Name one thing that has changed or been invented in the past two decades that if taken away you would miss it enough to progress to 2025.

weed became cheaper. nevermind if it's legal or not

>>512733027 (OP)
We have to go back much further than that.

>>512733027 (OP)
nice, but she's going to look like shit at 50

>>512733027 (OP)
That chick is like 45 now. Her skin probably looks like a snapping turtle's now. Grim. Watch out for UV, children.

Midget wrestlers

>>512733027 (OP)
Creampies without the baby, I invented that.

>>512733118
Weed carts are a nice convenience but still not worth it imo

>>512733223
Doesn't matter, she fucked and sucked 100 cocks 1000 times, married a beta male, queefed out some wageslaves to replace him and is now redirecting her and her husband's goybuxx back to Shlomo.

>>512733223
>just stay inside
>never let the sunlight touch you

>>512733027 (OP)
Are you looking for the smartphone answer because that was in 2007 (black berry doesn't count)

>>512733027 (OP)
electronic cigarettes

>>512733027 (OP)
digital cameras got a whole lot better and there is pretty much no advantage left to film purists

>>512733027 (OP)
2000s slags were by far the ugliest of the bunch. I never understood guys who were into the ghetto/chav looks. The fake nails, fake eyelashes, drawn-on eyebrows, bleached and fried hair. Fucking horrendous.

>>512733027 (OP)
>you don't escape by retreating from it
>you escape by leaning into it
>FORWARD ESCAPE

>>512733333
Wasted

i cant think of a single thing except faster internet in a vacuum if you could somehow give me that 20 years ago without the super cancer

>>512733291
carts are for fags, I only use flower.

WiFi internet connections available everywhere people live, it may fuck up a lot of people but it’s just a lot of fun for me.

>>512733317
If you're a woman, then yes.

>>512733253
this is based

>>512733328
I'll take an answer sent to my e-mail and saved to my PDA thank you.

>>512733118
>weed
Go back to sleep weed bro
>>512733164
Life was still pretty good desu in 2005 white men were still on top and not humiliated
>>512733328
No that's why I didn't go for the obvious 2008 BB were cool
>>512733204
>>512733223
She's fine chicks like to suntan it was the only chance to show their tits in public

>>512733333

This. I can't believe the video and still RAW photos that my new Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra.

>>512733253
These guys are insanely talented.

>>512733223

>>512733027 (OP)
facebook and apple scomputers

>>512733027 (OP)
Modern Chinese manufacturing

>>512733027 (OP)
Bro the technology where you can track your pizza, what stage it is in, is it done and ready, is it being prepared, its so cool. I just got a pizza today and thought that was an improvement.

>>512733328
>Curve ball
We (middle class white American kids) basically had access to smartphone tech in 2005 but it required two devices. Your flip phone+an HP handheld PC. You could pretty much hack into any public wifi network using "admin" as the passcode.

>>512733204
she probably isn't far off

>>512733027 (OP)

Nothing. I'd gladly go back to playing TFC on my desktop.

>>512733666
Jesus christ.

>>512733317
>what is sunscreen
>what is wearing a hat
>what is avoiding peak UV intensity (10am-2pm)
Your skin looks like a turtle.
>>512733578
The only oil I eat is olive oil, from a reputable source in the USA. Get on my level faggot. My lipid panel is perfect. Enjoy your stroke at 60 and being wheeled around in a nursing home by niggers the rest of your life while I'm out enjoying life.

>>512733669
We drove around town doing this. I bought an 1998 4 door Acura Integra b18b 5 speed my buddy had a Nissan 180 5 speed. No matter how much money me have now we'll never be able to relieve those days cruising around listening to lost prophet. Oh you've never heard of lost prophet? If you know you know. Last train home baby.

>>512733340
She's probably older than most zoomer girls today, they never go out in the sun all day and keep hearing they are aging life milk

>>512734017
Is that the band that had the pedo lead singer?

>>512733642
>invented in the past two decades
>apple computers

I'd miss being able to make a living online simply due to the amount of people on the internet currently.
But aside from that, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't miss all that much as everything I currently use was available back then.

YouTube
Cryptocurrency.
PS3 and Saints Row / Dragons Dogma
The movie Gamer
Squishmallows
Dubstep, Vaporwave, more Drum n Bass

Everything else I don’t care about.

>>512733253
jamaica got up too quick, he should have played into the defeat more.

Rat birds

>>512733253
Mario if he real.

>>512733027 (OP)
Only Ai, the rest I can live without

>>512733027 (OP)
You can’t stop on the slippery slope. Turning back the clock just puts us in the state of being doomed without realizing it. Kikes did 9/11 and killed JFK and bombed the USS Liberty. They machine gunned the lifeboats. They fabricated the holocaust. We were already in the hypnotic Temple Grandin goy cattle slaughterhouse chute. Some of us realize it now at least. I denounce the Talmud, I hate the antichrist.

>>512733666
Checked, Satan.

2005 was honestly kind of a shitty time, too. Culture was hollow and leaned heavily on romanticizing the 80s and intentional ironic shittiness, everything was too expensive, and there was never anything to do if you lived outside of a city. I was a teenager then, we did nothing but walk down to the park and wish we had cars, wait for a turn on the computer, and stay up late to catch Adult Swim. You never had any Myspace notifications and your favorite websites were never updated and /b/ was just cat memes. My older brother who moved out rented a trailer home in the ghetto with three friends and basically just watched broadcast TV and the same three DVDs over and over on a 13" screen or played San Andreas without a memory card on the one PS2 they all shared. I don't think they even had phone service there, let alone high speed internet or dial-up. I distinctly remember talking with my friends and wondering if anyone was ever going to be nostalgic about the times we were living in, because the 80s were so big then, and it seemed absurd.

I guess I’d miss better GPS and a decent phone connection in the event of an emergency. That’s pretty much it. The only thing I like about modern phones is that they don’t butt dial and the battery life is better. The only reason I even needed a phone back then was to call my mother for a ride from school or something.

Do I have regrets? Absolutely. Would I go back and try to live properly? Absolutely. You know what I am doing now? Trying to live organically. I quit playing video games. I no longer have a PC, I don’t watch TV, and I’m trying to be a human again. Maybe I’ll go swimming in an hour.

>>512733253
my entire dad used to talk about midget wrestling they used to have at a bar he used to go to i think he has pictures with some of them

>>512734901
Might be an american thing but I don't remember any real 80's nostalgia in 2005.
There was a nightclub in my city that had an 80's night each week and it was had women, mostly wine auntie types but it wasn't culturally important

>>512733507
What do you mean?

>>512733027 (OP)
>>512733027 (OP)


Not. One. Fucking. Thing.

>>512734901
The early 2000s were shit if you were overweight, nerdy, or not part of mainstream culture. I got shit for not being emo, scene, or skater. I was that kid wearing dickies until 2008. I never wore studded belts either. Never had a side-swept skater pop idol haircut. Never listened to Green Day, Hawthorne Heights, CKY, or Fallout Boy. No, I was that kid listening to Slayer and that was considered a no-no.

>>512735257
Same. Anything list have just been incremental changes in the quality of things already invented pre 2005

>>512735381
clique culture peaked in the early 2000's
then Iphones and Hipsters ruined everything for all posterity

>>512735381
2005 was peak nerd culture.
You mean you was a fat dork, not a nerd

>>512735197
The only 80s thing was probably scene with the use of neon pink, big hair, and studded belts worn on the outside as an accessory. Also checkered shoes, which were popular in the 80s.

I’m aware of those types of bars. Even back then when I eventually turned 21 around 2010 or so, any bar that played 80s had MILF women who wanted a bit of nostalgia. Every one of them was a hairdresser.

>>512733027 (OP)
the world would be much better off without smartphones and constant connectivity. it sucks balls.

>>512733027 (OP)
That's what white people skin looks like without candida.

>>512735381
You sound fat.

>>512734901
those 3 dvds were kino though. could watch the mummy over and over again. can you say that about most of the media now a days?

>>512733027 (OP)
Pokemon Go

>>512733027 (OP)
The Covid vaccine.
>hurr you didn’t need a covid vaccine in 2005
But billions of other people did.

>>512735488
Geek going mainstream has actually been damaging. Also notice where those emo and scene folk are today. They’re now coke addicts or the HR department.

>>512735508
It was peak if you were chronically online.

>>512735661
Nope. I can tell why you’d assume such, though. I just thought skinny jeans were silly looking.

>>512735531
Yeah those 80's club nights were probably the easiest place on earth to pick up a 30+ for a one night stand without having to be a chad.
You had to dance though

>>512735381
>The only 80s thing was probably scene with the use of neon pink, big hair, and studded belts worn on the outside as an accessory. Also checkered shoes, which were popular in the 80s.
>>512735661
He has FAT words that describe FAT things about his FAT self.
Dis man is FAT N' sheeeeet

>>512733027 (OP)
Literally nothing. I spend my time and money scrounging up older technology, when it was still benevolent. In current year, everything has malice behind it.

>>512733253
Kek

>>512735197
>>512735531

From what I recall, we didn't have much of any nostalgia during the late 90s and early 2000s, as it was simply such a good time economically and culturally that people didn't need to look back decades to feel good.
New stuff was coming out every single day and people wanted to look towards the future rather than the past.
After 2010 we did start seeing more and more of nostalgia though, as the 2008 economic collapse finally started finding it's way into affecting people's lives and made people exponentially more miserable.

>>512735830
why would you even want a 30+?

>>512733950
>eats highly oxidized plant oils inconsistent with our evolutionary history
Beef won. Saturated fat won. Plants lost. Ancel Keyes lost. Seethe, cope and dial 8.

>>512733027 (OP)
I remember this set. Her tits are incredible

>>512735988
nostalgia has and will always exist

>>512735381
Wrong, I was a big fat nerd in the grindcore scene and still got laid.

>>512733317
why are you posting pics of Jonathon Greenblatt? You know him and his group of kikels come here and go all out with the Nazi shit right? They need "antisemitism" as part of their business model. Don't care whether you believe me or not, I've seen them do it.

Furry stuff has gotten a lot better

>>512735197
Robot Chicken and Family Guy were both super big on 80s jokes, the Dukes of Hazzard remake came out that year, and I think I remember MTV had bumpers with dudes in track shorts and tube socks and mullets dancing around a racetrack.

It's realistic to say nothing has changed since 2010. 2006 felt like the last dying breath of the '90s.

>>512733027 (OP)
In-person interaction

>>512733027 (OP)
Imagine how fucked up her skin looks now.

>>512736029

There's a great deal of difference between two generations of young people being terminally online and wishing it was 20 years ago due to how shitty things are, compared to some random boomer in the 2000's wishing it was still the 80's when he had even more money.
At the moment nostalgia is super strong as we're at the brink of a total economic collapse in the entire Western world and things are getting worse by the week with no sign of slowing down.

>>512733027 (OP)
>miss it enough to progress to 2025.
you could have just ended this statement after "miss it"

>>512734901
>>512735381
>>512735488
>>512735531
>>512735508
Everything after 1975 has been a downhill slide for the west.
(all the 'muh 80s' sub-sub-sub-retards are part of the self-reinforcing reason for this)

Homes are 7x the average salary and not getting cheaper. If you even buy one, pay it off and loose your job/savings, the local government will kick you out of it and sell it off for your late property taxes which don't even go to making your community any better, but instead go to DEI hires who will deny you unemployment checks because you haven't applied to enough jobs and since social security is gone you're paing in to a system you'll never cash out on, forget medicaid/medicare you're paying into to keep some boomer on life support so they don't sell their home. The USD is so fake they print so much and gave you a $1400 check knowing inflation would be so bad a $10,000 check wouldn't have been enough. If you sue the government you and your neighbors pay via taxes instead of some politician loosing their job or cop getting fired, forget jail time for either.

The only thing left to do is die. Seriously, the world is out of ideas, women are all sexist (and they don't realize it), so you long to have a wife and kids, but God forbid you have them she'll take your money and your children.

What's left for a man anymore? Why work? Why marry? Why do anything other than die? Eating and taking care of yourself just prolongs the hell that will never collapse on it's own. The only thing left to do is defy tyrants. Go find an unjust law and break it, if you're lucky maybe you'll get killed doing so and this hellscape of a reality will be over for you and you can die knowing you did your duty to God. Everything is horse piss.

>>512733027 (OP)
Not much.
Doordash and equivalent were primitive then although it's purely a marketing problem, no reason it couldn't use 2005 technology.
Wireless PC peripherals finally got good at some point in the 2010s.

>>512735998
When you’re 21 it’s more of a novelty. It’s like fucking cougar, your teacher, your neighbor, or your friend’s hot mom. It’s a fling. Older women back then put in effort to look good, even the grannies. Today, they all look like fat rednecks, junkies, and herpes ghouls. It was also for a fling, not for marriage.

I feel as if women all together, no matter the age, either look amazing or fuck ugly. No in between. Now I see why /pol/ prefers teenage girls.

>>512736065
I never said I didn’t get laid.

>>512735998
I dated a 36 year old divorcee for over a year in my early 20's. She was still hot and loaded from the divorce, she paid for nearly everything even put me on her insurance to drive her Mercedes SL.
For some reason It used to make a lot of young girls seethe and hit on me more, I probably fuck more student girl the year I was seeing her than any other time in my life.
It was good fun, roasties were different back then

>>512733027 (OP)
redpill me on sunbathing

>>512736334
>we're at the brink of a total economic collapse in the entire Western world
Anon that knows.
Except it's getting worse by the hour (not the week)

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/500310690

>>512733027 (OP)
LLMs. I use chatgpt and grok on a daily basis.

>>512736191
Pretty much. You still see hipsters to this very day, though they’re no longer unique but rather mainstream. Hipsters went from being bohemian to being the guy running a food truck or that ugly polyamrous woman running Karaoke at a liberal bar. Kinda like how “goth” still exists but it’s now a costume for whores.

>>512736484
It was an opportunity to flirt, women could show their tits off openly and men could look at them

>>512736010
>Beef won. Saturated fat won. Plants lost. Ancel Keyes lost. Seethe, cope and dial 8.
You're a retard. First of all people have been eating olives since hunter gatherer times, so this is consistent with our evolutionary history, unless you're an African (not a human) which I presume from your retarded posting. Furthermore, evolutionary pressures act up to the point of procreation, not past. Saturated fats kill and disable you in your 60's, 70's, and 80's. Since this is past procreation is has no evolutionary input. You're actively choosing an unhealthy lifestyle, it doesn't make you a rebel or badass, it means you'll be disabled and in a nursing home being taken care of by niggers because you are paralyzed from a stroke. Enjoy your nigger future, dumb fucking faggot.

>>512735881
Well said

>>512733118
>>512733027 (OP)
Honestly it's less that weed is legal or even cheaper, it's way more convenient and the selection is better. No more going to some sketchy dude's house or waiting an indeterminate amount of time in some park for him to show up, then you have at best 3 or 4 strains and a couple edibles or concentrates to choose from (and that's if you're lucky, most dealers just had one or two). Instead I can go to one of many stores, be inside in a few minutes tops, then peruse a massive selection of strains, concentrates, edibles, topicals, etc before buying my weed of choice. If that went away I'd have to start growing again, dealing with dealers is never fun.

>>512733027 (OP)
Nothing. Not one single thing.

2005
Hoes from sea to sea
2025
Hoes from sea to sea but fatter, tatted, jaded, and even more sexually selective.

>>512736434
>the world is out of ideas
Western culture has been on re-gurgitate / re-cycle culturally, and (mostly, except for mid-90s appearance of the internet) technologically since the mid-1970s after which the peak of cheap energy oil access and post-1970s Financialization of the global economy—in tandem parallel with Thatcher-Reagan neoliberal offshoring of the west's manufacturing productive capacity infrastructure and assets—began ramping up, by 1999 Phase 1 of global Financialization was complete with repeal of Glass-Steagall after which the investment banks officially became black box gigacasinos for speculative debt instruments.
We still have basically (except for WiFi) the same cars and aircraft and homes that were build half a century ago.

Western culture has been dead for fifty years but nobody wants to 'admit' it because they're too obsessed hypnotized dumbed-down with muh smartphone and OnlyFans waaAAAoow we did it reddit (all of <---this has become the 2020s equivalent of what TV was in the 70s if you were there you'd know EXACTOFUCKINGABSOLUTELY what I'm referring to)

anons will scroll past this and go back to their favorite gamblinggamerOFstream meme-shitposting but it's the only truth on this site, today

>>512736800
Those boundaries were a good thing, that's what stop 99.9% of people from turning into complete stoners

>>512736944
>were build
were *built

>>512735205
it's how you say "i'm gay" in digital

>>512733027 (OP)
Being able to learn on the internet is *vastly* easier today than it was in 2005. Also, pirating media is much better today. Is that enough? Absolutely not. But it's the one thing I can think of.

>>512734149
yep but last train home is a fuckin banger
pirate it

>>512736583
They were whores back then as well. So were emo chicks.

>>512736800
Weed was better back then. It didn’t make people go on a schizophrenic trip.

2001 is when America went full retard and never looked back. 2005 was full tilt retard just like 2025 is.

>>512733578
Mayo is based you retard. Fuck seed oils tho, butter is much better.

>>512735701
Yeah but you can do that now too, and I often do, except usually just with the good parts. I actually just recently enjoyed some of my favorite moments from another contemporary Brendan Fraser film, Bedazzled, while I was cooking dinner. Except I could then read comments which had been sorted for insight and humor by an international audience and then move on to something else instead of just thinking "oh boy, here comes the part where he sings in a dolphin voice" to myself again.

>>512737091
Pirating media was super easy in 2005, everything was available on torrents.
The biggest problem was affording enough storage to keep it all

>>512737125
They weren’t as bad as today. I dated a few teenage scene girls in my early 20s. The only problem was they became distant and broke up, though it was probably my fault. Today, alternative women are swingers in some polyamorous raver family with all kinds of drugs, drama, self harm scars, baggage, and everything else I haven’t mentioned.

Ironically, these types of people absolutely turned me off from just about everything nerdy and geeky. A girl into cosplay is a huge turnoff to me. A girl into Dungeons and Dragons is guaranteed to be disgusting.

>>512737161
2005 is when the world became effeminate. From fashion, to music, to even lifestyles built around such.

>>512737287
Cable was not available everywhere. These days I can pirate a whole show in a few hours. Back then it was an ordeal. Sure, it was easy enough to find the torrent file, but actually getting it was shit.

>>512736944

Yeah it's absolutely fucked, economies have been running on make believe fumes for a good while now.
When things crash, the entire West is going to become Japan 2.0 and we won't have any ability to bounce up for decades.
Which is going to obliterate our societies completely into Latin America tier dangerous mess.
Latin America will grow like crazy during this as they're commodity producing countries with little red tape hindering them.
This upcoming commodity bubble will make things even worse for us, as raw materials become expensive and inflation runs even more.

However the small positive thing is, that never before have so many people been aware of the banking system ran bullshit.
They'll try to usher in a totalitarian digital control system to protect their asses from the masses, but it's not going to work.
With any luck, when this mess comes crashing down and civil unrest starts, people direct their anger towards the bullshit central banking system that has been in power for hundreds of years.

>>512736944

Jefferson said The tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants".

I don't want ANYONE to bleed, but I have only ever, in my lifetime, seen what patriot's blood looks like.

>>512735988
It wasn't so much nostalgia but there was a lot of borrowing/ steal ideas/ inspiration especially in music from the past.
Band like Kings of Leon, The Strokes, White Stripes,
But it was still full of energy and youth and the bands were all white, the whole scene was white.
very few whites mixed with blacks or were into black culture except a few weird wiggers

>>512733027 (OP)
wii

>>512737540
He’s right, though. Pirating was easy back then. You didn’t need a VPN or know some underground community. Limewire was easy to use. 4chan had easy torrents. PirateBay was no big deal. Hell, you could search using AltaVista and find something. In fact, YouTube had full movies for free when it was new. I saw Pirates of the Caribbean on my friend’s computer before it made it to DVD.

>>512737161
Yes. You cannot explain to people who didn't live through it how the world was so different pre-9/11. It's not the actual 9/11 attacks that fucked everybody, but every single fucking reaction to it has been absolutely abysmal. America in the 21st century has had three civilization destroying events, and two of those events have been destructive largely from the reaction to the event. 9/11, 2007-2009 monetary crisis, and covid. 9/11 and covid would have been minor blips on the historical stage if it weren't for retards in charge doing retarded shit in response.

>>512734901
>2005 sucked
>there was never anything to do if you lived outside of a city.
yea cuz u were 0 years old

>>512737814
we were unironically freezing ourselves out of boredom in 2005

>>512737662
(You) get it, Finnanon. Thank you for posting.

>never before have so many people been aware of the banking system
Yes absolutely.
Richard Werner getting almost 3 hours of in depth exposure in what imho is the best interview of the past year
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/511622826

I, like you, have no idea how things have lasted this long. 'Capitalism' died and went to heaven permanently in 2008, since that year every HNW entity, corporation, sovereign government and bank has been 100% dependent on continuous infinite debt note fiat currency QE to keep from instantaneously imploding. We are still in, now August 2025, the six-year global economic collapse that began in summer 2019 with the overnight repo crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMkq75L5n_k
From Sept 2019 to Jan 2020 almost $1T in bailouts for the global investment banks to keep their black box casino from imploding and without which, there would have been instant credit freeze and Mad Max just as would have occurred in 2007-08, without that bailout.
then magically in Jan 2020 along came covid: and with it another $13T in liquidity for the investment bank gigacasino of speculative debt instruments to continue its 'happy days'

>>512737885
Like I said, my brother was old enough to get his own place and his life was dull even though he was splitting the bills with three people. Out of any year to go back to, that's the worst. At least go to the 90s where the economy was prosperous or the 2010s when you could get a full GameCube set-up for $40 and living with your parents still saved you some money.

>>512737874
All spot on.

>>512738477
I lived in a shared house early 2000's and it was like a constant party, everyone socialised. Sounds like a problem with your brother, you had to go out as there wasn't anything else to do. i think making friend was much easier
The economy was really good up until 2008 probably better than the 90's because we had all the cheap prices because Chinese export were flooding in,
Maybe it was different in the US but in Europe the economy was on fire 2000's with hindsight too hot, that's why it blew up

>>512738477
>and living with your parents still saved you some money.
zoomers cant save money while living with their parents?
grim

>>512735071
>my entire dad used to talk about
Was he Italian and gesticulating wildly with his hands while pacing and posing with his feet?

>>512739398
they can I should know because im in that situation but literally every faucet of the zoomers existence revolves around consuming or money

>>512734670
Based enjoyer of language.

>>512741193
Young people weren't saving in previous decades.
They just sponk all their money on different thing like alcohol, cigarettes, partying and cars etc

>>512739398
Boomer parents charge $1275 a month in rent to “help them prepare for the real world.”