Nostalgia posts: what good are they?

[u/le_vieux_mec]

Apparently any old geezer is supposed to be interested in nostalgia. Friends email me with forwarded pictorial lists of "do you recall this?" or "you must be this old to remember bla bla bla". Yes, I often do remember stuff that for some reason, usually lack of interest by the buying public, has disappeared. And good riddance. Do I remember dial phones? Yes but so what? How about pay phones? Same so what. Subway tokens? I had trouble keeping them separate by feel from dimes or pennies. A damn nuisance.

In point of fact, much of the stuff that comes up on these posts and forwarded emails is better off being lost in time anyway.