Spotify recently gave me Taylor Swift’s song “Shake It Off” in the “Ten Years Ago” selection. I even paused it and couldn’t realize it for several minutes. Wait, what is it – a decade ago? It was literally yesterday… well, okay, the day before yesterday – and it turns out that ten years have passed since then?
Yes, that’s right, time is inevitable as Thanos (hell, in 2014 we didn’t even realize how dangerous he actually was!), and in the first half of the last decade there were a lot of incredibly cool and simply convenient things that were considered a total must-have, but now are gone with the wind. So here’s another nostalgic collection made for you by Bored Panda based on this viral thread in the AskReddit community!
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#1
Good free apps/ apps that you only had to pay once for.
Image source: riwoni4997, Ajibola Okubanjo
#2
Robin Williams.
Image source: weyamav220, Daniel Boud
#3
An Ad-less internet. Every where I go it’s just ads. I’m ducking sick of corporations trying to get me to “buy their products”. YouTube now has up to 3 unskippable 15 second ads or 2 30 second unskippable ads. It’s disgusting.
Image source: goujon_S, nrkbeta
#4
Affordable houses. 2012 was the bottom. Unattainable for many first time buyers now.
Image source: weyamav220, Ken Ratcliff
#5
Thick skin and common sense.
Image source: Neph88, Liza Summer
#6
Video Games without cosmetic microtransactions, battle passes, loot boxes, and other predatory monetization models.
Image source: elting44, Bwana McCall
#7
Common sense appears to be on the verge of extinction these days.
Image source: Best-Switch-5377, SHVETS production
#8
Netflix streaming that had everything in one f*****g goddam place.
Image source: riwoni4997, Stock Catalog
#9
Single-topic blogs.
Remember those? Regretsy, Stuff White People Like, Cake Wrecks, People of Walmart, FML, Look At This F*****g Hipster, S**t My Dad Says, Awkward Family Photos, etc. Those things were everywhere from about 2007-2013, and then just sort of went away, though some live on, in a way, as subreddits now.
Image source: Dahhhkness, Paul (unless labeled Cathy!)
#10
Phone booths.
Image source: dan_dares, Ben Tesch
#11
My hairline.
Image source: TheKillersHand, mike krzeszak
#12
Hesitancy towards online shopping, and/or general preference to travel to the store to buy an item.
Image source: hyaena_hyaena, Mike Mozart
#13
Leaving the house for a night out with a digital camera, mp3 player and a phone. Sometimes a whole ihome depending on where you’re going.
Image source: hausccat, John Ragai
#14
People not trying everything in their power to get internet clout. Now it’s just a slog of people “trying to go viral”.
Image source: goujon_S, Sunny Ripert
#15
Vine.
Image source: anon, Esther Vargas
#16
Mp 3 player.
Image source: annarinnn, Karl Baron
#17
My youth.
Image source: DougyDougyDoug, Belle Co
#18
Apparently therapy, this thread is depressing.
Image source: ProOxidants, Alex Green
#19
The Wii
I love the console don’t get me wrong but I nearly know anyone that uses it as well as
Mii’s.
Image source: Spirited_Confection7, Satoru Watanabe
#20
BlackBerry phones.
Image source: anon, Enrique Dans
#21
User repairable Apple products.
Image source: weyamav220, Shunsuke Kobayashi
#22
Windows Phone. As an early adopter I was forever left behind by the superior apps that were on android and IOS despite liking the phone itself. I hoped it would catch up but never did :(.
Image source: Adventurous-Touch876, Julien G.
#23
Tivo.
Image source: DjarumWhite, Duncan Verrall
#24
The night life scene in Minneapolis.
Image source: lkb25, Chad Davis
#25
Professional baseball in Detroit.
Image source: Brundleflyftw, WEBN-TV
#26
Kanye’s career.
Image source: anon, Daniele Dalledonne
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