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. The 90s was when PC went mainstreem. 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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Couple of counterpoints:

1. The fashion trends weren't really that vastly different from the early to mid 2000s, especially later in the decade. It was worlds better than those of the 70s and 80s. I'd argue that the 90s was the first decade in which the fashion trends changed a few times over the course of the decade as opposed to remaining stagnant, and it sped up in the 2000s when trends seemed to change by the year.

2. The 90s was the start of reality TV, but that was back when reality TV was actually decent and not a ridiculous cavalcade of self-promotion, game shows and drama nonsense. That was back when practically the only reality shows were The Real World and Cops.

3. The PC going mainstream and the dawn of the internet were good things. Keep in mind that this was back when in-home technology was used for good things instead of avoiding family and trolling people on the internet.

4. In addition to being the GOAT decade for TV, it was a groundbreaking decade for televised sports. The NFL grew by leaps and bounds, the NBA had Jordan and the Bulls dynasty, and baseball had several good years followed by the strike followed by the '98 home run race and ensuing home run craze that facilitated a huge (albeit brief) jump in popularity. I'd argue that 1998 was one of the GOAT years for the big three sports with the Broncos upsetting the Packers in the Super Bowl to finally get Elway a ring and then almost going undefeated the following season and topping it off by repeating, the Bulls had their second three-peat to cap off the Jordan dynasty, and McGwire and Sosa had that fantastic summer.