" frankly , the unfitness to perfect your portraits was kind of a godsend . hoi polloi were more likely to look like themselves . "
It’s no secret that the older you get, the more nostalgic you feel.
Well, Reddit useru/guyute2112recently posed thequestion, “What existed when you were a child that doesn’t exist now?” And there were so many great responses! Here are some of the top-voted answers:
1.“The freedom to be a kid without being influenced by the internet and having your worst moments immortalized on it.”
— u / PckMan
" So many things I recollect that I implore no one else does . "
— u / karmagod13000
" I sense bad for shaver today . There was so much awkward clobber that occur when I was a teenager . I would n’t have require all of it caught on camera . "
— atomic number 92 / Minimum_Diver4514
2.“Actual toy prizes in cereal boxes.”
— u / Tarantulas_R_Us
" Man , getting RollerCoaster Tycoon from a Lucky Charms box seat was the peak of our society back in the early 2000s . "
— uranium / StolenValourSlayer69
3.“Playing outdoors without supervision and just returning home once the sun sets.”
— u / New_me_old_self
" I would just grab my bike and join up with the gang in the neighborhood . We would hinge upon all over the place , go where we want , and do what we wanted . Basically , we were the child fromStranger Things , albeit with a lot less paranormal activity . "
— u / sick_economics
4.“Getting off the phone so someone can use the internet.”
— uranium / GeorgeSAndersona
" Getting off the internet so someone can use the earphone . "
— u / MulleDK19
5.“Multi-colored ketchup.”
— u / Chandysauce
" My nephew be intimate the stuff and nonsense . Made me buy the gullible ketchup to run through his chicken nuggets with . Months later , I was making a meat loaf and needed ketchup so I picture why not ? The meat loaf taste heavy but appear so disgusting it was impossible to eat . Like neon green , greasy mold . "
— u / BrianMincey
6.“Affordable housing.”
— deep_space_rhyme
" Meanwhile , your dandy - grandparent trade a goose for a four - bedroom farmhouse on 30 estate in 1960 . "
— u / IandIreckon
" No joke , this will be a thing before long : just like they have those 429 accounts to initiate financing college from nascency , parents will start save for their kids ' first house . "
— u/2PlasticLobsters
7.“Phone books. Every once in a while, one would just show up at our front door.”
— uranium / MauriceSNavarro
" In middle schoolhouse , we could seem up our puppy love or bully in the book and just prank call TF out of them . "
— u / deltronethirty
8.“Those coin-operated rides outside grocery stores and Kmarts. They basically gave you a mild jostling for about a minute.”
— u / JammyJacketPotato
" Oh humans , I had n’t even realized that they were travel until I read it , LOL . "
— u / KittensArmedWithGuns
9.“Card catalogs at the library.”
— uracil / BillowPillow8
" I neglect these . I can feel the library around me just thinking about them . As a kid , I felt , I do n’t know , importantknowing how to do this . Somehow , seeing and touch all those little circuit board and knowing each one represented a existent book was tremendous . And those cabinets confine a bit of magic , I opine . I would make out to have one someday . "
— uranium / Tacoma__Crow
10.“KB Toys.”
— u / guyute2112
" Toy stores in general . It ’s mostly Walmart , Target , or Amazon now . "
— uranium / DoucheyMcBagBag
11.“Privacy. Back in the day, the only way someone could know what I was up to was if they physically followed me. Now, my smartphone does that for them.”
— u / Little_Addendum8926
" Remember when someone would render to call you , and if you were n’t plate , they were just out of luck ? omit that . Now , folks get offended when you do n’t give them your immediate attention . "
— u / Chanandler_Bong_01
" There were three path to reach someone : 1 ) Call their house and either leave a message , or get prosperous and they are home . 2 ) ( mommy only ) Stand on the porch and call theirfullname around 9/10 p.m. 3 ) bonk where they hangout and block off by . "
— u / Kiyohara
12.“Blockbuster.”
— u / SlavicScottie
" If they audited all of us , Blockbuster could have the slap-up comeback in United States story from late fees . "
— u / RawDogEntertainment
13.“A phone number you could call that just told you the time and weather.”
— u / WrongWayCorrigan-361
" Or movie screening time . "
— u / Funwithagoraphobia
14.“Restaurant smoking sections.”
— u / zoesweetbaby
" Airplane smoking section . "
— u / karma_dumpster
15.“Phone booths.”
— u / WasabiWorth1586
" I saw one the other day and got all worked up . But there was no speech sound inside of it , so it was just Superman ’s interchange room . "
— u / perrinoia
16.“The high beam switch in your car was on the floor by your left foot.”
— u / NorthernH3misphere
17.And finally, “Taking pictures with film cameras and waiting for them to get developed until you could see how bad you looked.”
— u / cinnamonolivia
" Honestly , the inability to hone your portraits was kind of a gravy . Now , it ’s awfully unenviable to have a ' speculative photograph ' contact societal media , but between 1991–1999 , I was blinking in 50 % of photos . People were more likely to seem like themselves in photos , too . "
— uranium / mackahrohn
take note : Some response have been edited for length and/or pellucidity .
