Wow, I can't believe that this topic is going strong still.
And to believe this entire thing started last year in october or there abouts.
I have finnished buying presents now, and a few other things, and decided to add more to my list of things I miss though it looks a lot of people miss the same things I do miss.
Firstly all old sound cards and their midi fm chips, none of the modern hd non analog cards have midi chips or anything in them.
Yeah I know I have fonts but the real thing was a lot better.
Not to say that some are quite close, I mean we have good things.
There is of course chipmusic now, a lot of stuff from bandcamp, etc winamp still exists but even so it doesn't play everything but most things.
No one mentioned windows messenger 5x, I miss that.
Sapi4, I forgot to put that in.
The fact that I had to get up to go to school or rather the routeen, it can be a challenge to well get up these days especially since I know I don't need to be anywhere most of the time.
I miss the fact that everything is by the book now, a lot of organisations including the blindness ones decided to go by a procedure for things, ie job finding, and all their creative people just went, it suddenly became not trendy to be creative.
That means though if the book doesn't work you just go round and round.
So I don't bother with that.
Now though I think its time to start another trend in here, things I don't miss.
Firstly.
Single channel sound cards suck!
Now these don't exist but back in 1998 and lower you didn't have those by default.
In dos that hardly mattered much but you couldn't run 2 things at once without sounds going really badly.
I don't miss every device like in win98 and lower having to have a driver and the first usb limitations.
I do not miss the old serial and printer port interface though I do miss intersvr and interlnk if people know those they will know those were good programs.
I do not miss jaws, activation floppies, actual bad disks, the fact I couldn't use the dialup and the phone at the same time though I do miss the lower prices.
While I am happy for my rights, I do miss the time that when you didn't have to deal with the government and when you had to deal with an agency you could trust them to an extent.
Sadly thats not always the case.
For those that don't read my blog, I give you a nice background, to protect against benifit fraud every time you go away you need to tell the government where you are going especially if out of the country.
Its alegal not to.
The government make it as easy as they jolly well can.
Even so, if you have a problem, an invalid date, an inaccessible bit, well you can report but the chances of it ever been sorted are almost not going to happen.
I have had issues with things a couple times the first had my funding cut off but then they said it was an error the second time it happened they tried to review everything, luckily My dad was able to talk them out of doing this, the result being that the issues that I have reported are not fixed, I won't loose my benifits, but thats that, it leaves all issues open.
I used to not have to have to handle all those burocratic bullshit.
In fact it was a lot easier before people decided to cheat the system like that.
I aggree with all posts about being a kid.
Knowing that whatever was happening wasn't your problem because you were not expected to need to bother was quite a nice thing.
There are a lot of things I wish I had then like digital recorders.
I have a low energy thing especially at night and in places without airconditioning.
Put me in a warm place or a place with a drone going on and I will sleep.
I spent a lot of days sleeping in school, and people wandered what was wrong with me.
Go forward to about 2014 or there abouts.
I had to attend a radio course with a friend.
It was at night.
There was no way I could actually seriously stay awake, I knew if I tried I would fail.
So I simply didn't try to stay awake.
I turned on my recorder and just listened, maybe I slept a little I didn't care.
When I got home I scanned my notes and worksheets and listened to the class in the comfort of my own room.
I had to scan everything myself, and I had to read it so I needed to do the work anyway.
In university I found it easier especially with the places with no aircon to handle notes and worksheets done by the lecturers and note taker I had, and any set work after I had finnished my course for the day rather than during that session.
I have gone away on trips where a lot of stuff is at night.
I would usually just nod off and not understand anything.
Now I use my recorder, and I listen to that later.
Sadly I have to disagree with some of the posters on here.
I do not miss vhs tapes or audio tapes.
I still have access to both but audio tapes jam and have a lot of issues.
I do miss the fact that speakers are so small especially in laptops that you basically need crappy sound correction software to get them to sound big.
There was a time when you had real speakers in your computer.
I miss books.
Yes, you can get braille and other formats but I don't find time to read, I have to make an effort to read now as I have so much to do online that well I just seem to run out of time these days.
For those with older apples I never had the chance to have a good look or use of any older stuff further back than dos 5.0.
Now we want thin, thin, thin and cheaper devices and stuff especially from china, I miss the fact that there was a time where our machines would last ages, and be strongly made.
Its the curse of thinness I guess but if you dropped something it may break, but not totally go.
Now things like your phone are so thin, if you drop it then you may was well forget about it.
And when things cost so much well.
I also miss things like the old milk bottles, the tags and half tags you put on your letterbox.
I also miss things like boardgames.
And old christmas.
And things like guyfolks, helloween, new years, etc.
In each case you had a build up of several weeks back.
Christmas had santa, you did have the fact that music played in the house a lot, and you got into the spirit of it.
You got excited and it was cool
Now though everyone is so busy, even I don't really think of it, there is no build up till I am sitting down having christmas dinner and even then there is always so much to go and do.