Thread 12141685

Were the 90s really as magical as people paint them?

yeah they were pretty good.

>>12141685 (OP)
Yes. I've finally accepted that I'll never again be as happy as I was in '99

>>12141685 (OP)
Even more. It was a time of unprecedented progress, success, and optimism. We got entire video game handhelds with a $1.99 Happy Meal in 1994.

>>12141685 (OP)
As a child yes
>Disney Renaissance
>Kids media could still be dark and adult things could still be marketed to kids
>Living off VHS and TV so saw all the classic 70s-80s movies
>Action figures hit their peak in quality and affordability
>Comic books weren't the all time classics but we're peak appealing to target demo of straight young boys
>Video games basically at peak for sheer quality and most definitive series either were born here or had major hallmarks here

80s would have been better to be an adolescent or teen-young adult because the 90s ushered in the self hate emo white guilt movement, but as a kid not interested in subcultures yes the 90s was peak

>>12141698
That Happy Meal is from like 2004 or something IIRC, in the 90s we had this Sonic Happy Meal

>>12141685 (OP)
Yes

>>12141698
Calling those video game handhelds is a huge stretch

>>12141746
That's how it felt to me as a kid.

shit was gay as fuck

>>12141685 (OP)
I was born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s. Early 2000s were cool as well but it’s been getting worse ever since.

It’s a mix of having the internet in your pocket, a lack of sense of humor about life, recycling levels on culture approaching 100% and stagnant tech full of DRM.

>>12141723
>yfw you always got the knuckles toy

>>12141685 (OP)

https://youtu.be/ckvnRB6IHSU?feature=shared

>>12141801
I had the Sonic toy but didn't have the flame base that actually made him go fast, so I had to roll him around manually like some cuck playing on the floor with his hot wheels

>>12141801
>>12141812
lmao

>>12141685 (OP)
yes

>>12141685 (OP)
No. My parents almost divorced, betrayed themselves in shitty discos to euro dance crap, took drugs, drank hard stuff and destroyed furniture like wild animals when they had their parties. A Gameboy was just a little consolation to all the trauma they induced to their children.

>>12141685 (OP)
No, the 80s mogged the hell out of them.

Yes.
>>12141685 (OP)
>>12141723
>>12141750
I had these.

>>12141685 (OP)
The early and mid-90s were great, the late 90s started to get kind of shitty

>>12141728
>makes the word "is" not mean "is"
Truly magical

Everything is great compared to the absolute dogshit that is the 2020s.

>>12141685 (OP)
FUCK this model. seriously, fuck it.

>>12141685 (OP)
Yes

im inclined to say yes but i also grew up then and everyone says that

>>12141685 (OP)
I grew up in the 90s and it was such a good time to be alive that I then remember September 11 happening in 2001 and not understanding what a "terrorist" was, even though I was already in high school at that point.

>>12142468
one of my teachers in high school used the term towel head openly after 9/11. it wasnt even like surprising or funny or anything. just normal

>>12141685 (OP)
Yeah, especially for gaming. We went from the NES to the Dreamcast, with the PS2 a few months away. Until we invent actual holodecks, no other generation will ever know that kind of transformational leap in technology.

>>12141685 (OP)
They had those 3D dinosaur magazines in Japan as well?

I had that glow in the dark t-rex as a child

>>12142498
Me too.

>>12141698
>1994
>Shadow
>Green-Eyes Sonic
>Super Monkey Ball
global rule 2

>>12142490
It really was insane. Like watching people ride horse and buggy to driving cars.

>>12142475
I remember a dj at one of the radio stations around here was talking between songs and he mentioned another soldier dying in Afghanistan. He was upset and said something he didn't even understand why we sent anyone over there, that we have the bombs and we should just turn the entire middle east into a parking lot. Then right into another song. Like you said, normal.

I remember being bored all the time until the late 1990s, when we finally got internet access and I could dive into almost any game or piece of media.

>>12141685 (OP)
Yes it was
zoomers will never understand

>>12141691
>Yes. I've finally accepted that I'll never again be as happy as I was in '99
I would be content to live 1999 and 2000 on a loop endlessly for the rest of my life

>>12141685 (OP)

If you were a kid, yes. Everything felt new and cool and you had this sense that things would just keep getting better and the internet was going to bring world peace.Unironically so happy I was a 90s kid.

>>12142585
>I remember getting bored all the time
Underrated reply. Yes, too much boredom could really make you crazy, but we kids (and adults) don’t get enough of it now. Being bored was when you discovered things or found something unexpected to do or get interested in. Nowadays all that potential energy is just sucked up by gay social media smartphone addiction.

>>12141685 (OP)
as someone who grew up in the 90s i felt stuff from the 80s & 2000s were better.

>>12141794
i'd argue that the 2010s were okay if you ignored the terminally online and actually went outside once in a while but the 2020s is when things started getting worse imo because being terminally online and other jobless behaviors got more normalized and it's when the results of dodge vs ford (the case where shareholders have all the power in corporate decisions) really started affecting people the most.

>>12141685 (OP)
I was a kid then so it seemed good.

>things were better before I became a depressed, jaded and cynical has been
you and every other human who's ever lived

>>12142231
>1985 was 100 years ago

>>12142468
that just called "having an american education"

>>12142231
1990 was actually 35 years ago.

>>12142921
If you can't see that the internet and social media caused a major shift in the way people live then you may be retarded.

>>12142939
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>12141685 (OP)
no, they were even better. peak of civilisation, there were jobs, affordable housing, nobody was racist even if they said nigger it wasn't to be hateful, blockbuster movies every weekend, shops full of people, nightlife booming, plenty of shit for everyone to do, peak gaming, food was of good quality and size, we were on a roll and nothing could stop us except for the rich who decided to milk it every which way they could and destroy the whole thing shamelessly and unapologetically in just a couple decades. it's actually impressive what parasites they were, and yet we are the parasites somehow, the people that made those times great, that want to return and bring back what we lost. i think most people who live through such a transition come out the other end with a hardened heart or not at all.

nope. no halo yet.

>>12142912
>2010s were okay
Absolutely not and the 2020s are an extension of them.

We saw the death of geek and internet subcultures in the early 10s.

>>12141685 (OP)
>plastic t-rex
we used to make our own handcraft dinosaur fossils from plywood back in the 80s.

>>12141685 (OP)
no, people idealize their youth years, millennials grew up and now is their turn to see their adolescent years with rose tinted glasses.

So which is it then? Just nostalgia?
But it's true that the pre-internet world was basically a different planet.

>>12142961
It's odd that zoomers so desperately want to be part of the millennial (and late gen x) but when you tell them what we had or didn't have they start pretending it's no different to their childhood/adolescence.

>>12142964
00s were better.

>>12143018
not by any meaningful metric they weren't, i'll wait for your argument

>>12143018
00s were the beginning of the end, I was a teen then and the only thing good about it was the PS2

>>12143061
Wat.

6th gen consoles, cheap internet, forums very much alive and contained to their niches away from IRL, all the "retro" consoles were cheap as fuck, 2 wings and chips was £1 and a full meal was just £2 including a drink. Even after 9/11 there was this optimistic charge to everything.

>>12142691
'96 was the high point of the 90s for me, there was a lot of great music and everything was relaxed. It's a meme but the quality of the consumer experience does make a huge difference in quality of life, they used to make stuff good so you would buy it then you enjoyed it because it was good. Fuck knows what is going on now

>>12143094
00s were shit and everything you said was more true of the 90s, the internet was high-IQ only, forums were full of literal datachads who knew fucking everything and if you brought nothing to the table you could fuck off, your goyslop was cheaper too. You'd have to be a retarded child to prefer the 00s

>>12141728
That fag stole social security surpluses to "pay off" the deficit. Fuck him.

>>12141685 (OP)
They were even better really.

Give me a time machine and put me somewhere in the second half of 1994. I'd never leave.

>>12143962
in other words he balanced the budget? good. wish our current president would do so

>>12142553
>we should just turn the entire middle east into a parking lot
They'd honestly be better off now if we had. Fucking mess over there.

>>12143936
I wholeheartedly agree with this post

>>12143094
>2 wings and chips was £1
In the 90s we had nickel wing nights. You could buy 20 wings for $1, not just 2.

>>12141685 (OP)
90s were the fucking best, even the first half of the 2000s were pretty good

>>12143925
There was so much optimism for the future in the late 90s

>>12141685 (OP)
>>12142979
>plastic
I remember having an identical rex but it was made of wood, still see some street vendors with these type of wood models
>>12142992
nostalgia definitely plays a part. but it's hard to deny that things are so much more chaotic and low effort these days. for kids growing up now their role models are grifting youtubers who monetize everything and their favorite games are brainrot reactslop, and they don't play creatively with toys because why bother when you're born with a smartphone. shit's grim

>>12141685 (OP)
The late 80's to mid 90's was pretty fucking awesome.
Think about how much kids got in really cool Christmas gifts considering inflation.
It's actually nuts.

>>12141723
I'd rather have the Sonic Happy Meal. Those are even better.

>>12141891
You just had bad parents.

>>12142973
>We saw the death of geek and internet subcultures in the early 10s
oh no...and? at least those faggots were quarantined to tumblr & /pol/ back then.

i'd rather have a bunch of nerd shit getting popular than the brainrot that has infected everything we have now.

>>12142585
Why did you lack imagination? Or did you just not have anything? I used to reorganize my room all the time. Probably drove my parents nuts moving the couch by my self in there.
Yes I had a very large bedroom for a child. No we weren't rich, but we actually were middle class in the late 80's. Then global trade started to ramp up. And that shit really hurt my father's trade.

>>12143936
>the internet was high-IQ only
People really don't understand that. It took money, dedication, and know how to access the internet and do anything back then. People don't understand what kind of communities that created.
Things were okay for a while and then the iPhone happened...

>>12144796
>at least those faggots were quarantined to tumblr & /pol/ back then.
Dumbass has no idea what he's talking about.

>>12143925
material prices have all gone to shit, my parents used to have fancy wooden tables and dinner chairs, now wood stuff is expensive to get, and it's all glued together sawdust.

>>12144880
My parents used to have a fancy wooden kitchen table. Now they have a wooden kitchen table that needs sanded and refinished.
Are you sure your parents had fancy wooden tables?

>>12141685 (OP)
I remember those dinosaur pseudo-skeleton kits being made of wood

>>12141685 (OP)
cigarettes for a dollar a pack was magical
where on earth can I travel to and they'll have good quality cigarettes with no sin tax

>>12144798
I'm from Eastern Europe, so I probably had far fewer things than you.

no, the 90's were just normal. The problem is everything just gradually got shitter.
Even the 00's is increasingly looking like some high watermark of society at this point, and the 00's were like the disappointing sequel to the 90's, even at the time.

>>12141685 (OP)
Yes. The early internet was essentially whites only. It’s something that will never be experienced again. Playing MUDs on dial up after getting home from school. Doing some grinding and resting in town (some made you “rest” to encourage interaction with other players) and talking to people also resting from their grind or just hanging out.

>>12141685 (OP)
-the sheer amount of cartoons/shows from the late 80s to the entire 90s, to early 2000's was insane.
-EVERYTHING got toys because tablets/netflix didn't exist and parents weren't afraid to leave their kids outside yet.
-arcades existed.
-internet was early in the 90s so everything was message boards and game-specific sites because there was no hub sites like 4chan/reddit. search engines weren't fake/paid yet and you could find so many fucking fan sites. it was entirely different because loading 1 porn image could take minutes.
-gaming especially was amazing in the 90s. we went from the peak of nes, getting snes, starting 3d with n64 and ended with gamecube in 2001.

basically if you were a 90s kid, you saw gaming start with primitive but playable 2d, good 2d, early 3d, decent 3d and then basically fucking current gen gaming.
this is why everything is aimed at 90s.

>>12141685 (OP)
>magical
yes. Because there was genuine excitement, like every single month. Because exciting new gaming stuff happened in abundance. All the freaking time. This wild excitement which drove the 90s is completely absent from todays gaming landscape, Also internet hijacked peoples dopamine. So nothing that could happen today would be truly exciting any longer. Simply because gaming people are constantly in a dopamine deficit now.

>>12142231
>1990 being 20 years ago was 15 years ago

>>12141685 (OP)
>Were the 90s really as magical as people paint them?
No, in reality they were even better.

>>12145347
cursed image, i hate that i know what it is

>>12141685 (OP)

94. Nuff said.

>>12141685 (OP)
>Were the 90s really as magical as people pai- ACK

>post about how media was better in the 90s
>autist thinks that includes real world events

People are getting dumber so swear

>>12141691
Early 90's and Late 90's were very fun. I also had a lot of fun in the 00's probably because I was middle schooler thru late teen. Great time for electronic dance music and gaming in general
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISmmZiuMxyo

>>12142980
>no, people idealize their youth years, millennials grew up and now is their turn to see their adolescent years with rose tinted glasses.
Ok, yes, everyone does this to some extent. But there really was something different about being a kid in the late 80s and 90s because the world catered to you in a way that was unthinkable just one generation before. A lot of boomers turned parenting into a pro sport and were reaching for mvp status; the economy definitely oriented itself to facilitate and take advantage of that mindset.

>>12142980
>90s video games getting remasters
>90s tv shows getting reboots and revivals
>90s fast food items returning
>zoomers crying that they didnt get to experience the 90s
Rose tinted my ass. Everyone knows the 90s were special.
I never gave a single shit about the 60s or 70s as a kid. I enjoyed living in my time, zoomers can't. Even my boomer relatives, literally born in the 50s-60s talk about how good the 90s were.

>>12145536
I was adolescent in the 00's tbf, and there was a sense even then that we were getting away from something. I remember getting to about 2005, and just feeling like things were getting shitty.
I don't think it's even that the 90's were that good. The 90's were baseline normal. Probably not very different to growing up in any decade since the 50's
I think 9/11 probably did something to people psychologically (and not just 9/11, but the things it lead to. The wars, the surveillance state, the creeping self-loathing of "the West" over those first two). It was subtle at first, but basically all of the life and the joy just drained out of everything, and people coalesced around some political extreme or another to try to regain a sense of stability and belonging.

>>12142001
This. The mid 80s to mid 90s was really the magic decade.

>>12144796
>oh no...and? at least those faggots were quarantined to tumblr & /pol/ back then.

>i'd rather have a bunch of nerd shit getting popular than the brainrot that has infected everything we have now.

Your post doesn't even make sense. Do zoomers even have their own interests and subcultures or is it just what is popular on tiktok?

This is the same as when newfags come into 4chan disliking anime the literal reason why 4chan was created.

>>12145180
... yea. :(
I used to just get really cool shit handed to me for free from people just not wanting their junk because we had so much space to store shit growing up. Times were way different thirty years ago.

>>12145227
I just watched a batch of retro commercials and saw a bumper ad for cartoons starting at 7:30am on Saturdays.
I forgot they used to give kids reasons to get up early on the weekends.

>>12146043
I used to get up at 6 AM on Saturdays to watch the syndication dub (aka the "Ocean dub" )of DBZ

>>12145608
I agree about 9/11, but my point is the 90s were special insofar as society—in america and westernized countries—was more than ever geared towards children: entertaining them, enriching them, ensuring their safety and well-being, etc. Society wasn't like that before or since. I was an adolescent in the 00s, too, the way kids were treated in the 90s was gone by 05; the safety-first culture went overboard.

>>12146109
Neat. When I was around four or five. I used to get up at 5am with my father when he got up for work. And I'd watch pirated Disney on Galaxy 1 Transponder 20 something. I liked that we could enjoy really expensive shit like that but we weren't actually wasting money on it. The only thing bad about it was I didn't have access to the right magazines to find out what shows were airing when. And I wasn't smart enough to use the phone or ask my dad to figure it out. Show times were always a mystery to me.

>>12146146
Appointment TV for kids feels like it's been dead for a while now but man, nothing was more crushing than missing the latest episode of TMNT on Saturday morning because you had a soccer game or something. Now my kids can watch the same damn episode of Paw Patrol 10 times in a row if they wish. I feel like a total old man here but I had a lot less than today's kids but I definitely appreciated what I had more.

>>12146162
I feel like we had a lot more. Having access to everything all at once isn't a good thing. The most I ever repeatedly watched something was the one X-Men cartoon vhs tape from Pizza Hut. I used to binge watch that to force time to pass when I was waiting for something like a birthday party to start or something. It doesn't make you enjoy what you're watching more. It just makes time fade away.

>>12146125
is it lesser now? Feels like people are absolutely terrified of letting their kids do anything now.

>>12145753
and then a r*dd*tor will post trash man image with all the boards and just circle the anime ones like that matters

>>12142930
obsessed

>>12141719
I still watch Beast Wars

>>12141685 (OP)
Another thing about the video games that I haven't seen mentioned...The evolution of gaming moved SO fast compared to today. I remembered reading magazines in 1994 or so and it looked like gaming would be going from 2D sidescrollers to fully realized 3D worlds in just a couple years. We went from Mario World to GTA 3 in a decade. There were so many systems and graphical styles and experimental games trying to take advantage of the new CD format and feel out what the future was going to be. It was exciting and thumbing through a new EGM or GameFan was legitimately thrilling..

I'm so jelly of you 90sfags.
t. born in 1999

>>12146216
Yea, now we have games that are twenty years old that look better and play better than what's coming out now. It's fucking pathetic.

>>12142490
If we ever get a true AI, it will be an even bigger and faster change.

>>12146232

born in the mid 80s here. I can understand why you would be jealous. At least you're still in your 20s, be grateful for that. aging is so awful.

>>12141812
Kek
I used to do the same shit with my hot wheels that you're talking about. My dad would step on them sometimes when I left them out. Then I'd get my ass beat for it later.
I'm basically a furry today because of him and my obsessive need for speed. Although he did once say that rouge the bat had 'nice tits' when he saw me playing adventure 2.

>>12141685 (OP)
It was pretty sweet, 3rd worlders didn't have the internet yet. However, the 90s were full of reminants of 80s culture like a neon pink and green mush.

>>12144761
we used to buy the paper models then cut it to pieces. then we draw the pieces on a plywood using the paper pieces. then we used coping saws to cut the wood pieces. after that, we assembled the wood pieces.
>the coping saw i use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCSgRdCvvP4&t=340s

>>12146172
>is it lesser now?
No, it’s way, way more. In the 90s there was great balance between letting kids be kids and keeping them safe (though it was already creeping towards too much safety). The things our parents drilled into us the most were being wary of strangers and being aware of traffic. We still rode bikes, went outside and got into lots of things unsupervised. That’s the difference from the last 20 years or so: everything kids do today is so supervised, regimented, scheduled, etc. Example: Halloween. In 1999, plenty of kids went out trick or treating together, did their thing, came home. Now, even for kids the same age as those back then, the parents are right there, walking down the middle of the street, always corralling the kids and telling them this house, not that one, how much candy they are limited to, etc. Out of maybe 150 kids, only one set was totally unchaperoned.
>>12147589
Truth. The third world getting the internet was a catastrophe for mankind. People just continue to elide over the fact that the classic 90s-early 2000s Internet everyone pines for was the product of a small subset of white Americans and Western Europeans.

No, people only remember the good things and easily forget the boring, not so good things. Not just what you'd find on headlines at the time, but the little things like waiting for tv shows to air, shitty days at school, feeling bored, technological limitations, etc.

>>12141685 (OP)
Born in 84

can confirm. I had a good time.

>>12148512
>wait for a new episode of your favorite tv show to air for weeks, building anticipation, clearing your entire schedule around it because it will only air once and never again
vs
>oh it looks like an entire new season dropped for that show we watched 2 years ago, you wanna watch it?...yeah i dunno maybe later

>>12148498
>Example: Halloween. In 1999, plenty of kids went out trick or treating together, did their thing, came home. Now, even for kids the same age as those back then, the parents are right there, walking down the middle of the street, always corralling the kids and telling them this house, not that one, how much candy they are limited to, etc. Out of maybe 150 kids, only one set was totally unchaperoned.

One of my friends had a kid a few years ago and we've talked about this. When we were younger, we used to go out trick or treating alone until it was close to midnight. Just me, my older brother, and one or two friends, none of us any older than 14 years old.
Nowadays that is completely unheard of. Even kids nearing the end of their high school years are accompanied by parents, and everyone does their trick or treating before it's even fully dark outside.
It's the same with like spanking your kids when they do stupid shit to try and discipline them. No one does it anymore, because everyone is afraid of being labeled a child abuser or something. And then everyone wonders why zoomers do such stupid shit.

>>12148576
Literally this

Yes and no, the 90's are the peak of escapism fiction, but if you look past that the 90's were the beginning of all the shit we have today. The end of the cold war also killed the west

>>12149270
What do you consider the peak of western civilization then?

>>12141685 (OP)
>wake up
>scream nigger
>sleep
>repeat
I miss it

>>12141685 (OP)
I rememba that dino model

>>12149437
Hard to say, for me human art peaked at romanticism, for human values XVIII & XIX centuries, for comfort, entertainment and technology, the cold war.
So I'd say that between 1870 and 1914.

>>12142468
I remember being terrified of being drafted. I was the smallest of my friend group.

>>12147468
>beat anon's ass so hard he became a furry
Based bat tats loving dad

>>12141728
this

>>12149557
>So I'd say that between 1870 and 1914.
>didn't even have vidya
1970-2012 was peak human civilization. Things only went downhill after because of mass internet adoption and social media. Would still rather live today than anytime in the past.

>>12141691
>I've finally accepted that I'll never again be as happy as I was in '99
Jesus Christ...

>>12149906
I love videogames, but they're just electronic toys.

>>12144785
Well, not really. There were class divides, if you didn't have the money, you went without. Most consumer electronics were luxury items and poor people didn't usually have many electronics. Maybe a stereo and a small b&w tv. That shit was expensive, more expensive than what we know today. We forgot how to be frugal and live within our means. Though, it was the beginning of getting Americans hooked on credit.
>Just charge it
Now look at us.

>>12149906
2012 is pushing it
I'd cut it off at 2005 at the latest

>>12150948
>if you didn't have the money, you went without.
It's part of the reason psx won. I was stuck with a handful of n64 games while my playstation-having friends had dozens of games at £5 a pop.

>>12141685 (OP)
in hindsight, absolutely... although mostly just for people living in either the states or england.

>>12149198
>midnight
My god, yeah…Halloween in my neighborhood goes from 6-8, most are in by 7:15, police go after any kids out after 8. It’s so ridiculously institutionalized.
>kids nearing the end of their high school years
That’s really sad, but I’ll bet those kids actually love it, the permanent security blanket. I never hated my parents but definitely wanted time away from them as I got older.

>>12142231
Jokes on you, typical zoomer looks older than me so 1990 is indeed 20 years ago for me.

>>12141685 (OP)
>>12142071
>>12142498
>>12142512
>Grandparents buy me every issue of these magazine so I have all the trading cards, the binder, the complete T-Rex skeleton and the two outer skin pieces to put the skeleton inside
>But if I finish the model, I won't be able to see the cool, glow in the dark skeleton
>I know, I'll just glue the two halves together, and that way I have two badass T-rex models!
>The teeth are all part of the skeleton model so the outer shell without the skeleton inside looks like a gummy, toothless retardosaur

I still laugh thinking about have goofy it looked

>>12149906
Those years are pretty accurate.

>>12150948
Yea, the credit system as well as its social credit tag along is bad. Loans have been a thing for a very long time. WTF is your point?
You think people today would regularly spend $147 on a single game for their kid today and not think much about it? That's what parents in the 80's did.

>>12145002
Yeah, me and my brother had those. They're still around apparently.

>>12145580
>Even my boomer relatives, literally born in the 50s-60s talk about how good the 90s were.
Really, what do they say? I've only heard them being nostalgic for the 60's, 70's and maybe the 80's, but never, ever the 90's.

>>12152393
NTA, and I've never heard my boomer relatives talk about the 60's. It's like a decade they don't want to remember. All their stories are from the 70's to 90's.
However... there are a few stories they've told me that would be from the 60's but they didn't say they were from then.
1. My father had a nice portable Transistor radio that a classmate he had over to his house stole. He's held that grudge for a mighty long time.
2. My mother had her first son in mid 60's and had an absolutely miserable time making it as a house wife in that decade. She struggled in ways that were just not comparable to the 1980's household that I grew up in. Granted with my father came property, a house, and a stable middle class income.

>>12141685 (OP)
>Were the 90s really as magical as people paint them?
not in places like the former Yugoslavia or eastern post communist Europe, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, Chechnya, Iraq or Detroit or east south central LA

>>12152393
there was a shit recession in 1991

>>12152426
Yea, America really is just that great. God Bless America

>>12152429
That didn't really start until 1993. Then little by little things started to get a little worse.

>>12141750
I haven't thought about this fucking robot in years. I used to have one

>>12152426
Post communist countries were living breathing hellholes in the 90s. Homeless children would huff glue and prostitute themselves for shelter in Russia and Romania.

It all went to shit when the internet stopped being a novelty that you could do a few things on to everything being always online.

You had proper connections back then, not these empty relationships you get these days. I miss the world being smaller.

>>12142964
>nobody was racist
I became racist after the Rodney King riots.

>>12141685 (OP)
>>12152154
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QOUNvMX-ws

remember what (((they))) took from you.

>>12141685 (OP)
Not magical, just optimistic in the face of a lot of shit (Reagan being unprecedentedly corrupt, Newt Gingrich and assorted Repubs trying to turn the country against the left, Branch Davidians standoff, OKC terror bombing, Yugoslavian/Balkan States war, hyperconsumerism ruling the airwaves, Trump was just a shitty businessman who was bad with money, internet wasn't widely available unless you knew a guy, high end gaming PCs cost a shitload of money). The 90's were magical because you and I had little to no responsibility to maintain a healthy home or relationship. But hey, doesn't that Star Fox 64 game look great?

Thank you so much for to reading my blog.

>>12146172
>is it lesser now?

Personally, I doubt it. Kids these days are probably more politically aware or advised on predator danger just because they have as much access to the internet as we do.

>>12146232
Treasure what little rights you have left if you live in the United States. It's only getting worse at the moment.

>>12152862
Eat shit, you cunt.

>>12141685 (OP)
perhaps not but they really shine considering the dystopian times we live in now

>>12152686
Gorbachev is a traitor

>>12152884
ShutTheFuckUPRetard

>>12141794
>It’s a mix of having the internet in your pocket, a lack of sense of humor about life, recycling levels on culture approaching 100% and stagnant tech full of DRM.
You're talking about the 2020's, right?

>>12152919
>dystopian times we live in now
Sometimes I want to believe this is just my own nostalgia mind playing tricks on me... But modern day really is a lot more dystopic right? Though I believe, in reality, all eras are fucked, even the 90s. Maybe it's just that the 90s was that sweet spot between optimism and technology, a balance that was lost over time, now we have more technology (albeit not the kind we hoped for as kids), and way less optimism, also honesty seems to be an old value, people are all ironic/trying to act funny or sarcastic all the time now

>>12153696
Modern day has more school shootings that rarely get anymore coverage back when kids were doing them before Columbine.

>>12152884
>Trump was just a shitty businessman who was bad with money
Rent free

Not as good as the 80ies in many ways but Computer wise they were gold.

>>12153937
>80ies
>eightyies

>>12152884

You sound like a leftist coont - politics has always been a rigged game to take advantage of the poorer classes... no matter which party has ruled.

>>12153719
For a short, short while, people stopped picking on the quiet kid when columbine happened.

These days literal strangers think you're a threat to society if you keep to yourself and antagonize you, which is hilarious considering school shootings are more common now.

>>12141719
Rattrap was the shit

>born 1994
>remember windows 2000

no I'm not elder boomer. But I'm still in whiplash over how fast things changed with computers between 2000 and 2012ish then how it all hit a wall. Now it's all bullshit vaporware tech giants like google advertises, dyson spheres, AI, quantum computers. Really feel something off happened around sandy hook shooting. Like technology hit a peak with the iphone and we're living in dark ages again. Kind of expected more space stuff happening by now 15 years ago or so. Blockchain and POW crypto feels like the most "fun" tech for masses when you ignore the scam/startup cons parts.

92-98 was literally peak civilization (can probably start it earlier but I was born in '91.) All social anxiety was focused around science going too far, society becoming too advanced. No one thought we were headed for a mass enshitifiretardification like we're in today. Columbine and 9/11 ruined literally everything.

But this is a retro games board and you know what was NOT fun in the 90s? PC gaming. Yeah the games were amazing but actually playing them was not. If you bought a top of the line PC from like 1994-1999 it would be absolutely unable to run games even 6 months later, and even if your PC met the specs on the back of the box, a lot of times it just would not work. The only safe way to play PC games was to play something from 2 or 3 years ago in the bargain bin. I'm pretty sure that's what most people did as PC gaming was both extremely expensive and extremely uncool. A lot of those bitchin 90s FPS games were discovered by most people in the mid 00s when PC prices and specs chilled tf out a little bit.

>>12154787
>it would be absolutely unable to run games even 6 months later,
Unless you built your own and knew how to get the most out of your hardware.
Voodoo 2 went a long way.

>>12154153
>Like technology hit a peak with the iphone
The iphone was the beginning of the rapid descent we're in now. Normalfags flooding the internet began with the iphone and with facebook. The internet was supposed to be an escape/alternative to real life, now it's become a forced cheap imitation of it so normalfags can market their selfies or whatever. Once smartphones got popular it was over. Even windows 8 tried to clumsily ape the look of phone apps, and every version since then has been utter dogshit because it keeps leaning harder into that concept.

>>12143987
>in other words he balanced the budget?
No, it was more of a shell game where he converted the deficits into debts. It was a hollow "win" politically in that he can claim things were balanced, but the solution they came up with would cause damage to the balance of the Federal budget over the next 15 years due to interest. The other parts of the scheme also involved selling off tangible assets, which 5 years later would end up needing to be repurchased at a higher price because they were needed again.

>>12141685 (OP)
Yes and it continued through most of the 00’s. It was almost twenty straight years of biannual life-changing technology advancements with all the optimism you’d expect. Walking into an electronics store or mall was legitimately exciting because there was a decent chance you would discover something you’d never seen before. Friends were always sharing discoveries - new video games, new websites, new music genres. There will never be anything remotely close to it ever again. People are trying to larp that level of excitement with this AI/robowaifu shit, and it’s completely hollow because unlike back then, you can’t waltz into a Best Buy and see the product working perfectly in person.

>>12155541
I don't remember using pre iphone internet that much but the entire computing experience felt more solid then. You got real high quality software that installed right on your computer. Better UX design and very straightforward experience. I could definitely feel the difference as late as windows 7 in 2009 to windows 10 in 2015. 7 was the last time an entire operating system felt complete like a finished product. Computers with windows 8 really went backwards. More floaty and not like some practical tool. We're going into high powered terminals with AI controlling everything on screen. I think the optimism ended with "cloud". We were getting all this power but it's not ours to use.

>>12141685 (OP)
>>12155779
Not only stuff like that but for me and most people I knew in the 90s a big part was just going out on adventures, before I was 12 I went on dozens of trips to mountains, beaches, rivers, camping. skating and biking on the city, thinking back it was pretty dangerous I don't see anyone doing stuff like that anymore

>>12141685 (OP)
As far as media zeitgeist and aesthetics goes? Hell yeah. Sucked being a bully-bait kid and poor during those years, though. You needed a lot of money or generous parents to truly enjoy /vr/ in its day. It was also before all the sluts got online. If you were lucky you could bag some fat and/or weird chick after months of chatting and travelling a thousand miles.

>>12141685 (OP)
Slav here. Had the exact dino skeleton, it came in parts in a weekly (?) magazine it would shine in the dark and shit. I might still have it stashed somewhere.
Also lolno, the 90's were shit if you lived outside of the US or certain western countries. The type of hostile misery that westoids can't even imagine (maybe bongs do, I've been to small town UK) and 2000's were just more of 90's. Things nowadays are unironically still better even with the UKR-RUS war at our doorstep.

>>12156535
> If you were lucky you could bag some fat and/or weird chick after months of chatting and travelling a thousand miles.
But enough about the current state of online dating.

>>12146216
lol, this is true. For example, you may compare games that came out in the year 1990 with games that came out in 1999. The difference is jaw-dropping. Also, check out some of the crazy, experimental games on the early library for Playstation 1.

>>12148576
Truth. Streaming kinda killed the vibe. There's a certain soulful aspect to watching shows "live", as opposed to "on-demand".

>>12153696
They're twisting words to mean things they don't mean, arresting people for tweets, and releasing criminals onto the streets to keep the public in a heightened state of terror. All the while we're edging ever closer to digital ID and social crediting.
Yes, we're living in a dystopia. And I don't want to hear "not my country", because they're all in the same club, and have plans to do this everywhere.

>>12153696
we like to believe otherwise, but the world is really just in a state of permanent suspension since 1945. Whatever is happening is just us getting closer to nuclear holocaust, but we want to pretend otherwise, and it so happened that after the fall of the soviets and the end of the cold war people could pretend to move on for a couple of decades.

>>12157418
The only way that is ever legitimately going to happen is if states just collapse and then nukes are left up for grabs.
The current governments have no intention of nuking each other. Every now and again they drum up fears to get people to enroll in the military. They know it's a fantasy.

>>12157419
Things happen gradually anon. We are now getting back nuclear tests, they were banned 40 years ago. Even if that's meant to be a deterrent, it's still another mile on that road towards hell, certainly not one backwards.

>>12141685 (OP)
Yeah because I was a kid then

>>12157428
I don't buy it. They can sabre rattle all they like. Nuking countries isn't good for capitalism. America isn't about to nuke Russia because Americans have business ventures that involve Russia, and vice versa.
At the absolute most, you may have to worry about Pakistan kicking off against India.

>>12141685 (OP)
Yes. It was quite literally the last Great Decade. That's not to say it was as good as the 1940s-80s were, but the highs were so high that even as everything was tumbling down during the decade the 1990s it was still so far above what followed.

It was the last decade where people were majority well adjusted and social and actually went out in large numbers to do shit.

It was the last decade where countries felt unique and distinct, even provinces/states within them. Going from New Hampshire to Minnesota to Texas to Georgia felt like going to 4 different countries with different people. When you went to Germany or England it wasn't a sea of globalized browns but distinct cultures. Even Canada felt unique and distinct.

Technology reached its peak in every regard without the massive negatives things like social media and AI programs would bring. Culture had never been high, but pop culture reached its zenith in the 1990s and even today most pop culture in every media is just coasting off franchises started/perfected in the 1990s.

Really, you could do a whole novel on how and why the 1990s were great (in hindsight).

>>12142964
>nobody was racist
People were if they had any experience at all with blacks. People living in all white suburbs only got to experience shitty Jew produced tv sitcoms about heckin wholesome blacks. Also nobody even considered the fact they would soon live in a country where 3rd worlders be imported by the millions.

>>12141723
That Tails copter could fly fucking fast if you ripped the shit out of the cord. I remember sniping kids from across the class with it until I made one spaz out and he smashed it.

>>12157513
While I agree, it’s clear black behavior has worsened considerably since the 90s. The culture that used to be largely contained within urban areas is now mainstream to the point where even well-to-do suburban black kids commit horrifying crimes at higher rates than everyone else. We had a handful of blacks in my school growing up, all but one were violent and disruptive and /vr/ related bc one of them literally stole a kid’s gba and threw it off a balcony.

>>12157513
Blacks were alright by me, some were annoying but there's always going to be a shithead from any group, it was the Mexicans that were the worst, the majority were obnoxious assholes.

>>12158519

They even sucked in the 80ies.

>>12158548
>eightyies

>>12158519
I'm an elder millennial who grew up in a suburb. I never saw black people unless we went to the city. Only saw an Asians at Chinese restaurants. Hispanics were extremely rare until the second half of the 90s when they strated being brought here for cheap labor. I didn't meet an Indian until I went to college. Interestingly enough we had a mosque in my town and I had a couple Muslim friends growing up but they were very few in number.

>>12152884
God, what is it with these boomers bringing up 40 year old talking points and saying the same shit again and again. Faggot puppets spent the 90s engaged in the polarization of society by intentionally trying to demonize normal Americans for being "republicans" and acceptance of the third world. "Fuck you I got mine" attitude and crying about the long term consequences. Pure boomerism.