Name anythings you have had or know of that were better any number of years ago than their present 'improved 'counterparts...

some to start for me...
Lawn mowers
clothes in general
lots of foods
clocks
light bulbs
TVs (reliability)

car parts
appliances
furniture
pool covers (struggling with this one now)

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1986 SE Aero coupe.

3.4 DOHC swap is complete and running, now just have to finish the rest of the car...

Microwaves.
Ford F150 interiors.
hand tools.

Teens and 20-somethings

What ^^^^^^^^^ said.

Craftsman Tools
Formula-1 Racing
Coca-Cola
Mc.Donalds French fries


Generally things improve... like hard drives. A Seagate ST-225 RLL hard drive, which only stored 20mbs back in 1985, was 5 pounds, and took up a full height 5.25" floppy drive. You can now get a eMMC / PCIe SSD storage card with 512gigabytes at 500mbs/second and no bad sectors (or bad bits in this case).


But there are some things that have gotten worse, either for expediency, regulation, or cost-cutting... and that's never a good thing.


Just look at the Fiero. Many things improved, some did not.

1984 had the fancy threshold badges "Fiero," but that became too costly and by mid-1985 was eliminated and replaced with the simple black ones.


Give or take... I'm just glad my toys aren't those crappy malleable lead ones that our parents used to play with.

And certainly... games have definitely improved since the loop and stick game...

Boots

Nails.

Treated posts.

Hacksaw blades.

Fencing pliers. (and what moron thought it a good idea to make the handles in Mossy Oak camo pattern? Hard enough to keep up with a pair with bright red handles.)

Cowboys

I'd like to know what moron thought it was a good idea to tehnologize coffee makers

At least enamalware is making a comeback and I can get a decent stove/fire/BBQ coffee pot again.

Just about everything.
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Except wives.
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They're better than ever.
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Ok, she's gone.
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Woooooeeeee, that was close.