Re: Things that I miss.

Mickmils wrote:

/!\ Warning : this thread is nothing but some nostalgic technological
rambling you probably have read thousands of times, but I felt like
posting anyway.

I miss VHS. Honestly, they did the trick well enough. And DVDs die of both
being used and not used in the 10/15 years. Besides, the tape is cool.
It's, you know, a tape. I miss audio cassettes for the same reason. Sure
the thing wasn't perfect but somehow, it felt like it had a soul.

I miss Beta, the joys of early adopters, spent all that money and then had a
deck we could never really use.

I miss floppies. I miss the noise they made. I miss the contact, and the
damn loading times. Sure, you had to wait before your file loaded, but at
the very least, that wait had a cool sound.

I miss shows from the 70s&80s.

I miss them even more now that I have a kid, I remember how horribly violent
things could get on cable, and how the worst of it then is now good family
entertainment.

I miss BBSses. Have you guys seen "The BBS documentary " ? Back then, in
the 80s, people were doing the same thing than everyone here. With
Fidonet, it took sometimes hours/days for a mail to cross the world, but
that was just COOL. Popping in everyday and seeing what had happened while
you were gone ! Now you can do that every minute. Which, is like... bah.

Yeah, those I really miss, especially with the modem I had at the time where
it took days of downloading segmented files to get that shareware program
that could fit on a floppy. And the games, NetHack FTW!

I miss PS1. The CDROM was a great and needed invention because games
couldn't be all what they wanted to be on cartdriges and floppies, so I'm
not that much more nostalgic of anything before that. But honestly, have
we ever needed more than the power of CDROM and of a PS1 to tell good
stories and make engaging games ? And those blocky graphics, they had
STYLE.

PS1 was really the last good one, even the PS2 they seemed to be focusing
more on eye-candy and less on making a game worth playing.

I miss FM radio. Sure it's still around, but somehow, it's not as good.
Just like TV.

I know what you mean about radio not being as good as it was, even within
the last few years most of the decent radio stations around here have gone
off the air or changed to a different genre to keep up with what kids are
listening to.

I miss CRT. Back when you had a big clunky piece of equipment in the
centre of TV that displays low res perfectly and at contrast better than
even today LCDs. Why do we need HD anyway ?

I, however, do NOT miss CRTs. I think my back still has problems from
carrying my 21" monitor from the store to the bus less than a half mile
away. And oh the power waste, I'm working on getting a full solar system
set up and LCD screens are a real blessing when you're trying to keep the
juice use down.

I miss the time when LOTR was just a book. Sometimes, I miss the time when
everything was just books.

Mmm, books. Now that's something I'm going to try to make sure my kid learns
to appreciate.

I miss DOS. Honestly, when did we ever need multitasking or graphical
interfaces? I've read somewhere that multitasking did great damage to the
brain's ability to focus. I am not surprised, for some reason.
Multitasking make it harder to enjoy single, individual things.

I preferred DOS over windows, always edited that win out of my autoexec,
only launched windows to play UO or Diablo.

I miss phones with wires. You could really feel the communication going
through, for some reason.

Heh, I miss them too, but Skype is so much cheaper than Qwest. Especially
since I'm already paying too much for my Stand-alone DSL.

I miss AA batteries. They looked cool and were nice to touch for some
reason.

Where'd they go? I have a huge ziplock bag of AAs sitting behind the laptop
for my gp2x. Yea for sales on massive boxes of batteries when you only have
two things that use them. I will admit to preferring integrated
rechargeable battery packs, nothing like never having to worry about having
batteries left, at least until that pack dies and then you have to replace
it.

I miss dot matrix printers. The noise ! The noise ! And why would we need
better quality when honestly, most of the things we print are text ?

Epson T-1000 was the last one I owned, 1989. I tell ya it was a damn site
more reliable than that paper-jam waiting to happen that I have hooked up
to the network now. Course I don't have a parallel port on my new
computer....

I miss Usenet. Yeah, you know ? The threading system is way better than
what web boards achieve, the conversations were archived all the time,
could all be accessed with a single piece of software, didn't need to
subscribe to forums and you could switch from one to another with a single
click. Now Usenet is almost dead and we got web boards. But do we win ?

Usenet is not dead, just lost those with short attention spans, don't see
that as a bad thing myself.

I miss Trumpet Winsock. Boy that app was cool.

And you know what is the worse thing in all that poo poo ?

I am only 25. It will only get worse, and there is no escape.

-Moa Dragon

Heh, not much younger than me, and I constantly feel like some old fart.

Quote (Don't remember who said it)
I miss wondering why my parents always insisted on talking about "when
I was young... "

One last thing though, I swear that my kid is not going to be one of those
little idiots walking out into the street with their noses stuck in a
sidekick texting someone they will probably see in ten minutes anyways. I
don't even like to use my cell, I want a damned pager so I can give out
that number and then call people back later rather than having them bug me
about why I wasn't answering and then getting offended when I tell them I
was just ignoring the bloody thing.
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