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[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

CRT screens and incandescent lamp.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

George W. Bush's presidency. I don't know what the kids are smoking when they say current republicans make him look "classy" or that Trump's first term was worse than his. He bred a constant state of paranoia and xenophobia and used it to justify killing countless people in the middle east. The damage done to that part of the world is staggering and everyone just treats it like background noise.

Also that decade post-SpongeBob where every kid's cartoon was about a loud, annoying, dumb guy.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Pagers. Having to find a pay phone. Looking through newspapers for jobs. Absolutely gutless emissions- strangled malaise era cars with horrible brakes and numb steering.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Looking through the paper for a job was in some ways better. Now it's so hard to even get past the initial filters to an actual human because job postings get spammed with hundreds of applications, many from people who are underqualified and/or straight up lying on their resume. For remote jobs, you're competing against the whole country whereas with jobs in the paper you were mostly competing against those in your local area.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I like to have one around 😅. I like the look and it'll probably survive me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Survive you or outlive you?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Women having to get husband’s permission to open a bank account (speaking of the US).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago

Smoking everywhere. For anyone who wasn't around for the 70s/80s/90s, everything was tinged yellow and smelled of smoke. Car/plane/train seats had built-in ashtrays. Restaurants had smoking sections separated from the non-smoking sections by waist-high walls.

I have asthma and it sucked. Not sure if I grew out of it as I got older or if there's just not a miasma of smoke around everywhere, but it rarely bothers me anymore.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Medicine in general has gotten a lot better. I'm also able to buy stuff like silken tofu without having to drive quite far to find a specialty store that sells it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm glad that Furbys, inflatable furniture, and disposable cameras are no longer mainstream. And may they never return.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Disposable cameras are making a return.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Like 35mm point-and-shoots? That's surprising. I wonder why?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Disposable cameras and Polaroids have been getting popular at weddings in place of guest books or as something for the guests to do during the reception. The couple then gets something physical they can keep.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The lack of privacy, independence, and freedom that generally comes with childhood.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Orkut, Flogão (kind of a precursor to instagram, it was mostly used by high schoolers around 2004-6), Skype, Internet Explorer and ActiveX

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Literally installed Flash 8 today because it's the comfiest way to animate for me.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Phones with dials.

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