For me it’s holding a VHS in the store and looking at the cover.

Yeah - that’s a good one. Our local store had a Friday night deal: 5 weekly rentals for 10 bucks, or something. We’d go order fish and chips, then go argue over which 5 movies to rent, while our dinner was cooking.

Although I shouldn’t, I miss my shitty old Datsun sometimes. Easy to diagnose problems, simple to get into and fix, with minimal tools required. No tech - just mechanical and electrical.

Nostalgia’s a funny thing. Lots of things I get wistful for, but they’ve been replaced by (arguably) more convenient things:

• Having to call your mate’s house at a specific time, because you know he has footy training and won’t be home to answer before that time
• Waiting until specific times of night to watch your favourite TV shows or listen to your favourite radio DJs
• The massive zip-up carry case for all my cassette tapes, to play in the car
• 6-way link-up Daytona arcade racing
• Loading my computer games from multiple floppy discs (X-Tree Gold macros for the win!)

Then there’s things that I miss, because now I have to adult:

• Sleeping in on weekends
• Work I don’t have to take home with me
• Being able to stay out stupidly late on Friday and Saturday nights
• Getting absolutely shitfaced on those nights, without worrying about the hangover
• Eating a bag of chips and calling it dinner, because there’s no one else you need to feed