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

Windows95 was a beast.

Ski free

Talking about dial up internet. Always getting pissed when someone would pick up the phone.

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I wish I wasn't so damn young from 92-99 Can only remember 97 onwards

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I would happily switch ages with you if I could

"Can only remember 97 onwards"

That was literally about the point where music and pop culture fell off a cliff. I envying your youth but I feel sorry for you and those your age that your formative years were dominated by crappy "reality" TV and music that was even more horrible than the low quality TV. The only thing that has somewhat hold up our the sitcoms and some decent movies that are still being made. I'm biased but I still believe the 80s was the best decade to be a kid.

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Thought 56K was awesome.

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It was, but when we had Prodigy we had a 14.4 modem. I remember waiting like two hours for a picture of a Lamborghini to download.

Are they going to replay Part 1 tonight before Part 2? I missed it and really wanted to catch it.

The 90's...

Pop-Up Video on VH1
Batman the Animated Series on FOX
Superman the Animated Adventures on WB
Star Trek/Highlander/Outer Limits on Sunday late night
X-Files
Seinfeld

I will admit that the 90s had some pretty sweet television and a few gem movies, but 90s pop culture was garbage. The 90s was when Political Correctness went mainstream. 90s music was awful with rare exception. That was when VH1 and MTV stopped playing just music videos. That was the beginning of reality television. The fashions were ugly and stupid. What an awful decade. The only thing that makes it look good is how unbelievably crappy the following decades were.

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I think that the fashions from the second half of the decade hold up (because that was when the transition from the 80's was done and we settled into the generic styles that we've had for twenty years).

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I agree that the second half was not nearly as bad as the first half, but the first half was Chernobyl bad. Just look at how people dressed in movies like "Encino Man" and PCU. Look at "Grunge" styles.

Late 90s, early 2000s (i.e. 1998-2004) was practically the peak of "hotness" in America. Women wore the skimpiest outfits on average than at any time. The "hotness" was fading, but still lasted until about 2007/2008 when norts and giant t-shirts buried it for good. I actually liked some of the pop rock music from that time like Better than Ezra, Sugarcult, Sum 41, Blink 182, Greenday, ect.