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the internet was something that came on a disk you picked up at the post office
We got our internet through a disk (mainly because dad worked for the state) and because we lived out in the country we got dial-up from a provider named Zeke!
Don’t forget the crazy computer culture from about 1994 through 2002. Hard drive space and processing capacity increased exponentially while prices fell. Everyone was buying and upgrading their pc's. Can anyone say Gateway stores?
I was born in the 90s and would like to know of what others thought of this decade. Good, bad? Do you miss it?
On a personal level the 1990s was a great decade. Military service and university education completed so I could actually begin to live as a normal adult. Employment opportunities were excellent. Interesting and satisfying work with commensurate pay. There were articles in newspapers regarding the unprecedented salaries unversity graduates were earning fresh out of college.
From the view of being an American the world was a good place to live. There was none of the doom and gloom of today. U.S. was the World Power. Appeared as the beginning of a new PAX Americana. It was a very good time to be an American.(I traveled on business in LATAM and noticed the dominance of U.S. manufacturing) Yes, there were violent episodes domestically and internationally here and there but they were viewed as an anomaly.
On a social level there was less recreational items that attrition away time.(cell phones, 300+ TV channels, Internet) So working was part of ones nature. We worked much and partied little, but partied hard when we did. Did not really have items to waste away money as there is today.
So much which is commonplace today was a curiosity or unknown back then in the sense that it is conduct beyond the norm- the current unprofessionalism of the press, voyeurism as part of popular media(reality TV), rampant pornography, in your face politics, militarism of the police, declension of morality and what generally is considered acceptable behavior among the classes that should know better. We never expected anything better from the poor and the wealthy were to be emulated in terms of material prosperity while retaining own values.
Well, I was always working and traveling and loved it. Focused on getting ahead and there was none of the defeatism of today. But then I was raised/shaped(1970s/80s) by older generations of Americans who believed this country was special and so absorbed those values. Also raised as a Christian with emphasis on personal honor and morality. These all affect how I acted in and view the 1990s.
On a personal level the 1990s was a great decade. Military service and university education completed so I could actually begin to live as a normal adult. Employment opportunities were excellent. Interesting and satisfying work with commensurate pay. There were articles in newspapers regarding the unprecedented salaries unversity graduates were earning fresh out of college.
From the view of being an American the world was a good place to live. There was none of the doom and gloom of today. U.S. was the World Power. Appeared as the beginning of a new PAX Americana. It was a very good time to be an American.(I traveled on business in LATAM and noticed the dominance of U.S. manufacturing) Yes, there were violent episodes domestically and internationally here and there but they were viewed as an anomaly.
On a social level there was less recreational items that attrition away time.(cell phones, 300+ TV channels, Internet) So working was part of ones nature. We worked much and partied little, but partied hard when we did. Did not really have items to waste away money as there is today.
So much which is commonplace today was a curiosity or unknown back then in the sense that it is conduct beyond the norm- the current unprofessionalism of the press, voyeurism as part of popular media(reality TV), rampant pornography, in your face politics, militarism of the police, declension of morality and what generally is considered acceptable behavior among the classes that should know better. We never expected anything better from the poor and the wealthy were to be emulated in terms of material prosperity while retaining own values.
Well, I was always working and traveling and loved it. Focused on getting ahead and there was none of the defeatism of today. But then I was raised/shaped(1970s/80s) by older generations of Americans who believed this country was special and so absorbed those values. Also raised as a Christian with emphasis on personal honor and morality. These all affect how I acted in and view the 1990s.
For my own personal reasons, the 1990's were a great decade for me. I turned 4 in April 1990. I was just a happy preschool kid at home watching Sesame Street. Not a care in the world. My father had ample work and his having a masters degree in industrial technology actually meant something to employers. I remember the 90's in 3 phases:
1990-1992
1993-1996
1997-1999
1990-1992 had an 80's feel with a fresh coat of paint. I felt like no matter how strange things got,things were going to be alright. I was a kindergarten brat in 1991, but I was happy in other ways. I remember watching Sesame Street, Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego?, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, Captain Kangaroo, Square One, Pee Wee's Playhouse My mother watched some design show with Lynette Jennings on it(I would watch it too just out of curiosity). I still remember the jazzy music theme to it. People in general seemed more civilized and happier. Happy Meals whenever a new toy car came out. Michael Jackson came out with the album Dangerous. I remember when it came out because my father played the daylights out of it. Stevie Wonder came out with the Jungle Fever album in 1991.
1993-1996 was sort of my developing period. I had a bad start in first grade(1992-1993), but things were getting better. I was discovering newer and better things and seeing how great this world could be. This was the heart of the 1990's for me. The best shows were coming in. Nickelodeon was at its best. So was PBS. Secret World of Alex Mack, All That, Rugrats, Doug, Rocko's Modern Life. The "multicultural 90's" was at its peak. I was being shown places all over the world. As different as a kid on the other side of the world seemed to me, that kid also had similar, if different, aspirations, dreams, liked life as I did. People seemed nicer, more caring, and it seemed like you would get smarter by watching television. Saturday morning cartoons were fun to watch. Nintendo SNES and Mario. Nintendo 64 would come out later on. It seemed like an era of innovation, new things to come. I became "the smart kid". I felt good being a "bookworm"
1997-1999 was the up and down era for me. I was in middle school. I was seeing the good, the bad, and the ugly. Still good television shows on. The tail end of the 1990's saw some scary stuff. There was the fear of Y2K, there were school shootings, music was starting to take a decline(although there was still some good music). I got bullied alot in school. I got seriously ill around the end of 7th grade. The dot com boom was ending. 1999, however, doesn't seem nearly as scary as 2011.
I was born in 1990. I realize this means I missed most of the 90s...because despite existing during them, being a young child is gonna be pretty similar in any era and having been one in the early 90s doesn't make you any more special than a toddler of the 60s or 2000s. Few of my contemporaries understand that.
That woman who cut off her husband's dick? Saw it on I Love the 90s.
JonBenet Ramsey? found out about it because of that guy some years back who claimed he did it.
people my age seem to just think the entire decade consisted of television. it only does when you're a child and spend the majority of your day in front of one.
I was born in 1990. I realize this means I missed most of the 90s...because despite existing during them, being a young child is gonna be pretty similar in any era and having been one in the early 90s doesn't make you any more special than a toddler of the 60s or 2000s. Few of my contemporaries understand that.
That woman who cut off her husband's dick? Saw it on I Love the 90s.
JonBenet Ramsey? found out about it because of that guy some years back who claimed he did it.
people my age seem to just think the entire decade consisted of television. it only does when you're a child and spend the majority of your day in front of one.
Maybe, and maybe not. I don't have cable anymore, and not much of an incentive to get cable. The last time I ever had cable TV was November 2009 and after I moved, I didn't have an incentive to get cable. I see shows that are on TV today, and I compare them to today. Most of it I don't like.
The 90's for me was more than just TV. It was different than today. Alot of stuff that existed in the 90's, like Squeezits and Surge, don't exist anymore.
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High school years 92-96. High school was crap, gotted treated like crap by jocks and popular kids. I definitely evolved pretty much right after high school when I started doing traveling and building more self confidence. I came out of the closet as gay in 1998, right after Ellen did and when the internet just started becoming mainstream, I found it much easier to connect.
The media event of the 1990's that stands out in my mind the most was the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado. That hit a hard nerve with me, my eyes well up thinking about it. Probably because life got so much better for me after high school, but I remember how ugly and disrespectful people can be in high school that it can get to a tipping point of that kind of rage, but also felt sorry for all the kids and victums popular/unpopular alike that had to witness that kind of tragedy.
The 90s is nothing more than a blur for me. My first child was born in '89 and I spent most of the decade on the road. Cat's in the Cradle; Harry Chapin was my theme song, i guess.
When you get to a certain age which for me would have been 1990, time starts to go by MUCH MUCH faster. The '00 decade went by even faster, geez I am gonna wake up tomorrow and it will be 2025... you wait..
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