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View Poll Results: 1997: more like 1980 or 2014?
1980 9 24.32%
2014 28 75.68%
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Old 04-07-2014, 05:00 AM
 
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2014.

1997 had the internet, like 2014. 1980 - no internet.
1997 had rounded cars with airbags, like 2014. 1980 - no airbags, even in Mercedes, and slab sided cars.
1997 had 3D video games, like 2014. 1980 - Atari 2600 and Intellivision were state of the art.
1997 music is closer to 2014 rhythms than 1980, but without widespread autotune it still sounds good.
Actually the Internet has existed since 1969, many cars from 1997 were still of the boxy design, and I'd say 1997 music is pretty different from both. Katy Perry and Paramore sound more like 80s music than like 90s music to me.

True about 3D gaming though I'd still say 1997 games are pretty equally far away from 1980 games or today's games.

 
Old 04-07-2014, 10:17 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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In 1997, the internet was even faster than it is now. Using a text-based Lynx browser at a Freenet, pages loaded much faster than they do now, by a whole order of magnitude, and contained all the text data that was considered relevant by the user. The speed of modern computers cannot keep up with the the huge CPU usage demanded by the glitzy graphics contained in a web page, and in fact, a fixed computer now without upgrades loads pages slower and slower every day, as more data is packed into every page with the assumption that computers can handle the onslaught of non-text garbage.

In fact, in 1999, on E-bay, I could snipe bidders on my freenet access, because my speed was so much faster than anyone using Windows and wading through the clutter. If I watch the loading process indicator on my Tab Bar (Firefox) it takes anywhere from five to ten seconds for Hotmail Inbox to fully load, and about the same for most other sites. With text-only browser, it took maybe about a half a second, at most.

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Old 04-07-2014, 09:30 PM
 
Location: White House, TN
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Actually the Internet has existed since 1969, many cars from 1997 were still of the boxy design, and I'd say 1997 music is pretty different from both. Katy Perry and Paramore sound more like 80s music than like 90s music to me.

True about 3D gaming though I'd still say 1997 games are pretty equally far away from 1980 games or today's games.
The Internet in 1980 was barely used even by college researchers, etc. Even that came later on in the 1980s, but not a whole lot in 1980 itself. The Usenet posts on Google go back to May 11, 1981 and in the early 1980s were primarily about computers themselves - very technical. The early "text based Internet" - Compuserve, Prodigy, etc - and BBSes didn't gain more widespread popularity until the mid 1980s. By 1997, the internet was well known in popular culture and most people used it at least occasionally.

Many cars on the road were still fairly boxy in 1997, but there were relatively few 1980 and earlier cars on the road by 1997. The newer cars were near universally round by 1997 (excepting trucks, SUVs, and full size vans). Some early-mid 1990s cars still had the boxy design though.

Platforming games, one of the oldest genres we currently get (a few) games out of, dates back to Donkey Kong, in 1981. First person shooters are all the rage, but they got popular in the mid 1990s with Doom and Wolfenstein 3D. The classic arcade style games that were popular in 1980 are a lot of fun, but even by 1997 arcades were declining in popularity and the new games that came out were quite different than 1980. 1997 games are a lot different than today's games. I've grown up with them and seen the changes. But the games of my childhood (a lot of late 1990s games) still use many of the same concepts as today's games.
 
Old 04-07-2014, 10:17 PM
 
Location: The New England part of Ohio
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The '97 laidback quality, easiness of life & peace, was more like the 80s.

Though the '97 fashion trends, movies (CGI), music rhythm, slang and internet are more like those in 2014. I mean, if I were to suddenly spawn in 1997 with the clothes I'm wearing I wouldn't look out of place. Whereas in 1980 I would look incredibly out of place and odd (especially how most men had big, wavy hair back then, and I don't).

So I'm going to say that 1997 is more like 2014.

More like 2014. We had computers, we dressed more similarly. 1980 was more like 1965.

Hands down.
 
Old 04-08-2014, 07:22 AM
 
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This is a typical late 90s car. Not as "boxy" as an 80s car, but still a decidedly old fashioned look compared to any cars from the past 5-10 years.
 
Old 04-08-2014, 07:24 AM
 
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Platforming games, one of the oldest genres we currently get (a few) games out of, dates back to Donkey Kong, in 1981. First person shooters are all the rage, but they got popular in the mid 1990s with Doom and Wolfenstein 3D. The classic arcade style games that were popular in 1980 are a lot of fun, but even by 1997 arcades were declining in popularity and the new games that came out were quite different than 1980. 1997 games are a lot different than today's games. I've grown up with them and seen the changes. But the games of my childhood (a lot of late 1990s games) still use many of the same concepts as today's games.
With gaming to be a bigger change is the shift to online gaming. In 1997 only a few RPGs were online. Nowadays it sometimes seems like single player is extinct. I think late '90s games in spirit have more in common with 1980s games than with today's games they're just a bit fancier.
 
Old 04-08-2014, 07:30 AM
 
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More like 2014. We had computers, we dressed more similarly. 1980 was more like 1965.

Hands down.
I don't know, I feel like 90s fashion is pretty distinct from today's hipstery fashion. Does anyone really look like this anymore?

 
Old 04-08-2014, 04:11 PM
 
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I don't know, I feel like 90s fashion is pretty distinct from today's hipstery fashion. Does anyone really look like this anymore?
That looks 100% late 90s. The early-mid 90s were nothing like the photo and the fashion was mostly grungy or "gangsta" like. The very early 90s were about neon.

Here's some fashion from the early-mid 90s, though not really a good example.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cW0NZdMsn3...0/fashion8.jpg
 
Old 04-09-2014, 02:06 AM
 
Location: Sydney, Australia
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I don't know, I feel like 90s fashion is pretty distinct from today's hipstery fashion. Does anyone really look like this anymore?
If you're talking about their clothes, well, not even those in the 90s would wear them. They looked like uniforms made specifically for photoshoots and music videos.

But their hair? Lots of the girls have their hair. Here is a modern day girlband (female hairstyle hasn't changed dramatically since Spice Girls or late 90s):

 
Old 04-09-2014, 01:21 PM
 
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If you're talking about their clothes, well, not even those in the 90s would wear them. They looked like uniforms made specifically for photoshoots and music videos.

But their hair? Lots of the girls have their hair. Here is a modern day girlband (female hairstyle hasn't changed dramatically since Spice Girls or late 90s):
Little Mix are a strongly 90s influenced group though. I think their look is intentionally 90s.
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