I don't miss VHS tapes as a storage medium for movies and TV shows because DVDs are superior in every way possible. The nostalgic value of returning to this medium can't even erase the fact that, as a kid, I couldn't grab entire seasons (If not, the entire show's run) of my favorite TV show on VHS. Plus, those tapes are pretty fragile, the video quality looks hazy compared to today, and having to rewind and fast forward manually is so tedious, I still wondered how I got by without the numerous convenient features that DVDs have given all of us for watching our favorite movies/shows.
The Dark Age of American comics did have some high points: I grew up with the 1991 X-Men series drawn by Jim Lee and written by Chris Claremont and LOVED the TV show, I was introduced to some awesome anti-heroes like the Punisher, and some stories of other ongoing comics were awesome... for the time. But there were also a lot of low points that I don't miss: supers going dark and edgy for its own sake, the Clone Saga ("This is boring! How long does this plot last?! I wanna see Spidey beat up bad-guys old school-style", I kept thinking to myself.)
It wasn't until like around 2000 where I began to make the distinction between anime and Western Animation: it was all animation to me and I loved watching it, except for the one fact that I was aware of (even as a thick-headed, oblivious kid): the quality standard for dubbing anime into English back then was really really low. There were some good dubs, like Cowboy Bebop, Dragon Ball Z, and Gundam Wing, but there were also a lot of terrible dubs. They still exist today, but they're not anywhere near as common as they were before.
Dial-up internet sucked. I was lucky to have any internet for visiting websites for whatever info I needed at all, let alone play PC games like Quake or Unreal Tournament (They were AWESOME while they lasted!!). That shrill noise, the reality that sometimes it might give out... that little kid would be insanely jealous of what internet i get in the year 2012, where I can use a portable phone to browse the web, and that gigabytes of data thrown and processed by computers is something we don't think that much of.
Floppy Disks... does anyone still remember these? Will our kids know what these are? These were essentially flash drives before flash drives were flash drives, and yet the amount of data they can hold is so paltry compared today.
I don't miss those boy bands all those girls and people where talking about, but they haven't gone away, just replaced by someone else for a new generation of tweens to gush over. *COUGH* BIEBER *COUGH* Now if only both his fandom and hatedom would shut the hell up about him.
