{"id":150325,"date":"2017-03-20T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T09:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insektenliebe.com\/nicht-kategorisiert\/changing-times-not-everything-used-to-be-better-but-different\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T21:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:25:34","slug":"changing-times-not-everything-used-to-be-better-but-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insektenliebe.com\/en\/news-en\/changing-times-not-everything-used-to-be-better-but-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing times &#8211; not everything used to be better, but different"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So there I sat in the subway, looking out into the gray concrete world with no hope of anything interesting. But what did my tired eyes see? <\/p>\n\n<p>A poster with the inscription &#8220;International tarantula exchange in Marbach am Neckar&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<p>So I thought to myself, Frank do you know where you haven&#8217;t been for ages?<br\/>My mind immediately went back in time, back to the 90s, when people bought their animals at pet fairs. Because how else would you get your exotics? A world in which you panicked if you accidentally pressed the Internet connect button on your cell phone.<br\/>I immediately felt hope and excitement that I might find something there that I had been looking for for a long time. What exactly could it be? I have no idea, but I&#8217;m an open-minded person. My thoughts wandered over the plastic boxes I saw at the time and their contents. Yes, a stock exchange is just what I need this weekend. My girlfriend gave me a gift voucher for my birthday with the words &#8220;1x DEINEN WUNSCH ERF\u00dcLLEN&#8221; on it. 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