It is never just one issue when comparing time periods:

• first HIMYM is a very good show from 2005, I did a quick Google and 2 other show from that year were the ‘War at Home ‘and ‘everyone Hates Chris’. How would HIMYF compare in quality to them? War at Home had good performances if I remember but was very unoriginal, it got 2-3 seasons. No one would remember it if it wasn’t for Remi Maleck being in it.

The point I am trying to make is you remember HIMYM from then as it was very good, but most shows aren’t that good. so it is a bit of an unfair comparison. You would need to compare the best few seasons of a sitcom from now to HIMYM, when it was good it was untouchable.

There was an used book near where I used to work, it was a big area and I love reading. The manager always knew so much about books. But one day I heard him correcting a girls grammar, pronunciation and even accent. I could never go back, it destroyed book shops me for a bit. Especially when I heard another friend how great the small independent book store was, I started thinking that Black Books got it’s inspiration from somewhere.

One my friends got rid of his Alexa despite loving it, his kids had using it to answer homework questions.