Has much changed since the 1990s?

dilbert2

Something has occurred to me recently, nearly every decade of the 20th century had it's own fashion/ music/ car styles etc. so that you could tell each decade apart by how people dressed, or what type of music they listened to. In some of the later decades of the 20th century for instance you had the 1960s with its hippy music and fashion, then the 1970s which gave us Disco and disco fashion style, then the 1980s gave us crazy hairdos, a certain style of early electronic music etc.

However while it's obvious that things like technology have progressed from the 1990s so that we now have more efficient and powerful cars, computers etc - it just seems to me that not an awful lot has changed in most other areas since the early 1990s. Am I alone in seeing the collapse of decade-by-decade change so that the 2000s and possibly the 2010s are little distinguished from the 1990s?

Bog

dilbert2 wrote: »

Am I alone in seeing the collapse of decade-by-decade change so that the 2000s and possibly the 2010s are little distinguished from the 1990s?

Welcome to old age my friend.

LighterGuy

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or...

this to this

So. yes. It has changed.

Screaminmidget

Ya, the date...

Bog

LighterGuy wrote: »

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So. yes. It has changed.

Damn, I was expecting a photo of that Pat Sharpe lookalike playing a nintendo.

mike65

Yeah things have changed, in the 90s we had hope of a better tomorrow...

Chaotic_Forces

We had boy and girl bands in the 90s. Now we have Rap/R'nB/Hip-Hop.
Fashion wise... uh I was never one for fashion.

westendgirlie

We are in on a Saturday night

orourkeda

Yore Ma has changed quite a bit

ShamoBuc

single, on the piss and the pull 3 or 4 nights of the week......

married, 2 kids, last got drunk at Xmas.....

Badgermonkey

Rape is STILL wrong, especially 3m 48secs in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF_uyxAvYsM

Chaotic_Forces

ShamoBuc wrote: »

single, on the piss and the pull 3 or 4 nights of the week......

married, 2 kids, last got drunk at Xmas.....

Wow... you should see a feckin' specialist about those issues!

mikom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5fRVm3k1aY

South Park... Prehistoric Ice Man.

Up-n-atom!

I think the 90s were nearly more 80s than the 80s, looking back at old photos. There's a lot of perms and big hair and bad dye-jobs, baggy t-shirts under shapeless dresses, string tops and combats, and high-waisted trousers. Just look at early episodes of Friends to see how much we've moved on.

nomh

Things are much different today than in the 90's. Look at all the new technology we take for granted today that we couldn't even have fathomed back then. Who would have thought we'd all be listening to music on portable devices or driving in cars that hover 2 inches off the ground? There are things that have been lost too, an entire generation will never know the feeling of pushing a cassette tape into a vcr

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Coke is the new Ecstasy.

Copper23

from my brith in the 80's.. until now....


Record... tape... cd... mp3...

Yup... CHANGE!

4zn76tysfajdxp

nomh wrote: »

Things are much different today than in the 90's. Look at all the new technology we take for granted today that we couldn't even have fathomed back then. Who would have thought we'd all be listening to music on portable devices

???

or driving in cars that hover 2 inches off the ground?

Driving in cars that do what?

Oranage2

Nope everthings the same op - Just give me a minute so I can adjust the arial on this computer thingy majigg

ShamoBuc

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

Wow... you should see a feckin' specialist about those issues!

married her

Chaotic_Forces

ShamoBuc wrote: »

married her

And you can only drink at Christmas? I suggest you learn about the fine art of hiding beer in the toilet, like Homer taught us. :P

stevejr

I think it's an matter of perspective OP. The further one is removed time-wise from a decade the more different it seems. For example I was born in '81 and the Eighties seems far far different from the Nineties IMO.

dearg lady

Copper23 wrote: »

from my brith in the 80's.. until now....


Record... tape... cd... mp3...

Yup... CHANGE!

you missed minidisc!!! no...wait...they never really caught on did they....

ShamoBuc

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

And you can only drink at Christmas? I suggest you learn about the fine art of hiding beer in the toilet, like Homer taught us. :P

drunk at Xmas..... proper drunk;

Irish Guitarist

A lot has changed in technology and world events. However If you're talking purely about music not much has changed. The way it's listened to is vastly different but the actual music hasn't changed much. When I was a teenager in the early nineties we had Vanilla Ice. Now kids have Eminem. As far as I'm concerned they sound the same except the latter swears more.

One thing that has changed is that singers voices sound indistinguishable because of autotune. I honestly can't tell the difference between most singers in the charts, except maybe whether they're male or female. I'm far from being a fan of eighties music but at least the likes of Madonna and Cyndi Lauper sounded recognisable. If someone like, say, Alexandra Burke came on the radio I wouldn't know who the hell it was.

As for fashion, it's getting lazier. I see more and more entire families dressing the same. It's not unusual to see a couple in their forties both dressed in tracksuits and their teenage children dressed the exact same. Say what you will about fashions like platform shoes and flares in the seventies or new romantics in the eighties; at least they didn't look like they were about to go jogging and they made an effort not to look like their parents.

TheUsual

No YouTube back in the 1990's.

Using a mobile phone in public was a sign that you were a show-off wanker.

ShamoBuc

TheUsual wrote: »

No YouTube back in the 1990's.

Using a mobile phone in public was a sign that you were a show-off wanker.

or rude tube.....

Daegerty

dilbert2 wrote: »

However while it's obvious that things like technology have progressed from the 1990s so that we now have more efficient and powerful cars

Straight out of the 90's:
http://www.diskdrive.co.za/newsstories/vw_lupo3ltdi.html
(as is the Toyota Pious by the way, but its not as efficient)
Small cars from the early 90's were also quite efficient, less weight, less gadgets, less unnecessary safety accessories. Electronic fuel injection starting to catch on

It always seems that things have changed significantly but when you look closely you find that most of it has stayed the same.

Computers from the 90's: surprisingly still useful as a dumb terminal or low end server, back then anything more than a couple years was fit for the tip because Windows was king.

Daegerty

Sitec wrote: »

No IPhones.
No Hybrids.
No HDTV/3D.
No proper Broadband.
No ****ing Britain's Got Talent ****'s.
Could buy drink after half ten.
Didn't spend €8.55 on twenty smokes.
10 Boxes.

Time for me to duck in the shed and get to work on that Delorean I think...

pragmatic1

Gene therapies, quantum computers, nanotechnology. Yeah, you could say things have changed a bit.

ShamoBuc

Sitec wrote: »

I still have a 3 & 1/2 Inch Floppy though.

You poor thing, that's a small one fella!;)

westendgirlie

dearg lady wrote: »

you missed minidisc!!! no...wait...they never really caught on did they....

I think there was a laserdiscs back in the late 80's too. Dunno what it done. I was looking at a keyboard of a Commodore 64 and not a clue what to do!!!

Chaotic_Forces

ShamoBuc wrote: »

You poor thing, that's a small one fella!;)

Big compared to my floppy.

Rabble Rabble

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Gene therapies, quantum computers, nanotechnology. Yeah, you could say things have changed a bit.

we are talking about now, futureboy.

Rabble Rabble

The last decade or so has probably been the decade of least change technologywise in the last 100.

TheUsual

Rabble Rabble wrote: »

we are talking about now, futureboy.

Hey thats Bill Gates you are talking to.
We all know he gets all the cool stuff 30 years before the rest of us peasants.

aDeener

orourkeda wrote: »

Yore Ma has changed quite a bit

you are too funny for these boards

ToniTuddle

Kids movies and cartoon shows were alot more darker at times and there were feicin deaths.

Unlike now nobody ever feicin dies in them! All happy happy. Where are the feicin TEARS people come on. Heaven forbid ye would make the wee ones cry now :eek:

Animals of Farthing Wood had characters dying all over the show! :pac:

Naikon

90's > 00's

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

nomh wrote: »

Things are much different today than in the 90's. Look at all the new technology we take for granted today that we couldn't even have fathomed back then. Who would have thought we'd all be listening to music on portable devices or driving in cars that hover 2 inches off the ground? There are things that have been lost too, an entire generation will never know the feeling of pushing a cassette tape into a vcr

Location: Sober Valley Ranch.

I think not.

Killer Pigeon

LighterGuy wrote: »

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So I'm guessing they had a lot of muff to in the early 90's too, ya?

Colilfc

Yeah, you couldn't blast piss at things back then.