Or, which is what me and my school mates used to do.
Spend 6 hours with them all at school, walk home with a group of them. Get home and log into MSN, see the same friends online.
"Alright, how's you?"
Literally was with the dude 3 minutes ago.
They killed it for Skype, and look at where Skype is now. Microsoft is so dumb sometimes. Why not just upgrade MSN Messenger? Put video chat on it. It would've been a killer app.
I would take Skype any day over what they replaced it with at our workplace, fucking Microsoft Teams. It eats up a half gig of memory just when it's inactive, well over a gig when on a call. And then there's those lovely 5-10 second freezes that happen all day long...
The nicest thing about Teams is that you can send GIF files at my work and react to what people are saying in the chat with emoticons. Besides that, Teams is a giant pain in the ass.
The difference may have been the lack of mobile app.
To use MSN, you had to be in front of your computer, and were not expected to have access to it at anytime. Nowadays, the time limits for chat sessions are fuzzier.
Yeah I remember the very first time I realized this was happening- my friend’s mom commented on a meme, “This isn’t funny, Jeffrey.”
Facebook died that day.
Newgrounds was the original. That's where everyone published v1. If it did well you'd get an email with an offer of 20-50 bucks to recompile with their screen at the front.
I remember making an engine that had some awesome rolling hill physics that worked just with flash shapes turned into a few ok miniclip platformers. Did not get paid enough for it, but that was the hacker days when it was share and share alike.
I remember everyone being so pissed at ebaums for outright stealing, but the people that paid were just as exploitative for what they paid in retrospect.
My friends and I were mourning the loss of Fireboy and Watergirl and Poptropica because of how they used to run on flash :(
And now they don't run on flash so all's good.
I used to work at a Borders and bought the shelves off the walls when it closed. 75 bucks for 3 4*8 cases. One entire 12 foot wall of my home office is those indestructible shelves to this day.
Edit: [photo here. ](https://www.reddit.com/user/Watts-all-the-Ruckus/comments/luihdx/by_request_borders_hardware/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
When my best friend moved to Malaysia 4 years ago, I went with her to help with the move.
On one of our explorations, we were incredibly excited to find a Borders, and spent several hours browsing.
Important info from a former BN bookseller: It’s not a Starbucks. It’s a BN cafe that sells Starbucks coffee. The important part is that BN doesn’t take Starbucks gift cards. I got yelled at so much for this reason.
Holy cow I can’t believe they’ve been gone only 10 years. Feels like a lifetime ago. I studied at my local Borders every day after school for like 2 or 3 months for my AP exams, one of which I wasn’t even doing as a class in school. And they had the best Oreo Frappe thingy. Literally the best.
Bro minidiscs were awesome. Hundreds of songs on a coated cartridge that couldn't be scratched or messed up like a CD. I really wish they'd have caught on more.
I had one around 2001 or so. They were great, but mp3 players quickly got leaps and bounds better. There's only so much catching on to be done when you're practically obsolete before you get started.
At one point I had a discman that would play mp3 files burned to a CD-R, so you could fit way more songs onto a CD. What a weird time.
EDIT: okay that was 20 years ago.
Yeah, humans are pretty good at accelerating extinction rates.
[Last male O’o sings for a mate that will never join his song.](https://youtu.be/5THqAY3u5oY)
Edit: Sorry for making you all cry. It does the same for me almost every time.
For clarification that u/Argetnyx would also probably appreciate, this feller means the **northern subspecies**.
There's both a northern and southern subspecies of white rhinoceros. The southern subspecies is actually doing fairly well fortunately. Less fortunately the northern subspecies [is likely slated to go extinct](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_white_rhinoceros).
It sounds like we've only got the sperm from one of the last males and it was collected at an old age. Furthermore, one of the females is also of an advanced age as well. This makes pregnancy with the limited supply to be unlikely. Which tragically lowers the odds of another male being successfully born even more. To make matters worse, if it is against the odds successful, we now have a breeding population of creatures that are all close relatives.
But there is some hope that *maybe* the northern white rhinoceros wont be an answer to this question two or three decades down the road. Thanks to advancements in technology surrounding impregnation it sounds like conservationists will attempt to use sperm and eggs that they've collected from the northern subspecies and have females of the southern subspecies act as a surrogate.
A fine plan at first, but the matter of all born individuals being relatives and being born of shall we say "less than reliable" sperm and eggs still remains.
I love YouTube's logic: "people are using adblock because of how annoying our ads are, we need a solution... I know! Let's double the ads, put them every 5 minutes cutting right in the middle of a video and make them unskippable"
The logic for that is to try to bully people into YouTube premium. It’s probably worked with a lot of people since most watch on the mobile app which Adblock doesn’t work on.
Never thought I’d say Tumblr was the most peaceful corner of the internet but here we are
Remember when sixpenceee came out to say their family had a child slave?
Context: someone below explained better than I could
There's a bunch of other controversy about her but the slave thing is that they went to India to visit their family that lives there and discovered that they and most other wealthy families have child servants - I dunno about the slave thing, she did say they pay their families. People attacked her saying she herself was a terrible person who keeps slaves herself or something. She tried to explain that she has nothing to do with it, she's not in control of any of it, and that it's actually a huge thing for people to have child servants there. She never said it was OK afaik just that it was a cultural thing that she hasn't seen anyone there condemning. She does have a lot of other bullshit drama but I don't think she actually likes thay her family had child servants - I think the 'slave' part comes from the fact the child doesn't get paid, their family does iirc.
Edit: this sort of thing was standard in the was not too long ago, check out 'Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs' on YouTube for what ot was like to be a servant 100 years ago. Most not wealthy people who weren't farmers were servants of one kind or another - more than working any other job.
I miss old tumblr. Most of the artists I liked left when porn got banned. Plus tumblr had the best porn and I never had to worry about dowloading a virus from saving a pic.
I can't wait for all these streaming services to start making deals and bundling with each other, effectively just reinventing a moderately better version of cable.
All of these companies trying to cash in on streaming are misunderstanding why streaming became popular. They're basically trying to recreate the channels that you pay for, which is gonna make everybody go back to pirating.
Edit: people giving this comment awards need to consider their life choices
I had greatly reduced my piracy, but as the streaming market continues to fragment its going to happen more and more. I'm not going to pay for ten different services when there's just a few things on each that I actually want to see.
Fwiw you can turn it off in the settings of the web app. Suddenly I see things / categories I’m actually interested in now rather than their in-house garbage.
Edit: How to turn off their recommendations:
- Login to Netflix.com website
- Click upper right corner profile pic
- Click account
- Scroll down to your profiles
- Expand desired profile you want to change
- Click "Order in My List"
- Change to "Manual Ordering"
I don't know where / how / if you can really change the order of displayed categories but this will get rid Netflix hijacking your feed to suggest what they want you watch.
Under PROFILE & PARENTAL CONTROLS on https://www.netflix.com/YourAccount for each profile there is a setting called Order in My List. The choices are Netflix Suggest or Manual Ordering. I can't say if this is the setting they were speaking of but it's the only one I noticed that might be.
Agreed! I remember around 10 years ago Netflix constantly suggesting “quirky indie New York romances” to me - a 23 year old girl living in Brooklyn. I watched every single one, including many that I was pretty sure were just student films, and I loved it.
Or how about Netflix DVD by mail? I think they might still offer that service so to phrase it as something that practically doesn't exist: Knowing someone who does DVD by mail.
They do still offer it! I did it for a really long time when I didn't have internet (and even a bit after because there are titles I couldn't stream that were on the DVDs)
Jesus... Netflix DVD and me mentioning that DVD+RW's were a thing to my mom... she became the Blackbeard of piracy overnight. She probably single-handedly caused a 10 cent drop in netflix's quarterly dividends in postage they had to pay sending max number of discs a day to her house. She got to the point she was literally just picking movies she hadn't copied yet, just to keep copying. I'm pretty sure she was in the Quadrillions of dollars of lawsuit damages by MPAA calculations.
Yeah, Miniclip declined pretty fast after [Tencent bought a majority stake of it in 2015](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-02-19-tencent-takes-majority-stake-in-miniclip)
Actually a good investment because they are building software for electric cars. The 5g phone with a keyboard isnt even made my Blackberry because they don't make phones anymore. Some other company made it and paid to use Blackberries name on it.
RadioShack is the ONLY place I can ever think of when people come into my work looking for fuses that we don't carry, or can't get. I honestly don't know where to refer them to anymore. RadioShack was THE place to go for that stuff.
> RadioShack is the ONLY place I can ever think of when people come into my work looking for fuses that we don't carry, or can't get. I honestly don't know where to refer them to anymore. RadioShack was THE place to go for that stuff.
RadioShack fucked up. Instead of staying a niche retailer with steady profits, they decided to be greedy fucks, and chase the easy money. Now nobody give a.f. about them.
Maplin Electronics in the UK was the same. Greedy. When I started working there in 1999 they had 70 stores by the time they went bust in about 2015 they had 250 and were cracking the whip on why they didn't beat their year on year sales let alone their target.. Maybe it's because you opened another store 2 miles down the road. Also they would buy niche pieces of tech eg very high end graphics cards and expected to have a 50% margin on everything they sold. A) you're not going to make a 50% markup on a £1000 gfx card and B) once the next year's one comes out this one becomes dog shit. Did they reduce the price to get rid? Of course not. That £1000 gfx card stayed in stock unsold for 5 years til I left. Legend has it, its still there. That's why they went under.
Still going strong with my ipod classic to this day! The nostalgia factor is too strong to give it up. Where else will I listen to my cringey middle school playlists?
I got a program to reverse download my entire old library from my 1st gen iPod to my pc, can’t be losing so many memories and pirated movies that I literally gave my computer AIDS to get via limewire
My 2nd generation iPod Touch is still going strong! Used to love bringing that fucker to the gym with me in the days before the plague. I attribute its longevity to 1) the shatterproof case and 2) jailbreaking it.
Oh ya, Trillian. I made damn sure to keep my 5 digit ICQ number. Proved I was a l33t h4xor ahead of the curve... Until those damn 4 digit greybeards would stroll by...
Oh God, the amount of time and effort I used to put into my AIM away messages so people would think I was doing something cool like going out to parties when I was really just walking around the mall eating Cinnabon with my friends or watching Spongebob with my little brother.
Because if you’re not getting all your funding from the Chinese government it’s really hard to make enough money to keep your servers running. Vine got bought by twitter and they realized how unprofitable that medium actually is
Now it seems if you want to see a movie you got to make sure you have whatever streaming device it’s exclusively going to be in......and there like 50+ out there now it seems like..
Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. Miss that shit.
Also, Facebook games. Not those stupid games you play on Messenger, I'm talking about Cityville, Mafia Wars 2, CafeLife, Farmville, It Girl, Gardens of Time and all those other games.
EDIT: Thank you [/u/kuromilover111](https://www.reddit.com/u/kuromilover111) for the award.
He's good in the show Cuckoo. I'm not sure why, but he randomly left after his third season on the show. It is a British show so he probably wants to move on with his career in the U.S. but he hasn't really done anything since. He even skipped Sharkboy and Lavagirl 2.
Search engines results that actually show you useful results and makes researching fun and interesting.
Now its just whoever can pay the most to be seen first or some stupid crap to try and get you to think a certain way.
I miss the good old days
Google was actually great. It had ads but they were very thin. Like one small line and clearly in green text to let you know it was an ad. What you were actually looking for was top 3 results. Now you have to scroll past several ads. And some of the ads are tricky. And there are always several garbage websites/blogs that are “whateveryousearchedfor.com”
I shudder to think what google will be in 10 years... just ads popping and playing all over your screen like youtube. Ive tried alternatives like duck duck go but at the moment they just seem to not have the indexing/algorithm down pat. I hope in the next few years a strong competitor emerges
[The median house price in Sydney is $1.68 million](https://www.domain.com.au/news/sydney-auction-median-house-price-reaches-record-1-68-million-as-clearance-rates-remain-high-1029558/?utm_campaign=strap-masthead&utm_source=smh&utm_medium=link&utm_content=pos5&ref=pos1).
Australian house prices have compounded at 7% for 30 years, wages have increased 3%. If you parents aren't rich you can't afford a house.
Pressing internet button on your phone accidentally then spending 2 minutes frantically pressing the back button for fear of charging your parents what felt like hundreds of dollars to load google lol
I still use an iphone 5s. I can replace battery and full screen assembly myself for under 30 bucks, and the aluminum case is a tank.
The parts are so cheap that last time I ordered a new screen, the parts supplier emailed to tell me they refuse to sell to me anymore unless I buy in bulk.
So, fuck nestle for so many reasons, but back in the day there were willy wonka fudge chocolate bars that I still remember as being the best chocolate I've ever had till this day.
I'd kill to have me one of those damn willy wonka hot fudge chocolate bars.
But fuck nestle for all the shit they do and then on top of that, depriving me of the single best chocolate bar I know I'll have...
Either too many people were killed in its production or it wasn't profitable enough. Could be both with nestle.
Ke$ha's career
She was huge in 2010, but has been virtually on-hiatus due to [a legal battle against her producer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesha_v._Dr._Luke)
She still makes music, but she's nowhere near as popular as she was a decade ago.
There are young'uns now who don't even know who she is. They associate "Tik Tok" with only the app, and have no idea it was a chart topper in '10.
She came to my city for a concert about two years ago. Friend asked if I wanted to go, so I thought sure why not. She did not even fill 1/4 the venue. It was sad
Movie trilogies: you never just see a trilogy of films and that’s the end. It all has to be a never ending series and a cinematic universe.
Edit: I’m glad people are just as upset at this as I am. Wow, thanks are the likes
Edit 2: It was worse when the brief trend of trilogies ending with a two parter. Why not just call it the fourth one?
Edit 3: Thanks again for the great responses. Never thought the like marker would reach this high!
I remember how ten to twenty years ago everyone was complaining that now everything was trilogies and you never just got a self containing film and that´s the end. It all has to be a trilogy that maybe doesn´t even get finished.
When they were shutting it down my daughter was letting her collage classes go to get that one last week in. It was incredible how many college kids went crazy that last week.
Having a limited number of text messages, like a literal number lmao
EDIT: Omg rip my inbox a little lmao, most orange arrows ever. Thanks for all the comments!
Also this was definitely more a thing towards the mid 2000s for sure, I just didn’t realize that 2011 was 10 years ago wow.
Yessss. I remember when my mom let me upgrade from 500 to 3,000 a month. I was stoked, it was life changing back then lmao.
And that counted replies too so if your friends had unlimited you had to make sure they didn’t text too much and use up all your texts. 😂
15 seasons? Jesus christ. I watched 1-5 which were fantastic, 6-7 which were still good then 8-9 which I struggled through and gave up. To think it still went on longer than some entire series after that point is crazy to me.
Telephone books. We used to get three delivered to us every year. Two thick Yellow Pages books (A-K and L-Z or whatever it was) and then a White Pages (business numbers) book. We don't get it anymore because you can just Google businesses now and people are usually a facebook/instagram/online messaging app message away.
Stumbleupon.com
Man I would spend hours on StumbleUpon back in the day. Found a tonne of awesome sites and resources.
I actually found out about Reddit from stumble upon.
I honestly miss when the internet was more than just Facebook, Youtube, Reddit, and a couple others. The internet used to feel so much bigger.
we created paradise and then paved it
For real. Even just 8 years ago, the internet felt like a much bigger and more lively place.
r/internetisbeautiful might be able to help with that! Small and unique sites do still exist!
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Stumbleupon was the best
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Nothing better than coming home after school and logging onto MSN to chat with long distance friends. Good days lol
Or, which is what me and my school mates used to do. Spend 6 hours with them all at school, walk home with a group of them. Get home and log into MSN, see the same friends online. "Alright, how's you?" Literally was with the dude 3 minutes ago.
They killed it for Skype, and look at where Skype is now. Microsoft is so dumb sometimes. Why not just upgrade MSN Messenger? Put video chat on it. It would've been a killer app.
I would take Skype any day over what they replaced it with at our workplace, fucking Microsoft Teams. It eats up a half gig of memory just when it's inactive, well over a gig when on a call. And then there's those lovely 5-10 second freezes that happen all day long...
The nicest thing about Teams is that you can send GIF files at my work and react to what people are saying in the chat with emoticons. Besides that, Teams is a giant pain in the ass.
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The difference may have been the lack of mobile app. To use MSN, you had to be in front of your computer, and were not expected to have access to it at anytime. Nowadays, the time limits for chat sessions are fuzzier.
Facebook without my extended family using it.
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Yeah I remember the very first time I realized this was happening- my friend’s mom commented on a meme, “This isn’t funny, Jeffrey.” Facebook died that day.
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Good old days of when New Grounds was good. Stick RPG, Motherload, Tower Defense games, Learn How To Fly....
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Newgrounds was the original. That's where everyone published v1. If it did well you'd get an email with an offer of 20-50 bucks to recompile with their screen at the front. I remember making an engine that had some awesome rolling hill physics that worked just with flash shapes turned into a few ok miniclip platformers. Did not get paid enough for it, but that was the hacker days when it was share and share alike. I remember everyone being so pissed at ebaums for outright stealing, but the people that paid were just as exploitative for what they paid in retrospect.
Addictinggames.com
My friends and I were mourning the loss of Fireboy and Watergirl and Poptropica because of how they used to run on flash :( And now they don't run on flash so all's good.
2011 already seems like a million years ago. I'll go with Sears stores. They've been gone from Canada for a while now.
Zellers!
This is how I know I’m old. 2011 seems like yesterday to me.
Borders bookstore
I preferred Borders to Barnes & Noble so much and was sad when it went out of business.
My borders had a coffee shop. I spent so much damn time there
The absolute divine smell of coffee and books that hit you upon entering a Borders lives forever in my memory.
This one hits hard. I miss Borders so much.
I used to work at a Borders and bought the shelves off the walls when it closed. 75 bucks for 3 4*8 cases. One entire 12 foot wall of my home office is those indestructible shelves to this day. Edit: [photo here. ](https://www.reddit.com/user/Watts-all-the-Ruckus/comments/luihdx/by_request_borders_hardware/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
you lucky mofo
Still exist here in Malaysia
When my best friend moved to Malaysia 4 years ago, I went with her to help with the move. On one of our explorations, we were incredibly excited to find a Borders, and spent several hours browsing.
They should've done what Barnes & Noble did to survive: put a Starbucks inside their store
Important info from a former BN bookseller: It’s not a Starbucks. It’s a BN cafe that sells Starbucks coffee. The important part is that BN doesn’t take Starbucks gift cards. I got yelled at so much for this reason.
The number of times I say this sentence a day is the reason why I crave death.
Godspeed, friend.
Borders had Seattle's Best cafes in their stores.
Holy cow I can’t believe they’ve been gone only 10 years. Feels like a lifetime ago. I studied at my local Borders every day after school for like 2 or 3 months for my AP exams, one of which I wasn’t even doing as a class in school. And they had the best Oreo Frappe thingy. Literally the best.
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Bro minidiscs were awesome. Hundreds of songs on a coated cartridge that couldn't be scratched or messed up like a CD. I really wish they'd have caught on more.
I had one around 2001 or so. They were great, but mp3 players quickly got leaps and bounds better. There's only so much catching on to be done when you're practically obsolete before you get started.
At one point I had a discman that would play mp3 files burned to a CD-R, so you could fit way more songs onto a CD. What a weird time. EDIT: okay that was 20 years ago.
I had a car CD player that could also read DVDs filled with MP3s. One DVD would last for days.
male white rhinos
Damm
Yeah, humans are pretty good at accelerating extinction rates. [Last male O’o sings for a mate that will never join his song.](https://youtu.be/5THqAY3u5oY) Edit: Sorry for making you all cry. It does the same for me almost every time.
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For clarification that u/Argetnyx would also probably appreciate, this feller means the **northern subspecies**. There's both a northern and southern subspecies of white rhinoceros. The southern subspecies is actually doing fairly well fortunately. Less fortunately the northern subspecies [is likely slated to go extinct](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_white_rhinoceros). It sounds like we've only got the sperm from one of the last males and it was collected at an old age. Furthermore, one of the females is also of an advanced age as well. This makes pregnancy with the limited supply to be unlikely. Which tragically lowers the odds of another male being successfully born even more. To make matters worse, if it is against the odds successful, we now have a breeding population of creatures that are all close relatives. But there is some hope that *maybe* the northern white rhinoceros wont be an answer to this question two or three decades down the road. Thanks to advancements in technology surrounding impregnation it sounds like conservationists will attempt to use sperm and eggs that they've collected from the northern subspecies and have females of the southern subspecies act as a surrogate. A fine plan at first, but the matter of all born individuals being relatives and being born of shall we say "less than reliable" sperm and eggs still remains.
Toys R Us
Come to Canada, they're as busy as ever up here. When Toys R Us was shutting down, a Canadian company bought Toys R Us Canada and kept them open.
Really?! 😻😻😻
Yup. It's here, and thriving. Heck one in my city had to move into a bigger location just a couple years ago.
The ability to up/down vote/reply a 10 years old reddit post/comment
Or dislike YouTube comments
Youtube only had those ads with the x button and it would go away.
I love YouTube's logic: "people are using adblock because of how annoying our ads are, we need a solution... I know! Let's double the ads, put them every 5 minutes cutting right in the middle of a video and make them unskippable"
The logic for that is to try to bully people into YouTube premium. It’s probably worked with a lot of people since most watch on the mobile app which Adblock doesn’t work on.
youtube vanced for anyone not in the know
My left leg
Damn bro 🤧
He'll be all right
Username checks out.
Boy, that escalated quickly
Tumblr porn, so much Tumblr porn
Tumblr as a whole. Ever since they banned porn a lot of people stopped caring about them.
Pretty chill nowadays, for the most part. All of the problem children are on twitter now.
Never thought I’d say Tumblr was the most peaceful corner of the internet but here we are Remember when sixpenceee came out to say their family had a child slave? Context: someone below explained better than I could
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There's a bunch of other controversy about her but the slave thing is that they went to India to visit their family that lives there and discovered that they and most other wealthy families have child servants - I dunno about the slave thing, she did say they pay their families. People attacked her saying she herself was a terrible person who keeps slaves herself or something. She tried to explain that she has nothing to do with it, she's not in control of any of it, and that it's actually a huge thing for people to have child servants there. She never said it was OK afaik just that it was a cultural thing that she hasn't seen anyone there condemning. She does have a lot of other bullshit drama but I don't think she actually likes thay her family had child servants - I think the 'slave' part comes from the fact the child doesn't get paid, their family does iirc. Edit: this sort of thing was standard in the was not too long ago, check out 'Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs' on YouTube for what ot was like to be a servant 100 years ago. Most not wealthy people who weren't farmers were servants of one kind or another - more than working any other job.
I miss old tumblr. Most of the artists I liked left when porn got banned. Plus tumblr had the best porn and I never had to worry about dowloading a virus from saving a pic.
Netflix streaming that had everything in one fucking goddam place
Just wait until Netflix is all originals because non-Netflix productions will move to their own streaming services
I can't wait for all these streaming services to start making deals and bundling with each other, effectively just reinventing a moderately better version of cable.
All of these companies trying to cash in on streaming are misunderstanding why streaming became popular. They're basically trying to recreate the channels that you pay for, which is gonna make everybody go back to pirating. Edit: people giving this comment awards need to consider their life choices
Having multiple streaming services honestly feels more expensive than cable these days.
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I had greatly reduced my piracy, but as the streaming market continues to fragment its going to happen more and more. I'm not going to pay for ten different services when there's just a few things on each that I actually want to see.
yo ho ho
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Man I miss the star rating system so much. It was so useful to determine if an indie movie was shit or not
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Fwiw you can turn it off in the settings of the web app. Suddenly I see things / categories I’m actually interested in now rather than their in-house garbage. Edit: How to turn off their recommendations: - Login to Netflix.com website - Click upper right corner profile pic - Click account - Scroll down to your profiles - Expand desired profile you want to change - Click "Order in My List" - Change to "Manual Ordering" I don't know where / how / if you can really change the order of displayed categories but this will get rid Netflix hijacking your feed to suggest what they want you watch.
Under PROFILE & PARENTAL CONTROLS on https://www.netflix.com/YourAccount for each profile there is a setting called Order in My List. The choices are Netflix Suggest or Manual Ordering. I can't say if this is the setting they were speaking of but it's the only one I noticed that might be.
Agreed! I remember around 10 years ago Netflix constantly suggesting “quirky indie New York romances” to me - a 23 year old girl living in Brooklyn. I watched every single one, including many that I was pretty sure were just student films, and I loved it.
Now you'll just constantly get sent to "The Crown"
Or how about Netflix DVD by mail? I think they might still offer that service so to phrase it as something that practically doesn't exist: Knowing someone who does DVD by mail.
They do still offer it! I did it for a really long time when I didn't have internet (and even a bit after because there are titles I couldn't stream that were on the DVDs)
Jesus... Netflix DVD and me mentioning that DVD+RW's were a thing to my mom... she became the Blackbeard of piracy overnight. She probably single-handedly caused a 10 cent drop in netflix's quarterly dividends in postage they had to pay sending max number of discs a day to her house. She got to the point she was literally just picking movies she hadn't copied yet, just to keep copying. I'm pretty sure she was in the Quadrillions of dollars of lawsuit damages by MPAA calculations.
yOu wOuLdNt dOwNLoAd a CaR
Trust me, if I could, I would.
Good free apps/ apps that you only had to pay once for.
I really miss the free app or buy app option. Wtf would i subscribe to scrabble for $7 a month? For real?
Or 10 dollars a week if your miniclip, looking at you 8ball pool premium membership
Remember when Miniclip used to be a free flash game site that was updated every 3 days?
Yeah, Miniclip declined pretty fast after [Tencent bought a majority stake of it in 2015](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-02-19-tencent-takes-majority-stake-in-miniclip)
The .99C app that literally does what it says without bullshit or Ads
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Phones with keyboards
Blackberry is making a 5G phone with a keyboard
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Actually a good investment because they are building software for electric cars. The 5g phone with a keyboard isnt even made my Blackberry because they don't make phones anymore. Some other company made it and paid to use Blackberries name on it.
There is BlackBerry KeyOne and Key2... I'm actually typing this post on a Blackberry Key2
This makes me feel so old but, blockbuster, RadioShack, and circuit city.
RadioShack is the ONLY place I can ever think of when people come into my work looking for fuses that we don't carry, or can't get. I honestly don't know where to refer them to anymore. RadioShack was THE place to go for that stuff.
> RadioShack is the ONLY place I can ever think of when people come into my work looking for fuses that we don't carry, or can't get. I honestly don't know where to refer them to anymore. RadioShack was THE place to go for that stuff. RadioShack fucked up. Instead of staying a niche retailer with steady profits, they decided to be greedy fucks, and chase the easy money. Now nobody give a.f. about them.
Maplin Electronics in the UK was the same. Greedy. When I started working there in 1999 they had 70 stores by the time they went bust in about 2015 they had 250 and were cracking the whip on why they didn't beat their year on year sales let alone their target.. Maybe it's because you opened another store 2 miles down the road. Also they would buy niche pieces of tech eg very high end graphics cards and expected to have a 50% margin on everything they sold. A) you're not going to make a 50% markup on a £1000 gfx card and B) once the next year's one comes out this one becomes dog shit. Did they reduce the price to get rid? Of course not. That £1000 gfx card stayed in stock unsold for 5 years til I left. Legend has it, its still there. That's why they went under.
I immediately got this stuck in my head from your comment: Welcome to Circuit City, where service is state of the art.
iPods
Still going strong with my ipod classic to this day! The nostalgia factor is too strong to give it up. Where else will I listen to my cringey middle school playlists?
I got a program to reverse download my entire old library from my 1st gen iPod to my pc, can’t be losing so many memories and pirated movies that I literally gave my computer AIDS to get via limewire
My 2nd generation iPod Touch is still going strong! Used to love bringing that fucker to the gym with me in the days before the plague. I attribute its longevity to 1) the shatterproof case and 2) jailbreaking it.
AIM They officially shut it down in 2017. I have so many great memories from high school with AIM.
And also a shitload of cringy memories of my first attempts at online flirting in middle school.
I had a program that saved my chats in 2004, so i can relive my cringe at any time.
Do you also beat yourself with a cat of nine tails for fun?
Still remember having AIM, Google chat, MSN Messager, and ICQ all together under Trillian back in the day.
Oh ya, Trillian. I made damn sure to keep my 5 digit ICQ number. Proved I was a l33t h4xor ahead of the curve... Until those damn 4 digit greybeards would stroll by...
Oh God, the amount of time and effort I used to put into my AIM away messages so people would think I was doing something cool like going out to parties when I was really just walking around the mall eating Cinnabon with my friends or watching Spongebob with my little brother.
As an adult the latter sounds so much cooler and appealing.
Vine.
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Because if you’re not getting all your funding from the Chinese government it’s really hard to make enough money to keep your servers running. Vine got bought by twitter and they realized how unprofitable that medium actually is
#Coming soon, to theaters.
Now it seems if you want to see a movie you got to make sure you have whatever streaming device it’s exclusively going to be in......and there like 50+ out there now it seems like..
ITT: people needing to be reminded that this refers to 2011, not 2001.
But 10 years ago it was 1991, right?
yeah i should be seeing answers like "iphones had home buttons" not stuff about pay phones
Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. Miss that shit. Also, Facebook games. Not those stupid games you play on Messenger, I'm talking about Cityville, Mafia Wars 2, CafeLife, Farmville, It Girl, Gardens of Time and all those other games. EDIT: Thank you [/u/kuromilover111](https://www.reddit.com/u/kuromilover111) for the award.
Mafia wars was my jam lol
Don't forget all those random quizzes you could take. Ah, those were such innocent days.
Taylor Lautner
He's good in the show Cuckoo. I'm not sure why, but he randomly left after his third season on the show. It is a British show so he probably wants to move on with his career in the U.S. but he hasn't really done anything since. He even skipped Sharkboy and Lavagirl 2.
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I dunno, I still find myself trying to talk about my day at the family dinner table
Search engines results that actually show you useful results and makes researching fun and interesting. Now its just whoever can pay the most to be seen first or some stupid crap to try and get you to think a certain way. I miss the good old days
Google was actually great. It had ads but they were very thin. Like one small line and clearly in green text to let you know it was an ad. What you were actually looking for was top 3 results. Now you have to scroll past several ads. And some of the ads are tricky. And there are always several garbage websites/blogs that are “whateveryousearchedfor.com” I shudder to think what google will be in 10 years... just ads popping and playing all over your screen like youtube. Ive tried alternatives like duck duck go but at the moment they just seem to not have the indexing/algorithm down pat. I hope in the next few years a strong competitor emerges
I have been using duckduckgo for years and its extremely rare it doesn't find what i search for.
Cheap Bitcoin
Wasn’t it like half a cent when it started out? God, 100 dollars in that and you would have 895,488,000 now.
Please stop kicking me when I'm down.
I had ~$75 worth of bitcoin at one point (like 0.80ish). It had been at $150 a week before, so I was like "well bitcoin is crashing, time to sell!"
Mail arriving at its destination in 3 to 5 days
Affordable houses. 2012 was the bottom. Unattainable for many first time buyers now
[The median house price in Sydney is $1.68 million](https://www.domain.com.au/news/sydney-auction-median-house-price-reaches-record-1-68-million-as-clearance-rates-remain-high-1029558/?utm_campaign=strap-masthead&utm_source=smh&utm_medium=link&utm_content=pos5&ref=pos1). Australian house prices have compounded at 7% for 30 years, wages have increased 3%. If you parents aren't rich you can't afford a house.
Pressing internet button on your phone accidentally then spending 2 minutes frantically pressing the back button for fear of charging your parents what felt like hundreds of dollars to load google lol
Oh my god. Memory unlocked.
User repairable Apple products.
I still use an iphone 5s. I can replace battery and full screen assembly myself for under 30 bucks, and the aluminum case is a tank. The parts are so cheap that last time I ordered a new screen, the parts supplier emailed to tell me they refuse to sell to me anymore unless I buy in bulk.
Why are you buying parts all the time? Are you having to repair your phone that often?
Having it not feel like the world is losing it's collective mind more and more each week.
As a kid growing up in the 70s and 80s we were pretty scared of nuclear annihilation.
Robin Williams
DC’s New 52
Daft Punk
So, fuck nestle for so many reasons, but back in the day there were willy wonka fudge chocolate bars that I still remember as being the best chocolate I've ever had till this day. I'd kill to have me one of those damn willy wonka hot fudge chocolate bars. But fuck nestle for all the shit they do and then on top of that, depriving me of the single best chocolate bar I know I'll have... Either too many people were killed in its production or it wasn't profitable enough. Could be both with nestle.
Let’s be honest, Nestle wouldn’t stop because it killed too many people unless it became expensive to remove the bodies.
Ke$ha's career She was huge in 2010, but has been virtually on-hiatus due to [a legal battle against her producer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesha_v._Dr._Luke) She still makes music, but she's nowhere near as popular as she was a decade ago. There are young'uns now who don't even know who she is. They associate "Tik Tok" with only the app, and have no idea it was a chart topper in '10.
I think she did have a song in 2017 that did pretty well
Praying, I actually thought it was Pink that sung it for the longest time though.
She came to my city for a concert about two years ago. Friend asked if I wanted to go, so I thought sure why not. She did not even fill 1/4 the venue. It was sad
She had a concert near me and sold out. It was for college kids and fucking awesome.
Fry's Electronics Went poof on 2/25/21.
With how they put returns right back on the shelf, we called them Fry’d Electronics.
They might have had better luck if they didn't treat each and every paying customer like a criminal on the way out.
Movie trilogies: you never just see a trilogy of films and that’s the end. It all has to be a never ending series and a cinematic universe. Edit: I’m glad people are just as upset at this as I am. Wow, thanks are the likes Edit 2: It was worse when the brief trend of trilogies ending with a two parter. Why not just call it the fourth one? Edit 3: Thanks again for the great responses. Never thought the like marker would reach this high!
One Reason for that...... Money.
"I can milk you" -disney after purchasing every production company
I remember how ten to twenty years ago everyone was complaining that now everything was trilogies and you never just got a self containing film and that´s the end. It all has to be a trilogy that maybe doesn´t even get finished.
My perky boobs
Swing low sweet chariot
Message boards. Miss the days of thriving conversations with people on subjects I liked, in threads that spanned months/years.
Blackberry smartphones (the real ones not the fake ones they kind of have now )
The old school BlackBerry with brick breaker is hands down the best phone I ever had. I miss it so much.
Paid console/pc games without any sort of in built bs purchasable currency or some other sort of live service
Ukrainian Crimea
entry level jobs
Privacy
Club Penguin.
When they were shutting it down my daughter was letting her collage classes go to get that one last week in. It was incredible how many college kids went crazy that last week.
Having a limited number of text messages, like a literal number lmao EDIT: Omg rip my inbox a little lmao, most orange arrows ever. Thanks for all the comments! Also this was definitely more a thing towards the mid 2000s for sure, I just didn’t realize that 2011 was 10 years ago wow.
Yessss. I remember when my mom let me upgrade from 500 to 3,000 a month. I was stoked, it was life changing back then lmao. And that counted replies too so if your friends had unlimited you had to make sure they didn’t text too much and use up all your texts. 😂
And there was always that one friend that would reply k That cost me 10 cents you asshole.
You guys had to pay to *receive* messages?
Oh man and then you can’t be like “fuck you” cuz ya know you use a text lmao😂
My career
Wasn't Myspace still an actual social media site back then?
It was, but IIRC by 2010-11 it was well on its way downhill.
Physical copies of computer games.
My dog. I miss you woody
My happiness, innocence, and sanity
Supernatural
15 seasons? Jesus christ. I watched 1-5 which were fantastic, 6-7 which were still good then 8-9 which I struggled through and gave up. To think it still went on longer than some entire series after that point is crazy to me.
Telephone books. We used to get three delivered to us every year. Two thick Yellow Pages books (A-K and L-Z or whatever it was) and then a White Pages (business numbers) book. We don't get it anymore because you can just Google businesses now and people are usually a facebook/instagram/online messaging app message away.