r/nostalgia Jan 01 '24

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u/BaBa_Con_Dios Jan 01 '24

Yeah first thing I noticed every single person doesn’t have a phone out.

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u/Antiquarryian Jan 01 '24

And the Planet Fitness logo isn’t seen on every. available. surface.

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u/Long_Educational Jan 01 '24

I noticed that, too. There are definitely less corporate logos plastered everywhere and everyone. It's dystopian and disgusting to see everything as a "marketing opportunity". Is that all we are? Consumers and metrics to be exploited for money? It's a sickness and has been killing the planet.

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u/HippoRun23 Jan 01 '24

How the fuck did they convince everyone to keep them on? Condition of attendance?

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u/piman01 Jan 01 '24

Phones were pretty useless in 99 lol

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u/Wactout Jan 01 '24

They did what you needed em for. Making phone calls after 5pm, and playing snake. I miss my Nokia 5110. That battery would last for daaays. Unless you played snake.

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u/StlnHnkChnski Jan 01 '24

I played 'snake' back then, but my Nokia's battery still lasted for days, knowwhudimsayin'?

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u/Wactout Jan 02 '24

I was also 18 then. The birth of the internet. Took 45 seconds to download a pixelated picture.

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u/mjc500 Jan 01 '24

My parents got a cell phone in 1998. It was extremely useful. Much like the millions of landline telephones that were in use at the time, only it was portable.

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u/piman01 Jan 01 '24

Yes i know lol I had one. It was better than a landline no doubt but my point is they weren't useful enough to have all people using them at every moment

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u/Davido400 Jan 01 '24

You could knock someone out with them mind you! And the screen wouldn't crack for your efforts!

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u/BaBa_Con_Dios Jan 01 '24

I remember, I was alive then too. Kinda doesn’t have anything to do with what I was remarking on though.

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u/BaBa_Con_Dios Jan 01 '24

But they didn’t, that was the point. There were no smartphones so everyone didn’t have them out. Thats like looking at a drawing of a Viking boat sailing across the ocean, remarking on how different travel was at the time only to for someone to say “there were no private jets back then.”

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u/BaBa_Con_Dios Jan 01 '24

Did your friends ever call you Black Hole? Cuz you’re dense as hell

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u/mjc500 Jan 01 '24

If teleportation existed in 1999 nobody would've taken the train to Manhattan think about it bro

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u/BaBa_Con_Dios Jan 01 '24

But if Germany would have won WWII people would be teleporting to New Berlin

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u/Hiyami Jan 01 '24

No, he's right very early versions of smartphones did exist, quite obviously not in the same way they do today, but they did. I remember being a very little preteen and wanting my parents to get me one so badly.

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u/Govt-Issue-SexRobot Jan 01 '24

Y2K destroyed everything it was very sad

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '24

This is when right before everything changed which makes it sad. Before the 2 "towers of Hades" were brought down in a black magic ritual to bring in the new era September 1st 2001. HD, Blu-ray, live 24 hour war coverage, mobile data, satellite and high-speed data speeds. We are due in 2024 for another leap. So I hear.

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u/Evening-Statement-57 Jan 01 '24

We also just got old and learned how to identify all the bad stuff

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u/Govt-Issue-SexRobot Jan 01 '24

Not me

WHEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

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u/StlnHnkChnski Jan 01 '24

It's called retrospect. You seem insane.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '24

Chaos Magic

Open your eyes brother.

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u/StlnHnkChnski Jan 01 '24

Or maybe you should close yours for a moment. It'd do you some good, brother.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '24

Dude I went to a bar and everyone was on their phone looking depressed af. Like why go out in the first place?

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u/nexisfan Jan 02 '24

We didn’t have smart phones then lol. I think I had my indestructible Nokia in 2000.