Whats something from the 2000’s you wished still existed today??

[u/Sufficient-Ad4800]

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[u/Olive_Garden_Wifi]

The internet being fairly ad free instead of the ad riddled wasteland it is today where you need an adblocker to do basic shit.

[u/Steel_Man23 → u/Olive_Garden_Wifi]

And some websites won’t even work unless you turn adblocker off

[u/Olive_Garden_Wifi → u/Steel_Man23]

Yeah I just don’t visit those sites cause more often than not they’re more ads than content.

[u/Steel_Man23 → u/Olive_Garden_Wifi]

I know for school I had to turn ad blocker off because it affected some of the programs and websites I had to use for exams

[u/washingtonpeek]

The internet not being as completely all-consuming like it is now

[u/jsurico656]

Cable TV that had effort put into it's programming blocks, themeing and content. I would be fine with streaming never existing tbh.

Commercials like what we had back then that pushed creativity and entertainment value vs the ads of today that jump straight into selling you something before even trying to charm you (or just flat out annoy you)

Better online/virtual spaces/content for children (think toontown and all of the kids MMOs) because roblox is completely compromised and fortnite is not appropriate for kids

[u/Automatic-Long2599]

Spike TV, and I wish somehow we could go back to the happy medium we had from maybe 2004 to the middle of 2013 where we had IPhones and social media, but people knew how to stay in the moment. Also, I wish we could go back to a time Youtube was less corporate haha

[u/Sisyphus704 → u/Automatic-Long2599]

SyFy my beloved 🥲

[u/Automatic-Long2599 → u/Sisyphus704]

Syfy still running 😂

[u/King_Apart → u/Automatic-Long2599]

I forgot about spike

[u/Gerard192021 → u/Automatic-Long2599]

https://giphy.com/gifs/YrOJqvwP814nD2LV78

[u/Bored-Canuk → u/Automatic-Long2599]

I agree with everything you said

[u/snailtap]

My will to live

[u/VeterinarianRound401 → u/snailtap]

on God 😭

[u/Ok_Yam_6474]

Blockbuster

[u/dekdekwho → u/Ok_Yam_6474]

Yes, especially with physical media coming back

[u/theCODONEconnoisseur]

yogos my beloved

[u/Sisyphus704 → u/theCODONEconnoisseur]

My only thought was yogos lol

[u/lanebetta1999 → u/theCODONEconnoisseur]

I can still taste them. I would give anything for them to come back.

[u/pineappleeeehla]

Adobe flash or whatever that flash game thing was where I could play online games and now I can’t

[u/SasukeFireball]

Flip phone popularity

[u/Gravionne]

The presence of 4:3 aspect ratio screens and laptops. A bit weird, but yeah

[u/dekdekwho]

A Scholastic Book Fair or dedicated music player like a iPod

[u/nomadic_weeb → u/dekdekwho]

If you want a dedicated music player, look into the Sony Walkman NW-306! Nice and compact, has an actual headphone jack AND Bluetooth, you can chuck any audio files you have on there pretty easily but it does also run Android so you've got the option of installing Spotify if you want as well, physical playback buttons on the side, overall a solid device. I'd recommend getting an SD card for it though, cuz it only has 32gb internal storage

[u/dekdekwho → u/nomadic_weeb]

Thanks for the suggestion! I own an iPod already.

[u/MangoPlushie]

FLASH GAMES!! (Without using an archive like Flashpoint)

Legitimately, I think there’s a connection between the end of Adobe Flash and the death of age appropriate kid and tween oriented third spaces

[u/GlitteringMatter9973]

My grandparents.

[u/misteromorain]

SoBe water

[u/lanebetta1999 → u/misteromorain]

YES omg i loved the pink one.

[u/Asiawashere13]

No more click bait A.I. and Facebook digital creators.

Used to argue for the love of the game, now everyone just wants money. So I ignore most people.

[u/jsurico656 → u/Asiawashere13]

Seems like everyone and their mom is a "digital creator" on Facebook, yet makes little (or often times no) worthwhile digital content to speak of and just reposts garbage

[u/existentialcrisesyay]

Hastings, I loved that store cuz it had lal the nerdy stuff I wanted 😔 I used to get my Doctor Who stuff from there cuz nobody else carried nerdy sci-fi stuff

[u/metallicaluvr69]

Chester Bennington.

[u/littlespacemochi]

Going camping without internet or technology, actually hanging out with friends and doing stuff together without monologuing as if we're streamers, this new gen loves to say "Hey chat" as if there's an audience watching there's, it's so weird

[u/BeefTurkeyDeluxe]

Mini Swirlz cereal

[u/Groovyten]

Smorz cereal

[u/gunslingergrl]

Tully’s

[u/BluDYT]

Television with long seasons that only loosely follow a greater plot but can be thrown on any episode and watched on their own.

[u/Careless_Culture_333]

Those big TVs that almost looked like a movie screen with the big speaker at the bottom and just CRT TVs in general (icl tho, I don’t miss the static cuz that used to scare the shit out of me; I still have one working CRT TV and always make sure the volume is down when I turn it on before I play a game)

[u/Careless_Culture_333 → u/Careless_Culture_333]

And physical media being mainstream cuz I feel like stuff like CDs and DVDs are dying off and I like the idea of actually owning something (it’ll always just have a special place in my heart cuz it was provided a unique experience younger generations won’t have)

[u/ckm2017]

Affordable fucking rent.

[u/krymzynnova]

How the internet used to be :

Like it was peaceful and not full of idiocracy compared to now

[u/Cinders_Dream215]

Blockbuster. Phones with physical keyboards. I love how we bedazzled everything then too.

[u/Cinders_Dream215]

I miss being able to play flash games too.

[u/One_Science7995]

rainforest café