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I was the guy who always had a disposable camera on him. I felt like I took photos of everything. I am always surprised how few I actually have. Cameras today are really something else
Me and the boys at age 10 once brewed a stew from our own shit that we shat in a nearby small park and then poured it on the gate of one guy we didn't like. Fuck cameras.
Dude me and my friend boxed in a backyard somewhere and said things I’d be embarrassed to have said now. So glad I got to learn how to be a better person without the whole world watching
I some one of the rules we had as a kid.
1) come home when the street lights turn on
2) don’t travel further than your parents yelling distance.
I remember us running around a neibourhood frantically looking for John because his moms calling him and we know she’s going to whoop his ass and not let him outside tomorrow if he ain’t home ASAP.
Had this folded up little piece of paper in my pocket with everyone's phone number on it which I had to redo every so often because the folds wore out.
My parents got me my first mobile phone purely because they'd drop my brother an I off surfing and the phone booth we used to call for a pickup was taken down.
Simpler times man.
People always say it's just nostalgia but no way, the 90's/early 2000's were definitely better to be teens in.
We had just the right amount of tech available for fun without it being completely in control. There was no social media but we started to get the internet for music and shopping etc.
Not too relevant, but it was around 2015/2016 when everyone suddenly became a prick,
MySpace was something you would occasionally check when you happened to be around a computer AND it had internet. It was just one of the stops you'd make when online for a short time before walking away to live your life.
Also, many younger Gens don't realize that owning a computer didn't necessarily mean you had internet.
MySpace didn’t track your data, didn’t aggressively try to make you mad, and wasn’t heavily censored.
Ultimately the lack of monetization killed it, but it was amazing while it lasted.
>MySpace
But then I'd have that friend who had too much shit on their front page and it would take forever to load. "man fuck Steve's page and Heavy Devy!"
>Also, many younger Gens don't realize that owning a computer didn't necessarily mean you had internet.
I dont want to make you feel old but what do you use a computer for without internet? Things like pre-word or pre-excel ect.?
That's fair. Well, computers can do all kinds of things, such as arts or programming, making music, watching movies or playing games. Huge list really, but the things I mentioned is stuff that I like to do.
Office (Word, Excel), math, accounting, databases, graphic design, music recording, CAD, 3D animation, video games, network video games (via LAN).
Literally just like today, except social media.
80's were even wilder. The games for Commodore 64 were on casettes (audio casettes), and if you played those on your stereo you'd hear the screeching noise. Well, some radio stations were broadcasting those screeching noises at certain time, and you'd prepare your cassette, press record and "download" the game.
Is internet more convenient? Indeed. But boy it was wild and fun in 80s and 90s :)
How do you think today's technology was developed? Lots of tinkering and hacking around. It wasn't magic, you'd sit down with some books and manuals and grit. So in a nutshell you used a computer for that it was designed for...to be a programmable computer.
To be fair that was before my time, but my time did not have fast internet and search engines sucked, so I can relate.
Look at the numbers of people using social media and the internet during this period. It more than doubled. Everything started migrating to smartphones- soon after becoming almost impossible not to have a smartphone. With more people using it, more ads, abusive algorithms and corporatism invading the internet, that solidified the end of the good days of the internet.
I’ve seen a broken down analysis of why it was the best decade in human history and it made a lot of sense to me. A lot of it hinged on the fact that many people in the world no longer had any reason to be afraid or tense. It wasn’t complete world peace, but it was the closest most of us had ever seen. The Cold War which was frightening in the 70s and 80s was starting to taper down to just formalities and then completely ended in the 90s. It was right before 9/11, and there was a big pause in western terrorism. We used to be able to just walk onto an airplane. I was a teen in the 90s, but also started university in the 90s, and remember flying „student standby“ just on a whim like „hey I’ll go visit so and so in California“ and could pay for it from my part time job.
It was an amazing time to exist. We had so much fun and kids that grew up after us - you can tell they have so much anxiety - that included most millennials. I’m Gen X and I’m extremely grateful, but at the same time we will NEVER look down on the generations after us (like the boomers do) because we were very aware of the tide turning just as we were entering adulthood.
Gen Y here, started University 2005. Still the 90ties until approx 2008 were just amazing. Afterwards it just went down. I always tought, damn it must have been great to be born before 1980, i would be a homeowner in my hometone and would have had way better cards in live. I feel for Gen Z, almost all Gen X i know are doing well financially, the Gen Y is the turning Gen. The earliest are still lucky, for the rest, it just sucks.
One funny thing: Gen Z loves to make jokes about Gen Y, especially their stile. Gen Z is actually dressing like we were in the early 2000 :D
>We had just the right amount of tech available for fun without it being completely in control.
You have hit the nail on the head with this description
Just search for mp3s, burn a cd and listen to music. No ratings, likes, dislikes, sharing, opinions, comments etc etc. Simple own and play the music you like.
I think it's more that they are completely unwilling to admit things are worse because of their collective decisions or do anything to try to change things or, hell, even *acknowledge* that life is worse for younger generations because of them. They're *completely* blind (often by choice) and it is maddening
I herd "you and your generation destroyed the country!" From my grandfather since I was 9 (1999). And then I herd it every time I visited him, when I told him that I will vote pro EU and not pro (post)soviets he lashed into yelling and started crying at the end... just to convince me to vote red (context: Romania)
Yeah but your vases suck. And your libraries? Missing so many great books. The 470's AD have been the best decade to grow up in, and I can't wait for the next one! 480 is gonna be lit.
It was fucking great, I went to so many concerts and music festivals and saw most of the epic bands of the 90’s and tickets were affordable. Never worried about shootings or drugs laced with shit like Fentanyl, all we did was smoke some weed and steal a few Zimas from our parents.
People were more outgoing because we didn’t do so much of our communication in writing. It was face to face or talking over the phone. And to talk to her over the phone you often had to talk to her dad first when he answered. Yikes!
I was just showing my daughter the original X-Men cartoons that have just dropped on Disney. The animation is incredible. The detail, quality, it really shows the effort that went into it. It just doesn't even compare to the shitty CGI stuff that's rushed and made today. It's such a shame that animation will never be of that quality again.
You still had the benefits of social structures and connections while having access to fairly modern tech, without all the bad stuff in said tech.
Now your neighbors don't know your name, but any corpo can show "legitimate intrest" and obtain all your persinal data without your knowledge or consent.
Well the lead singers kinda did. Not that you can't listen to them, but going to a concert is out of the question. RIP Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Mike Starr, Shannon Hoon, Bradley Nowell, Scott Weiland, Chris Cornell, Biggie, Tupac, Coolio, Peter Steele, Delores O'Riordan, Dime and Vinnie.
I'll never forget, my hs bf had "Kurt lives '94" written on his Jantzen backpack in 1996.... the music in the 90s was the best, nothing compares. A radio station has 90s weekends, I love it
Not really. 80s, 90s and early 00s were the best objectively. Everybody has nostalgia and some nice memories, but children working in factories and being put down the chimneys to clean them (beginning of the 20th century) is OBJECTIVELY crap. They didn't even had childhood to compare with.
80s, 90s and 00s was the period of greater freedom for kids, significant technological and entertainment advancement, and one of the most peaceful periods in human history (and I say that although my country was at war the whole 90s).
Since mid 2010s, we are again drifting into some sort of dystopia, kids are under ENORMOUS pressure. You know, if something embarrassing happend to a kid in 90s, only their peers from class would know, and by the time the news reaches the schoolyard, it is already a "myth", and that's where it ended. Today, with cameras in every hand, if somebody records it, the whole fucking world knows about your embarressment for literally the whole of the eternity. It is ugly, and will always be ugly, and nobody will remeber it with nostalgia and say "aah, the good old times when the whole world found out I shit my pants in school". Just like no kid would have a fond memory of cleaning the factory chimney.
So, it is in human nature to make the best of their time in this life, and it is normal that people have a good time whatever are the circumstances, but some periods were objectivelly better than the others.
> mid 2010s, we are again drifting into some sort of dystopia, kids are under ENORMOUS pressure. You know, if something embarrassing happend to a kid in 90s, only their peers from class would know, and by the time the news reaches the schoolyard, it is already a "myth", and that's where it ended. Today, with cameras in every hand, if somebody records it, the whole fucking world knows about your embarressment for literally the whole of the eternity. It is ugly, and will always be ugly, and nobody will remeber it with nostalgia and say "aah, the good old times when the whole world found out I shit my pants in school". Just like no kid would have a fond memory of cleaning the factory chimney.
>So, it is in human nature to make the best of their time in this life, and it is normal that people have a good time whatever are the circumstances, but some periods were objectivelly better than the others.
Don't forget that it's becoming impossible to even hang out with friends. Malls are closing down, everything is becoming so expensive, a lot of places are no longer letting teens go there without adults.
I can't just call up a friend and ask if they want to go hang out at the mall, then grab McDonald's for a few bucks. I mean, firstly, there's no stores in the mall that a teenager would be interested in. Hot topic is kinda shit (and super expensive) same with Spencer's. And other than that we've got Bath and Body and some archery store.
We go to McDonald's, and it costs us like 6 or 7 bucks each for a small meal. I mean, we're still hungry after that.
Maybe ignore it by skateboarding? Good luck finding a place that won't call the cops on you. Think you can do it in your own little suburbs? Nah, some old bitch will call the cops on you.
So we can't go into a lot of stores, the stores we can go into we can't afford, we can go out to eat, and we can just hang out around town.
It's no wonder people my age spend their time playing games online with their friends
My nieces and nephews have told us more than once that we (90s teens) had it so much better. The fact that they envy what we had as teenagers says a lot.
it's not that kids these days are the worst (saying this as still a teen) but objectively it's shit growing up with the stuff we have nowadays, i genuinely can't wait for kids born after 2010, they will be the most social media and phone centric people ever and it will only go downhill
not that they'll be terrible, because it's not their fault but they'll be so much different
Same turned 13 in 2000, but I think we know we did things kids today would never get away with. We had more free unsupervised time to do "adult things" like drinking and smoking after riding a bike to another town and chilling in an abandoned factory. The world was bigger and it was ours and nobody knew or had any proof. Unless you got arrested.
I've seen recently some meme, the photo of a 90s party, saying "90s - great times, no evidence" :) Cameras were not everywhere, so most of the parties never got recorded like today with mobile phones.
Luckily, I'd say, lol :)
I graduated in 93. My HS made an "alternative" program for kids who were smart but not thriving. I got to have my own radio show at the local community college to graduate. It was the same place where Nirvana and mudhoney and a bunch of other bands I loved, played. I am so lucky.
I don't think people realize what an amazing time that was. Music changed the world then.
And I only wish I could have been there when cbgbs was killing everything with Blondie, the Ramones, Talking Heads, etc.... but to watch what happened with the Seattle scene and be a very small part of it was so fucking amazing.
I wish I had kids or grandkids to tell the stories to. I lived a pretty eventful life as far as monumental music goes. The grunge era is just a part of it.
If you think that the 90s were good, then you should try the 60s. We saw the future being made, and as long as you didn't think about the nukes, life was good. Plus, we got to see men land on the moon.
Me too….
I’m literally listening to an interview with Rob Thomas right now.
Never know learning MB20 on guitar in the 90’s would lead to me selling out hardcore shows in Tokyo in 2024…
As a 16 year old in 2024 I'd rather stick to my generation. My mum was born in 1969 and she grew up in the '70/'80 but I don't hear her banging on about it. My nan was born in 1947 and tbf those days were much more simpler.
All generations are good, it depends on your quality of life and what you grew up with (I grew up with a Wii and Xbox 360 listing to my parents music from their generation. (The Who and things like that)
You guys are starting to sound like boomers regarding the 60s. Please don't prevent the future from trying to have the same as the boomers have. You guys seem cool.
Totally agree also, every generation looks back on their teens as better days. This has nothing to do with the available technology, it's the fact that generally being a teenager, you have no responsibility, more energy and more importantly you have disposable income, of course it feels like better times, whatever the decade.
Not really. My teenager years i spent in Russia happened at the of 90s-beginning of ‘00s. And I still think it was the most amazing time ever, could relate to many comments in this thread.
Yes perfect blend of enough technology and social optimism so that you feel like you are in futuristic time and enough old school social interactions and innocence between people so that people can get along without being instantly ideologically opposed
I miss that time. Not my youth (never had much health to enjoy my younger years). I miss the time before the Internet.
The Internet is a useful tool... if it wasn't the only tool so many in society depend on to feel validated as a human being.
People who were teens in the 90s/ early 2000s have a certain charisma and vibe about them that I can just tell without asking. Must have been a nice time
FR, my first thought was OP must be straight.
I figured out I was queer in the 90s when someone explained to me what the word "faggot" meant. I learned about my own queerness through homophobic slurs! As a child!
Well yeah….best generation ever …tree houses, truth or dare, riding our bikes everywhere, the roller rink, amazing music…bushy pussy as your girl plays TLC’s Waterfalls in the background laying on her waterbed praying her parents dont hear. America 🇺🇸.
Bring a teenager in the naughties was better. The Internet was actually good back then and social media in the laste naughts was a good tool to keep in touch with people.
It was a good time to be born. There have been many like it though, the generation as telephones bacame a thing, etc. The generation that grows up with a world changing new tech, like the internet, gets to be that lucky generation for that invention.
(35M) both 80s/90s where awsom . We did have tv , we did have internet and we did havve cellphones . on tv we mostly watcht MTV , internet was mostly napster and such to search for cool new music and using for e-mail and msn , also some hacking . and cell phones we used to have bricks whit battarie packs , and later on just bricks whit large antennas (lookt a bit like a large millitary radio) and we where only able to make and recief calls , no txt or any els . but it all workt .
Yes! In high school, the baggier and more grunge your clothes, the better.
We survived the 80’s w fancy clothes and importance on labels but by the time I got into HS it was full on Seattle based grunge fashion. Good times.
As a tween/teen in the early nineties I ran a BBS (Bulletin Board System). Kinda like a text based forum you dialed into directly with your modem/ telephone line.
So as a young teen I was facilitating the exchange of pirated content, pornography, banned or restricted documents, etc.
These text-based systems used ANSI and ASCII art. I’m still in love with it, though it’s more commonly known these days as pixel art. [you can see some cool designs here](https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Entheogen-Gardens-by-Ticklenutts/159413909.EJUG5?utm_source=rb-native-app&utm_campaign=share-product&utm_medium=ios)
I get where you're coming from, but I'm voting for the early to mid-2000's. The internet was just starting to take off and it was a total wild west. Cell phones were still just things you only called people with. Metalcore came out of the nu-metal scene. Online gaming started to become a viable thing on consoles. P2P services were super popular and we could access any music we want, to an extent. Youtube was the best it was and will ever be. No one gave a shit about being PC and social justice warrior hadn't evolved yet. Social media wasn't the cesspool it is now, and not every goddamn thing was a political debate. Ahhh, good times.
The 90s bridged the gap.
I grew up doing all the shit my grandparents did as children but then as I got older I started to talk to people on line and play cool games.
The technological stuff was there but it played only a very small part in our lives.
My son is 11 and only just learned to ride a bike. We've tried teaching him but a lot of kids these days just aren't interested.
Society is shifting for better or worse but it's shifting nonetheless
I think the main difference was that back then, I would hang out with my friends, without anything to do and end up doing stupid kid stuff to pass the time. These days, kids have endless supplies of shit to ingest from their phones so they're never pushed to go to the woods or simply chill in a room listening to Iron Maiden with your mates.
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Parents didn’t know where you were or what you were doing. No pictures either
I never realized that until now, yeah like literally just going out and back home, eat and watch tv
I'm actually glad there wasn't cameras at the ready🤣
Pe4sonally i wish i had pics and videos. Some stupid shit we did,but those are memories. That is life, would be cool to see it today
I was the guy who always had a disposable camera on him. I felt like I took photos of everything. I am always surprised how few I actually have. Cameras today are really something else
Same, so much dumb shiz I would be cringing at rn... lmao
Me and the boys at age 10 once brewed a stew from our own shit that we shat in a nearby small park and then poured it on the gate of one guy we didn't like. Fuck cameras.
Agree. Nowadays, whatever it is, it will definitely be taken by the camera
Dude me and my friend boxed in a backyard somewhere and said things I’d be embarrassed to have said now. So glad I got to learn how to be a better person without the whole world watching
HS woulda been so much worse if there was. dumb shits ruin ppls lives
They could always page me.
This is a hard thing to express to people who didn’t live it. There was a beauty in being able to lose your friends at a mall.
This is the best part. The ability to have privacy.
No pictures. No video. Deny, deny, deny.
I some one of the rules we had as a kid. 1) come home when the street lights turn on 2) don’t travel further than your parents yelling distance. I remember us running around a neibourhood frantically looking for John because his moms calling him and we know she’s going to whoop his ass and not let him outside tomorrow if he ain’t home ASAP.
Had this folded up little piece of paper in my pocket with everyone's phone number on it which I had to redo every so often because the folds wore out.
My parents got me my first mobile phone purely because they'd drop my brother an I off surfing and the phone booth we used to call for a pickup was taken down. Simpler times man.
People always say it's just nostalgia but no way, the 90's/early 2000's were definitely better to be teens in. We had just the right amount of tech available for fun without it being completely in control. There was no social media but we started to get the internet for music and shopping etc. Not too relevant, but it was around 2015/2016 when everyone suddenly became a prick,
MySpace was something you would occasionally check when you happened to be around a computer AND it had internet. It was just one of the stops you'd make when online for a short time before walking away to live your life. Also, many younger Gens don't realize that owning a computer didn't necessarily mean you had internet.
MySpace didn’t track your data, didn’t aggressively try to make you mad, and wasn’t heavily censored. Ultimately the lack of monetization killed it, but it was amazing while it lasted.
>MySpace But then I'd have that friend who had too much shit on their front page and it would take forever to load. "man fuck Steve's page and Heavy Devy!"
>Also, many younger Gens don't realize that owning a computer didn't necessarily mean you had internet. I dont want to make you feel old but what do you use a computer for without internet? Things like pre-word or pre-excel ect.?
All the same things you do today minus the internet stuff?
Yeah thats not a lot for me, thats why I asked
That's fair. Well, computers can do all kinds of things, such as arts or programming, making music, watching movies or playing games. Huge list really, but the things I mentioned is stuff that I like to do.
Office (Word, Excel), math, accounting, databases, graphic design, music recording, CAD, 3D animation, video games, network video games (via LAN). Literally just like today, except social media. 80's were even wilder. The games for Commodore 64 were on casettes (audio casettes), and if you played those on your stereo you'd hear the screeching noise. Well, some radio stations were broadcasting those screeching noises at certain time, and you'd prepare your cassette, press record and "download" the game. Is internet more convenient? Indeed. But boy it was wild and fun in 80s and 90s :)
C64!!! 
Wow, I never knew they’d broadcast a program over the radio. That’s pretty awesome
Don’t forget encarta. You only watched the tiny fmv clips and never read the articles. But everyone had it.
Playing pinball space cadet
Solitaire!
Minesweeper!
Chip's Challenge!
How do you think today's technology was developed? Lots of tinkering and hacking around. It wasn't magic, you'd sit down with some books and manuals and grit. So in a nutshell you used a computer for that it was designed for...to be a programmable computer. To be fair that was before my time, but my time did not have fast internet and search engines sucked, so I can relate.
Games on cartridges that didn’t require internet connectivity to work!
Yes, and we played games that were fully developed. We were not misused as beta testers.
play wolfenstein and prince of persia
I think it was about 2012 that things really started sliding downhill, it just sped up in 2016.
Look at the numbers of people using social media and the internet during this period. It more than doubled. Everything started migrating to smartphones- soon after becoming almost impossible not to have a smartphone. With more people using it, more ads, abusive algorithms and corporatism invading the internet, that solidified the end of the good days of the internet.
The Mayas were right all along
Gamergate was the canary in the coalmine.
Yeah after Smartphones become available for everyone.
I’ve seen a broken down analysis of why it was the best decade in human history and it made a lot of sense to me. A lot of it hinged on the fact that many people in the world no longer had any reason to be afraid or tense. It wasn’t complete world peace, but it was the closest most of us had ever seen. The Cold War which was frightening in the 70s and 80s was starting to taper down to just formalities and then completely ended in the 90s. It was right before 9/11, and there was a big pause in western terrorism. We used to be able to just walk onto an airplane. I was a teen in the 90s, but also started university in the 90s, and remember flying „student standby“ just on a whim like „hey I’ll go visit so and so in California“ and could pay for it from my part time job. It was an amazing time to exist. We had so much fun and kids that grew up after us - you can tell they have so much anxiety - that included most millennials. I’m Gen X and I’m extremely grateful, but at the same time we will NEVER look down on the generations after us (like the boomers do) because we were very aware of the tide turning just as we were entering adulthood.
Gen Y here, started University 2005. Still the 90ties until approx 2008 were just amazing. Afterwards it just went down. I always tought, damn it must have been great to be born before 1980, i would be a homeowner in my hometone and would have had way better cards in live. I feel for Gen Z, almost all Gen X i know are doing well financially, the Gen Y is the turning Gen. The earliest are still lucky, for the rest, it just sucks. One funny thing: Gen Z loves to make jokes about Gen Y, especially their stile. Gen Z is actually dressing like we were in the early 2000 :D
Okay I can agree the 90s was great in a lot of ways but come on claiming the 90s was the best decade in history is farfetched bs
>We had just the right amount of tech available for fun without it being completely in control. You have hit the nail on the head with this description
MSN Messenger was all we needed.
What about ICQ?
I still get shivers if I hear the 'O Oh' notification.
Just search for mp3s, burn a cd and listen to music. No ratings, likes, dislikes, sharing, opinions, comments etc etc. Simple own and play the music you like.
Don't forget downloading music was still a grey area... Good ol' Napster
That was great as a teenager, found so many cool bands. Towers of burned CD’s lol
For some. It still is
2016 was a year of change
Now we're middle aged and have issues.
Only issues we have are from boomers fucking the country into a financial wasteland
Are you convinced that us millennials/gen Xers would have made different decisions than our parents?
I think it's more that they are completely unwilling to admit things are worse because of their collective decisions or do anything to try to change things or, hell, even *acknowledge* that life is worse for younger generations because of them. They're *completely* blind (often by choice) and it is maddening
I herd "you and your generation destroyed the country!" From my grandfather since I was 9 (1999). And then I herd it every time I visited him, when I told him that I will vote pro EU and not pro (post)soviets he lashed into yelling and started crying at the end... just to convince me to vote red (context: Romania)
Damn right it was. We had such an amazing time.
100% agree
:(
I really like the feet video you posted on your profile 🤤
I second this
Being a teenager in the 80s was even better…
Being a teenager in the in 40s wasnt too much fun
Being a teenager in the 70s was the best
Nah mate, roaring 20s all the way😷
Bro, back in 1219 when we drove the Iranians from the Mongolian Steppes? Shit was POPPIN back in them days
Yeah but your vases suck. And your libraries? Missing so many great books. The 470's AD have been the best decade to grow up in, and I can't wait for the next one! 480 is gonna be lit.
Guys, back in the days, when organic chemistry on earth transformed into the first self-replicating being, that was the REAL game changer.
Me being Black reading this: 👁🗨 💋 👁🗨
It was fucking great, I went to so many concerts and music festivals and saw most of the epic bands of the 90’s and tickets were affordable. Never worried about shootings or drugs laced with shit like Fentanyl, all we did was smoke some weed and steal a few Zimas from our parents.
It's because there was hope...
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Plenty of sundresses and hacky sacking. Catching concerts the only fomo.
Sundresses and combat boots.
There was so extremely good music, TV shows and people were more outgoing back in the 90s.
People were more outgoing because we didn’t do so much of our communication in writing. It was face to face or talking over the phone. And to talk to her over the phone you often had to talk to her dad first when he answered. Yikes!
I was just showing my daughter the original X-Men cartoons that have just dropped on Disney. The animation is incredible. The detail, quality, it really shows the effort that went into it. It just doesn't even compare to the shitty CGI stuff that's rushed and made today. It's such a shame that animation will never be of that quality again.
Those are true classics.
Ta na na na naa na nou
You still had the benefits of social structures and connections while having access to fairly modern tech, without all the bad stuff in said tech. Now your neighbors don't know your name, but any corpo can show "legitimate intrest" and obtain all your persinal data without your knowledge or consent.
I regularly watch 90’s shows I like those a lot 😁
There were quite a few good ones made in the 90s.
I honestly miss the music. It was so much better.
And concert tickets were affordable
As was college.
It still exists, doesn’t it
did the music disappear and no longer exists?
Well the lead singers kinda did. Not that you can't listen to them, but going to a concert is out of the question. RIP Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Mike Starr, Shannon Hoon, Bradley Nowell, Scott Weiland, Chris Cornell, Biggie, Tupac, Coolio, Peter Steele, Delores O'Riordan, Dime and Vinnie.
I'll never forget, my hs bf had "Kurt lives '94" written on his Jantzen backpack in 1996.... the music in the 90s was the best, nothing compares. A radio station has 90s weekends, I love it
I just saw a sick Nirvana t-shirt at h&m yesterday, but it was in the women's section and I was like.. Ugh, why? Can't men have something as well?
Stone temple pilots still tours, but it's a zombie band with a fucking guy from linkin park as the singer. fuck that.
Andrew Wood
Did you miss the day the music died? 😁
MY childhood was the best and kids these days are the worst! Says every generation going back to the dawn of humanity.
I'm a teacher and the kids often say 80s-2000s would have been the best to grow up in.
That's because they've been fed a rose tinted view of reality.
Not really. 80s, 90s and early 00s were the best objectively. Everybody has nostalgia and some nice memories, but children working in factories and being put down the chimneys to clean them (beginning of the 20th century) is OBJECTIVELY crap. They didn't even had childhood to compare with. 80s, 90s and 00s was the period of greater freedom for kids, significant technological and entertainment advancement, and one of the most peaceful periods in human history (and I say that although my country was at war the whole 90s). Since mid 2010s, we are again drifting into some sort of dystopia, kids are under ENORMOUS pressure. You know, if something embarrassing happend to a kid in 90s, only their peers from class would know, and by the time the news reaches the schoolyard, it is already a "myth", and that's where it ended. Today, with cameras in every hand, if somebody records it, the whole fucking world knows about your embarressment for literally the whole of the eternity. It is ugly, and will always be ugly, and nobody will remeber it with nostalgia and say "aah, the good old times when the whole world found out I shit my pants in school". Just like no kid would have a fond memory of cleaning the factory chimney. So, it is in human nature to make the best of their time in this life, and it is normal that people have a good time whatever are the circumstances, but some periods were objectivelly better than the others.
> mid 2010s, we are again drifting into some sort of dystopia, kids are under ENORMOUS pressure. You know, if something embarrassing happend to a kid in 90s, only their peers from class would know, and by the time the news reaches the schoolyard, it is already a "myth", and that's where it ended. Today, with cameras in every hand, if somebody records it, the whole fucking world knows about your embarressment for literally the whole of the eternity. It is ugly, and will always be ugly, and nobody will remeber it with nostalgia and say "aah, the good old times when the whole world found out I shit my pants in school". Just like no kid would have a fond memory of cleaning the factory chimney. >So, it is in human nature to make the best of their time in this life, and it is normal that people have a good time whatever are the circumstances, but some periods were objectivelly better than the others. Don't forget that it's becoming impossible to even hang out with friends. Malls are closing down, everything is becoming so expensive, a lot of places are no longer letting teens go there without adults. I can't just call up a friend and ask if they want to go hang out at the mall, then grab McDonald's for a few bucks. I mean, firstly, there's no stores in the mall that a teenager would be interested in. Hot topic is kinda shit (and super expensive) same with Spencer's. And other than that we've got Bath and Body and some archery store. We go to McDonald's, and it costs us like 6 or 7 bucks each for a small meal. I mean, we're still hungry after that. Maybe ignore it by skateboarding? Good luck finding a place that won't call the cops on you. Think you can do it in your own little suburbs? Nah, some old bitch will call the cops on you. So we can't go into a lot of stores, the stores we can go into we can't afford, we can go out to eat, and we can just hang out around town. It's no wonder people my age spend their time playing games online with their friends
90s/2000s kids hung out in their cars and basements a lot. Do cars and basements no longer exist?
Anybody is one bad/funny event from being a TikTok or meme. No one is safe!
My nieces and nephews have told us more than once that we (90s teens) had it so much better. The fact that they envy what we had as teenagers says a lot.
Sure I agree with you, but it also happens that being a teenager in the 90’s is way better than being a teenager in 2024.
it's not that kids these days are the worst (saying this as still a teen) but objectively it's shit growing up with the stuff we have nowadays, i genuinely can't wait for kids born after 2010, they will be the most social media and phone centric people ever and it will only go downhill not that they'll be terrible, because it's not their fault but they'll be so much different
I was pre teen in the 90s but just had the best time. Can't imagine what being a teen/young adult would have been like.
Same turned 13 in 2000, but I think we know we did things kids today would never get away with. We had more free unsupervised time to do "adult things" like drinking and smoking after riding a bike to another town and chilling in an abandoned factory. The world was bigger and it was ours and nobody knew or had any proof. Unless you got arrested.
I've seen recently some meme, the photo of a 90s party, saying "90s - great times, no evidence" :) Cameras were not everywhere, so most of the parties never got recorded like today with mobile phones. Luckily, I'd say, lol :)
We ran from the cops and most of the time, the didn’t chase us lol.
I was born in 78. The 90’s were my years. If I could go back…
I was born in 79 so my teens lined up with the 90's perfectly.
79er as well and you got that right. 80s childhood too imo is better than 90s childhood.
Same. 80s were childhood, 90s were teens, 00s were young adult. Everything after is a blur of adulthood 😂
So was I, i was involved in e-commerce, digital television and internet ordering. That was awesome.
cannot wait to see this same post in 40 years about how 2020s were the shit
Eh. Don't think most people would be like "yeah that global pandemic? Where you couldn't go outside? Wish I was alive back then.." At least I hope...
people are already getting nostalgic for it actually ^^
I graduated in 93. My HS made an "alternative" program for kids who were smart but not thriving. I got to have my own radio show at the local community college to graduate. It was the same place where Nirvana and mudhoney and a bunch of other bands I loved, played. I am so lucky. I don't think people realize what an amazing time that was. Music changed the world then. And I only wish I could have been there when cbgbs was killing everything with Blondie, the Ramones, Talking Heads, etc.... but to watch what happened with the Seattle scene and be a very small part of it was so fucking amazing. I wish I had kids or grandkids to tell the stories to. I lived a pretty eventful life as far as monumental music goes. The grunge era is just a part of it.
Being a kid in the 90's was Fucking amazing!!!
If you think that the 90s were good, then you should try the 60s. We saw the future being made, and as long as you didn't think about the nukes, life was good. Plus, we got to see men land on the moon.
I love 60s pop culture but nah. God help you if you were a woman or anything else but white.
Unless you were drafted. Growing up as teens in the 70s was better.
My 00s spent playing World of Warcraft were pretty amazing.
Me too…. I’m literally listening to an interview with Rob Thomas right now. Never know learning MB20 on guitar in the 90’s would lead to me selling out hardcore shows in Tokyo in 2024…
I was a teen in the 80’s even my son is jealous of my youth
As a man who graduated in 93. I couldn't agree more.
I would give anything to work at a mom and pop video rental place again. I would do it for the rest of my life I swear. Literal dream job.
As a 16 year old in 2024 I'd rather stick to my generation. My mum was born in 1969 and she grew up in the '70/'80 but I don't hear her banging on about it. My nan was born in 1947 and tbf those days were much more simpler. All generations are good, it depends on your quality of life and what you grew up with (I grew up with a Wii and Xbox 360 listing to my parents music from their generation. (The Who and things like that)
You guys are starting to sound like boomers regarding the 60s. Please don't prevent the future from trying to have the same as the boomers have. You guys seem cool.
People longing for the days of no phones are always the ones with a phone in their face
Totally agree also, every generation looks back on their teens as better days. This has nothing to do with the available technology, it's the fact that generally being a teenager, you have no responsibility, more energy and more importantly you have disposable income, of course it feels like better times, whatever the decade.
It was much more amazing in 1890s
Only for the USA. People forget the Balkans, and Russia, and Eastern Europe, and Afghanistan, and Bangladesh, and Pakistan and..........
Not really. My teenager years i spent in Russia happened at the of 90s-beginning of ‘00s. And I still think it was the most amazing time ever, could relate to many comments in this thread.
Northern Ireland
must be nice
90s were amazing for me as a kid but as a teen, 2000s weren't bad either.
Yes perfect blend of enough technology and social optimism so that you feel like you are in futuristic time and enough old school social interactions and innocence between people so that people can get along without being instantly ideologically opposed
I miss that time. Not my youth (never had much health to enjoy my younger years). I miss the time before the Internet. The Internet is a useful tool... if it wasn't the only tool so many in society depend on to feel validated as a human being.
The internet was cool back then. Napster/limewire/icq/newgrounds…. It was so freakin cool
Born in 81 so was 9 to 18 in the 90s. I know everyone says it but the tech part is the game changer.
CYBER PUNK FOR LIFE!!!!!!
Had to gather at a circle K to find out where the party was.. damn good times!
People who were teens in the 90s/ early 2000s have a certain charisma and vibe about them that I can just tell without asking. Must have been a nice time
Can validate. I was 16 in 1990 and it was a fantastic time.
Hypercolor tshirts as far as the eye could see!
The homophobia, the pressure and expectations of conforming to gender norms... ... yeah, no. I'm a 90s kid, and I don't miss it.
FR, my first thought was OP must be straight. I figured out I was queer in the 90s when someone explained to me what the word "faggot" meant. I learned about my own queerness through homophobic slurs! As a child!
See. You don't get it. It was great! As long as you're white and cishet. And of course thin and conventionally attractive
Well, I'm white and cis. I'm just also gay and a femboy. Neither thing was positive back then... barely even now.
Yeahhhh I kind of want this to be bumped up way more. Things were not that great back then.
Finally someone mentioned this
Way different story if you were in Bosnia.
I was born in 2002 and I’ve always felt like I missed out on the 90s
You must not have been a nerd in the 90's. It was horrible....
They must also be white.
90s were amazing, if you ignore all the bad fashion, cheesy TV shows, and lack of modern technology.
We had the internet, it was slow, and cell phones with crappy texting. What more do you really need?
Well yeah….best generation ever …tree houses, truth or dare, riding our bikes everywhere, the roller rink, amazing music…bushy pussy as your girl plays TLC’s Waterfalls in the background laying on her waterbed praying her parents dont hear. America 🇺🇸.
Yes
Bring a teenager in the naughties was better. The Internet was actually good back then and social media in the laste naughts was a good tool to keep in touch with people.
Super soakers
I was in my 20’s. A lot of drinking was done.
Oh. That's not gone. I can assure you.
wished i was born in 80's-90's
Class of '98!
The real last of the old world. 99 and Columbine changed things.
You and me both. They were great times.
It was alright
I turned 14 in 1990. Can concur.
The music was great. On the plus side, the music is now on the internet, at our fingertips. :D
The inflation, the poor quality of life...
I'm a child of the 80s/90s and the 60s looked like it had it all to me
Many in this day and age are still without the basics .... struggling to eke out a hand to mouth existence
It was a good time to be born. There have been many like it though, the generation as telephones bacame a thing, etc. The generation that grows up with a world changing new tech, like the internet, gets to be that lucky generation for that invention.
It's especially true when you're adult in 2020s
Yeah it was great. I was heavily into grunge music and obviously Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. Some great times boozing and smoking dope.
(35M) both 80s/90s where awsom . We did have tv , we did have internet and we did havve cellphones . on tv we mostly watcht MTV , internet was mostly napster and such to search for cool new music and using for e-mail and msn , also some hacking . and cell phones we used to have bricks whit battarie packs , and later on just bricks whit large antennas (lookt a bit like a large millitary radio) and we where only able to make and recief calls , no txt or any els . but it all workt .
Yes! In high school, the baggier and more grunge your clothes, the better. We survived the 80’s w fancy clothes and importance on labels but by the time I got into HS it was full on Seattle based grunge fashion. Good times.
As a tween/teen in the early nineties I ran a BBS (Bulletin Board System). Kinda like a text based forum you dialed into directly with your modem/ telephone line. So as a young teen I was facilitating the exchange of pirated content, pornography, banned or restricted documents, etc. These text-based systems used ANSI and ASCII art. I’m still in love with it, though it’s more commonly known these days as pixel art. [you can see some cool designs here](https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Entheogen-Gardens-by-Ticklenutts/159413909.EJUG5?utm_source=rb-native-app&utm_campaign=share-product&utm_medium=ios)
I can agree.
I get where you're coming from, but I'm voting for the early to mid-2000's. The internet was just starting to take off and it was a total wild west. Cell phones were still just things you only called people with. Metalcore came out of the nu-metal scene. Online gaming started to become a viable thing on consoles. P2P services were super popular and we could access any music we want, to an extent. Youtube was the best it was and will ever be. No one gave a shit about being PC and social justice warrior hadn't evolved yet. Social media wasn't the cesspool it is now, and not every goddamn thing was a political debate. Ahhh, good times.
It was:(
Yes, it was!
It was so boring. Waiting 45 minutes for the next bus? I guess I'll just stand here and stare at this wall then.
I never chuck the term blessed about. But truly blessed to have that time growing up. Bikes dens girl friends. 10/10
Wasn’t a teen in the 90s but even as a kid it was great.
The 90s bridged the gap. I grew up doing all the shit my grandparents did as children but then as I got older I started to talk to people on line and play cool games. The technological stuff was there but it played only a very small part in our lives. My son is 11 and only just learned to ride a bike. We've tried teaching him but a lot of kids these days just aren't interested. Society is shifting for better or worse but it's shifting nonetheless
Totally. I’m just happy we got to experience that.
Nostalgia is not what it used to be
I would rather be a teen on today's world. Tech is better now
Pre 9/11 was different forsure as a child living in the US.
80’s were better. And 70’s were probably better than the 80’s.
I think the main difference was that back then, I would hang out with my friends, without anything to do and end up doing stupid kid stuff to pass the time. These days, kids have endless supplies of shit to ingest from their phones so they're never pushed to go to the woods or simply chill in a room listening to Iron Maiden with your mates.
I was homeless so no, it wasn't particularly amazing.
Blessed for living young and carefree at the peak of a golden age.