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Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies
And yet, you must admit that Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for a reason! At least for the phrase The Times, They Are a-Changin', which perfectly embodies the ruthless flow of time. And indeed - just yesterday something or someone was literally on everyone's lips - and now it is already in the past. Just like Dylan himself...
But old Bob is still with us, and there are things that have disappeared completely without a trace, although it would seem that only yesterday they worried our minds and were of interest to the whole world. And this viral thread in the AskReddit community is dedicated to just such things. So please fasten your seatbelts, our time machine is about to dive into the misty depths of the past...
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Fireflies aka *lightning bugs. I live rural and I used to see hundreds on a warm summer night. Now I get excited if I see just one. I mentioned it to other people who live in the same area as I do and they were just like "Huh. Yeah. You're right!"
Some of the things you'll find in this Bored Panda selection have lost their meaning simply because the phenomena they were directly associated with are gone. For example, telephone booths - just because there is no more need for street pay phones. Some have moved into the category of museum exhibits simply because they found a replacement - like video game cartridges. And some are still with us, but we do not pay the same attention to them as before.
I never see swarms of Monarch butterflies anymore.
We traded our monarch butterflies for billions of people that we don't need.
Places children and teenagers can hang out without supervision
Thanks to the wrong people! Edit: I meant obviously your there supervising but not watching them like a hawk every second, like I have had to do with my son because I was terrified of anything happening. My comments get taken way out of text people.
For example, postcards. Back in the '90s, postal services around the world sent millions and probably billions of postcards for festive occasions... and for no reason at all. But communication standards have changed several times since then - and who would think of waiting a whole week for a postcard when you can just call and see anyone's face on Zoom? Postcards have gradually become an anachronism - although you will agree that getting this small modest piece of cardboard with handwritten (another anachronism, isn't it?) words is still damn nice.
Those coin-operated rocking horses you used to see in front of grocery stores.
By the way, have you noticed how we gradually forgot how to write by hand? Moreover, with the spread of voice messages, even the skill of typing is gradually losing its importance and significance. And still, nostalgia is not the same as grumpy lamentations, as it was good before. In the end, in the years of my student youth, when we had to take notes a lot, I would have literally sold my soul for one of the voice transcription services widely available nowadays...
Having many Family photographs in homes.
Not completely gone, but homes used to be plastered in them. The only times I really notice them is in homes of older people.
Be that as it may, times are changing, and we are changing with them. And yes, for the first time this phrase was uttered back in the days of Ancient Rome, and it cannot be said that all the innovations of humanity since then have been to its detriment. So please feel free to scroll this list to its very end, enjoy this slightest touch of nostalgia and be sure - the best is yet to come!
Longevity in careers – this is a big one nobody seems to have said.
Longevity in careers has largely gone away. People used to get a job and after being there for decades reap the benefits of being seasoned employees (higher salaries and better perks).
Maybe it’s because I work in the Entertainment industry, but I feel that longevity in careers has gone away. Meaning, people can be amazing at a job, but after 5+ years the employers start wondering if they could be doing better with a younger/cheaper candidate for the job.
I understand if you ever want to move up in a works place they expect you to bring your A-game, but 30+ years of being incredible is hard. Some years will be better than others, and if employers don’t have loyalty to their employees anymore, it is likely the good employee will be fired or let go at some point.
I feel like in recent decades this has forced many people who normally wouldn’t, to switch careers. Can someone work successfully up the ladder at any job without having to shift to another company for a promotion?
A combination of employers halting upward movement of their staff while they look for new employees to fill higher roles, and the fact that they “get bored” of their seasoned employees has largely killed the idea of anyone having a single career.
The magnetic tape from a crushed audio cassette blowing across the sidewalks and roadways.
Phone books
Phone books !! I never had a personal phone book at one time I could remember like 20 different numbers .. Now I have a hard time remembering mine... the only number I still remember is the old time and temp number and it shut down in 2018 😞
Walmart opened for 24 hours.
As someone who works overnights I miss that so much. It was so nice to get off work and go shopping without my kids. Especially at Christmas/birthday time
Epstein's client list
There’s some rich people who are very nervous about that……… time to spill the beans.
my favorite illegal streaming websites
I miss the days of being able to watch a new movie before it even comes out in theaters. Terrible quality but still lol
Custom ringtones.
(obviously I know some people have them but we somehow went from virtually everyone having them to almost no one giving a s**t.)
I don't know anyone who Doesn't have them, save for my one friend's work provided phone.
Most people don't. I once saw a tweet or something that said "if your phone makes any noise at all, you're a million years old." (I am, apparently, a million years old, but since my phone is primarily a clock and music player, I need an obvious alert on the rare occasion someone actually calls me.)
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My phone lives on vibrate. I have no idea what my ringtone or notifications sound like off of vibrate mode.
Right? If my phone actually rang I wouldn't know it was mine
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How else do you know who's calling from your pocket. I have the cliched haunted house organ music as my work ringtone 🤣
I have Wipe Out on mine. I don't normally have my ringer on, but I was at the library waiting to hear how my out of state friend's surgery went when all of a sudden there's the maniacal laughter & someone saying "wipe out!" I apologized to the librarian, but she was too busy laughing.
Or having a 'burn' phone and that number programmed in to your partners phone with a special ringtone of a loud fart...and calling them at work.
I do have custom ring / notification sounds on my phone but it's a holdover from about 4 phones ago. (Just migrating my profile whenever i get a new one.) I haven't heard them in almost a decade though. Phone is always on vibrate or silent (and notifications just sync to my watch anyway.)
I have one, my brother has one, my dad has one (a recording of me singing two decades ago, assigned only to my name on the phone). My mum doesn't.
Nobody is gonna stop me from using the Doctor Who (10th Doctor) theme song as my ringtone Nobody!
My phone lives on vibrate but I have my mother's number marked as an emergency bypass so it will ring when she calls, even when my phone is on vibrate. She's living by herself now that my father passed and I wouldn't be able to live with myself if she needed me and couldn't get through. That's the only reason I know that my ring tone is the theme song from the Bubble Bobble video game lol. Also, custom vibrations are amazing. I have ones set for my brother, for each of my closest friends, and for my boss. Anyone that I need to identify without having to actually look at my phone.
Mine is the slowed down, creepy, sinister string version of Toxic by Britney Spears that plays during the opening of the third act of Promising Young Woman.
Excellent film, and excellent rendition of Toxic. Take my upvote please.
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I’ve also noticed this. Apple made it hard to pirate music onto your phone to do this with.
Just drag it into the library folder on your pc its not hard at all lol it thinks its stuff from discs
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Yes being able to cut and snip whatever you wanted it and making it a ringtone/text tone
I turned the ringer off permanently years ago…just vibrate is all I need.
I didn't have much space on my flip phone, but I shuffled me ringtone between 3 or 4 REM songs over the space of 12 months
I have an older model with an ariel (fat black thing about an inch high)!
What has actually gone away are all those obnoxious commercials for ringtones. But I did change the boring standard ringtone to "Epona's Song" from the Legend of Zelda games :)
my phone pushes you to just use a song from spotify or 'your library', but i miss when i had a windows phone (yes we existed XD) and there was an app that had crowd-uploaded ringtones. i had the star tours chime for texts. Took ages for me to find that again. I also had a lot of other tones that I just can't find anymore. :( I miss when phones were more customisable. I miss when everything was more customisable.
Ring tones, period. Most people I know have their phones on silent or vibrate at most, and are just used to checking it frequently. I'm not even sure what current ring would sound like if I turned the volume on.
You can’t get decent ones anymore. It took me a while to find one.
It’s not that they don’t care, you can’t get a decent one. It took a heck of a lot of searching to find one that wasn’t some irritating electronic pop or stupid phrase.
Looking at this picture, what I miss is not having to carry a charger or power bank around.
I worked in healthcare for years and was in the on call rotation, so if I wasn't already there my could ring at all hours of day or night. If you missed a call your a*s would get chewed six ways to Sunday. Plus, as an added bonus, you had to make sure you stayed local and not more then an hour outside of work in case you had to go in and couldn't handle things over the phone. That is one thing I REALLY don't miss about that job!
You make your own now, lol. Doesn't get anymore custom than that.
My custom ringtone is Intermission by Tool. My husband had tons of custom sounds for incoming messages from different people. That's quite funny and so quite genius.
My ring tone is the Futurama intro, breaking bad intro and a clip from final fantasy.
I did until I was in a public restroom and the part that said "call the police!" (It was Help! Stuck in a pocket!) played as someone walked in...🙈
I can go months without hearing my phone ring. Everyone just texts.
I don’t even want a phone anymore. Work wanted to be able to keep in touch so they gave me one.
I have a custom ring tone. And a custom sound for each family member when they text.
Mine was the intro to plastic beach by gorillaz for some time until I got my new phone.
We used to be able to actually compose custom ringtones on the old nokia.
I've had the Harry Potter theme as my text ringtone since they started making custom ring tones.
Harry Potter was only a book when custom ring tones came out.
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I actually now get second hand embarrassment when I hear an actual song as someone’s ringtone
We're in the process of full size can of Arizona teas for $.99 disappearing.
I'm seeing a lot of places starting to carry the smaller plastic bottles for $.99 or the larger plastic bottles for more. I'm honestly surprised that they've lasted for this long at the same price.
Postcards.
And not just in the usual places, like museum gift shops and tourist traps.
There was once a time when you could buy at any truck stop or roadside motel a postcard of the small town you were driving through. But not anymore.
No point when you can just text your friends a photo.
Newspaper machines at random corners
Cigarette machines outside of stores & sometimes next to the gumball machines in store entrance. And the gumball machines were 1 cent for a handful of gum/candy or 5 cents for a plastic "egg" with some kind of toy in it.
TV bumpers. There used to be a little sequence between the show and commercials. Some of them were really interesting and creative. I think my generation remembers the "wand IDs" on the Disney channel (where a Disney celeb would use a wand to make the logo). There were also bumpers that were PSAs or other actual content.
Edit: yes I watched THAT documentary on YouTube. It's amazing. Everyone go to Defunctland's channel and watch the one on the Disney channel jingle. Just trust me. Don't look up spoilers.
"Ringback" tones or "CallerTunes". Where you could assign a song to play when people called you instead of them hearing ringing.
Lobster tanks in grocery stores! Not that I particularly want them back, but those are nostalgic af
People fainting when something unexpected happens. And people carrying smelling salts for just such an occasion. It’s so 19th century…
Blimps, helium is expensive and drones can do some of their missions.
Sobe drinks.
They still exist but not in the same numbers. Also they only have like 5 flavors now.
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"Punch buggy. No returns" Does anyone still do this whenever they see a Volkswagon Beetle?
Some body down voted you I brought you back to even because it's true .. with the change of dog food to be healthier there is less bone meal meaning less calcium so as the 💩 dries it does not turn into a white glob of calcium rich excrement... And now you know and knowing half the battle G.I.Jooooooeee ( the other half is violence, orphan and widowmaking violence)
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Unrelated but once my dad went to a gardening type of store to by coconut husk for our urban worm farm and the cashier was acting like a high person and said “you know, it’s legal to grow w33d here in Canada, right?” In a very, very excited voice…
#43 - Crop Circles. For decades they appeared all over the planet by the tens of thousands... And then... Surveillance cameras began appearing on poles around fields. Suddenly crop circles faded away. Not because aliens are camera-shy, but because the real sources - mathematically talented pranksters - could no longer do their thing without getting caught. Nearly everyone in my family swore they were signs from aliens and some still insist it, saying the aliens now work in politics. LOL
Yeah, the culprits have admitted how they do it.
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Very true, often lingers then fades as if it were never once there.
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Now that's a good one, I had completely forgot!
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Check out people bagging your groceries. Give me a discount if I have to do it myself
That's still very much a thing here in South Africa. I can't think of a single shop that requires me to bag my own things. Most actively discourage customer bagging since frankly the staff are much better at efficiently bagging groceries.
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A physical owner's manual for appliances, large and small. Now they want you to download an app instead. I don't do apps.
All the appliances I have bought still have them. Maybe it's country or only higher end ones that use an app?
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I'd like to add T9 texting. I liked being able to text without looking at my screen. XD
No, I can't. If I click twice it just undoes it (is undoes a real word?)
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I still see it every once in a while, actually probably only once a year or two now I think about it.
Load More Replies... "Punch buggy. No returns" Does anyone still do this whenever they see a Volkswagon Beetle?
Some body down voted you I brought you back to even because it's true .. with the change of dog food to be healthier there is less bone meal meaning less calcium so as the 💩 dries it does not turn into a white glob of calcium rich excrement... And now you know and knowing half the battle G.I.Jooooooeee ( the other half is violence, orphan and widowmaking violence)
Load More Replies... Unrelated but once my dad went to a gardening type of store to by coconut husk for our urban worm farm and the cashier was acting like a high person and said “you know, it’s legal to grow w33d here in Canada, right?” In a very, very excited voice…
#43 - Crop Circles. For decades they appeared all over the planet by the tens of thousands... And then... Surveillance cameras began appearing on poles around fields. Suddenly crop circles faded away. Not because aliens are camera-shy, but because the real sources - mathematically talented pranksters - could no longer do their thing without getting caught. Nearly everyone in my family swore they were signs from aliens and some still insist it, saying the aliens now work in politics. LOL
Yeah, the culprits have admitted how they do it.
Load More Replies... Very true, often lingers then fades as if it were never once there.
Load More Replies... Now that's a good one, I had completely forgot!
Load More Replies... Check out people bagging your groceries. Give me a discount if I have to do it myself
That's still very much a thing here in South Africa. I can't think of a single shop that requires me to bag my own things. Most actively discourage customer bagging since frankly the staff are much better at efficiently bagging groceries.
Load More Replies... A physical owner's manual for appliances, large and small. Now they want you to download an app instead. I don't do apps.
All the appliances I have bought still have them. Maybe it's country or only higher end ones that use an app?
Load More Replies... I'd like to add T9 texting. I liked being able to text without looking at my screen. XD
No, I can't. If I click twice it just undoes it (is undoes a real word?)
Load More Replies... I still see it every once in a while, actually probably only once a year or two now I think about it.
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