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by burnt-resistor 67 days ago
As a kid in the 80's and 90's, I biked up and down deserted, steep mountain fire roads before cell phones were widespread.

I hear that risk-tolerance normalization and freedom of kids in the 70's was even greater, so this trend appears to be a multi-decade decline.

What I miss most though is cool stuff like interactive art installations and improvised playground features made for kids that were ripped out in the 90's and 00's. Decommissioned Korean war jets, telephone pole obstacle courses, and a myriad of other things without so much as a web page anywhere lost to history.