Democracy
Not having to worry about AI generated pictures of you, especially any of pornographic nature. Girls are already having to suffer through this shit
Speaking of which, they’ll never know what “finite porn” is.
Rewinding a VHS tape.
As time goes on, more people are going to start wondering why a video has warping video and sound effects added to a sped up or reversed video.
Getting static shocked by the TV screen.
Adjusting the tracking on a VCR.
Getting your finger stuck in the VCR because the videotape would not eject. You had to stick your finger in and poke the tape while mashing the eject button. Worked everytime. Also pushing rewind on a tape and walking away because someone forgot to rewind and you don’t want to watch the video in reverse.
I think my family may have had a later generation VCR then yours, because I don’t remember ever getting my hand stuck, and if you pressed the rewind button while playback was stopped (not paused) it would rewind at like 10x the regular playback speed.
And degaussing monitors.
Reminds me of the time I had fun screwing up our CRT TV with magnets.
Downloading what you think is a song off a file sharing program only to find out that it’s a virus.
Ah that reminds me of the time every single file on my computer got replaced with a .vbs version of itself. Good times.
The Kazaa gamble.
Porn*
Fixed
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman. But I did buy viagra or whatever this ad was always about.”
Having your Internet connection drop because someone picked up the phone.
Burning themselves on a light bulb!
or a car lighter
How many minds are going to be blown by ‘The Blues Brothers’ when the young folks realize there used to be cigarette lighters in police cars?
Do cars not come with them at all anymore? My 2021 BMW has one, and I’ve used it in a pinch once or twice.
My gf’s 2020 Tuscon didn’t, and of the cars I’ve seen and window-shopped online you have to add a “smoker’s kit” as an option. They usually still have the 12VDC port for charging but it don’t come with the lil fire pop stick no more
Privacy.
Ownership. (not quasi ownership like ‘buying’ a HP inkjet printer)
The original 4loko
Having to wind back a cassette or vcr with a paperclip or spoon if the strip got tangled, or even just having to wait for the player to forward/rewind
The French revolution.
Looking at France recently, wouldn’t be so sure about that one…
Are the French ever not revolting against something?
Nope. We could and should learn a lot from the French when it comes to making our voices heard.
No, the French are always revolting.
Setting up your computer before you go to bed to download a demo for a game that’s… 20 MB large! Waking up in the morning to inevitably discover the download failed part way through.
Remember download managers?
Where my download accelerator plus gang at
Getright was my choice for years, until it decided to scrap an entire 600MB iso I had downloaded over 56k, and start over. Getright pissing me off was thebmain reason why I got pretty good at perl - I decided to write my own download manager.
Sounds like a villain origin story
I’m not denying anything
What a blast from the past! Totally forgot that these were a thing lol.
I remember using a program called Go!Zilla to accellerate and manage my downloads, you could even pause downloads!
This think that was basically a P2P downloader.
Not as extreme, but I still remember downloading GTA 5 for 16h, that was some shit internet
I’d say it’s as extreme
I mean change mb to gb and it’s the same story today.
sometimes I still have to do this, sure not for something that’s only 20mb but a 1gb file can take a whole night to download in my uni accommodation. The landlord doesn’t seem to give a shit though because they’re still advertising that the building has “up to 100mb/s” wifi speeds.
1kB/h is still “up to 100mb/s” so he’s not wrong.
“apparently my sister picked up the phooone! Aarrg! $!#@t”
Kids three days won’t get to experience par files
Waiting for a single image to load on the screen from top to bottom, one line at a time and being charged per minute for the privilege.
The nightmare PS2 dirty disc screen, and mainstream multiplayer games without anticheat rootkits
Edit: mainstream
Oh that boot sound and hoping you’d make it past… Mostly on PS1 but I still had some of it on 2.
Yes! Why can’t I play every game like I played Runscape?
The nightmare PS2 dirty disc screen
To be fair, PS2’s are so damn rock-solid new generations can experience this for many years to come. They just gotta get one.
Blowing into cartridges before putting them into the console and optionally pushing them to the side or some other voodoo hoping the game would start.
The App Store not being filled with predatory trash
I completely stopped playing games on my phone cos of that
It’s so hard to find remotely good games now… I have hit the point that I don’t even bother looking at anything but paid offline games but even those often have microtransctions. I am glad that you can get a refund most of the time as long as you only used it less than an hour.
When you look for mobile game recommendations in certain communities (like Reddit) you know the store ranking is fucked.
There’s a curated list of no-bullshit mobile games which are real fun, without any microtransactions: https://nobsgames.stavros.io/
Mobile Gaming can be fun. :)
Awesome, thanks!
Social media not being the focus of every government, advertising agency and activist organization in existence.
