re: How was the culture of the late 90s/Early 00’s

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I was in high school 03-07 so a bit to the tail end of what your talking about...but man I always love that I grew up as the generation of kids that both did and didn't have the internet.

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Same here.

We were the last graduating class that went through high school without Iphones. It was released the month after we graduated.

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This is correct. By the late 90s shite was already going downhill. That includes music

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Regarding guitar-centric rock music, you had to get into the jam bands at that time for anything new and different but still good.

Also remember 99 is when Napster came out and demonetized the music business practically overnight.

Also remember 95 is when the telecommunications Act was passed that allowed the corporate conglomeration of all the radio stations being owned by a handful of companies so you started losing variety very quickly. The days of sending your recordings to the local DJ in hopes he'd play it were over. The corporations determined the play lists from that point forward.

You can also go back to the 80's with the Rush song "Spirit of Radio" that predicted all of this.

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The 90's were awesome. Great music and innocent times until the Columbine shooting in my opinion. That's when things started to go to shite.

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As bad as columbine was, I’d say 9/11 was a much clearer demarcation to the ending of a carefree era

Too late to be able to easily drink at 18. Not late enough to have access to ride share apps. Drinking was ubiquitous, but started to become more and more difficult for teens and college students as institutions started cracking down on underage drinking and drunk driving.

That era seems great because what came after it 10 and 20 years were just so unabashedly awful. Nu metal isn’t good. It just sucks less than shoegaze baddiecore, trap, K-pop, and black v-neck barista metalcore bands playing djent riffs over synth atmospherics before their linken park chorus. Pop punk was mainstream, though, which was fun. A lot of really interesting music was being made in the alternative spaces like emo, ska, garage rock, and early stoner metal.

Movies were pretty good. A lot of original concepts and light hearted comedies, but also a fair amount of sequels and remakes.

TV wasn’t in its golden age by any stretch, but there were many quality sitcoms, and seasons ran for 26 episodes, not 8-12. FOX was king with Family Guy, That 70’s Show, The Simpsons, Futurama, American Dad, KOTH, Malcom in the Middle, 24, Arrested Development, Dark Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The X-Files.

This is the golden age of the BCS, or at least the beginning of it. College football was incredible. Professional wrestling, the NBA, and NASCAR were all at or near their peaks in quality/popularity. Baseball had Mark Mcguire vs Sammy Sosa.

Kids shows weren’t peak, but pretty decent thanks to Cartoon Network. This is also the era when Toonami brought anime to the masses.

Public spaces were still common for kids even as litigation and insurance was starting to chip away at them. Kids were being forced from playing freely outside unsupervised to fully supervised and organized activities during this time.

Teens and young adults had no shortage of places to hang out in public, and did so as social media wasn’t really a thing yet.

HUGE innovations in video games during this era. The jump from the SNES to N64 to Gamecube felt incredibly massive. Storytelling and realism never thought possible suddenly became commonplace.

Politics went from the president got a BJ so we bombed Serbia to the War on Terror real quick. This was a very dark and paranoid time where people were fearful, but also, gaps between whites and blacks narrowed as people somewhat united (temporarily) against Muslims.

I never had a curfew yet stayed mainly out of trouble. We had high school fraternities and sororities ( social clubs) that parents trusted their kids to go their dances and stay out all night. Imagine dazed and confused except you signed up for it. Personally I just went to the parties and skipped humping light poles on busy streets in paper bag underwear (guys). Did go to the pours ( my gf was in one) it was entertaining. No way I’d let my daughter do half the shite they did.

NOLA was less crowded in the 90's





Not much had changed a decade later





It was around this time the NIH would take hold as a fashion statement.

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Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Alice in Chains were all gone by the late 90s. Pop punk bands like Blink 182, Green Day, and Offspring were the big trend at the time.

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the late 90s is when the record labels really got a choke hold on the industry and everything started to feel extremely manufactured, Boybands, britney type popstars, paint by numbers rappers, ect.

Then napster came around and insured that those acts were the only thing that could be profitable.

Sort of what is happening at movies now. The only thing the studios want is mega blockbusters and won't make the mid-budget dramas.

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It doesn't get much better than the time period 1983 -1999. At least for me.

I was a kid in the 80s and a teenager in the 90s. I had the best of both of them.

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Pretty much the same. My high school days were 1992-1996, college 1996-2000. The vast majority of my pre-teen years were in the 80s.

Maybe not the most ideal time to be born, but I don't think I got screwed either.

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There was no such thing as a "helicopter parent"

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Actually there was. I remember a family on an adjacent street in our neighborhood, this was late 70's / early 80's. They had two sons who were super-sheltered - not allowed to be outside alone, couldn't leave their front yard, the mom would not let those kids even look at the rest of us, much less hang out or play with us. Actively sheltered and I think they were home-schooled but those kids were weird as frick. Not unlike some of these kids we see these days.