I remember my friends having parents being low bank employees and moms working part time able to own their home, going to vacations and some of them having country/ sea houses. Going to restaurant for saturday evening was nearly standard. Some didn't have that, but lived with dignity without having to struggle. Also employment stability.

This. I saw Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth and Alice in Chains in San Francisco in 1991...tickets were $15. I went to Metallica's Summer Sanitarium Tour w/Korn, Kid Rock, System of Down & Powerman 5000 at Candlestick Park in SF back in 2000. $25 a ticket. Both of those shows would costs hundreds of dollars today (thanks to all the b.s. Ticketmaster fees)

I agree with you, seems like the Veluwe (national park) has less and less bugs, it saddens me

...cable?

BBC Radio 4, 0700, thats enough

People are getting more and more selfish by the day

I greatly enjoy being able to walk into a store and physically see/try on the item I am purchasing rather than waiting days only for it to not be what I expected/not fit and have to return it and start the process again.

I especially hate the augurments that "oh you're in public, it'll happen", it's one thing to be a random person in a background and to have someone specifically trying to record you.

Renting videos was so much more rewarding than just selecting a movie on streaming service. Sometimes entire family sat down to watch and it felt very good.

If you got a mixed tape from a guy, it was a sure sign he liked you!

It was bliss, and we didn't even know it!

Walking into a Goodwill lately and seeing their prices. Are they now an offshoot of Christies auction house?

70s cartoons were positively psychedelic.

I remember we lived in an apartment in small town area with little stores around and stuff. I was about 8ish believe and my parents would let me walk/ride my bike the 2-3 blocks to go to the penny candy store or the 711. ( I am only 35 the penny candy store was crazy to still have around I loved it so much)

Back in 2012, I was looking for a job. I'd spend hours on the computer, filling out online applications, tweaking my resume, and taking those stupid personality tests. My mom constantly asked me why I didn't just go and get a paper application in person or just hand them my resume. One day I got tired of explaining and when we were driving, I just innocently asked her if she'd like to go with me to apply at a couple businesses. She did and I was told at the three businesses I walked into that it was online application only. At the third business, my mom irritably asked why I couldn't just hand my resume over to be given to the manager. The clerk answered that they wanted all resumes submitted online and if I gave them my paper one, it would probably just be thrown away. That finally shut my mother up.

Games back then were designed with the knowledge that they had to full, complete, and working, because the console couldn't connect to to internet to download 5,000 updates made after the sale because of the half-a$$ attempt at completion to get them out the door. That's honestly what makes retro gaming so awesome today, because the same, complete game just works, as well today as back then. No internet required.

I love the old video games. Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 are my faves.

My first (and absolute favorite) "video game" was the plug-and-play learning console called Socrates! All you needed to do was put your TV on Channel 3 (2 if you had the handy little switcher hooked in), plug Socrates in, and you were playing games that actually taught you stuff! (My favorite game on it was the spelling one)

Today is my birthday and while I never thought I would make it to this age, I can't help but wonder how many more birthdays I have left. From wondering how much longer the Earth can handle our BS to wondering which idiot will be first to hit the big red button, it's all just too overwhelming.

Or in my son’s case, because they knew there was food. I also quickly learnt pasta with tomato sauce and butter was cheaper than a couple loaves of bread. 20 - 25 years later those kids, when I see them, still thank me. (We lived in a middle class suburb but most mums worked or didn’t want kids over.)

Holidays felt different because it was your parents and.or grandparents doing all (or almost all) the preparations. Nowadays when you have to do all the stuff yourself it is quite different. Not worse, but so much different. We also used to have white christmas, with world covered in snow, but now it is mostly covered in mud during christmas. This also make them feel different.

I tell this to all the kids I work with all the time! They lose their mind thinking about not having a phone on them all the time

Affordable ANYTHING. The real reason there are so many homeless people is they can't afford rent. I feel fortunate that I can rent a room in a large house. Too many people have jobs but are literally sleeping in their cars. Do NOT get me started on how the minimum wage has not increased in 15 years - or on this country's war on homelessness--

This was either written by someone who was not on the web in the early 2000s or has somehow forgotten what it was like back then. That's when ad-blockers were INVENTED because invasive advertising was so thick. Hell, AOL was spamming your real mail with all those free CDs.

I find new music I love all the time. It just happens to be modern synthwave that sounds a lot like 80s and 90s electronic music. Gunship and The Midnight are two of my current favorites.

Yeah. I remember big blockbusters like Ghostbusters ot Titanic absolutely dominating everything everywhere for months.

MUDs. I had so many friends around the world.

Thank Bill Clinton. When he went on Lenno and played the saxophone with the house band that was PEAK 90s. The President of the USA was playing with a band on live TV.

That's just growing up as far as I can tell.

I still have a little box with old ones from like 7th grade lol

I'm 43yo and I still do literally do that. Did you know you can find big blocks of old video recorded onto VHS that has been digitized and uploaded to YouTube? I like it when they leave the commercials in. Makes me feel like a time traveler. I'm watching an episode of Siskel and Ebert from 1988 right now. OH memories. EDIT: Minus the AIM of course. Never had that.

or lower your standards (not your comfort) and don't let yourself be led by false values. i've been living in a truckhouse for ten years now and live a happy life without having to spend a lot of money on it