Canned croutons
My local mall
Video Stores
Value Meals at fast food places being under $8 in my area. They all are $11 now
Being able to buy a candy bar for 48 cents plus tax.
Nearly everything. The only modern things I care about are HD home video, HD video projectors, digital cameras, PCs, and the internet. I actually like the look of pictures taken on film (35mm or larger) a lot better, but it's expensive, time consuming, and far less convenient.
shareAn entertainment message board site where a topic could receive 100 posts in an hour, like what we had at the Entertainment Weekly site as part of Time Warner’s Pathfinder conglomerate of message boards for its various magazines, e.g., People. I’m not exaggerating. Titanic was out. LA Confidential was out. Seinfeld was ending. There was no woke or tranny bullshit. We had strict, articulate and intelligent Mods. Politics were verboten. I miss all of that.
Clean air, tuna, Taiwan.
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My wallet.
shareThe 90s☹️
shareMovies and music seemed more long term and more important. Now they both seem really disposable.
shareComputers with cd burners. I have a chromebook now, and can't burn CD's for my car. I have 4 left, and all of them are very scratched.
shareill bite, what 4
shareI assume you're just referring to computers without built in CD/DVD drives? You can actually buy external/portable CD drives for your laptop, and burn your CDs on there. Options like this one are pretty cheap and convenient:
https://www.amazon.com/Rioddas-External-Portable-Rewriter-Superdrive/dp/B07DLRG9VH/ref=sr_1_4?crid=Y7NZM5M6KR0R&keywords=external%2Bcd%2Bdrive%2Bfor%2Blaptop&qid=1646634067&s=electronics&sprefix=external%2Bcd%2Bdrive%2Bfor%2Blaptop%2Celectronics%2C84&sr=1-4&th=1
It was definitely nicer when those drives were built right into the computer, but the external ones get the job done just as well.
USB CD-burners are still available, and cheap.
shareCars you could work on in your own driveway without giving a mechanic $75 an hour plus parts
shareEh, but fuel injection and ECU was a God-send. Eventhough I can't do anything about it, but it still beats constantly needing to fiddle with carburetors.
The worst thing about new cars today is the infotainment system. One part failure and it's done. Everything would break and you basically need to buy a new car because fixing it would be more expensive than the car's value.