Yeah we could actually talk to people , walk outside , enjoy nature, movies weren't spoiled, you would discover tv shows by yourself, had a lot less fat on our bodies.
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Everything was better in the 90s
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Yeah we could actually talk to people , walk outside , enjoy nature, movies weren't spoiled, you would discover tv shows by yourself, had a lot less fat on our bodies.
And you could absolutely talk to people in the 90s online! Dating websites existed back then. It wasn't a commercial hegemony back then that aggregated the entire world. But you could still chat and stuff. It just wasn't jammed down your throat.
It's just things are packaged to sell to a much much broader base of consumer.
I don't know. It's fun to look back at the 90s but if you gave me the opportunity to go back and experience it again, I'd...probably just stay here.
I think that because people were younger then, it's a misconception that things were better. Things probably seem all golden because you perceived things that way. Our perception of life has likely changed a lot since then and looking back tends to skew things.
If you're not doing these things that's kind of on you. If you're mad other people aren't doing these things that's not really your business.
Also talking with people more is a myth. People have been complaining about society being in decline and people not being social since the beginning of time. They just don't want to face facts that people will do anything to avoid each other because people kind of suck.
I loved the 90's, things seemed simpler back then, also Sega still made consoles, what I wouldn't give for just one more Sega console.
lets see I was younger and didn't have to worry about always working so I could have a place to live. So its automatically better.
Cartoons/TV = better
Video games= Better
Internet = Not better but good enough for me to get to gamefaqs
Life in genreal = way better
Yea let me warp back to my 90's self and merge with him please.
Cartoons/TV = better
Video games= Better
Internet = Not better but good enough for me to get to gamefaqs
Life in genreal = way better
Yea let me warp back to my 90's self and merge with him please.
I have a question for people who say the 90s weren't better: Would you say the 80s were better, and if so, why? Because I really, really don't see it, the 80s seemed... kind of generally awful. I mean, I wasn't alive during them, so maybe I shouldn't talk so. I just don't get how you'd prefer that decade over another, but that's just what I think.
I dunno, though, I thought the 90s were pretty great, and I'm not afraid to say it. Sonic, Street Fighter, Doom, some amazing cartoons... the only real downside was the music, which even I'd say was a pretty huge step downwards.
I dunno, though, I thought the 90s were pretty great, and I'm not afraid to say it. Sonic, Street Fighter, Doom, some amazing cartoons... the only real downside was the music, which even I'd say was a pretty huge step downwards.
Most people here, including me, were kids in the decade, so we ignored social issues and could not what was genuinely worse in comparison to previous decades. People in the 2010s ha've nostalgia for the 90s, people in the 90s had nostalgia for the 60s, in the 60s there was nostalgia for the 40s etc..
I feel lucky to have grown up in the 90s but I know a significant part of that is just me looking back through the rose tinted glasses of youth and nostalgia. The 90s did have some bomb ass cartoon shows though. Movies and music too. On top of that, it had SNICK.
SNICK
SNICK
As someone from Generation Z I actually feel like I missed out on the greatness of the 90s, everything is not very adventure-like now because of the world's information ready at your fingertips but its a really good thing as well. Going out is becoming a thing of fatigue as people can just access everything they want through reliable PCs we have today. I imagine that the 90s (especially 80s) must have been a glorious era for humans.
Witnessing the glory of Quake III on my friend's 1280x1024 monitor was a thing to behold.
We have to go back.
We have to go back.
Nintendo has been really feeling themselves when it comes to games making in the past few years, so I can confidently say that games are better now than they were in the 90s. =p
The 90s was fun... I had no care in the world, making my way through school and trying to make friends, playing video games and going to vacations with my family and listening to horrible music... it was great. I was ignorant of what was happening around me though, these days, not so much. But as people have said earlier, stuff like BLM and anthem protests and things of that nature probably wouldn't be around back then. And LGBT allowing to be married now would definitely have not happened back then. I was a kid then, but imagine those guys going through the 90s... probably not as fun, I imagine.
The 90s was fun... I had no care in the world, making my way through school and trying to make friends, playing video games and going to vacations with my family and listening to horrible music... it was great. I was ignorant of what was happening around me though, these days, not so much. But as people have said earlier, stuff like BLM and anthem protests and things of that nature probably wouldn't be around back then. And LGBT allowing to be married now would definitely have not happened back then. I was a kid then, but imagine those guys going through the 90s... probably not as fun, I imagine.
I think most people look back on a certain decade with fondness. For me it was the 90's too. I mean it will always be that for me, even in 10 years time I won't look back at the 10's and 00's with the same kind of fondness. I mean I would of been between 4 and 14 during that period and when your those ages your learning lots but probably not realising at the time, only when you look back you realise how wonderful it was.
If you were a child in school during that time, your memories are probably of having an easy time, getting home to video games and snacks.
Seriously, look up fashion, tv-shows, social causes, tools we have today, and you'll be thinking "the 90s fucking sucked".
Except for some games, most of the good things about the 90s were basically counter culture, about how pointless everything is.
Nirvana, Pulp Fiction, etc etc.
Seriously, look up fashion, tv-shows, social causes, tools we have today, and you'll be thinking "the 90s fucking sucked".
Except for some games, most of the good things about the 90s were basically counter culture, about how pointless everything is.
Nirvana, Pulp Fiction, etc etc.
The 90s were a cultural morass, and you had to use like brick cellphones and VCRs and dial-up. No thank you!
Jurassic Park
The Crow
Pulp Fiction
The Iron Giant
Alice in Chains
Nine Inch Nails
Marilyn Manson
Korn
Twin Peaks
Warcraft
Starcraft
Going from Super Nintendo to PlayStation in just a few years
The mind boggling leaps in technology
No social media
The 90s rocked.
The Crow
Pulp Fiction
The Iron Giant
Alice in Chains
Nine Inch Nails
Marilyn Manson
Korn
Twin Peaks
Warcraft
Starcraft
Going from Super Nintendo to PlayStation in just a few years
The mind boggling leaps in technology
No social media
The 90s rocked.
You were younger. Of course things were more simpler. As far as we look at pretty much every statistics regarding quality of life and equality between sexes and sexual minorities we have taken huge steps since 90s.
Downloading pictures on dial-up was hell. TV-wise, you were stuck with network garbage (except for maybe My So-Called Life), paying a lot for HBO/Showtime, or not watching TV. Obscure movies were much harder to find, if you could get to them at all. Also mentioned here, brazen homophobia in work, school and home.
No Twitter and Facebook was a plus.
Music was excellent.
SNES games were a bright spot in an otherwise bleak afternoon.
No Twitter and Facebook was a plus.
Music was excellent.
SNES games were a bright spot in an otherwise bleak afternoon.
Having grown up in the 90s, I often wonder what it'd be like to grow up nowadays and how different life is with smartphones and how integrated the internet is in our lives.
Like, do kids know the dewey decimal system? Do they just all their research online?
Like, do kids know the dewey decimal system? Do they just all their research online?
I'm 100% sure that this was the first video that I have ever seen on YouTube.
The mid to late 90s produced a lot of entertainment I still love today. Hey Arnold, SpongeBob, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek Voyager, etc.
Hard to say, since I was just a kid in the 90s. Seems like most things are better now. I didn't get a chance to really communicate with people before the internet. I think I would enjoy going to a time when you sent letters instead of emails though. Life obviously moved a lot slower. Seemed like everything was easier too like finding the job you wanted and such, speaking to older colleagues who started their careers in the 90s.
I can't positively recall the 90s when two of the first things that come to mind are these atrocities.
I loved the 90s, but I always have to overwhelmingly disagree with statements like these. I love the current era the best. Music, art and games are more accessible and varied right now than they've ever been. It's great seeing people get involved in creative environments that used to have a much higher barrier of entry. It's great that a lot of the information people need to get started out creatively are now available online for free. When I was growing up I didn't have that chance or insight and it really shows now.
'90s hair was 1,000,000% better than '80s hair, so it's got that going for it.
The fashion is hit or miss, though, especially towards the baggy-panted end of the decade. Ick.
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