what was life like in the 1990's?
>>708567699
Probably not as cool as I remember it.
>>708567699
You have to be at least 18 to post on this website..
>>708567699
seinfeild.
>>708567699
it was shit
so was life in the early 2000's
so was life in any other time period for that matter
>>708567850
1998 is the minimum...
>>708567699
>>708567791
>>708567850
>>708567874
And the dildo in the car park with the gopro announcing the best way to get to his thick head of care jobs in London
Shit was cash
>>708567699
>Flannel shirts
>Apathy
>You could smoke anywhere
>Had to make plans in advance to meet with people
>Snakes was the only cell phone game
>>708568110
>>You could smoke anywhere
god damn i miss this, now you have to go outside to smoke at the pub.
IN A FUKKIN PUB
>>708567699
everything was worse because there was virtually no internet. I didn't get my first computer until I was like 13. before that it was just snes and genesis. You waited hours and hours to download a small movie or tv show episode from things like soulseek.
The advantages was that most people liked the president, there were no wars, and people were less racist (unless they were from the sticks)
>>708568110
oh jesus christ, I forgot about all those. I miss ging to the diner and smoking so much.
>>708568048
Exactly
>>708567699
I was locked up throughout the whole 90's for raping a puppy.
>>708567699
Pretty much just as shit as it is now just in different ways. Oh and lets be clear here...when i talk about how fucked up life is what i mean is specifically humanity. Life as an abstract concept is amazing.
>>708568302
>>708568405
Haha, faggots.
I'm glad you have to go outside to smoke now. Nobody wants to huff your piece of shit second hand smoke.
>>708567699
There was a lot of ecstasy and machine guns.
We were all depressed for no reason. We were the first "participation" trophy generation. We expected a great life without putting in the hard work. The internet seemed promising.
>>708567699
Slower.
>>708567699
Well I can tell you, being born in 1996, that the 90s were so much cooler than now. Only 90s kids will get this tho so don't even try to understand.
>>708568880
i hope you outlive everyone you love and die alone
The 90's sucked. I got no pussy the whole decade. Didn't make shit for money. Has little kids to raise. The 90's sucked.
>>708568313
>people liked the president, there were no wars, and people were less racist
Literally all wrong
Women went to arcades to meet guys
>>708567699
Pure garbage. Vhs and no internet in the pals of our hands. We had to fap to magazines and loli was really hard to get unless you had a dial up modem.
Well.....
We had Sega and Nintendo being the big video game companies.
People bought CD's instead of having ipods with playlists, and people used to brag that they had X amount of CD's... some had hundreds.
Internet was just coming out but I didn't have it. We had a computer but it wasn't connected to the internet. We shared video games via floppy disks, which didn't work all the time. Games on cds were coming out, but we couldn't copy them easily at the time.
I had a beeper instead of a cell phone. If someone wanted to contact me, they called my beeper and left their number to call them. Come to think of it, this was so impractical but we all had them. People left their numbers with 911 after them (emergency) or 411 (need info) or 143 (I love you... though I only got that once).
The Atlanta Braves actually won a world series.
Music was just starting to suck, as Nirvana and Metallica brought us the last music that is worth listening to. All the best music is from the 70's and 80's.
That's about all I remember that's different from now.
The crack was stronger
>>708569412
VHS was the shit the fuck you on about?
One of the best memories was going down to the video store to rent a VHS every weekend and watching it with friends.
>>708569022
thats bullshit. Born in 84. Never received a participation trophy. Everyone (especially baby boomers) accused us of being lazy and just expecting everything to be given to us but in reality they had unrealistic expectations (Just walk in and start on the bottom floor and get promoted to ceo like I did!" Since we were not climbing the corporate ladder like they did by our 20's they said "You don't work hard enough!"
And despite them mooching off grandma and grandpa and mooching off the government after that their arguments of "self made success" turned out to be real bullshit.
>>708569412
Oh yes. I remember this. Ugh. I was under 18 until 1999, so I had to get someone else to buy porn magazines for me.... and had to hide them under the bed or deep in a closet so my parents wouldn't find them (they eventually did).
I'm this guy by the way.
>>708569518
The point of no return.
>>708569201
Dude you didn't even fucking see the nineties.
>>708567699
The globe and yahoo geocities was Facebook also totse was cool
Born in '91, so I don't remember a whole lot except that I was poor. There were a ton commercials on television for cool toys that I never got to play with because my parents couldn't afford them.
>>708569673
this
>>708569822
thats the point retard
>>708567699
simple and shallow
maybe that's school though
>>708567699
Extreme.
Everything was extreme.
>>708569860
Hello, me!
> born 1987
> groovy music
> baggy pants
> loose clothes
> submissive women
What else can I say?
>>708568110
I remember smoking at Burger King when I was 18.
>>708567699
fun
>>708569403
Clinton had the highest approval rating. The Gulf war and Kosovo were barely wars. The Gulf war lasted 7 months. Kosovo lasted days and peope were way less racist then today. We all watched family matters and fresh prince and the Cosby show. No one saw them as "black tv shows". The 90's was about not seeing race.
After the 90's it became about seeing race and it made everyone more racist. SJW's emerged and that agitated people who were slightly racist into going full klan.
Even my close friend who used to very cool in the 90's of everyone regardless of race and would even go into the inner city and eat soul food and listen to rape is now a full nazi.
>>708567699
You just made me remember when I had the tips of my hair frosted. Holy shit is that cringeworthy and yet I thought I was the coolest fucking kid when I went to school that day.
The cold war finished. For the first time in decades we didn't have a threat of war with Russia hanging over us.
Then Hillary hit the reset button.
>>708569673
I was born in 82. Always got a participation trophy at the end of the sport season growing up. It was in South Carolina.
>>708570246
>peope were way less racist then today.
Ah, no. White fag with black/Indian wife here. We used to get stared at and comments all the time in 1995. Today nobody even looks twice.
>>708569987
Wow, are you retarded?
>>708567699
No one gives too much fuck about faggots and faggotry.
>>708570169
Cool
There weren't uneducated faggots who said "literally" (incorrectly) in every fucking sentence.
>>708567699
Most the people commenting are young fags born in the 90's. You have to of been born in the early 80s or older to be a 90's kid or else you don't really remeber it or did not really participate.
The 90's were an awsome time. The internet was new and not populated by normalfags and retards. It was still sort of expensive in the mid 90's to own a computer and have Internet. So naturally the people that were on where smart college kids and more well off. Not like the trailer trash of today. It felt like the dawn of a new time. Video games were coming into their own too. There were literally hundreds of awsome cartoons that were mostly good and not autistic Japanese shit. Arcades were a thing and they were awsome. People had more personality and kids were more imaginative. Movies were great, music was great. I could go on forever....
>>708569673
and baby boomers have been ass fucking us into oblivion with their me me me bullshit, while accusing it of our generation. Then leave us with this shit hole economy, massive debt and fucked environment. But hey, atleast they had a good run right? now its our fault because reasons and shit?
>>708570535
That's because everything now has been pussified with the faggots and niggers crying all the time.
Every host asked if you wanted the smoking or non smoking section, anti smoking ads were in their infancy so they were still shocking/informative. Weed was not flaunted, it was a big trip if you got busted with it. Super soakers were constantly outdoing themselves. WWE was still WWF and it peaked b4 2000's. Hip Hop had substance and it was all about outdoing each other lyrically, whilst being macho. What else, oh yeah we didn't have all of this politically correct bullshit and people could have a good laugh about race, which was probably best about the 90's
>>708567699
hey guys, remember when we had no GPS?
how much fun was it trying to navigate with those fucking huge maps.
then we got GPS systems that were terrible, but still better than nothing. and now all you have to do is say "phone: give me directions to __" and you're golden.
>>708570471
your experience doesn't reflect the rest of the world. I grew up in Pennsylvania and Texas and they never offered participation trophies. The closest thing I remember to one is I won a pencil in first grade for "most creative" but I didn't care. I remember one kid who had some trophies at my church when I went to his house. He seemed kinda like a pos so I had no idea where he got them or what for (I knew he played soccer but to one treated him like he was anything special) The only people who cared about trophies were certain kids parents. None of us wanted or cared about that kinda shit.
In true 90's fashion, we perceived reward systems from places like school or programs as indoctrination.
>>708567699
>Pokemon everywhere.
Other than that, same shit except with less internet, social media, phones, computers, etc. It was still a time when anime was considered gay, yo mama jokes were prevalent, and fags were jokes.
>>708570811
Member BBS and IRC?
>>708569586
Back then it was the shit. Now it seems much worse than I remember. Why did we ever put up with rewinding and shit resolution?
>>708569412
>dial up modem
That sound was the sound of...possibilities...the world at your fingertips
>>708568302
Cars and airplanes still had ashtrays in the armrests too
>>708570246
>peope were way less racist
Growing up as a white kid in Hawaii, I would have to disagree strongly with that.
>>708570904
Yeah man my dad used to be a trucker who went all around Canada and the USA and I used to see him with maps in his truck all the time. That must have sucked.
>>708567699
daria was such a sarcastic, passive-aggressive bitch god damn i hated this show
>>708571006
IRC, MPLAYER, ICQ
I played a lot of quake in 96, 97. Those were some of my best gaming memories.
>>708570922
Did you play any organized league sports when you were a kid? I got them in basket ball, baseball, and soccer. I played local organized league baseball and soccer. I played church league basketball. We used to travel to different churches every weekend to play different teams.
>>708571018
>the world at your fingertips
More like shitty ass Microsoft Word-esque webpages, sprite animations, and shitty ass flash games.
>>708569539
Kek
FUCK YOU KID
>>708570813
yup, my dad died when I was 18 and he didn't have any retirement plans so it fucked my mom up royally. So guess who had to help get a job and pay the bills so she didn't have to sacrifice her lifestyle of buying organic or moving into an apartment?
After she remarried and I was throwing all my paychecks at her for a few years she kicked me out of the house.
This isn't unique amongst most of my friends either. Most of our parents stayed at home while they attended college or built up finances and when we became 18 all our parents started demanding rent. The few who had cool parents all had cars, college, savings and better jobs by the time they were in their mid 20's. Most of us though have little savings because we spent all our money on beater car and rent and ended up working at pizzaslut way longer then we should have because we were being threatened to be thrown on the street if we didn't keep paying their bills.
I got b& from AOL in 95 for sharing porn pics in chat rooms.
>>708570689
there's nothing grammatically incorrect about using the word literally as hyperbole...no matter how much you like to use it as an excuse to be a pretentious pedant and dominate others around you.
>this thread
KYS
>>708567699
Romper stompers and sockem' boppers
>>708571868
Jealousy is a bitch eh young fag?
>>708571413
I played foorball and wrestled for school as did my older brother.
I played baseball for my church.
We not only didn't get participation trophies. Our coach would sometimes shame us for failing. Like pull us aide in front of everyone and yell at us. One kid was pretty sensitive and started crying.
>>708571706
Not him but you are not even using the word pretentious right.
Better.
>>708569139
Truth.
>>708572009
Jealous of what? Old useless shit? Your going to die before me you old fuck. I still have my whole life a head of me nigger.
everyone had cable tv, gas was 1/3 the price, had to use a phonebook to look up a number, had to rewind vhs tapes
>>708572402
Why did people find this such a hard thing to do? All it was is clicking a button and waiting.
>>708571639
i dont even mean that, i mean economic policies, job growth fucked so they can make a fast buck, implementing EPA regulations which fuck up even more jobs for us.
they were able to live nice on a factory job, now factories pay shit or send the work to some third world.
They get to enjoy social security, we wont have that because they keep putting their fucking fingers in it to pay for their other bullshit projects.
hobetly, someone shouldnt be able to vote after they leave the work force, at that point theyre a drain and contribute nothing, while wanting everything.
>>708567699
i wouldn't know, i was born in the last year of it.
>>708572386
not unless the klan get at you first, dawg
>>708567699
Are you retarded? Probably how life is like in any other time, not being dead.
In 1990, Nintendo owned 90% of the video game market share, thanks to the release of Super Mario Bros. 3
>>708572386
Unless you are an underage fag, I'm assuming you are 18. That makes me only 8 years older than you bitch. Have fun waiting 2 years until you can legally buy alcohol you cunt.
>>708567699
Daria was amazing and a big relief in my awkward and angry teens to know I wasn't the only one that thought that way.
Music was ok but I always preferred stuff from the 60s and 70s.
Movies were mindless but flashy with a real emphasis on sci-fi and a few gritty crime gems here and there.
Womens were the same flavour of crazy as they've always been.
Fashion was terrible.
Most things from that time haven't aged terribly well for some reason and look lame/cheap.
>>708567699
No cellphones. Dial up internet. Everyone thought their music was the coolest.
We all spent a lot more time outside.
It was nice.
It was better because autism wasn't "popular" amongst parents back then, and feminazis didn't exist
>>708572932
wow. you're a real dumbfuck.
>>708568759
Dude, what the fuck.
We were all depressed and cynical and "against the man".
I miss that.
Now we've got all this irritating anti-free speech SJWs who want to police everything, and all these right-wing populists who hate virtually everyone.
God I miss the Religious Right and the Boring Center-Left.
>>708567980
*maximum
>>708569006
There was a shitton of eccy now that you mention it lol
>>708567699
lower resolution
>>708572641
that as well.
Boomers also got jobs and worked their way up toe management without degrees. When in hiring positions they start requiring degrees. Then expect their kids to work their way to the top without degrees.
Yeah, they borrowed from their grandparents for social security and now they are borrowing from their children. Even old people who have retirements and wealth still take out social security after retirement because it is "free money" and vote under the pretense that said candidate will take their benefits.
They also did take jobs overseas because "free market capitalism!" which made them a ton of money, but leaves us with no unskilled high paying jobs.
They also brag that they helped stopped the vietnam war and shit but if you actually asked your uncles and aunts all they did was smoke weed and fuck around and listen to records Or they did nothing at all and wasn't political but they act like they took a bullet for MLK.
>>708569586
Video stores were cool but thise shits werent as good as dvds or streaming. They also took tons of space.
Early 90s were kind of meh (Bush the Elder, war in Kuwait) and got better in the mid-nineties (easy access to interwebs) and got crazy towards the end (dot com boom). Music was generally pretty good. Clinton was cheerful most of the time.
>>708570268
Back then, you probably were. Mine was alternatively dyed blue or jet black depending on what everyone thought was cooler that month lol
>mfw current me would have kicked old me's ass for being such a fgt
Cartoons were better.
We were willing to show male cow anthros being penis-milked on national television (*cough* Rocko's Modern Life *cough*).
The 90s were basically ten years of transition to world-wide internet and affordable cellphones. That means they were the end of an era, really. A big one.
>>708567699
AOL, dial-up, what's a cell phone, crystal pepsi, a Clinton in the white house, "grunge", PED's in baseball, shitty family sitcoms, about 60 cable channels, dot matrix printers....good times.
>>708573437
and they better hope shit doesnt hit the fan like an economic collapse, because theyll be the first to be executed for those reasons
>>708567699
Less racially divided.
>>708572386
You're just mad you're going up in the age of social media and mobile games. Literally the two faggiest things kids could be doing with their time.
Was a kid, so my view is skewed and it's to me a wonderland filled with VHS tapes, boybands, cartoons, and Britney Spears.
>>708573887
Hey man Gameboy was cool back then.
>>708571288
Holy fuck, ICQ.
>nostalgia fully triggered
I was always a winamp man and sims1 and quake were just about the only things I played for what seems like years. Good times indeed.
>>708573991
>gameboy was cool back then
wtf do you mean back then? i still have a gameboy emulator on my phone.
>>708569205
Nobody on this website has loved ones newfag
like living in the 80's. everything was tacky and people dressed like morons, but in comparison to today, it was heaven
>>708573991
Cool for kids that didn't have internet access and weren't playing multilayer games before everybody.
>>708571268
I have Daria recorded on my DVR. I fucking love that show.
>>708571706
>there's nothing grammatically incorrect about using the word literally as hyperbole
Uh, that's literally completely wrong and ass-backwards. Pls kys, millennial fgt.
>>708573693
The 90s were the beginning of the end for America's shared mass culture; not everybody had cable, and most people watched CBS+NBC+ABC+PBS and that weird new Fox network. Cartoons were on Saturday morning because that's the timeslot they were on. No video on demand, no hyperspecialized Teen Harbl Channel. And so everybody knew what the Bugs Bunny cartoons were.
>>708569518
00 4017 12317731778312 986312 6003?
>>708574231
What multiplayer games were you playing online when Gameboy was cool?
>>708574074
I meant this MPlayer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPlayer.com
It was the first GameSpy type service. It was pretty awsome for the time.
>Born in 1980
>played vidya starting in 1984
>Sega Master System, NES in mid 80s
>Sega Genesis and SNES a few years later
>then the 90s
>had internet connection in early 90s
>PS1 came out, it was baller
>smoking, doing drugs, getting laid
>people weren't as up tight, slap on the wrist if you got caught
>awesome music, which is making a comeback with all the people too young to remember when it came out
>PC just started, but people made fun of it and it sort of disappeared
>Napster gave us free games/music
>college still gave you an education instead of coddling
I kinda feel sorry for kids now. You're all kinda fucked.
>>708574436
No one remembers this?
The only real day to day difference between than and now is you have access to more media. Back then you had maybe five movies on VHS and you were happy to watch them once a week. And you had to read a tv guide and wait for your favourite shit to come on. Graphics in games have gotten better but gameplay has gotten slightly worse in pc games. I didn't have a fear of telephones in the 90s. I would happily ring my friends. Now the idea of just calling them for a chat makes me tense up and feel like an old man.
>>708567699
Marathoned that entire show over the summer during my lunch breaks. Definitely more entertaining than I remember.
>>708574206
>everything was tacky and people dressed like morons
today is pretty bad with the caricaturized Hitler youth haircuts and beards
>>708567699
I went through a phase of fantasizing about Daria and Jane Lane lezzing it up while I was beating off
>>708575460
>I didn't have a fear of telephones in the 90s.
Remember calling your friends to set things up, and talking to their parents for a minute? It wasn't even weird. It was just life.
>>708575300
I went to college in the 90's and currently.
Its exactly the same.
>>708575300
It's the Boomers' fault.
>>708574536
Never used it, we didn't bother online since you had to pay so just kept to LAN, I'm annoyed to see that it was free later on lol How well did it work?
>>708575622
Undercuts and beards have been in and out of fashion since LOOOOOOOOOOOONG before the Hitlerjugend.
Try again, self-loathing millenial.
>>708575870
>Its exactly the same.
No it isn't. I went to two very liberal colleges. And back in the 90s and early 2000s, professors were not scared to talk about opposing views. The only instance I ever heard of any instructor having any issue at all at my schools was an art instructor that refused to support a republican student group, because he didn't want his beliefs out in the open. No one got fired for allowing ideas to compete. Now, instructors are being forced out of tenured positions because coddled kids are whining about safe spaces, trigger warnings, and preferred pronouns. Colleges are no longer academic spaces, they are echo chambers for the weak.
>>708567699
If you were a kid, pretty fun!
>Power Rangers
>the best vidya
>the best anime
>even the best cartoons
>Discovery Zone
>great PC games like Oregon Trail
>Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network!
>McDonald's, and no one gave a fuck about carbs
>dail-up, but you didn't care
>and so on
I'd imagine that if you were an adult, it was a somewhat terrifying time though.
>>708575989
It's their parent's fault for wasting the boon of the post-WWII economy and setting up unsustainable systems. Then it's the fault of the Boomers for being greedy, and milking that broken system for everything it was worth.
>>708567699
Porn was a precious, precious commodity....
it was so hard to get anything without the internet
I had a shoe box full of women's underwear adds
and my sketches of what I thought naked women looked like to get off to.... Oh yeah there was scrambled porn sometimes too.
>>708576846
>I'd imagine that if you were an adult, it was a somewhat terrifying time though.
Why? The cold war had ended, the economy was pretty strong, no real threat of terrorism, no totalitarian surveillance-obsessed government. It was a good time to live. The world as we know it really did end in 2000.
>>708575398
Uh, no. What the heck is this?
Started hs in 1998, hanson, backstreet boys and spice girls were evwrywhere, I was into britpop oasis and blur, got my first pc that year played age of empires, mortal kombat trilogy and fifa 98 all the time.
Remember being really hyped for the godzilla movie that I bought the soundtrack. Had many pairs of nike basketball shoes and the reebok shaqnosis were my favorite. Was really into the nba, loved everything related to the charlotte hornets, I remeber my dad's friend going to america so I asked him for some hornets gear and he brought me a dolphins jersey and some huge fila shoes.
I liked to skate but I sucked ass so I never bought a nice skate. I remember watching buffy the vampire slayer every friday, she was so hot. I watched clueless on nickelodeon for the same reason, rocko and kenan and kel also on nickelodeon were amazing.
Also loved going to the mall and play crazy taxi at the arcades and also laser shots was the greatest thing ever, I even had my gran buy me laser shot pens that you could play anywhere.
>>708577114
The rise of civil wars in many parts of the world as a result of the Soviet Union collapsing, and so forth. But, as I wasn't an adult, I didn't care; too busy pretending to be the Green Ranger and eating pizza at Discovery Zone before renting a few SNES games from Blockbuster.
>>708576846
After Kuwait, things were pretty chill. People were generally pretty euphoric, the economy was booming, and absolutely terrible pension/retirement deals got made because nobody thought the good times would end. The WTC and OK City bombings were the only real blips.
Source: I graduated HS in 1989.
Stream Goosebumps naow
>>708577853
I guess. Maybe it was just me.
>>708577206
Pager code.
>>708568048
Would you like a drink with that word salad?
The biggest difference was really that things felt hopeful. A lot of the things that protected the middle class hadn't been revoked yet, all jobs hadn't shipped to mexico/china, and education prices hadn't gotten hiked through the roof yet. You had a chance. Now, people are always ready for it to be "the end" - our economy will implode, ww3 will start, we're all boned - that stuff was fringe. Now, it's the mainstream - I know more people who think we can't fix the climate or economy or industry or whatever than think we can. People weren't always like that.
>>708568880
>haha faggots
Shut your face. Smoking is cash af.
Little to no video porn online
>>708569201
Fellow 96 Baby here. Yeah the 90's were great. Especially 1999. Wild times.
>Amirite
>>708579070
9/11 made the country go completely batshit insane, and it still hasn't recovered. The end of optimism.
>>708579188
Fuck you retard.
Smoking cigarettes is on the decline so much that in ten years from now you people will be the abnormal ones looking like a bunch of disgusting idiots killing themselves. Assuming you live that long, bitch.
>>708579655
You can all blame that dirty sand nigger osama bin laden, well at least he's dead
>an entire generation not touched by war, look at the movies that came out in the 90s all of the war movies were making light of the army. so all the war mongers had to wait until 2001 to take over...
>every male movie star was a brown haired blue eyed guy so if you were one of those you were doing really good with girls..
>no face book or social media so girls didnt have that huge amount of power from being able to keep tabs on everything..
>no cell phones so it was ok to not answer phone calls you didnt want to and not be considered a dick
>movies were still a single persons vision and not some corporate money making venture..
>girls were cool and everyone was down for a good time...and of course the greatest part..
>IT WAS PRE NIG CULTURE...
>in short it was heaven
AOL
Props to HaVoK and motherfuckers that traded Warez
>>708580715
>still thinking some fuck in a cave could have pulled that off
Woah pic fucking related
1990-1994 just the 80s still winding down. Birth of original Nicktoons (doug, ren and stimpy, rugrats followed by others) 1995-1998 gold gaming years, esp 1998 it was pretty much Nintendos best year ever. 1998-2000 was all "new century we are gonna solve all the problems!" And then 2001 9/11 happened and we have been in the same shithole since.
>>708580813
15 year old detected. Literally none of that was true. Like at every year's music top ten. Its all black. It was the decade black culture became mainstream.
>>708568759
Haha, what the hell
>>708581648
9/11 was one of the biggest overreactions in history. everyone freaking the fuck out is exactly what the terrorists wanted. we should've just increased airport security and been done with it instead of destabilizing the world even further over some bullshit war on terror
>>708582505
To be fair, Bush would have invaded Iraq whether he had an excuse or not. Jut like his pappy.
>>708581955
>black culture became mainstream.
In a positive way.
>>708582824
"He tried to kill my daddy!" - Dubya
What a fucking idiot. Iraq and the Saudis didn't like each other at all, and (as odious as they were) the Ba'athists were at least stable. But nooo, he had to go in like the fucking truthiness-loving cowboy he was and is.
>>708583063
I watched some of that recently, didn't he say his style was hip hop martial arts or something?
>>708583426
Hip-Hop-Kido
>>708569822
>falling for his b8
0073635963
Oh wait, only 80's kids will remember this one...
>>708571453
Bitch, I loved making word-esque webpages (center all the things!), sprite animations, and shitty ass flash games.
>>708570904
Except now people rely solely on their GPS. I know people who can't go anyfuckingwhere unless their GPS tells them to, and even if I say "turn here, it's quicker" they don't because the fucking gps tells them to go a different way...
Fuck.
>>708570922
I still have my Perfect Attendance trophies from junior high
If I had to compare it today, I'd say it was much more laid back. Things were easier going. People weren't as stressed. You didn't have to be so suspicious of everyone. You could depend on your fellow man to be less shady, for the most part.
You could trust your employer to reward your loyalty to a company. The internet hadn't yet dominated every reach of society. Cameras were still separate devices. Bully was restricted to bathrooms and hallways instead of online. People still respected trade schools as a viable option for kids that weren't cut out for college.
But that doesn't mean it was all better. For example, the ability to review products and companies for the world to see has revolutionized how we spend our money and allowed us to choose better.
>>708567699
Better in some ways worse in others.
Fucking payphones everywhere
>>708576770
I went to a community college and now I am in university for a second degree. Unless you are in a political class, no one talks about politics same as before. There was a liberal ad conservative philosophy professors who had fun giving each other shit.
There are no safe spaces, there are no trigger warnings, there are no preferred pronouns.
This might happen at some big universities but nowhere at a normal one.
>>708567699
Carbon based
Glorious Anon. It was glorious.
We had pogs and tomagochi and the rugrats and shitty 8bit dial up porno
>>708585419
>you didn't have to be so suspicious of everyone
except gays
Flying was still the coolest shit ever and you could park and walk to the gate with whoever was leaving.
>Terrorists were a joke back then
Idk what kind of neighborhood everyone grew up in but mine had very colorful houses. I'm talking bright ass shit.
I can remember watching farmland turn into giant new houses that all looked alike. Still happening now
But after 2008 all those houses were empty for awhile.
I remember alot more gangster rap bumping from these big ass new things called SUVs.
Biking to the superette for surge and a bubblegum beeper was a great summer activity.
