To ask what you miss the most about the past?

[Appalonia]

Been thinking recently about how much we've lost due to the internet, although of course there are lots of amazing things too. For me, I think I miss things like record stores, long conversations on the phone with friends, so many high street shops that are now gone forever, online shopping just isn't the same, especially as you can't try something on, mix tapes, seeing a film in a big cinema, bookshops, lots of independent shops, so much is commercialised now, department stores, in my city, there was only Debenhams and now that's gone, I miss going into town and browsing, there's nothing left other than pound stores, it's so sad.

What do you miss that modern life has robbed you of?

This

The days before mobile wifi, when if you wanted to go on line you had to go to a desktop computer and switch it on and it took about five minutes to get online.

Yeah, girls not looking like porn stars. Boys aren't sporting 70's porno taches and sideburns.

Posted too soon - I spent less time on line in those days and got more other stuff done.

Manners. Consideration for others. Knowing how to behave in public.

Edinburgh before they commercialised everything. Watching the festival fireworks from Princes Street along with 250,000 others in a good humoured safe crowd.

Being able to park outside Jenners (motorbike).

Jenners.

Weighing 9 stone.

Oh and the variety of different hairstyles. Young girls didn’t all look the same.

Mitsi's and doves

Superclubs and superstar DJs.

Going out and meeting your tribe.

Writing to your friends and receiving letters. Speaking on the phone every week or so to your friends.

Being able to afford to buy a flat in my 20s (although it was a bit rubbish, it was MINE)

You might think I'm buried in my phone but I'm following a programme and tracking and recording my progress

My dad and my pets. And my dd being a little girl.

I miss going to my Gran's on a Sunday, playing cards and having a fish supper for tea.

I miss going to the Student's Union on Friday and Saturday nights, always local live bands playing.

Getting photographs developed from girls holidays and nights out, sitting in the pub together and going through them, laughing our heads off at the state of ourselves.

Being able to be spontaneous.

Getting properly dressed up for nights out.

Oh god yes this!

Taping the top 10 and try really hard to not get the deejay talking.

Seeing people instead of txting/FaceTime.

Enjoying things like Christmas without being stressed

The freedom of going clubbing/to the pub /night out and knowing that it wouldn't be uploaded to social media.
I feel sad that my kids won't have that sense of 'freedom'

My parents, and being at home with them, when they were both healthy.
Feeling optimistic about the future.
The excitement of youth !

I miss Blockbusters too. I used to live really close to one. All the videos were laid out in sections and the films seemed really good as opposed to now. Maybe it’s because I didn’t watch that many films before I got my own house. At the till there would be an offer on; buy a big bottle of pop and a bag of confectionery- usually minstrels or jelly Babies for a set price. You had to take the films back quite early so it made it more special somehow as in we would definitely watch the film that night and drop it back off a few days later or you got fined!!!
You had to be a member too and show several forms if ID to get a membership.
I also miss the relative peace and lack of overcrowding. When I was little I don’t remember there being any pelican crossings ( lived fairly rurally) only the odd zebra crossing. The house I grew up in overlooked vast fields and mum would watch through the back window to see the bus coming then we would set off walking to the bus stop, we could see half a mile away almost. Now the fields have been replaced by an industrial estate.

Pub conversations, like:

Who was that bloke who was in that thing with the woman with the hair? And he was also in that thing with that other bloke.

Him with the teeth?

Yes, that’s the one.

or

What was the name of the dog in Jamie and the Magic Torch?

Going on holiday and just being gone, uncontactable. Friends/family might get a postcard, sometimes weeks later. No opportunity (or expectation) for work to interfere in any way.

Internet was obviously about in my high school years (2001-2006) but of course nowhere near as prevalent as today. I loved spending hours in HMV browsing the DVDs, CDs and posters. Carefully deciding how to spend my birthday or Christmas money. I was a big fan of 3 for £20 (?) DVDs. Also loved saving my pocket money and buying tv series VHS box sets. Such nostalgia!

😂😂😂 you must live near me!

I miss life before the Internet and mobile phones - it's changed everything for the worse.

I miss being in the EU and the sense of optimism when we joined in the early 90s.

I miss the Body Shop perfume oils.

I miss pubs being full of people and life. Also miss nightclubs as they've kind of disappeared.

I miss Woolies pick n mix.

Web 1.0.

The internet was so much better 10-15 years ago. There was a sweet spot before algorithms and excessive social media when it was useful and entertaining.

Yes before those adds and clickbait links at the end of every page.
Also local facilities like the local recycling centre before it shut down.

The privacy that I was afforded as a teen as the very last generation to grow up without smart phones and social media. I was at uni when Facebook came out.

house prices that weren’t 10 times or more of salary. Nights where people aren’t taking photos of everything.