Limewire.
I miss my first two cars. The first was a 1989 Dodge Daytona which was probably the worst car ever made and it only lasted 6 months before the head gasket blew. The second was a 1995 Ford Escort LX sedan. This was the car that I taught myself how to drive manual transmission on. It was more reliable than the Daytona, but it still had a ton of quirks like shorts in the wiring harness in the steering column --so much so that I learned which pins to short out to hot wire it lol. I miss both of those cars because of the sense of freedom they provided to get away from an emotionally abusive home life.
That Daytona looked like the KITT you had at home tho. Still looked pretty cool. I know nothing about the car at all, but I like the look of it.
My ex-wife it’s been six years since she left. She cheated on me, got knocked up and took off with the boyfriend.
She was super religious. She treated me like garbage but she prayed all the time.
All this time and sometimes I think of her coming back. I know better but my heart doesn’t.
I was an 80’s kid, and we had the best Saturday morning cartoons.
Transformers, GI Joe, Scooby Doo, Thundar the Barbarian, Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, Superfriends, Hurculoids, etc.I loved Saturday morning cartoons! I used to get up at 630 to watch them all. It made me so happy 😊
Windows XP.
A security nightmare, had more unfinished backends than a plexiglass gloryhole… But goddamn could that machine run
Windows ME too. Or maybe it was just playing Red Alert 2 on it.
That was my first Windows and it was unstable as hell. Barely had anything installed on that PC and yet it had random blue screens and crap like that. Really scared me as a PC beginner.
People remember Service Pack 2 as the definitive version. Base and Service Pack 1 XP was awful.
Service Pack 3 refined it a bit better.
I had the Student XP cracked version. That baby was smoooth
My ex.
Only knowing small TVs. Step by step, displays have inarguably improved massively, and I do love my giant OLED flatscreen. But watching TV was still great fun in the before times, people still watched the hell out of it, so can we say it brings people more joy now? Or is it just technically and visually better?
I think if you’re the kinda person watching beautiful premium shows, that’s an experience you couldn’t really get before. But I like TV that I can have on in the background, while I’m doing the dishes, and now we’re expected to pay attention to details on screen. Back when half the audience had tiny, grainy or monochrome displays, shows were written to suit listening as much as watching. And it’s not just scripts, shoddy visuals allowed costumes, sets and design that was evocative but cheap, in a way that cannot pass muster today.
And by comparison, it’s reduced the justification for going to cinema, and even kinda made the real world look bad. It used to be worth going somewhere in person because it would look infinitely better than seeing it on a screen. But now, it can actually be a disappointment, as the carefully composed filmed version with post production actually looks more impressive than irl. It’s the Connoisseurs Paradox, has it really deepend my pleasure, or merely raised my standards so much that I’m actually less satisfied?
I think the same can be applied for personal computers and smartphones. Mundane things were so fun on those devices.
All my friend’s parents smoked when I was younger, but mine didn’t so I always associated the smell of cigarettes with meeting my friends. I absolutely hate the smell today, but I still get a flash of nostalgia when I smell cigarette smoke.
I used to loathe the smell of ciggies, especially when it lingered in fabrics and on surfaces. My parents didn’t smoke and I knew it was bad for people.
Now I like the smell of fresh ciggies :/
Original recipe shamrock shakes. They must be awful to my palate now, but I wanna know what the original tasted like
Pretending I could make something or my life…
Windows 98
Windows XP
Dialup
The Old Internet aka when 90% of it was html and shockwave flash
Weird childhood obsessions; some were good, some were bad, some became things that defined me as an adult.
A lot of the edutainment games I played as a child. I actually went back and installed them to see what they were like through the eyes of an adult. There were a few that were still fun, but as you might be able to guess, most were pretty shitty.
That said, there have been a few things that ended up being 100% worth revisiting. CRT monitors, for an example, are unironically still kinda awesome. I just wouldn’t replace my main monitors with one.
For me I’d put the old Internet and the edutainment games in the good category – most were pretty good, only some were bad that I can remember.
Although Gmail, digg, and reddit pretty much changed the game for what was possible on the Internet.
I, unfortunately, have had all nostalgia for WinXP removed after having to support it in corporate environments. I wish I could say that was a decade ago, but no, I’m still supporting it periodically.
The edutainment games were great! I still remember one where you would fight robots through a factory to build your vehicle that you would race against the villain. It was all about bigger engines being more powerful but weighty, larger tires and their racing characteristics vs. smaller tires, airplane wing styles… I think it’s why my brother is an engineer now, lol.
Little Caesar’s as a traditional pizza parlor.
The old pizza hut was better
My friends and I hit up the pizza hut regularly and would just hang out playing cruisin’ USA and whatever fighting cabinet they had set up in the pickup waiting area. Never once got pizza there.
The employees must have hated our guts, but they never kicked us out so we couldn’t have been that bad.
I have fond memories of Little Caesar’s and Pizza Hut for very different reasons and neither taste or feel like I remember from being a kid. Not sure how much is being older and how much is the two companies going cheaper on ingredients and labor.
Definitely them going cheaper. Neither tastes anything like it did back then. Completely different recipes.
Free pan pizza for reading was glorious
I can’t ever look or taste a little caesar’s pizza the same way again. The last time I had one was back in 2018 and they tasted so dry and you get maybe three seconds of pizza before it is all just dryness mushing together. Definitely was better as a kid.
Pizza! Pizza!
Connecting to dialup and listening to computers scream at each other over the phone line.
Yes that was bad. And it was always so loud for some reason. But I’d argue better than waiting in silence.
I’d agree. I kind of developed a Pavlovian response of excitement to the noise. Back then though, the Internet was nothing like it is now. There was a time when we didn’t even have websites.
Funny enough, Usenet is still around too, it’s used as an alternative to BitTorrent for sharing pirated stuff.
So is Gopher
The “you got mail” was also part of that response for me since it indicated a connection.
2005 runescape
try out lost city 2004scape!
Yeah I did and that’s what showed me it ain’t exactly as I remember haha. Without the quality of life updates it’s just brutal
Ice cream.
Borat
Explain?
Very nice
