Dial Up. Yeah I know the sound and I know the time it took to load anything with. But it’s something I won’t ever miss having. I would much rather be on a 1MB connection if I had to choose between that or dial up ever again. I also hated how easy it was to be kicked off, if anyone called the phone, you were off it in seconds.
Smokers and smoking. It was glorified in the 80s and 90s. You were seen as cool and manly. Such a bad habit.
It was glorified then, before that is what normalized which it much worse.
I still remember passing by “the pit.” That was the section where the high school kids were allowed to smoke. It was outdoors, but they always left the doors open. I needed to pass by to get to class and hated the stench. So I’d hold my breath. But the crowds were always slow so it was a game of “will I be forced to breathe the stench, will I get by in time, or will I pass out?”
I don’t miss it at all, but I couldn’t afford to do it today! The government is obviously trying to price people out of doing it. That’s not why I quit, but it would certainly make me if I still was.
I have fond memories of smoking at certain times in the 90s. But it was a filthy and unhealthy habit. Glad I quit without much damage being done.
I have to say, I miss how you’d go on smoke breaks. I love how the IT Crowd portrayed the social pariah that was smoking into the 2000s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvjS_c1U6zs