The size of Freddo’s, Saturday morning TV, free to air sports, Jamie Oliver-less school lunches. You get the picture.

What was better twenty years ago than it currently is today.

And you can’t say everything, because it wasn’t. The country is in ruin but at least now we can…order a takeaway without having to speak to another human…??

  • Hellfire103English
    7•9 months ago

    My childhood was between 2007 and mid-2015, I’d say.

    • First of all, I miss the graphic design. Everything’s so flat these days. I preferred it back when everything was shiny and skeuomorphic.
    • There was better stuff on TV, too - especially the cartoons. Also, I could have watched TV on my DS using one of those special Game Paks, as we hadn’t quite switched to digital yet.
    • Furthermore, the TV ads were actually entertaining, and we had more PIFs.
    • The internet was more fun.
      • YouTube was fair and funny
      • Flash games were still a thing
      • Vine was just around the corner
      • There was so little advertising and tracking everywhere that I didn’t need to bother with my über-hardened web browser set up. Hell, I could probably have made do with something like Lynx or NetSurf and not missed out on any content.
    • We were still in the Rage Era of memes, which I would say was infinitely superior to the MLG Era.
    • Everything was cheap a couple of years after the housing crisis. You could buy shower gel at Tesco for just 2p.
    • We were still in the EU, which was nice.
    • Chester Bennington from Linkin Park was still alive
    • David Bowie was still alive
    • Betty White was still alive
    • Steven Hawking was still alive
    • Avicii was still alive
    • Prince was still alive
    • The Queen was still alive
    • Obama was president
    • Mojang wasn’t owned by Microsoft
    • Windows was, in my opinion, an alright OS
    • iPhones could be jailbroken and apps sideloaded more easily
    • @I_Miss_DanielEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      Pifs?

      I only know them from the '90s as Program Information Files on Windows 3.1

      What are they in your context?

      • Hellfire103English
        4•9 months ago

        Public Information Films. Essentially the British term for PSAs.

        My YouTube / PeerTube channel is an archive for them: https://spectra.video/c/randomwolf

        I like them because, until I was old enough to watch the real thing, these were as close as I could get to horror films. They can get pretty scary, especially considering they’re warning about real things (as opposed to monsters or fictional murderers).