Another question for oppo

"traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn" (el-peasant) 08/08/2015 at 19:52 • Filed to: None

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This thought has stuck with me for a while.

1. Did people back in the ‘60s and ‘70s say “They don’t build them like they used to” or “Cars are too complex now,” Appraising the vehicles of the ‘20s and ‘30s?

2. Is there speculation that 50 or 60 years in the future, people will say the same thing about today’s cars?

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 08/08/2015 at 19:54

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Yes and yes.

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 08/08/2015 at 19:58

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Back in my day we used floppy disks and that was just grand

TheOnelectronic > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 08/08/2015 at 20:01

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“These damned modern cars! Back in my day you had WHEELS that touched the GROUND! And you could work on them yourself with just a laptop! Now you need a doctorate degree in high energy plasma physics if you want to tune up your reactor, and don’t even think of TOUCHING your anti-grav pads if you aren’t an expert in exotic matter manipulation!”

traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn > TheOnelectronic 08/08/2015 at 20:03

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I'm probably gonna say that one day.

Birddog > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 08/08/2015 at 20:05

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I don’t think that phrase started being used until the 1970s for cars. You know, when quality seemed to be Job #6472.

wkiernan > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 08/08/2015 at 20:09

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Being 60 years of age I can tell you for sure that in the late ‘60s and the early ‘70s I heard plenty of people complain how the new cars coming out then were inferior to cars from the ‘50s, but I never heard anybody say that cars from the ‘20s and ‘30s were better with the exception of luxury cars like Packards and Duesenbergs. And their complaints weren’t usually about the gutless emission controlled engines; far more often they were complaining about the lack of the older cars’s capacious interiors and upright seats, or the way that things like interior trim pieces started snapping off or falling apart at about three years and one month after purchase (back then most car loans were for three year terms).

DoYouEvenShift > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 08/08/2015 at 20:44

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Back in my day, cell phones and mp3 players were 2 separate devices!

/oldguyrant

BorkBorkBjork > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 08/08/2015 at 20:51

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Hey, I remember when floppy disc were ACTUALLY FLOPPY!

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > BorkBorkBjork 08/08/2015 at 20:54

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I have like 100 of those that are blank somewhere

BorkBorkBjork > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 08/08/2015 at 20:58

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I opened one of my old desks a few months ago and found one labelled “Server Backup”. Remember when you could backup a server on 1.2 MB? Those were the good old days...

AthomSfere > TheOnelectronic 08/09/2015 at 12:00

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Hogwash! All you need is a set of Grav-Low pads and an afternoon with a graviton spanner and you can get as low as 30mm. Not to mention the gluon brake inductors sample at 100GHz, so 3-4g braking is only one grav-pad map retune away for only $20,000. You can barely get a nice meal for that price these days!