TCPeppyTc Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Hey, guys, tell me if this shoudl be moved elsewhere. I am 23 years old. I remember the late 90s, but not very well. Is anyone here old enough to have grown up and really have remembered them? And if so, were they that much different from the 2010s? I don't know exactly but I have heard a few things. 1. The world seemed safer: The cold war just ended in 1991, and a lot of people thought it was the "end of history" that is, the end of large wars and armed conflicts. Then 9/11 happened. 2. Better tv shows/ video games/ movies?: It seems comedies were funnier then, and disney still made disney movies. Plus the starfox genre was still going strong ! 3. Better economy: I hear it was way easier for a teenager to get a summer job in say, 1996 than it is now. 4. Less Politically Correct. While the 90s I think were better in a lot of ways, I have heard they were less PC than now. While there were laws protecting women from discrimination, there seems to have been much more sexism, with a whole nationwide debate on whether mothers with careers were good things or not . In general, it seems women's rights just hadn't come as far then as they have now. I have heard gay rights weren't nearly where their at now either. While most people were tolerant of gay people, they were so only in the strictest use of that word. Even democrats like Bill Clinton were very opposed to gay marriage.. Does anyone have any thoughts/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebel_gunman Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 The end of the Cold War, and thus, the Soviet Union! Couple years later... Cold War II. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snys93 Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 I remember some things like Desert Storm, the end of the Super Nintendo's life cycle, Animaniacs, the emergence of the N64...I almost forgot Bay Watch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrypticQuery Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Not all is as it seems. While the United States may have seemed to be a safer place, national crime rates have sharply fallen since the 1990s. As an example, New York City had 2,262 murders in 1990. In 2013 there were only 335. Everything else is subjective based upon ones personal tastes and opinions, save for the economic conditions of the country. [To be fair, however, we did recently go through one of the worst economic downturns since the thirties.] Though I can say that I miss the lack of technological integration into the very fabric of nearly everyone's existence; at times it was nice to not know what everyone else was doing at every waking moment of their life. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unoservix Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 it was like this /thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redeemer Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Keep in mind that political discussion isn't allowed on SFO, just in case we head in that direction. I don't know about safer though. The world has always been a big, scary and shitty place, we're just old enough to see it now. But for me it's all about Adidas shoes, bright coloured sports clothes, playing the Game Gear (was my older brothers), warmer summers, a range of Disney series cartoons, discovering Pokemon, and not having internet lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xortberg Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 The 90s were a mystical time when literally everything in the world was better than it is now. The music was better. The TV was better. The video games were better. The food was better. Even the homicidal maniacs were a bit more polite and considerate than they are nowadays. Really, think of absolutely anything, and then imagine it being better than it is. That's the 90s in a nutshell. And even nutshells were better in the 90s. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Orange Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. All to say. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sroberson Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Not all is as it seems. While the United States may have seemed to be a safer place, national crime rates have sharply fallen since the 1990s. As an example, New York City had 2,262 murders in 1990. In 2013 there were only 335. I think I have heard similar statistics, but they were surrounding the topic of sociological problems in the United States. While crime as a whole has decreased significantly - our perception and fear of crime has grown. Some theorize that this has a serious effect on our psyche since we are fed stories from media platforms that know how to get viewers - war, crime, death, and generally anything that scares people. [/conspiracy] I'm also with One/Crazy on the technology bit, except I am a bit more afraid of technology slowly taking over jobs. Also the advance that technology has taken just over the past 20 years has been insane - I guarantee we thought self-driving cars and commercial space industry were far away in the future when we were kids. Oh, and let's not forget the possibility of downloading our brains to computers...like we saw that one coming back when the Matrix came out in 1999...It seemed like things weren't moving so fast back in the 90s. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiden O'Conner Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 The Nintendo 64. 'Nuff said. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unoservix Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 it was a time of moderate danger (sometimes there were boys who were up to no good and started causing trouble in your neighborhood) but it was also a time of decisive action against security threats (if you got in one little fight your mom would get scared and say "you're movin' with your auntie and your uncle in Bel-Air") so i guess it was a wash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 For me, this resumes what the 90s were about: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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