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re: What was the 90's ACTUALLY like? Was it really a great time?
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:05 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:05 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Yeah I would get up at 7am every Saturday morning and watch cartoons, then go outside and ride my bike to my neighbor's down the street to see if he wanted to get a football game going, we would ride together to the next few house rounding up people to get a game started. It would be ten to fifteen kids playing ball in an open field. We made our own boundaries,made the rules (two hand touch or tackle).
We might have arguments but we settled them. We would go home at dark eat take a bath and watch a little TV or play nes. Then at 10:30 snl would come on and it was actually funny.lol imagine that. I really didn't know what side the actors were on because they made fun of both sides.
We might have arguments but we settled them. We would go home at dark eat take a bath and watch a little TV or play nes. Then at 10:30 snl would come on and it was actually funny.lol imagine that. I really didn't know what side the actors were on because they made fun of both sides.
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Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:05 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Pagers were the start of the end of free ranging.
The thing that always cracked me up about the pager or "beeper" era was how white guys wore them on their belt, but black guys wore them with the clip out and the beeper in their pocket. I don't know why I always found that so funny -- it rang true nearly 95% of the time.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:05 pm to VanRIch
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I can remember not knowing what certain bands looked like unless you saw a poster or from the CD/cassette insert.
we hung out with Cowboy Mouth before a concert one night.
had no clue who these dudes were. Just kinda all ended up in the same group drinking and cutting up.
then they come out on stage at the concert and we were all like "holy shite!"
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:07 pm to lawlcow318008
The last golden era where technology and social media hadn't consumed the fabric of everyone's life yet.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:08 pm to tgrbaitn08
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I had one of these in my Jimmy when I was in high school, around 1991
I didn't have a cell phone until after college. Sometime in the early 2000s whenever this thing came out
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:10 pm to rintintin
Graduated high school in 88 and think I really did hit a sweet spot. I often think god I am not a kid today.
Only thing I would love to have back then is something like Spotify. To have all the music available like that is amazing. Anyone saying todays music sucks just isn’t trying with all that is available
Only thing I would love to have back then is something like Spotify. To have all the music available like that is amazing. Anyone saying todays music sucks just isn’t trying with all that is available
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:11 pm to LSUGrrrl
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I wouldn’t want a pager when I was in middle school bc that would allow my parents to contact me before I came home
"I couldn't find a payphone"
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:11 pm to dgnx6
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But we also didnt have things like the air fryer.
Hot air moving around food has been around for thousands of years.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:14 pm to Trapped in time
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Anyone saying todays music sucks just isn’t trying
you didn't have to try in the 90's.
there were radio stations with different genres, so you could completely avoid the garbage stations.
now you can't even listen to a "country" station without hear rap (Hick Hop?).
it's hard to find a good rock station that plays just rock.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:15 pm to Trapped in time
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Graduated high school in 88 and think I really did hit a sweet spot.
'89 here. The 80s and 90s were amazing.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:15 pm to lawlcow318008
It was peak millennial childhood and boomer parenting. Probably the last era we'll ever see where the most common arrangement is two married parents and children.
Local communities were mostly coherent even though the decline was evident.
All the kids played sports, even if they weren't good at it, parents knew each other. Your local community
Was the reach of your socializing and you didn't talk to anyone unless you participated in it.8
Not even in the same stratosphere anymore even though millennial parents will seek out the same childhood experience for their kids.
Sort of combo of the last era of traditional families and extreme commercialization of life.
Local communities were mostly coherent even though the decline was evident.
All the kids played sports, even if they weren't good at it, parents knew each other. Your local community
Was the reach of your socializing and you didn't talk to anyone unless you participated in it.8
Not even in the same stratosphere anymore even though millennial parents will seek out the same childhood experience for their kids.
Sort of combo of the last era of traditional families and extreme commercialization of life.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:15 pm to dgnx6
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But we also didnt have things like the air fryer.
We had crock pots, rice cookers as well as toasters, microwaves and ovens
Get this....we also had dishwashers, washers and dryers and garbage disposals.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:16 pm to Fun Bunch
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Every kid in America believed that Marilyn Manson removed his ribs to suck his own dick.
yep Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:17 pm to Fun Bunch
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Every kid in America believed that Marilyn Manson removed his ribs to suck his own dick.
and that he was the dude from Wonder Years
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:17 pm to Trapped in time
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Graduated high school in 88 and think I really did hit a sweet spot
I graduated in 92. You’re right. 88-94 was the sweet spot. Just before the internet and cell phones took over and instant accessibility came along.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:17 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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College research using the card catalogue instead of looking stuff up on computers.
Dewey Decimal
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:18 pm to Nutriaitch
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it's hard to find a good rock station that plays just rock.
Unfortunately it's the classic rock station now
I find very little interesting about modern music, movies, TV shows etc. I've also come to realize that they aren't really targeting middle aged guys.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:18 pm to RummelTiger
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It was pretty great.
I mean, take away the seemingly always impending Cold War threat propaganda, things were pretty awesome.
OG MAGA President Reagan made sure there was no longer a Cold War threat, or even legit propaganda, by the time he vacated office in January 1989.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:19 pm to Nutriaitch
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and that he was the dude from Wonder Years
Yup, this one too.
Its so strange that things could "go viral" like that then, without Social Media or what we have now.
I think quite literally EVERY kid in HS in the 90s heard these things.
Posted on 10/6/23 at 12:19 pm to theunknownknight
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1984-1990 were peak America
Reagan
Rambo
Rocky
Montana to Rice
Rickey Henderson in his prime
OG Transformers
Yep!
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