I am afraid movie theaters will be like Blockbuster and Bennigans in the next decade, we will Stream everything, and we will end up paying for 100 different streaming services. There is still a Borders Book Store by me, and I relish the time I spend in there.......something to be said for the old times, but better catch it quick .....................now for the obligatory
I made about 5 new "friends" this last summer at The Cliffs of Moher, because they were wearing Astros or Texans sweatshirts. I'm pretty good at identifying a Texas accent, so when I hear it, I seek the person out regardless of the setting. Checkout line, restaurant, concert. You name it.
No. In 1998, I was going through the "my.excite.com" web portal phase of my life. "my.yahoo.com" came later, after "my.excite.com" “shuffled off this mortal coil”. My last new car purchase and my last new PC purchase did not come with a CD player. Now, I got 500 CDs in my basement, sitting gathering dust. What is wrong with the world! I did not ask for this change!
...and you were pissed you didn't necro-bump it first? Now you have another reason to look forward to 2044
I guess they pulled the plug on My Yahoo. Now, I feel completely lost without a consolidated homepage with ability to view stocks, mail, weather, sports, and news on one page. I don’t understand the move to get rid of it. Now, I’m a homeless Internet user. Great.
My computer has a tab that provides stuff like what My Yahoo does and so does my IPhone. If anything I’m inundated with more Info now than 20 years ago. As for that gen Z doesn’t want to be around people I don’t think that’s true as there are still several things like MeetUp that still attract a lot of people. Recently some millennials were trying to get me to join something called “Break the Bubble” that is a site aimed at people in their 20’s and 30’s to meet in person.
I did notice that `https://sports.yahoo.com/` has my favorite team scores at the top of the page and `https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/` has the local weather. It is a brave new world.
Man, you're old. Take it from someone that forgot that his domain at GoDaddy was registered using an excite.com email address (not to mention my recovery phone number was listed as my "home" phone - aka no SMS), so once that email service went away, making changes to my domain was... tricky at best. And yes, my.excite.com was my browser homepage for years. Regardless, this week my father called me as he was rather frustrated he could no longer get into his my.yahoo.com page. For such an iconic (or once-iconic) and pervasive internet standard, it sure fizzled out without much fanfare. Then again, maybe that was the point: almost no one - especially those under the age of 70 - used it, and as such, hardly anyone noticed its demise.
