Dial Up. Yeah I know the sound and I know the time it took to load anything with. But it’s something I won’t ever miss having. I would much rather be on a 1MB connection if I had to choose between that or dial up ever again. I also hated how easy it was to be kicked off, if anyone called the phone, you were off it in seconds.
90s-2000s approach to services. It was nearly impossible to cancel subscription services. Magazines, newspapers, cable TV, mobile and landline phones, etc.
Streaming services and online payment systems like PayPal forever changed consumer expectations on how to handle this kind of stuff, all for the better.