Living in the mid-90's > any era

[hateraid]

This was probably the greatest era to live in. With social media, age of electronics, and other means of communcation and interaction it has managed to make us busier and socially inept. It was a great time for music, TV, life's interest, and people in general

My top reason for living in the 90's (all insipired by recent posts):

1- Video games were more about the game play rather than the graphics. They made them simple time killers as opposed to life drainers. The longest game we played was probably Legend of Zelda. Games were more for the spirit of competition and simple enjoyment

2- Hip Hop in 1993. I'd say the greatest age in hip hop. Just check out this line-up of albums:
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/musicman07/1993_hip_hop

3- Despite not having cell phones, people communicated person to person. For some reason it was easier to make plans and have your whole posse meet at one spot

4- This pic:
http://dashburst.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/vintage-social-networking.jpg

5- Remember when cops were admired pillars of the community? Somebody to look up to and not ticket just money hungry ticket peddlers?

6- Chicks with no tats. Being able to tell the difference from a 15 year old and a 25 year old

7- People, especially kids took walks, bike rides, played in playgrounds

8- You can get a meal anywhere for less than $5.00

9- NBA was fantastic

10- TV shows were more relatable, not just rehashed ideas or reality television

All time fav:

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/erikkain/files/2011/10/wonderyears1.jpg

Was there ever a better and simpler time to live? I time where electronic devices were just enough and the element of being human was in tact? I think not

[L.Kizzle]

11. Wrestling was exciting

12. MTV played music videos.

[hateraid]

11. Wrestling was exciting

12. MTV played music videos.

YES and YES. I was just about to add that

[TheMarkMadsen]

11. Wrestling was exciting

12. MTV played music videos.


Wrestling was the shit from 96 until about 01.

[L.Kizzle]

13. Halloween was actually an event kids looked forward too.

[Just2McFly]

5- Remember when cops were admired pillars of the community? Somebody to look up to and not ticket just money hungry ticket peddlers?

6- Chicks with no tats. Being able to tell the difference from a 15 year old and a 25 year old


number 5 is laughable and number six is up to taste. i love girls with tats

[L.Kizzle]

Or maybe you just miss being young
Adults even seemed cooler back then.

When I was younger, I used to try to be like my older cousins and uncles who are my age now.

Now people my age all look like Lil Wayne.

[Maniak]

Or maybe you just miss being young
Sounds too logical.

[IamRAMBO24]

Or maybe you just miss being young

:rockon:

[IamRAMBO24]

Sorry but youtube is a lot better than looking out the window.

[miller-time]

Or maybe you just miss being young

I think so. People confuse novel experiences with things being better. When you are young everything is new, so everything is awesome. Once you experience everything for the 1000th time it becomes dull and unoriginal - therefore "the 90s were awesome" is really "the 90s is where I experienced everything for the first time."

[ErhnamDjinn]

yup 90's was a great era it was semi modern but not modern enough, we have to much info right now and everyone is a little lazier, i loved the music, movies , tv shoes amd videogames of tue 90's

[ace23]

Wild guess: OP grew up in the 90s.

[kNicKz]

6- Chicks with no tats. Being able to tell the difference from a 15 year old and a 25 year old



:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

I went to lunch today and the girl taking my order was covered in piercings, tattoos, and had big gauge earrings. I honestly lost my appetite

[Bucket_Nakedz]

you know what hurts? is that i took that decade for granted. never knew how much life was so much better until the turn of the millennium. im not saying life is bad now, but there is too much fakeassness for me to take this world seriously.

[hateraid]

Wild guess: OP grew up in the 90s.

My teen years were in the 90's, doesn't neccessarily mean I grew up in the 90's. I don't think we ever stop "growing up". We're constantly doing and experiencing new things. I don't think I was any different as a person mentally in the 90's 00's or even now. I'd say the real bulk of my "growing up" and experiencing life was done in the 00's. That's when I went to college, experienced all the perks of adulthood, met my wife....
Living through these different eras, wouldn't that qualify me to judge and compare different eras?
In my opinion I think we've regressed as human beings due to modern technology not just by the way we communicate, but by the way we interact and treat fellow human beings.

[L.Kizzle]

Wild guess: OP grew up in the 90s.
I grew up in the 70s, jive turkey!

[Bucket_Nakedz]

In my opinion I think we've regressed as human beings due to modern technology not just by the way we communicate, but by the way we interact and treat fellow human beings.
powerful, bruh. that's why i don't have facebook or anything regarding social media. it's nice to communicate with relatives and friends that live far away. still nothing beats a conversation on the phone.

i have a lot of friends, and outside of my immegiate fam, only 2 of my close bruhs have my cell number. i remember 3 years ago i had over 500 contacts and my phone was constantly harassed with texts. i only text when the person im calling is not answering or if their busy like working.

its funny, my major is computer related, but i hate that technology is being used so often as a way to socialize. i remember when i was younger, the first day of school, everybody would introduce themselves to each other and just talk. now that i started college, the first day of class, mostly everybody is too busy on their smart phone or computer.

[LBJFTW]

90's were the best era and its not even close.

[Jackass18]

Most people seem to think the best era was the one they grew up in. The best era will happen sometime in the future.

[LockoutOver11]

duh :)

[Micku]

10- TV shows were more relatable, not just rehashed ideas or reality television


Gott'a stop ya there. This era the 00s and 10s era have the best collection of shows ever on TV. The worst too, but the best TV shows in this era are amazing.

Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Dexter, The Walking Dead, Spartacus, Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire.


The cartoon shows in the 90s and early 00s were better tho. Tho there are some gems in this era too.

[Micku]

t posts):

1- Video games were more about the game play rather than the graphics. They made them simple time killers as opposed to life drainers. The longest game we played was probably Legend of Zelda. Games were more for the spirit of competition and simple enjoyment


These are the OGs life drainers.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Daggerfall_Cover_art.gif/256px-Daggerfall_Cover_art.gif

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081229142347/fallout/images/2/2a/Fallout2front.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6f/Xenogears_box.jpg/250px-Xenogears_box.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KNZH403imb4/S_563S_rh5I/AAAAAAAAAfE/EurSooJQiog/s1600/pokemon-red-and-blue.jpg

And of course Final Fantasy and Zelda.

[Smoke117]

I'd rather have been a youth in the 60s and a teenager/young adult in the 70s. The 90s were nothing special and your reasons don't ****ing mean shit to me.

[Patrick Chewing]

http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/beavis_and_butthead_headbanging.gif

[Just2McFly]

I'd rather have been a youth in the 60s and a teenager/young adult in the 70s. The 90s were nothing special and your reasons don't ****ing mean shit to me.
I will f*cking pass on that

[PullupJay]

I agree with you 110% percent bro. 90's :rockon: was the best. :cheers:

[L.Kizzle]

The dominance of No Limit Records

Time after Time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPRGAQgOq4Y)

[Patrick Chewing]

94-96 were probably the best years of my life. I got introduced to Cable TV, MTV, Started high school, hung out with cool friends, played basketball after school for hours, rode bike to friend's house, started driving.

[Rasheed1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rQZee4mkww

the anthem... the Plateau in Philly


met my wife.. the sun was shining..


love and stogies for everyone :rockon:

[DonDadda59]

I think so. People confuse novel experiences with things being better. When you are young everything is new, so everything is awesome. Once you experience everything for the 1000th time it becomes dull and unoriginal - therefore "the 90s were awesome" is really "the 90s is where I experienced everything for the first time."

Maybe, but there's no denying that certain things in the 90s were better, especially the middle of the decade, even at a macro/general level. The economy was booming, we weren't in any prolonged foreign military conflicts overseas, pop culture seemed to have more integrity. Now we're still recovering from a deep recession, we lived under the fear of terrorism post 9/11, and we're in a wasteland culturally. Can't fault people for looking back fondly when the quality of life was better then than it is now.


Gott'a stop ya there. This era the 00s and 10s era have the best collection of shows ever on TV. The worst too, but the best TV shows in this era are amazing.

Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Dexter, The Walking Dead, Spartacus, Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire.


The cartoon shows in the 90s and early 00s were better tho. Tho there are some gems in this era too.

I actually agree with this point. TV is experiencing a strange dichotomy- it's simultaneously experiencing a golden age in cable while everything else seems to be reality TV garbage. I feel like HBO ushered in a renaissance on cable starting in the mid-late 90s that is being replicated by other networks trying to follow their model (AMC, FX, Show, etc) but at the same time the networks and other channels are going for the lowest common denominator... and even lower (VH1, you've lost your way :oldlol: ).

[Horde of Temujin]

I miss those days as well. You just brought a tear to my eye Hateraid. Thank you.

[joe]

Growing up in the 90's was amazing. I admit that a large chunk of that was just being a kid, but I think the 90's themselves played into it. There was awesome new technology, but not enough that we never went outside and played. My little cousins today just play Call of Duty all day, every day. I played the shit out of "Turtles in Time" for the SNES, but we also played Ninja Turtles outside, jumping around, fighting invisible enemies. So it was a great mix of both worlds. There was a proper fear of strangers.. not over the top like it is today. Plus, as a huge horror fan, I had all the 80's classics right there in the video store. Jason, Freddy, The Shining.

I also liked the attitude towards parenting in those days. Maybe this occurred before the 90's, but I like that parents weren't as abusive and strict. Some say that just allows kids to act out, but I was never like that. My parents being a little looser just let me be creative and my own individual. From the stories I hear, growing up in the 50's or whatever would have just been so confining. "DON'T DO THIS, DON'T DO THAT.. OR I'LL SMACK YA.. SEE!" Uck.

Also, there was still a lot of morals in the kids TV shows. Boy Meets World, Hey Arnold, Doug, Rugrats.. all send out great messages to kids. I've seen the shows my little cousins/nieces/nephews watch today, and it's a little disturbing. The characters seem dumb, and not just dumb.. but happy to be dumb. Delightfully dumb.

Not to mention... South Park. Experiencing South Park as an adult was probably cool, but experiencing it as a KID??? Mind blower. Funniest, most awesome, talked about thing amidst every kid I knew. And I do recognize the irony of this paragraph following my previous one. But oh well. South Park had some good morals in it too, if you can get past all the cursing.

[hateraid]

:biggums:

You haven't changed mentally from your teens to 30s?

Not drastically. I've learned life's lessons on the way, but my mindset and appraoch to life is still the same now as when I was 18

[hateraid]

Gott'a stop ya there. This era the 00s and 10s era have the best collection of shows ever on TV. The worst too, but the best TV shows in this era are amazing.

Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Dexter, The Walking Dead, Spartacus, Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire.


The cartoon shows in the 90s and early 00s were better tho. Tho there are some gems in this era too.

I'm a fan of a couple of those shows, but I'm talking about the overall experience with TV programming. It was relatable television where every night you had a programming line-up you can commit to. TV back then had more depth in program variety.

[lefthook00]

Seinfeld!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[andgar923]

This thread is so wrong.

I'd rather live in today's era

[hateraid]

[QUOTE=andgar923]This thread is so wrong.

I'd rather live in today's era

[andgar923]

On the same token modern technology has made us regress as people. I've pointed out today's technology has taken our ability to communicate face to face. Our advancement in technology has also made our workload a whole lot heavier thus cutting into friends and family time.
IMO, modern technology has made us less human

Oh stop the pseudo humanistic nonsense. Without technology we wouldn't be here.

Technology has made life easier for all of us. If technology cuts into your friends and family time, then there's other issues behind that one needs to reexamine.

I can still listen to old school 90s hip hop mix tapes, while I watch WWF while I download an NZB file, I can do all of this while I video chat with my wife that lives in Canada on either her tablet or cell.

[andgar923]

Don't get me wrong.

I consider the 90s the modern day renaissance era. But it doesn't necessarily mean that we've regressed tremendously since then. Some things have become sucky (mainly music), but others have improved (tv shows, movies).

Society has changed as well.

Sure we can talk shit about people hiding behind technology, but for every negative aspect you can think of regarding technology, there's hundreds of examples in which it has helped improve our lives.

The options we have due to technology have multiplied. This is GOOD, not bad. By options I mean on just about anything and everything.

If you still wanna concentrate on how it affects us as a society, think about how modern medicine has advanced. How we have tools that help autistic, the blind and deaf, handicapped etc.etc.

[ShaqAttack3234]

I also have to mention that action movies were still left to the Stallones, Schwarzennegers, Seagals(when he was in shape) and Bruce Willis of the world. Someone like Shia Labeouf would have never been in an action movie.

[LBJFTW]

On the same token modern technology has made us regress as people. I've pointed out today's technology has taken our ability to communicate face to face. Our advancement in technology has also made our workload a whole lot heavier thus cutting into friends and family time.
IMO, modern technology has made us less human

I saw a table of high school guys and their dates all dressed up for prom at a restaurant I happened to be at. 12 of them. They all had their cell phones out and were texting. Some even texting each other. Very few words were actually spoken. It was pretty pathetic. In the 90's this was unheard of.

[knickballer]

BRB, playing cops and robbers
BRB, riding bike to buy some ****ing bubblegum
BRB, running home to watch your favourite TV show
BRB, going with some friends while doing nothing and not coming home hours later
BRB, playing tackle football on the streets
BRB, breaking neighbours windshield playing wuffelball(is that what it's called)
BRB, playing multiplayer on n64
BRB, inserting cheats into n64(press like 24 ****ing buttons)

[andgar923]

I also have to mention that action movies were still left to the Stallones, Schwarzennegers, Seagals(when he was in shape) and Bruce Willis of the world. Someone like Shia Labeouf would have never been in an action movie.

So true

[LBJFTW]

90's actions movies were so hard core not even Jason Statham would make the cut.

[PullupJay]

Haterade is slowly becoming one of my favorite posters.

[DeuceWallaces]

On the same token modern technology has made us regress as people. I've pointed out today's technology has taken our ability to communicate face to face. Our advancement in technology has also made our workload a whole lot heavier thus cutting into friends and family time.
IMO, modern technology has made us less human

I completely disagree. Technology has only opened your eyes to all the idiots you didn't know were there in the first place.

There is no question that technology empowers people. It lessens your workload in every way by making it easier and more streamlined than ever. If you want to become enslaved to your phone, tablet, and boss then it's only a sign of your own weakness. My technology provides me freedom, knowledge, and ease of work that I could barely dream of back in the 90's.

The modern day is better than ever despite whatever nostalgia people are clinging to that makes them think otherwise.

[No_Look604]

90's R&B party jams >> all hip hop of today X 1000000000


I won't even bring 90's hip hop into discussion...we have Drake and Wiz now to laugh at...Urkel dudes.

[LBJFTW]

I completely disagree. Technology has only opened your eyes to all the idiots you didn't know were there in the first place.

There is no question that technology empowers people. It lessens your workload in every way by making it easier and more streamlined than ever. If you want to become enslaved to your phone, tablet, and boss then it's only a sign of your own weakness. My technology provides me freedom, knowledge, and ease of work that I could barely dream of back in the 90's.

The modern day is better than ever despite whatever nostalgia people are clinging to that makes them think otherwise.


America is in the biggest debt it's ever been in and you think the modern day is better than ever? :eek:

[Rasheed1]

Personally... I dont think more technology is bad.. I think the profit driven society we live in what makes it bad...

when the bottom line to everything is profit? quality suffers..

[DeuceWallaces]

America is in the biggest debt it's ever been in and you think the modern day is better than ever? :eek:

Uh, the op, nor myself, were really centering this thread around the national deficit or political climate.

[DonDadda59]

Uh, the op, nor myself, were really centering this thread around the national deficit or political climate.

Maybe, but it definitely adds to the nostalgia effect. If people were generally more prosperous and felt safer then, makes sense that they would look more favorably at that time than the present.

[DeuceWallaces]

Well personally, me, my family, and my friends are doing much better than in the 80's and 90's. Although that's just my experience.

[DonDadda59]

Well personally, me, my family, and my friends are doing much better than in the 80's and 90's. Although that's just my experience.

There you go then, makes sense that you personally don't hold those times in such high regard. But the overall economy now isn't what it was in the 90s, so there are a lot of people who don't feel as secure/prosperous/etc as they did. Then couple that with the post 9/11 fear state. People feeling that pop culture is being compromised. This is all general and obviously not everyone agrees, case in point you.

I think we bottomed out during the end of the last decade and we're slowing on the ascent, so maybe we'll experience another renaissance like we did in the mid-late 90s and people will look back fondly on that time to. Right now there's a lot of uncertainty but I think there's a whole lot more optimism than there was 5 years ago.

So we'll see how it all plays out.

[LBJFTW]

Well personally, me, my family, and my friends are doing much better than in the 80's and 90's. Although that's just my experience.

I was speaking in terms of America as a whole. I make six figures now and I didn't in the 90's, but I'd take the mid 90's with less pay over today's era any day of the week because simply put, it was a better time to live in. Perfect balance all things considered.

[DeuceWallaces]

There you go then, makes sense that you personally don't hold those times in such high regard. But the overall economy now isn't what it was in the 90s, so there are a lot of people who don't feel as secure/prosperous/etc as they did. Then couple that with the post 9/11 fear state. People feeling that pop culture is being compromised. This is all general and obviously not everyone agrees, case in point you.

I think we bottomed out during the end of the last decade and we're slowing on the ascent, so maybe we'll experience another renaissance like we did in the mid-late 90s and people will look back fondly on that time to. Right now there's a lot of uncertainty but I think there's a whole lot more optimism than there was 5 years ago.

So we'll see how it all plays out.

I hold them in very high regard, but given modern technology and all the associated conveniences both professionally and socially it's no contest as to which is better.

People are always prisoners of nostalgia. There's no doubt about that and this thread is proof of it. Buncha kids who miss high school and college. There is nothing that is significantly better about the 90's than the present day.

[LBJFTW]

I hold them in very high regard, but given modern technology and all the associated conveniences both professionally and socially it's no contest as to which is better.

People are always prisoners of nostalgia. There's no doubt about that and this thread is proof of it. Buncha kids who miss high school and college. There is nothing that is significantly better about the 90's than the present day.

But there is and most of it has conveniently been laid out in this thread for all to appreciate and acknowledge. :applause:

[andgar923]

I hold them in very high regard, but given modern technology and all the associated conveniences both professionally and socially it's no contest as to which is better.

People are always prisoners of nostalgia. There's no doubt about that and this thread is proof of it. Buncha kids who miss high school and college. There is nothing that is significantly better about the 90's than the present day.

I guess the key word here is 'significantly'.

But music was certainly better overall. Perhaps not significantly, but it was better.

[DonDadda59]

There is nothing that is significantly better about the 90's than the present day.

The economy.

[Norcaliblunt]

The mid 90's was definitely the best part of that decade. The beginning of 90's had it's issues, and the end was basically the transition into what we have now, but the middle was where everything that was good about that time seemed to peak. It was the end of an era, and the beginning of everyone being blasted into the Information Age.

I don't hate technology at all. In fact I'm pissed that we haven't got more of it for this day and age. I mean in the 20th century fools were talking about flying cars, Mars missions, space colonies, and personal robots and shit, when we were supposed to be this deep into the 2000's. Aside from mass communication, access to a cluster **** of information, and some very cool entertainment sources, what the hell do we have that is so great? We still drive cars, fly inefficient airplanes, there's a none existent space program, no cure for cancer (more people dying from it actually), GMO shit food, an infrastructure the American Society of Civil Engineers give a D+, people still slaving 40 to 60 hours plus a week for jobs that could be automated, or sitting in cubicles for bullshit insurance, and banking companies that produce nothing tangible. While as technology has progressed to make things like computers, cell phones, email, blackberries, etc. available, it doesn't make your job easier because you are constantly connected, and can't get away from work always on call.

For Christ's sake can't we at least get a transcontinental maglev train already.

Mid 90's had hope.

[ILLsmak]

Yeah, that nostalgia.

I dunno man... life was ****ed up for me already in the mid 90s. I was a teenager. The eras I miss was when I didn't know what was going on. When it was just like go to the PARK. So, before the internet. Before I was introduced to video games.

In the mid/late 90s, I was already a factor on the AOL scene. Going from the PSX chat room to the N64 chat room like... NINTENDO SUX!!! NINTENDO SUX!! LOLOLOL. NERDS.

-Smak

[Rasheed1]

The mid 90's was definitely the best part of that decade. The beginning of 90's had it's issues, and the end was basically the transition into what we have now, but the middle was where everything that was good about that time seemed to peak. It was the end of an era, and the beginning of everyone being blasted into the Information Age.

I don't hate technology at all. In fact I'm pissed that we haven't got more of it for this day and age. I mean in the 20th century fools were talking about flying cars, Mars missions, space colonies, and personal robots and shit, when we were supposed to be this deep into the 2000's. Aside from mass communication, access to a cluster **** of information, and some very cool entertainment sources, what the hell do we have that is so great? We still drive cars, fly inefficient airplanes, there's a none existent space program, no cure for cancer (more people dying from it actually), GMO shit food, an infrastructure the American Society of Civil Engineers give a D+, people still slaving 40 to 60 hours plus a week for jobs that could be automated, or sitting in cubicles for bullshit insurance, and banking companies that produce nothing tangible. While as technology has progressed to make things like computers, cell phones, email, blackberries, etc. available, it doesn't make your job easier because you are constantly connected, and can't get away from work always on call.

For Christ's sake can't we at least get a transcontinental maglev train already.

Mid 90's had hope.


Maybe they were just f*cking with us all those years... I remember watching cartoons and reading science fiction novels as a kid and they all pretty much had 2001 and beyond as the time when we would be living like the Jetsons and traveling into space like it was nothing.

Or maybe we lost our ambition to push society forward in that manner.. Society jumped leaps and bounds from the time the first airplane was created to 50's and 60s. Then its seem like we tapered off. Like you said, we have alot of information technology that keeps growing and growing, and we also have few other pieces of micro technology... But I think it goes back to what I was saying earlier.. Our priorities arent focused on the betterment of society as much as it seemed to be decades ago. I can't shake the feeling that people in charge of old systems are stalling progress in the name of profit and control.

[miller-time]

But music was certainly better overall. Perhaps not significantly, but it was better.

I don't get this point? We still have 90s music. We can listen to or even watch any of it anytime we want (unlike in the 90s). We have access to the entire 90s catalogue. The only time that was possible during the 90s were the last few days of '99, and even then access was tedious.

[-p.tiddy-]

I think technology is good in general...


but I will say this, I'm was an 80s kid and when I was growing up I got together with other kids from the neighborhood and we went outside and did all sorts of shit...playing basketball/football/soccer, riding bikes, skateboarding, building ramps for our bikes and skateboards, etc etc etc

kids today are indoors for the most part...and that is sad to me...and this is coming from a video game dev.

[Norcaliblunt]

This idea that kids don't go outside anymore is a bit exaggerated IMO. I see kids all the time where I'm at running around in the streets, skateboarding, playing at the park, and at the beach.

[Norcaliblunt]

Maybe they were just f*cking with us all those years... I remember watching cartoons and reading science fiction novels as a kid and they all pretty much had 2001 and beyond as the time when we would be living like the Jetsons and traveling into space like it was nothing.

Or maybe we lost our ambition to push society forward in that manner.. Society jumped leaps and bounds from the time the first airplane was created to 50's and 60s. Then its seem like we tapered off. Like you said, we have alot of information technology that keeps growing and growing, and we also have few other pieces of micro technology... But I think it goes back to what I was saying earlier.. Our priorities arent focused on the betterment of society as much as it seemed to be decades ago. I can't shake the feeling that people in charge of old systems are stalling progress in the name of profit and control.

I agree and there has been a major **** block from corporations and the powers that be to keep resources and technology limited to continue profit and control.

[SpecialQue]

Yeah dude, I totally miss:

Having to spend half an hour downloading a song, if I could even find it online.

Limiting my time online before the "free hours" ran out.

Making sure no one was expecting a call before logging on.

Getting driving directions via the Thomas Guide.

Having to order a CD through Tower if they didn't have it, driving down there and spending $18.99 for an album with five good songs on it, at best.

Buying my movies on bulky VHS tapes that would either get eaten or lose their picture quality over a few years.

Not knowing if a restaurant was any good before going there.

etc. etc.

[Norcaliblunt]

Not knowing if a restaurant was any good before going there.

etc. etc.


This one cracks me up. I was thinking the other day how pointless online restaurant reviews are. They are just like amazon book reviews, message board sports or political debates, and whatever random thoughts you read on the web. Just another dumb ass persons BS opinion that doesn't mean shit, and the contradicting ones to go with, and like the examples I gave above, they leave you having to experience it for yourself to make up your own mind.

[ace23]

From the stories I hear, growing up in the 50's or whatever would have just been so confining. "DON'T DO THIS, DON'T DO THAT.. OR I'LL SMACK YA.. SEE!" Uck.
My parents in the 2000s

[JohnnySic]

Best things to come out of the 90's were grunge music and the pro wrestling explosion of '96-'99.

[Draz]

90s was amazing.

[ace23]

90s was amazing.
Aren't you 20, ***?

[Myth]

I was a 90s kid, but I loved a lot of the carry over that I had from the 80s, like this:

http://www.highsnobiety.com/uploads/RTEmagicC_reebok_voltron_1.jpg.jpg

[miller-time]

I was a 90s kid, but I loved a lot of the carry over that I had from the 80s, like this:

http://www.highsnobiety.com/uploads/RTEmagicC_reebok_voltron_1.jpg.jpg

I had one of those, I think the yellow one. But I only ever saw the vehicle voltron series.

[tomtucker]

music, movies , tv was better...........and people have gotten 50% fatter and more lazy in 15 years time..........too many cars, nobody walks..........

[embersyc]

I love the nineties, but no way I'm going back.

My advice, don't like facebook? Don't use it. I don't. Just ****ing quit it. You might have a few people ask why you aren't on, but so what?

Don't like the state of the economy? Learn to program or heal people.

Yeah popular music and sitcom television are not as good, so what? There is still great music being made, you just have to dig deeper to find it. Honestly everyone's life would improve drastically if they stopped wasting time with TV.

The best thing the nineties brought was the internet and that is way better now.

90s = no ISH.

[Legends66NBA7]

The #1 and 2 GOAT Final Fantasy games came out in the mid-90's:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ORKZYJiYny4/UR-xBYbW8hI/AAAAAAAAAMk/Y0KE7WHxMb8/s1600/Final+Fantasy+6.png

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DELahQ67DH8/TZoQaGN7-0I/AAAAAAAABtc/XapEKld-xdE/s1600/final-fantasy-vii-cast.jpg

[HarryCallahan]

Best things to come out of the 90's were grunge music and the pro wrestling explosion of '96-'99.

Those two things plus Seinfeld.

[DeuceWallaces]

I love the nineties, but no way I'm going back.

My advice, don't like facebook? Don't use it. I don't. Just ****ing quit it. You might have a few people ask why you aren't on, but so what?

Don't like the state of the economy? Learn to program or heal people.

Yeah popular music and sitcom television are not as good, so what? There is still great music being made, you just have to dig deeper to find it. Honestly everyone's life would improve drastically if they stopped wasting time with TV.

The best thing the nineties brought was the internet and that is way better now.

90s = no ISH.

Exactly; would rep you if I could.

[dajadeed]

Be kind, please rewind. :banana:

[dajadeed]

Remember when you actually could buy a little machine and all it did was rewind video tapes?

Using a pencil to rewind or forward a cassette tape that had messed up?

Aol?

Tecmo Bowl? :bowdown:

Topanga? :bowdown:

[Jackass18]

I consider the 90s the modern day renaissance era. But it doesn't necessarily mean that we've regressed tremendously since then. Some things have become sucky (mainly music), but others have improved (tv shows, movies).

This isn't the greatest era for movies. Too many needless remakes, reboots, sequels and such. I do agree with you on some other things, though.

People look at the past through rose-colored glasses. Of course everything seemed so much better when you didn't have any real worries in the world, didn't have big responsibilities, barely any stress, no bills, etc... Life is easy when you're a kid. And, DW is correct about nostalgia. It can have a strong grip.

[Jackass18]

I also have to mention that action movies were still left to the Stallones, Schwarzennegers, Seagals(when he was in shape) and Bruce Willis of the world. Someone like Shia Labeouf would have never been in an action movie.

What's the point of this? There were many cheesy/lame action movies back then, and I could really do without Stallone's awful acting and incomprehensible mumbling.

[Cali Syndicate]

I was a 90s kid, but I loved a lot of the carry over that I had from the 80s, like this:

http://www.highsnobiety.com/uploads/RTEmagicC_reebok_voltron_1.jpg.jpg

Man this brings back memories.

I had some nice transformers too. Beast wars slowly took over though.

GI Joe....yeah 90's was dope. I'm glad I got to spend some of my formidable years in that decade.

Wish I saw some of the 70's though.

[methusala]

90's ruled. So much easier to get a blow job then.

(Remembers not being married then)

[DeuceWallaces]

Man this brings back memories.

I had some nice transformers too. Beast wars slowly took over though.

GI Joe....yeah 90's was dope. I'm glad I got to spend some of my formidable years in that decade.

Wish I saw some of the 70's though.

GI Joe is not 90s.

[PullupJay]

Pinky and the brain

[miller-time]

GI Joe is not 90s.

There was some spill over though. I was buying new GI Joe toys up until 94 or 95. Although the cartoon was 80s it was designed to sell the toys. The toys came first and the toys were made until the 90s :)

[Reef]

Man this brings back memories.

I had some nice transformers too. Beast wars slowly took over though.

GI Joe....yeah 90's was dope. I'm glad I got to spend some of my formidable years in that decade.

Wish I saw some of the 70's though.

That's not transformers. That's Voltron. Get it right.

[DeuceWallaces]

There was some spill over though. I was buying new GI Joe toys up until 94 or 95. Although the cartoon was 80s it was designed to sell the toys. The toys came first and the toys were made until the 90s :)

The majority of the toys were mid late 80s. By the 90's they were an afterthought.

[miller-time]

The majority of the toys were mid late 80s. By the 90's they were an afterthought.

Australia was probably a bit behind the times back then. They were still in full force during the early to mid 90s here :oldlol:

[joe]

The majority of the toys were mid late 80s. By the 90's they were an afterthought.

I watched GI Joe cartoons around like 1994-1995, but eventually they faded away. I think because my name was in the title I liked it a lot more than other kids at that time. haha

[Straight_Ballin]

What was cool about toys in the 80s is that they actually had some for the kids that were dumb and couldn't transform a transformer for shit, often breaking it and pissing off their parents who just dropped $20 on a toy. For these kids, they had Battle Beasts. Very simple paper/rock/scissors concept for them so that they knew how to play with the toys:

Wood beats water
Water beats fire
Fire beats wood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL4zNgZPPHw

Rub the hologram and go to town! :lol