Thread 514902214

Were the 90s actually as good as boomers make it out to be?

>>514902214 (OP)
It’s overrated. I’m having the most fun now.

>>514902214 (OP)
Everytime is good if you are doing good

>>514902214 (OP)
No, it was way better than what you were told, we hold back as to not make you feel so bad by comparison to clown world. Damn it was so awesome in 93-99

>>514902214 (OP)
It wasn't so great but we weren't in the belly of this infernal machine that is bleeding to death.

96 here. Even the tail end of the 2000s was a totally different time. I really feel bad you didn't get to experience at least the last bit of it before we went full on into the nu world

>>514902214 (OP)
Yeah shit was cash.
Didn't last long though. Went to shit mid-2000's.

>>514902214 (OP)
in 2006 i could work at the mall and fuck a nw hot girl every month and pay my rent with a bullshit ass job while in college, you have missed so much lil bro

>>514902448
You made me realize than zoomers only know that world. It's their point of reference, it's their normal. Dear God.

>>514902214 (OP)
High limbo. Parents were alive and new compie games were coming out like mad. Also pirating *looks around.*

If I had to change anything I'd do a few things.

1. Use bulletin boards (bullet-in, boreds) on the sides of my gaming chair to anchor my mouse and keyboard to, to save my wrists

2. Looked at trading signals (ATR 10(H+L)/2 is my fav) to harvest merneh from the markets

3. later thing, but lots of fuss over this, made a dapp to support my fav game so newbies could go from $0-$3 without leaving their room (the $3 just leverages up with stupid coin flipping pet tricks)

>>514902214 (OP)
1987 here

Yes fucking zoomer nigger. Also boomers hate the 90s. Only gen x and millennials love the 90s.

>>514902214 (OP)
Its sad to think about but If I had to choose between going back to the 90s and my modern devices, Ill take the technology. We could have the 90s again. Just have to get all the niggers out

>>514902510
I'd say 08 and Obama is when things really started turning sour. But 2005 was still kino, prequel hype and yugioh and halo and the early internet, so many good things to experience if you were a kid or teenager during that time

>>514902214 (OP)
Everything has been getting exponentially worse in America since 1960, and in Europe since 1910. No social economic or political or spiritual evil of today was avoidable since those points. Collapse and rebuilding has been the only thing to ever look forward to.

Everyone just imagines that the period before they had to have a job was the golden era, but you were all born inside the nightmare, you can only perceive it getting worse.

>>514902214 (OP)
It wasn't the 90s especially, it was just pre-smart phones and everyone using the internet constantly. Normies brains aren't wired to use the internet responsibly.

>>514902592
>Also boomers hate the 90s.
See the world from their perspective. Flipping a burger for 8 hours would get you $100, and not $200 like when they were young. It could take an entire week to find a job. The culture became partially unified, bland and sterile.
You wouldn't have liked it either.

>>514902558
It was easy to get laid up until like 2018, then every hoe got the social media firmware update that made them insufferable to be around

>>514902820
>he says, posting on the most botted board on the net

>>514902578
Another thing, I'd look hard at prop firms. They leverage your money out like 100-200 to 1, in a safe way, where it's like you pay $1200 to get $200k of trading funds, which you can keep the profit of as long as you trade sanely.

>>514902592
Boomer is just what modernoids mumble when they mean "someone ten years or more older than me".
For all intents and purposes of modern parlance, the term "gen X" does not exist.

>>514902214 (OP)
>colored hair

you're not tricking me, zoomer hoe demon

Where I lived at least
>all white
>no fatties
>no queers
>after-school job paid for car + hobbies

Seriously, I built a prerunner that I beat the piss out of and broke once a month on $200/week. Taking a girl out was less than $20 all in. My first apartment was a 1bd for $300/mo and by the time I was an adult I was making $1000/wk take home that went a lot further than my $2500/wk take home does now. Even then though, I'd listen to how much easier than me boomers had it in the 70s where they were buying new cars and homes fresh out of high school pushing buttons in a factory.

>>514902214 (OP)
90s / early 2000's were dope as fuck if you were growing up, but I assume every generation is going to be nostalgiafagging about their own upbringing no matter what timeline.

>>514902730
Things started turning sour before the civil war, the problems of today all trace back to those days (spoiler alert the civil war was a complete top to bottom psyop).
The country didn't start dying in 1960 it finished dying in 1960. That was the latest point (extremely optimistic) things could have been turned around.

>>514902214 (OP)
If you were an adult, no; there were race riots and even more crime than now but the cleanup had begun by the mid/late 90s. We were kill muslims in the mid east, russians were killing their neighbors, so not much has changed.

As a white suburban kid, yes; much better than now by a longshot. It was more segregated, no social media, and trannies weren't trying to chop your cocks off.

I was born in 89’ so I didn’t get to experience the 90’s as an adult. I will say that we got to ride our bikes and leave the house at a young age without parents getting in shit. My favourite memories are being lost as shit in the forest or the city and having to figure out how to get back home

>>514902214 (OP)
It’s more that things are so fucking bad now that the 1990s are… like morphine to a dying soldier who’s been cut in half. Things are BAD now.

>>514902214 (OP)
this is a new photo its not from the 90s

>>514902957
Colored hair used to mean "cool sci fi anime girl" not lesbian child murderer.

>>514902214 (OP)
80s were good, 90s was better. Everything still had soul in it. Music, movies, gaming, malls, schools, gatherings.. everything. 9/11 seemed to have Rewired everyone’s brain. It was almost like someone flipped a switch. It progressively got worse from there

>>514902214 (OP)

Life was better yes. I only experienced seven years of it. But I do remember my neighborhood being a lot closer. All of that is gone man. The globalism really started kicking off under Clinton even though it technically started under Reagan.

>>514903093
This is BS. You’re a kike.

For one, you could literally leave the country and disappear if they tried to Ruby ridge you. Can’t do that now. Back then you could leVe on a plane, no ID, and foreign countries like Thailand would let white Men in with no passport. In the 2000s the US threatened Thailand into cracking down on that.

>>514903005
“Nostalgia” isn’t the same thing as comparing today’s sodom and gomorrah normies with 90s grunge normies.

>>514903093
>and trannies weren't trying to chop your cocks off
not the whole thing at least, just the tip, ahh, better days right?

>>514903005
>I assume every generation is going to be nostalgiafagging about their own upbringing no matter what timeline.
Time is neither a flat circle nor a vague and endless present the conditions of the past can be recorded and measured and compared to today.

>>514903005
It was dope af as an adult too.

>>514902568
Yup, I was telling my son (17) stories when riding through my old neighborhood about how we went from this house to that house with gun (fake) and have gun battles, then go swimming, then play wiffleball and then go home at night, no adults really, no neighbors calling the cops, not scared of getting robbed/molested. Though I was telling him some of my childhood stories, it just made him sad, he said he wishes he could of known the world I grew up in, I didn't realize and since stopped. I try to make his teens years the best they can be in this clown world, they don't know any better but they do know something is off.

>1pbtid slide thread
When will you faggots learn

reminder that jeet phone call spam did not exist in the 90s

It was much better.

The music, the girls, the culture, even the internet as normies weren't online yet.

>>514902448
I'd argue that things were pretty damn good until about 2008, then slowly started deteriorating, then went off a fucking cliff from 2012-Present.

>>514902498
Just shut the fuck up. Stupid fucking zoomers.
>Hurr durr I feel so bad you didn’t get to be 13 and listen to early Taylor Swift
If you didn’t have sex before 9/11 than you’ve lived in clown world and you can’t understand what the rest of us do.

>>514903005
>but I assume every generation is going to be nostalgiafagging about their own upbringing no matter what timeline.
No, the 2010s were fucking gay.

>>514902214 (OP)
I honestly prefer the current political climate because everyone is more miserable these days. I enjoy the schadenfreude.

>>514902498
this

1989 here. Living through the ‘90s was heaven compared to today

you are not prepared

>>514902214 (OP)
No, the 90s were shit, the 2000s were cool.

>>514903198
that's still a lesbian child murderer though

>>514903510
i mean some of us zoomers got 2000's gaming while we were preteens and that was huge for escapism's sake, plus its not like we went anywhere other than elementary anyways

>>514902214 (OP)
Better than this.

>>514903481
True, it was downhill but still ok in 2001, by 2008 it turned into clown world.

>>514902214 (OP)
get the fuck off 4chan and go back to twatter/plebbit you faggot.
you zoomer dipshits ruined 4chan

>>514902214 (OP)

>boomers

90s was Gen X’s time. It was pretty cool.

as a 5 year old I remember going to 7/11 in the 90s with 5 dollars and being able to get a large coke, a hot dog, large bag of chips, bags of candys and have money left over to go to the pet store next door to buy a bag full of crickets.

>>514902510
You could still reliably expect a product to come out and be good up until 2011

>>514903405
I have memories of all the kids in the neighborhood playing hide and seek at sundown when it was just starting to cool down. No adults watching us. Just freedom. Probably 95 or 96

>>514902214 (OP)
Only until 1994, after Republicans took majority control of Congress and then squandered it by not standing up to Clinton.

>>514903762
Dollar value nostalgia is the most retarded form of nostalgia.

>>514902214 (OP) Of course. You dont need to be a Korean on a rooftop to know things were better. The worst part is theres so much cooler shit now. It's the citizens who decayed first, Not the infrastructure

>>514902214 (OP)
Yeah man! The right-wing sucks.

>>514902866
What relevance does that have to my post? The internet as a whole is shit and centralised to a few web sites.

yeash 90s is very good

>>514902214 (OP)
zoomers are so retarded they think thats a real picture from the 1990s

>>514903359
>“Nostalgia” isn’t the same thing as comparing today’s sodom and gomorrah..

Fair point. But people growing up in these faggy times won't have any concept of a world without it. Just a vague idea

>>514903371
>the conditions of the past can be recorded and measured and compared to today

Sure, but best done by a neutral perspective without tying personal experiences and feelings to it. Every oldfag that I talk to is nostalgic about their past no matter what generation, and everyone can't be right about the absolute best time to grow up in, right?

>>514903373
>It was dope af as an adult too.

I bet

>>514903520
>No, the 2010s were fucking gay.

Can't disagree

>>514903995
You are just jealous because you never got a bag full of burgers for less than 10 bucks

>>514903405
>>514903820
I have to assume that kids who grow up not being allowed to do anything or have fun will hate it and do the opposite when they grow up. I hope so.
>>514904056
true

>>514903820
The art of the find--ie having to work/get creative to find a playboy or porno mag.
You fucking kids have no idea how lucky you have it now where anything is a click away while I had to pause a VHS tape of Cyborg when the chick removes her top showing a rather botched boob job and the nipp was weird BUT GODDAMNIT THATS ALL WE HAD!

>>514903669
This old man is going back to bed.
>gaming early 2000s
By late 90s I’d moved on from quake LAN parties to high school house parties. Every week it was someone’s turn and 30-50 of us would show up, all white, mixture of 50/50 guys and girls and we would underage drink and have fun. Zero violence, zero threat of gate crashing mystery meat just white teenagers having fun and hooking up.

>>514903481
>The fire burning my house down was ok till it reached my arm

Decline of music began undeniably with Katy Perry, Meghan trainor, stomp clap and the whoooaaaa aaaaaa ooooo style

>>514903314
Ruby Ridge literally happened in the 90s you goofball, so that doesnt make any sense

>>514904241
what about those old school big ass satellites you could pick up unscrambled porn channels on if you didn't mind maybe turning it too far and having to sneak out to put it back on track at 1am

>>514902214 (OP)
Looking back, yes they were very good. But you never know how good you have it while you have it. It's just the way humans are. 30 years from now, people will look back at this time and consider it the good times. Because shit will have gotten so much worse. But right now we can't recognize all the positives which will be so apparent years later.

>>514904284
I was online gaming in 1994 and hit the top of the leaderboards in Myth: The Fallen Lords.

>>514902214 (OP)
I was born in 90. Last bastion of childhood without social media and phones. First couple years on Facebook and MySpace pre-censorship were peak internet. 90s still had holdovers from yesteryear 70s/80s in restaurants, venues, theatres, etc. I miss nostalgic musty old people smell walking into grandfathers wood decorated house. Unique architecture and vibrant colors everywhere, especially in the 90s. I lived in an area where it was weird seeing a black or brown. Everyone watched them and knew that they were subhuman just on visual identification alone. Blacks and browns knew they were being watched and would be held accountable for their actions and behaved better than they do now. Then 9/11 happened. A Jewish ritual wrecking what was my childhood. The worst part is I didn’t even know what was happening at the time. I hated Muslims, still do, but got fired up enough to join army. I took the ASVAB and was days away from signing the dotted line….then one night I lurked on /pol/ for about 4 hours and my life would change forever. Suddenly the 90s didn’t seem glamorous, but more of a unknowingly trapped society. I still hate the aesthetics today, but have personally evolved much since then

The 80's were crazy times too, you couldn't have colored dyed hair or you would get the shit kicked out of you. If you wanted to be a punk and look different you had to be ready to fight. Bullying was still a thing, it was lord of the flies out there. 90's merged heavy metal and punk music, skater culture got big, thrash bands came out. With no internet youth culture was based around music and subcultures a lot more I think. Subcultures were like gangs, fighting all the time. Skinheads,punks,skaters,metalhead rockers, and then grunge and hip hop. Some epic street battles over clubs.

>>514904597
Couldn't afford it nor any of our neighbors.

Would still manually flip the cable box channels up and down from ch. 99 (playboy) to 1 where every once in awhile for half a second it would actually come through normally.

>>514902558
>in 2006 i could work at the mall and fuck a nw hot girl every month and pay my rent with a bullshit ass job

This. Even as recently as back in the early 2010's I had a studio apartment in downtown Miami for $500 a month and would fuck prime Miami hot Latina ass on a monthly, if not weekly, basis; dollar menu at McDonalds, $1 for a McDouble. Zoomers have no fucking clue have shit they have it these days. These fucking losers really think their life great doing nothing except jerking off to their gay OnlyFans subscriptions and streaming trash modern-day censored anime on Crunchyroll.

>>514902448
This. Zooms have no fucking idea.

>>514904205
>Sure, but best done by a neutral perspective without tying personal experiences and feelings to it. Every oldfag that I talk to is nostalgic about their past no matter what generation, and everyone can't be right about the absolute best time to grow up in, right?
I can't speak to their poor arguments all I can say is that in living human memory all that has happened is more gays, more browns, more retardation, more jewishness, more divorce, more child murder, more drugs, more brain damage, more plastic in the blood, and more in a word rot every decade like clockwork. Technological wonders and brief economic prosperity built on the momentum of the previous century made it an easier pill to swallow for the first two generations born into the nightmare.

It's true many tend to look on the period where they were more sheltered from the nightmare and say "that was the last good time" when really it's just a combination of everything getting worse steadily and that person not having to pay bills or work in those memories.

I used to rent 4 or 5 bedroom homes for 1200 leaf bucks in my 20's, I lived in some posh houses. Can't do that now, too many people competing for shit.

>>514904205
De gode gamle dage.

>>514902214 (OP)
I wish I was born in 2006 no cap

>>514904708
Retard the collapse of this global faggot civilization will be celebrated for 1000 years.

>>514905074
fr fr

>>514904494
That's the end not the beginning, of the long road that inexorably lead from a generation before.

>>514902214 (OP)
Sometimes I wonder if the 90s and early 2000s were actually great or feels just because I was young and hopeful

>>514904341
Nah, it's simple.
2008 was the turning point for smartphones and social media.
Everything changed after that. Everything. And quickly. The internet got dumbed down, there were all sorts of manufactured outrages like "Kony," Trump 2015 was literally a social media/troll candidate, and I could go on all day.
Up to ~2008 things weren't perfect but society in the US and Europe was pretty healthy. 2008-2015 were the decline years. By 2015 in Europe and 2017 in the US, it was OVER. Now the UK is a tinderbox, the US is in terminal decline, and most of Europe is in cultural bunker mode.

>>514902558
>>514904803
Any culture where the majority of women aren't getting married as virgins is a culture that will die screaming in one lifetime.

>>514902214 (OP)
Every couple months there was a new game or a new system that was entirely unprecedented. and you had to go out of your way to be an asshole in order to not bump into a dozen other kids who invite you to play some sort of sport. even dorks were invited unless they were complete fags. Id say it was both the best and the worst time. Looking back it is abysmal that such a strong sense of community could proliferate like that only to be thoroughly extinguished within the same generation. What 90s kids got to experience is how great a society could be only to find out that it was untenable.

90's were just as cucked as the 10's but people were blissfully unaware of it because of lack of internet. Only dorks were into politics

>>514904773 My sister was a punk in high school during the 80's. She almost got expelled for dying her hair dark red. Had to dye it back. Big kerfuffle where my parents had to see the principal.

>>514905286
It's the turning point you were old enough to remember you fucking retard.
Harvey milk was dead in 1978 and if you don't think it was fucking over long before then you're beyond the reach of all reason.

>>514905090
Yes it will. That doesn't mean 30 years ago shit wasn't much better; it was.

>>514905514
The lack of the internet was why women weren't as broken, and why white subcultures were able to flourish locally. That alone is priceless.

>>514902214 (OP)
>2006

>>514903817
You can count on it being as shit as can possibly be gotten away with after 2020.

>>514905543
That isn't some bedrock condition of human psychology, it's a fact. Things have been getting quantifiably and measurably worse for generations, and THAT is why everyone remembers 30 years ago as better. When conditions improve, they'll call the last century the "dark age".

>>514903286
I think that's the main thing. We all became so individualistic. When I was a kid I would ride my bike around in the street with neighboor kids while the moms where sitting in front of the house talking to eachother, basically every summer evening.
Dads would help eachother with fixing or building stuff.
Who still does all that? Who even still sees kids out on their bikes, just chilling around?

>>514902214 (OP)
I'm usually not a boomer but it's not hype. 80's and 90's were objectively better. Peak economic development and HDI prior to the decline in social cohesion post-9/11 and post-smartphone/Tinder.

90's were not perfect but compared to now, the US was a white high-trust ethnostate. Kids played outside all day. You could pick up big tiddy goth girls at the mall (and only see white people there). You could find a looksmatched partner without a fucking phone. Internet was still a nerd hobby and much more entertaining.

>>514905772
You didn't dispute what I said. I'm only saying that people tend to not recognize the things they'll miss while they are experiencing them. Yes, shit objectively gets worse.

>>514905019
I also see the trend you just laid out here, it seems to be turning into some sort of cesspool of degeneracy as we progress further in to the future.
The trajectory of this probably started over a century ago. Somebody from the 60's would find the 90's extremely gay and degenerate as well when reflecting on it.
Either way, I agree with what you are saying and you could objectively say that the 90s had less of this all in all.

>>514902214 (OP)
Childhood in the 90s in the west was probably the peak moment of civilization.
The boomers didn't have such a nice childhood and those after us were born into a time of decline and social alienation.
Millenials > boomers > z
When it comes to the 90s.

>>514902730
it started before that. bush was the one who changed hud and started the inner city to suburbs underground railroad. he also reigned over the oxycontin flood followed by the heroin bait and switch. the wound was sustained in 2001, it became septic in 2003. 2007 is when it started really falling apart.

>>514905542
What a cunt.
You could still work 40 hour weeks in your 20s without a college degree and afford an apartment of your own, a car, and spending money.
Women were okay with making less money for doing easier/less work.
The progressive stack clown shit wasn't pervasive until 2012.

Going by your standards of "turning point" was the 1913 Federal Reserve act.

>>514906161
From 2008 everything collapsed due to the financial crisis - that broke the West's neck from which we have never recovered.
Why nobody remember this fuck?

>>514905772
>people will call the mid-20th century a dark age
>the biggest infrastructure boom in history
You're delusional. The decline started much later, probably within most of our lifetimes.

>>514902214 (OP)
I was born in '91 and I was 7 for most of '99 so I don't remember much, but what I do remember was nice save for having a devouring mother that has totally ruined me. I think the same holds true for much of history. My great-grandparents used to say that their time was much better and I believe them.

>>514902308
>It’s overrated. I’m having the most fun now.

>>514902214 (OP)
The 90s were magic, and 99% White. Taking photos of yourself was considered weird and people had some level of self-awareness and distinct personalities.

>>514903510
I had sex before 9/11 but I was 8.

>>514906409
>Going by your standards of "turning point" was the 1913 Federal Reserve act.
i mean that really was the point when it ended. you had the wealth boom in post ww2 because we had all the manufacturing and yurop was bombed to shit. but that led to the financialization of everything and then they sold our manufacturing sector to china so they didn't have to pay union wages and now it's fucking over and the country is bankrupt and jews own everything including our government.

Even people born 10 years earlier than you don’t really remember the 10s we were too little. For families not affected by the 2008 financial crisis the early 2001s were pretty close to heaven for a kid. Even with cheapskate parents you’d have some really cool stuff

It sucked compared to now. The only good thing was that culture and politics weren't circling the drain and there wasn't the threat of WW3 every week. The late 90s/early 00s were the last period of unique culture before everything turned into repackaged garbage.

It was hard to discover new things because if it wasn't on TV and there wasn't some weird shop in your area, then it didn't exist.

If you wanted to buy something out of the way you needed to use the phonebook and call place after place. Phone calls weren't cheap and usually houses had one phone shared between other people.

You needed to tape shows. Hopefully you turned your TV on and you programmed your VCR otherwise you are fucked. If someone changed the channel, you get nothing. Music was the same, you either had to copy tapes, lost place on your cassette? You need to start from the beginning or you might overwrite stuff.

There was no way to meet people outside of your social group, so social hierarchies were hard to break. If you were a loner or were just different, your life was siting at home alone.

Jobs weren't much better than today. It was harder to find good opportunities and because it was harder to research companies there was a lot of shit places that people fell into that were exploitative. Finding trends in the market was really who you knew rather than being able to find it independently so people stayed in crap jobs for longer.

The housing market wasn't much better than it is today when it comes to the cost of living. Anywhere near jobs or infrastructure was always overpriced and the wages were crap.

>>514906559
You mean when they had to walk 8 km to school and were beaten up by the teacher if they misbehaved? Helping on the fields in summer holydays. Then three years of world war as a 16-year-old to be the only one of his unit to survive? Then four years of hunger.
Nope. I believe my grandfather that his time was tougher.

>>514902214 (OP)
It was even better
>>514902308
You weren't alive zoomer kike

>>514906809
>There was no way to meet people outside of your social group, so social hierarchies were hard to break. If you were a loner or were just different, your life was siting at home alone.
this is why I think the 2000s was actually peak because we had the internet but it wasn't full of normies, feds, thirdies, and bots.

>>514906605
The internet was incredibly white as well

>>514902448
Indeed. Back then nobody paid for video games, except maybe the one with rich parents. They wanted friends so they'd share the games. For every game sold, at least a dozen guys were playing it. And Id Software still made the money. Now it's up to 100 bucks (unless a sale) for average slop that has no soul. No smartphones, no social media, schools actually taught skills, how many can now name plants outside without looking it up. And most importantly there was no #MeToo clown shit, if you grabbed someone from the pussy they'd just giggle.

>>514902214 (OP)
it was so good that no one gave a flying fuck about age gaps

>>514902214 (OP)
The 90s can't even be explained with words. It's not about the video games and all that nonsense. It was like...when you get up early in the morning and the air is really fresh and sweet and cool outside, and you see your friends on the way to school, and everyone is in a good mood and maybe there is a holiday coming up and everyone is excited about the end of summer and getting out of school and for all the parties and cool things they're gonna do together. All that feeling in one day, it felt like that most of the time. Just innocent and fresh and clear. The air was different, idk it's hard to explain. I've often wondered if actual physical reality has changed at some point, because the world just feels so completely different than it used to.

>>514907051
I remember the first time we saw a Chinese on the net.
That was the topic in our nerd circle for days. I think that was in 2001.

>>514907189
Are you sure that's not just being a kid?

>>514902214 (OP)
>Were the 90s actually as good as boomers make it out to be?
For the boomers, EVERY decade is better.
They have been in charge since at least the 90's and REFUSE to retire. If they end up forced to, they replace themselves with something brown, preferably that speaks English as a second language.

History is the record of better times leading to the shit show you see now.
The 80's were better than the 90's, the 90's than the 00's, etc.

Get right with Jesus and pray the End is nigh.

t. genX

>>514903005
>>514902214 (OP)
Everyone look fondly on their youth.
But at the same time feel they were born for a different age.

Stop being a faggot reminiscing for a time that has already past, and stop dreaming of a time that you will never see.

>>514902214 (OP)
>Flat chested woman is supposed to be my gf.
No thanks. I want a woman with some actual tits.

>>514907189
nah what is unc even on about

No

>>514907223
I've wondered about this, and I'm sure it's some of it for sure. But there's still a different feeling of the times that people recognize, and that's the best way I can explain how it felt back then compared to now. I'm sure for people of different ages, the 90s felt more loose and breathable than today, and I guess I'm using childhood to illustrate that. I guess it's a bad example. But still the overall "vibe" or whatever I think was still more free feeling, not as tight and restricted as things feel today. Kinda like the difference between an open landscape and cramped city blocks? Idk

>>514902214 (OP)
Not really. It was blue pill, nigger worship central. My parents chuckle fucked about Ruby Ridge and Waco after simply watching it on TV. Media was filled to the brim with niggers and wiggers were at an all time high. Sure, Goldeneye and Diddy Kong Racing was fun with your friends for the weekend, but I'd actually argue that the year you were born was closer to something rad.
>scenegirls were peak white aesthetic
>newgrounds and old yt pissing off TV kikes
>myspace music pissing off radio kikes
>solid time for vidya
>hipsters seemed annoying at the time, but they've blossomed into pissing off the draft beer and chain restaurant kikes

>>514907195
>That was the topic in our nerd circle for days..
kek

Think my first encounter with something not in the anglosphere was with a Russian guy spewing nonsense after the soviets opened up to the world so to say.

>>514903520
This, jesus tap dancing christ everything post housing bubble collapse was a damn struggle and its stayed shit since

>>514904751
Bro what happened to that smell? It’s been mandela effected

>>514902214 (OP)
I was born in the 90s so most of this thread is gen xers or gen yers (1980s), I don't remember enough of the 90s except I was a comfy small child playing pokemans red.

>>514902214 (OP)
Yes it was.

The internet ruined the fucking world. It wasn't that bad in the late 90s to late 2000s because the internet was either slow or only bound to the house or maybe a coffee shop but once smart phones made the internet available everywhere is when the world went to shit. People used to socialize at malls, you would just randomly go to your family or friends house and knock if they were home without calling ahead, and people were way more open to meeting new people. Fuck the internet lol fuck 4chan.

>>514907777
Nobody lives in those kind of multi generational built in 1905 out of a Sears catlog homes to have accumulated that distinct aged smell
Also, checked

>>514902214 (OP)
i grew up - very young in 1970s, enjoyed 1980s and 1990s. really a perfect time to grow up. if i could go back i could tell myself to enjoy it far more than i did. bask in the awesomeness.
9/11 was the beginning of the end and iphone was the end of those beautiful days
less jews
less niggers
no constant horse shit jewish crap flowing from the phones.

>>514906941
>00s was the peak
Yes and no. Culturally the 90s beat the 00s, but the 00s beat the 90s when it came to access to information and ability to see things in the world.

P2P stuff like Kazaa or Limewire changed everything, games were the shit with proper 3d and online and the internet allowed people to interact from everywhere.

But there was nothing cool anymore. The 90s had raves, grunge, blockbuster movies that lived up to the hype, and MTV when it was actually cool. The 00s had nu metal, MTV turning into reality shows, movies from washed up actors from 20 years earlier, festivals charging $50 dollars a ticket and so on.

>>514902214 (OP)
No. You had to do a lot of blah blah blah whatever and who gives a shit for fuck knows why.

>>514902214 (OP)
>Were the 90s actually as good as boomers make it out to be?
Even better than that. It was peak mankind. Imagine internet with only crafty white men. That literally how good it was.

>>514902214 (OP)
The 90s were better than the 2000s. That’s the takeaway

>>514907913
At least you half admitted the 90s weren’t your era. So many mid and late 90s fags claim it was their era, like what…

>>514902214 (OP)
nobody cares that ur young

>>514906465
Hahahahaha

>>514908216
>Even better than that.
I don't consider a scenario that automatically leads to today to be the peak of anything.

>>514902214 (OP)
Black pill time: even if you could time travel to the 90s or whatever time you think was the best you would only get to experience it for 10 years which feels more like 5 years as you get older

>>514902214 (OP)
No, it wasn't really.
Ignorance isn't something to be celebrated.
Your money was worth more, but that's the only thing that got better.
90s are when the legit babyboomers had kids and when they were still raising their 80s progeny as well.
Everything that sucks about them today sucked about them back then.
It's when they looked at the people born in the early 70s and told them "you'll never be good enough to replace me because I'm older".
It carried over everything from the 80s corporate lunacy, and made some things worse.
Some people were quick to adapt to digitisation, others refused to do it for years because "that's beneath me, I'm a doctor".

The ONLY reason that people think the 90s were better is the exact same reason people thought the 80s were better 10 years ago.
People weren't recording and posting every single goddamned thing they did.
They do now. That's why today looks awful. Today is truly no worse.

In some ways, today is a better time than the 90s.
Nobody was redpilled on the JQ.
Nobody questioned the system, EVERYONE assumed that gouvernment is good and the people working in it speak truth.
NOBODY even considered the possibility of a cabal, except for a tiny handful of individuals of whom some thought it's just a drug cartel. The rest were mocked then, are get mocked a lot today too. For all the redpilled people here who eagerly accept that the Holocaust didn't happen, the idea of demonic entities raping children so politicians do as told somehow is "reptilian conspiracy" to you, despite the fact that the same entities orchestrated the story you proudly denounce as a lie.

Take that perspective that it must be fake and you must be stupid, and apply that now to EVERY single layer of society, EVERY individual, EVERYWHERE in the whole Western world.
That's the 90s.
You don't remember that. You just remember the bread and circuses.

>>514907393
Anon if you turn off the bread and circuses for like ten seconds (including the bread and circuses that is "fantasizing about other times") most men would be knocking down power lines and ripping up highways with pickaxes by the end of the day.

>>514907114
This. Actually this alone makes this TL hell.

>>514908488
90s wasn't my era. My era was economic collapse and suicide girls.

>>514904083
The history of America since 9/11 can be summarized as "and then, somehow, things got worse"

>>514907393
It's stupid already to think it's the time that made it good.
It wasn't a fucking number on a calendar that made it good or bad.
People made it good or bad, and they're not the same as they were then.

>>514908965
Friendly reminder that nobody cared until lockdowns ended and a lot of angry zoomers had nowhere to put their frustrations.
They're venting. They're looking for something of meaning in their lives, even if that means beating the shit out of a guy for daring to be 5 days older than his girl.

>>514902730
This may be just because I'm a '03 zoomer, but I always saw the early 2010s as the last great time. I'd point to 2014 being the last great year because at the end of that year gamergate broke out, and the following year things officially began their downward spiral.

>>514908839
>Nobody was redpilled on the JQ.
Not as many but there always have been a core tenant of conspibros keeping the light alive at any time in history. I learned about the jews on windows 95. And back then they were WAY less blatant and bold than they are today, they were still in the Rothschild mentality of keeping low profile and only lurked in the shadows.
Now even 10yo kids are aware about the JQ, that's how obvious they are.

>>514902214 (OP)
Yeah. I was born in 81. I feel sorry for kids today. 70s 80s 90s and early 2000s had normal awesome childhoods

>>514908839
>Holocaust didn't happen
no, it didnt.

Everything was better when YOU were 12 years old. That's all there is to it. I was born in the late '80s and I enjoyed the '90s a lot but even boomer kids will be reminiscent of growing up in the '60s and call it better times.

>>514909426
Things have become materially and spiritually worse than how they used to be.

>>514909426
>Nothing ever gets worse

Yes.
>high school student in the early 90s
>worked as a dishwasher at a pizzeria but still made more than enough money for weed and grunge rock
>got plenty of pussy because i didn't have to fucking compete with every dude in the world
>college in the mid- and late 90s was affordable and a degree meant a good job
>the only places you saw immigrants were LA and NYC
>barely even saw niggers in the white parts of big cities like Chicago
>fags were routinely belittled
>as were women/feminists
>travel was cheap and worth doing as Berlin, London and Paris were still 80%+ white
>everything else was affordable, too
>inb4 hundreds of seething chud virgins shart themselves bloody about a dude who's had a full life being ~50 and spending time on a technology his generation created
I honestly cannot believe not only how much fucking worse the world is today for the young, but that there aren't full-blown riots or even full-on civil wars every fucking day until every chud is issued government cooze and work and all thge shitskins are sent home or to the graveyard.

>>514902214 (OP)
The 90's were mocked relentlessly as a cheap, plastic, facsimile of the decades before. There were very few cellphones until about 99-00. Wall phones were the standard communication method and this email thing is just something silly the kids do. Real people write letters. Who even needs a computer when you can just use phones, catalogues, mail and shipping? Hanging out is done in person, not online. Chat rooms were always great. Libraries were the way to get information and sports matches were as fun as ever as was live music. Life was lived in person and going out was how you met other people.

>>514908839
All you had to do to get a job was make a phone call and you had a 100% guaranteed job interview. And you were hired next week if you passed. Your starting salary covered rent in a nigger ghetto no matter the job, even if it was part time. You could live a dignified life by today's standards just working at Blockbuster. No bullshit.

>>514902558
This. I paid for my tiny 1 bedroom trailer and the 5 acres it sits on back in 1998 for $17k. Property has a deepwell and creek fed pond that provides all my water. Bought it on an $11/ hour security job at a coal mine 3 miles down the holler from my property.

I get the anger zoomers feel a similar sized piece of property down the road from me with an trailer not much older than mine just sold for $205k. Fucking insane that a 5 acre piece of land on an old dirt coal mining road in bumfuck SE Kentucky sold for almost a quarter million $. Wtf are people thinking?

Not really. It was boring as shit
>2006
Holy shit.

>>514909426
That's not what's in discussion here.

No boomer would say the 2020s are better than the 1990s. Objectively, across the board, every generation who has had personal experience in the 90s and early 2000s pegs that as the high point of Western civilization. People might make short sighted exceptions for "muh better technology today" but again we are talking about society not technology.

Humans were simply better from 1985-2004. Objectively.

>>514902214 (OP)
Yeah. Ignore copes about youthful nostalgia or how Jewish everything was. Both are true, but the 90s were also awesome.

>>514909426
The 60s and the 90s were the best eras to grow up in. Youve somehow interpreted that as every era is the best depending on your age. It’s simply not true

>>514909790
having seen a wider range.
id say 1975-2000 was a good run.

>>514902214 (OP)
93' here. My year give or take pretty much experienced the hard end of an era growing up. 2008 - 2012 was such a fast time of change. The next years directly after me pretty much had a very different experience for their last years in school, socially because of technology. But yeah, things used to be so much better, even though back then so many things seemed like they were somewhat bad post 1999. I only really was cogniscent for the very tail end of the 90s but early 2000s as a kid was awesome since you got the good parts leftover of the 90s, none of the bad of the 2000s since you had no responsibilities, and all of the good of technological advancements unmolested by normalfags ruining it. 2000s is basically 90s-lite till maybe 2008, maybe earlier. My parents both say the 90s and 80s were the best.

>>514902214 (OP)
yes
"no smartphones" is probably the biggest difference
also you didn't have all kinds of diversity hires in the workplace (like a female boss who's been promoted only because she is a fat black communist, but you DO have to cater to her every whim)
no cynical zoomers
>>514902367
incorrect, that's like saying that if you deny your children smartphones the rest of the kids won't be brainwashed by smartphones
and how can you be doing good if you are surrounded by junk... although you literally shit in the middle of the street so you wouldn't understand

>>514902214 (OP)
>Were the 90s actually as good as boomers make it out to be?
Fuck no.
>>514909810
>>514909895
>>514909957
Nostalgia usually goes along with narcissism.

>>514902498
>"The tail end of the 2000s was truly.."
You were fucking 12 shut the fuck up about how the world was in the 2000s

>>514909670
Had my first pc, a windows 95 Compaq with pentium pro processor, 64 mb ram, 1.32 gb hdd, 36.6 kb modem, in late 1995. Cost me over $1k and was legit top of the line for the time. Had to save up for months to afford it. Spent most my time trolling in wbs chatrooms, jacking off to mid quality jpg of sunny from the wwf and Jenna jameson. Good times.

>>514902214 (OP)
Yes.
In the US, it was a time of general prosperity in the immediate aftermath of a great deal of offshoring, as well as financial trickery following the collapse of the USSR which left the USD as the undisputed global reserve currency. Societal equivalent of funding a resplendent vacation by reverse-mortgaging your home.
If you lived in a White area, it was actually White. Even the cities. I don't recall seeing a single nigger in real life until I moved to another state for university, and there were only a handful of Asians and mestizos. Correspondingly, there was still a real society with intact social institutions, full of people who had not been totally mentally lobotomized by a constant bombardment of propaganda.
Also, high technology was being injected into a world which had developed without it. Vanishingly few children of the era grew up with exposure to computers. No cell phones. No commercial Internet. We had pizza arcades and primitive home consoles. Then all of those things arrived during adolescence.
It's difficult to convey just how optimistic everyone was at the time, and how that attitude lubricated social interactions. Authority was lax. I beat the shit out of a kid who picked a fight with me during recess and just went right back to classes afterward. At least thrice per week, I'd get on a friend's bus line and spend the entire day after school fucking around in the woods, building siege weaponry in a garage, or gaming.
Also, by the time we started dating, women weren't completely insane cunts, just women. That world is dead, and I don't think it's ever coming back.

>>514910361
>shut the fuck up about how the world was in the 2000s
This.

>>514910227
>Nostalgia usually goes along with narcissism.

>>514902214 (OP)
It was even better then you could imagine
t. 39 year old boomer

>>514910227
>Nostalgia usually goes along with narcissism.
if you werent even there, how the heck would you even know?
studying the jewish texts?
you dont even know what they took from you.
fucking used cars were 400 bucks, and randos could rent a beach house or a cabin, and niggers werent fucking everywhere along with shitskins and tird worlders, grocery stores were clean
people could quit a job on a whim if the boss was over the top and land on their feet
the music was great because every metro had a local music scene.

>>514910537
>>Nostalgia usually goes along with narcissism.

>>514910541
yes, the only people complaining who lived back then must be very low IQ
back then you didn't even need money to have fun (and if you did, a little money went a LONG way)

>>514902214 (OP)
Pretty dull t b h, the 70s were better the 80s peak.

>>514902214 (OP)
Yes. People didn't have to larp as someting they weren't

Take me back to post dial up but pre smartphone world and let me stay there

>>514910599
>if you werent even there, how the heck would you even know?
Asked one of Epsteins victims.

>>514907617
I can believe that. I'm 30 and the world feels repressive as fuck right now, nobody trusts each other, and we're being flooded with propaganda to keep it that way.
I have some hope that for kids today it does actually feel like it used to, because they're not exposed to it as much. The kids in my family seem to be okay, though sheltered.

>>514902214 (OP)
that picture was not made in the 90's.....that picture was made by a zoomer. the women is a zoomer. look it up

>>514910697
>>514910819
>>514910519
you seem to be really invested anon
reminds me of someone mentioning that zoomers shut down and cry inside if their worldview is challanged even to the slightest degree

>>514910776
You obviously never met a fan of Robert Smith or The Cure

Gen X here, Boomers didn't do much in the 90s. Gen X had more activity in that time. It was interesting. Sort of the calm before the storm.

>>514902214 (OP)
You don't even understand. As a kid in the 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s and 50s everything was marketed toward you, toys, games, candy. You could run through anyone's yard, front or back and no one gave a shit. Parents didn't have to worry about scum of society because they were actually punished. You could bike around town till the street light came on, you could do just about anything civilly and cops wouldn't fuck with you. Young adults had $350-400 rents and could decorate their apartment head to toe and still save money. It was the best to us because we were the last generation to experience it. Silent, boomers, x, mills all got a taste of it. Zoomers are doomed, they've been staring at a screen since the age of 2.

>>514910915
>that zoomers shut down and cry inside if their worldview is challanged even to the slightest degree
Never be surprised when people act negatively to being contradicted.

>>514902214 (OP)
>Were the 90s actually as good as boomers make it out to be?
Overall I don't have patient for most of people.
I've meet so many people that I wish I never had made contact ever in the grand scheme of the cosmos and inner harmony.
Have good memories from few good people in my life, they were very few that I end up stepping away since my mind was confused and lost due this human system that only has been clouding my mind, to make me feel always on defense and surrounded by walls created by my onw self .
I wish I had known about social distancing long time ago, I would had avoid some much polution in my mind from randoms .
In the solitute I've learned to appreciate silence.
It's rare to find someone, man or women that is actually a good friend, the rarest resource in this planet.

If the 90's were good? Depends if you were lucky , but still better tha now that is for sure

Seek in the self 2006 zoomer

>>514902214 (OP)
The biggest difference between then and now is back then we had hope. Everyone was white and technology was advancing so rapidly that we honestly believed those of us who survived Y2K would see a world like Total Recall within their lifetimes. Zoomers are lucky that they don't even know what technological progress looks like. They've been happily playing the same games and watching the same shorts on the same devices for as far back as they can remember. No forgotten dreams. No broken promises.

>>514902214 (OP)
The reality of living in it was amazing. Good times, comfort, new tech kicks ass. Something about the combination of a 56.6Kbs surfing the internet, chatting on mIRC and AIM, pvp deathmatch with a friend on a custom WAD you traded out at school on a 3.5" floppy, We had a big CRT right next to the computer so Friday nights was me, pizza The X-Files, and the internet. It was so good because it was still so analog and things were good then. Everyone was digging the vibe. The culture was popping off, film was great, music was great, and so much of it all the time! Going to the movies all the time ($2 second-run theaters!). It was vibrant and exciting. And everyone was hopeful for the future and sure it was going to be even brighter and better than this golden age. Surely those last forever, especially in America. Did anyone else hear a plane flying low overhead?

>>514902214 (OP)
I built computers and installed networks for companies.
I was my own business.
Boomers hated me, because they were old money and I was was a freak making big bucks.
Wild West of technology

>>514902214 (OP)
Yes, but 80's was better.

>>514910934
>>514911019
>"the world revolves around me amd my experiences."

the 90s were boring, we didn't have all the stimulation we do today
is that good or bad? idk, idc

>>514910397
I played rec league soccer under the older rules where you could play hard. Saw kids get knocked out, get in fights, people kicking balls hard at your head, I swept an opponent's legs by touching the ball first. The way we all got to play was basically a fight on the field and as long as you touched the ball before the opponent you could clobber them. Yellow card level only resulted in a drop ball. Red card level, like starting a fist fight, was benched for the game, not an international incident. In the days before cellphone cameras you could get away with a lot more and not have it follow you everywhere.

>>514911412

This is true with everyone, including yourself.

>>514911318
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KQib7LUCdDI&

>>514910915
Zoomers are stupid. I talk to them in the gym, sauna, work. They're absolutely mindless about everything. It's impossible to hold a intelligent conversation with them, you can see their brains spinning. I dumbed the conversations down to there level and was shocked how much they try to open up but can't spit out the most basic of words. I feel bad, you can see they want to but it's like they have a block in their brain that prevents them.

>>514911250
I ain't even talking about contradiction tier "challenged"

>>514911019
>Parents didn't have to worry about scum of society because they were actually punished.
That's patently false about at least the 90s and 80s. That's actually one of the few bad things about the 90s in particular that people ignore, paranoia about strangers was at an all time high and arguably the precursor to current social feelings. TV shows scared the shit out of late boomer and gen X parents. I remember growing up in the 90s and during Halloween we were always told about being careful of predators and poisoned candy and shit. Now, Halloween and trick or treating is barely a fucking thing any more. And, serial killer and murderer paranoia was also at an all time high because of, you guessed it, TV. Though, back then it was objectively easier to get away with murder. Unsolved Mysteries capitalized on that interest and paranoia.

>>514902214 (OP)
even better what youve been told

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnueYgRxRfw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4

>>514911375

The 80s was amazing. Especially if one was going through puberty at the time.

Folks were also way more physically active.

>>514902308
Sounds like you are a nigger.

>>514911791
>"I am mentally challenged"
Yes

1984 here
It was alright but everyone was an NPC
People watched a lot of movies and tv, more than they do now.
You couldn't talk like we're doing now because the internet was very rudimentary.

>>514902214 (OP)
1993 millennial I can't remember jack from the late 90s to be honest except certain birthdays,getting my skateboard,my childhood friends in Grade 1,& my first PlayStation some movies i went watch in cinema,certain family moments & events ignorance is bliss to a 6 year old in 1999.

>>514911792
Last year my friend had his 11 year old take a "staying home alone" course
Like he actually paid money for someone else to tell his kid not to open the door for strangers or burn the house down.
I pressed him about why the fuck he would pay for that and he said it's because the way the law is worded he could get convicted of negligence otherwise. I told him that sounds like a stupid law and then he started defending it like "well it's a good law because some parents are irresponsible". even though he's going out of the way to convince the state that he's responsible by paying for retarded bullshit courses. People are so fucking cooked it's unreal.

>>514911792
Yes this was the start of the Jewish propaganda campaign to further distance the society from each other. But it didn't resignate untill the next generation. That's how they work, look at a lot of 90s kids shows, they all slowly bring the same Jewish culture war talking points that are around today. It's takes 2 generations for propgana to take root.

>>514905286
after Obama did the first round of quantitative easing and inflation didn't explode they figured out they could print unlimited money and finance the weirdest shit as long as they kept those money in stocks, bonds, etc
This is why everything went to shit really fast, they got unlimited money to do so.
Fucking managerial class (mostly jews, yes), they're the number 1 enemy.

>>514912010
Stop LARPing, Zoomie. We had instant real-time text conversation sites and programs in 1993.

>>514902558
Same. Good times.

>>514902214 (OP)
>boomers make it out to be
You think boomers were young in the 90s?

>>514912087
how do people even have money for random shit like this

>>514912087
He's admitting to you that he's negligent.

>>514912386
>how do people even have money for random shit like this
By leaving their kids home alone while they get paid to have somebody else fuck their wife.

>>514902308
>It’s overrated. I’m having the most fun now.
Sure thing you lying faggot.

>>514902308
no you're not

>>514912343
Fuck, I rented an entire house with a big backyard when I was 25 in 2006 for $700/mo!

>>514903314
When was Ruby Ridge again? Oh '92. Grampa were you thinking of the 1890s? You needed an ID to get on a plane in the 1990s in America so everything you've written is wrong and stupid and you should feel bad.

>>514911791
Artist is tony_crynight for anyone wondering.

https://e621.net/posts/1494060

>>514902510
no it went to shit in the mid-2010s you shut-in retard sperg

>>514907189
This right here and anybody that disagrees is a zoomer retard.

>>514902448
They will never understand, you had to be there, Greggs sosij roll was 26p

>>514907777
If those older homes still exist such as anon >>514907973 describes, the previous tenant would have passed and the boomers that moved in gutted the whole place and replaced it with rank drywall and cheap insulation. The modern construction crew and contractors do not know how to make architectural design that will last 50 years. Just look at every commercial strip mall that’s gone up around you in the past 20 years. It’s all porous eephus and plastic siding. That’s why tornadoes do so much damage to flyover America, everything is box built on particle board and nails hammered by sub minimum wage workers. In the 1600s A white man would venture into the woods with his family, traveling with a horse, 1 set of clothes, a hammer, saw, musket, flask of gun powder, and will to survive. The log cabin that took him all summer to build while his family was sleeping in a tent, would last 200 years into the 1800s with his great great grandchildren being born on the floor of that house. The one summer his wife wasn’t pregnant he would build an out house and a porch addition. Now imagine a black or brown, from literally anywhere, doing that today. Our culture has been diluted that it is no longer recognizable by the descendants of those that built it.

>>514912524
>>514912605
The irish wouldn't know fun if it was carved into the side of a potato.

>>514902214 (OP)

Yea. It was actually better than you imagine. You only hear stories and fading memories.

>>514912639
brutal

>>514908674
Oh anon. Cost of living was minimal. Single household income was still attainable in the internet boom. We were just as blind and gullible as we are today, maybe even more (9/11 hadn’t happened yet), but the rat race was self inflicted, you had other options to survive. Today, if you are middle class and miss a paycheck you’re below poverty line. That wasn’t a thing back then.

>>514902214 (OP)
1972 here. Yes, it's true. Iron wall came down, peace and freedom and money and opportunity everywhere. From 2001 or 2004 to this day things were bad, getting worse every day. Good news might be: just wait a few days: when Russia and Israel stop their wars, hopefully this year, a new era of freedom might start - and I hope it will, if only for you, but I crave it too, 21st century been hell.

>>514913040
>the Cold War wuz real
This is why we can’t have nice things

>>514908674
What do you think peak means?

>>514902214 (OP)
Gather round young whippersnappers; let me tell you about the old days.
Typical summer day for me and my siblings was to get up (Dad was at work so we could watch the big TV (only other TV in the house was 13" one), watch The Price Is Right, eat an English muffin, then pack a lunch for the pool (peanut butter sandwiches and Dr Pepper). Then we'd walk up to the pool, pay a quarter to get in (all whites there btw). Stay at the pool till around 5pm, being sure to never apply sunscreen. Go home, Dad was home, no A.C., sit outside in the driveway talking and listening to the radio, and sometimes recording our conversations on an old boombox. When we got older we'd sit in the driveway drinking gas station wine. At night, as it was still 100 degrees in the house, we'd go for walks around the block, sometimes we'd go to this video rental store that also sold candy. Hang out. Come home, maybe watch a Karen Black movie on Big Chuck and Little John, or Friday Night Videos, maybe an episode of Studs. Sometimes we'd stay up late playing Tong (that's what we called it anyway; it's a card game).
Thanks for reading my blog post.
I miss the old days so much its unreal.

>>514902214 (OP)
I was born in 87. Sometimes nostalgia does play a part but objectively speaking the 90s did seem to be a better time. I consumed alot of American and British media growing up, so my experience is also vicarious.

>Much more optimism for the future (futurology thought we'd have a utopia and colonies in deep space by now)
>A balanced political center - the left hadnt infected everything
>media was not as obnoxious, advertisements didnt have any diversity, but tv shows did start to include gays
>pinup girls and sexualisation was not a mortal sin
>same with vidya, little to no political strife or moaning about sexism
>Internet wasnt wide spread, so not as many extreme or radical beliefs and shouting from rooftops, or retards finding each other
>No mobile phones until late 90s
>Less drug abuse (although probably more alcohol abuse where I am)
>wages and property prices were fairer - had yet to succumb to the total dual income trap
>job hours and conditions were better
>seems like everyone had more holidays and vacations
>Most importantly - homogeneous society, even the US and UK seemed to be exclusively white at this time (even if darkies were brewing in the background).

Everything was better, but it changed with 9/11. Everything became overly formal. We all became broke as fuck around 2008. And pink haired faggots learned how to use the internet through mobile phones around 2009 - 2013 with the rise of tumblr, twitter, reddit.

The 80s was probably better, but the 90s as the last good decade imo.

>>514902214 (OP)
Was even better. 80s-mid 90s was the absolute peak of life in this country. Anyone telling you otherwise is full of shit or wasn't there.

>>514910227
Get a load of this lobotomized retard

>>514902448
It wasn't even the internet that fucked it up everyone was a young white male on the internet until Steve jobs and the fucking smart phone.

>>514912333
>We had instant real-time text conversation sites and programs in 1993.
Of course we did, but I didn't use them and neither did any of the other guys at school.
Neither would you if you had been alive then.
Such bulletin boards were very uncommonly used and didn't have the same presence as the internet now.

>>514902214 (OP)
Yes but only because it was majority white in this country, even if it was still consumerist as hell. Now it's nothing but beaners and other thirdies with whites peppered throughout.

>>514913799
OK larpie, time to go do a tik tok or whatever it is you kids do. You were born in the 21st century.

It was good for everyone who wasnt living in a warzone. But yes, it was peak, so far. Not only good for boomers, genxcancer and millenials too. Also early zoomers got a taste of it too.

Im 37, i'd trade the rest of my life just to live through 99~2009 again.

>>514913962
Ok mr hackerman, what was your BBS handle back in 1993, since you and everyone else was using it then?

>>514913962
There were messaging and EMAIL, but nothing like today. AOL instant messenger didn’t release until 1998 and wasn’t commonly used until early 00s. You’re the one larping

>>514902214 (OP)
There is a simple way to put it into perspective that will make it painfully obvious how bad things have gotten, but it's going to get buried in this thread so I need to think of a way to broadcast it to settle this question once and for all.

>>514902214 (OP)
u can go watch mtv spring break in the 90s
that's what it was like
now if mtv tried to do a spring break it'd just be nothin but brown dudes wondering where the women were

>>514907189
Lmao pollution was worse then than now trust me the air is fresher today

>>514914088
>what is mIRC
>what is AOL chat rooms

No but had hope. The world took a nose dive since then. The us was untouchable by terrorists or Russian spies. We thought that the planet could be saved from global warming, and poverty. We believed in science and history.
At the time an affair was the biggest scandal for a president.

>>514902367
Nah everytime was good when you never saw an indian in real life they were a mystical country where people did yoga and talked funny and then we started meeting you niggers and realized how bad you smell.

>>514914088
mIRC came out in 95, I was chatting and had a python porn server then too.

For the gamers: I remember the first time in 2003 when I plugged in my Xbox and saw on the main screen that said Xbox live. I had no idea what the fuck that was. I hopped on the dial up internet and 45 minutes later I learned about Ethernet cables. I just yanked the tv out of the wall and carried my Xbox and tv up to the computer room. we had one office where dad worked on emails that had a computer, and that’s all that was in there except for the Nordic track that stayed folded up in the corner since 96. I plugged the tv into the wall and took my dad’s Ethernet cord and plugged it into the Xbox. My mind was fucking blown. I could play online with my one other friend that had an Xbox. The n64 went into the closet and didn’t come back out until about 8 years ago when I was visiting with my brother. Looking back, it was a great time, but the days of split screen and having to spend the night with friends to play until 2am on the tv were over and a more isolated era of childhood entertainment was born.

>>514914699
Kek and checked

>>514903995
The devaluation of the USD by the jewish money printers is ENTIRELY responsible for the decline you dumb nigger.

>>514902214 (OP)
We thought it would last forever.

It was centralized credit in 1999. Never before have they done this. Boomers still don't understand how it works. They think credit cards are a sign of success.

>>514902487
Nice musical taste

>>514903995
KYS you fucking Blackrock inflation paypig shill.

>>514911956
it's nothing to be ashamed of anon, most zoomers are

>>514915158
I had to explain to my parents in 2020 what a credit score was and why it's so important. They were more perplexed than anything then laughed it off because they owned their house and had money anyway so what do they care?

Im late to the thread but here is the reason you keep saying "it started going down hill in 2012" pixrelated

>>514904241
I would argue that internet porn has made life worse for everyone

I had no idea how right they were when they said humanity peaked in 1999 in The Matrix.

>>514902214 (OP)
"boomers" were not of the 90's. They were in their 40's and 50's working and not having ANY affect on the culture. The 90's really were shaped by Generation X and millenials grew up in it as children and teens.

Yes it was better. What really ruined everything desu was the internet. Before the internet we didn't know anything at all. What we knew was what we learned at school, at church, from our parents, our friends and our own research which took actual effort (going to library). Often times you would get bad or false information - but you didnt know it was bullshit until tou reguritated it out and somebody called you out on it and you learned the truth. You were forced to use your imagination daily and often. You didnt know ANYTHING. It was also common to fall into boredom. This is why people from these areas are typically more talented and had better relationships and more friends. You had no choice. You were so god damned bored you would actually get your ass outside and go hang out with the retard down the road and listen to a full alvum by alice in chains front to back and then talk about the album and your favourite parts because YOU HAD NOTHING TO DO.

Today people know everything. They know EVERYTHING. Every angle. The weather, the news of every country, the future issues, the conspiracies...You have every single thing instantly gratified. Movies, show, documentaries, porn, music...if you dont like it...you just go to the next thing with a click of a button anf so on. We never had that growing up. You went to the store and bought an entire music album based on one song on the radio, what someone said or what tou read in a magazine or even...just cuz it looked cool. You didnt know if the album was going ti be good. You took a gamble. You listened to the whole thing. We did that with EVERYTHING. Everything was trial by error, experimental and imaginative. Our life was ignorance is bliss. We didnt know shit. We lived day to day and socialized.

>>514915799
Good post

>>514905019
I will say at least the pre2000 babies, everyone had actual irl memories of their childhood. Kids now wont have that, can you remember what you watched on YouTube last week? I cant. Now imagine they is the first 10 years of your life.

I remember a round of capture the flag that spanned over 30 acres, it was awesome. I remember the game took hours and at some point just after midnight one of the older kids on my team came running back with the flag.

The kids growing up now have only know the "corporate for profit" subscription tiered system we see every where. All they have known is short form content, there js no way they will look back at "the better days" of their youth when they are pushing 40.

Honestly, I have no idea how the kids of this decade will fare toward their middle ages. Look at the millennial now, the most toy buying generation, adult happy meals, and the overwhelming sense of entitlement. I believe it was the little bit of never ending entertainment we had as children. Except now, it truly is never ending and teams of psychologists made it the most addictive thing imaginable

>>514902214 (OP)
Yes it was literally the greatest time in civilisation

>>514902214 (OP)
The 90s were awesome.

>>514915991
>Look at the millennial now, the most toy buying generation, adult happy meals, and the overwhelming sense of entitlement
This was always a stupid boomer meme.

>>514905232
I think those times were no different than times before. After those times is a different story. The two decades since have been objectively worse soley because of social media

>>514915799
This is why I don't do anything anymore, some retard on the internet has already explored every inch of whatever it is I want to do and has recorded it on video.

>>514906635
Parents dont count

>>514906809
You mean better right?
Everything you just described is objectively better than today. Unless you are a marvel loving man child.

Everything except "screen time" is worse, and no, the easy access to entertainment isnt worth it.

Interesting captcha, abyss

I was born in 1995. I'm going to talk about the 2000s.

You couldn't just be alienated at all times like you are with your smartphone now. Everything was slower, but in a good way. YouTube was at its peak from 2006-2010. Actual cool, fun creative videos or people nerding out. Everything began to suck after 2008. Pop culture became very cringe and gay, and then woke.

/b/ was always shit, but it had some really good threads and could make you bust a gut. And some threads were genuine and heartfelt. Now it's just porn and goons who whack off to it. Like we don't have ten boards for porn.

Oh, and the internet didn't have 3rd worlder niggers or shitskins on it like it does now. Way less spam. Every comment was authentic, you didn't have to worry if it was a bot or jeet trying to scam you.

The internet as a whole was more about connection, now it's about clout, shortform slop videos, pretending to have some life you don't have, or rage-baiting posts made by jeets and paki niggers who get paid for views.

You have no idea how much you've been scammed. You were born right around when the good times stopped. Everything is trash now, super expensive. I used to get 7 fucking double cheeseburgers from Mickey D's for $7.30. Not McDoubles, actual double cheeseburgers that weren't the size of hockey pucks. Now that'll cost you $28. This is all bullshit. I could go on all day about this.

>>514902214 (OP)
An average man could work an average job and buy an average house and marry an average woman.

>>514904241
kek
>romcoms
>good luck Chuck
>forgetting Sarah Marshall
healthier than porn
>bring 'em back
>no remakes

>>514916171
Been toying with the idea of starting a new "club" or "lifestyle" which is the complete rejection and avoidance of the internet outside of checking email and online bank to paybills.

Buying a fliphone with no screen capabilties.

Having regular meetup/hangout points all around large towns and bigger cities. Almost like "chapters". No leaders or cultish personalities. The goal is just to meet and hang out with like minded people. People that arent engulfed and living in "the modern world".

>>514915799
>Our life was ignorance is bliss. We didnt know shit.
Is that supposed to be a good thing?

>>514904284
>just white teenagers having fun and hooking up.
can't have that, mate
>no oldies

>>514916703
I'd like that idea but it would probably attract enough retards and old people to drown out the fun people.

>>514916704
From a mental health standpoint...yes.

>>514913481
Yep, 2009-2013 is when the internet started to create these insane left-wacko beliefs. All this shit you see now? This started on Tumblr in 2010-2011. We all laughed, what the fuck is cis? Multiple genders? Now they teach this shit in schools like it's real. And there were way less minorities. It's like in the past ten years they've grown like a virus. Like where the fuck did you all come from? And initially you try to be accepting and then you realize they hate you more than you hate them, and it's all zero sum. So fuck them.

>>514916703
The brain damage from smartphones is permanent, it would just be a room full of guys staring at each other with nothing to say, getting more and more anxious by the second from not having a phone to play with.

>>514916801
That was the other part of the 90's. If you were a retard or a schizo or a faggot - you were called out on it and either cast out or we dealt with you but you were always the buttend of jokes. Often times these castaeays would manifest themselves as "goths" or "freaks".

>>514903005
holy fucking cow, is this real??

>>514904723
That was a good'n.
>>514907777
>>514912666
DIGITS
TRIPS OF TRUTH
VERY B A S E D

>>514903995
Dude I hope you actually get fed into a wood chipper. For real. Everything twenty years ago was affordable. Everything has gone up beyond so-called "CPI inflation", which is a Jew lie meant to keep down the benefits given to seniors. Actual inflation is 100 percent in 20 years. We have been literally scammed.

>>514902308
>I’m having the most fun now.

>>514912589
>tony_crynight
You're alright. *fingerguns*

>>514912639
Fuck, that hurts....

marginally considering the current time, but you have to consider that life itself has been disgustingly shit for two thousand years now, with only an outlier of an amazing time during 1933-1945

>>514904083
actual bandit faction

>>514910361
He's right though, he might know why, and you certainly dont.

Even at just his small glance at the world, he knows it is better, because it was. Look at what happened to the world after every retard came online post iphone release. Now the internet and real life have blended together.

Before, the internet was its own seperste reality, tucked away on a small desk in the kitchen. It took effort to get here, thus the quality was better. And sure as shit, no fringe online BS was mainstream.

Now every corpo chases the online fades to the point where the internet js more real than actual real life.

No angry mobs to come get you for wrong think, it was actual escapism. Now we have discord weirdos trying to lure in kids via roblox

>>514904776
Fucking dope.

>>514916704
the dosage makes the medicine
just look at all those kids poisoned by tiktok and turning tranny or gay because of smartphones

>>514910460
>optimism
Thats what today lacks

>>514902214 (OP)
People remember the 90s with a lot of nostalgia because it was the last good decade. I liked the 80s more. Since the early 2000s we are rolling fast to the bottom of the infernal pit.

>>514902214 (OP)
YES
we were all majority white,
which kept the women, niggers and shitskins straight and in line

also faggots were beat down for showing their degeneracy publicly
and trannies were nonexistent safe for commedians

>>514916703
>complete rejection and avoidance of the internet outside of checking email and online bank to paybills
doesn't need to go so far, after all if you download a book to read it, or research some medicine the doctor prescribed, or read the news... what's wrong with that?
it's social networks what need to be rejected and avoided

>>514902498
simmilar age and agree, IDK if it was better before, but I feel like maybe even up to around ~2012ish was the golden age, and then everything went to shit.
Thats certainly when shit started to go downhill here in germany.
Like sure, we had some turkroaches or ruskies before, but germany was still a mostly white country, and if the subsequent mass migration (not just the illegal niggers from MENA and Africa, but the """legal immigration""" too, where they give visas and greencards to a million foreign assholes from vietnam over india all the way to columbia all around the world and let them come to germany)
If we got a based Kanzler instead of Merkel around that time that just said "allright, we as germany do not want mass migration, not illegal, not legal, we want germany to stay as a german country and not a globalist melting-pot.
Like really, thats all we needed, we could've even kept the Turks, they probably would have been assimilated over a few generations.
But over the last decade shitskins have multiplied severalfold in germany, now demographic disaster is inevitable unless something happens and oh boy it will happen, I don't know when or how, but not just germany but europe is a fucking powderkeg just waiting for a spark to light the fire. There is no fucking way western civ ends without even some deaththrows burried under infinite niggers just because boomers didn't wanna be called racist.

>>514917316
Not ALL of them, Anon... In fact, Tiktok just hired a former IDF jewess to take over moderation. She can't undo the Noticing, Anon.

>>514915521
>I would argue that internet porn has made life worse for everyone

I would agree. That shit fucked people up in so many different ways, and now our culture and our population growth is suffering for it; not to mention, the youth is becoming increasingly exposed to its influence as well, either directly, or otherwise; for the latter, especially through memes.

>>514906809
>there wasn't the threat of WW3 every week
just the fearmongering of y2k

>>514917662
Real talk. I was scared af. Now I gotta worry about Y2K38.

>>514916703
How horrifying.

>>514917374
for good reason

>>514902214 (OP)
It's not that the past always seems better, it was better since everything in the present is constantly falling apart. If ten years from now we're living under an institutionalized dystopia, today will seem like paradise.
But without a shadow of a doubt, before smartphones, everything was better for one reason: life was lived. Before the virtual, life was real. It sounds cheesy, but it's true. Things happened all the time. People interacted and created bonds. Today, a bunch of people are addicted to 'something on a screen'.

>>514902214 (OP)
Any middle-class person, with an average salary commensurate with their country of origin and with their debts under control, has a better lifestyle than a pharaoh. Two days ago, my local pizzeria had a 2-for-1 promotion; this is my third day feasting on Italian recipes with fresh, top-quality ingredients while my best friend gives me a blowjob. I'm killing it at life, and I'm just a teacher. In the mornings, I have the opportunity to red pill the next generation, and in the afternoons and during vacations, I dedicate myself to the pleasures of life.

>>514917437

Gosh, how I miss these days... ...Christmases were so magical!

>>514903005
>but I assume every generation is going to be nostalgiafagging about their own upbringing no matter what timeline
there are objective keys by which you can judge, most specifically the availability of some technology that was not yet corrupted or blended with shit
e.g. cars and motorcycles in the '50s, cinema in the '60s Europe and '70s America, electronic music in the '80s, computers in the '90s, internet in the '00s
if you are plugged into what matters, life is dope as fuck... and for example in the '50s and the '90s/'00s it was very easy to do that so the difference was made by your intelligence and personality... which is how it should be :)

>>514917904
What's worse is that the people who warned us about screens were themselves either addicted to the television ("the boob tube"), or they were soon going to fall prey to the smartphone just like the youth.

>>514902214 (OP)

They were. I turned 41 today and got to experience them, and say what you want, but even as a kid everything just hit different. The tech now is better, sure, but the entire vibe of the world and society as a whole is just off. I can't explain it, might be the tism, but it just feels off. My dad says the same thing. Something in the air changed. Hardon Collider maybe, I don't know. But it was a different time, and it was better. No bias, just facts. You would have had to be there to understand, and I wish I could take some of you younger people back for a bit to experience it. Young people now have it tougher than most of us did, and I wish you all well. Love your families, love yourself, and try to stay resiliant. It might get better, and it might not. We're all in this game together anyway, so good luck bros. Much love.

>>514917929
>man's only measure is material

>>514918225
>Hardon Collider
Likewiss, Anon.
4CHAN UBER ALLES!

>>514918306
>jew's only measure is material

>>514917929
>can't afford housing
>can't afford land
>can't afford kids
>but hey, Goyslop!

Also PIzza is literally a fucking leftover dish, it has been dirt cheap from its very invention.The fact taht you are celebrating a "deal" on a fuckign peasant leftover dish should actually give you pause as to how utterly miserable modern living conditions are. But good for oyu I guess.

If you're under the age of 50 you were a child in the 90s and have no true recollection of what it was like since your memories will be coloured by playing super nintendo and having sleepovers with your weird little friends.
t. 42 yr old

>>514916850
The whole idea of acceptance and tolerance was spread just to pussify us so that it would make the job easier.

>>514903405
Just turned 45. I remember just spending entire days outside at my apartment complex as a preteen. Riding my bike all around the property, having Transformer fights with neighbor kids, stopping once in a while to come inside and eat. One neighbor had Rodimus Prime. Even the toy version of that fucker was shit.

>>514903194
zoomers need a fucking cunt in everything or they're not allowed to emphasize

>>514918471

Kek. Fair enough man lol.

>>514918806
where is the guy taped to the ceiling

>>514918225
I couldn't second this any harder. Everything is so fundamentally different now that it's easy to be written off by the youth as if nothing had changed at all. Love ya too, bud, and best of luck to all of us. I hope we can have even just a lick of what we had back then someday.

>>514918128
>3.99
Jesus fuck.

>>514918806
>plasma gun wob wob wob wob wob
ngmi

>>514918806
I love how there's even the little CRT television tucked away in the side of the image.

>>514902214 (OP)
I wish I died in my 20s

>>514918910
Yeah, minimum wage was $5/hr