We also got to see the rise of the Internet and the home computer revolution, as well as smartphones later on. We are the last ones to know what the world was like before all that. When you had to bike your ass to the local library just to look up a cake recipe, and “please allow six weeks for delivery” was the standard.
Anyway, does anyone wanna play Pogs? I got some cool new slammers here…
“if the Tamagotchi doesn’t grew into adult in 5 minutes, i don’t want to do nothing with it”
I miss the old days of intenet when youtube didnt exist. When gmail was still beta and giving away invites…
Go back just a bit further to the days of AltaVista and I’m good. When it was still possible to store an entire website’s markup and its images on one floppy disk. When people were running servers out of their basement and jumpstarting the early web.
Edit: The Fediverse certainly has that 1996 “wild west” feel to it though, I gotta say. We’re just missing webrings and ugly-ass tiled backgrounds.
I did a bunch of school works when google didn’t yet exist. It was a wild ride searching obscure sites and finding information in green webpages with lots of blinking texts and colors. Had to borrow the 5 cds encyclopaedia from a friend to get any historical information for some works. Wikipedia was barely starting and having info there for some things was amazing.
Damn days of downloading a random mp3 file 128kpbs quality of 3.4 MBs that took 1 or 2 days with computer turned on all night long.
don’t forget smartwatches and the beggining of vr with the Nintendo virtual (word forgor)
I’m glad I wasn’t born in the ww1/2 generation.
I’ll take economic and ecological collapse over trench warfare any day of the week. I get to type this critique in air conditioning, while those dudes drowned in shell crater cesspools just trying to take a shit.
Not to discount how horrible our future will be. At least compared to what our ancestors went though, we’ve got it good.
You have a point. At the same time, the silent generations kids, the boomers, lived through every technological breakthrough, on times of huge economic growth. Also they owned cheap house, had almost free tertiary education and a better labor market. Lastly they had access to banking dept and never woried about the environment. Now they are reaking all these benefits and while they fucked around for us to find out.
There was very little trench warfare in WW2. Unless you’re talking about the trenches for the death camps. Those were some really big wide trenches.
They were ubiquitous, it just didn’t produce stalemates because armies didn’t rely solely on artillery and human waves to break through.
They were still used because they still worked against poorly supported infantry.
Still are used, look at Ukraine.
Obviously the comment was mostly referring to WW1 but there were many battlefields that would have looked very much like their WW1 counterparts until some tanks or air support showed up.
Or even simpler things that people take for granted, like antibiotics, which weren’t discovered until 1942 and weren’t widely available until 1945. Can you imagine how awful things like strep throat or a minor infection were to deal with before penicillin.
Hate to break it to them, but the worst is likely yet to come.
Don’t worry, we’ll let you become Americans. How does the state of North Montana sound?
That is surely one of many issues. Some localized like water, and some will be wider like food shortages. All avoidable, but somehow not.
Once water gets too scarce it will no longer be a “localized” problem. It’s necessary to survive and it traded as a commodity.
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I feel lucky to have bought a house in the sliver of time that I had when things lined up perfectly. Fuck
You should feel lucky. I am never going to own a home. Granted, I’m disabled and so broke my Internet is gonna be cut off in 36 hours, but still. Ain’t never gonna be a chance for me. My grandmother was able to buy a house by herself while raising two kids. My mother bought a house when she was 24. I’m 31 and gonna die in a cardbox box that I rent for $1800 a month.
$1800/month? That’s fucking insane. Look in to community living groups. I was turned on to it while I was in school (at 35 🤷🏻♂️) as a cheap option while I went back. I know we’ve all had room mate horror stories, but there are people out there who are willing to co-operate and work towards having a home.
Four years on and now I’m running the house (it’s just a rental with lots of rooms) and we have a great group of 5 that’s been together for over a year, including a 9 year old. (Most of us have been together 2 years now, we had a housemate leave amicably last summer).
I’ll admit the first two years were kinda rough. It took me a bit to recognize the red flags I needed to - and to build up the courage to be able to say “no, you wouldn’t be a good fit” to people I’ve known for years. I had some dramatic experiences trying to find the right people, but we’ve got a nice home now and we each pay around $600/month for a whole-ass home!
It does take work; physical, mental, and emotional, but saving $1200/month is worth it. You’ve gotta be able to communicate your needs respectfully and be able to look at yourself and acknowledge where you need to improve to be able to get along with people.
The rewards are worth it. We all work less now so we have weekly dinner and D&D and movie nights and it’s really quite nice. We still bump elbows from time to time, but we all know each other well enough now that it’s easy to solve conflict calmly.
The $1800 was an exaggeration of what I expect to happen. But I am in an apartment that isn’t cheap. I’m screwed either way
Not even a joke, I miss the time when a virus was our biggest concern. That may be insensitive to people who had friends or family die because of it or who live in a country with shitty access to vaccines or health care in general though.
It’s awful but I get it…
I’ve got CPTSD so I’m always stressed and sort of over-preparing for things to go very very wrong. When the pandemic hit, all of those preparations came true. I was expecting the worse and here it was.
Was the only time in my life, at least in the past 15+ years, that I actually felt somewhat relaxed. Then the prices of everything went up and I got stressed for way different reasons.
