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Living in the mid-90's > any era
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:
[url]http://rateyourmusic.com/list/musicman07/1993_hip_hop[/url]
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:
[IMG]http://dashburst.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/vintage-social-networking.jpg[/IMG]
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:
[IMG]http://blogs-images.forbes.com/erikkain/files/2011/10/wonderyears1.jpg[/IMG]
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
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11. Wrestling was exciting
12. MTV played music videos.
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[QUOTE=L.Kizzle]11. Wrestling was exciting
12. MTV played music videos.[/QUOTE]
YES and YES. I was just about to add that
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[QUOTE=L.Kizzle]11. Wrestling was exciting
12. MTV played music videos.[/QUOTE]
Wrestling was the shit from 96 until about 01.
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13. Halloween was actually an event kids looked forward too.
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[QUOTE=hateraid]
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
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number 5 is laughable and number six is up to taste. i love girls with tats
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[QUOTE=The Macho Man]Or maybe you just miss being young[/QUOTE]
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.
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[QUOTE=The Macho Man]Or maybe you just miss being young[/QUOTE]
Sounds too logical.
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[QUOTE=The Macho Man]Or maybe you just miss being young[/QUOTE]
:rockon:
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Sorry but youtube is a lot better than looking out the window.
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[QUOTE=The Macho Man]Or maybe you just miss being young[/QUOTE]
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."
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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
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Wild guess: OP grew up in the 90s.
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[QUOTE=hateraid]
6- Chicks with no tats. Being able to tell the difference from a 15 year old and a 25 year old
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: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
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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.
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[QUOTE=ace23]Wild guess: OP grew up in the 90s.[/QUOTE]
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.
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[QUOTE=ace23]Wild guess: OP grew up in the 90s.[/QUOTE]
I grew up in the 70s, jive turkey!
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[QUOTE=hateraid]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.[/QUOTE]
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.
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90's were the best era and its not even close.
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Most people seem to think the best era was the one they grew up in. The best era will happen sometime in the future.
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[QUOTE=hateraid]
10- TV shows were more relatable, not just rehashed ideas or reality television
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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.
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[QUOTE=hateraid]t posts):
1- Video games were more about the game play rather than the graphics. [B]They made them simple time killers as opposed to life drainers[/B]. The longest game we played was probably Legend of Zelda. Games were more for the spirit of competition and simple enjoyment
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These are the OGs life drainers.
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Daggerfall_Cover_art.gif/256px-Daggerfall_Cover_art.gif[/IMG]
[IMG]http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081229142347/fallout/images/2/2a/Fallout2front.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6f/Xenogears_box.jpg/250px-Xenogears_box.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KNZH403imb4/S_563S_rh5I/AAAAAAAAAfE/EurSooJQiog/s1600/pokemon-red-and-blue.jpg[/IMG]
And of course Final Fantasy and Zelda.
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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.
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[IMG]http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/beavis_and_butthead_headbanging.gif[/IMG]
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[QUOTE=Smoke117]I'd rather have been a youth in the [B]60s[/B] and a teenager/young adult in the 70s. The 90s were nothing special and your reasons don't ****ing mean shit to me.[/QUOTE]
I will f*cking pass on that
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I agree with you 110% percent bro. 90's :rockon: was the best. :cheers:
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The dominance of No Limit Records
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPRGAQgOq4Y"]Time after Time[/URL]
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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.
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[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rQZee4mkww[/url]
the anthem... the Plateau in Philly
met my wife.. the sun was shining..
love and stogies for everyone :rockon:
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[QUOTE=miller-time]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."[/QUOTE]
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.
[QUOTE]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.[/QUOTE]
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: ).
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I miss those days as well. You just brought a tear to my eye Hateraid. Thank you.
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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.
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[QUOTE=The Macho Man]:biggums:
You haven't changed mentally from your teens to 30s?[/QUOTE]
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
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[QUOTE=Micku]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.[/QUOTE]
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.
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Seinfeld!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This thread is so wrong.
I'd rather live in today's era
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[QUOTE=andgar923]This thread is so wrong.
I'd rather live in today's era
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[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]
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.
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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.