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correctguy101:
And wrap it wella for you.
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Just a few years later, I started seeing it being displayed boldly, na then I know say things don cast...

SMH

Lolz, no be lie. Just like when you hardly see Native doctors sign board but with time it became rampant

Konquest:
So that's where your penchant for critical analyses came from. That's impressive.

Perhaps your father was the one you posted about last week who brought mangos to give some of his students back in the 1980s due to the bad state of the economy. I had very brilliant buddies (from the very early 1980s whose parents were Uni academics from many countries such a as Ghana, Jamaica, United States, UK, India, Bangladesh, etc, who came as expats to work in Nigeria during the oil boom era BUT left Nigeria for greener pastures from the tough IBB military dictatorship years of the Structural Adjustment Program or SAP).

Not my dad, another lecturer. Thanks. We had no mango trees at our house.

Kalulu44:
Lolz, no be lie. Just like when you hardly see Native doctors sign board but with time it became rampant

Ah gods... those ones na another problem.

I no fit talk. Always claiming what they don't know.

How time flies... good old days wen d entire family sat to watch a movie not now that we watch differently on our phones.

nairalanda1:
Not my dad, another lecturer. Thanks. We had no mango trees at our house.

Aha! It was another lecturer... That was an apt clarification right there. It's great though to have balanced opinions from older NL folks who witnessed events as they unfolded back in the day to balance perspectives up when these younger ones make VERY unclear, and sometimes wild assumptions about the past.

How time flies.
Life was simple, less stressful and demanding then.
Thank God for life.

Piracy. Things are changing fast. Those things are against the law

Let's them catch you.

The era has long gone
You see eh in dis life be prepared for CHANGE

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 😂😂

You were born in 1994 and you guys we be insulting your fathers age mate here

My friend did this business back then. He's now in Russia

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 😂😂

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.

You are too serious, this thread wasn't made for you, you can move along and forget it ever existed.

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.

It's not just about nostalgia. When something is too accessible it kinda loses value a bit.

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

noted bro, quite interesting to find out that even in first world countries technological innovation actually go through phases such as third world countries do.

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

So ,she must watch Igbo films because she's Igbo?
I hope you don't listen to any song sang in English because you are Yoruba?
Or else you are a fre_akin Hypo_crite.

When there is now swiftmovie.cloud that you can just imagine something and the AI will generate a movie for you following that your imagination.. video club is gone

DeepSight:
If you were born in 1994 you can't really talk about good old days. By the time you were 20 it was already 2014.

Is Iran still winning?
We are waiting to see Islam win at least for once in history

nairalanda1:
1994 was a tense year...fuel scarcity. NADECO vs government, and a major threat of a strike that led to the government harshly clamping down on NLC and the oil workers union.

And the economy was bad as usual, and the naira was falling, and salaries were bad (My dad's salary as a lecturer was wack. My mother's salary as a lecturer was so bad that when she told a market trader how much she was paid, the man was speechless for several minutes. He thought ASUU was going on strike for nothing)

It was still an innocent "year" compared to today that was what I meant.1994 100 times over than 2025 in Nigeria of today

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.

Gen z don vex....you won't understand though,I wish you experienced the good old days

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.

partially some pple still runs it many are old stock

lionshare:
. 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.

You have a tenuous grasp with sarcasm.
Just because we moved on from something to another doesn't mean the former was worse, sometimes it's just out of convenience. For example most electronic devices made in the so called good old days were more durable and generally cheaper, food was fresher and cheaper, education was more rewarded etc. A lot of other advantages we can only reminisce about today. And what gave you the impression that global poverty is lower today than before? Because you're measuring poverty in terms of money alone and not overall quality of life? Is the farmer who earns two million naira a year, but eats fresh food 3 times a day, lives in his own house, and sends his children to good schools, poorer than the banker who earns ten million naira a year, pays 4 million out of that to his landlord, spends 3 million naira on overly preserved food, sends his children to the same school as the farmer and the rest income on transport and other expenses?

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 😂😂

Tchai...
It would have been even better if NEPA allowed us...
I once rented vhs videos over the weekend but that that was when NEPA did their own for the whole weekend.

Naso money take waka

Good old days, the days of Video Mars, Dad's Supermarket, Leventis and Bata.

The rise of the Internet, and now AI, is wiping out whole sectors and entire businesses. It's going to be worse in the coming years.

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 remember a neighbor was running this business in Lagos around 2015 and it was very successful.

Those of you that lived at or near D-Line Port Harcourt around the mid 90s might also remember Dee Videos.

There's a shop around century busstop, Ago palace... that is still stocked with this movie cd's. There's always music playing there, I wonder how the man still sustains himself and the business.

onadana:
It was still an innocent "year" compared to today that was what I meant.1994 100 times over than 2025 in Nigeria of today

It was not. It was awful, bad and things were bad.

As an example,someone sent mail to someone in the same city, and it took six months for the letter to get there. 1994 nigeria.

You think it was innocent because you were young. (No abuse, and no condenscention meant here, man). It was not. It was a bad time. The same complaining we did then is the same one we do now.

The day you know, you will know. I woke up in 2011....that was the time I knew.

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.

Before Netflix/Internet was USB flash drive. That's what actually kicked them out.

onadana:
The years of yore...the years of innocence.1994....things were relatively stable.

Things were stable? Lol
The military era, protests, fuel scarcity for months, wars ie Liberia, Sierra leone, ecomog etc, was that not the era of shina rambo?

sleek214:
No. This is 2025 not 2005.. forward ever backward never

Do you think it's forward to buy a plate for 200 when you could have rent it for 50 naira and watch then return it? People are still selling/buying plates till date.

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 😂😂

smallie, it was the VHF tape that we the OGs were even watching before the advent of this era.