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[CorruptedMemory]

If we have advanced this much technology wise since I was born (1987) I can't imagine what 2050 will look like. Cell phones? What's that? We will be making calls from an implanted chip inside the brain and having video calls with each others hologram.

[Outlook]

This whole thread: https://www.reddit.c..._killed_by_the/

 

It makes me wish for something I never went through deeply. There was a blockbuster near where I grew up and we both smoothies from it and searched through the giant bin of games. I remember focusing on a DOOM game there, in the bin. Searching it now, it was probably DOOM 3, But that was only fragments of a memory. It's puts me in a weird place because even when the 2000s are but a hazy dream, I'm pretty much exposed to it by all the media to the point where I feel like I did know it, but at the same didn't. I sure as hell remember the clunky monitors with windows xp playing pinball-- which I now know apparently as the heyday of neckbeards and chat-rooms.

[Erowind]

Reading that thread makes my city feel like a time capsule. Pittsburgh still has arcades (not the hipster kind) independent book stores and hobby shops. I think the only thing missing are the big chains that went out like RadioShack, Blockbuster and Toy's R Us. I do remember how big video rental was though. My local supermarket used to have a fourth of the floorspace dedicated to video rental.

A common hangout spot for my friend groups has been the arcade for years now. Video games you own are chill, but there's nothing like co-op House of the Dead and swearing at AAA for beating my high score on Ms Pac Man every few weeks. Being able to move your body like arcades enable in a colourful loud space dedicated to games is something special.

[Yuli Ban]

[Outlook]

We're closer to 2030 than we are to 2007

[Erowind]

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[Yuli Ban]

TIL That 2006-07 is now considered the "early days of the internet". fuckimold