I wish stuff worked… without an online account, without a subscription, without disregard for UX, etc.

Not only that, but something we have is our old stuff from back then, and it just works.

I like it because its more durable and efficient than the ones today, one pair of pants now lasts 2 weeks whereas the ones form when i was a wee nutcase i can still wear nowdays. Same goes for cameras (god dammit sony)

If you don't mind me doing some late night ramblings probably a bit of both. Sure, some of this skewed rose tinted glasses from being a kid with not care in the world until like 2015. But there are somethings that feel different now.

There's this tendency toward simplistic and minimalist design ...

IMO the tech was superior. It wasn't all designed to to include a big funnel to aggregate and abscond with your personal data. It was possible to be anonymous because there weren't a buttload of content networks, free service providers, & other types of shady corporations (or the government) working ...

Spikelets, kandi, loom bands, rubber bracelets, robo dogs, usable cameras, teen friendly spaces (nephews are always stuck inside) and probably less cars. I have my reasoning for some of this but it can mostly be summerised as "all my friends have incredibly depressed younger siblings or i see kids ...

I like it because its more durable and efficient than the ones today, one pair of pants now lasts 2 weeks whereas the ones form when i was a wee nutcase i can still wear nowdays. Same goes for cameras (god dammit sony)


this is true. this is why i only buy used clothes from thrift stores if i ...

I haven't read through the whole thread yet but I wanted to add, god I want translucent housing on electronics please! Or hell color! I miss Neon Green cases for my desktop and laptops. Yes, I know the black, and silver, and the grey can look good (I do own a m2 macbookpro), But man I miss color in ...

I don't really know how to explain this feeling, but 2000s techs for me carry this idea of "tech is fun", an ideaful vision of a technological bright future but still in union with humanity, when brands dared to try a lot of differents tech design, some of them were not pratical or quite useless ...

i think it's a bit of both
i'll be honest. my relationship with tech in the 2000s wasn't healthy either. but at least that unhealthy usage was less common. nowadays it feels like everyone has social media addiction or a youtube addiction or a discord addiction or what have you. i miss when media ...

I have rather mixed feelings about internet nowadays : at the same time internet is now more accessible for everyone, we can access easily to a lot of differents medias and ressources in differents languages, and the fact you can be able to be connected with people around the world is something ...