“Today Vs The Good Old Days”: 23 Things That Changed And You Decide – For Better Or For Worse

When you start getting older you appreciate the ability to enlarge the font and the backlight.

I read "global access" to mean the internet. I'm not giving that up just to avoid social media.

Unfortunately, shopping in store is becoming more difficult as stores are disappearing :(

Although neither.

I like making cards for people. It's more personable and appreciated. I find texts are fair-weathered and passive. But can appreciate a text as someone has thought about it enough to care to reach out.

Depends on who it is. I love longer calls with my boyfriend. I would like more quick texts from others.

Depends on who OWNS the news...

I used to know our neighbours. I miss hanging out with people next door. But not all of them made good friends.

There was something about the anticipation of waiting and then talking about the episodes with your friends at school. The episodes became immortalized and memorable. I've binged watch shows and I gotta say, I felt exhausted and near nauseated once I got to the later seasons. A couple of episodes a day I can do. But then I have to take a break and move on to something else. I follow a youtuber that does rewatches who uploads an episode once a week, whenever she's up to it. It's nice. Then I can watch other stuff in between.

If I went to a midnight movie at my age, I'd fall asleep waiting in line.

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General knowledge shows have gone down hill recently, seemingly catering to the lowest common denominator. The only general knowledge show I like is called Pointless, which is shown in the UK.

Pros and cons for each ones. Personally, I need to a smartphone just to find out what time the bus comes, and many other things. But I would love to have a less fragile phone.

Radio usually plays the most mainstream music or the classics. With a music platform you're probably gonna find a wider variety of artists and genres

I don't like to listen to the radio. All that talking, publicity, more publicity and almost no music.

Nah, I like how it is. Although, I never went by the radio to discover new music. All that played was the same songs on repeat multiple times a day. I used to use Much Music to find new music. That's how I discovered Delerium and Holly McNarland, among many others. I've discovered even more music, stuff from the 90s and early 00's online from recommended music based on what I already like.

Radio plays the to 10-15 newest songs on repeat, mixed with excessive ads and DJ interjections. Streaming platforms have a vast supply of songs, and I can pay a small amount to never hear ads.

I'm into some very strange micro-genres that the radio would never play. Dreampop, Electroclash, Acid Jazz, Triphop, Filk, Italo-Disco, Bardcore, Synthwave, Vaporwave, Retrowave, and more that I can't even think of right now. Zero chance you'd hear any of that on the radio. That said I do prefer human curated playlists.

I would like to take this opportunity to tell people to listen to the Small Faces (of Itchycoo Park fame) song The Universal.

Again, neither. A playlist will only give me similar music that I already listen to. While radio is a steeping pile of dung that might have something nice. Honestly I prefer grabbing an amv playlist about a show I like and listen to what other people liking the same show like. Found a few bangers I would have never bothered to even look at cause I don't respect the artist.

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YT has a very good algorithm in my opinion. I don't even have an account, I can't like or subscribe to anything: the automated playlists are only based on what I'm listening to at the moment. Those playlists are always very nice, I got to discover several artists through them. It's very different from SF that'll make you listen to whatever cr*ppy artist they're being paid to push forward regardless of what you like - they're hoping you'll pay the outrageous price for Premium just to be able to skip those songs. (Also, as far as I know, artists also benefit more from YT than SF.)

I've been collecting LPs and CDs for over 40 years. I'm not stopping now!

If only I had kept my encyclopaedia Brittanica from when I was growing up in the 60s😂

Is hard for me to find clothes that fit. When I do, I didn't want them wearing out after a few washings.

Both. Certain printed photos are precious and nice to have in a non-digital form It's also more likely they'll be looked at more often than digital photos. But I have a ton of digital photos that are very nice to have but which I don't need in a printed form.

I prefer buying them at the thrift store I work at.

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I was way too shy and anxious to flirt with someone that may or may not be interested in dating. Online, I could at least assume they're looking.

Are we in a make believe world now where the bot actually solves the problem??? Why are all these worded as if the physical is somehow for showing off or inconvenient or doesn't work?

I don’t give a Rat’s A$$ about “celebrities”.