The 90s Was The Last Great Decade

[Nieroshai]

The nineties were hell for me. All the good entertainment I had was reruns from the 80's and games from the 80's. Also, our music was mind-blastingly stupid and our fashion was a combination of 80's rock-n-roll rags and street rappper/thug styles. Not a pretty sight in retrospect.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Thanks for your opinion on that. I like the 90's because I was a kid then but I always like to look forward so I see every decade as better then the last.

 

[Nieroshai]

Lies I was a kid all through the 90's and some of it was good but some ofit was lame some of the music and films are terrible just as it is now and the 80s and the 70 have their terrible and awesome moments too. It's all nostalgia to when you were a carefree kid.

The 90's gave us the spice girls, britney spears, Battlefield Earth was made in the 90's, skousers (skirt over trousers, pogs which are not as awesome on reflection.

Oh I remember pogs. Lost so much allowance money on something that never got off the ground.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

Snip.

90's were a bit rubbish for pop culture in my opinion. 00's were great because it brought amazing technology into to the mix, there is a brilliant peace in the world, IQ is higher, death rates are lower and so on... (disregarding 3rd world countries).

Just remembered, the 90's brought about The Offspring and Green day, as well as R'n'B, Obviously it's my opinion speaking here, but seriously how many love The Offspring.

 

[suicide samurai]

I was 11 right as the 90's started, and 21 as they ended. I am 31, now.

Honestly, not a lot seems to have changed. The music has only evolved, but not into anything that new (revolutiuonary) Hell. Most of the bands from the late 2000's seem like dirtect extentions--Seether, White Stripes, rap, boy and girl bands. Gaming is simply evolving, with no real new ideas (graphics are better, on-line is faster, but all the shooters are still Goldeneye, and all the on-line RPG's are still just better versions of Everquest), but it's all the same. The movies are now made from ideas that seemed to have been lit back in the 90's (geek). Technology is obsolete within months, ever-changing, but not really different... just more compact and easier to carry.

As it is, it seems like a lot of ideas that were "wished for then" are "happening now." But look at technology, again... a lot of these 30 year olds grew up then, and are now able to re-make it.

We're experienceing cultural-cycles a lot faster, now, and thus, I feel that a lot of things wll be pretty much "the same" for a long time.

The only real difference between the 90's and now is the economy and world theater. Things were a lot more stable, then. Everything else I wanted to do, could have been done, in the right income bracket. Not so much, i nthe 80's. That's what really seperated the 90's from what came before.

Well--that and social media. You can now talk to everyone, but be known by very few--back then, you could know people, but not talk to everyone.

Hell... other than 9-11 happening, the 90's seemed to love well into 2004, if not later.

 

[electric_warrior]

And for people a few years older than you it was the 80s, and for people older than them it was the 70s, and for people older still it was the 60s, and for people even older than that it was the 50s, and for.....................

 

[TokenRupee]

Lies I was a kid all through the 90's and some of it was good but some ofit was lame some of the music and films are terrible just as it is now and the 80s and the 70 have their terrible and awesome moments too. It's all nostalgia to when you were a carefree kid.

The 90's gave us the spice girls, britney spears, Battlefield Earth was made in the 90's, skousers (skirt over trousers, pogs which are not as awesome on reflection.

No, Battlefield Earth came out in 2000. Don't try to taint the 90's with that garbage.

It was made in the 90's! book written in the 80s and the film released in 2000, it can taint the last 3 decades...

Still, it was released in 2000. I'll bet they've been making the last Twilight movies since the 00's, but I'll only associate with the 10's.

 

[NickCaligo42]

I don't know, people really have a tendency to look back fondly on days gone by. I'll bet by 2020 people will say the turn of the millennium was a pretty cool time to be alive.

In my experience... yeah, pretty much.

Growing up in the 90's and then going through my teens in the 2000's, I found the two decades practically indistinguishable and couldn't name any stand-out trends like you'd see from the 60's, 70's, and 80's. As a kid, I always felt shafted--people would remember the 80's, but they wouldn't remember my decade.

... and then 2010 rolled around. Suddenly all defining aspects of the 90's seemed crystal clear and I started getting nostalgic for them. Takes about 20 years before you've got the hindsight and experience to actually discern a modern era decade like this from a line-up. The 2000's seem indistinguishable right now, but by the end of 2019 you'll be comparing the turn of the millennium with the 2010's and the 90's and probably come up with some memorable contributions. They just don't seem like much now because they haven't had time to make an impact.

Don't believe me? Two words: club music. Didn't say it was a good trend, but if you want your modern "trashy, dated music" equivalent for 80's pop and bad 90's punk music, there it is.

 

[DarkRyter]

political correctness ruined the 00s. In the 90s, kid cartoons could be violent, and I believe Speed the rated R movie was even nominated for a Kids Choice Award. I mean, have you seen Hunchback of Norte Dame. It was rated G, and was very dark. Would have gotten a higher rating in the 00s. Also, you could also say more stuff back then, and people wouldn't be so sensitive. I was watching Angel, and Spike made a joke about Angel calling him a poof. I can't see that flying in the 21st century. People these days are so uptight...

this is the angel clip im talking about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4j26Z7rD_E

Oh really?

[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/3/poofc.png/]

This baby is from Fairly Odd Parents, a cartoon on nickelodeon. It's name is Poof.

Nothing ever really changes. Grass still green, sky still blue, and bear still shits in the woods.

Take off the rose tinted glasses and look. Look at the bear for what it really is and always has been.

 

[Silenttalker22]

I don't know, people really have a tendency to look back fondly on days gone by. I'll bet by 2020 people will say the turn of the millennium was a pretty cool time to be alive.

Yah this. For starters you can't pick on PC ruining the 00's when the appearance of "The Man Show", most popular around the 1998 range was, in one article I read at the time, a backlash of suffocating PC trends. The same decade that 'African-American' and 'mobility-challenged' terms came into heavy(see: Retarded) use.

I find the decade that I'm still alive in, is usually the last great one

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

political correctness ruined the 00s. In the 90s, kid cartoons could be violent, and I believe Speed the rated R movie was even nominated for a Kids Choice Award. I mean, have you seen Hunchback of Norte Dame. It was rated G, and was very dark. Would have gotten a higher rating in the 00s. Also, you could also say more stuff back then, and people wouldn't be so sensitive. I was watching Angel, and Spike made a joke about Angel calling him a poof. I can't see that flying in the 21st century. People these days are so uptight...

this is the angel clip im talking about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4j26Z7rD_E

You were born in the 90's weren't you?

Any decade a person was born in is considered by them to be the best decade, unless of course you were born into crippling poverty and rose up to be a wealthy business man, where what ever decade you stopped eating your own shoes became your best decade.

 

[GiantRaven]

I find it hilarious that somebody could post something like this on a sodding videogame forum.

Any decade a person was born in is considered by them to be the best decade

Eh, I was born in 1989 and I think now is better than any other time I've experienced.

 

[Silenttalker22]

I find it hilarious that somebody could post something like this on a sodding videogame forum.

Back in the golden days, when "replay value" meant you got to restart the game again from the beginning after you beat it, and well-designed meant sibling-punchingly difficult.

 

[GiantRaven]

Back in the golden days, when "replay value" meant you got to restart the game again from the beginning after you beat it, and well-designed meant sibling-punchingly difficult.

Oh man, I loved games back when developers knew that making a game difficult was easier than making it fun.

Oh wait, no I didn't.

 

[VanTesla]

The 90's had it's good and bad moments, just like every generation. In America it was great for cartoon shows in my opinion and that's about it for me... Cartoons today are more dumb down and feel wrong... Ofcorse we had some in the 90's, but not like this. Cartoon Network use to be about good or decent cartoons with some good original ones like Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Batman TAS, Superman TAS, Justice League, Gundam 8th MS Team, Tenchi Universe, Zoids, Pokemon (first three seasons), X-Men (most of it), Sailor Moon, Cowboy Bebop, Yu Yu Hakusho, Dragon Ball (not Z), Samurai X, and etc. Just realized that many are from early 00... Well I watched many imports though like the original Macross (great anime).

 

[VanTesla]

Not if you ask bob and whoever the hell that fake ass wrestler (triple h?) is he always has the pic come up for when he talks about the nineties.

Anyway, I enjoyed the nineties, but for much the same reason Bob enjoyed the 80s. I grew up in them. But the other decades have their pluses and minuses. Just like every generation does, including the nineties.

I agree with Minato.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Not if you ask bob and whoever the hell that fake ass wrestler (triple h?) is he always has the pic come up for when he talks about the nineties.

Anyway, I enjoyed the nineties, but for much the same reason Bob enjoyed the 80s. I grew up in them. But the other decades have their pluses and minuses. Just like every generation does, including the nineties.

I agree with Minato.

thats awesome that that someone actually called me that.

 

[SlideRail]

Not if you ask bob and whoever the hell that fake ass wrestler (triple h?) is he always has the pic come up for when he talks about the nineties.

Anyway, I enjoyed the nineties, but for much the same reason Bob enjoyed the 80s. I grew up in them. But the other decades have their pluses and minuses. Just like every generation does, including the nineties.

I agree with Minato.

thats awesome that that someone actually called me that.

The nineties were a decade of unprecedented prosperity backed by actual technological and industrial innovation and underscored by effective government (A democrat presidency "bound" by a republican congress managed to pass more legislation than any other), unprecedented peace and the most vibrant and varied rock and roll scene since the sixties. Yes, I know there were still wars. They were nothing like what we had experienced in every decade before or since.

The nineties was our generations high water mark.