• Chad McTruth
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    if you were born after they unleaded the gasoline you just cant realize how much worse it tastes now

    • @db2
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      Genx here, the only one of these worth a shit is the channel 3 one (not pictured) and even that one’s getting tired.

      The hose ones are even worse though, kids have drank from them since hoses were created and continue to drink from them now. Imagine thinking you’re clever for gatekeeping water. 🙄

    • @[email protected]
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      Parents do it all the time: “You can’t possibly understand love until your own child grabs your finger and smiles.”

      I don’t need some crotch goblin to understand love

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    That’s stupid.

    I was born when all those things were the norm and I could appreciate how the great technology of my youth (yes, that stuff in the photo) was compared to that of my grandparents’, whose car had plain glass windows and no seatbelts, and who bought canned music on wax cylinders. And yet I never knew those things.

  • @JeeBaiChow
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    Figures. All the gps data in the world and the idiots on the road still can’t figure their exit, cut across 3 lanes to reach it, or realize they’ve passed it, slam it into reverse and move against incoming traffic to get back to it. Seriously. The most connected generation in human history can’t think themselves out of a goddamn box. Rant over, now get off my effing lawn!

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      To be fair, GPS apps have some limitations that can cause this at times. I’d love it if an early voice alert could tell me if an exit is on the left or right side of the highway or how the exit split is organized way in advance of it happening.

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    Those window opener crank thingies sucked, but I miss knobs and dials. They might look dated now but they were actually rather convenient. Touchscreens are annoying as eff to multitask with. There’s so little you can do on a screen without looking. Of course we weren’t multitasking quite as much in those days, so just when we started to need tactile controls the most, they were already gone.

  • Nate
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    These were all “before my time” and I grew up using them. It’s called being broke

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    I think usually people that experienced older technology are less likely to appreciate newer ones.

  • @Lauchs
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    Maybe fully appreciate isn’t quite the right phrase but there is something to having been forced to do things a worse way that helps you remain constantly grateful for the improvement.

    Eg…I went from walkmen to cds. Holy God that was so much better, even if the first few players were pretty bad. I still chuckle when I think about my effectively unlimited access to almost all the music I can imagine vs fast forwarding to get to the song I wanted, if I was lucky enough to have the right tape on hand.

    Oddly, off the top of my head, I’m not sure the most recent generation of younger adults (say, 18-25ish, whatever the “basically grew up w smartphones” generation is) have had any similar groundbreaking changes beyond AI which uhhh, isn’t super popular here. Some stuff has improved (graphics etc) but off the top of my head I can’t think of something that’s really solved a constant annoyance. (I imagine fully autonomous vehicles would be another similar tech leap.

    • @[email protected]
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      As I recall, portable CD players skipped a lot. Not sure if they ever fixed that, I went straight from cassette tapes to MP3 players. Now those were a real game changer.

      • @Lauchs
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        Oh yeah the first ones were pretty bad for that. But once they figured “anti shock” iirc they were good enough to play from my jacket pocket while walking around.

        Mp3s were absolutely a game changer. I bizzarely had a cd player that could handle regular cds and cds with MP3s and spent a couple days copying over a few cds worth of mp3s before I spent a year abroad.

        And for all that, I bet you also appreciate the shit out of having all music all the time in all the places.

    • @Mickey7OP
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      Wondering if before I die there will be holograms generated by smart phones for internet browsing, texts, face time phone calls

  • @tfw_no_toiletpaper
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    Ok grandpa 😂, none of these items have been relevant (aside from the record player for enthusiasts, and for old second-hand cars) for 2-3 decades

    “You cannot appreciate cars if you did not witness horse carriages” ass post

    • @teamevil
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      crank window handles are awesome.

  • @[email protected]
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    I’d probably travel without phone assistance for a nickel and a pack of gum, sounds fun to just explore without being hindered

    Yeah… As long as it’s a big city (min. 3 Million) and has touristic spots