People Break Down Which Things Went Away Quietly Without Anybody Really Noticing

Top-Notch Abbreviations

"ROFL (Rolling on the Floor Laughing) dropped off of the face of the planet, and now we just go straight from LOL (Laughing Out Loud) to LMAO (Laughing My A** Off)."

"I've been using it way more lately because of this. ROFL; can't let the classics die."

- habofi2125

Save Those Box Tops!

"Actual toys in cereal boxes and Cracker Jack boxes."

- GuttMilton

The Early Facebook Years

"Facebook 'Poke' wars."

- Hot_buttered_toast

How the Times Have Changed

"People calling them 'camera phones.'"

- NecroJoe

Advancing Technology

"When you turn off the TV, how the image would shrink to a dot before slowly fading away."

- ConcreteCubeFarm

TV Connection

"When you turn off the TV and then you run your finger on the screen and hear the crackle and feel the static on the glass."

- iwannaberockstar

Positive Environmental Change

"Acid Rain."

"It was a huge environmental issue in the late 70s through the early 90s. Rain was acidic and damaged fertile areas among other things."

"In the US, there was much research done, and eventually industrial regulations were put into place. Companies were allowed to decide what approach they chose to take as long as the results showed the appropriate amount of reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions."

"Unfortunately, positive news doesn't sell, so news outlets did not do justice to reporting this success. As we went into the 2000s, hardly anyone remembered what was done."

- GurglingWaffle

Can We Say, 'Nom Nom Nom'?

" McDonald's all-day breakfast menu."

- EmeraldAlicorn

Old Pastimes

"The pandemic killed a lot more than just people. I really miss McDonald's all-day breakfast."

"And being able to go to Walmart at 2 AM."

- LyrMeThatBifrost

The Days of Landlines and Cords

"I live in a rural area and have to pay for landline service to have internet. Since I have to pay for something so stupid, I figured I'd have to get something stupid."

"...So I got the hamburger phone from the movie 'Juno.'"

"Not gonna lie, the landline has come in clutch a few times, and holding a hamburger to your ear is amusing every time. 10/10 would recommend."

- Meat_Skeleton

Late-night Grocery Runs

"I think people have noticed now but at the time, nobody noticed it was happening: the closing of 24-hour stores. I live in a major city and we don’t have a single 24-hour grocery store ever since the pandemic."

- anxiousfamily

"In a World Where..."

"Movie trailers with that deep voice guy [Don LaFontaine] doing the voiceovers."

- jonathonkarate

SoBe Drinks

"SoBe. I think the last time I had one was at Quizno's."

"[cue 'X-Files' Music]"

- kooshipuff

Gizzard the Taco Bell Dog

"Taco Bell used to have a chihuahua as their mascot. Little dude just disappeared one day, and anyone born after 2000 probably doesn't even know what I am talking about."

- To_Fight_the_Night

Google+

"Google+ was the only social media our school forgot to block on our laptops, so I used it a lot. RIP."

- AgentBieber

Some of these really brought back some deeply-engrained memories for the '80s to '00s kids, and it's true that many of them blipped out of existence quietly.

But if this teaches us anything, it doesn't mean that "out of sight, out of mind" also has to mean "out of heart."

And let's have a moment of silence for the vocal stylings of Don LaFontaine and Gizzard the talking Taco Bell dog.