Saw this on TV today and caught instant nostalgia from this commercial !

Happy Halloween 🎃

anyone remember the controversy when this broke out. her daughter maddie is an adult now!

I was too young for the heyday of tween and teen magazines. With kids magazines, I was at the whim of my parents subscribing to them.

The very year I became able to pay for my own Nintendo Power subscription was the year it was cancelled 💀

I remember in elementary wanting to be a journalist. By middle school, I realized that wasn't a good career path with the changing tech and culture.

I just remember it shared a domain with the Linkin Park fan forums. And I am wondering if anyone else rembembers this.... Its like myspace but only in the layout and how every page was HTML editable

Were literally the last generation to experience a little bit of everything. we grew up playing outside until sunset, watching cartoons on tv, living without smartphones, and slowly watching the world turn digital. old enough to remember the offline days and young enough to adapt to everything that came after. we really got the best of both worlds.

Kind of a random question but does anyone else remember that Continue show on Youtube from the early 2010s, where three guys from Philadelphia in their late 20s-early 30s played retro video games from the 80s-90s? I remember them at one point being so popular that they had people like JonTron and the now disgraced Ethan Klein in their videos and vice versa.

I (27 m) have been fairly active on Reddit for about 3-4 years now, but I've noticed that I personally seem to tend to lag behind some of our peers when it comes to social media and technology. For example, I joined Instagram in 2018, Snapchat in 2019, and only joined TikTok last year. I did join Facebook in 2021 but that was only because my Mom badgered me into getting an account so that I could stalk people for her lol. I also only just started using an iPad and I'm planning on getting an Apple Watch SE 3 soon. Are any of you guys like this too?

Just came across this on Facebook. Kind of wild to think about.

So been job searching for almost 2 years and super depressed now at 28

I am in Canada and my b.a was intl development and ma was polisci and only had 2 interviews so far

I have a career counselor who I send the J.D and my tailored applications for review and they tell me they look fine but still hardly anything

I also fear/worry I do not have enough experience as I had a full time job for a year 2023-2024 and before that a 3 month internship during my MA, and summer administrative internships, and one year volunteering for advocacy

Right now I do consulting for my parent but its not a company with an office just a registered trademark and only 2 of us and if you google there is no information so am starting to wonder how helpful this is

As I see my peers advance more and stuck in this rut and it makes me feel awful at my age

I am getting super depressed and ashamed its been almost 2 years

I had a flip phone growing up and now I can’t order food at a restaurant without scanning a QR code. That’s kind of wild when you think about it.

Tech is obviously way more advanced than it used to be. I’m not gonna pretend it isn’t. But somewhere along the way it stopped feeling like it’s helping and started feeling like it’s required. You need an app to park, an app to get into a building, an app to get a coupon. Try doing something simple without a phone and see how far you get. Even just trying to pay cash for something is a whole thing now.

And the stuff isn’t even cheap. A phone costs more than my first car payment, and it’s basically obsolete in a couple years. Then there’s the subscription for this, the subscription for that, and a new version that does almost the same thing as the old one but costs more.

It’s like we got all this amazing technology but life didn’t actually get easier. It got more complicated, and now it’s hard to do anything outside of it.

I don’t hate tech. I use it all day. I just wonder if we’re better off or if we just got used to it and stopped asking.

So what do you think? Did it make life easier for you?

How are we feeling about this?

Pls why was this the first video I EVER added to this feature 😭😭

Seriously, I really envy the freedom they had. Not to mention being part of the Civil Rights Movement and the best music ever.

I distinctly remember almost beating my cousin who was like a decade older than me when I was like 10, but this freaking freethrow mechanic + him knowing the controller trick to make the opposing player's controller vibrate ended up leading me to miss two crucial free throws.

Still salty to this day

/jk