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I don't want to change back, but I still thought it added a sense of adventure, and having to be actively involved with the navigation gave you more awareness of where you were and where you were going. Now you just slavishly follow instructions and then some hours later you are there.

Like, we drove to Austria last summer and when we came back my dad asked me: so did you drive over Stuttgart or Nuremberg? And I honestly didn't know.

Its a shame because it is something I am actually really good at, and now it's a completely useless skill!

I wish I could not work in an office

Great, reading this while listening to the radio, huge stereo wall, Onkio tuner, FM antenna in the attic, coax cable trough the house,... I have a constant quality and yes, internet radio is a tad better, but the biggest issue there is the delay. When you have radio in multiple rooms, the different delays are a use sourec of irritation. Also my wife finds the sount to harsh witn sattelite radio or DAB.

As long as FM is available, I'll use it for radio. When it's end of the road for FM, I'll switch to my own collection. (And in the car, no alternative to FM, CD of cassette)

I still listen to the radio in my car even though I have Bluetooth. My car is an older model and there are times when it will stop auto connecting and I'll have to connect it again. So, I'd rather just listen to the radio

I seriously wish I could disable the radio in my car. Nothing worse than accidentally turning it on and being blasted with an obnoxious commercial or overplayed pop song.

You remember portable CD players before they had a buffer cache? Couldn't even keep them in your pocket without skipping like mad.

I still love CDs, but don't miss vinyl records at all. I grew up in the original vinyl era and was very happy to no longer have to bother with a big and unwieldy format which is physically degraded during every play and which you have to tiptoe past the player to avoid making it skip.

It was glorified then, before that is what normalized which it much worse.

I still remember passing by "the pit." That was the section where the high school kids were allowed to smoke. It was outdoors, but they always left the doors open. I needed to pass by to get to class and hated the stench. So I'd hold my breath. But the crowds were always slow so it was a game of "will I be forced to breathe the stench, will I get by in time, or will I pass out?"

Almost everyone I see mowing is still using gas. Not sure that's out of style/can be considered something that people could have nostalgia for.

Younger me would have been kind blown about a 500mb hard drive.

Agreeing with that. Man, remember having to rewind the thing when you were done so the next watch was ready? Or realizing that it wasn't rewound when you wanted to watch it and having to do it yourself?

Or thinking that you were about to watch a certain movie but someone taped over top of it? Good times...

Lost opportunity to use “filament” over “fiber”

Yeah but they were particle accelerators that shot electrons towards your face at relativistic speeds (the phosphor grid and lead lining made use more pleasurable). That's just too damn cool.

Yeah, you used to call a location. Now you call the person. It's so much nicer.

God I used to hate phoning girls houses and their parents answered. Especially the first time after you just got their number.

Wow. I feel the same. For me school was always a place of competition. There was just studying and rarely did we get the time to play together with classmates. It was full of fucking idiot teachers who lacked basic humanity and would start beating you up if you failed to solve the questions they asked or make you kneel down for 40+ minutes on the floor. So yeah school was nothing to long for. Btw this was in India.