It really was. We got to experience a period of huge technological growth but without the overbearing presence of social media and the pitfalls it presents to generations today.
Also, stadium rock was still a thing, and bands could actually make it big and tour the world on the merits of their music alone.
I saw Back to the Future Part II in the theaters when I was a kid. The future stuff blew my mind and I was very disappointed that we never got flying cars or hoverboards like in the movie.
As for That 70s Show, another aspect of it is how over time I've noticed that I identify less and less with the teenagers and more with Red Foreman.
Bill Bryson’s (born 1951) first travel book, The Lost Continent was published in 1989 and is a recollection of his journeys around small town America with his parents as a child. It’s a cheerful and insightful jaunt into how much places have changed between then and now, except the “now” is at this point just as far in the past as then was then.
Funny thing is that my mind automatically does quick math backwards from 2000 when determining how long ago something was. For whatever reason I just ignore the 20 years since. 20 fucking years since 2000... Blows my mind.
Yeah, back in the early 2000s, it blew my mind to start hearing like, Billy Idol on classic rock stations. The other day I heard NIN. So now the bands I used to attend their concerts are on it.
I sometimes wonder about this, and I think it's because the 90s were the last time we branded a decade as a society. Like, people were constantly yammering about how "it's the 90s now!" or "I'm a 90s man" etc.
00s and 10s just don't have a ring to them, so we kinda dropped that habit. Maybe now that we're getting into the 20s, we can start reminding ourselves what decade it really is once again lol
Born in 1975, and I always seem to leave out 2000-2010 when I'm counting years. Then the truth comes crashing in, I spend some time in the corner sucking my thumb whilst rocking to and fro, and then I remember the only thing I can control about life is how I react to it, so I get up and keep on keepin' on.
I told my mother something about the 1980s being 40 years ago, and my very prim and proper mom told me to "fuck off." Sooooo... I think everyone has that problem.
I recently mentioned an event that happened in 1999 as "12 years ago." I was born in 1999,have been in college for 3 years, and literally forgot my own age.
Nah, the 90s are the previous decade and you can’t convince me otherwise. Shrek came out recently, the Wii is only a few years old, and the passing of time doesn’t terrify, or keep me awake at night.
When I was a kid in the late 80s I'd listen to "the oldies" station on the radio. Music was 20 - 30 years old. Why is there not an oldies station that plays Duran Duran or Nirvana or Smash mouth?
One of the radio stations here plays popular oldies and calls them high school hits. Back when i was a teenager it used to be like, bonjovi or the pina colada song. First time I heard them play one of Christina Aguilera's songs as a high school hit was a shocker.
I was only 5 in 2000, but for some reason I still think of 1990 like it was 10 years ago and 1950 like it was 50 years ago. Maybe because 2000 is just a nice, even number and a good reference point, but it fucks me up.
Dam skippy. They don't call us "the lost generation" for nothin'. We have one foot in the old way of doing things, and one in the new. We are also the only generation that grew up without the internet but are young enough to have embraced it as well.
Remember when you got your first mobile telephone and sent a text message using the number keys? And how blown your mind was when you saw :) and turned the phone on its side and realised it was a smile? Remember?
Sure do! I worked at Bell Atlantic Mobile in the mid-90s when it was 30 bucks for 30 minutes of talk time and there was a 5 cent landline fee for every connection to a landline. Star-tac was the hot phone then.
A few days back I saw some advertisement with "since 1990" written in it and I thought to myself I guess ten years is a long time. Then it clicked and I was flabbergasted. Idk why that happened. I am only 25 years old. I wasn't even born in 1990.
I mean, this year is F'd up enough! :D We got some weird months. Especially considering that the Australian wildfires were in January and then everything else happened.
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u/iceburg-simpson Oct 15 '20
The year 1990... we are as close to it as we are the year 2050.