You are too old if you remember.......

[Rothman]

...when René-Lévesque Blvd in Quebec city was known as St-Cyrille Blvd.

One might also remember Rue Principale in Normandin being called Saint-Cyrille.

Istanbul was Constantinople

Why did that city get the works?

Nobody's business.

[Rothman]

I was born in 2002. I'm now 20. So my memories are all from the 2000s. Here's my list.

Kid Pix, I remember playing that game in 3rd grade computer class

Blockbuster Video (screw Netflix) 

The tube TV on the cart that the teacher would bring out and play educational movies on.

Scholastic Book Fair, they always encouraged you to buy an actual book, but you'd blow all your money on toys.

Those rugs that had a pretend city on it (I used to have one back in the day.)

Windows XP

Silly Bandz, why were these so popular?

Club Penguin, this was Fortnite of its era.

That's it.

All recent history.  You're still a kid.

[US71]

...when René-Lévesque Blvd in Quebec city was known as St-Cyrille Blvd.

One might also remember Rue Principale in Normandin being called Saint-Cyrille.

Istanbul was Constantinople

Why did that city get the works?

Nobody's business.

Nobody's business but the Turks.

[hbelkins]

Istanbul was Constantinople

Kyiv was Kiev. (seems topical today)

Zimbabwe was Rhodesia.

Rocky Top was Lake City.

[SkyPesos]

Scholastic Book Fair, they always encouraged you to buy an actual book, but you’d blow all your money on toys.

I always bought a book, since they toys seem cheap in quality and not something I would exactly want.

Windows XP

My middle school still had Windows XP computers when I was there.

Istanbul was Constantinople

Tokyo was Edo

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Istanbul was Constantinople

Kyiv was Kiev. (seems topical today)

Kiev is the Russian transliteration, while the former is the Ukrainian transliteration. Ukraine's government campaigned for years after the fall of the USSR to get English-language sources to stop using Kiev with fairly limited success, but in response to Russia's takeover of Crimea in 2014 and ensuing Russian-blacked separatist activities in Ukraine, English-language media then very rapidly ditched Kiev.

[MATraveler128]

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it I can’t say, people just liked it better that way.

[kevinb1994]

Lake City in Florida was once known as Alligator. You can guess where the UF got their nickname.

[Scott5114]

Windows XP

My middle school still had Windows XP computers when I was there.

Hell, at the casino we were still running Windows XP on the OTB totalizators in...2020.

[tolbs17]

Scholastic Book Fair, they always encouraged you to buy an actual book, but you'd blow all your money on toys.

I always bought a book, since they toys seem cheap in quality and not something I would exactly want.

Windows XP

My middle school still had Windows XP computers when I was there.

When I was at JH Rose High School back in 2020, many computers there are still running Windows XP.

[US 89]

A shocking amount of important or critical computing infrastructure still runs Windows XP.

[LilianaUwU]

A shocking amount of important or critical computing infrastructure still runs Windows XP.

I mean, if it ain't broken, don't fix it.

[kkt]

...when René-Lévesque Blvd in Quebec city was known as St-Cyrille Blvd.

One might also remember Rue Principale in Normandin being called Saint-Cyrille.

Istanbul was Constantinople

Why did that city get the works?

Nobody's business.

Nobody's business but the Turks.

Constantinople commemorates the Roman Emperor Constantine, who converted the Roman Empire to Christianity.  Since the Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453, the Roman Empire was ancient history and the Turks were not Christian so they didn't particularly care to commemorate a person known for either.

[Scott5114]

A shocking amount of important or critical computing infrastructure still runs Windows XP.

I mean, if it ain't broken, don't fix it.

Well, the casino's philosophy was "if it is broken, still don't fix it, because that costs too much." We had to have Sportech come out to work on those ancient totes every other week or so, and the amount of time we were running at 50% capacity because one had ceased functioning was ludicrous. Some of them had entered service before some of our cashiers had graduated middle school.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

I actually entered Karl Marx Stadt into that name as many cities as you can game because I couldn't remember "Chemnitz" . And they had already reverted to the latter by the time I was born.

[MATraveler128]

A shocking amount of important or critical computing infrastructure still runs Windows XP.

I had no idea that it was still around in 2022. In high school and college, we have Windows 10, so we’ve been spoiled by that software. But I do remember the old startup sound and the old background with the hill. Now that I think about it, my local library might still use it.

[1995hoo]

...

Blockbuster Video (screw Netflix) 

...

Windows XP

...

I remember when Blockbuster opened around here they were initially very unpopular. The big local chain was Erol's, which dominated the market, and people were reluctant to change. But Blockbuster were a bigger corporation with more resources and eventually saturated the market and drove Erol's out of business.

Regarding Windows XP, that's newfangled. Maybe we should have a thread on which version of DOS everyone liked best. (The first PC my parents got ran IBM PC-DOS 3.30 and WordPerfect 4.2.)

[english si]

Constantinople commemorates the Roman Emperor Constantine

Is commemorate the right word for a founder of a city naming it after itself?

It's not a Washington, or Pennsylvania, situation where its named after someone dead in honour of them. It wasn't even a Victoria, named in honour of someone living. Rather it was an Alexandria - named by a conqueror after himself because of his massive ego.

who converted the Roman Empire to Christianity.

Nope, just made a declaration with his fellow emperor (both he and the other junior sub-emperors had just defeated their respective more-senior 'Augusti') that Christianity would be tolerated. Two years after the most senior emperor of the time had already done that...

The Empire stayed officially Pagan for nearly 70 years after the Edict of Milan - which was a very minor thing that became shorthand for the shift in the Roman State over the 75 years between Diocletian's death and Christianity becoming the official state religion.

Sure Constantine's claims to be Christian made it cool among the elites to be a Christian, but that was significantly undone by his being a heretical Arian, his successor also being and basically outlawing Nicean Christianity (rather than, like Constantine, just exiling key bishops for trying to uphold the decisions made in front of Constantine himself at Nicea), and then Julian the Apostate trying to make Paganism cool again.

Since the Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453, the Roman Empire was ancient history

Err the day Constantinople fell was the day the Roman Empire went. It wasn't ancient history, but literal breaking news, that the Roman Empire fell and Constantinople changed.

We only think it ancient history because western scholars call the Greek-speaking parts of the Roman Empire (post-fall of the Latin-speaking parts) "the Byzantine Empire" (after the small city near where Constantine had built his new capital) to make clear that those who called themselves 'Ῥωμαῖοι' (Romanoi), and were called by the Arabs and Turks as 'Roum' or 'Rum', were not part of the western notions of Rome.

[jp the roadgeek]

Lake City in Florida was once known as Alligator. You can guess where the UF got their nickname.

Would love to see the BGS's on I 95 for I-10:

I-10 WEST Alligator

[J N Winkler]

Constantinople commemorates the Roman Emperor Constantine, who converted the Roman Empire to Christianity.  Since the Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453, the Roman Empire was ancient history and the Turks were not Christian so they didn't particularly care to commemorate a person known for either.

It turns out Wikipedia has a whole article on names for Istanbul.  The Ottomans actually used Constantinople (as Kostantiniyye) as one of their official names for their capital--it was actually the modern Turkish republic that decreed in 1930 that Istanbul, itself a Turkicization of a demotic Greek phrase meaning "to the city," would thereafter be the sole officially recognized name.

A shocking amount of important or critical computing infrastructure still runs Windows XP.

This makes me nervous, especially when many of those systems are still vulnerable to exploits (like EternalBlue) that were patched long ago.  It's one thing to keep on using an old XP machine for occasional chores like scanning (as I do) and another to have it as a way in for a geopolitical opponent to prepare the battlefield by turning off the lights here.

[Dirt Roads]

Regarding Windows XP, that's newfangled. Maybe we should have a thread on which version of DOS everyone liked best. (The first PC my parents got ran IBM PC-DOS 3.30 and WordPerfect 4.2.)

Wordperfect 4.2 was so good that many of my colleagues refused to move up to Windows 3.0.   Sadly, I've forgotten all of the quick-keys for the DOS versions of WordPerfect.

[Rothman]

Regarding Windows XP, that's newfangled. Maybe we should have a thread on which version of DOS everyone liked best. (The first PC my parents got ran IBM PC-DOS 3.30 and WordPerfect 4.2.)

Wordperfect 4.2 was so good that many of my colleagues refused to move up to Windows 3.0.   Sadly, I've forgotten all of the quick-keys for the DOS versions of WordPerfect.

I liked the cheat strips you could stick at the top of your keyboard.

[zachary_amaryllis]

road related:
CO 68 and 28 (68 got de-whatevered and is now just harmony road. 28 also was de-whatevered, and is now just larimer co rd 52E)
being able to see where the us-87 signs used to be on i-25.
speed limit 55
the mousetrap in denver

non-road:
rotary phones
party lines (existed here until 1992)
businesses actually answered the phone instead of 'press 1...'
long distance from fort collins to loveland
writing checks

[cwf1701]

Road releated:
Gratiot signed as US-25
seeing a forgotten white US-431 on Forrest Ave.
non road
Dialing 7 digits to call south of 8 mile or into Oakland county from 9 Mile in Macomb county
Computers such as the Commodore Pet and the TRS-80 (aka the Trash 80)

[Max Rockatansky]

Road releated:
Gratiot signed as US-25
seeing a forgotten white US-431 on Forrest Ave.
non road
Dialing 7 digits to call south of 8 mile or into Oakland county from 9 Mile in Macomb county
Computers such as the Commodore Pet and the TRS-80 (aka the Trash 80)

Considering the rotary phone worked just fine at my Grand Parents house in Redford Township that makes me old by your definition.  I certainly don't remember US 25 on Gratiot though, that's a little past my lifetime..