‘What don’t you miss about the late 90s to late 2000s?’ – 17 things people are happy to leave in the recent past
10.
‘Blair’s war mongering’
-ODFoxtrotOscar
11.
‘The constant sexualisation of young people, mostly girls but boys were fair game too
For example:The media jizzing themselves over the thought of Charlotte Church turning 16, including Chris Moyles offering to take her virginity
Ugh’
-OK_LK
12.
‘Less awareness of mental health generally. Mental health was only really discussed with regards to people who were extremely mentally unwell or dangerous. There wasn’t any discussion around how to stay mentally healthy or indeed what to do if you started to feel unwell. I suspect a lot of people back then were wandering around with undiagnosed and untreated anxiety and depression, which is a horrendous thought.’
-Yorkshire_Roast
13.
‘Sport
We were terrible at it. Constant whipping boys, defeat from the jaws of victory, plucky losers etc etc. Football, cricket, athletics to name a few
We were a laughing stock in the sporting world, so I’m very happy that we are now much better than we used to be’
-icabod88
14.
‘If you wanted to speak to your girlfriend/boyfriend you also had to speak to whoever picked up the phone first, usually the parents. Who in my case were either over enthusiastically chatty or mildly annoyed that it’s me again.’
-ToManyTabsOpen
15.
‘I don’t miss having to navigate with either an actual fold out map or if you were lucky enough to own a computer, directions printed off the Internet. I was a child in the 90s/early 2000s so it was my dad doing the driving but the passenger does the directing and going anywhere remotely new was just dad shouting at someone for sending him the wrong way.’
16.
‘Only 4.5 channels on tv (Channel 5 was dodgy).
Not knowing when/if your taxi will turn up or what the actual cost would be.
Having to go to the bank.
Spending literally hours on the phone when having to deal with any company.
Smoking in pubs.
Waiting for the next page to come up on Ceefax/TeleText.’
-it_is_good82
17.
‘As someone who is quite anxious I don’t miss not being able to find out information easily.
Say you had your first job interview in a place you didn’t know. You’d need an AtoZ map book, find the street, try and figure out which bus went there (which might mean a special trip to your nearest bus depot or information centre to get physical timetables). Lots of buses expected you to give exact change so you always needed a load of change just in case.
No streetview or mobile maps so you had no idea where to get off the bus, just frantically trying to catch the road signs as they flew past to track them on your AtoZ. Bad luck if the bus is late or goes out of service, you’d have to find a phone box.’
-SpiceTreeRrr