Bugs hitting the front windshield in extraordinary numbers.
This is a sad one once you notice it. The outdoors feel emptier
what happened to the bugs?
It’s two things, one personal vehicles are designed to bend air around them rather than slice through or just brute force through air resistance. This means that more bugs are pushed out of the way with newer vehicles now, compared to older vehicles which just had the bug hit the windshield. The second and much more impactful reason is because the insect population has dropped significantly in the last 25 years.
the insect population has dropped significantly in the last 25 years.
Why has that happened?
Pesticides
Climate change
Less flowers
Accelerating climate change and an increase in consumer car culture (more cars on road to kill bugs = less bugs)
We managed to kill off a third of the entire bug population during the last 25 years or so.
I just drove through Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas and confirmed there are still enough bugs out there to make you use a squeegee when you fill up for gas. But I remember when I was younger having to stop just to clean the windshield or else you wouldn’t be able to see.
The internet being a “place” you would go to and then leave.
That’s almost impossible to do now because everything is so linked to being online.
I don’t miss dial up speeds, but I do miss the expectation of not always being online.
Luckily my job no longer expects it of me because I just don’t answer after hours anymore.
And not being always reachable by phone. If you are out, there was simply no way to reach you. Good times.
Getting static shocked by the TV screen.
Reminds me of the time I had fun screwing up our CRT TV with magnets.
Accompanying their loved ones to the departure gate at the airport.
Or walk into the cockpit of a commercial flight while in flight to see how pilots worked
That was super cool for me as a flight sim enthoustic kid.
They will occasionally let a kid visit the cockpit while boarding if they show interest and the crew is extra nice
And you can ask for a trading card of the plane from the oilot as well
Cool, probably very dependent on the airline. I’ve never had one of those.
And it’s all fun and games until you bring out that 737 Max card …
Regular police officers not wearing full body armor and tactical gear.
I think that’s pretty dependent on the country
I agree with that, some countries don’t have the money to oppress all fancy like that.
Just let some years pass, when the control of the water reserves come in full swing they will have their chance.
Maybe even before if trump do run for this next elections, i expect nothing less than another capitol riot.
Using the internet without everyone and their grandmother spying on them and blocking access to stuff the busybodies don’t personally like.
Setting the TV to channel 3 to play a video game.
We still have that, it’s called the Xbox/PS/Wii channels on the Roku TV. It’s just not a knob like back in the day.
Waking up early to catch your cartoons. Or as an adult, having to be at the tv at 7 to watch the new episode. Everything will be streamed, thats fine i guess you wont have to worry about missing it. But it takes away the urgency to keep up.
Agreed, especially with the urgency part.
There’s a whole bucketload of TV series/anime I’ve not kept up with because “I’ll just catch up later”, and I still have yet to watch the latest “final season” part of AoT lmaooo
Carrying over heaps of computer equipment (including the mega CRTs before their demise) to your friends house for an all night LAN party that you guys had been prepping for. Then having a blast while parents look at you funny for being into computers.
Oh, and seeing a new BBS at a bus stop that you’d need to go dial into and check out.
I’m commenting too much in these replies because I remember too much, but I’m going to share one last anecdote. For a while I had a case with a bolted on handle to bring to LAN parties. Then I read in a magazine where people were building computers into hard shell backpacks to take back and forth and that changed the game. If I had to guess that was 98 or 99.
Those things were super expensive at the time. I took a seasonal second job to buy one and mount my system in it. The cooling was garbage but I sure thought I looked cool dragging it to LAN parties.
In 2004ish I set up a dial up server so my dad and I could play Battle for Wesnoth. We lived across the country from each other and neither of us had reliable broadband available. However, he had free long distance calling so it was (and remains) a way to keep in touch and hang out without actually having to talk to each other because we’re both terrible at that.
Having your Internet connection drop because someone picked up the phone.
Rewinding a VHS tape.
the feeling of not being spied on 24-7
Someone recently told me this anecdote:
I overheard on the train home two middle aged ladies talking about their kids mobilephones.
One was saying how they dragged their teen and their mobile phone to the iphone store so they could setup the location tracker and “quiet mode” (parent phone can completly disable the teens phone), and how their child was upset but they are glad it was done.
The other lady was asking how she to can do the same.
My question is: are 2020’s kids even gonna be upset?
They dont know any different
And the classic.
Why it’s called “Roll down the window”.
Or “hang up” the phone
The good side of an album.
I would say albums as an art form overall. Yes of course some bands and musicians will still write an album in this way, but music has been playlist-ified to the point where most people won’t listen to it like that. You take a song or two from it and forget the rest exist. My perception is that it’s been a dying thing for some time now.
I also pick off my favourite songs from most albums, to be fair. But there are some albums that are best viewed as a single piece of art and I feel like that understanding from both listeners and artists is dying. If you just listen to Money and Breathe (In the Air) when they show up in your shuffle, are you really listening to Dark Side of the Moon?
And discussing with your friends which side is better. I listened to dark side of the moon and Sgt pepper and aerosmith greatest hits and a dozen other cassettes so many times!! Then when you hear a song on the radio you expect to hear the next song follow it.
I’ve been listening to the 1001 albums you have to listen to before you die list. (There’s a website that randomizes it and gives you an album a day).
I’m about 100 albums in. The grand majority are trash, that includes stuff by the Beatles or the Rolling Stones or Janis Joplin, etc. Just absolute garbage. One of two songs worth listening to and the rest is straight trash.
Albums as an art form died because it was never really a good art form to begin with.
The French revolution.
