Late 90s memories

No smart phone well not like today we walked around with are heads up!

Yeah, that was an advantage.

The dot com boom was still in full effect. Finding a decent paying job was very easy if you had basic computer skills.

Life was better in some ways and not so good in others.


Hairstyles and fashion were terrible lol.

Medicine wasn't quite as advanced. I have personally benefited from recent improvements and advances.

The World was less connected. We didn't have smart phones or internet on the scale we do now so people around the world didn't communicate as freely and easily. This is both good AND bad. Communication with eachother has its obvious advantages BUT we had more innocence then, as the new age of communication has opened up and revealed some horrendous things that we weren't aware of in the past. Think various types of corruption/ abuse/ dark activities that have been brought into the light recently. We were blissfully unaware of many things back in those days...

Europe felt safer. I could never have imagined back then, what Europe has become.

Well that's just a few things. I could go on and on. I could write a book but better get back to this darned Saturday evening shift at work....

Yeah,the real estate boom was just starting and people were sucking equity out of their homes spending money like drunken sailors.I was making more money than ever before thinking it was crazy and wondering how long this was all going to last.

Btw, you must be really young not to remember the late 90's. I feel old.....

Aol and msn instant messenger were all the rage

Ebay was more fun and could find more deals.

Gas was a dollar a gallon so people drove on trips more.

Groceries were cheaper so dinner leftovers lasted 3-4 days cause you made so much.

Caller ID was for hip people

Movies were better

The sun wasnt as white and blinding

Yes, ebay was better. I had a lot of fun with ebay back then, selling old crap from the attic. I forgot that one.

In UK, it was easier to get on the property ladder. It's extremely hard these days for young people to afford their own home here. So they often live with parents longer or rent. Back in those days it wasn't uncommon for people in early 20's to buy their own house but it's getting harder and harder to do.

In UK we didn't have as many TV channels. Now we have about 642 and there's still nothing good on...

I was a teenager in the late 90s and from my perspective, it was the last good time America had (it all kind of went downhill right after 9/11).

There was just so much of everything: a lot of jobs, a lot of music, movies, and in general material goods. The American economy was very strong.

Cable television was popular but there weren't a million channels like there are today. No DVR so if you wanted to watch something, you either watched it live or taped it on a VHS. I posit that this was why there was a lot of coherence to the culture still: everyone still had to experience things at the same time through the same medium, instead of the postmodern nightmare we live in today.

I remember watching a lot of MTV, which still played videos but also had great original programming. If you ever want to get a good feel of what it was like being a middle-class teenager in the 90s, watch some episodes of Daria.

The Internet was just starting to get popular but until the 2000s it was still considered mostly a nerdy thing. Being a nerd, of course, I was on the internet by 1994. I remember having websites that were some of the most popular ones online at one time simply because there weren't that many sites indexed at the time. If you knew HTML, people would be astonished that you could make a web page.

The late 90s was a time of great positivity in the country: everyone was looking forward to the bright, shining future. It felt like everyone was just having a big party all the time.

My generation was almost getting bored at how good things were: we all just assumed that life would go on as great as it was since we were born. And then 9/11 happened. My generation has had a very difficult time, having been raised in such a strong economy with a lot of material wealth, only for it all to kind of fall apart just when we hit adulthood. Now in our mid-30s, we're just starting to pull it together.

In short, I miss the 1990s. It was the last good decade in America. Everything since has been kind of shit.

I was in my 20's. It was the last period of innocence and adventure. I think it was the last time young people woke up and said, what new experiences will I have for my day. There was an actual excitement in meeting up with friends because it took some active participation to see people. If you actively seeked people out, and they you, it meant you were friends. You had to work for knowledge and myth still existed. The world was still large. But economically it sucked and it was the last era of people accepting the powers that be bs. May be im just old but things were actually fun to go do. I see kids now and they look miserable. They don't leave their houses and seek adventure.
We didn't have a good economic future coming out of college either. Many of us lived at home. But it went unreported. Then the vapidness of the 2000's started. Shit like Maxum magazine and being a whore became mainstream. Everything turned into shallowness. Probably similar to how the 60's went into the 70's. Then 911 and its been a shit show since.
There was a lot of great indie movies at the time. 96-99 was an epic era for movies. But the hollywood shit was obsessed with showing new cgi. Look we can finally render a tornado. Here's a tornado movie. etc. But the actual indie cinema was very similar to french new wave.
Women fucked but they weren't sluts. You had to work for it. Online porn and dvds were huge but not mainstream. Everyone wasn't post-sexualized. You could be a man and still get laid by thinking women. You didn't have to act feminine and progressive to get down the cute girld pants, you just had to be human. People didn't give a fuck about politics in the way they do now.

Also there were hipsters, it just wasn't as mainstream as it is now and there was no name for it (ironic huh). and 60s fashion was very in style. I got laid a lot and smoked a lot of bad weed.

The early 90's were even better. After 9-11 things have generally sucked, especially culturally.

No Patriot Act in place.

Patriot Act was then end of the country.

that was probably the last decade the majority of people actually trusted their govs

then the slow decline into inevitable worldwide revolution began in the 2000s

mid 80s to mid 90s were great years

fuck the 90's 2001 is when shit started getting goodf

just keep looking into your lil black screen!

i havent enjoyed any part of life until i found out how the rich operate, were just slaves

Best times of my life. Built a home, traveled, cost of living nothing as outrageous as today, barely any infiltration by the stalkers. Peace and freedom to move around relatively anywhere without worry. Fun, love, learning, laughs.

NOW????

Today, and not all that much later, it is bizarro world and I want no part of it. The hatred spews from everywhere and I just do what I have to do and come home to what peace is left.

And no fucking Borg phones.

Yep, pretty much 70s-90s were epic and awesome. So many opportunities.

Now, feckita

From what I remember as a teen in the 90s:

-No dumbphones. No high speed internet. You read the newspaper, or watched evening news to know what was going on. An mp3 file took an hour to download from Napster.

-Society wasn't a police state. I could take photos of any government building and not worry for my well being. Now I would have to fear being detained, questioned, or who knows else. People weren't overly up tight and paranoid, and seemed more laid back and friendlier.

-There seemed to be this sense that world peace was around the corner, lots of optimism about the future.

Everyone was mad for it
last hard core party generation.
better music
people were more for going outdoors
local pubs were full
women were nicer and more exciting
men were more for fist fights tho they held no grudges
people talked more and seemed happier
the air felt alive and happening
optomistism was the word

but all young people look back at their generation with rose tinted glasses
so maybe its that
maybe it was crap
i dunno
but technology is to blame for any creative downfall
fact!

This, absolutely. When I was a teenager in the 90s, it seemed like there were no more wars to fight and that everyone was going to enter the future together to create a golden age of peace and prosperity.

Then 9/11 happened and everything went to complete shit and has been complete shit ever since.

The 90's was the last good decade in the Western world. The future was coming and we thought it was going to go in one direction but instead it went in the other.

Double this. 911 basically ruined human existence for at least the next 50 years. Thank god we have trump to make sure they don't extend the suffering with things like boston, sandy hook, pulse, etc.

I was a preteen and teen in the 90s.

I remember riding my bike several miles to my friend's house unsupervised. Nobody asked us kids to stay within eyesight. Our parents didnt really see us for most of the day in the summer and that was okay as long as we were inside for dinner or gave them a phone call. I remember sneaking out at night with my best friend and going skinny dipping in the lake at the end of the road by her house.

I remember being able to go anywhere and never have to worry about what other people thought of me and profiling me when we were in stores.

We rode in truck beds still on the way to the lake and camping. We still took wholesome family vacations even though we were poor. You could still afford it. Everyone mostly still could afford to do something nice with their families.

I remember making a mix tape of my favorite songs off weekly top 40 by recording it on a cassette tape. We were allowed to take cd players and cameras on field trips at school. Boys used the boys room and girls used the girls room.

I could go on and on. Things were so different.

It all ended with 9/11. The age of innocence disappeared after that day. I was a freshman in HS. Life deteriorated into the loony bizarro world we have today. Wish the 90s had stayed forever. I wouldve loved my children to have grown up in a world like that. I fear for them in this day and age.

It was peaceful and innocent and sweet. People were more interesting, less vapid. The internet was a novel thing. Screens werent glued to everyone's eyes. People talked with each other more. People went outside more. Or maybe that is just my idealized version of it all; looking back on my teen years. I'm sure someone coming of age before the Vietnam War would feel a similar way...