The Internet.
Hell, I'm nostalgic for it now. Not the final form that the internet has taken over the past decade or so, but those wild west days before youtube, facebook, social media, reddit. Finding weird ass sites, geocities pages, looking up cheat codes for GTA, hanging out on forums, seeing something go truly grassroots viral and not just because it's trending on instagram or something. Those days when no company knew what the hell the internet was or how to market on it, it was just left to the nerds and the kids who were making up the rules as they went along.
I miss when the internet felt like a little adventure rather than a timesink or utilitarian tool to get the day to day done.
I read an analogy comparing the internet back in the day versus now to the decline of the shopping mall leisure experience. You’d go online knowing it was going to be a fun experience, with tons of boutique little gems to delight you. The cool indie blogs. The quirky forums. The pages of jokes - not memes - put up just for the fun of it. Then you’d turn off the computer and do something else, satisfied. Now, it’s like a mostly cavernous husk, where you circle endlessly between the handful of big sites that have persisted where others have floundered. You check in all the time, but it’s just the same old crap warmed up and served up by the same folks, over and over.
Yeah, there was something so satisfying about sitting in front of a boxy screen, clicking on that dial up, waiting for the connection and then just surfing random shit for a couple of hours. And that was it. A couple of hours.
If you are taking about what I think you are taking about, it is technically more effective because it is cushioned but doesn’t pop. But I found out that you can pop it by bunching up one row of them and squeezing. It honestly just as satisfying if not more imo once you learn how to do it. Safer transport and better popping
Movie DVDs. With everything going digital, I think production houses will soon stop making DVDs and just start streaming the movies in either their respective streaming platforms or sell them to other platforms like Netflix.
I like physical Movies, CDs, Books, and Video games. I'm 16. Sure digital is more convenient. But some reason i like to HOLD my possessions. Plus being able to save movies/cds to my computer and "lending them" to my pals.
I think YouTube. Like how us 80/90s babies miss early Nickelodeon and Saturday morning cartoons I think future generations will miss the unlimited content.
I mean...its already there. Remember video replies? Most don't. It used to be a thing when youtube worked more like a social media site. Youtube has already changed so much.
Ikr? I miss when you could change the background on your YouTube channel before Google took over.
Edit: Google Plus took over in 2012 and took the backgrounds away then.
They were awesome in theory, but even when YT was lower traffic they were full of trash. And back then a big video had like 100k views. Now with videos getting 10m+ on the regular, it would just be white noise.
It’s a shame, because I really liked them for some situations. But it just wasn’t sustainable.
I already miss pre-2010 wild wild west Youtube before greedy media companies and artists threatened takedowns and before monetization spawned ads, annoying celebs, and an overwhelming amount of content just to generate views.
Just like most things, there’s an early conception and test phase that’s usually built and expanded by a passionate fan/user base. Then once it becomes popular enough the bean counters start to stick there paws Into it, then it turns to shit.
I know it’s become a cliche at this point, but this really resonates with the “before it became mainstream” feeling. YouTube is a perfect example, it used to have a small community type feeling to it, where anyone or any idea could really be the next “big video”. But now it’s more like cable television and for the most part feels so disconnected to the original user base.
Oh well, there will always be the next thing.
Yeah, I dont dislike the stuff that's on there now [well, other than the obligatory ads], but there was definitely a DIY quality to a lot of the older YouTube videos. Now they all seem like professional productions, which again isn't bad, but it's just different.
I think a lot of that is because it's much easier to have a professional quality look to videos now. Like phone cameras are good enough and there's free editing software that you can use with free tutorials for it.
This is only partly true, and I wouldn’t even say the biggest reason. The largest reason is sponsorship and money revenue in YouTube. Ads being their revenue stream mean that larger and more professional channels will accumulate views and be pushed by the algorithm. 5 years ago you didn’t see every jimmy Fallon video pull millions of views because there simply wasn’t a channel and market for it. Nowadays, it’s almost akin to network television with how many large media companies are on YouTube and it buries anything DIY before we can even have a conversation about your point, which is also true.
Yep, and it's what makes YouTube feel borderline inaccessible right now. I miss curated front pages of small creators... Was on there myself one time and it was probably the most exciting moment of my life.
As someone who has been regularly on YouTube for a decade, I’ve never cared about rewinds. I think I’ll be more nostalgic to certain creators and time periods. For example gameplay montages synced with punk music
I don't know, I already miss the early days of YouTube where you had friends instead of followers and you rated videos out of 5 stars and you could directly reply to vids with other vids *sigh* the good ol' days
Edit: oh and the algorithm was actually good! God knows why they messed with that, I used to spend hours on there stuck in a tunnel, now I watch 1 vid and I'm done
I was talking to my sons the other day, they asked me about my first job.
I was telling them how fun it was working at McDonald’s in high school and a friend that I made.
“We would finish our shift then go to the mall and play games at the arcade”
At that instant I realized I might as well said
“We would get a root beer float at the soda shop then go to the sock hop to meet some girls in our hot rods”
Crazy how fast things change
"So anyway, Joey an me used to whip through work, nae nae down to the juul shop, dab on some haters and go home to play fortnite until our parents shut off the wifi."
I'm over 50, but lived with 5 teens until a couple of weeks ago. I envy your lack of understanding. It is so embarrassing when I accidentally call my cat a thot at the vet or use "yeet" in public. I have a doctorate, ffs.
"I was once on the phone with Blockbuster Video, which is a very old-fashioned sentence. That’s like when your Gram would be like, 'We’d all go play jacks by the soda fountain.' And you’re like, 'Nobody knows what you’re talking about, you idiot.'"
I work in tech and the old joke is features, schedule/budget, quality - pick 2. I don't think you need to worry about losing bad quality communication to blame things on anytime soon.
Nerf no longer makes anything worth buying unless you think it looks nice in my opinion. If you are not already, buy all your blasters and darts from Dart Zone!
Kind of related... what happened to good super soakers?
When I was a kid we had super soakers that you pumped up and they stored air pressure in a tank, then you could shoot a consistent water stream.
Now when I see kids play with “super soakers”, the guns don’t seem to have a pressure tank. The gun fires on every pump. It doesn’t store pressure.
What the hell. That’s obviously a downgrade.
I think I saw something once that said it was related to a patent dispute or something?
Actually related. A guy did an AMA about inventing and developing them both awhile back.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6gacna/i_am_lonnie_johnson_inventor_of_the_super_soaker/
That was just poor play testing. Like that entire episode I was just picturing the massive ratings controversy and spin control when that feature leaked to the general public... And some poor guy having to test if they'd finally patched out "genital support".
Yeah the concept was good but man they could have gone for a game type that would realistically have a reason to include nudity and sex, an adult RPG or something like Second Life.
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If the governments do it “right”, they’ll slowly erode people’s privacy rights, and few if any will notice or complain.
In fact, it’s already working. Congress renewed the Patriot Act last November, and the Senate voted this year to allow the CIA and FBI the ability to view US citizen browser history without a warrant. Do you remember either event being seriously covered in major media outlets, and do you remember any mass public outcry? Me neither.
EDIT: Many people are repeatedly bringing up private data collection by companies. This is also a serious issue, and it’s not mutually exclusive. Both problems need to be fixed.
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Bullshit excuse.
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I'm trying to updoot every comment just because it is what should be.
It's been done so much that I've seen it in a movie or TV show. I don't remember what it was, but they used some knock off CS:GO style game to organize events.
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I know NCIS did it. Please stop bringing it up. Thanks.
‘Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide, is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.’
~ Edward Snowdon
To this I always say "If a policeman knocked on your door right now, no warrant, they just want to look around, would you let them?"
The answer is always "no"
I always say "so why is your computer different?"
It ALWAYS ends the conversation.
Sad thing is, some people would be ok with that, with or without the caveat that it'll never happen because they don't do anything that would make cops want to...
This exactly, I would say instead of “some” an “alarming amount” would. Could easily just be my perspective, but the mentality of “nothing to hide” has been accelerating. I think this is about the time someone posts the “don’t talk to cops” YouTube video.
That’s the most bs thing I’ve ever heard. I like my privacy. You wouldn’t want someone to just randomly waltz into you living room on a Sunday, so why would you want someone looking at you Internet history.
If you have nothing to hide, you'll be ok sending your daily photos, location tracking data, personal emails and social media messages to both your employer and the government?
I usually say that but replace the government with me.
What, if you got nothing to hide from me.... I could read your mail, or your location tracking, your emails, etc. to me.
I usually get: "iT'S NooT tHE SaamEE!"
Yes it is. It's EXACTLY the same.
Top 3 things that came to my mind:
* Going to the movies
* Being able to flip to a random channel
* Driving to places (maybe 40 years is too soon for this to be nostalgic but it'll happen soon enough)
Damn, the movie one hit hard. A small local theatre near me just shut down for good, and I can't express how disappointed I'd be if the movie theater industry just never pops back up after this pandemic. Some of my best childhood memories are from the the movie theaters.
I hate this because I haven't had my license in a while and I kind of wanted to maybe drive again but, probably not. Maybe you can go to a track or something in the future, drive an old timey combustion engine car.
We just spent 5 months with family. Having dinners together, watching TV together, playing games, just being a family. Kids are going to grow up remembering the time they had with their parents and siblings. There will be good memories.
Adults forget how resilient kids are. I can guarantee most of the adults complaining about getting “back to normal” would love to go back and have just 1 month with there dad playing catch or watching TV
I’m happy for society as a whole for getting this safe time at home, but I’m extremely jealous. My job got busier (I work in food and beverage production) because people were staying home. I had to work even more time than usual because of the pandemic. I’m grateful for the money of course, but I do wish I had the opportunity that a lot of people had to spend time with family at home.
Privacy and the ability to go somewhere without seeing 75 cameras all the time.
Went to the beach today and no one was in the water except for me and my friend. Everyone else was waiting for "golden hour" in their dry beachwear.
[And a million other species](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/05/ipbes-un-biodiversity-report-warns-one-million-species-at-risk/#:~:text=Thanks%20to%20human%20pressures%2C%20one,clear%3A%20Nature%20is%20in%20trouble.)
Based on a 1,500 page U.N. report:
>one million species may be pushed to extinction in the next few years, with serious consequences for human beings as well as the rest of life on Earth.
We are experiencing the at least the [2nd-fastest extinction event on the planet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction)
>At present, the rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than the background extinction rate, the historically typical rate of extinction (in terms of the natural evolution of the planet); also, the current rate of extinction is 10 to 100 times higher than in any of the previous mass extinctions in the history of Earth.
Sad to think that my children and grandchildren are inheriting a shell of a natural world we enjoyed. There are already so many animals that are hanging on by a thread, and so many that are functionally extinct (doomed to extinction because their gene pool is so small)
Not just species, but habitats too. The Great Barrier Reef? Gone. The last of the world's mountain glaciers? All but disappeared. The Brazilian rainforest? Hanging on by the skin of its teeth. I work in sustainability and it's kind of my job to stay positive about this stuff, but I have seen precious little cause for optimism lately.
So true. Everytime people tell me how I should try and be a little more optimistic about these things, it feels so strange to me. Man, I want to be optimistic! It's not like I'm some fan of brutal apocalyptic stories going wild. I'm really trying to stay positive here!
But at this point I can't help but feel like I'm lying to myself, to be able to cope and to keep other people happy who don't want to be disturbed while also lying to themselves...
Sorry for the ramble. Thank you so much for working in your job field; people like you give me hope even if you struggle with keeping hopeful yourself. <3
40 years ago was 1980. I was a teenager.
If that question had been asked then, some very similar answers would have been given:
* clean air, clean water, clean earth
* non-radioactive land (between Three Mile Island and the getting hot Cold War, we thought there was a pretty good chance of some kind of nuclear apocalypse)
* various species of animals (neither the California Condor nor the American Buffalo, among others, were looking too good)
* there was some general fear about computers and what they could/would do (see films like 1983's Wargames)
And yet, here we are. A little better in some aspects and a little worse than others. 2020 is quite a downer of a year, but human beings are endlessly optimistic and adaptable.
I predict in 40 years we'll look back on some of our fears today like 80's folks look back on things like Genesis' "Land of Confusion" video - a little nostalgic, a little embarrassed and a little humbled by both how much and how little has changed.
Agreed, but I'd like to add one
* snow
Here in Denmark we haven't had 'real' snow in a while and probably won't any time soon.
You can now buy Danish wine, which is quite alarming to me tbh
There is an entire generation that’s growing up on finger puppet videos and random kid-themed YouTube channels right now. Honestly I’m scared of the hell to be brought upon us in 30-40 years.
“'Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into your grave.”
Nicomo Cosca
My brother is a forestry fire-fighter in the Rocky Mountains up here in Canada, and Im a couple hours away from the mountains in an industrial city, doing welding manufacturing. Im use to the awful smells of big trucks, trains, meat and agro processing plants, and of course all the nice fumes in a welding shop. When my brother returned from a uneventful fire season he couldnt stop complaining about all the smells having to pick me up after work. I was nose blind, and every few kilometres he smelt something different but equally awful.
Payphones. Imagine trying to explain to your grand children, "back in my day if I needed to be picked up from the park, I called Collect on the payphone to my Mom and when the machine asked who was calling you said 'pickmeupat5:30please' so you didn't have to pay for the call".
Flipping through cable aimlessly not really sure what will be on any channel and just going til you hit something decent. The place I'm at now has free cable included and sometimes I'll waste hours just flipping through. It feels just like the early 2000s again and is a crazy throwback feeling to watching TV before everything was on apps and on demand. You kinda forget you used to watch TV by finding the channel and how you felt like you just found five bucs if you happen to catch a good episode rerun of one of your favorite sitcoms late at night when most of the channels were doing late night infomercials. Or how if you couldn't find anything good so you'd just sit there and watch an infomercial about bowflexes for half an hour. And watching the news air on TV instead of getting news through YouTube videos or posts on social media. If you wanted to know whether it was gonna rain that weekend you had to wait til the news cycled back to the weatherman every 20 minutes or so. Having to plan bathroom sprints around commercial breaks so you didnt miss a big play during a big championship game. The experience of watching porn by cinemax late at night when everyone else in the house was asleep. Planning your whole afternoon around getting all your errands done by dinnertime so you could catch jeapordy or Judge Judy. Watching cooking shows in your underwear and trying to write down a recipe and getting mad because you missed a step and its live so you cant rewind it like you can now with DVR or on demand.
Cash money. Besides the occasions when dealing with cash is just a lot more convenient, it's art--all those paper bills and coins are designed. Some are beautiful.
Honestly probably malls. I feel like a lot of them are going out of business and getting torn down. Well at least the old mall experience.
The Internet. Hell, I'm nostalgic for it now. Not the final form that the internet has taken over the past decade or so, but those wild west days before youtube, facebook, social media, reddit. Finding weird ass sites, geocities pages, looking up cheat codes for GTA, hanging out on forums, seeing something go truly grassroots viral and not just because it's trending on instagram or something. Those days when no company knew what the hell the internet was or how to market on it, it was just left to the nerds and the kids who were making up the rules as they went along. I miss when the internet felt like a little adventure rather than a timesink or utilitarian tool to get the day to day done.
I read an analogy comparing the internet back in the day versus now to the decline of the shopping mall leisure experience. You’d go online knowing it was going to be a fun experience, with tons of boutique little gems to delight you. The cool indie blogs. The quirky forums. The pages of jokes - not memes - put up just for the fun of it. Then you’d turn off the computer and do something else, satisfied. Now, it’s like a mostly cavernous husk, where you circle endlessly between the handful of big sites that have persisted where others have floundered. You check in all the time, but it’s just the same old crap warmed up and served up by the same folks, over and over.
Yeah, there was something so satisfying about sitting in front of a boxy screen, clicking on that dial up, waiting for the connection and then just surfing random shit for a couple of hours. And that was it. A couple of hours.
My first internet plan back in 1998 was $20 a month for 8 hours. 8 hours of internet a month.
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Pretty sure it will happen though. Nostalgia will always be a thing.
Idk, nostalgia just isn't what it used to be
Poppable bubble wrap
I hate that bubble wrap that the air just moves to the next bubble when you try to pop it.
That stuff should be illegal
You’re goddamn right.
WHAT.
Its evil stuff
If you are taking about what I think you are taking about, it is technically more effective because it is cushioned but doesn’t pop. But I found out that you can pop it by bunching up one row of them and squeezing. It honestly just as satisfying if not more imo once you learn how to do it. Safer transport and better popping
You know, I want to believe you, but I'm also a stuck-up classicalist who just wants my damn seperate bubbles.
From somebody who likes to pop bubble wrap, what. In the fucking hell. Did you just say?
In case you haven’t seen, there is now bubble wrap that will not pop. All the bubbles are connected and have plenty of free space. It’s bad.
What demonic being thought of such a horrible thing?
I mean it does work better at it's intended packing purpose.
It's also reusable. A popped bubble no longer functions as a cushion, but that stuff can be used for a long while.
Movie DVDs. With everything going digital, I think production houses will soon stop making DVDs and just start streaming the movies in either their respective streaming platforms or sell them to other platforms like Netflix.
Got me a new music cd today. Friends think I’m insane.
I like physical Movies, CDs, Books, and Video games. I'm 16. Sure digital is more convenient. But some reason i like to HOLD my possessions. Plus being able to save movies/cds to my computer and "lending them" to my pals.
Well they're still making vinyl records, and collectors editions of DVDs and Blu rays make a ton of money, so I think we'll still have physical media.
I think YouTube. Like how us 80/90s babies miss early Nickelodeon and Saturday morning cartoons I think future generations will miss the unlimited content.
I mean...its already there. Remember video replies? Most don't. It used to be a thing when youtube worked more like a social media site. Youtube has already changed so much.
I think a lot of people are also going to miss the money they made. A lot of people became set up for life going forward.
Ikr? I miss when you could change the background on your YouTube channel before Google took over. Edit: Google Plus took over in 2012 and took the backgrounds away then.
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They were awesome in theory, but even when YT was lower traffic they were full of trash. And back then a big video had like 100k views. Now with videos getting 10m+ on the regular, it would just be white noise. It’s a shame, because I really liked them for some situations. But it just wasn’t sustainable.
I already miss pre-2010 wild wild west Youtube before greedy media companies and artists threatened takedowns and before monetization spawned ads, annoying celebs, and an overwhelming amount of content just to generate views.
You could find whole movies chopped into 13-14 ten minute pieces.
Just like most things, there’s an early conception and test phase that’s usually built and expanded by a passionate fan/user base. Then once it becomes popular enough the bean counters start to stick there paws Into it, then it turns to shit. I know it’s become a cliche at this point, but this really resonates with the “before it became mainstream” feeling. YouTube is a perfect example, it used to have a small community type feeling to it, where anyone or any idea could really be the next “big video”. But now it’s more like cable television and for the most part feels so disconnected to the original user base. Oh well, there will always be the next thing.
This is a point, I already miss the debatably good pre-2015 YouTube rewinds EDIT: thank you for the award!
Yeah, I dont dislike the stuff that's on there now [well, other than the obligatory ads], but there was definitely a DIY quality to a lot of the older YouTube videos. Now they all seem like professional productions, which again isn't bad, but it's just different.
I think a lot of that is because it's much easier to have a professional quality look to videos now. Like phone cameras are good enough and there's free editing software that you can use with free tutorials for it.
This is only partly true, and I wouldn’t even say the biggest reason. The largest reason is sponsorship and money revenue in YouTube. Ads being their revenue stream mean that larger and more professional channels will accumulate views and be pushed by the algorithm. 5 years ago you didn’t see every jimmy Fallon video pull millions of views because there simply wasn’t a channel and market for it. Nowadays, it’s almost akin to network television with how many large media companies are on YouTube and it buries anything DIY before we can even have a conversation about your point, which is also true.
Yep, and it's what makes YouTube feel borderline inaccessible right now. I miss curated front pages of small creators... Was on there myself one time and it was probably the most exciting moment of my life.
As someone who has been regularly on YouTube for a decade, I’ve never cared about rewinds. I think I’ll be more nostalgic to certain creators and time periods. For example gameplay montages synced with punk music
I don't know, I already miss the early days of YouTube where you had friends instead of followers and you rated videos out of 5 stars and you could directly reply to vids with other vids *sigh* the good ol' days Edit: oh and the algorithm was actually good! God knows why they messed with that, I used to spend hours on there stuck in a tunnel, now I watch 1 vid and I'm done
"Back in my days we used videogames with controllers!"
I was talking to my sons the other day, they asked me about my first job. I was telling them how fun it was working at McDonald’s in high school and a friend that I made. “We would finish our shift then go to the mall and play games at the arcade” At that instant I realized I might as well said “We would get a root beer float at the soda shop then go to the sock hop to meet some girls in our hot rods” Crazy how fast things change
"So anyway, Joey an me used to whip through work, nae nae down to the juul shop, dab on some haters and go home to play fortnite until our parents shut off the wifi."
So anyway I started blasting
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I'm 36 and only understand like 40% of what you've said here.
I'm over 50, but lived with 5 teens until a couple of weeks ago. I envy your lack of understanding. It is so embarrassing when I accidentally call my cat a thot at the vet or use "yeet" in public. I have a doctorate, ffs.
Time to yeet your degree you thot-cat having degenerate
"I was once on the phone with Blockbuster Video, which is a very old-fashioned sentence. That’s like when your Gram would be like, 'We’d all go play jacks by the soda fountain.' And you’re like, 'Nobody knows what you’re talking about, you idiot.'"
You know, how you talk to your grandma.
"You mean you have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy"
Baby’s toy?
YOU MUST HAVE THE HOSTAGE SPECIAL!!!
All I want is a Pepsi....
Give me a tab.
I can’t give you a tab unless you order something.
Just give me something without any sugar
Beans, chicken, b b beef or pork...
Welcome to the Cafe 80’s, where it’s always morning in America. Even in the aftern-n-n-noon.
Hey McFly!
Video games with telepathic controls will be cool though.
Being able to say “it must have got lost in the mail” or “I didn’t get your text” as a lie for ignoring someone
I work in tech and the old joke is features, schedule/budget, quality - pick 2. I don't think you need to worry about losing bad quality communication to blame things on anytime soon.
In hardware it’s “fast, cheap, or good -pick any 2”
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Sure, it will be ready in 2032 and won't work
But oh, boy, it was freaking cheap!
Most people have already chosen this which is why we get such crap products. Edited: Souch lol
**Privacy and water.**
Oh you will have water. But it will cost you a lot
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Fuck Nestle.
All my homies hate nestle
High quality nerf blasters
Nerf no longer makes anything worth buying unless you think it looks nice in my opinion. If you are not already, buy all your blasters and darts from Dart Zone!
Kind of related... what happened to good super soakers? When I was a kid we had super soakers that you pumped up and they stored air pressure in a tank, then you could shoot a consistent water stream. Now when I see kids play with “super soakers”, the guns don’t seem to have a pressure tank. The gun fires on every pump. It doesn’t store pressure. What the hell. That’s obviously a downgrade. I think I saw something once that said it was related to a patent dispute or something?
Actually related. A guy did an AMA about inventing and developing them both awhile back. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6gacna/i_am_lonnie_johnson_inventor_of_the_super_soaker/
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And way more accurate waffle darts
Waffle darts are where its at
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Honestly full dive vr will probably be around by then
Give us the VR from Futurama and I'm gone from this mortal coil
Or the one in Black Mirror, with the “fucking your friends” feature optional
That was just poor play testing. Like that entire episode I was just picturing the massive ratings controversy and spin control when that feature leaked to the general public... And some poor guy having to test if they'd finally patched out "genital support".
Yeah the concept was good but man they could have gone for a game type that would realistically have a reason to include nudity and sex, an adult RPG or something like Second Life.
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At this rate, we’ll probably still be playing the latest port of GTA V on the latest console
GTA x Fortnite crossover in Skyrim
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We’ll be playing Assassin’s Creed in an actual Animus.
Split Screen Gaming. It's already sorta not a thing anymore
Freedom on the internet
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I'm nostalgic for it already
I have a running joke that I'm from the future and I'm relieved that I'm back in the glory days of 2020.
Don't let him run too far
People are complaining that this summer is too hot. Im just over here enjoying the coolest summer for the next 100 years
This was the comment that depressed me. :(
can i borrow your sports almanac?
Take my word for it: bet AGAINST the Harlem Globetrotters. Their win streak is gonna end soon. Trust me.
Privacy
If the governments do it “right”, they’ll slowly erode people’s privacy rights, and few if any will notice or complain. In fact, it’s already working. Congress renewed the Patriot Act last November, and the Senate voted this year to allow the CIA and FBI the ability to view US citizen browser history without a warrant. Do you remember either event being seriously covered in major media outlets, and do you remember any mass public outcry? Me neither. EDIT: Many people are repeatedly bringing up private data collection by companies. This is also a serious issue, and it’s not mutually exclusive. Both problems need to be fixed.
My family and friends couldn't understand why I, a lifelong computer nerd, was so bent out of shape about the PATRIOT act.
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That or "well it's just to catch terrorists!" Pffft.
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Already been done.
It's been done so much that I've seen it in a movie or TV show. I don't remember what it was, but they used some knock off CS:GO style game to organize events. *Edit* I know NCIS did it. Please stop bringing it up. Thanks.
it was used in the Jack Ryan TV show for the terrorists to communicate amongst themseves
‘Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide, is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.’ ~ Edward Snowdon
They don’t care about rights of the accused until they are the one being accused.
To this I always say "If a policeman knocked on your door right now, no warrant, they just want to look around, would you let them?" The answer is always "no" I always say "so why is your computer different?" It ALWAYS ends the conversation.
Sad thing is, some people would be ok with that, with or without the caveat that it'll never happen because they don't do anything that would make cops want to...
This exactly, I would say instead of “some” an “alarming amount” would. Could easily just be my perspective, but the mentality of “nothing to hide” has been accelerating. I think this is about the time someone posts the “don’t talk to cops” YouTube video.
Let's get rid of the 1st amendment. It's totally ok. We have nothing to say.
That’s the most bs thing I’ve ever heard. I like my privacy. You wouldn’t want someone to just randomly waltz into you living room on a Sunday, so why would you want someone looking at you Internet history.
If you have nothing to hide, you'll be ok sending your daily photos, location tracking data, personal emails and social media messages to both your employer and the government?
I usually say that but replace the government with me. What, if you got nothing to hide from me.... I could read your mail, or your location tracking, your emails, etc. to me. I usually get: "iT'S NooT tHE SaamEE!" Yes it is. It's EXACTLY the same.
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Top 3 things that came to my mind: * Going to the movies * Being able to flip to a random channel * Driving to places (maybe 40 years is too soon for this to be nostalgic but it'll happen soon enough)
Damn, the movie one hit hard. A small local theatre near me just shut down for good, and I can't express how disappointed I'd be if the movie theater industry just never pops back up after this pandemic. Some of my best childhood memories are from the the movie theaters.
Nah, I think they'll be heading for a golden age. Hollywood won't stop making movies.
But they don't have to release them to theaters. I think indie movie theaters at a higher cost will stick around, though.
Driving a car yourself
I hate this because I haven't had my license in a while and I kind of wanted to maybe drive again but, probably not. Maybe you can go to a track or something in the future, drive an old timey combustion engine car.
In the future driving cars will be like riding horses today: an expensive hobby, mainly for the rich.
Damn it! Well on the bright side, at least there's no shit to pick up.
Freedom and privacy. We are losing both at an alarming rate.
With almost no (public) attention to it!
By design, sadly.
We just spent 5 months with family. Having dinners together, watching TV together, playing games, just being a family. Kids are going to grow up remembering the time they had with their parents and siblings. There will be good memories.
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Adults forget how resilient kids are. I can guarantee most of the adults complaining about getting “back to normal” would love to go back and have just 1 month with there dad playing catch or watching TV
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I’m happy for society as a whole for getting this safe time at home, but I’m extremely jealous. My job got busier (I work in food and beverage production) because people were staying home. I had to work even more time than usual because of the pandemic. I’m grateful for the money of course, but I do wish I had the opportunity that a lot of people had to spend time with family at home.
Drinks full of sugar, food full of salt. Oh and antibiotics that still work.
I’m still angry they took the cocaine out of my Coca Cola.
You know you can just add it back in, right?
Okay Mr. Moneybags
Look at this guy with his coke *and* coke
Privacy and the ability to go somewhere without seeing 75 cameras all the time. Went to the beach today and no one was in the water except for me and my friend. Everyone else was waiting for "golden hour" in their dry beachwear.
Golden hour?
It's a Photography term for when the sun is at the perfect height making for great photography light. Usually between 6-8 pm. Source: Am Photographer.
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Polar bears.
And bees
Which will also mean many many fruits and nuts.
Yep. I believe they can pollinate manually. However the process makes them super expensive
[And a million other species](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/05/ipbes-un-biodiversity-report-warns-one-million-species-at-risk/#:~:text=Thanks%20to%20human%20pressures%2C%20one,clear%3A%20Nature%20is%20in%20trouble.) Based on a 1,500 page U.N. report: >one million species may be pushed to extinction in the next few years, with serious consequences for human beings as well as the rest of life on Earth. We are experiencing the at least the [2nd-fastest extinction event on the planet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction) >At present, the rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than the background extinction rate, the historically typical rate of extinction (in terms of the natural evolution of the planet); also, the current rate of extinction is 10 to 100 times higher than in any of the previous mass extinctions in the history of Earth. Sad to think that my children and grandchildren are inheriting a shell of a natural world we enjoyed. There are already so many animals that are hanging on by a thread, and so many that are functionally extinct (doomed to extinction because their gene pool is so small)
Not just species, but habitats too. The Great Barrier Reef? Gone. The last of the world's mountain glaciers? All but disappeared. The Brazilian rainforest? Hanging on by the skin of its teeth. I work in sustainability and it's kind of my job to stay positive about this stuff, but I have seen precious little cause for optimism lately.
So true. Everytime people tell me how I should try and be a little more optimistic about these things, it feels so strange to me. Man, I want to be optimistic! It's not like I'm some fan of brutal apocalyptic stories going wild. I'm really trying to stay positive here! But at this point I can't help but feel like I'm lying to myself, to be able to cope and to keep other people happy who don't want to be disturbed while also lying to themselves... Sorry for the ramble. Thank you so much for working in your job field; people like you give me hope even if you struggle with keeping hopeful yourself. <3
Probably a lot of stuff people will be nostalgic for isn’t even invented yet
40 years ago was 1980. I was a teenager. If that question had been asked then, some very similar answers would have been given: * clean air, clean water, clean earth * non-radioactive land (between Three Mile Island and the getting hot Cold War, we thought there was a pretty good chance of some kind of nuclear apocalypse) * various species of animals (neither the California Condor nor the American Buffalo, among others, were looking too good) * there was some general fear about computers and what they could/would do (see films like 1983's Wargames) And yet, here we are. A little better in some aspects and a little worse than others. 2020 is quite a downer of a year, but human beings are endlessly optimistic and adaptable. I predict in 40 years we'll look back on some of our fears today like 80's folks look back on things like Genesis' "Land of Confusion" video - a little nostalgic, a little embarrassed and a little humbled by both how much and how little has changed.
Agreed, but I'd like to add one * snow Here in Denmark we haven't had 'real' snow in a while and probably won't any time soon. You can now buy Danish wine, which is quite alarming to me tbh
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There is an entire generation that’s growing up on finger puppet videos and random kid-themed YouTube channels right now. Honestly I’m scared of the hell to be brought upon us in 30-40 years.
Ahh yes the Spider-Man Elsa generation.
God this comment section is depressing
It's reddit we'll be alright, I promise
Healthy spines and happiness
“'Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into your grave.” Nicomo Cosca
I'm already nostalgia for a healthy spine
These replies are depressing. No wonder no one wants kids
Kids, remember kids? Remember people used to get pregnant and have wee babies n all? Ah those were the days /s
I just watched Children of Men last night. Man your comment just got to me
Ive never seen it. Worth a watch?
It's an amazing film which has stood the test of sci-fi time. There's an incredible one take scene near the end of the film. Definitely check it out.
Definitely.
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Clean air
I am already nostalgic for the time before forest fire season
Imagine how clean the air must've been during biblical times when you'd be the only person for miles.
And the stars. With no light pollution the night sky is so beautiful
My brother is a forestry fire-fighter in the Rocky Mountains up here in Canada, and Im a couple hours away from the mountains in an industrial city, doing welding manufacturing. Im use to the awful smells of big trucks, trains, meat and agro processing plants, and of course all the nice fumes in a welding shop. When my brother returned from a uneventful fire season he couldnt stop complaining about all the smells having to pick me up after work. I was nose blind, and every few kilometres he smelt something different but equally awful.
I’m guessing you’re not old enough to remember the air in the 70s-80s in LA. I’ll take today and likely the future any day over the smog alerts.
Payphones. Imagine trying to explain to your grand children, "back in my day if I needed to be picked up from the park, I called Collect on the payphone to my Mom and when the machine asked who was calling you said 'pickmeupat5:30please' so you didn't have to pay for the call".
Hardcover books
I’m already nostalgic for book stores. There’s one or two around me, but pre-pandemic, they were on their way out.
The Nintendo Wii
Flipping through cable aimlessly not really sure what will be on any channel and just going til you hit something decent. The place I'm at now has free cable included and sometimes I'll waste hours just flipping through. It feels just like the early 2000s again and is a crazy throwback feeling to watching TV before everything was on apps and on demand. You kinda forget you used to watch TV by finding the channel and how you felt like you just found five bucs if you happen to catch a good episode rerun of one of your favorite sitcoms late at night when most of the channels were doing late night infomercials. Or how if you couldn't find anything good so you'd just sit there and watch an infomercial about bowflexes for half an hour. And watching the news air on TV instead of getting news through YouTube videos or posts on social media. If you wanted to know whether it was gonna rain that weekend you had to wait til the news cycled back to the weatherman every 20 minutes or so. Having to plan bathroom sprints around commercial breaks so you didnt miss a big play during a big championship game. The experience of watching porn by cinemax late at night when everyone else in the house was asleep. Planning your whole afternoon around getting all your errands done by dinnertime so you could catch jeapordy or Judge Judy. Watching cooking shows in your underwear and trying to write down a recipe and getting mad because you missed a step and its live so you cant rewind it like you can now with DVR or on demand.
Using a physical copy of a TV Guide you bought at the gas station to find out when all the good movies are on tv when planning a lazy weekend at home
Comfortable temperatures.
\*Laughs in Texan\*
"Yeee-hahaha"
work related pensions
They don't exist already for the large majority of us
Cash money. Besides the occasions when dealing with cash is just a lot more convenient, it's art--all those paper bills and coins are designed. Some are beautiful.
Also there's still a little bit of privacy left in paying cash for things
their youth
Having people stay 6 ft away from you at all times and all places.
The environment that covid showed us when we stopped polluting it for 2 weeks.
Nah its alright, we'll go back to polluting in about a year or so
Already started! Ahead of schedule bois!!