[graftak]

In 2001 the EU switched (mostly) from a local currency to the euro. For years people would calculate prices back to the currency of old. If you do it nowadays, over 2 decades later, people look at you funny.

People who still rant about the simplicity of jQuery are of the same cloth.

[grishka]

Except that unification did give enormous benefits, it allowed those countries to trade more freely. The horribly inefficient JS-ass 5-megabyte-bundle SPA blogs benefit no one in the long run.

By the way, on my recent visit to Europe, there still was a total in francs "for information" on the receipt from a random grocery store in Paris.

[awelxtr]

> By the way, on my recent visit to Europe, there still was a total in francs "for information" on the receipt from a random grocery store in Paris.

As an european: that's a problem. Why? Inflation. People who still change regularly to the old currency only do so for some of their finances AND romanticise the past.