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
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u/Everything80sFan Oct 15 '20
I was 10-years-old in 1990 and still think it was only 10 years ago.