here in the UK i remember...

[franky1]

the milkman delivered daily produce on a electric van
the milk was contained in glass bottled that were taken(recycled) when new milk bottles were dropped off at your door
butter was cut in blocks and wrapped in paper or tinfoil

you bought fish and chips(chunky fries) wrapped in paper
you went to local butchers who cut you fresh meat wrapped in grease paper
you could heat a house a day for under 50p in a coin machine in your home

...
not even 25 years later
we have convenience food delivered by fossil fuel cars at a surcharge
the milk is in plastic containers that not all places will accept for recycling
butter is in plastic tubs

fish and chips are in plastic trays
meats are in plastic shrink wrapped packaging
you cant even heat a home for less than £5

and yet they say we need to be innovative and think of new idea's to change the current situation...
.. i think we need to go back to old idea's.

anyone else think of old stuff that is better than modern?

[cornhodlr]

anyone else think of old stuff that is better than modern?

Train carriages

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Refrigerators, stoves, dishwashers and clothes washers/dryers that do not have apps or internet connections...
These days most are short-lived crap that are needlessly 'connected'.

[franky1]

Refrigerators, stoves, dishwashers and clothes washers/dryers that do not have apps or internet connections...
These days most are short-lived crap that are needlessly 'connected'.

im totally agreeing with dishwashers AKA your hands...
modern ones still ask you to hand rinse the dish of most the grime in the kitchen sink before putting in a machine(facepalm) that takes over 1.5 hours to supposedly do what most people can do by hand in 10 minutes for a full load

[tinus42]

I have a tumble dryer from 1997 that still works. The company that made it is long out of business but it still goes on. My coffee maker is from 2000, a Siemens Porsche that was featured in Firefly as a "futuristic coffee maker". And I have a mixer from my grandmother that dates back from the 1950s. They all still chug along. They just don't make quality goods anymore like they used to.

[Cryptohygenic]

and yet they say we need to be innovative and think of new idea's to change the current situation...
.. i think we need to go back to old idea's.

Take it for evolution which had brought about the more convenient services which is sure more enjoyable today.
Recalling of the previous era was a fun but does not worth going back.

[Trêvoid]

Sometimes, the smartest solutions aren’t brand new—they’re actually old ideas that we dust off and update for modern life. Maybe true progress means looking back, seeing what used to work well, and choosing to bring those things back, but this time doing it intentionally.