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>You were part of the last generation which didn't grow up with smartphones
How does this make you feel /g/? Do you think having a smartphone when you were younger would've made your life easier?
I don't see how having a portable tracking device with me as a 10 year old would've made my life any easier.
I think it would have been even worse. Having Internet on my home already ruined my life, can't imagine having Internet on the go as a kid.
>>51929277
Easier for your parents
>>51929254
I thought the younger generation would be all about pirating and not spending money because they would be more savvy but they aren't.
They buy even worse shit than I did. Fucking coins for mobile games and that skylanders bullshit, it's some of the most shameless jewing I've ever seen. They are much dumber that's for sure and having access to all the knowledge in the world is to blame.
Even for christmas all my nephews want is that fucking skylanders shit.
>>51929316
If you think the Skylanders is ridiculous, there is a new LEGO toy "Dimensions" that is the same concept
They sell a 1-figure pack, which contains 1 minifigure and a small vehicle (like 25 pieces), with a NFC chip in it for..... $26.99.
>>51929410
>pokemon cards
>yu gi oh cards
microtransactions have always existed.
and they were never good.
they just seem worse more than ever because they're fucking everywhere now. from videogames to shitty toys like lego
>>51929254
More like
>you were part of the first generation to grow up with smartphones
I used to believe the next generation would be much more tech savvy and I would do my darndest to keep up with them. But I would also be happy that my kids would grow up with a higher technological level of understand than I could.
Since the smartphone has become ubiquitous, that thought has died. Kids nowadays almost know nothing about the tech they use. They're functionally retarded in that regard. I am happy I grew up without smart phones desu
Teenagers don't know shit about technology. They use Android 2.3 on their smartphones and Packard Bell laptops are their most powerful machines. It's a shame really.
>>51929254
I still don't have a smartphone or a mobile...
>You were part of the last generation which didn't grow up with the internet
It's good being able to look back and appreciate one of the best inventions of modern times.
The bigger tragedy is there are several generations of children now that have no idea what it feels like to push a video cassette into a VCR.
>>51929254
>How does this make you feel /g/?
GOAT
>>51929254
>Do you think having a smartphone when you were younger would've made your life easier?
Probably the opposite. It might have poisoned my perceptions into thinking all there is to the internet and computers is exploitative micropayment apps, 140 character messages, walled gardens and consuming media. You can't create anything on a smartphone except dick pics.
>>51929316
Don't forget how they go out their way to defend blatantly cancerous anti-consumerist practices as well.
Society is becoming a glorified ad machine. Soon that dystopian future that google guy imagined is gonna become a reality
>>51929495
Same here. Actually that was the general thought everyboyd reflected back then. Take old sci fi movies and how they depicted everybody as engineers and with technology knowledge deeply rooted in their lives. Then you look at the people today and how they can't even find their way even though UIs have never been more watered down than before.
>>51929609
upboated!
>Born in 1989
>Have had nothing but smartphones since 2004
However in my defense back then smartphones weren't any more a case of "The NSA In Your Pocket" than dumbphones.
>>51929254
>Time flies
not fast enough.
i want off this gay earth already goddanmit.
>>51929609
The biggest tragedy is there are several generations of children now that have no idea what if feels like to read stories on a 40lb stone tablet.
I wish we had evolved technologically like we're doing but kept that cool and naive 90's mindset instead of this glorified corporative dick sucking and having the amazing thing known as the internet becoming a machine to exploit retards into consuming products they don't need.
>>51929835
>instead of this glorified corporative dick sucking
>implying you didn't beg your mother to drop a months salary on the newest nintendocast by some megacorporation.
>>51929896
Nigga I was born in brazil. Piracy is my only mother. There's no such thing as wanting to spend money.
I agree on the fact that the younger gens feel overly dependent on their tech, a lil bit too much. Take their phones away for more then an hour and they go ballistic.
>>51929835
>a machine to exploit retards into consuming products they don't need
Rather nice description of /g/ at it's current state.
>>51929913
Fellow brazilian. I literally could not count how much money I saved by pirating stuff.
>>51929926
>Rather nice description of /g/ at it's current state
Indeed.
>>51929254
>not tracked by my parents to see when and where i was skipping school
>not having every type of porn at my fingertips at a moment's notice during adolescence so i actually found sex with women enjoyable and a goal that was worth achieving
>actually engaging in face to face communication practices instead of depersonalized text-based communication through fucking lolspeak facilitated social integration
>not having been made a walking target for thieves
yep... feeling breety gud about it
>>51929913
Nigga I was born in Latvia, there's jokes about how poor we are. Yet I seem to recall the corporate-shill part of technology was still in full effect. The "naive 90's mindset" is just your childhood nostalgia speaking.
>>51929979
>The "naive 90's mindset" is just your childhood nostalgia speaking.
No it's not. Information wasn't widely available as it is today, technology as we know it nowadays was basically a myth and even the media reflected that. As they say, art immitates life and vice versa, it's the reason why nowadays dystopian depictions are all the rage because art is just reflecting the current mindset, whereas before up to they very 60s you'd have blatant optimism instead.
>>51929254
My family got a new computer in the late 90s. I spent most of my time hogging it. We had high speed internet (back in the day i think it maxed out at like 30 kb/s which was far better than dial up). I had access to porn among other things.
Shit, this generation isn't even that much different. We just have these retarded phones now instead of awesome computers that weigh a ton and if you go way back had sort of sketchy power supplies that could shock you if you plugged stuff in wrong.
Not much has changed, but every breath you take takes you closer to your last. Use your time wisely.
I only just got a smartphone this year. I was holding out on dumbphones for a long fucking time. When I finally got into them, what I found was a cross between amazing hardware and the worst software and OS I've ever seen in my life. I'm pretty sure I'd be turned off computers for life if I had to deal with iOS's playskool interface, Android's insane datamining and lack of control over what runs in the background, and dumbphone's general uselessness.
>>51930014
Enough dystopian media in the 90's still. But I'm starting to see what you mean, perhaps we're just speaking of cultural differences by now. I'm out.
>>51929410
LEGO has always been expensive as fuck.
>>51929254
>be 17
>Only me and 2 more kid's in school had computers
>in 1996 on of them got internet
>exchanging floppy's full of porn
good days
>got internet in my home in 1998
>first cellphone in 1999 age 21
please kill me
>>51929979
desu that picture should've just said "cheese" instead of "cheese instruments"
>>51930243
it's referring to a /g/enius using paperclip as cheese cutting tool though.
>>51929254
>generation
you are what you think. I don't attachment to any particular generation. I have always been doing things my way which confuses people around me.
So I don't have to bear the burden of a group of people doing stupid shit who just happen to be my age.
Never allow your identity to be rooted with any race/religion/culture/group, it suppresses your authority to be an individual.
>>51930217
>floppy's full of porn
you could barely store a boob in one
>>51930265
that aint cheese
>>51930327
ASCII porn was the shit.
>>51929470
>tfw yu-gi-oh cards were the biggest shit in your middle school
>tfw EVERYONE had there own deck
>>51929254
When I was younger I had to be forced to get a mobile phone to keep in touch, so no. If anything it would have made my life harder because it would have made it harder for me to separate shitty school life from less shitty normal life.
>>51930217
As someone who used a 486 with a monochrome monitor and 50 floppy discs to install Windows 95, I am glad where we are today technologically.
People get nostalgic about the old days, not realizing computing was hell back then and due to advancement of internet, information for troubleshooting and learning is easily available anywhere on your smartphone.
100 years from now, some old faggot will be reminiscing about the glorious smartphone era with social media and apps being the best shit ever.
>>51930327
more like 6 or 7 pic's
sometimes just a 3 second porn clip
>>51929759
>Soon that dystopian future that google guy imagined is gonna become a reality
Link?
>>51930721
I don't have a link to it because I don't save arbitrarily specific shit like this, but someone here might have. Basically he said that google's dream or something like that was to turn ideas themselves into commodities with a market value and he talked about a hypothetical scenario, where someone merely thinks about something and in his mind/vision an ad with the exact product to satisfy his needs pops up. I don't remember the exact words but it was literally nightmare fuel.
>>51930752
this is what happens everytime i watch a porn and think the girl should do something... and then she does it...
it's just a coincidence right? or am i crazy for thinking something else is afoot
>>51930752
Damn son, that is scary.
Asked for link because googling "google guy dystopia" gave me no results, thanks anyways.
>>51930809
You're a transexual individual. You think like a girl so naturally what she's probably gonna do next matches what you think because subconsciously that's what you wanted to do yourself.
well achchually I had a sidekick so I was ahead of the curve :)
>>51929254
I would have discovered porn a lot faster
>>51929254
When I was a kid, old people used to think I was smart and good with technology. I wonder what I'll think of future kids once I'm old. It sure looks bad right now.
IMO technology makes smart people smarter and dumb people dumber and it's really that simple. I hate the word 'smartphone', the thing is dumb as a bucket and designed for a dummie. There is absolutely nothing smart in there except the jew who gets the money.
>>51930721
>http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/google-glass-given-mind-control-powers-9596708.html
>http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/21/are-you-ready-for-the-impending-google-glass-dystopia-4793540/
>https://pando.com/2013/05/25/google-glass-in-10-years-the-view-from-dystopia/
>>51930327
Most peoples screen resolution was 640x480 to 1024x786 in the mid 90's. You could fit enough to squirrel away for happy time.
>>51930367
>there own
Yu-gi-oh sure made you a retard.
>>51929254
I wish there was a way to keep smartphones away from all children. Its disturbing to see even six year olds glued to smartphones.
>>51931270
Absolutely.
>watch kids come out of school
>heads down
>no conversations
>no laughter
Call it nostalgia but for me it looks creepy.
>>51929824
Then fucking kill yourself you faggot
>>51931320
if you kill yourself you don't go to heaven.
>>51931338
How do you know? Only one way to find out.
>>51931338
lel
>>51931022
this
>>51931338
>anno domini current year
>still believing in primeval fairy tales told by people who cleaned their butts with their bare hands
>>51929609
>several
chill bro. only if you were born after 1998. Literally 1 generation
>>51929470
Trading card games have real economies that work with real money. You can actually make the cards make you money. Where as the games now a days send your cash into a black hole.
>>51931422
I was born in '97 and had a VCR until I was 6-7; heck, I still have it today. Granted, I come from a middle-low class family, but this reddit-tier nostalgia is getting ridiculous.
>>51931443
Don't tell me about it. I made 4~5 times as much as I spent when I sold my Legacy UB Reanimator deck.
>>51931415
Descarte pls
We thought you were the chosen one who would bring Empiricism to Christianity
>>51930327
We had much lower standards, and you pretty much never delete any porn even if you don't like it. Because of how long it took to download.
>>51931415
>>Cleaned their butts with their bare hands
Their European Christians, not Indians
>>51929254
>im from the commodore era
>had to use the data set among other monsters just to play a simple dolan educational game for a few minutes.
>now kids just do a few taps and done.
>i had to read books about how to operate shit and even improve it (like the first time with DOS or even windows95).
>now everything is sealed and piss easy.
game was pic related, but i didnt had a color tv to see colors untill DOS.
>tfw i prefered 4 colors because 16 colors were to realistic wannabe and liked a more cartoonish look.
>>51931217
this.
i used to had a bunch of 640x480 256 color images in a floppy.
The biggest tragedy is that kids these days will never have experienced privacy.
They will never know what it's like to live in the moment, without a constant stream of memes and epin youtube videos.
And the saddest thing of all is that their imagination will be stunted as a result. They won't be able to cope without their digital opium.
>>51931338
Reckless endangerment, anon.
Doesn't count as suicide but doing it's bound to get you killed.
>>51929254
for fucking, yes. It was like shooting fish in a barrel fucking around chicks you met online. today you have a fucking app that let's you quickly search sluts aroud you.
being a horny teenager I would probably would fucked around more bitches. Besides that social networks and the whole new wave of internet users are disgusting and fucking useless.
Still is fun to pick up some random cuties online while you take a shit. Flying cars? fuck that, this is cool.
>>51931590
*They're
>>51933114
Tinder only works if you're good looking though...
>>51932928
Lol, youre being a little dramatic, dont you think?
>>51929314
Easier for the future me
>>51932928
>kids these days will never have experienced privacy
This is quite horrifying. They don't know what the word privacy means. It would be like explaining light to someone who has never seen light. Born slaves.
>>51929470
>tfw your parents never allowed you to have yu-gi-oh cards
>being a good boy so I never bothered
>actual girl gifts me some deck for my 10th birthday or whatever
>have no idea what to do with them or how to play
>ask friends but they can't explain it for shit and were probably playing it wrong anyway
>throw it in the trash
Oh well...
>>51933578
no loss. yu-gi-oh was shit.
But a smartphone barely makes my life easier right now.
We have easier payments, better communication options now, but it is barely better than phones pre touchscreen.
If I grew up in a time before any phone at all, it might be different but I wouldn't say it would be all that bad.
Being adult when computers were at its infancy set the bar a lot lower for what could be seen as useful.
>>51929495
Every generation of computers users is less skilled than the previous. People from the earliest times of electronic, digital computing had to know the system literally inside and out. Then you go to the 70s with things like home computer kits and accessible programming languages, then the 80s when computers started to become more commonplace in normal peoples' lives along side even more accessible programming languages. By the 90s computers were simple enough for normal people to use, by the 2000s they were even more simple to use and eventually worked their way into everyone's pocket in an extremely dumbed down form factor. And here we are today. You don't need to know anything about your computer to use it. It's only going to get worse as times goes on.
Here are a few quotes that I heard yesterday, both online and off:
>Blockbuster was a place where you rented movies. This was back before Netflix existed.
>VHS tapes were like DVDs, but bulkier and you had to rewind them
>Encyclopedias are what we had to use before google
What's the oldest age where this kind of stuff is considered new information? I'm 20 years old and I remember living through this stuff, but people still talk to me like it should be shocking news.
time flies when you're a faggot
>>51929254
If everyone else also had a smartphone, yes.
>>51929254
dumb frogposter
>>51933819
>but people still talk to me like it should be shocking news.
iktf what the fuck is going on
>>51931517
If you're born after 1995 you are reddit by default.
>>51933819
>Blockbuster was a place where you rented movies. This was back before Netflix existed.
Are you fucking kidding me what
I was still renting movies in 09
>>51931415
>Believes he evolved from a rock
Don't step on grandpa in the driveway faggot.
I got my first computer in 2006 and Internet in 2010. I am 23. Such is life in India.
>>51933816
>It's only going to get worse as times goes on.
How can it possibly get worse? There's already zero understanding of what's going on inside a "smartphone". Kids today don't know what a file is, yet they use their phones all the time.
I would've probably been dumber and even less motivated, but I probably wouldn't have had the massive disdain for social media that I do, and as such would have had a much more successful social life with a rich circle and a girlfriend.
>>51929609
the next generation wont even know what it feels like to put a cd into the tray and close it.
>>51934907
Because there will be a point where people won't even think about the fact they're using a computer to do something. Some aspects of our life are already like that, such as driving a modern car.
>>51929609
>The bigger tragedy is there are several generations of children now that have no idea what it feels like to push a video cassette into a VCR.
>>51934993
>>the next generation wont even know what it feels like to put a cd into the tray and close it.
this is irrelevant. our parents were probably lamenting the fact that we didn't grow up with vinyl records or (for those slightly younger than me) film photography. Good riddance - the fundamental task is still the same (listening to music, taking a photograph), it's just now done differently and easier to accomplish. And those that are into it can still poke around with the old stuff if they want.
What *is* a problem is that we have a generation that has been trained to have, and expect, zero privacy, and to be okay with this. Google, Facebook, and the NSA will have a complete record of their lives, essentially since birth.
>>51935133
We're already on that point. I don't think "kids today" even know a smartphone is a computer. How could they? It takes a certain amount of interest to find out what a computer is and how it works.
As for modern cars I think the modern man is like a woman of the 50's. In the 50's women used to drive cars without any understanding what makes them move, steer or stop.
I think I have some understanding how a modern car works, hybrid or electric. It's all about the thirst of knowledge that seems to be missing these days. Reading any magazine about cars makes me feel I'm reading a women's magainze.
The difference between cars and computers is, that it really doesn't matter what makes tha car move. To use a computer wisely you absolutely need to have some basic understanding of what a computer is.
>>51935460
>Film photography
That never died out though. In fact it's objectively superior in many ways to many DSLRs (the first that comes to mind being better dynamic range)
>>51935959
>The difference between cars and computers is, that it really doesn't matter what makes tha car move. To use a computer wisely you absolutely need to have some basic understanding of what a computer is.
Not really. Most people, including people with important jobs such as doctors and and scientists use computers all the time without really understanding them. It's not really a bad thing either.
>>51936049
I didn't mean highly educated intelligent people. Even then doctors and scientist use computers only as a memo and maybe for some job specific tools.
>>51936049
>It's not really a bad thing either.
Well it's not so bad until your sexually transmitted disease is publiced to the whole world and nuclear weapon plans are put available for ISIS.
>>51932928
>The biggest tragedy is that kids these days will never have experienced privacy.
This is the scariest thing, and it isn't even just today's kids - I'm 22 but have been using the internet since I was 5, and people my own age who only started heavily using the internet on smartphones already have no sense of privacy. When I tell them that some service they use mines information or give them advice on how they can do what they want without giving so much information away, they just look dumbfounded and ask why anyone would even want to limit the information they put out. It's going to be increasingly difficult to advocate for privacy to a population that has never experienced it.
khanacademy.com would have made my life a lot easier if i had that when doing math.
>>51935460
>Didn't grow up with film photography
How's 9th grade going for you? You're a big high schooler now!
>>51929254
>Do you think having a smartphone when you were younger would've made your life easier?
Lol no,I was autistic back them and still am now.
It would only have made it worse.
>Do you think having a smartphone when you were younger would've made your life easier?
I don't think so. I'm also not convinced getting a smartphone has been good for me in the first place. Now I get nervous if I don't have something to read or look at or occasionally direct my attention to. And I have more sleep problems which could be a result of using the phone at night.
>>51929254
>Do you think having a smartphone when you were younger would've made your life easier?
Smartphones haven't made my life any easier today, so I doubt it. Had one for 4 years now and still don't see the point of them. When it dies, I'm switching back to a dumbphone since it does everything I use the smartphone for anyway.
>>51929316
>I thought the younger generation would be all about pirating
Fucking this. At one point during the mid 00's everyone pirated, it was the most common way to do things. Now people would rather spend cash on netflix and spotify.
>>51929254
Smartphones won't last for ever. They are way too flawed.
>>51936750
How is that bad? I like normies financing my free media.
>>51936812
It means that people are dumbing down again. Its not hard to get things for free but people continue paying for things because its the least bothersome path.
>>51931270
As disturbing as seeing your 19 year old son not banging girls, wasting his fun years and spending most of his time watching "Annie Mays" and playing computer games.
Not pointing any fingers here.
>>51930359
>you will never fap to erotic teletext ads ever again
Dem European feels...
>>51934444
checked
>>51936852
>dumbing down
>hurr durr anyone who doesn't steal ist just an idiot
maybe they aren't flithy communists like 90% of the piracy community
>>51937096
>flithy communists
Did you forget to take your meds grandpa? Its not the 1970's anymore.
>>51929809
Yes they were, since they were cellphones. Cellphones have always been trackable thanks to triangulation.
>>51937146
>all this "DUDE FREE SHIT LMAO" and "420 SHARE IT FAGGOT" bullshit isn't communism.
Many copyright opponents actually are politically far left.
>>51937200
Getting things for free is actually law of the jungle. It doesn't nothing but strengthen me, allowing yourself to be cucked by jews is for faggots like you.
>>51937200
No it's not.
Lo and behold, the spoils of american education.
>>51929254
Why is the catalog full of frogs? Go back to reddit
>>51935974
Hey /p/-bro. I am an avid analog photographer too.
Do you develop your own rolls or nah?
>>51937660
I never shot film. I suck at photography however and gave it up a while ago.
Sorry to disappoint.
>>51929477
Lol no, I'm 28 and I was 19 when the first iPhone came out.
>>51935974
Can promise you film has worse dynamic range than DSLR and Mirrorless cameras.
>>51937842
Yeah, high end professional DSLRs. APS-C shit won't compare to film.
>>51929495
this its hilarious
>>51929609
Sony's Betamax or the Regular Vcr tapes? Which is the superior?
>>51929495
they are like apes learning how to open a jar
i wish there was a way to remove tech from people who didn't understand it
>>51929254
No, I hardly use my smartphone now.
Stop feeling sorry for yourself and get some productive shit done.
>>51929254
>>You were part of the last generation which didn't grow up with smartphones
I was part of the generation that didn't grow up with color TV.
Living in the future fucking never gets old.
>>51937200
>Many copyright opponents actually are politically far left.
Extremism is extremism. Any extremist is the enemy.
>>51929254
This isn't /b/, memeshitter. Get lost, and take your meme garbage with you.
>>51929254
>implying im not 12
As always you segregate made up "generations" by having access or not to certain technology that you arbitrarily decide is "too good", Read: you are still a scared little child unwilling to figure it out. You are dumping quantum bullshit on "kids" who may be smart but you expect them to know some old deprecated garbage.
Jesus fucking christ on the cross, /g/ is chock full of 30 year olds psuedo-horny for old tech that they remember the "adults" of their childhood saying was so great and now hold onto nostalgia that isn't even theirs, like holding onto THAT makes them older. And if being old is good in the first place.
Do you realise, that by doing this technology segregation, you are becoming the new old people that you probably shit on for not knowing basic parts of how to use a computer?
>Just hit the start button on the PC, and-
>BACK IN MY DAY BLAH BLAH BLAH
>Just open up settings on the phone, and-
>BALFALKJKRAAARR I DIDNT HAVE THIS WHEN I WAS A KID, BACK IN MY DAY etc etc
I guess I must be really unique in this regard of still being willing to learn and grow past 25. I'm not curious about everything compared to when I was a kid, but when I actually set my mind on one thing, I'm certainly about 50 times more focused and can account for much more shit than when I was 7.
I see how people flip anal shit over when kids they come into contact with don't know why the save button is "a mysterious disk looking thing". Except if you actually remembered how shit floppies were, you would be glad that kid you meet doesn't know. I remember when I got my first 32MB flash drive in 2004 and was more than happy to say goodbye to floppies that we were still using.
yes it's me and I fell for it again. anyway, Nostalgia is soooooooo fucking cancer, it doesn't do shit but make you the new old people. Technology gets better, you're just being a bitter fuck holding onto garbage just like old people YOU hate for holding onto different garbage.
>>51936750
Personally I use netflix because a) Logging into netflix and going about my business is often far less messy than pirating whatever I'm going to watch and b) I can easily give my normie friends my netflix password if they want to use my account and watch something, whereas being the technophobes they are they'd be weirded out if I went to their house with a external hard drive and a HDMI cable.
Fuck spotify though.
>>51940923
Also, for all the talk about judaism in this thread, netflix is only ten bucks a month for the single-screen plan.
>>51940996
>single-screen plan
Please tell me this doesn't mean what I think it does.
>>51942034
It means only one dude can stream from your account at a time, which is all you should reasonably need.
>>51942327
It means you unironically support DRM.
>>51942380
What?
Think really hard about what you just said. Take a good five minutes thinking about what hosting a legal, extremely popular streaming service entails and the potential ways it could go wrong.
>>51942445
>memeposting
Streaming is DRM, no matter what you have convinced yourself to believe.
>>51942475
Ah, so that's what you're talking about. See >>51940923
And it's ten buck a month you cheapskate. It's not like I'm breaking my back on menial manual labor in order to pay my exorbitant Netflix bill. Ten bucks is worth the convenience it brings to my daily life.
Any Australians here remember the glory days 3 years ago, when we would buy shit from Amazon, and it would come out cheaper than the USD price. Fuck those were such comfy times, I always thought I should buy more while it lasts, but our dollar just kept getting stronger, and I waited
Now I buy something for 1.5k USD and end up paying over 2 grand
Probably worse t b q h
We would be pretty shit, i mean look at the twelvies today
>>51935460
Actually I still remember buying film, taking photos, then having it processed
I also remember one trip where my dad took so many photos, then I was playing around with the camera later, and opened the film compartement, but knew this was bad and closed it without telling my dad. When we got it processed, the photos were all whitewashed
Born in 1979. Here are the things I grew up with but are obsolete now:
Rotary phone
Public phone
Walkman, cassette tapes
VHS, VCR
MSDOS
Floppy diskettes, big ones and small ones
Computers without OS. You have to boot with the floopy disk
386 motherfucker
Dial up modem (still remember the noise)
Game & Watch
Fax machine
Pagers
Brick Alcatel mobile phones
I love u virus
Dot matrix printer
>>51942986
my dad is 70 and we used to have a rotary phone in our house. it was neat but it wasn't used for anything because it's retarded
>>51929254
>tfw a Nokia N900 looked great 8 years ago
>>51942756
Those days are truly missed.
>>51934097
Don't lie to yourself like that. More like 1985. The reddit archetype are early Gen-Y fags. The prime demographic of vocal fried nu-male pansies that treat Star Wars as a religious experience.
>>51929809
>smartphones from 2004
>smart
>>51940860
10 out of fucking 10. This nostalgia shit and juvenoia is emotional masturbation. These chucklefucks don't get that being old to remember the NES doesn't make you interesting, it just makes you old.
>>51930881
2spooky4me
>>51929316
back in the day people were a lot more savvy and know your way around the internet but now every dumb motherfucker is online.
>>51929254
>Do you think having a smartphone when you were younger would've made your life easier?
hell no. would have to behave totally differently if i knew my childish antics were getting filmed by enemies and shared all over the net.
>>51940860
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>>51929759
"nod to acknowledge you saw the McDonald's ad and continue watching TV"
Kill me now
please report frog posters
>>51935460
This 110 fucking percent.
>>51936750
You're missing the point. People pirated because there was no better alternative and / or they didn't want to rent the movies or pay for a music CD.
With the rise of internet speeds, things like Netflix became viable and much more convenient to use instead of pirating, so the majority of normal people simply switched.
>>51947912
please report "please report frog posters" posters
>kids today don't know how their computers and smartphones work
That's a good thing in that it means technology is much better
It's also a bad thing because it also means people now don't bother trying to fix shit by themselves and simply pay retarded amounts of cash for companies to fix stuff they could fix for free at home if they bothered to learn some basic shit
tldr technology good, jew companies bad
>>51942475
there is literally nothing wrong with DRM as long as you aren't a communist freetard
>>51936750
Who actually pays for Spotify? The free version is perfectly usable. Just change songs manually to skip the ads.
>>51929254
Thank god we didnt have them as kids. So many retard moments wouldve been on camera
>>51940860
I agree there's a lot of stupid nostalgia ITT, but
>Technology gets better
Not always, no.
Just look at Windows 10. Pretty much no improvement whatsoever, just a whole lot of data mining and ads.
Also tablets are inferior to regular computers in almost every way, but clueless kids want the shiny tablets they see in the ads.
>>51943446
Yeah being old enough to tell stories about WW2 doesn't make you interesting either huh
>>51942986
I still use a dot matrix and floppies at work.
