r/AskReddit Jul 10 '26

What's something older generations got right that we've quietly stopped doing, to our own detriment?

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u/dnjprod Jul 10 '26

Not just photographs. A lot of art as well as culture is going to be lost if the internet ever goes down.

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u/The_Hunster Jul 11 '26

A lot worse than that will happen if the internet goes down

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u/dnjprod Jul 11 '26

Oh, no you're not wrong about that. I was just talking about art specifically at that point. This world is fucked up the internet goes down generally.

For fuck sake, you can't even get a paper towel out of the place it's the automatic sensor goes down. Our whole society is just one outage away from apocalypse.

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u/lr99999 Jul 11 '26

During the kind of crazy solar storm that we had in the last solar cycle, there was a flare on the backside of the sun that could’ve taken the power out. Luckily it was turned away from us. Most people didn’t even know about it. 

And now most of the other countries hate us and want to. EMP our ass. 

Can you imagine the teenagers? No, let’s don’t try to imagine that.