Living in the mid-90's > any era

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.

[QUOTE=hateraid]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[/QUOTE]

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.

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)

[QUOTE=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.[/QUOTE]

So true

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

Haterade is slowly becoming one of my favorite posters.

[QUOTE=hateraid]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[/QUOTE]

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.

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.

[QUOTE=DeuceWallaces]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.[/QUOTE]


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

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..

[QUOTE=LBJFTW]America is in the biggest debt it's ever been in and you think the modern day is better than ever? :eek:[/QUOTE]

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

[QUOTE=DeuceWallaces]Uh, the op, nor myself, were really centering this thread around the national deficit or political climate.[/QUOTE]

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.

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.

[QUOTE=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.[/QUOTE]

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.

[QUOTE=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.[/QUOTE]

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.

[QUOTE=DonDadda59]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.[/QUOTE]

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.

[QUOTE=DeuceWallaces]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. [b]There is nothing that is significantly better about the 90's than the present day.[/b][/QUOTE]

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

[QUOTE=DeuceWallaces]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. [B]There is nothing that is significantly better about the 90's than the present day[/B].[/QUOTE]

I guess the key word here is 'significantly'.

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

[QUOTE=DeuceWallaces]There is nothing that is significantly better about the 90's than the present day.[/QUOTE]

The economy.

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.

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

[QUOTE=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.[/QUOTE]


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.

[QUOTE=andgar923]But music was certainly better overall. Perhaps not significantly, but it was better.[/QUOTE]

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.

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.

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.

[QUOTE=Rasheed1]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.[/QUOTE]

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.

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.

[QUOTE=SpecialQue]

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

etc. etc.[/QUOTE]


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.

[QUOTE=joe] 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.[/QUOTE]
My parents in the 2000s

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

90s was amazing.

[QUOTE=Draz]90s was amazing.[/QUOTE]
Aren't you 20, f[COLOR="Black"]ag?[/COLOR]

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

[IMG]http://www.highsnobiety.com/uploads/RTEmagicC_reebok_voltron_1.jpg.jpg[/IMG]

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

[IMG]http://www.highsnobiety.com/uploads/RTEmagicC_reebok_voltron_1.jpg.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

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

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

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.

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

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

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

[QUOTE=JohnnySic]Best things to come out of the 90's were grunge music and the pro wrestling explosion of '96-'99.[/QUOTE]

Those two things plus Seinfeld.

[QUOTE=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.[/QUOTE]

Exactly; would rep you if I could.

Be kind, please rewind. :banana: