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Ah, the good old days.
Does anyone miss the 90's? - Memba Parthian chicken?
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Yes. The 90's was basically my childhood. I've said it before, but back then it had the best cartoons, best video games, and best music (if you're into dance/pop). Also you could say and do edgy shit without people getting bent out of shape about it.
Video games didn't exist in the first century.
Just Another Apocalypse
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BC or AD?
AD. I quite liked the Nerva years.
Chive Turkey
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Yeah, people often regard 9/11 and the War on Terror as watershed moments, but there really still was a lot of cultural continuity with the late 90s. It's during the recession and the Obama presidency that things really started to pick up steam.
Just Another Apocalypse
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AD? Was on a massive booze up, can't remember much...
Since the question has aged, figured it's good to ask it. Do 1998-1999 babies count as 90s kids? Have we always been 90s kids?
I think of it like this... Babies are too young to remember or even comprehend what's going on around them, so if you give them a nintendo controller at 1 years old they probably won't know wtf it is or what to do with it. I think once you're old enough (like 5 years old maybe) to where you start to have your first memories and clarity with what is around you to the point where you can start to like shit and remember the shit you like, that's when you become a "____ kid", especially if you've dedicated the majority of your childhood to the things that were popular in that time period.
For myself at least that's what has always been a weird thing about growing up. I found myself surrounded with relics of the very recent past (Drowned in VHS, old cartoons, older music, the usual.) as much as I was experiencing the recently new of that era as well. I certainly didn't experience dial up, but I did mess around on the internet well before it become the standard like it did in the 2010s.
I try to think about 2000s centric idea or "things" that have happened but it really has been clouded due to the other influence. Although ironically, in the early 2000s it was one of the "things" you did as a 1998-1999 kid. You deeply questioned your sense of self since we really are some of the last of an era.
Only 90's kids will remember when Titus Flavius Domitianus died. Sad day.
Well that, plus once the 2000's hit, everything from fashion to music has been flash frozen. The 2000's and the 2010's have no identity for themselves unlike the past decades. Technology has gotten better, but everything just keeps getting stale and worse.
Oddly enough I was speaking about this with my partner, and we were thinking that the experimentation done in the 2000s is probably what led to our music/media becoming stale and stagnated.
I'm not saying shit like Limp Bizkit or Linkin Park were "The Beatles" or the "Queen" of their time, but the heavy experimentation they were allowed to do is actually somewhat impressive even if most of it sounds a bit like shit. It's almost as if because they "failed" and were considered laughing stocks it gave a clear, but obviously negative call out to the corporate bastards who have the bigger hold in those industries.
"They didn't like the weird shit, so we'll continue to give them Britney style pop and whatever else that comes up."
I could also be wrong or not remembering enough to really have a better idea of the 2000s, but that's what has been on the mind lately.
90s were lit. Sadly, haven’t been able to find good garum since those years for my Parthian chicken... 
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Having spent the majority of my childhood years and early adolescence in the 1990s, I would say "yes." The United States and its allies won the Cold War by default and the decade felt like one long victory lap with a sense of optimism for the future that 9/11 popped. Pop culture was not as trite and stale as it became in the 2010s onward. Political correctness, the precursor to identity politics, existed only as something to openly mock and ridicule. However, I tend to idealize the decade because I was a kid with very few responsibilities then so I look at it through the rose-tinted lens of nostalgia and tend to overlook the ugly parts. The 1990s would have absolutely sucked for someone who lived in the former Yugoslavia with the cultural cleansing and massacre that happened there.
ArnoldPalmer
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My life peaked in 1999. After 2001 things just started getting progressively worse for the world. Yes, you could say I miss the last decade of my life in which I felt free.
ShortBusDriver
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Agreed, this generation just stealing 1970s and 80s fashion without the bodies to go with it is just cringe.
Nobody old enough to remember the ’80s will have any nostalgia for the ’90s.
Everything was EXTREME and 3edgie7you. Music was heroin addicts mumbling. Middle East wars. Race wars. “The best cartoons?” You motherfuckers really nostalgic for Aah Real Monsters and Rocket Power? Fuck outta here.
Everything was EXTREME and 3edgie7you. Music was heroin addicts mumbling. Middle East wars. Race wars. “The best cartoons?” You motherfuckers really nostalgic for Aah Real Monsters and Rocket Power? Fuck outta here.
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