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Anyone else feel like tech nostalgia sometimes glosses over the genuinely awful parts of older tech? We reminisce about the simplicity of, say, old flip phones, but forget the truly terrible battery life compared to modern smartphones, or the fact that texting was an absolute chore with T9 predictive text.
It's easy to look back fondly on things like dial-up internet for the "peace and quiet" it offered, but let's be real, waiting five minutes for a single picture to load was objectively frustrating.Same with early digital cameras – the novelty was cool, but the picture quality was often grainy and the storage capacity was unbelievably limited.
I think it's important to appreciate the progress we've made. Nostalgia is great, but let's not forget the headaches and limitations we dealt with before. What's a piece of old tech that you look back on fondly but also remember being genuinely frustrating to use?