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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

CDs and DVDs and (video)casettes. Took up so much room, annoying to use while travelling.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (4 children)

CDs are great though :( I love that I can rip them and back them up, play them wherever I go, no licences or streaming. :)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Quality was also very low. Nostalgia blurred our memories, watching/listening that stuff today is wild.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

CRT screens and incandescent lamp.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Having recently played some retro games on era appropriate hardware, I'm actually a little sad CRTs are gone.

Obviously they were heavy, hard to manufactur safely, and were filled with toxic materials, but man are they like the perfect anti-aliasing tool for retro games. I'm sure some good filters exist to replicating it on newer monitors tho.

Overall tho I am glad both of these things are no longer the defacto used tech.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Orkut, Flogão (kind of a precursor to instagram, it was mostly used by high schoolers around 2004-6), Skype, Internet Explorer and ActiveX

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I kinda miss Flash because of the amount of interesting games made with it. Some very cool animations too, good thing Ruffle exists nowadays.

The problem (besides Adobe buying Macromedia) was every fucking business deciding to make their entire sites in Flash

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Phones with dials.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Not to parrot everyone else but, Smoking for sure. The damn smell.

Another is probally lead based products. Such a health risk and was so pointless

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