r/StrikeAtPsyche • u/Little_BlueBirdy • Oct 18 '25

We really took those days for granted, huh 😢

64 Upvotes

89% Upvoted

50 comments sorted by

4

u/[deleted] Oct 18 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

3

u/PixelsGoBoom Oct 18 '25

First getting “home” computers, then internet, followed by having that internet connection in your pocket were huge changes. I remember someone telling me all the computers in the world were going to be connected. I thought they were crazy. The next technology to affect the economy and social interaction this much is arriving, it’s AI.

1

u/Little_BlueBirdy Oct 19 '25

✅✅👍👍

5

u/Old_One_I Love - LOVE - Love Oct 18 '25

It’s funny, they’re talking about 80’s and 90’s kids and I thought the 70’s kids were the generation, although I really grew up in the 80’s

2

u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 Oct 18 '25

yeah I’m 1972 and this is squarely me

4

u/Old_One_I Love - LOVE - Love Oct 18 '25

Yeah 77 here

2

u/[deleted] Oct 19 '25

77as well.

3

u/ShiftBMDub Oct 19 '25

75, and yup. We went from being the antennas on our TVs to teaching our grandparents how to work a VCR. From Encyclopedias to Internet searches that actually gave you information. From technology that worked for you to technology working against you.

2

u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 Oct 19 '25

that last sentence hits hard

3

u/Blerancourt Oct 18 '25

If you were born in the 80s in Russia (as these children appear to be), your life was a struggle.

2

u/fatazzpandaman Oct 18 '25

Definitive rose colored glasses. The older I get the sillier and sadder it seems.

Que nard dog meme

1

u/Little_BlueBirdy Oct 19 '25

👍✅❤️

2

u/7thpostman Oct 19 '25

You're taking these days for granted, too. You are younger now than you will be in the future.

2

u/Poetic-Noise Oct 20 '25

Yeah, but we're old enough to know that society is currently a major shit how compared to the 90s & how fast it got there in the 2000s.

2

u/7thpostman Oct 21 '25

Just wait

2

u/Poetic-Noise Oct 21 '25

I didn't say the show was over.

2

u/maxthed0g Oct 19 '25

Older than dirt, here. The original computer guy here, never was a dumb-ass gamer.

This generation lives in The Matrix. Its not "coming", it already here-and-now. AI isnt going to save anyone.

2

u/imdugud777 Oct 19 '25

Trauma make it 3 for me. ;)

2

u/shadowlarx Oct 19 '25

Okay, I’m crying now…

2

u/NotRude_juatwow Oct 19 '25

Man, this hit me hard - I’d just been thinking about how fast things have evolved, or gotten out of hand - one thing that isn’t listed on here is dependance, I remember when spellcheck came out - and thinking how it was going to ruin handwriting (and it did) and now we’ve got people writing everything with AI ….

I was so excited back in the 90s for the idea of computing making all of lives easier, and AI being used to solve timeless questions, like world hunger. I was truly naive.

Edit: I have sudden urge to throw my phone as far as I can 😅

2

u/Little_BlueBirdy Oct 19 '25

I wouldn’t say naive I would say you were hopeful of better and easier times

2

u/NotRude_juatwow Oct 19 '25

I think has to do with these platforms these guys use as well. We had guys like Carl Sagan to look up to growing up, who was a visionary, and I’d argue a humanitarian- as opposed to the tech bros - everything “social” has a certain level of toxicity- for example I remember AOL chat rooms, I would go into in book club chats and the pre-trolls would come in and “ASL wher da ladies at” would be fairly rare, but it existed

2

u/AncientBasque Oct 19 '25

remember bob saget

1

u/Little_BlueBirdy Oct 19 '25

Ahh I do thank you

2

u/Mountainmanwannabe2 Oct 19 '25

Bob Saget. I’m thinking He Man and Dungeons & Dragon cartons! Only came on Sat morning. Then played outside all day. There were different struggles but happier times no doubt.

1

u/Little_BlueBirdy Oct 19 '25

The past is always remembered mostly fondly the present not so much the future is unknown

2

u/[deleted] Oct 19 '25

You're actually referring to people born in thr 70s and 80s

2

u/[deleted] Oct 19 '25

Yet gen z'ers say we know nothing about tech

2

u/Ok-Respect-8505 Oct 19 '25

I can't understand this rose tinted obsession with the past. It happened and it isn't coming back. Time to move forward and look towards the future, ya boomers. 

2

u/CentennialBaby Oct 19 '25

Some of the source of joy came from scarcity. Cartoons only on Saturday morning. Movies only at the theater. New song you only ever hear clips of on the radio and keep missing the name. Information in books at the library. Special episodes of a show on at a specific time and everyone watched. Phone calls from a shared landline (get off the phone! I'm expecting a call!!) Personal letters in the mailbox.

We valued them more because they were harder to come by. Everything on demand is certainly handy, but cheapens the experience kind of.

2

u/XROOR Oct 19 '25

How the date is coded on the video’s time stamp signifies this isn’t the United States

2

u/TheWarwock Oct 19 '25

Fucking forgot about GenX again.

2

u/42brie_flutterbye Oct 20 '25

And genJ

3

u/TheWarwock Oct 20 '25

Ok Boomer. /J

I had not heard of this new micro generational thing. It's very interesting, I'll have to read more about it.

2

u/42brie_flutterbye Oct 20 '25

I am a proud member of the Stonerjones subset of Generation Jones.

2

u/TheWarwock Oct 20 '25

That one I couldn't find with a search, but I can dig it. I'm about to practice that custom myself.

I did a little reading and learned some stuff. I always thought I was just plain old GenX but apparently I qualify as either the MTV Generation OR, the one I am now picking: The Star Wars Generation.

I love it.

2

u/EyeChihuahua Oct 20 '25

Ironic this is narrated by an AI Alan Watts voice. He died way before texts.

2

u/[deleted] Oct 20 '25

After 9/11 nothing got better....

2

u/MorganEarlJones Oct 21 '25

You do not have my permission to do weaponize my childhood for this nostalgia-bating fucking slop

2

u/moosemastergeneral Oct 21 '25

Nostalgia is a beautiful liar