Insects. At night there would be plenty of insects under every singe street lamp. The windscreen would be full of yellow goo after driving in summer.
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Snow. It used to last the whole winter and not just 2 days here and there.
Of course the amount of insects drastically reduced, but for the windscreen there is another thing to take into account: Cars today are extremely aerodynamic. Even new Jeeps and the F150s are aerodynamic. Because of this, the insects are pushed away from your windscreen instead of against it, which is one of the main reasons why your windscreen isn't full of insects anymore.
The only real exception to this is the Mercedes G-Class, but I doubt that a lot of us will ever sit in one
Edit: apparently I'm wrong: https://feddit.de/comment/8318194
This is a myth and has been debunked.
The survey of insects hitting car windscreens in rural Denmark used data collected every summer from 1997 to 2017 and found an 80% decline in abundance. It also found a parallel decline in the number of swallows and martins, birds that live on insects.
The second survey, in the UK county of Kent in 2019, examined splats in a grid placed over car registration plates, known as a “splatometer”. This revealed 50% fewer impacts than in 2004. The research included vintage cars up to 70 years old to see if their less aerodynamic shape meant they killed more bugs, but it found that modern cars actually hit slightly more insects.
didn't know that!
You could only watch cartoons after school or on Saturday mornings.
If I wanted to talk to someone who wasn't in the same location as me, I had to know the ten digit number assigned to them.
If they were in the same city, you only needed 7...
Once a person left the house, you couldn't reach them unless you know where they will be and called that place.
It is now safe to turn off your computer
To continue installing a game you had to type in the 7th word found on page 16, paragraph 3 on line 4.
Huh? What does this mean?
wheel that came with monkey island
http://www.oldgames.sk/codewheel/secret-of-monkey-island-dial-a-pirate
Old anti piracy measure.
Games were on floppies and could be copied trivially. Games also came with a printed instruction manual. If you bought it, you'd have the manual. If you're just playing a copy you wouldn't. So type one word from a specific page so we know you own the game.
Driving long distances to places you had never been before usually involved books of maps, pre-planning, a navigator, and help from strangers.
and help from strangers
And my father always refused to ask for help, so we got lost and then when he finally had to admit it, my mother asked someone and my father pretended it was all her fault ... (not so) good times.
Games used to come with books to read, and their anti-piracy measure was to give you a page number and tell you to enter the first word on the page to activate the software.
Of course, you'd copy that floppy and write the code word on the label for your friends.
Using two VCRs to edit a video project for English class.
I referred to Jennifer Connolly as Stifler's mom and this zoomer gave me a blank stare.
Using pencils to manually rewind cassette tapes.
IRQ 5, DMA 1
BLESSED THE DAY PLUG AND PLAY WAS INVENTED
I don't know what exactly that means but I know there was no sound without it. Guess I'm slightly younger.
Tamagotchi and a Walkman with skip protection
Disk 13 of 18
GOD-DAMN windows installation
When you turned the TV on you had to wait a minute for it to 'warm up'. The black and white image would slowly emerge out of the darkness.
And then it made that "warm up" sound, like a "klank!" Or something clicking inside the tv
I remember when printers would print without being sassy & extortionate.
Big caveat, printers have always been unholy hellish abominations that sense your fear and exploit it right before delivering that so important THING you need to print
Using floppy disks in grade 2, then dvd+r in grade 4 and finally flash drives in 6+
That seems an odd progression. I used 5.25" floppy disks from grade 3 to grade 6, when I switched to 3.5" floppies. DVD came around my final years of school in the mid 90s and USB flash drives didn't become widespread until the early 2000s, when I was already at uni. I remember Star Wars Dark Forces being the first game I got for my first DVD drive and that came out in 1995. I got a DVDR the next year with money we stole from the school. Me and two friends shared one DVDR because they were still so expensive.
I would probably be old enough to get this line if I had grown up in the place where video games worked on channel 3...
My jpeg stopped downloading cause my roommate picked up the phone.
Internet you could hear, literally.
When you bought a thing you owned it.
That physically hurts and now spans across a lot of basic product categories, not just software - looking at you, Audi, BMW, HP and Tesla
Buying the car kit so I could connect my CD Walkman (with 15 second ESP) to the cigarette lighter and cassette deck in my first car.
I still have and use that cassette adapter, but my car is from before 2000
- Receiving junk mail Internet CDs
- Waiting patiently to record a song you liked
- Setting the clock and a timer to record something on your VCR
- The planet Pluto
- Wax lips and candy cigarettes
- Tang
- Translucent electronics
- Cheat Code books
- 1(800) COLLECT & "00 it's magic!"
When I was 2 or 3 year old our Family had a VCR. I still remember watching Popeye using VCR.
I remember VCRs being mind-blowingly cool new tech. Only rich people had them. And colour TV. Who can afford that?
Macdonalds and burger king Pokemon toys were actually of decent quality
Let's listen to this radio station play an unholy noise for about 30 minutes, record it in a cassette tape, and play the game recorded in those BAUD BOIS