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Why do people love the 90s

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  • 22-06-2019 7:49pm
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    nails1
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    Correct me if I’m wrong but in the 90s everyone hated the 90s. Now we also have kids born in the 00s saying 90s was the best.


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    super_furry
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    nails1 wrote: »
    Correct me if I’m wrong

    Gladly. You're wrong.


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    ILoveYourVibes
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    People interacted more. People are lonelier now because they are all on phones and trying to be Instagram queens.

    The music was better. The clothes were better.

    They were glorious and grunge tinged.

    Everything is so generic now.


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    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    nails1 wrote: »
    Correct me if I’m wrong but in the 90s everyone hated the 90s. Now we also have kids born in the 00s saying 90s was the best.

    They don't understand that the internet didn't really exist in any entertaining sense and that we had to do stuff like look outside the window or reread the same magazine or book for the umpteenth time depending on what crap was shoved onto the telly.

    90s kids used to romanticise the 70s and 80s too - it takes a while for the critical dust to settle and we can look back on a decade and pick out the "best" of everything - depending on your tastes.


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    odyssey06
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    I don't remember hating the 90s... when you are living through it, it's not the 90s, it's just 'life'.

    The 80s were better. Looking back, I'd rather re-watch Reeling the Years 80s versus 90s.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    odyssey06
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    grindle wrote: »
    They don't understand that the internet didn't really exist in any entertaining sense and that we had to do stuff like look outside the window or reread the same magazine or book for the umpteenth time depending on what crap was shoved onto the telly.

    Oh the internet existed. It was very entertaining. But it was a thing you connected to, required effort. Not something ubiquitous you have to make an effort to dis-connect from.
    The internet 24x7 on phones... big mistake!

    But your fundamental point is sound. Someone should write a book on the benefits of boredom...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    lbc2019
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    90s were great. Better than the miserable 80s or selfish 00s or Alt Right 10s


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    Thelonious Monk
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    Because they don't remember the 80s. If you were around as a teenager or adult it's still weird hearing people saying "90s music". People have a tendency to romanticise the past.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Frasier is a fine vintage.


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    PsychoPete
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    Grunge,rave, and just the music in general. There was sugar in food and everyone wasn't glued to a screen


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    Timberrrrrrrr
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    You had to be there.


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    Sleeper12
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    nails1 wrote:
    Correct me if I’m wrong but in the 90s everyone hated the 90s. Now we also have kids born in the 00s saying 90s was the best.


    I'm correcting you. For most people the 90s was a great decade. We had full employment & a booming economy but we hadn't lost the run of ourselves yet. The E was better too :)


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    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Oh the internet existed. It was very entertaining. But it was a thing you connected to, required effort.

    Yeah, it was still pretty niche back then though. In the early 90s I was considered a nerd for owning consoles. Then the Playstation arrived and all of a sudden...

    There's definitely something to be said for boredom (or lack of distraction). Some of the best weeks of my life were myself and friends holed up in a caravan near a beach with nothing but a paraffin lamp and a deck of cards for entertainment.

    My 16yo niece the other day was moaning about being bored - with the internet at her fingertips and a world outside the fecking house. Either visit new sites or go for a walk, there is literally no way anybody can feel bored nowadays unless they're chronically depressed and unable to lift a leg or a finger.
    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    The E was better too :)
    E has come back around - very pure and very strong now as long as you get a good one, which is the majority.
    There's an arms race for very strong pills happening with the Dutch the last few years.


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    odyssey06
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    grindle wrote: »
    Yeah, it was still pretty niche back then though. In the early 90s I was considered a nerd for owning consoles. Then the Playstation arrived and all of a sudden...

    Never mind a console... in the 90s you were considered a nerd for being 'online'!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    silverharp
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    The 90's were great, you could buy a house for a bag of beans, communism had been defeated so the constant threat of nuclear war was gone. Economies everywhere were picking up, so it was a great time for younger people leaving college etc.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    odyssey06
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    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    I'm correcting you. For most people the 90s was a great decade. We had full employment & a booming economy but we hadn't lost the run of ourselves yet. The E was better too :)

    The drinks weren't... Hudson Blue! Would strip the hide off an elephant never mind your stomach lining the next morning.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    odyssey06
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    silverharp wrote: »
    The 90's were great, you could buy a house for a bag of beans, communism had been defeated so the constant threat of nuclear war was gone. Economies everywhere were picking up, so it was a great time for younger people leaving college etc.

    True. It was probably the most care free decade since the 1920s.

    Major political crisis: American president "did not have sexual relations" with his intern in the oval office.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    Pissartist
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    Ecstasy


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    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Never mind a console... in the 90s you were considered a nerd for being 'online'!

    In the 00s as an adult (apprentice electrician) I was considered a nerd for reading a book. Unironically taking the piss out of me for not reading The Sun.

    But anyway, the 90s - VR someday will allow kids to live a tailored day or week in the life of people in the 90s. They'll come out of it with their coughs softened.

    "How did you meet a friend?"

    "We had to set up a time to meet on a phone that was wired to the wall or stuck in the middle of the street."

    "What if they didn't show up?"

    "You had to wait a polite hour before you knew they weren't going to show up and then go home."


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    Sleeper12
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    grindle wrote:
    E has come back around - very pure and very strong now as long as you get a good one, which is the majority. There's an arms race for very strong pills happening with the Dutch the last few years.

    I'm too old now :(


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    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    I'm too old now :(

    a/s/l?


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    odyssey06
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    grindle wrote: »
    "We had to set up a time to meet on a phone that was wired to the wall or stuck in the middle of the street."
    "What if they didn't show up?"
    "You had to wait a polite hour before you knew they weren't going to show up and then go home."

    We had one mate, whatever time we were told we were meeting at he was told it was 1 hour earlier. Late for his own funeral that guy.

    I remember having a post-it in my wallet with phone numbers written on it, and an Eircom phone card so I could use a phone box when out and about.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #23
    ILoveYourVibes
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    It's the decade I was born in ;)


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    Sleeper12
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    grindle wrote:
    a/s/l?


    Wow. I'd forgotten about that


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    Titzon Toast
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    Pre 911, great music, everything was on the up and up.


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    #26
    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I remember... phone numbers
    ...used to be a thing we could honestly say.
    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Wow. I'd forgotten about that

    nvr4gt

    Also: having to find porn (like full videos or sets of pics and not just single pics with paywalls blocking you) or music by using IRC to log into somebody else's home computer and rifle though their shared files folder (SoulSeek still works like this and I love it for that little nostalgic kick).


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    TCM
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    Do they?


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    #28
    grindle
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    TCM wrote: »
    Do they?

    https://www.facebook.com/pg/LathamStreetVintage/photos/

    Yeah, for hipsters this is a thing.


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    #29
    RasTa
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    Nothing beats 90's hiphop


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    Thelonious Monk
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    Smoking soap bar washed down with a few pints of Breo


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    olestoepoke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    People interacted more. People are lonelier now because they are all on phones and trying to be Instagram queens.

    The music was better. The clothes were better.

    They were glorious and grunge tinged.

    Everything is so generic now.

    Spot on! Especially regarding the music


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