Dollar Tree stores, when they were a dollar.

Yeah it was a very nice point in time when you were tight on a budget and there was dollar tree near you, everything very affordable. Not everything was built to last and most of the food were arguably unhealthy but you got by with what you could get. Nowadays, we’ve seen Dollar Tree turn into just any dollar store you could think of.

24/7 Wal-Marts

It’s been a while but there was that time Wal-Mart was opened for 24 hours. This allowed you to shop at 2 in the morning, in a big store, with next to no one. Sure some of the services might not be available but that isn’t the point. And maybe it disgruntled a lot of overnight workers who’re trying to get the store ready for the normal period of the day, now having anything disrupted and so few people to cover the store.

Video Games that were shipped in complete versions

Back when developers actually had to make sure that what they’re shipping out to be played, was both good and functioning. Now everyone lately is so quick to release games that breaks on Day 1, require lots of patches that take weeks to even years, slapping on Early Access to milk even more money from people and eventually not even test it. While still charging top dollar.

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    Netflix 2013 had basically everything for 8 dollars. What an experience that was.

    I guess I knew it couldn’t last if it got super popular. It would have to get filled with ads or you’d be charged per show or movie you watched, I thought.

    But for a brief window you had the perfect application for watching tv and movies.

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      Eh, the suckers way back then are why things are how they are now.

      They were proud to pay for things they could be getting for free, and so businessmen see that opportunity and take full advantage of it.

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        9 hours ago

        It was called Netflix and chill because no bitches wanted to fuck you after watching you fumble around with your computer and usb drives for 15 minutes before watching How I Met Your Mother at 720p with no subtitles

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          That’s why you get a media server, do all of the pirating you’ve done years prior and get software that’ll load up all of those shows and movies by a click of a button. Nobody has time these days fumbling around with that shit.

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            Yeah, I’m definitely interested in setting up a jellyfin with radar and sonar like I see people on this site talking about, just got to find the willpower to figure it all out