The Internet Said So | Ep 320 | Things Millennials Miss The Most

The Internet Said So

The hosts explore the concept of millennial nostalgia, reflecting on the disappearance of tactile and social experiences from their youth. T

Key takeaways

• The hosts reflect on Orkut's integration with Google Talk, noting how old contacts still appear in modern calendars.
• Azeem describes using 'O launcher' and custom Android settings as a strategy for digital minimalism to combat doom-scrolling.

Main topics

• Millennial Nostalgia
• Digital Minimalism

Notable quotes

I miss when education for kids was like in the thousands of rupees in a year.

Conclusion

The episode serves as a bittersweet meditation on how technological pr

Transcript preview

Speaker 3 (0:00) Alright guys, so... Have you had your short-lived happiness? Oh Speaker 2 (0:04) my god, all four of them are back. It feels like old times. I miss the guys, I miss the boys. Bawa's back. Guess Speaker 3 (0:12) what? Speaker 2 (0:13) Your Speaker 3 (0:14) hopes are not in the air. Speaker 2 (0:16) Look, you can't say Speaker 3 (0:17) Baraatwala without Bawa. But obviously, welcome Azeem, the unofficial fifth member of TISS. Yes. We are doing this for Speaker 2 (0:27) Dream 11, right? Oh, Speaker 1 (0:28) sorry. That's off. Sorry. Bro, I think it's a perfect segue into things that were popular and are now. Oh, yes. Yes. But Speaker 3 (0:40) you know, I feel like this frame, this was the first six months of 2026 for me. Right? Where our individual wives are all sitting and just wondering that these idiots are sitting for six hours. We're talking nonsense, laughing, what's going on, 4 days a week, 5 days a week. I Speaker 1 (0:57) can't believe that I had a cricket phase, man. Speaker 3 (1:00) Yeah. Oh, f**k. Seriously. Speaking of, did you see what happened? We just came here, let's Speaker 2 (1:06) talk Speaker 3 (1:06) about Speaker 1 (1:07) cricket. Speaker 3 (1:07) Asian Games are on, okay. And our team has gone to Japan. And the first game was India versus Japan. But because of the typhoon, the match was shortened to 5 overs a side. It was just like, how Speaker 2 (1:23) is this Speaker 3 (1:23) building cricket Speaker 2 (1:23) being played in Asian Speaker 3 (1:25) games? Bro, India has gone to bat first. Now, Kautuk, from your cricketing expertise, I would like to ask. India is playing Japan, okay? I didn't know Japan had a team. They do. They play with a bat, not a katana. Okay? India is batting first, 5 overs. How many scores did India score? Speaker 1 (1:45) Japan is bullying, right? Speaker 3 (1:46) And everyone in their team is bullying. Correct. Speaker 1 (1:50) Say, conservatively they're scoring 10 runs and over. 50 is the minimum. So, let's put 10 more runs on that. 60. Speaker 3 (1:58) Tautok, in your deep analysis, I will only take one word out and that's conservatively. Because they have conservatively scored 32 runs and lost 5 wickets. And Japan almost got through because they finished at 30. We won by 2 runs from Japan. You know this is like when Speaker 1 (2:22) you're used to doing hour long specials and you have to do a 5 minute part and then you're like shit mai kya karu? Speaker 3 (2:30) Correct, correct. Exactly that. Indian Speaker 1 (2:31) cricket team. Speaker 3 (2:32) Aur satsi hai, huggu performance woh 5 minute mai nikalta hai, then you're rethinking career choice. And Speaker 1 (2:36) Japan is like, arey yeh toh mai karta hu, rose, open mic, let's go. Speaker 2 (2:40) This is my job. Correct. But Azeem kaisa hai bhai, kya chal raha hai? Alright dude, I am just putting together a stand-up clip, a new stand-up clip, a little topical one which hopefully should be out soon. A stand-up special also is being developed, it was re-shot for various reasons, you will find out once it eventually comes out. And planning some shows in Germany, in Munich and Berlin, so if the public is there, the Euros public, this is for you all, please come. Speaker 3 (3:10) You just have to do these two shows. Speaker 2 (3:13) So I was going to Croatia for like one family small reunion type thing we're doing with my sister and my parents. My parents I've met recently. You know, I'm so glad Speaker 1 (3:23) you mentioned sisters and parents because I was like, your Croatian family is going to be known today. Speaker 2 (3:30) The Banatich family. Speaker 3 (3:38) So guys, buy the ticket. It's in the pinned comment. Go and watch Ajim's show in German. And when his video comes out, watch that too. And let's start today's episode in 3, 2, 1. Speaker 3 (3:58) Hello and welcome to another episode of the Internet Set. So a show where we take random students' words to the facts that we've been told. Stories that we talk about it. And today we are three millennials. And our favorite time and time pass is to get lost in nostalgia. I'll tell you a prime example of what I saw happen recently. Now this phone launch is going on. Multiple screens are opening up. And on the side there's one company. that's launching a phone. I think, Azeem, the name was Circuit? Click? What was it? Click's communicator. Click's communicator. So you have the screen and you have an actual physical touchpad. And on that post, there are around 15 lakh comments. And everyone is like us, the old public, saying, wow, I want this, I want to press it, I want Speaker 2 (4:48) to press the Speaker 3 (4:48) button again. I Speaker 2 (4:49) also Speaker 3 (4:49) want Speaker 2 (4:50) to just point out how conditioned you are to this. scrolling life that you called it a physical touchpad and not a keyboard. Oh shit. Yeah. Speaker 3 (5:02) Yeah. But bro, people are going mad. I'm Speaker 2 (5:08) on the list for it. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. I'm on the list. Speaker 1 (5:12) But Azeem, you also have developed multiple strategies to take your smartphone and make it a very dumb phone. What Speaker 2 (5:19) do you Speaker 1 (5:19) do? Speaker 2 (5:20) I tried Speaker 1 (5:21) a lot. Speaker 2 (5:21) First, I did all the mindfulness stuff where I put app timers and all of that. Then that was too easy because you could just reset the app timer. Who's going to watch Speaker 1 (5:29) the watchman? That's the problem. Yeah, exactly. Speaker 2 (5:32) That's the problem. Who chocks the chocky there? Then I tried the making phone black and white thing. which worked for a time. Then I tried deleting apps. Speaker 3 (5:45) Kautub was doing it bro. I still do. Still doing it bro. That fucked my head more than like bright colors from my screen. Because I just couldn't understand. It just feels like Speaker 2 (5:57) you're doom scrolling in the 20s now. Speaker 1 (5:59) And it made the latest Golmaal trailer look like art cinema. It was black and white. It was quite something. Gol Noir. Speaker 1 (6:10) Then what else? Then Speaker 2 (6:11) I tried the deleting of all the apps from the phone and using it only on my tab which was working quite well. Oh wow! But then when I had those parts of like because we don't just use it for consumption we also Speaker 1 (6:23) have Speaker 2 (6:23) our work to post. So when it came to doing the work it was very unwieldy to post stuff on the tab so then I would have to re-download the thing and this constant download re-download was... And you wasted Speaker 3 (6:34) more time doing that Speaker 2 (6:36) than if Speaker 3 (6:37) you had it on your phone. Speaker 2 (6:38) So then I was looking at all these minimal phones. So there's your clicks communicator, I recall minimalist phone, which is like they are the sort of the Kindle E Ink display in a phone. They made a minimalist phone too, which was also looking quite interesting, which was like a little Android-ish and all, but like very minimal interface. But then I realized that both of you are iPhone. No, I am Speaker 3 (7:00) iPhone and Google Pixel. Speaker 2 (7:02) Fair enough. So in Android, you can get these custom launchers. which basically, so I got this custom launcher, which is a paid thing. It's called O launcher. And then a pro version is called pro launcher. Very funny. Which I don't know, but it's like 700 bucks a year. And it just turns, this is all my phone is. It's just this, whatever six apps that I want to add. Speaker 1 (7:27) And even like, for instance, if Speaker 2 (7:29) I am opening a particular app that I've opened a lot of times, like Chrome, So now it's going to say, take a deep breath and it's going to waste a bunch of time before it allows me to open the app based on how many times I've opened the app in the day. Speaker 1 (7:43) But Azim, you know, like this is amazing, except when you're in an emergency and you need to open an app and it's just like, take a deep breath. Relax. Calm down. But you have to book Speaker 2 (7:55) a Speaker 1 (7:55) cap. You have to book Speaker 2 (7:57) a Speaker 1 (7:57) cap. Speaker 3 (7:57) First you're waiting for the phone, then you're waiting for the cap. Speaker 2 (8:02) But he lives in Speaker 1 (8:03) Goa, Speaker 2 (8:03) so what's the urgency? Speaker 3 (8:05) This Speaker 1 (8:05) app should have been called Goa. Speaker 3 (8:10) But then why don't Speaker 1 (8:11) you Speaker 3 (8:11) go to like a full, this only, like an old school burner type thing. Speaker 2 (8:16) But then how will Uber book? Correct. Literally it comes down to Uber, UPI. So I've actually thought about this. Guys, don't steal my idea but if anyone wants to talk about this, if there's a tech builder, I literally want to build India equivalent of a phone where it has nothing apart from phone, WhatsApp, Ola, Uber and Jeep. Nothing else. Speaker 1 (8:35) Maps. Speaker 2 (8:36) Maps maybe. Because anything else you do on your laptop, I would say. So this Speaker 1 (8:41) is... Thakur, I was talking to Azeem. He had one other great idea of merging old phone with new phone. Azim, tell me this idea. This is Speaker 2 (8:50) also Speaker 1 (8:50) a good idea. Speaker 2 (8:50) This Speaker 1 (8:50) is Speaker 2 (8:50) a good idea. Because it's pretty much what is happening on my phone right now. The circular dialer of our old phones. Speaker 1 (8:57) The rotary. Speaker 2 (8:59) I failed that but to unlock your phone. Because you really then will want to unlock your phone. If you have to do that. And minimum 10 numbers. So you have to do 10 times. Oh, fuck. Bro, so then fuck emergency. Nothing is happening then. Nothing. Speaker 3 (9:14) Then you're back in the day, you could just be off the grid. Where is Azeem? I don't know. When Azeem won't call or call the pager or anything, Azeem in Communicado. Let's see. I've Speaker 2 (9:29) realized, sorry, just when I was driving home, I was listening to this song, which you all would have heard also, it's one of my favorite songs. It's called Missing by Everything But The Girl. The end I miss you. Wait, wait, wait. Speaker 1 (9:43) This song is called Missing Everything But The Girl. Speaker 2 (9:47) Missing by everything but the girl. Also there are situations where you are missing everything but the girl. It's called divorce I think. But like basically that song is about how this person Like it was a 90s song like disco hit back in the day. It's talking about how this person has come back to a town where there's somebody who she was in love with or whatever. And there's no way of finding out where they are because they don't live at the same address anymore. And like that's the feeling that you cannot replicate in the new world at all. Because there's nobody who's so off-grid. Yes. Unless there's some Speaker 3 (10:26) fucking killers. Speaker 1 (10:27) No dude. I don't know if this happens to you guys. I had opened Telegram the other day. So Telegram does this thing where as soon as you open it, it shows you all the new people who have joined. You guys are asking for Speaker 2 (10:41) drugs? Speaker 1 (10:43) Why are you opening Telegram? Speaker 2 (10:47) So both of us opened Telegram for the same reason because we are an oil money group. And every time when somebody new joins and I know that person, I always, it gives you a notification. I always message that person and ask what illegal activity have you come here for? Speaker 1 (11:04) No, but so, so, so what, what was interesting for me was key. I see these, these numbers of people like minute. That's all. You know, I booked one sort of like a Porter type situation. Speaker 1 (11:19) This number. You know, he has joined Telegram. Now, Transpict XYZ Comedy Store. That's his true caller name. Dude, it's so interesting that people you've interacted once in your life, you have their number for some reason and 10 years later out of the blue, you can still find out about them. Reach out immediately. Do you remember 10 years ago? Bro, you Speaker 2 (11:43) know the worst thing is that I don't know how to get rid of this. So Orkut at one point, if you remember, first of all, for people who don't know Orkut, go and Google it. For me, still best social media ever. Orkut at one point had I think been acquired by Google or it was being synced with your Google account. Speaker 1 (12:03) And Speaker 2 (12:04) it would sync. I'll tell you the exact chronology. You understand the chronology, Abishaji. Which is that it synced your Orkut with your Google Talk. You remember Google Talk? Oh yes. Was it before or after Speaker 1 (12:20) Google Wave? Speaker 2 (12:21) Yes. In the general vicinity of Google Wave. And then when it linked Google talk to this, it then merged all the contacts from Google talk to my Google account. And now in my calendar, I still get birthday updates from people on Orkut with their Orkut statuses from 2008 still. My calendar has a birthday for Rohan. Why am I not 100 % sexy? Speaker 3 (12:54) Are you serious? I still have people who Speaker 2 (12:57) are making their names with ASCII and all. Speaker 3 (12:59) You Speaker 2 (12:59) know, ASCII codes. Run up Speaker 1 (13:00) with the P registered. I don't know Speaker 2 (13:05) how to get rid of it from my calendar. Speaker 1 (13:06) Don't. You can monetize this. Keep it and Speaker 3 (13:10) blackmail them. Blackmail them. If one of them has made it big in life, tell him to put money in his shoe right now or else he'll upload it. Speaker 1 (13:17) Thakur, this is the fundamental difference between you and I. When I heard this, I said, this is a museum. People will come and see it. They will say, this used to happen at one time. And my suggestion is, blackmail them. Blackmail them. Take out the money. Speaker 3 (13:30) Look, if you had my Orkut, I would have given it to you. Then it would have been fine. I would have given it to you 100%. Speaker 1 (13:36) One thing, okay, without naming names, one most embarrassing Orkut story. They're the fucking testimonials. Speaker 3 (13:45) No, it's not just testimonials. It's testimonials written in that time's language. Testes. Yes. That is the worst. Even if you've written something like, oh, he's a great guy, great friend to have, you know, life of the party. But the way you would write it, just the actual thing. of how you're spelling the words and... No, no, no. And Speaker 1 (14:06) also you start with this guy. What can I say about him? Okay, I will try. Speaker 3 (14:11) What can I say about Speaker 1 (14:12) him? Speaker 3 (14:13) You know what is to annoy me the most? When we used to update the status on Facebook at one time. Like, bro, Facebook... So, your name used to appear on it and then you would write the status update with, is watching a movie. You know, the thing would start with is. Speaker 2 (14:27) It was Speaker 3 (14:28) so fucking weird. Like an action line Speaker 1 (14:31) of a screenplay. Speaker 3 (14:32) Yeah, exactly. And then Speaker 2 (14:35) there was the different feelings, feeling blessed, feeling happy. Yeah, yeah, Speaker 1 (14:39) yeah. And I think there was, you know, there's something so innocent and pure about calling a friend and saying, bro, I've written on your wall, you also write. But like, you know, I've never called anybody with that sort of like beautiful transactional, you know, thing. We need to bring it Speaker 2 (14:56) back dude. I think it will solve so much of our general polarization problems. For every review that you leave on a person's profile in public, they are allowed to leave an equally public review of you. I think it's the best checks and balances that society can have. It's like an Airbnb review. You know how where you can't see the review of the person until they have a review. It should be like that. Speaker 3 (15:21) Should be. In fact, what happened with me was that day my mom randomly started sending pictures on the group. But it's pictures of actual physical Speaker 2 (15:29) pictures. Speaker 3 (15:30) Okay, Leela on Kodak, that time. Speaker 2 (15:33) Dude. No, Thakur, she was doing the 80s AI trend. What are you talking about? Oh my God, still on. They're still doing it in public. They've melted an iceberg by doing this. Yes, Speaker 1 (15:45) the polar bear is drowning. Speaker 1 (15:50) The funny thing was that like the people from the eighties, this trend never reached them only. It's just everybody else. The actual fucking eighties born people, they are oblivious living their life as if nothing happened. Speaker 2 (16:03) No, and there were people born in the sixties who are doing the eighties trend. I'm Speaker 1 (16:08) like Speaker 2 (16:08) but you were there in the eighties. You Speaker 3 (16:10) have Speaker 2