What's something you're nostalgic for that doesn't exist anymore?

Life pre 9/11

The late night MTV when they used to play all the hard rock videos

Little toys in cereal boxes. Still have my audio cd of the Junglebook in an old Captain Crunch box unopened. Beside Gretzky Wheeties lol.

Affordable housing

The 90's

The decade between the collapse of the USSR/Cold War in 1991 and the September 11th attacks in 2001 where it felt like global society was mostly getting better and the US was a strong force for good in the world. The internet was just developing, people cared about the environment, “terrorism” wasn’t a household word, school shootings were almost unheard of, and it seemed like most people had a positive outlook for the future. Oh yeah, and not only had we balanced the national budget, but the deficit was completely erased! (The deficit is at $919 billion today.) Ugh. Now that I think of it, “nostalgic” doesn’t even begin to cover it. Apparently, if we really want to make America great again, we need to go back to how things were in the Clinton era.

Every day common decency and respect and acknowledgment of your fellow man

Jello Pudding Pops The REAL ones. Not the ones that they tried to pass off as Jello Pudding Pops. The ones Bill Cosby hawked.

Newspapers, I guess they technically still exist but none have my local news like they used to.

The 1990’s. And the early 2000’s.

The United States of America

Hollywood Video

Woolworths

The early internet.

Wandering in the record store because you got some time to kill and walking out with new music that you either discovered because they were playing samples in the record store, the album cover looked interesting or someone next to you at the racks you struck up a conversation with recommended it

Winters with snow from November to February, enough to go sledding anywhere there was a hill.

My flat stomach.

Woolie's Pick 'n' Mix

Childhood

Zima

starbucks s’mores frappucino

Tech free spaces

My family.

Cellular phones with physical keyboards. I'm so tired of hunting characters trapped under glass, and I miss the tactile experience

Phone books

good bagels

Cheese Waffies.

My virginity. And music videos on goddamn CMT.

Rye crisp crackers with butter.

A Friendly’s restaurant, in the 80’s in a small to mid -size mall in close proximity to a York Steak House. A “chicken-lickin’” platter topped off with a conehead sundae.

Grandad

This is kinda stupid, but Alberto V05 Fruitsation Shampoo & Conditioner, solely for the scent/color on the product. It had melon, wild berry, and wheat germ in it, but the scent was more tropical, with a hint of banana. The color was this teal that reminded me of the clear blue Caribbean you see in those vacation resort commercials or Planet Earth documentaries. Every time I used it was like taking a little tropical vacation. The product itself wasn't even good for much besides cleaning, but I keep my hair short so it never needed much conditioning. In fact, those c**** shampoos would give me a bit of scalp itch, but I would put up with it for Fruitsation. Years after it was discontinued, I found a bunch of the conditioner in a dollar store and stocked up. I still have half a bottle left of the shampoo that I only use once a year on my birthday.

Hedgehog flavour crisps.

Redbox

Fantage, Club Penguin, Smallworlds

My self respect

An active and militant labor movement.

When I was young and my joints worked as intended without pain.

Payphones. Remember actually needing change to call someone and the thrill of finding one that worked? Feels like a relic from another world.

Old school Fisher Price Little People

*Brown Edge Cookies*

VCR

Clear Pepsi

Democracy 

Pontiac cars

Common sense and human decency.

Mix tapes

Integrity

i have a long list so i'll just randomly pick: the affordable mid-sized sedan with a v6 engine.

Fruit Stripes gum and Cheese Nips.

O.G 2000’s FPS Network. Using iRC / 3rd parties / Mods were good / Player owned servers / Console commands / Competitive was insane and you didn’t need hundred’s of people in ur friendlist. #DUCKOPENNETWORK

Pop Up Video. McDonalds dollar menu. 24 hour Walmart. Coming home from work, taking a shower, then leaping onto mIRC or Discord chat to rpg until we both fell asleep in our computer chairs.

Fruit Wrinkles.

Affordable comic books.

The 1970's.

Fair elections in the U.S.

I hear from quiz pals in the UK that pubs have ditched quiz machines because s*** machines are much more lucrative. I am greatly saddened by this.

Affordable living.

Late 90s was terrific. Internet was great at that time. I still have accounts from that time. We got PS2 not long after, the best system. Physical media ruled. Clinton, despite his flaws, was a pretty solid president.

Being at my friend’s house. He passed away a few weeks ago and the thought that I’ll never get to spend the day with him at his house is heartbreaking. I loved being there, doing nothing, just hanging out. I really miss it

Vault soda

When newspapers were good and plentiful.

the idea of homeownership

Shopping in clothing stores in the clearance section when everything, shirts, dresses, underwear, was like a dollar something, maybe a few bucks.

Classic JRPGs, like SNES and PlayStation era. Everything from the PS2 onward I started to lose interest, they just aren’t quite the same anymore. And I’ve played some of the modern entries that try to recapture the oldschool vibe, Chained Echoes and Sea of Stars for example. They’re good but still not quite “it”.

I actually cried today thinking about how ill never be a little kid going camping with my parents again

My dignity

The days we didn't internet ourselves to exhaustion.

Democracy and any kind of halfway decent leadership in the US... You guys over there deserve better...

History channel having more substantive programming than pawn shops and truckers.

Does discontinued food count? And food made by certain people that are no longer around?

A Friendly’s restaurant, in the 80’s in a small to mid -size mall in close proximity to a York Steak House. A “chicken-lickin’” platter topped off with a conehead sundae.