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The good old days! I was born in 1994, but I still remember vividly how there used to be a shop right opposite our house. Every Friday, we’d go there to rent movies for the weekend. Life felt so simple back then 😂😂

The "good old days" weren’t always that good—especially compared to today’s convenience. Those times were often stressful. So why the nostalgia? In many ways, the present is better. Life is meant to move forward.

Today, I can binge an entire season of Suits from my couch; back then, I had to keep swapping CDs. Creatives used to be exploited by middlemen, but now platforms like YouTube let them monetize directly. These so-called “bad days” have actually spread opportunities and income to far more people.

Netflix/internet kicked them out or should I say technological advancements did it's thing towards these era, just how AI is taking food out of the mouth of so many people now and in the future.

This was a booming business back in those days. How things change!

lionshare:
The "good old days" weren’t always that good—especially compared to today’s convenience. Those times were often stressful. So why the nostalgia? In many ways, the present is better. Life is meant to move forward.

Today, I can binge an entire season of Suits from my couch; back then, I had to keep swapping CDs. Creatives used to be exploited by middlemen, but now platforms like YouTube let them monetize directly. These so-called “bad days” have actually spread opportunities and income to far more people.

Today you can binge an entire season of suits from your couch, unlike us in those days who had to climb the trees at the back of our houses to watch an episode then go back the following week for the next episode? You guys keep saying all sorts of shiits just to make money existent points.

thesicilian:
Today you can binge an entire season of suits from your couch, unlike us in those days who had to climb the trees at the back of our houses to watch an episode then go back the following week for the next episode? You guys keep saying all sorts of shiits just to make money existent points.

. You’re not making a point—you’re mocking progress because you’re sentimental about discomfort. Climbing trees to watch shows or swapping pirated CDs wasn’t charming—it was what we did because systems failed us.

Today, access is better, creators get paid fairly, and global poverty is lower than it’s ever been. That’s not some fancy idea—it’s measurable progress. It comes with problems, sure, but it also solves the ones we used to normalize.

We can laugh at the past, but let’s not pretend it was better. We moved forward for a reason.

Gen zees will not understand what you are talking about
That year I tried stricking a deal with a vendor to collect new movie CDs
Watch and return to be repackaged as new
I don't need to have plenty CD littering my room

I loved it when they started doing 2 in 1
4 in 1
10 in 1 etc
With that I was able to watch a lot of Jackie Chang Bruce Lee and Commando Arnold Schwartznigga movies I never knew existed

Starting This business right now will send you back to your village

Tom and jerry
Isakaba
Diamond ring
Igodo
Agaba
Police officer..

The good old days.

There’s nothing like good old days. It’s just an illusion..

Btw... Yes, the business still dey but they’re not that much. People still use that DVD thing..

That's a video club. Back in the days when we rent American and indian films. One video club was down my street and I rented films for 20naira.
Good nostalgic memories

No. This is 2025 not 2005.. forward ever backward never

Is not working anymore, alot of new social media where people download and watch movies for free has now taken over, Internet has kill!d the business...

I could remember when we were young, my mums family house, for those who kno island very well, most especially sangros, there's a man there we used to to rent new yoruba movies from for N100 for a full day, we return the second day...

So every year, the best customer the rent movies and returnd without defaulting wins alot of gift every December period, he has all his customers record...

Good old days

I knew of someone that will buy a CD, go home and watch it. The moment he was done watching he will scratch it a little then go back to the seller and tell him the disc scratched and then exchange it and collect another one.

Mind you, he was able to do that only when the disc wasn't tested at the shop.

blessedchild234:
Netflix/internet kicked them out or should I say technological advancements did it's thing towards these era, just how AI is taking food out of the mouth of so many people now and in the future.

Netflix started from this idea and I want to show you how

Nostalgic..

I bet, in half a century from now, we'll feel today's nostalgia..

Born in 1994, you are still young op.
That business can't flourish anymore in Nigeria due to so many factors.

yea good ol days, some millionaires where made from this business especially the mojo ones, the business still exist but not thriving like before. advent of phones and cheap internet ended the business

Just as we are now feeling that technology has improved so also the next generation will be calling the present technology obsolete... Change is truly constant.

lionshare:
The "good old days" weren’t always that good—especially compared to today’s convenience. Those times were often stressful. So why the nostalgia? In many ways, the present is better. Life is meant to move forward.

Today, I can binge an entire season of Suits from my couch; back then, I had to keep swapping CDs. Creatives used to be exploited by middlemen, but now platforms like YouTube let them monetize directly. These so-called “bad days” have actually spread opportunities and income to far more people.

Exactly.

In the good old days, if you wanted to watch an entire season of your fave show....you needed a whole library of VHS tapes, sometimes at least 4-26 of them. And they were expensive, and you had to have a friend who lived oversease who could import them for you.

By 2007, I was watching CD's with 12-20 films on them. Today, streaming is the way. And no need to even store films...and if I wanted to store 600 films.....just get a multiterrabyte storage...which won't take much space on my dinner plate.

Things are better o, back then these people pirate movie producers hard work and make money from it, then rob me again the consumer by selling incomplete episodes of prison break, lost and legend of the seeker.
God punish all of them.

Now I am seeing episodes I never saw before of prison break and lost on Netflix.

Today own is better.

business is not static, The CD technology has faded

Beremx:
That's a video club. Back in the days when we rent American and indian films. One video club was down my street and I rented films for 20naira.
Good nostalgic memories

why American and Indian films? Is Igbo films not worth watching?

Pirates finish these people, Alaba international

We used to call it Video Club… good old days
From the posters you already know the movie that is interesting or not..

Aye koju si Netflix omo ase n Wa DVD (Zlatan 😄😄😄)

There was Video Mars in Jos back then. It was cool.



We rented video cassettes

Yes.

Whenever I am traveling from Abuja to Asaba, there's a usual stopover at Lokoja, the guy has big speakers outside and blasts old jams

He sells CDs

I wanted to patronize him but then I don't even have cd player at home , not even my laptop.

So I decided that I will have to buy a dvd player.

Chilipepper:
The good old days! I was born in 1994, but I still remember vividly how there used to be a shop right opposite our house. Every Friday, we’d go there to rent movies for the weekend. Life felt so simple back then 😂😂

I am old enough to recall VHS tapes...and the same type of business, but with VHS tapes. Good old days.

What ended the business? DSTV, then the internet got good enough for streaming to be possible, then NETFLIX in 2014 went global, and the rest is history.

Also CD films could be annoying. One scratch...wahala dey. Even VHS...you had to clean the player head regularly, also one tear of the tape...wahala. Expose tape to the sun too much ? Wahala. CD was an improvement, until the scratch.

And many of them CD films were illicitly made. LOL...those days when you start watching a film and you see the shadow of someone standing up...to know it was filmed with a camcorder in a theater, and then swiftly burned onto a CD in some illicit factory....and sold worldwide. The main centers were Asia and the US....

Times change. In the 1950's-90's,....if you wanted to watch a movie, you went to cinema. Even now, the cinema still exists....

Lol

It has upgraded slightly though but time is running fast oo chai