Why do people love the 90s

This generation is almost under surveiilance, everywhere you go there
are camera,s , eg everyone has a smartphone.
Its weird to think 14 year old teens are using social media ,
they are judged by did they get likes , do they look good in selfies .
In 15 years time will future politicans be judged by what they posted on youtube, twitter, facebook when they were teenagers .
In the 90s young people did not have to worry about being bullied online.
People on facebook are posting 100,s of photos, of their children.
The power of the catholic church was waning , so there was more freedom
in the 90s.

Just flicking through and landed on Starship Troopers. Who could forget that gem!

The BBC are getting in on the 1990s nostalgia, this is a radio adaptation of Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls (One Day, Us, Patrick Melrose), read by James Norton (McMafia).

It's a coming of age tale set in late 90s...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006sxh

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Teenagers now, were not born until the 2000's in most cases

Didn't take you too long to work that out

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

Can't speak for the 70's but the 80's were fcuking miserable, high unemployment, crap music, crap looking cars, crap looking hair do's, Smog, seemed like it rained every single day of the decade

The 80s had some cool cars, and hair dos. I have nothing but fond memories of the 80s so again, it's down to the individual!

A great decade - things started to really improve from 1992 onwards. The grim 1980s was left far behind. Great music, TV, the country was more wealthy and it was a really optimistic time. I really miss it.

Real nostalgia for me here:

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

Northern Ireland was still at the height of the troubles.

The GFA agreement was signed in the 1990s and Bill Clinton was in town mid-90s... so you could look at it both ways in NI.

DColeman wrote: »

Personally I've never understood why women, certainly minority women and people of colour get nostalgic about ANY decade from the 20th century.

We live in the 'woke' era now, and anyone political liberal who excessively watches 20th century films or 20th century music is a complete and utter hyopcrite in my opinion, they should stick to the 2000s/2010s only.

There's always one who has to spoil the fun, I hope you're messing

I'm a woman and I think life was much better in the 1990s than it is now. Maybe it's because I was in my 20s then and I'm in my 40s now but still it was better. No internet p0rn, just dog eared top shelf magazines that were very innocent by today's standards. No dating apps - if you wanted to meet somebody you had to get out and make an effort in order to do so.

Ironically in this "woke" era there seems to be a lot less respect for young women than my experience in the 90s. Girls have to go to a lot more effort grooming wise than we did for arguably worse treatment - hookups, tinder dates, ghosting and demands for nude pics. In the 90s young women could happily go out wearing old 501s, Doc Martens, a checked shirt, natural hair and minimal make-up. Not so now but I notice that 90s fashions are starting to find their way back among the younger generation. Hopefully 90s values will too.

DColeman wrote: »

Not sure people of colour or the LGBT community would agree. 20th century nostalgia should be heavily restricted/limited.

I don't know how much has changed with people of colour - I worked in healthcare which was multicultural before anywhere else was. "People of colour" weren't called that, they were called colleagues or patients. Just like "people of no colour" aka pasty Paddies.

I remember the clerical abuse scandals in the mid 1990s which was real eye opener and a big step forwards for Ireland. It effectively destroyed the power of the church in cities but not so much in rural areas.

I think most universities would have had LGBT societies in the 1990s or even in the 1980s. That community had problems well into the 1980s, David Norris did lot of work for the LGBT communities then and continues to defend human rights today. I don't know of any intolerance towards LGBT people from my peer group but I admit that it was harder for LGBT people to come out back then.

However in rural Ireland it is still difficult for LGBT to come out. Parts of rural Ireland have not really moved on since the 1950s and in some places churches are still packed out for Saturday and Sunday mass.

It was a time of optimism, social media hardly existed , smartphones were not used , young people now seem to obsessed with social media,
taking selfies ,posting on instagram or facebook .
Rents were lower than they are now .
there was no housing crisis .
I look at the news now ,its mostly bad, extreme weather,global warming, trump , war with iran maybe .
Also the power and influence of the catholic church was at a low point in ireland .
it was the start of a new more modern ireland .
Its not just nostalgia , life was better for young people than it is now .

Yes the 90,s was the first decade of freedom for young people,
the control of the catholic church was declining .
We did not have a housing crisis .
I read the papers now, i see climate crisis, global warming,the middle east is still in turmoil, there,s not evena hint of any peace deal between palestine
and israel.
in america theres a mass shooting every 2 week,s ,
No sign of gun control laws being passed .
Yes we are in a boom now, but many people are finding it hard to buy a house,
Renting is ok, but when you are over 30 most people want to get their own home .
I do not see much reason to be optimistic for the future .