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Everything was better in the 90s
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Nostalgia is a powerful hallucinogen.
Every once in a while when I get nostalgic for things how they were in my childhood, I detach myself and look at them as an adult, and remind myself that I liked them because I was a kid.
The only real thing that was better back then was the freedom to be a kid. Well, a suburban kid anyway. In the '80s we roamed wide and free all over our towns without supervision.
Every once in a while when I get nostalgic for things how they were in my childhood, I detach myself and look at them as an adult, and remind myself that I liked them because I was a kid.
The only real thing that was better back then was the freedom to be a kid. Well, a suburban kid anyway. In the '80s we roamed wide and free all over our towns without supervision.
I'll give you tv shows, only worthy ones I can think of are The Wire and Sopranos.
But movies? Lots of great ones came at the time, best decade for the crime thrillers.
Reservoir Dogs, LA Confidential, Goodfellas, Heat, Pulp Fiction, Silence of Lambs, Seven, Fargo.
Sixth Sense, Schindler's List, Good Will Hunting, Shawshank Redemption, Saving Private Ryan too.
The only great thing about the 90's for me is how innocent my perception of the world was and the precious imagination I had.
Watching 90's saturday morning cartoons, playibg Dos games & owning a genisis & snes.
Looking back though, there was a lot of terrible shit about the 90's too.
Watching 90's saturday morning cartoons, playibg Dos games & owning a genisis & snes.
Looking back though, there was a lot of terrible shit about the 90's too.
The Simpsons? Fresh Prince? An amazing trove of Nickeledeon and Anime productions world wide. 90's had good TV. Oz as well.
Star Trek TNG. X-Files? Babylon 5? Stargate
It only seems great until you have to relive that period. You'll be screaming to come back to now. Kids had it better no matter what time period it was, for the most part...no responsibilities, no hang-ups. Nostalgia...it's a nice parting gift.
Some things were, not everything was better.
What? The Internet was MOSTLY closed gardens in the 90's. There were whole segments of the net you could not access based on your ISP. Couldn't get into mainstream AOL stuff if you didn't have AOL. AOL was banned from many IRC channels. Quake was severely limited by net latency. Packet loss was rampant on ISPs. You'd often get disconnected in the middle of a game.
What? The Internet was MOSTLY closed gardens in the 90's. There were whole segments of the net you could not access based on your ISP. Couldn't get into mainstream AOL stuff if you didn't have AOL. AOL was banned from many IRC channels. Quake was severely limited by net latency. Packet loss was rampant on ISPs. You'd often get disconnected in the middle of a game.
Yep, pretty much. All the horrible things we talk about today still happened very much in the 90's...it wasnt as transparent as today and you weren't forced to confront it every day.
If we had 90's culture today, this new forum wouldn't even exist because there wouldnt have been any issue with the other forum lol
i loved the 90s. then again, i think anyone at their teens..just experiencing new things with all the time in the world. that is life.
I dunno, i feel the 90's is when the real push for diversity started, specially in cartoons, i feel like it were the baby steps that led to the progress we have right now.
As long as we're not talking about politics (which is a bit too complex for this kind of discussion) I would say things are different, but aren't really better or worse. I have some intense nostalgia for the goth scene/internet culture of the late 90s, but I wouldn't really choose to go back there, whether as teen or adult. Every time period has its ups and downs.
In the 90s racism was dead
lol among so much racist shit can't believe people believed that, I mean back than a lot of people including the current president wanted 5 innocent people to be executed
the example of racism I used started in the late 80s anyway plenty of racism in the 90s
I think in Quake 2 era anyway we were beginning to transfer to ISDN so the ping came down from 200 to 90 which was easily playable.
Plus the openGL boost was impressive. Memory hazy. I don't know about closed gardens where I was from, I know there was tonnes more fragmentation. I suppose it depends what you were trying to access at the time. I can't remember if we had AOL.
Member PC Magazine demo discs?
But what we had back in the 90s is just the same as what we have now, it's just things have been positioned to be super consumer facing and easy to use with better UIs. But gaming wise it's the same thing.
Mitsubishis, Pink Panthers, Micro dots, pink champagne, speed bombs, hot knives, blow backs, yoghurts, 90s were pretty great actually. I just wish I could remember them.
ISDN was pretty limited availability and very expressive most everywhere. I agree a 90 ping was fine, but that wasn't the norm. In fact, you had that huge disparity where 5% of players was someone on a corporate network dominating the game and the other 95% suffered with 200 or greater pings and considerable PL. Only in the last ~15 years has broadband finally leveled the playing field, and even more recently has console MP relied less on P2P hosting...
I don't think I will ever say the decade that saw the rise Nazism in America, and a wave of renewed right-wing nationalism in several countries across the globe was the pinnacle of culture. :P
Whoa, here there, let's not go that far. If it's not acceptable to wear a babydoll dress with combat boots and a tattoo choker I don't want to live.
(I do not dress like this.)
(But I'm not saying I wouldn't dress like this.)
But can you really say you've lived until you've spent several hours downloading Sailor Moon transformation gifs?
Exactly, I remember going outside and personally interacting with people , plus my Columbia House collection was immense : )
Things werent better for everyone thats for sure. But america was better. People were far nicer to each other and far more likely to interact eith each other.
This america will never exist again I dont think.
This america will never exist again I dont think.
I'm not so sure I wasn't in America. But where I was, was pretty rural, and ISDN was available. But I think the best internet wasn't corporate but university level. Them big t3 lines or whatever they had. Same thing I suppose.
MMO's were absolutely playable. Ultima Online still remains to be the best MMO experience I've ever played.
I hope that guy who used to constantly make threads with polls about very specific periods of the early 2000s comes over here.
One and done.
Almost everything is better than it was in the 90s. Almost.
I dunno man, cities were still pretty rough in the 90s. High crime and drug epidemics.
Nor was there a starbucks on every corner. I'm stanning for the 90's. Truly a golden age of entertainment and the ignorant bliss of childhood.
You are correct :) the fast flowing interacting 2017 isn't a patch on the life I enjoyed in the 90's
Sitting here watching stranger things 2 and I honestly miss the simple way of life with less connectivity
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