23 Low-Quality Modern-Day Products That Prove They Really Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To Anymore

Nifty · Posted 1 minute ago 23 Low-Quality Modern-Day Products That Prove They Really Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To Anymore "When I was a kid in the '70s, they were sweet, flavorful, and delicious. These days, they are hard, flavorless garbage." by Claudia Santos BuzzFeed Staff Link Facebook Pinterest Twitter Mail Modern inventions are great and all, but there are admittedly some things that were just better and more durable back in the day (RIP to my smartwatch that died after one year).

Recently, redditor u/Flaky_Show6239 asked the r/AskReddit community to share the "they don't make them like they used to" items we've grown so used to. Here's what they had to say. 1.



"Search engines: sure, they were wonky and unreliable in the Wild West internet era (e.g., HotBot, Lycos, Webcrawler), but Google came along and revolutionized everything.

Peak search engine reliability was probably in the mid-2010s, and it's been in a steep decline since then. Nowadays, when I search for anything on Google, it omits random keywords of mine, gives me irrelevant AI-generated answers, shows me Pinterest images, and pulls up irrelevant PDF files from things I distinctly did not search for." — u/baron_von_brunk 2.

"Printers. The old grey bricks that you saw 20 years ago in every office that connected via the old parallel printer port were amazing workhorses. Anything from the last 15 years is the epitome of cheap garbage.

" Wei Ting Chang / Getty Images — u/connerpunk 3. "Jeans. I can feel h.