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Arcade Fire did a good job capturing this wistfulness in "We Used to Wait" from 2010. Recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs11Bp1RkpU https://www.you

• meowster 2y ago
  They also made a cool website where you could type in your address and it would use Google Satellite and Street View images to make a personal music video. HN discussion from when it came out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646703
• strict9 2y ago
  Thanks for that reminder. Waiting has the side effect of making the perception of time go by slower. I remember how when first taking digital photos around 2010 I noticed that I remembered very little and time seemed to fly by because I was looking at a screen the whole time (on the back of a camera). And today we're all looking at bigger screens all the time in every place and have more photos than ever. And time seems to go by faster. That, as well age. That does it too.
• brailsafe 2y ago
  and to ironically bring it back around to tech, there was this Chrome Experiment that's totally worth trying on a desktop/laptop browser and is centered around that song. (it's from before https everywhere, but safe, also enable popups) http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ Because the chrome experiment was my first exposure to the song, I'll occasionally find myself walking home in the middle of the night, and will play the song on my phone speaker.