What do you miss from 10-12 years ago and what do you not?

[thetransporter]

seems life is changing very fast and all, especially with social media and people walking into streetlights while on their smart phone.

What do you miss from 10-12 years ago and what do you not?

suggestion topics:

social stuff - are people helping a damsel in distress on the side of the road like they did before? Are men the same men as yesterday?

technology - Is internet connectivity essential for everyday life?


health and wellness - (seems everyone is getting cancer now)

automotive world - seems these days people have so much money they just drive a car for a year or a few months and get a new one

entertainment - is all music the same with auto tune? why are the celebrities all checking into rehab and tewrking and shaving their head bald?

Oct 16 - question:

Where on earth did the mIRC thing go ??

[icky2unk]

Nuff Said

[300zxfairlday]

Originally posted by icky2unk


Nuff Said

[e31]

9-11-01 sucked pretty hard, but not enough to justify how badly the US blows now.

I miss the days when air transit was relatively hassle free; prior to the indignities they now regularly perform on people.

Also dem gas prices

[ddduke]

Originally posted by thetransporter
seems life is changing very fast and all, especially with social media and people walking into streetlights while on their smart phone.

What do you miss from 10-12 years ago and what do you not?

suggestion topics:

social stuff - are people helping a damsel in distress on the side of the road like they did before? Are men the same men as yesterday?

technology - Is internet connectivity essential for everyday life?


health and wellness - (seems everyone is getting cancer now)

automotive world - seems these days people have so much money they just drive a car for a year or a few months and get a new one

entertainment - is all music the same with auto tune? why are the celebrities all checking into rehab and tewrking and shaving their head bald?

As for health and wellness I believe most people are more health conscious now, eating better, exercising more. Even when it comes to fast food, there's a ton of "healthy" options at every strip mall now that weren't very popular back then.

Automotive, I don't think everyone has so much money they constantly buy new cars everywhere, I think you just live in Calgary where people have higher a average income then most other places.

Entertainment, celebs are just as fucked now as they have ever been, social media and internet just shows more of it. Think about Kurt Cobain in the early 90s, Freddy Mercury getting aids and dying, Ozzy eating the head of a live animal and his drug use, celebs have always done fucked up shit.

[msommers]

In some twisted and confusing way, the Information Age has made the general public more stupid.

[thetransporter]

i agree ^

also heard calls to consumer call centers are down, people don't want to talk on the phone............... but still demand the service/support they need.

we moved from an industrial economy (1930s/40s)to a service economy, so really not wanting to talk on the phone is not helping.

i remember getting phone calls, now all people do is text.

[spikerS]

I miss road etiquette of years past.

For example, You are trying to merge onto a 4 lane road, and a couple vehicles are approaching, they used to, as a courtesy, move over a lane, allowing an easier and earlier transition onto the road.

Or People on 2 lane roads that would pull onto the shoulder to allow you to pass.

Or when backing up in a parking lot, cross traffic actually allowing people to back out, instead of speeding up so they can honk at them.

Being able to take a coffee through security at the airport.

These are some of the things I miss.


Things I am glad are gone?
Cell phones the size of Bricks and larger.
the "Tail" haircut.
I will add more as I think about it.

[BigMass]

More like 20 years ago. Nothing is better now. World went to shit. All downhill

[corsvette]

I miss when every single person did not have a smartphone in their face, whenever People have a spare second doing nothing it's phone time.

[GTS4tw]

Originally posted by BigMass
More like 20 years ago. Nothing is better now. World went to shit. All downhill

Not one improvement, everything is garbage, people are stupid.

[codetrap]

I miss being thin, and able to just pick up at a moments notice and go somewhere or do something without having to worry about logistics, or baby food, or any of that stuff.

I don't miss being single. Being alone sucks. It's nice to have a little booty to hold at night. I used to miss playing video games like Earth & Beyond, or WoW with my wife for hours on end, but I don't really miss that anymore. I have found that reality is more interesting, and the smile I get from my kids and wife much more rewarding than any mission completed message in the continuous grind of a video game.

OT, I find it interesting/ironic that a lot of the people I know that occasionally rant against the gov't, are self declared libertarian etc, are more than happy to take orders from a video game character and do highly repetitive tasks in a virtual world for literally days on end without complaint.

[firebane]

Originally posted by corsvette
I miss when every single person did not have a smartphone in their face, whenever People have a spare second doing nothing it's phone time.

Seen a father and his son walking down the road yesterday and the dad had his face glued to his phone. Kid was trying to get his attention repeatedly and the dad just kept pushing him away.

[Tik-Tok]

House prices in Calgary.

Being able to cruise around enjoyably in the late evenings without a shit ton of traffic (though that is more 15+ years ago)

[MalibuStacy]

I miss being 12...

[NRGie]

Saturday morning cartoons

[16hypen3sp]

Originally posted by BigMass
More like 20 years ago. Nothing is better now. World went to shit. All downhill

Some impressive positivity shown here. lol.


Ah yes 10-12 years ago. Had no job... in Gr. 9. Riding dirtbikes all weekend and weeknight. Sledding in the winter... it was a simpler time.


On another note... funny thing about vehicle prices. Some older folk have told me that the cost of buying a new vehicle has come down since then... but it seems like vehicles are more expensive than ever on the lot.

[BavarianBeast]

what i miss: not having so many bloody people in this city
what i dont miss: glenmore & elbow drive intersection

[killramos]

Naturally Aspirated cars

Also getting in a good old fashioned argument with friends without someone fact checking on google. Best part of camping in the US.

[klumsy_tumbler]

What I miss:
-road etiquette
-when semi truck drivers were the best drivers on the road (stemming from the above item)
-lack of smartphones
-friendly neighbours (anyone else live in a neighbourhood where nobody knows eachother? It's weird...)
-"tough" kids (when a scraped knee wasn't treated like a severed limb, and when kids had the coordination and guts to climb trees and run down hills faster than their legs could go)
-the ability to fail kids in school (come on, are we really doing them any favours by sparing their feelings in school?)
-there wasn't this rampant trend of "entitlement" in society... (think along the lines of the fairly recent lululemon case where women everywhere were bitching that they couldn't fit into the pants)
-the list goes on and on....

What I don't miss:
Nothing.