What's something you miss/ are glad about nowadays?

[sweepstakes]

3 hours ago, ambermonke said:

As it so happens I found a new artist on Bandcamp last night. Problem solved.

Who's that?

[manmower]

Glad about: the internet is completely awesome, the list of things it has democratized is endless. It's given a voice to a lot of people you'd have never ever heard from even 25 years ago, so I feel like it must have accelerated a lot of societal change.

And I wish I'd had Wikipedia, YouTube, peer-to-peer networking,..., everything on demand in my childhood, this was the stuff of dreams back then. I'll take the internet over flying cars and self-lacing Nikes any day. Imagine sitting around waiting for a song to come on the radio so you could tape it to listen to (or at least the 2 minutes of it they'd have played, lol) at your convenience.

So much of the world seemed almost mythical back then. Like you would hear or read about stuff and never get to experience it, because you were completely dependent on what was on radio and tv or in (reasonably) local stores and libraries. Or worse, never hear or read about it in the first place, because it never made it into your small world, and you weren't the outgoing and adventurous type who made an interesting new friend every other day.

Last year I started playing guitar again after a 15 year break and it made me properly realize how much of a struggle learning was back then compared to now. For every lame-ass influencer or glorified gear demo channel there is another providing genuine help and insight. It's a far cry from sitting in my bedroom trying to decipher photocopied Hal Leonard books.

Miss: Journalism has really gone downhill. Bias has always existed, but news used to be delivered in a much more matter-of-fact, impartial way here. News anchors didn't make the appropriate faces to show you how to feel back then, lol. Watch an old news bulletin from the 90s and compared to today's news it feels like a well-researched, verified in-depth documentary narrated by a speech synth. These days it's a 24 hour cycle of emotions, opinions and sound bites that does more bad than good. It is spectacularly shit and seems unsustainable, really.

[ambermonk]

4 hours ago, sweepstakes said:

Who's that?

Akeyamasou

[YEK]

17 minutes ago, ambermonke said:

Akeyamasou

Gesundheit!

[ambermonk]

44 minutes ago, yekker said:

Gesundheit!

くしゃみ助かるありがとう

[dingformung]

こんにちは

[cwmbrancity]

Impending nuclear annihilation.

Soviet dictators and the Stasi (no offence @dingformung). Kim Philby (sp?) and establishment traitors.

Being blown up by the IRA.

Mumps.

Cardiff City being in Division 4, losing to towns you had no idea existed.

Flares.

NHS dentists.

Maggie Thatcher’s cabinet of fools.

The first wave of vhs rentals, chipping in with your mates to see Time Bandits on Betamax.

Tomorrow’s World.

 

Edited January 31, 2021 by cwmbrancity

[dingformung]

15 minutes ago, cwmbrancity said:

Soviet dictators and the Stasi (no offence @dingformung).

You miss Soviet dictators and the Stasi? I do take offence at that.

[zkom]

 

[Thu Zaw]

I'm resurrecting old threads cos I'm new and I missed out.

I MISS

- Living in Asia, before knowing the West as I do now

- Life before smartphones

- When naïve people weren't interested in politics

- the excitement I had finding new music as a teenager

- independent record stores

Edited May 9, 2021 by Thu Zaw

[ambermonk]

8 hours ago, Thu Zaw said:

I'm resurrecting old threads cos I'm new and I missed out.

I MISS

- Living in Asia, before knowing the West as I do now

- Life before smartphones

- When naïve people weren't interested in politics

- the excitement I had finding new music as a teenager

- independent record stores

This is actually quite relatable