What was life like in the 90s? ive always been curious because of all the threads ive seen on here about the 90s

>economic prosperity. so imagine a lot of construction instead of a lot of abandoned buildings.

try early 2000s

>offline / multiplayer video games were the fucking shit. I remember hanging out more with my buds playing multiplayer N64 -- goldeneye and shit

but if you wanted to play online you better fucking like playing doom alot.

>more TV was being watched, but it was shittier quality TV.

Not really alot of tv is dogshit now, because they think they can push around the people who haven't adopted netflix an similar services.

>AIM was fuckin' dope. People pretty quickly started using instant messaging to flirt.

Mostly for teenagers back then

>Bearshare, Limewire were fuckin' dope. (late 90's)

Napster was 99 started from there bearshare and gnutella didn't exist until 2002-3

>People were dressing lame as fuck.

The people with fake dreads then are the people with blue hair now

>Boy bands were huge.

one direction tbh f a m

>We were fortunate enough to grow up when adults allowed their kids to go out on their bikes all day and come home at a certain time

yep

>The idea of looking down on bully behaviour was prevalent,

nope

>People were empethatic towards others because they wanted to be nice

eh

>I had nearly all the freedom of my childhood predecessors of prior decades while being apart of the genesis of home computing and the world wide web

absolutely this

Don't tell me what to check you pompous asshole........
Chkd tho

tbh you were on bbs's while they were at rave parties m9.

80s kid beta and we are 90s kid betas.

i used to knock on my friends front door and if they weren't in i used to go and find them

born in 93. first two CD's purchased oops!...i did it again and celebrity.

didn't turn out gay

To the nope and eh, I supoose it's where you grew up. I'd imagine both real ritzy and ghetto areas, bullying was still apart of the alpha mentality that was respected and even championed. I grew up in a super vanilla, middle class neighborhood in the Northeast, and yea, people were nice (but not offended all the fucking time) and bullies were looked down upon as someone who may have issues at home like now.

>didnt turn out gay
>prefers feminine penis

What he said, and weed had just gone from the ditch to "dank, chronic, hydro", and Jerry Garcia was still alive (at least for the first 1/2), and there weren't that many junkies

Faak you make me wish I was 15 in 99 and not 3.

>try early 2000s
9/11/2001 -- gas jumps 300%, we start spending a retarded some of money on a war based on lies, what planet were you living on Aussie fuck?

OP, first answer my question: why is there no good Daria Rule 34 work out there?

You're right. B doesn't hold my interest like it used to. Perhaps habbits are indeed harder to break when you get older. When I really frequented this place about 5/6 years ago, I feel like mid 20-somethings was what occupied this digital space. Nonetheless, things have changed and perhaps I ought to move on to the likes of Reddit and whatnot.

Yeah, I grew up lower/middle class suburbs in the midwest. Bullying was definitely still a thing -- it wasn't TV Show / Cartoon / Roger Klotz style bullying, but that shit still happened regularly. There were preppy bullies and weird bullies. People just didn't fucking talk about it, and nobody called it "bullying".

I remember some dude getting more/less molested by a handful of other students in gym class, then getting his head smashed into the corner of a sink. (grade school)

I remember some fat kid got bullied so much that he called a bomb threat. (grade school)

I remember kids were getting choked and another kid getting stabbed in the leg with a pencil. (grade school)

i had a mega drive but didn't spend all day on it and actually went out side

playing 22 a side football, climbing trees and playing rally evil (like hide and seek but in teams of two and looking for each other all around the town) were great

The most underwhelming era of all time. I'm glad I spent most of it in school.

>no porn
They had these things called magazines

It was the final fading sunset of an age where wonder and mystery could exist. Then ubiquitous internet led to information overload, and now everything sucks.

The thing I miss most is that nobody had cell phones. This world is shit thanks to all the phones constantly in use.

Teenager in the 90's. No smart phones or social media so people didn't spend 99% of their time with their faces buried.

Hung out at shopping malls on Friday nights while I was younger. After age 15, mostly hanging out at parties.

Hiding out in wooded areas to drink and smoke weed.

Played my fair share of Vidya. Split screen was a game changer at the time.

And the music. Hearing Pearl Jam, Nirvana, STP, AiC, Sublime and so on when they were new bands was life changing. Even then, you knew that those songs would be played forever.

If when I die and was given a choice to relive a decade of my life, I wouldn't even think twice about going back and reliving 90-99.

You know what was the best about 90s?

People were not promiscuous as today.
Faggots were a second class citizens.
Being Caucasian was awesome.
People got shocked by a little girl who fell on a water well.
Spics were considered sub-humans not to mention niggers.
Nigger music was for niggers.
There weren't political correctness.
USA was feared.
Christianity was a dominant religion.
Kids were in a superior status.
Marriage was seeing as a successful achievement in life.
Women didn't care about money as today.
I can go all night.

Seconded i remember gas being 1.25 in 90s. Best cartoons. People invited friends over to play vidya head to head and eat junk food. I personally hate online gaming overall becausw many of those games disabled head to head do you remember playing n64 or xbox?

The high point of human civilization. I'd give up the internet to go back there

>Christianity was a dominant religion.
>USA was feared.

Nothing has really changed on this front. That's what you call "growing up".

i remember watching music videos on MTV

it was like this

youtu.be/lYBIRHi5-o8

Saw them in 97 with De La Soul. They still played a lot of their old stuff back then. From what I hear, that isn't the case any longer.

nobody batted an eye at kids singing along to this
youtube.com/watch?v=4wSr7h_pjxs

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If I had one decade to go back and do over with the knowledge I have today, fuck the 1990''s the 1980' is where I am headed to set the ground work to be the wealthiest fuck on the planet.

youtu.be/KPeePg2N6QM

I have lived without internet for like 3 years. Only have internets on phone. Just starting to realize how mainstream the internet has become and why that is bad. People need to learn to enjoy some life and stop hiding in cyberspace.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=R7tNDkEACSY

in 97 they only had a few albums to choose from, they've branched out in the past 20 years but I still listen, can't keep doing this style in your 40's user

No internet.
Cable TV was awesome.
Real Sex on HBO at 3am on a school night for fap material.
Also porn mags I bought off a friend.
Rented video games from video stores.
Video stores had VHS tapes.
Portable CD player with cassette adapter to play music through my car stereo.
Gas was less than a dollar a gallon.

I definitely get that. I could just never grow with them. After Transistor, their music just didn't jive with me. I've tried to recently give them another shot but I still feel the same in regards to anything after 98.

It was a magical time. When you learned something new you thought of it as an achievement. Instead of googling whatever question you had, you sat there and wondered and had conversations about it. Video games and tv weren't all about realism. People were less afraid to think outside of the box. Ignorance truly was bliss.
I would leave in the morning on my bike to go bang on my friends window to wake him up because his parents didn't want phone calls on the house phone, remember those fucking things, that early in the morning. Then we would go to the big pond where all our other friends were and go swimming and smoke dads stolen cigarettes.
What kids have that kinda fun now?

MOOOOOOOOOOOOODSSSS

HOLLYWOOD VIDEO MOTHERFUCKERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

my niece asked me what a cassette was and that was the moment i felt old

I went on a drug fuelled adventure through europe. Started out in Helsinki without any aspirations to travel anywhere. Got drunk as FUCK and woke up in a caravaner company in Estonia the following morning with no memory. Smoked my first joint offered by my hosts who explained that I had demanded passage with them. After that it's pretty hazy for the next couple of months. I do remember getting in trouble in germany but managed to get out of there and found a rave. Some shit happened at that rave and I found new travelling mates. I carried their music shit to the places they had gigs and got food a place to sleep and drugs for my effort.
Next stop was amsterdam. Shit got crazy there. I have no real memories on what happened but I do remember doing acid for the first time. Then I went to france where I parted with the guys and headed towards spain. Spain was just a whole lot of drinking. In the end I got picked up at gibraltar for not having my passport and being fucking wasted.
Got passage back to Finland where assault charges were waiting for me.

Shit was cash.

My kids have only known DVD"s. I think there was an article a little while back where the last ever VHS players were manufactured this year.

Hell yeah. $5 in gas could get you through at least the weekend and smokes were barely $2 a pack.

i had so many VHS tapes and i ended up just throwing them all away

had years of stuff i'd recorded

Everyone was trying to be futuristic and they all ended up looking like retards.
Imagine a city full of people all dancing to the macarena while wearing roller blades, primary colored sweat pants, acid washed jean vests, plastic jewelry, those small circular sunglasses that come in stupid colors, with bandanas on their heads, beepers on their belts, with PDAs in one hand and slices of pizza in the other.

it's hit or miss now, Transistor was wall-to-wall greatness, hard to top

youtu.be/hD3yVmT7ZEU

>Got passage back to Finland where assault charges were waiting for me.
>Shit was cash.

totally

I jerked off twice a day... TO WOMEN. Can you imagine? Video games were actually good, drugs were plentiful and I had many friends. Gas was a buck 50, smokes were cheap, and we took road trips every weekend, usually to a rave. Washing dishes sucked, but it was all the money I needed.

Now... sigh.

i remember having a camara with film and agonizing about what i should take pictures of so i didn't end up wasting it.

we sat on the summit. and then the joos pushed us off.

I still have a few old VHS of music videos from a Journeys shoe store when I worked their in highschool. They were going to toss them when they switched to DVD"s so I grabbed them up.

Cool to look at for the memories. Kids from highschool would just come into the store to hang out and watch the music videos.

i used to watch the simpsons religiously and actually look forward to new episodes

The economy was much better in the US, houses were a lot cheaper. A lot of female's walked the streets dressed like sluts since there weren't any good camera's on phones. People were much more reckless. Tons of cartoons on TV, MTV was amazing, tgif, staying up to watch real sex and taxi cab confessions on HBO. Radio was very popular. More free events and concerts everywhere. Companies actually cared about and respected employees and had company barbecues and events. People weren't as stressed out. Boxing events were extremely popular and people would throw house parties and watch them. TONS of more house parties and kickbacks than today. No sjw's or feminists.

I give the 90's in Southern California a 9/10.

I give the 2000's until now a 2/10. Shit totally sucks now. Republicans ruined everything, you're wrong if you disagree. Jobs outsourced, bullshit wars, and the recession caused by them. Fuck everybody who voted Republican.

Car culture was much bigger.

Better shit than today..

The 90s was the shit son, now life sucks

Imagine walking outside and going to play for hours on end in the woods without your parents worrying about the news making up boogey men to come kidnap you.

Imagine going anywhere and not having your shit searched and basically really being anonymous and not worrying about SJW's trying to keep you from doing what you like becuase they feel "triggered"

Bullshit, i ran up our phone bill like a mother fucker. I would just have to drag around the cord.
If you play online gaming now.
You probably would have grabbed the phone on the wall , ran the line to your couch and talked with your friends about whats on tv as it was airing

This. Music and Malls were much better in the 90's.

No internet?

Bitch even netzero was free
Dial up. No incoming calls, that 4 mins to load a porn pic, that [dialing sound] kkkeeeeee--ngghhh--eeeee--sssshhh--nnnggg --beeemmm

Hip hop was being bought by cumskins at an incredible rate, fag. Spics were the ones doing all the manufacturing jobs in California. The 90's were more PC than today.

OJ Simpson wasn't in jail in the 90's

It may be hard to believe but 18 years ago it was 98.