The vast amount of insecticides poured onto crops is responsible

So miss them even tho I'm 35.

I hate early mornings.

We traded our monarch butterflies for billions of people that we don't need.

Thanks to the wrong people! Edit: I meant obviously your there supervising but not watching them like a hawk every second, like I have had to do with my son because I was terrified of anything happening. My comments get taken way out of text people.

Or pay phone booths.

I only have an unhealthy sense

But did it ever really exist in the first place? Or has the nature of privacy just changed? Small towns long before the internet everyone knew everyone's secrets.

we still have them (switzerland) *galloppingawayooodellllling*

Who you calling OLD?? Ya little stinker!! LololoL

Software manuals fall into this boat now too.

Uh no, plenty of people noticed that. Every gamer I knew complained about the ever-dwindling video game manual, which (unfortunately) was frequently not compensated for with adequate in-game guidance. Although thankfully that's rare nowadays.

*Any* manuals. You get a new phone and all it has (other than all those lawyer related about warranties etc) is a slip of paper with maybe a picture of your phone or a QR code

OMFG! I was so annoyed to not have them with the Switch and I felt old!!!

I noticed but didn't know who tf to take it up with. I was so young.

I miss the days of driving home from the store with my parents, reading the manual on the car ride.

I love manuals, my copy of Ratchet And Clank Size Matters for the PS2 has its manual in PERFECT condition and I love it

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All manuals have been replaced by a website. Saves them money but, still more expensive for consumers

Indeed! I still have a stash of (mostly Game Boy) manuals plus some walkthroughs for the N64. Definitely not giving them up, they're such a nostalgia bomb ♥

It's probably a good thing. Instead of killing more trees you can just download them

My husband was talking about this the other day. These manuals must be highly collectible now.

And mobile phone manuals.

oh yes. i loved to read the manuals (and sometimes full on guide books) of my snes games on the bus to school.

I was a stuck-in-a-room kid growing up in the 90's, so video games were how I satisfied my desire to explore. When I'd get a new game, I loved reading the manual because it felt like a travel brochure for a new world. I was super sad when the practice died out.

This is a GOOD thing. All that is missing is having it pre-printed in the box. The actual manuals back then were pretty s**t. Most early games were pretty simple due to computing hardware limitations. Those same limitations made it impractical to include in depth manuals in the game. There was a whole market for entire books telling you how to play the more in depth games. It was common to have a few points in adventure games where it was almost impossible to figure out the solution without calling a paid hint line. Bigger modern games would need multiple books if they printed the manual. But the better games have manuals built into the game and in depth wiki sites. I have easily googled up sooooo much information for Elder Scrolls Online or No Mans Sky or others that would NEVER have fit on a printed manual in a box. I have no interested in going back to a crappy booklet in the box. Count your blessings.

The games have tutorials so you don't need the paper manuals. Or the manual is on the game website.

Printed manuals, yes. But plenty of games have their manuals available as a pdf.

Everyone who plays games noticed this.

Manuals for almost anything anymore

Those used to be so fun to read.

Car manuals too.

Nah. We definitely noticed. You will not find posts about old video games (which comes with all those manuals) without bunch of posts saying "remember those good old days"

I noticed! No manual for pokemon scarlet violet! I miss my guides to help DX i nkt have like 10 tabs bookmarked for it

The artwork and backstory!

This is why we no longer see superman

Employers expect loyalty from employees but they show none to their employees. It doesn't work that way, folks.

or the missing 18 minutes?

Phone books !! I never had a personal phone book at one time I could remember like 20 different numbers .. Now I have a hard time remembering mine... the only number I still remember is the old time and temp number and it shut down in 2018 😞

As someone who works overnights I miss that so much. It was so nice to get off work and go shopping without my kids. Especially at Christmas/birthday time

There’s some rich people who are very nervous about that……… time to spill the beans.

Along with Netscape, CompuServe, the noise a dial up modern made and AOL with those monthly CDs in the mail (those a$#$$holes still owe me 20 free hours 😆)

Or the braided friendship bracelets

I miss the days of being able to watch a new movie before it even comes out in theaters. Terrible quality but still lol

I don't know anyone who Doesn't have them, save for my one friend's work provided phone.

Remember SoBe?

I still see them. They are probably more prevalent in tourist areas tho

Cigarette machines outside of stores & sometimes next to the gumball machines in store entrance. And the gumball machines were 1 cent for a handful of gum/candy or 5 cents for a plastic "egg" with some kind of toy in it.

Or stuff like 'Conjunction Junction'.

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Isn't this still a thing?

Still there.

I still see these in all the grocery stores I go to.