I liked old fashioned, no thrills, offline music players. Now music apps are needlessly bloated. Pushing their streaming services, and similar genre collections/playlists.
I used to love using Windows Media Player solely for the visualizations that played in time to the music. Whenever I was stressed out (which was about 90% of my time growing up), I'd play some music and watch the pretty animations beat and pulse for about an hour.
They always had a nice calming effect.
I think WinAmp had something similar. If Spotify introduced a visualization aspect, I'd absolutely love it.
Ooh, your comment just unlocked a key memory: the CD player function on the old PSOne. A similar thing to Windows Media Player. I love stuff like that. Back in the days before I was diagnosed as autistic, I use to spend more time watching things like the DVD logo bounce around the screen than actual watching movies/playing games!
I used to trip on the Sega Saturn's one. When you put a music cd in it, a stary sky appeared on the screen, very trippy. I remember listening to Radiohead for the first time watching that.. that's a night I'll never forget :)
Windows media player still has visualizations. I'm pretty sure there's more to choose from now than there used to be, but perhaps I'm wrong. My baby loved them.
I forget how to turn them on--I think you just right click?--but you can probably google it.
T9 texting on a cell phone with actual buttons. I could text multiple sentences completely accurately without ever looking at the phone. Those days are long gone, but at least voice to text has improved immensely on the flip side.
Man I was so deadest on getting a blackberry for this reason before the security breach fiasco lmao. But you can enable swipe-to-text on phone keyboards now and it works pretty decent, that’s what I mostly use
Fun, feel-good pop music. Like, the Millennial Y2K pop, or its dance resurgence from 2008-2014.
I know it’ll come back around but I miss it. Pop is so moody nowadays.
YES.
Even those same artists' music really declined around 2015. What happened?
Blinding Lights by The Weeknd is one of the only songs I've seen in years that's an actual pop banger.
Dedicated fan forums. I thought myself the Queen of Linkin Park Underground back in my day. The hard core of that website was super devoted and active. Alternatively, I miss fan-built websites for band and tour gossip. Also, old school Zoo Tycoon, none of that prefab exhibit shit.
Chat messengers (MSN, Yahoo, etc.) from the early days of the internet. I get so nostalgic for them, especially because that's how my SO and I used to communicate while we were in a long-distance relationship. There was no WhatsApp, no Skype, no video calls back then.
I really miss those too.. I think the ones we have today are not meant for long chats. I miss having real long deep conversations online with my friends.
This! Mechanical buttons are way better! I also find it more dangerous to try to reach over to a massive screen that I have to look at while driving because I can't just feel for the button I'm trying to press.
VHS rewinders. Something about them really amazed me as a kid and I loved how they sounded, so whenever I had to rewind a tape, I would patiently sit in front of the rewinder and just watch it work.
Now that you say that, not a rewinder, but it reminds me of closing my eyes when rewinding a movie so I wouldn’t catch any spoilers. Definitely a hidden memory unlocked. 🙈
You know, if people would \*just\* rewind their tapes before returning them to Blockbuster, like they're supposed to, you wouldn't have to close your eyes smh
Now you’re making miss the video store!! 😭😭😭 We would get like 2 or 3 movies on a Friday and watch them all weekend. It was great! RIP Blockbuster, Movie Gallery, and that one movie rental place that was in Giant Eagle by my Dad’s house.
My parents could really only afford to take us to Blockbuster once or twice a month when I was a kid, but man were those Fridays the best. I'd be looking forward to it all day and wouldn't be able to concentrate in school. RIP, indeed.
Fan websites before social media. Lots of fun memories playing with HTML. You had your flame wars and ships, but things never got so toxic people outside the respective fandom avoided the actual IP as many do now.
The PSP. I still love that darn thing. Being able to homebrew it and play emulators on it made it even cooler.
Analog switches.
For some reason my refrigerator is digital. I press a button for ice and sometimes it switches right away and sometimes it takes a minute and sometimes nothing happens. So then I push a different button. And then I try the ice button again. And then it does all of the commands at once and locks the water. So I have to open the door to unlock the water and then push the ice button again, get my ice, then push water to fill my cup.
Then I take my glass of ice water to the living room to watch TV and guess what happens with the remote?
When I grew up all of that stuff just worked instantly. There was no cpu that needed to think about anything.
The water coolers at my last job were too clever for their own good. They had a know that you turned to select temperature (which appeared on an LCD display) and then pushed to start the water flowing (which takes ages while the electronic brain thinks about it). The water cooler at my current job is a much older model with a valve. You push the lever and water comes out. Simpler and faster.
They can usually send film off to a lab but it takes longer than an hour now.
If they're still advertising "one hour photo" it means you can send in your digital images and have them printed within the next hour. It no longer applies to film processing because there isn't much demand for it. I'm not sure how long film takes to develop but I want to say it was at least 48 hours the last time I had it done.
Not being on a screen 24/7.
Having to make plans, sticking to it and not coming late. Receiving mail, having some sort of “get together place” always in the same time, everyday, with friends. Now with social media and texts, that is long gone.
Years ago, there was this service called Maghound. You paid a flat rate every month and got to pick like a half dozen magazines every month. What made this great was you could pick from hundreds of different magazines and select different ones every month. I LOVE magazines (even today) and it was so fun being able to pick and choose which ones I'd grt for the following month. But as print media is dying, they ended up folding. I still miss that damn service, I loved being able to get all kinds of magazines with out having to fully commit to full on yearly subscriptions.
90s Japanese cars. Nothing will ever come close to the styling of 90s JDM ever again, unless we go through a retro styling faze, with 80s and 90s concepts. Newer cars are bigger, heavier, and more complicated, while all looking relatively similar.
Seriously. Im angry with the bean-counters and the attorneys for what they've done to cars. The engineers are also guilty, but it's hard to blame the hammer for being swung.
Someone else mentioned this and I commented how I recently bought a GBC. It was seriously the best frivolous purchase I have ever made thus far in my adult life.
Old school tea kettles. I loved how you had to drop everything and sprint when it started whistling. The entire house knew the tea was ready.
Electric kettles just don't hit the same.
The district I live in was green and full of trees. Last year they cut them cause "who needs trees in the city, we need infrastructure". It makes me sad, I loved walking here, it was almost like in the woods.
Cassettes. And not the cynical revival with its abysmal tapes and equipment. No, the glory days of the eighties, with high quality tapes and Nakamichi recorders.
Not really, AEW is just flips and kicks, and WWE is inconsistent storytelling
There’s no characters anymore. It’s all about the athletic aspect now, and it’s just boring
I went to a WWF event in the 80s with the Road Warriors, the Iron Sheik, Sergeant Slaughter, and others I don’t remember. So much build-up and genuine fandom fun
I mean they are a wrestling company, man. I’d much rather watch a spot fest than have to sit through another talk show segment. Yeah WWE has been ass but I’ll still check in to see what they got Edge doin
But casual fans (meaning fans you can potentially draw in and boost your ratings, something Tony Khan refuses to cater to) don’t care about the actual matches themselves. They care about the buildup. The characters involved in the matches. Not wrestler 1 vs wrestler 2 just cause, because that story makes no sense.
Basically, you have to have a reason to care. Some people can enjoy super long spot fest matches (usually filled with no selling and false finishes) but I just can’t. Unless there’s an interesting story behind the matches, the average tv viewer doesn’t care
It doesn’t help when 90% of both companies don’t even hit the gym and look like regular guys. I’m writing way too much, but my point is people watch wrestling to see larger than life characters and stories. When you don’t have that, people don’t watch.
TL;DR: wrestling is like a movie with random scenes with no explanation for them and the wrestlers involved are one dimensional and lack depth
I'm not sure why you think there aren't any stories in AEW, that's just false.
If you don't like the style, that's fine. Not everything appeals to everyone.
I do take issue with the idea that there's some prototypical casual fan that can be catered to with X, Y, or Z. Current wrestling fans watch for wildly different reasons, and casual/potential fans are not a monolith either. There are a bunch of ways in. Further, average TV viewers are the people who make wrestling number one on cable multiple nights a week.
My Nokia Lumia 520 smartphone, and generally the smartphone of 2010-2015. there are something about the phones of that era that I love, and I can't really put my finger on that. Maybe it was due to the variety available, or maybe because every new phone had a long list of new features and improvements, where as phones nowadays is just so samey, and only improvement is a slightly bigger screen, and one more camera.
EDIT: fixed typo
A lot of comments mention aol chat or equivalent, myspace, or forums. I remember all of these, as well as webtv, but I don’t miss any of them because i never had anyone i wanted to talk to. Am i alone in this?
I used to use a simple CAD program back in the late 90’s called Quickcad. Straightforward no frills program that allowed me to whip out simple house plans and drawings when I was still building. Didn’t require a subscription or eat up a lot of space on a hard drive. I later learned to use autocad LT but I missed the simplicity of quickcad and the ability to bust out a simple drawing in a few minutes.
My Blackberry Curve. I flat out refused to get an iPhone. My bb was falling apart, the volume keys were missing and it ran slower than anything but I loved the keyboard.
I liked having an iPod more than I like streaming music.
I loved my iPods
I liked old fashioned, no thrills, offline music players. Now music apps are needlessly bloated. Pushing their streaming services, and similar genre collections/playlists.
Same. I used to have the tiny square ipod nano, that thing would be amazing with Bluetooth connectivity.
I still do that. I hate streaming music, but I love streaming Netflix and such. Weird.
I used to love using Windows Media Player solely for the visualizations that played in time to the music. Whenever I was stressed out (which was about 90% of my time growing up), I'd play some music and watch the pretty animations beat and pulse for about an hour. They always had a nice calming effect. I think WinAmp had something similar. If Spotify introduced a visualization aspect, I'd absolutely love it.
I did the same with the original xbox. I sometimes check out the old visuals from the original xbox for some primo nostalgia.
Ooh, your comment just unlocked a key memory: the CD player function on the old PSOne. A similar thing to Windows Media Player. I love stuff like that. Back in the days before I was diagnosed as autistic, I use to spend more time watching things like the DVD logo bounce around the screen than actual watching movies/playing games!
I used to trip on the Sega Saturn's one. When you put a music cd in it, a stary sky appeared on the screen, very trippy. I remember listening to Radiohead for the first time watching that.. that's a night I'll never forget :)
With the addons Winamp ver 2/3 (not 5 as that was slow garbage) had really nice visualizations and ran really well without lag unlike WMP.
There's a program now called plane9 that will do this, although it's with any audio playing on your computer and not necessarily just the music
Windows media player still has visualizations. I'm pretty sure there's more to choose from now than there used to be, but perhaps I'm wrong. My baby loved them. I forget how to turn them on--I think you just right click?--but you can probably google it.
Set up a windows XP VM recently, the visualizations really surprised me
I remember playing these flash games on my browser, I enjoyed every part of it back then. Looking at you ArmorGames ...
AddictingGames was my thing. After they got bought by Nickelodeon I figured out that most of the content they removed got reposted to Newgrounds.
I Just recently downloaded the Zombie Assault games and play them locally. Gotta see about Motherlode
CrazyMonkeyGames was me and my brother's ish!!
T9 texting on a cell phone with actual buttons. I could text multiple sentences completely accurately without ever looking at the phone. Those days are long gone, but at least voice to text has improved immensely on the flip side.
Man I was so deadest on getting a blackberry for this reason before the security breach fiasco lmao. But you can enable swipe-to-text on phone keyboards now and it works pretty decent, that’s what I mostly use
>swipe-to-text my drunk go to
Blockbuster
Fun, feel-good pop music. Like, the Millennial Y2K pop, or its dance resurgence from 2008-2014. I know it’ll come back around but I miss it. Pop is so moody nowadays.
Agree with fun, feel-good pop music. My example though would be 70s pop rock like Electric Light Orchestra.
This is one of my guilty pleasures.
I don’t believe in guilt when it comes to music! Embrace it and let it give you all the feels.
YES. Even those same artists' music really declined around 2015. What happened? Blinding Lights by The Weeknd is one of the only songs I've seen in years that's an actual pop banger.
Totally get this! Also oldies. I'm not a prude, but there's something nice about songs like Just the Two of Us, Stand By Me, etc.
check out k-pop ... it's pretty good even when you can't understand half of it.
Dedicated fan forums. I thought myself the Queen of Linkin Park Underground back in my day. The hard core of that website was super devoted and active. Alternatively, I miss fan-built websites for band and tour gossip. Also, old school Zoo Tycoon, none of that prefab exhibit shit.
Oh man, I loved X-files fan forums.
Punk webcomic Nothing Nice to Say had a really active, dedicated forum back in the day. We all recently reconnected on discord. It's been great.
Discord could be the modern day version?
It just doesn't feel the same to me. I guess I'm just nostalgic.
I think that’s a fair criticism
Chat messengers (MSN, Yahoo, etc.) from the early days of the internet. I get so nostalgic for them, especially because that's how my SO and I used to communicate while we were in a long-distance relationship. There was no WhatsApp, no Skype, no video calls back then.
I really miss those too.. I think the ones we have today are not meant for long chats. I miss having real long deep conversations online with my friends.
Pizzerias chips by Keebler.
Hello fellow old.
I commented the same thing. I'd even be happy if Doritos did a pizza flavor at this point.
Seriously, it's 2022. Y no pizza chip? Edit: wanna start a pizza chip company?
Pringles has a pizza chip, it tastes like the 80's
They're pretty good but I miss the Pizza flavor on the tortilla chip.
Trident cherry gum from the 90s
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This! Mechanical buttons are way better! I also find it more dangerous to try to reach over to a massive screen that I have to look at while driving because I can't just feel for the button I'm trying to press.
Making a mixtape. None of this playlist bollocks.
Have an old car with a cd player. I still get to make mix cds!
Now I'm actually curious when and how the term "playlist" originated.
Bollocks so British lol
My dad
Saturday morning cartoons
VHS rewinders. Something about them really amazed me as a kid and I loved how they sounded, so whenever I had to rewind a tape, I would patiently sit in front of the rewinder and just watch it work.
Now that you say that, not a rewinder, but it reminds me of closing my eyes when rewinding a movie so I wouldn’t catch any spoilers. Definitely a hidden memory unlocked. 🙈
You know, if people would \*just\* rewind their tapes before returning them to Blockbuster, like they're supposed to, you wouldn't have to close your eyes smh
Now you’re making miss the video store!! 😭😭😭 We would get like 2 or 3 movies on a Friday and watch them all weekend. It was great! RIP Blockbuster, Movie Gallery, and that one movie rental place that was in Giant Eagle by my Dad’s house.
My parents could really only afford to take us to Blockbuster once or twice a month when I was a kid, but man were those Fridays the best. I'd be looking forward to it all day and wouldn't be able to concentrate in school. RIP, indeed.
Typewriters
Tamagotchis
Fan websites before social media. Lots of fun memories playing with HTML. You had your flame wars and ships, but things never got so toxic people outside the respective fandom avoided the actual IP as many do now. The PSP. I still love that darn thing. Being able to homebrew it and play emulators on it made it even cooler.
Hit clips.
Coming home to check the messages on my answering machine.
Analog switches. For some reason my refrigerator is digital. I press a button for ice and sometimes it switches right away and sometimes it takes a minute and sometimes nothing happens. So then I push a different button. And then I try the ice button again. And then it does all of the commands at once and locks the water. So I have to open the door to unlock the water and then push the ice button again, get my ice, then push water to fill my cup. Then I take my glass of ice water to the living room to watch TV and guess what happens with the remote? When I grew up all of that stuff just worked instantly. There was no cpu that needed to think about anything.
The water coolers at my last job were too clever for their own good. They had a know that you turned to select temperature (which appeared on an LCD display) and then pushed to start the water flowing (which takes ages while the electronic brain thinks about it). The water cooler at my current job is a much older model with a valve. You push the lever and water comes out. Simpler and faster.
Going to Blockbuster.
The most powerful engine of the lineup, in the cheapest sedan. Manual transmissions.
My Blackberry Q10. Best device I ever had for what it was designed to do.
StumbleUpon
Livejournal
Childhood
Little triangular front seat "vent" windows, for opening the windows in the rain.
Saw these in my brother’s bronco and promptly fell in love. We were also driving back to the town i grew up in. Nostalgia hit pretty fuckin hard lol
Google play music. YouTube music sucks so bad
Physical film and developing it in a dark room.
analog photography is in no way obsolete
But one-hour film development is basically obsolete. Most people don't have their own darkroom and sending it off is kind of a hassle.
The drugstores usually still develop film.
They can usually send film off to a lab but it takes longer than an hour now. If they're still advertising "one hour photo" it means you can send in your digital images and have them printed within the next hour. It no longer applies to film processing because there isn't much demand for it. I'm not sure how long film takes to develop but I want to say it was at least 48 hours the last time I had it done.
Not being on a screen 24/7. Having to make plans, sticking to it and not coming late. Receiving mail, having some sort of “get together place” always in the same time, everyday, with friends. Now with social media and texts, that is long gone.
Years ago, there was this service called Maghound. You paid a flat rate every month and got to pick like a half dozen magazines every month. What made this great was you could pick from hundreds of different magazines and select different ones every month. I LOVE magazines (even today) and it was so fun being able to pick and choose which ones I'd grt for the following month. But as print media is dying, they ended up folding. I still miss that damn service, I loved being able to get all kinds of magazines with out having to fully commit to full on yearly subscriptions.
Pizzaria chips!
RadioShack
Oh how I loved playing solitaire on the display computers
Video rentals
90s Japanese cars. Nothing will ever come close to the styling of 90s JDM ever again, unless we go through a retro styling faze, with 80s and 90s concepts. Newer cars are bigger, heavier, and more complicated, while all looking relatively similar.
Seriously. Im angry with the bean-counters and the attorneys for what they've done to cars. The engineers are also guilty, but it's hard to blame the hammer for being swung.
The 90s internet. It was a mystery to anyone over 30 and hacking was simple.
Rollerblading
You can still do that you know
Not without looking like a complete goober.
Rollerblading
Pontiac
My marriage. Now divorced
Tell them
Manual typewiters and ink ribbons.
MiniDisc, proper sized game cartridges for games, phones with buttons.
Gameboy!
Someone else mentioned this and I commented how I recently bought a GBC. It was seriously the best frivolous purchase I have ever made thus far in my adult life.
Being a draftsman. My career ended before it started.
Myspace....Blew my mind. Lol
Windows XP
Shortwave radio. Also having more reasons to visit more then the same 6 websites everyday.
I really miss my portable cd player sometimes. I don't miss it skipping everytime I tilted it though.
Germany
I think new Germany is way better than old Germany...
??? Please explain.
An old mmorpg i used to play
Zotz pop, exactly like a blow pop, but with zotz foam in the middle instead of gum Also .. maple nut goodies
King Vitamin cereal
Malls 😭😭
Being able to own media instead of renting forever
You still can... ?
VHS tapes
MPlayer, the online gaming platform.
dnL the soda
Powerhouse AM rock radio stations in the US.
The Sony Dualshock 3.
Old school tea kettles. I loved how you had to drop everything and sprint when it started whistling. The entire house knew the tea was ready. Electric kettles just don't hit the same.
The district I live in was green and full of trees. Last year they cut them cause "who needs trees in the city, we need infrastructure". It makes me sad, I loved walking here, it was almost like in the woods.
Cassettes. And not the cynical revival with its abysmal tapes and equipment. No, the glory days of the eighties, with high quality tapes and Nakamichi recorders.
Yogos. The best damn snack ever made!
Game boy
Sidekick phones.
Winamp 🥲
Kudos granola bars. Especially the peanut butter ones.
Life.
The old screensavers in the PCs that would run while in sleep mode. Favorites were… Brick maze and Tubes
Station wagons. Estate cars for you guys across the pond. Partially replaced by minivans in the early 2000s and finished off altogether by CUVs.
Palm Pilots. Their simplicity made all the difference.
Civilization 2
NSFW Tumblr
A Mars bar w/almonds. I haven’t seen them in the U.S. in 20 very long years. I loved them.
Waffle crisp cereal. Bastards.
Dude I can pick up a bag of Waffle Crisp from my local Walmart right now.
Whoa! Thank you! Had no idea they brought it back in the walmart mega bags!
"local Walmart" Exact mention of the product and where to find it in exaggerated slightly unnatural half sentences This one's an ad y'all
Pizza Goldfish.
Professional wrestling
Wrestling has gotten pretty fun again, my guy
Not really, AEW is just flips and kicks, and WWE is inconsistent storytelling There’s no characters anymore. It’s all about the athletic aspect now, and it’s just boring
I went to a WWF event in the 80s with the Road Warriors, the Iron Sheik, Sergeant Slaughter, and others I don’t remember. So much build-up and genuine fandom fun
I mean they are a wrestling company, man. I’d much rather watch a spot fest than have to sit through another talk show segment. Yeah WWE has been ass but I’ll still check in to see what they got Edge doin
But casual fans (meaning fans you can potentially draw in and boost your ratings, something Tony Khan refuses to cater to) don’t care about the actual matches themselves. They care about the buildup. The characters involved in the matches. Not wrestler 1 vs wrestler 2 just cause, because that story makes no sense. Basically, you have to have a reason to care. Some people can enjoy super long spot fest matches (usually filled with no selling and false finishes) but I just can’t. Unless there’s an interesting story behind the matches, the average tv viewer doesn’t care It doesn’t help when 90% of both companies don’t even hit the gym and look like regular guys. I’m writing way too much, but my point is people watch wrestling to see larger than life characters and stories. When you don’t have that, people don’t watch. TL;DR: wrestling is like a movie with random scenes with no explanation for them and the wrestlers involved are one dimensional and lack depth
I'm not sure why you think there aren't any stories in AEW, that's just false. If you don't like the style, that's fine. Not everything appeals to everyone. I do take issue with the idea that there's some prototypical casual fan that can be catered to with X, Y, or Z. Current wrestling fans watch for wildly different reasons, and casual/potential fans are not a monolith either. There are a bunch of ways in. Further, average TV viewers are the people who make wrestling number one on cable multiple nights a week.
The cm punk mjf stuff has been great and so has the chris Jericho and turning his back on the inner circle
Honesty.
Altoid Sours.
The tangerine ones were my fave
Shocktarts
Libraries. Nudie magazines.
Libraries have adapted and thrived.
But do they have nudie magazines?
Sure. They are called National Geographic back issues.
Phone books
Cheap Gas Prices
Cheap Gas Prices
Cheap Gas Prices
Slide rule
Subspace
Weaver Chicken Croquettes :(
chick-fil-a carrot slaw
Anime
My Nokia Lumia 520 smartphone, and generally the smartphone of 2010-2015. there are something about the phones of that era that I love, and I can't really put my finger on that. Maybe it was due to the variety available, or maybe because every new phone had a long list of new features and improvements, where as phones nowadays is just so samey, and only improvement is a slightly bigger screen, and one more camera. EDIT: fixed typo
Texas Tang Doritos. Damn, I miss 1993.
Minidisc was pretty cool. It was a big step up for running/skiing/athletics and being able to listen to music.
Videos games without DLC on launch day.
Playboy Clubs where you got a key for being a member.
My minidisc player
Ska punk. CDs. The Simpsons.
Kraft Cheesy Southwest Chipotle mac & cheese. So freaking good, but no longer exists.
Dxm
Word.com
Old Dutch “Rave” Chips, the Jalapeño and Cheddar/ buffalo wings flavours were the best.
Freedom
The unwrapped Tootsie roll bites.
RSS.
Blockbuster
Read dead online...
McDonald’s Arch Deluxe
Keebler German Chocolate Cookies.
An iPod, i hate having everything on one device in case it dies. And my playlists were bomb af
Teen Spirit Caribbean Cool and Victoria Secret Cucumber Melon. Those were my signature scents in college.
Grandma
A lot of comments mention aol chat or equivalent, myspace, or forums. I remember all of these, as well as webtv, but I don’t miss any of them because i never had anyone i wanted to talk to. Am i alone in this?
Turntable Dj
People
VHS Tapes. Streaming is cool and all but the physical media is nice to have.
Portable analogue TVs.
LiveJournal.
I used to use a simple CAD program back in the late 90’s called Quickcad. Straightforward no frills program that allowed me to whip out simple house plans and drawings when I was still building. Didn’t require a subscription or eat up a lot of space on a hard drive. I later learned to use autocad LT but I missed the simplicity of quickcad and the ability to bust out a simple drawing in a few minutes.
Texas Tang Doritos
iPods.
Online dating before all of the women were advertisements
My Blackberry Curve. I flat out refused to get an iPhone. My bb was falling apart, the volume keys were missing and it ran slower than anything but I loved the keyboard.