Being able to do shit without being recorded. I used to ride my bike in my driveway and pretend I was a horseback mail carrier in the old west. I had really long drawn out conversations with myself on this long country driveway in Ohio's Amish country. I'd spend all day doing this, riding back and forth. Was I retarded? Maybe. Really we are so lucky, those of us who got a childhood before mass surveillance.
Most importantly no phones. Kids went outside and did things. Or sometimes you just went to the mall, or Best Buy, or somewhere else to walk around and piss away time.
If I had to pin the decline on three things it'd be:
9/11 - people started giving up their freedoms in the name of security, nation got dragged into stupid wars that achieved nothing Facebook - beginning of the end of the internet smartphones - mass retardation unleashed
good video games
Man, games were so good back in those days. Then they turned to uninspired shit full of microtransactions and DLC packs that didn't compare to expansion packs in the 90s. In the 90s the geeks and developers were the ones running the companies. Their ambition was crazy and if it didn't always work (e.g. John Romero's Daikatana) you could appreciate the efforts. Then the business fags came in, pushed out the nerds, and started focusing everything purely on maximizing profit at the expense of the creativity and vision.
PoundOfFlesh 8 points 1 day ago
Most importantly no phones. Kids went outside and did things. Or sometimes you just went to the mall, or Best Buy, or somewhere else to walk around and piss away time.
If I had to pin the decline on three things it'd be:
9/11 - people started giving up their freedoms in the name of security, nation got dragged into stupid wars that achieved nothing
Facebook - beginning of the end of the internet
smartphones - mass retardation unleashed
Man, games were so good back in those days. Then they turned to uninspired shit full of microtransactions and DLC packs that didn't compare to expansion packs in the 90s. In the 90s the geeks and developers were the ones running the companies. Their ambition was crazy and if it didn't always work (e.g. John Romero's Daikatana) you could appreciate the efforts. Then the business fags came in, pushed out the nerds, and started focusing everything purely on maximizing profit at the expense of the creativity and vision.