People are remembering the expensive 'luxury' tech from 20 years ago that's now worthless

People are looking back at the so-called ‘luxury’ tech from 20 years ago and realizing it is basically junk now.

These were the big purchases that felt elite at the time, the kind of thing you protected, bragged about, and assumed would last forever.

Today, most of it has been replaced by a single smartphone and a few apps.

Reddit users are now listing the premium gadgets they once loved, and the results are both funny and painful.

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‘Luxury’ tech from 20 years ago used to be so cool

There’s nothing as nostalgic as remembering the tech of your childhood/ teenage years, and these Reddit users were turning back the clock to remember their faves.

One of the most iconic answers was simple: ’12-disc CD changer,’ But one person’s story turned it into something much bigger.

“My grandparents were going to donate their old diesel Mercedes with 200k miles to their church.

I somehow convinced them to give it to me. I gave my sweet sports car to my younger brother and embraced the leaking, smelly, slow-as-f*ck heap.”

They explained that the best part was the CD changer their grandpa left behind in the car, packed with burned albums, swing classics, and old-school soundtracks.

“All through college, I listened just to his music in the car. I felt like he was driving with me every time I got behind the wheel. That soundtrack made that almost worthless car invaluable to me.”

Another thing people still miss is their BlackBerry device.

One user summed it up perfectly: “I miss tactile keyboards. So many fewer typos.”

Most of these things are worthless today

Some of the most painful examples were the ones that cost an insane amount of money.

One person wrote: “A little more than 20 years ago (late 90s), but my dad had a rear-projection 64-inch TV. It cost about 12k, and I ended up selling it about five years ago for 50 bucks.”

Car tech got roasted too, including ‘CD players in cars that came out of the dash and popped out’.

Another person replied: “Mine didn’t come out, but if you pushed it a certain way, the face would flip so it looked like a flat panel from the outside. I thought that was the coolest shit ever in my ’98 Ford Contour.”

Even storage tech had people laughing. “A 1GB thumb drive,” one user said, before another added: “A teacher told me that it was more than I would need for the rest of my life.”

And some items were truly wiped out by phones and apps. “Caller ID box,” one person wrote, and someone else replied: “And now the feature itself is useless, with every caller being ID’d as Scam Likely.”

The thread ends with the most brutal answer of all: “My degree.”

One person responded: “This one hurts. I feel it, too.”

Luxury tech of the past used to feel permanent, but now it proves how fast the future can turn once-beloved items into junk.