then a a minute later the phone would ring by itself and you'd just stand across the street and laugh at whoever picked it up because there was nobody there other than another recorded message. It worked on home phones too.

Hours of simple pranking fun.

 

[BigBooper]

When I was a kid a local bank had a phone number robo answering machine to tell you the current time and temperature. Imagine using a rotary phone to call somewhere to find out the time. What a world.

 

[nush]

Imagine using a rotary phone to call somewhere to find out the time. What a world.

Especially when wristwatches were more common then.

 

[20cent]

Working without a computer. I've learned to do my job by hand, it was 75% computerized at my first job, 100% now.

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

Masculine men.

Be the change you want to see, brodongle.

 

[MaestroMike]

 

[Zero7]

Buying a game rushing home to play it. Putting the disc or cart straight into the console and be playing in seconds. None of this install, update, DLC crap. Fuck the future man

 

[NinjaBoiX]

It was so satisfying to see your cursor float smoothly across the screen!

 

[BadBurger]

Romance prior to social media.

I've found myself doing it. Seeing a cute girl in Barnes and Noble, or the museum, or wherever, thinking maybe I should make a move, but then remembering that the process of courting an actual non-shallow woman can take weeks if not months - meanwhile I can just swipe right and be boning some coed in an hour after treating her to an illustrious meal at Popeye's or McDonald's?

 

[Paasei]

- That life was primarily spent outdoors. -Thinking you were a badass for ringing someone's doorbell and then run n hide.
-VHS
-Casette (players) I actually really want one again.
-That one person in the family with a job could keep a household running.
-My personal vision of the US visiting that country 3 times as a kid in the 90s.

This list goes on and on. I've been in a nostalgia trip a while ago and it was amazing and at the same time hurting. Everything seemed to be so much better and less stressful. Nobody needed to have an opinion about absolutely everything.

 

[Star-Lord]

 

[p_xavier]

 

[V1LÆM]

- That life was primarily spent outdoors. -Thinking you were a badass for ringing someone's doorbell and then run n hide.
-VHS
-Casette (players) I actually really want one again.
-That one person in the family with a job could keep a household running.
-My personal vision of the US visiting that country 3 times as a kid in the 90s.

This list goes on and on. I've been in a nostalgia trip a while ago and it was amazing and at the same time hurting. Everything seemed to be so much better and less stressful. Nobody needed to have an opinion about absolutely everything.

i found a cassette while moving recently. i made it in 2008 so that was probably the last time i actually listened to a cassette. i remember making mix tapes on them though in the 90's. i'd sit at my hifi copying songs from CDs onto cassettes. if there was a song i didn't have on CD then i'd have the radio on waiting patiently for it to come back on. a lot of songs would have the DJ talking or the first 5-10 seconds missing lol. then i'd listen to the cassettes on my walkman when out and about. when i was staying at a friends for the weekend i'd fill my backpack up with cassettes cause i could fit more of them than cds.

i miss those days of music. collecting cds and building a library/playlist. when a new single/album came out it was so exciting waiting for the next magazine issue (that came with a cd/cassette) for a single or even just taking the time out your day to go visit a record store to pick up an album then going home to listen to it on your hifi system. i like the convenience of streaming but a while ago i started buying vinyl records of albums i liked. it brought back some of that excitement of going into a store and looking forward to when you get home to play it on your system. i gave up on it though.

 

[Kev Kev]

 

[Star-Lord]

I remember listening anxiously for the official Top 40 on BBC Radio 1 on your radio with a blank cassette primed to record the entire thing, just so you could keep up-to-date with what was proper music back then.

 

[JimmyRustler]

- Video stores
- Hanging out with other people because there was nothing else to do

 

[nush]

meanwhile I can just swipe right and be boning some coed in an hour after treating her to an illustrious meal at Popeye's or McDonald's?

You have to buy them food? Simp. I found they are quite happy to deliver themselves to my apartment and then pay for the taxi themselves to go back home.

If I could only tell teenage Nush of the world that was coming and not to bother chasing fanny because you won't need to waste that time in the future.

 

[RJMacready73]

Creating a boot disc on my old Dx-66 pc in order to free up enough resources to get Doom to load

 

[Winter John]

Scart leads. I actually got a box full of old cables and shit for technology that doesn't even exist anymore. I refuse to throw that junk out because I've convinced myself there will come a day when I'll need a scart splitter or a dvd adapter

 

[Paasei]

i found a cassette while moving recently. i made it in 2008 so that was probably the last time i actually listened to a cassette. i remember making mix tapes on them though in the 90's. i'd sit at my hifi copying songs from CDs onto cassettes. if there was a song i didn't have on CD then i'd have the radio on waiting patiently for it to come back on. a lot of songs would have the DJ talking or the first 5-10 seconds missing lol. then i'd listen to the cassettes on my walkman when out and about. when i was staying at a friends for the weekend i'd fill my backpack up with cassettes cause i could fit more of them than cds.

i miss those days of music. collecting cds and building a library/playlist. when a new single/album came out it was so exciting waiting for the next magazine issue (that came with a cd/cassette) for a single or even just taking the time out your day to go visit a record store to pick up an album then going home to listen to it on your hifi system. i like the convenience of streaming but a while ago i started buying vinyl records of albums i liked. it brought back some of that excitement of going into a store and looking forward to when you get home to play it on your system. i gave up on it though.

I moved towards LP/vinyl collecting. Also helps that I have a colleague who has a collection of over 12k of them.

 

[Star-Lord]

Scart leads. I actually got a box full of old cables and shit for technology that doesn't even exist anymore. I refuse to throw that junk out because I've convinced myself there will come a day when I'll need a scart splitter or a dvd adapter

I have an entire drawer full of USBs, HDMIs, SCARTs, phone chargers, batteries, and tape. I don’t know what half of them are for, or whether they even still work, but I’ll hold on to them forever. Just in case.

 

[nkarafo]

 

[Zippitydodaday]

Happiness.

 

[West Texas CEO]

 

[highrider]

Be the change you want to see, brodongle.

I’m good, don’t see it changing unfortunately on a larger scale. Well we actually know it isn’t lol

 

[Halo is Back]

My sanity

 

[Kagey K]

My sanity

Facts.

Feels like we are all losing ours now.

 

[BouncyFrag]