What are you listening to? - Page 568

magnetaress · #**5674** 03-31-2024, 09:51 AM

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After private computers were invented, but before social media, there was a golden age. All computing was associated with visual images of green meadows and rolling hills, occasionally with rustic structures such as Greek ruins or Maine county estates. We were not being monitored nor spied on, and we were free to look at whatever website we wished and find our own niches. We unfortunately do not realise true value, until we cant get it anymore.

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I used to be jealous of younger people and children being born. They had their whole life ahead of them and so much time to live and experience everything. But then I thought a lot and reached the conclusion: Growing up before smartphones and social media was incredible. Humans will never have that again, there will always be ubiquitous technology now. Things were slower, things were calmer, things were better in many ways. This post is dedicated to all the 80's and 90's kids out there. Godspeed.

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When us 90's kids pass away, this is what we'll hear as we go to the Great Beyond.

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I keep coming back here. It’s not that I miss the past, it’s that I miss the future that we never got. Something hasn’t felt right since the early 2000’s. I can’t be the only 80’s/90’s kid that feels this way.

This gets me pretty emotional. The internet had a lot more soul back then. Reminds me of spending countless hours finding fan sites and other hidden gems.

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It's funny how everyone that grew up in the 80's and 90's seems to agree that computers, the internet and life in general was much more fun back in the day, especially before social media came around. Although we now have technology we could only dream of back then, there was much more serenity and peace when surfing the internet or playing a game. I'm 40 now, so it may also be related to the fact I was still in my teens when the internet became a thing, but this ambient mix really seems to reflect the feeling I sometimes had when playing Sim City 2000, Transport Tycoon or Quake, sometimes for hours on end and just forgot about the time and other things in life.