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

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was in HS in 1994-1998 and we had the internet then. How were you a generation that did and didn't have it?

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Like I said in the post, we could utilize the internet when we wanted but it didnt consume our lives like it does people now. You could jump on aim or search things if you wanted, but ocne you left the home PC, you were leaving the internet behind

You bigots only liked the 90s because America was 90% white back then

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Dude, I was in HS in 1994-1998 and we had the internet then. How were you a generation that did and didn't have it?

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Broadband adoption was really when most US households started getting internet. In 1996, 75% of US households didn't have internet service.

I always have found this infographic fairly interesting. Plug in your birth year and it shows technology changes over your lifetime.

WAPO - no paywall

Fuel was a badass band back in that time.

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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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Same. The internet was not this constantly available, instant gratification source of content. It took a minute to connect with your dial up modem and if somebody picked up the phone, there went the connection. We also went from having to perfectly time recording a song on the radio to make a mixtape to having to spend hours downloading songs and burning CDs. It took commitment and work to have the things we wanted.

We had cell phones, but weren't glued to them. Those late 90s Nokia phones were practically indestructible. One of mine fell out of my pocket while I was getting in my car and I ran over it when I backed out of the parking spot. I didn't even realize I didn't have it for a while. When I went back to the parking lot, just the battery and battery cover had popped off. I put it back together, called my dad and had it for another couple of years. The screen finally went out and I couldn't play snake anymore.

Another thing was we went from riding bikes around neighborhoods to also having dirt cheap vehicles and gas. My first car was a 1990 Taurus that was only $400 and some fixing up. Gas was like $0.69/gallon. My 2nd was a 96 4Runner that was maybe $4-5k.

I agree 100% with another poster that mentioned 9/11. There were huge differences between pre-9/11 and post.

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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.

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Does suck for that generation that their older siblings could drink at 18 but they were carded, My generation was full of fake IDs

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Blackberry before that had internet browsers in 2003

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No, that was Palm Pilot

Born in ‘77 and a veteran of Woodstock ‘99 here.

Late 90’s culture was a complete rejection of an early 90’s PC movement (the one that the movie “PCU” was making fun of. Our humor could be described as “it’s not sexist/racist/etc…” if you’re making fun of everybody.

This the core where South Park, Chapelle Show, and the first few Eminem albums came from. This is also why reject the idea that we can’t joke about certain things now. And we were better for it.

Of course some people would step a bit too far, and they would he corrected in real time without any long term damage to reputation or social standing. This period ended at the dawn of Social Media where things stuck to your personal social record.

Regarding Woodstock. Angst wasn’t everywhere, most people were having fun. The biggest problem most were complaining about was that the concession items were priced like it was a NFL game, and the pricing wasn’t announced ahead of time on their website.

There was also a limit of how many supplies we can bring in. So unlike an NFL game where you have the option of not hitting up the concession stand for that particular 4 hours, we had to survive off of concession food and stadium priced water bottles in 90+ degree heat on a tarmac for 4 days.

For the record our group just abandoned our stuff and left out a hole in the fence mid-way through the RHCP set on the last day.

There was a 2-3 year span when myspace was rising and facebook just went public from being university only....

You could just say hi to a girl and they would eat up the attention. Pickins were vast and easy.

Unfortunately it only took about 5 years for a-hole simps to turn all the social media girls into stuck up mean girls that thought destiny's child and TLC were gospel.

It was still a confusing time for Bitches though. On one hand they dont want no scrub and on the other they still needed to back that arse up and let me see that thong.

Imformation, media and sensory overload fricked the brains of at least half my generation.