Cool or Interesting stuff or Information that has been lost

[Retro Doomer]

Best Title I could come up with anyway lets get to what this is about.
What we seek her is cool things from the past that have been lost it doesn't have to be extinct of course but should be at least rare enough that most people nowadays would not know about it and is more of a niche knowledge at best.This Includes Cultural Practices/Fairy Tales/Wisdoms/Technology/Believes and so on and please keep it factual here so only real things and not something like back in the day they had Dinosaurs with Laser guns who where mounted by Caveman

(Not real never happened )
Anyway I move on to a Real Interesting fact did you know that in Germanic Culture there was a Calendar.
And those are,
1.Hartung (The Coldest and Hardest Month this is why Hart german for Hard is used)
2.Hornung (When the Horns of the Animals regrew I think)
3.Lenzing
4.Ostermond
5.Wonnemond
6.Brachet
7.Heuert (Month of the Hay Harvest Heu is the German word for Hay)
8.Ernting (Probably something about harvesting Ernten is German for Harvesting)
9.Scheiding
10.Gilbhart (Gilb comes from Gilben meaning it turns yellow and Hart for Hard it means the leaves turn yellow and it becomes a Hard Month afterwards)
11.Nebelung (Nebel means Fog as it is a very foggy month)
12.Julmond (its the Month where Jule was celebrated by the Old Germanics I think)
I think those are more the specific old German Germanic names for them and each one has a meaning behind the name but I only know few.

 

[Cu1tur3D_Gam3R]

Seeing that T-Rex just reminded me of something. If anyone is an avid arcade gamer, especially when it comes to on-rail shooters, you probably familiar with SEGA's The Lost World: Jurassic Park arcade game. But, there was a special edition version the Lost World game that is lost media.

For starters, the cabinet itself is humongus, its has two doors that open up and players would step inside the theater-style cabinet, along with tvs for people on the outside to watch the gameplay. The platform itself moves too, as well as adding a new sound system & air bursts to further immerse yourself while playing the game. And speaking of gameplay, apparently, SEGA changed up the levels so that the game would follow closely to the movie itself, most notably taking out the Carnotaurus boss fight, & replacing it with the T-Rex at the climax of the film.

Unfortunately, we will never see what this version of the Lost World game would truly be about; obviously it never got ported to consoles, but even more unfortunate is the fact that there is no rom for the special edition of TLW to emulate through Supermodel. Though, I did find a reddit post where someone actually played the TLW: JP Special back in the day, & detailed their experience playing this lost spectacle.

https://www.reddit.com/r/JurassicPa...anyone_here_played_the_special_edition_of_the

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

So lost media?

 

[Retro Doomer]

So lost media?

Yes and no its also about names or traditions and pretty much everything that is interesting but got mostly forgotten over time.

 

[Bakuma1997]

August, September, Octover, November, December, Make more sense with just ten months in the calendar, ¿Right? They did, but Julius Caesar during his reign made two months based in his name, eventually the naming was adopted in the modern calendar

 

[KirboDeku]

That one cool idea you thought of while on a walk or in the shower or something, but you forgot to write it down.

 

[Bakuma1997]

That one cool idea you thought of while on a walk or in the shower or something, but you forgot to write it down.

Or when you get a cool idea in a dream but once you wake up you forget about it

 

[bjork]

Keebler Pizzarias

 

[Deleted member 660650]

Ah yes. Knowledge of old is so lost that current people naturally don't know what is even lost!!!!!! Alas alaaaaaaaasss!!!! lolol

Well I grew up with old people who shared their wisdom upon me from the days that they had no idea about what is even electricity!!! Let alone electrons and atoms!!!!!

- "Always heat full of milk with your new metal pot before using it to heat something else" my granma used to say!!! lol. And my granpa had wild ideas despite he never caught a horse before: "Slowly crouch walk behind a horse but not directly behind and then suddenly jump on the horse for wild yeeehaw rodeo situation until the wild horse gives up yuuuupp" lol. At least his wild "smoke the damn house to kill bugs and rats" kinda worked lolol.

- People didn't have refrigerators, so they had to use nature to preserve their food. Burying foods under snow is one thing, drying with sunlight is the other, smoking the food and preserving it with salt are alternatives.

- Wood ash was a common thing people lived with. When you burn wood, fire needs oxygen to keep burning so you had to clean the ashes. But these ashes don't have to go to waste. You can use it in soil to grow vegetables, pests dislike ashes to use it to make these buggers stay the fuck away, you can make soap with it, using with water can act as a cleaner stuff to clean your dishes and clothes too, it's also good at making smells go away if you can't find tomato, you can also use it to make around your house less slippery during winter instead of wasting expensive salt yo.

- After you cleaned your house during spring and now you have buckets of cobwebs? No worries matey, they are useful to cover up your wounds to stop bleeding and such. Thanks Spider-Man for always swinging around me house lol.

- People of now are too reliant on their machines to cool down themselves, but in reality dealing with hot weather is simply simple law of physics regarding the vibration of air. The air vibrates towards up, therefore hot air goes up and therefore cold air goes down in a never ending cycle because the hotter air will push down less hot air and in massive way it is a reason for winds but to cool down you don't need to be a Wind Waker. If you gotta live in a hot place, you may live inside of a something that hot air can't enter from "up" or make sure to live where water constantly moving like a waterfall. So if I were to build a home in a desert you would have to crawl to get into it and its window would be on ceiling, however enterance and the window should always be shaded and it means enterance and the window needs a roof. While people of old had this common knowledge, despite kids are educated about idequate laws of physics they still have no idea how cooling actually works. Is too much knowledge makes people narrow minded and therefore educated fools? lolol

- Yes they teach kids "white color reflects sunlight" but they don't say how it does heat up your clothes, and then they teach "black color absorbs sunlight" therefore it's a misunderstanding regarding fashion choice to deal with hot weather. So they share false information to make yourself wear white to don't feel too hot when actually black is better because it doesn't reflect sunlight around the make air around you hotter than it already is. That's why around desert it's better to wear a thick black robe than a thin white robe so black cloth will make hot air go up and act as ventilation when white cloth does the same by also increasing hot air around you constantly before hot air can go up as a relief.

- So when people had no light bulbs they would use mirrors to light up places during day, and during the night they would use burning stuff and put a reflector behind them that is usually some shiny metal to light up stuff more.

- Hands are a great tool for measurement, even time and distance. Excluding your thumbs every finger means like 15 minutes, so when you horizontally align your hand under sun you can predict after an hour the sun will be where bottom of your hand align on the sky.

As for distance you use your thumbs but it works on objects you know their size. Just stretch your arm as much as you can just in front of you and thumbs up, if the object you try to measure how far away it's from you looks about the same size as your thumb then it means its size you see is x10 times smaller to get an idea how far away it's from you. You may use knowledge of how actual size of objects are to predict more currect distance predictions. For example using these methods on a man, if their body looks same size as your thumb then they are between 15-20 meters away.

- Well this one became a meaningless astrology sign for pseudo-personality BS, but this knowledge was common sense to find directions. People used to look at star and constellations to learn what months they are in and find their directions: "Hmm now if I can see Pegasus at southeast, Cassiopeia at north, Andromeda at east and Aquarius at south it means I'm at autum, so if Pegasus is too west for start of autmn and I can see Pleiades at east I'm in October for sure. And if I can see Orion and Aldebaran then damn its winter coming yo" so during Autumn follow Cassiopeia to go north!!! And if you are at northern part of Earth you may use Big Dipper or Cassiopeia as your cosmic hourly clock by analyzing its rotation and their relation to Polaris!!! But if you are in South part of Earth you use Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri's relation to the Southern Cross. It also means which of these you can see means which part of Earth you are in if you lost your way on ship!! And if you can see all of these then it means you are at the equator yo!!! Now new ship captains knows shit about it for they have their devil's device GPS and shit arrrrrr!!!!!!!! lolol

 

[UnboundByJunk]

I could swear that I've seen a caveman with a laser gun riding a dinosaur outside my house before.

 

[PrismRed]

The slang 'goon' used to mean henchman or a thug instead of horny little bastard.

 

[Turbo Kid]

Well as far as gaming goes...

Metroidvania was actually a thing before Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. We just didn't call it that.

The Dynasty Warriors series started as a fighting game.

Kung-Fu Master/Spartan X was the first beat 'em up, not Final Fight, Double Dragon, Kunio, or whatever else you may have heard.

The slang 'goon' used to mean henchman or a thug instead of horny little bastard.

I hate the way people change the meaning of words over time.

 

[Deleted member 660650]

I hate the way people change the meaning of words over time.

Well this happens a lot in American English because that's how... Americans are? lol

For example "gay" used to mean "happy" and now it means homosexual and a generic insult thanks to Americans. I can't keep it gay anymore!!!! lolol

And "dude" used to mean men who are wealthy and care too much about fashion and even their hair style that was assosiated with what rich women does (which now people use "metrosexual" instead), and then it kinda became an insult for men by meaning "feminine men", and then in America during wild west era they started to use "dude" to mean "city folk who can't survive alone without their momma and they can't do shit right" and now it kinda mean an unisex word to mean people, it was a word to refer males but now it's also used for females.

And now Americanos butchering English way more than that. They pulling off some 1984 shit and shorten words to letters so kids talk like "u sus w L" (you suck what a fucking loser) and whatnot shit lol and it's worst than making languages concise in their natural evolution and this is why so many forms of "you" is not used anymore. It's still "bad" but doesn't really matter. Well we can't just say stuff like "Thou didst not think that thy brain and thine eyes would deceive thee, but ye fools shall pay!" anymore!!! Alaaasss alaasss!!!! (I played too much Breath of Fire 4) lolol.

 

[Retro Doomer]

Well this happens a lot in American English because that's how... Americans are? lol

For example "gay" used to mean "happy" and now it means homosexual and a generic insult thanks to Americans. I can't keep it gay anymore!!!! lolol

Especially in the Context of Conservative 1950s American when they talked about a Nice Gay couple down the streets which meant something completely different from today.
Also I remember people used to buy Ice cubes for the Refrigerator if I remember right so that it could actually cool something.And I have no clue how it is said in Burger but remember those

A milk can I assume ? my Ma used to have on of those as a kid also back in the day there where Milk man not just delivery man Nice Mrs Jackinson could cheat with ;) jokes aside I like older sounding words they sound just so Fair and refined like Folk for People we still say folks today though and other examples also did you know early Elevators had Staff in them that controlled the Elevator for you and old Homes even had a Food Elevator ? in the Kitchen where you could deliver you food easily upstairs.
Also this one is very cool and forgotten cool Invention

A fifth wheel helping you to Park in a Car Park where you car can play with other Cars or in a Parking Lot to be honest I could care less Car Park or Parking lot as I just say Parkplatz which would translate to Parking Lot or Parking Place I think.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

One of my favorite bits about worlds that no longer exist is that the East Prussian village of Rossitten (arguably the birthplace of birdwatching) would routinely lend expensive equipment to local kids so that they could document the migratory and behavioral patterns of local birds, hoping that that would kickstart a future career as scientists, as noted in Anneliese Jones' biography.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Most Doctor Who episodes pre-Tom Baker

 

[Adrastia]

- People of now are too reliant on their machines to cool down themselves, but in reality dealing with hot weather is simply simple law of physics regarding the vibration of air. The air vibrates towards up, therefore hot air goes up and therefore cold air goes down in a never ending cycle because the hotter air will push down less hot air and in massive way it is a reason for winds but to cool down you don't need to be a Wind Waker. If you gotta live in a hot place, you may live inside of a something that hot air can't enter from "up" or make sure to live where water constantly moving like a waterfall. So if I were to build a home in a desert you would have to crawl to get into it and its window would be on ceiling, however enterance and the window should always be shaded and it means enterance and the window needs a roof. While people of old had this common knowledge, despite kids are educated about idequate laws of physics they still have no idea how cooling actually works. Is too much knowledge makes people narrow minded and therefore educated fools? lolol

This reminds me of a yachchal. An ancient Middle Eastern ice house shaped like an inverted cone.

 

[Deleted member 660650]

This reminds me of a yachchal. An ancient Middle Eastern ice house shaped like an inverted cone.

Dude I built that like 2425 years ago as a refrigerator that I also build the same shit as my home back then!!! Ahhh years passing like sand in hourglass!!!!! lolol

 

[KirboDeku]

Well we can't just say stuff like "Thou didst not think that thy brain and thine eyes would deceive thee, but ye fools shall pay!" anymore!!! Alaaasss alaasss!!!! (I played too much Breath of Fire 4) lolol.

Breath of Fire IV mentioned. And speaking of archaic English, it is one of my biggest gripes that English lost the thou-you distinction, because I use a similar distinction very often in my native language Urdu and it feels that I lose a bit of my voice speaking English.

Hell, even in my own language there's this grammatical simplification I see among many young people where they replace the word for "whither" with "where", and sometimes when I say "whither", people look at me like I'm speaking some arcane tongue and don't know what the word means.

 

[Deleted member 660650]

Breath of Fire IV mentioned. And speaking of archaic English, it is one of my biggest gripes that English lost the thou-you distinction, because I use a similar distinction very often in my native language Urdu and it feels that I lose a bit of my voice speaking English.

Hell, even in my own language there's this grammatical simplification I see among many young people where they replace the word for "whither" with "where", and sometimes when I say "whither", people look at me like I'm speaking some arcane tongue and don't know what the word means.

And people look at me funny when I say "thus" which shouldn't be "too old English" thing at all lol.

 

[MajesticSiN]

Everyone has forgotten why 6 is afraid of 7