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re: How was the culture of the late 90s/Early 00’s
Posted on 4/14/26 at 4:59 am to cajuntiger1010
Posted on 4/14/26 at 4:59 am to cajuntiger1010
There will never be a better time and place to grow up than 1980-2010 US. The golden age with the meeting of traditional values and technology before everything went crazy.
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Posted on 4/14/26 at 7:04 am to biglego
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You want to watch Curly Hellman football forever
Well, in my time loop/perpetual era, you would still age, generations would still procreate, and things like sports teams could improve lol
But still, I was in HS during the Hellman years (i like the spelling). Some of those games were the most fun I had as a Tiger fan. One of my fondest memories was watching LSU beat Ole Miss for one of the few wins that year. Very cold night, so I brought a huge blanket. Me and my HS sweetheart were the only two fans in a huge empty section so we "snuggled up" and got away with some shennanigans at TS during the game. What a life. lol
Posted on 4/14/26 at 7:39 am to TDsngumbo
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The 1990's were peak American society in my opinion, but to be fair I was only alive for half the 80's so I think there's an argument to be made for the 80's as well. 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.
I was born in ‘83. The farthest I can remember back is the late 80’s when I was 5 or 6. For me, 1988/1989 until 2001 was the best. Our society was starting to shift in the late 90’s and early 2000’s with more technology being introduced and becoming popular but I believe 9/11 completely changed our society as a whole.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 7:51 am to stout
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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? Nothing like trolling AOL chat rooms with your friends out of boredom then getting kicked off when a phone call would come in.
I think he’s conflating “the internet” with social media.
The internet was everywhere by the mid 2000s. AOL had already declined in popularity and MySpace was booming.
The sidekick came out in 2002. Most flip phones had web browsers.
Obviously it’s not as omnipresent as it is today, but someone in HS from 03-07 definitely grew up with modern tech.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 8:36 am to fallguy_1978
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We had a few good years under Bill Arnsparger and one under Mike Archer. My entire college career at LSU Gerry Dinardo was our coach.
Oh that’s right, you’re two years ahead of me. I got the last two dinardo years but the first two Saban years.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 8:50 am to biglego
1984-1985 was peak America. Springsteen, MJ, Madonna, Prince...Ozzy, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, early Metallica. Movies like Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, and Goonies. 1984 Olympics, a unified country where politics had not consumed the minds of the whackos.
Born in 1973, graduated 1991 HS and 1995 college. These times are really messed up, but the good news is I am starting to feel the pushback and rejection of the PC/cancel culture. A rejection by the youth of "Karens" and over bearing adults. Young people really interested in how life was for their parents and wanting to return to what things were like in the 80s and 90s.
I have some faith that these kids can do it if we help them and don't screw things up.
Born in 1973, graduated 1991 HS and 1995 college. These times are really messed up, but the good news is I am starting to feel the pushback and rejection of the PC/cancel culture. A rejection by the youth of "Karens" and over bearing adults. Young people really interested in how life was for their parents and wanting to return to what things were like in the 80s and 90s.
I have some faith that these kids can do it if we help them and don't screw things up.
This post was edited on 4/14/26 at 8:52 am
Posted on 4/14/26 at 8:53 am to PeteRose
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If you listened to FM radio back then, you knew 3-4 Backstreet Boys songs. Admit it.
FM radio? Hell I recognized the dance at the start of Deadpool thanks to MTV. (And I realize that was *NSYNC but let’s be honest, they were the same band).
This post was edited on 4/14/26 at 8:54 am
Posted on 4/14/26 at 8:53 am to 632627
man so many in this thread are way off on timelines, especially music lol.
saying hot boys was early 90s is peak OT...since they didnt form until 96 lol
but overall 9/11 changed the country the most. Columbine had an effect but nothing changed the country like 9/11. that was the day freedom died.
saying hot boys was early 90s is peak OT...since they didnt form until 96 lol
but overall 9/11 changed the country the most. Columbine had an effect but nothing changed the country like 9/11. that was the day freedom died.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 8:56 am to lsu777
I wish there was a way to honestly gauge comparisons of the emotional feedback of that vs say….the Kennedy assassination.
Remember the mini rebellions like calling them Freedom fries out of spite because France didn’t want to join us on a crusade across the planet?
Remember the mini rebellions like calling them Freedom fries out of spite because France didn’t want to join us on a crusade across the planet?
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:01 am to Volvagia
My parents lived through JFK & RFK assassinations and my dad getting sent off to Vietnam. Those were some truly dark times. We recovered after rough decade in the 70s (debatable because culturally the 70s were pretty awesome, financially, not so much) and we got back to peak America on the 80s and 90s.
We can recover from 9/11, if we choose, and the late 2020s and the next 20 years can become peak again.
We can recover from 9/11, if we choose, and the late 2020s and the next 20 years can become peak again.
This post was edited on 4/14/26 at 9:02 am
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:06 am to cajuntiger1010
Watch American Pie
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:09 am to Volvagia
emotional feedback is not really what i meant
essentially we lost lots of freedom that day. we traded freedom for security in the form of the patriot act and that started essentially 2 decades of constant wars which only further enhanced the military industrial complex
and im happy that we advanced so fast in weaponry but i hate how much freedom and how willingly we gave up rights in the name of security.
didnt just happen then but it accelerated it big time.
essentially we lost lots of freedom that day. we traded freedom for security in the form of the patriot act and that started essentially 2 decades of constant wars which only further enhanced the military industrial complex
and im happy that we advanced so fast in weaponry but i hate how much freedom and how willingly we gave up rights in the name of security.
didnt just happen then but it accelerated it big time.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:17 am to lsu777
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emotional feedback is not really what i meant
I knew exactly what you meant. But that emotional feedback is exactly why it happened. They shoved it down our throats and dared anyone in public office to oppose something called the “Patriot Act”
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:18 am to BrohemAlem11
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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
Yep. Honestly, I didn’t find the internet all that interesting once it was available in ‘94 until about ‘98-‘99, outside of chat rooms. It seemed more like a library that I could access from home. Once I discovered email, AIM, message boards (pre TD), and started playing Quake 2 mods online, that changed everything.
But still, you only had access from your home desktop computer. That’s it.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:25 am to Volvagia
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I knew exactly what you meant. But that emotional feedback is exactly why it happened. They shoved it down our throats and dared anyone in public office to oppose something called the “Patriot Act”
yep 100%
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:27 am to Cosmo
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I Want It That Way is still a fricking banger
tell me why
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:42 am to Volvagia
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And I realize that was *NSYNC but let’s be honest, they were the same band).
How dare you.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:44 am to The Pirate King
There were bible studies at Vans warped tours. Think about that.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:54 am to SUB
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Yep. Honestly, I didn’t find the internet all that interesting once it was available in ‘94 until about ‘98-‘99, outside of chat rooms. It seemed more like a library that I could access from home.
That’s what the internet was in its infancy, and also why AOL was so massively popular.
AOL’s decline coincided with the growth of the internet as we’ve come to know it.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 10:18 am to 632627
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I think he’s conflating “the internet” with social media.
The pager/flip phone era was the absolute best as a teenager.
Flip phones in college were amazing as well. Smart phones were barely a thing, and only for email.
Back then, NO ONE but your parents had the "rights" to know where you were all the time, how you got there, etc. Damn i miss it.
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