Barnorama All Fun In The Barn
Whether you’re reminiscing about the satisfying whir of a dial-up modem or the tactile joy of pressing buttons on a chunky mobile phone, this collection is a heartfelt homage to the tech that paved the way for today’s advancements.
“Hard copy concert tickets. I’d like to keep adding to my 50-year concert ticket collection. Only way to do that now is to purchase commemorative printings from 3rd party companies.”
“Buttons to control the radio/HVAC on my car dashboard.”
“Consumer printers that don’t need 2 apps and specific ink to work (thanks hp)”
“A headphone jack on a phone.”
“I miss Blockbuster a lot. It was much more fun picking out a movie to watch. While it’s nice being able to access damn near every movie ever made for free/cheap on my couch, I find it so much harder to pick one movie to watch.”
“VHS – Purely because my kids will never get to know the excitement of going to rental stores like Blockbuster. The smell of the carpet, the popcorn knowing your Friday night was going to be pigging out with a movie you picked from the store. Great times.”
“Downloading music on Limewire and burning CDs was fun. I still have one of those spindles with a sh#t ton of old burned CDs on it. I don’t even know what’s on the CDs these days but I bet it would be a big nostalgia trip if I took them out and listened to them”
“Older generation video game consoles.”
“I’ll piggyback off of this and say split-screen gaming.”
“I wish BlackBerry would have survived and improved. Great phone just bad cameras and poor web browser.”
“Non-smart TV’s and appliances. No, I don’t want to give my dishwasher internet access.”
“Station wagons with the rear-facing seat in the back. I’m sure it wasted space and wasn’t as safe in the event of an accident… but as a kid that was the perfect road trip seat and goofing off at the driver behind you was a blast.”
“Payphones
I like having options”
“I really miss when the only way of getting on the internet was through the computer room”
“THE F@#KING CD DRIVE FOR COMPUTERS”
“Mp3 players.. I just want music with no ads and not having to pay for something I already own.”
“I miss physical buttons on cellphones. It’s almost impossible to type on a touch screen phone without several typos.”
“Local car starters.
Every manufacturer is turning remote start into a cloud service. It sucks. I miss the days of just pointing my keyfob out the window and warming up my car.
Now I have to pay a subscription to have the ability to use an app on my phone to talk to a cloud that talks to my car and tells it to start. It can take anywhere from 2-4 minutes.”
“Answering machines. More specifically, the world in which we needed them.
It used to be that if you couldn’t get a hold of someone, it was fine. They would call you back at some point in a number of days.
Now, not reaching someone for an hour is a problem. Our phones tell other people when we’ve read messages but not responded.
I think the plausible deniability we had was healthier for relationships. Constant contact can get so overbearing these days.”
Source: www.reddit.com