" Not to be an old man shouting at a swarm , but you may definitely see it in younger propagation . "
Recently, Reddit useroptima0179took to the popularAsk Redditpage toask, “What has gradually disappeared over the last 20 years without people really noticing?” and the answers ranged from fascinating to kind of sobering. I personally couldn’t stop reading, so I decided to share some of the most thought-provoking answers!
1.“Privacy.”
2.“Physical media.”
3.“Middle-class optimism. There used to be a strong, quiet belief that if you worked hard, played by the rules, and maybe got a degree or two, you’d be okay.”
4.“Bugs.”
— u / Shaper _
" I grew up in a comparatively rural country . The city is surrounded by battlefield . You used to get bug all over your windshield realise the drive out of the city . Now when I return to shoot the breeze there are none . "
— uranium / ClinkyDink
" Yup . Our front yard used to have so many fireflies . We could go out and catch them in a jar when we were tyke . Now I see just one or two alfresco at a time . "
— u/__M - E - O - W _ _
5.“Attention spans.”
6.“Cool colored cars.”
7.“Literacy.”
8.“Boredom. No one knows how to be bored anymore. The moment we’re not ‘busy,’ we pull out phones or listen to music or SOMETHING.”
9.Newspaper stands/dispensers."
10.“Reasonably sized trucks.”
11.“Respect for expertise. The internet has democratized information but blurred the line between knowledge and opinion.”
— u / multipleragrets
" give thanks you for articulating it so well . "
— u / gss0212
12.“Rotating KFC buckets outside the restaurants.”
13.“Butterflies. They used to be everywhere, all summer long. Now the world uses so many pesticides that I hardly ever see them.”
14.“Civil discourse. It used to be we talked more about what we have in common, and what to do to enjoy our days. All we talk about now is our differences and how we can bicker over them.”
— u / Inevitable_Form_1250
15.“Pay phones.”
16.“Manners.”
17.“Glaciers. You should all be very alarmed how much has melted.”
18.“Cigarette butts floating in restroom toilets.”
19.“How many people here don’t know the difference between your and you’re, there/their/they’re, etc. It’s really alarming.”
— u / OnTheList - YouTube
20.“Concert tickets, movie stubs, passport stamps. I really look forward to keeping these items as memorabilia, but now everything is in your digital wallet.”
21.“Back in the early 2000s there was a push for magazines to ease on heavily photoshopped images, and people were advocating for more real-to-life images. Then Snapchat came along with all the filters and blew that out of the water. AI made sure it’ll never return.”
22.“Photo albums!”
23.“Roadside emergency telephone call boxes that dotted freeways have pretty much disappeared, except maybe in certain areas with little or no cellphone reception.”
24.“Diversity of information and expression on the internet. Everything is centralizing over few platforms, and most Google search results are companies and social media websites.”
25.“Places where people can just be together hanging out, like Tower Records or Borders.”
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