re: The 90's: The Last Great Decade?

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I will admit that the 90s had some pretty sweet television and a few gem movies, but 90s pop culture was garbage.

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Everyone is entitled to their opinion, even one that is wrong. 1994 and 1999 are two of the best years in movie history. This is also when the TV Golden Age began (TV has since improved, but the groundwork was laid here and it was the best TV decade up to this point - mainly due to the wild west of early cable). And the music was friggin' fantastic in the first half of the decade. Really, modern music is just the 90s recycled (we called EDM "electronica" and hip hop matured in the 90s). What new thing has happened in music since the 90s? It's all looking backwards (some go back to disco and the 70s)

Independent cinema went mainstream, as did indie music. Television expanded past the three/four network era.

And here's how fast the internet exploded in an anecdote: in 1992, for a high school project, some friends and I created/hosted an electronic BBS. It maxed out at 4800 bps capacity, and barely anyone in the class, least of all our teacher, had any idea what the internet was. This was 1992. By 1997, just five years later, everyone was online and we'd already cycled through the AOL/Prodigy era.