Dial-Up.
Sure we know the noise, we joke about the porn images taking time to load and we joke about other things. But I would rather have a 10mbps connection or even 5mbps connection than ever having dial-up again. It wasn’t that good and it amazes me that dial-up still has life at all today, even if little.
Inflatable things.
I never really liked those inflatable chairs. I always feel like I’m going to pop them or some seam will unseal itself and air will gradually leave the inflatable chair and eventually I’ll sit on floor. These kinds of things were everywhere for a time, some still are, but at least are made by companies that have a better idea about making inflatable products work. Like camping equipment.
I think it would be hard to find anyone who misses dial up.
By the way, I’m expecting an important call, so I need you to log off.
I don’t know, there is a certain nostalgia to it. Yes, it was a pain in the ass to use, but there was also the aspect where limitations breed creativity. If your time online is competing with one of the home’s primary means of communication, the landline phone, the internet becomes a limited resource. It wasn’t as easy to just rot on the internet as it is today. You had to be more deliberate with your time, even if that was just being more deliberate in the types of fun sites you were going to visit.
The nostalgia comes from the context that dialup involves: the early decades of the Internet, the pre-commercialization optimism about ubiquitous connectivity. Hearing the dialup sound evokes memories linked to those feelings, just like hearing music you heard in your youth evokes memories of that time.
I cannot decipher this title.
I also had to read it half a dozen times before I realized it wasn’t my reading comprehension that was the problem. “What’s something people believe was good for its time, that was actually terrible, even back then?” is maybe a more coherent version.
I’m not sure I have a decent example I can think of though.
the united states. from any era.
It has never changed. It just stopped hiding the truth.
It’s always been good for the slave owners and not so much for everyone else in the world, lol. What a cancer.
10 millibits per second means that a single bit would take over a minute and a half to transmit. That’s so much slower than dial-up! I’d much rather have at least a 10 Mbps connection.
Your comment is so pedantic and dorky and I love it
I take my job very seriously
A lot of TV shows and movies from franchises still running. There’s a huge amount of nostalgia attached to them, but there’s plenty out there now that are just as good if not better.
It’s hard not to be biased when humans have built-in rose tinted glasses though.
Likewise, rebooting every successful series from the 80s and 90s for the same reason.
Cocaine wasn’t any better in the 80s.
You just don’t start doing the fenty fold randomly in the streets. But beside that is the same crap.
