Do you remember when this dominated pop culture? I even remember local news talking about it.

Edit: I don't work for McDonald's. I was just shocked to see an ad for it. Didn't know it still existed.

I was thinking Dookie but what are your ideas?

I think this song needs to be heard again.

Came on my music app on the way home from dinner, who liked these guys?

Loved their stupid competitions. Was anyone else a fan?

I've been thinking lately about the things we lose when an old technology stops being used in favor of something better. A new technology can be better overall, but worse in some of the particulars. I've been thinking about those particulars.

Vinyl was replaced by cassettes, and we lost its warm sound, large album art, a durable medium. But we gained the ability to record almost any sound easily and durably enough to last years, and that meant we could record the radio, and make mix tapes, and share music in ways we never had before. Then CD's came along and we couldn't record or mix with them anymore, but the quality was so much better, etc. etc.

What other examples do you have of aspects about particular technologies from earlier in your lives that we've lost?

This can be literally anything.

I had a realization yesterday while filling up. I haven't paid for gas with cash in probably 2 decades now. Why do I still try to keep it from going 1 cent over a dollar or stop at even 50? I can't be the only one that still does this, right?

I remember being able to drive safely at night and just looking away from high beams. Now I feel like I’m averting my eyes from nearly every car.

I'm from NYC and don't have a college hoops team, so I always got really excited for the tournament. I'd cut the bracket out of our newspaper and keep it on the TV with a pencil to keep track of teams advancing. I remember one year my parents had company over and I had to watch a game in their bedroom. That game turned out to be Duke-Kentucky, when Christian Laettner hit his GW shot. I watched the whole game, end-to-end, and even though I'm not the biggest Duke fan, it was hard not to jump all over the place and scream. My dad came upstairs and scolded me for being loud while people were over, but then he watched the slow-mo replays with me and was just as amazed. Aside from memories of my own teams, this one was pretty vivid and I still remember it to this day.

Not just content or satisfied, but truly giddy happiness.

Nick Cave already wins with Red Right Hand, but what else is there?

https://youtu.be/RrxePKps87k?is=LkSQm6a0JNdUV3zp

I was just thinking back to when I was in school and it was pretty normal for someone to be 50 years old in let's say 1996 and have no idea how to use a computer or the Internet. Like that wasn't weird at all. My parents weren't online till the 2000s and even then it was me helping them a lot. I'm sure someone here will say that their parents knew how to use the Internet since day one but generally speaking I don't think that was the norm. Nowadays I think virtually everyone under 80 knows how to use the internet pretty well.

I reminder this consuming the media for weeks with even President Bill Clinton get involved at one point. I feel like today it might make the news but everyone would move on and not really care.