What WAS good in the 'Good Old Days'?

[Tee Kay]

architecture

everything else sucks at least in equal measure to the present (if in subtly different ways) if not more

 

[Arwon]

I know the golden tint is often masking some of the problems of the past.. Racism and sexism rampant etc.

But what actually WAS good?

House prices

 

[Lexicus]

The wage share of the economy

 

[really]

I remember the good old days when we only had 3 channels and no video recorder. deciding what to watch was a lot simpler.

Roisin Conaty had a joke about that on one of Channel 4's new year quizzes.
She said do you remember when TV used to just end, and you were odd if you stayed up after that.

 

[Kaitzilla]

The Chevy Show at Six Flags used to be quite nice.

 

[Lexicus]

Conservatives used to be open about what they supported; now it's all lies

 

[El_Machinae]

I'm colorblind, so what has gotten worse for me are some types of action computer games. Before when my Sprite was running through fields, shooting nazis, I could spot the ones in camouflage by looking for small pixelation differences. But now the graphics have gotten so good that it is actually color hints that give them away. There used to be color hints back then, but of course I didn't use them. So now I run into hard limits on these games, where they become memorization exercises rather than observation exercises.

As an aside, my optimism on when therapies for treating color blindness would be available was higher in the past as well

 

[danjuno]

The internet wasn't 4 or 5 sites posting screencaps of the other 3-4. And ads stayed in their corner where they belonged. You could find websites dedicated to anything. Youtube was just a site where you posted remixes, CCTV or Camcorder footage, and homemade videos. Youtube is probably the biggest sticking point for me, I've been on there since I was a tween in 2007/8 and it's unrecognizable today. Everyone does it for a career instead of a hobby, even though doing so means levels of self-censorship (to appease Adsense and a wildy unpredictable algorithim) that would make network TV blush.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I'm colorblind, so what has gotten worse for me are some types of action computer games. Before when my Sprite was running through fields, shooting nazis, I could spot the ones in camouflage by looking for small pixelation differences. But now the graphics have gotten so good that it is actually color hints that give them away. There used to be color hints back then, but of course I didn't use them. So now I run into hard limits on these games, where they become memorization exercises rather than observation exercises.

As an aside, my optimism on when therapies for treating color blindness would be available was higher in the past as well

Path of Exile has a check box in game options for colorblind players.

 

[Lexicus]

I don't know if it's been mentioned, but those classic Disney animated films seem to have been vastly superior to these "live-action" remakes that are coming out these days.

 

[Takhisis]

Worst part is click bait headlines or "#5 will shock you!"

I refuse to click those links.

You forgot about all the ‘famousperson's hot daughter has hit 18, here are some pics’ notes that seem to abound these days.

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

Movies were better in the 1980s.

ET
Indiana Jones
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Lethal Weapon
Airplane
Gremlins
Die Hard
Terminator
A Christmas Story
Back to the Future
Rain Man
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Glory
Field of Dreams
Ghostbusters
Karate Kid

 

[Civinator]

The best in the 'Good Old Days was, that we all were younger.