I miss the 90s. 😞
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The release of "1985" by Bowling for Soup was closer to actual 1985 than we are to its release.
The release of "1985" by bo burnham though...
I did nothing to you and yet you attack me on a personal level?!
If Back to the Future we're remade today, he'd be going back in time to 1995.
I'd like to see a remake of Back to the Future just so we can have a scene where Doc Brown refuses to believe Donald Trump will be president.
I’d like to see a remake of The United States of America where Donald Trump is never the president.
The allure of fantasy
Like the Sly Stallone comment in demolition man about the Schwarzenegger library.
In retrospect, the standard of what seemed ridiculous and over-the-top at the time was a bit higher.
Idiocracy isn't even remotely funny nowadays, it's genuinely just very anxiety inducing now. And it's honestly too fucking positive. A government actually trying to fix issues? Yeah, right.
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Almost as if the 50’s were being plagued by the same dumb rich out of touch assholes from the 1920s and it caused some ~trickle down~ issues for society down the line in the 90s. Turns out 35 years ain’t that long of a time in the grand scheme of things.
The tax rate in the 50s was 90% or more depending on the year.
Other ways to feel old:
- Smells Like Teen Spirit came out in 1991, just 22 years after the moon landing. As of now, it's been 34 years since its release.
- Back to the Future came out in 1985, which is 40 years ago, and only 30 years from 1955.
- The Matrix is a 1999 film. It was old enough to drink... five years ago.
- Alex Warren, who is currently #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, hadn't yet reached one year old on 9/11.
- The video game Doom came out in 1993. Pac-Man came out in 1980. 13 years between the games. But it's been 32 years since Doom.
Should I go on?
You can go on away from here with your personal attacks.
On average the entire human population turns over every 120 years.
Everyone alive today wasn't here 120 years ago
Everyone alive today won't be alive in 120 years
The modern human species is about 60,000 years old .... we've only been technologically modern in the past 150 years, geologically speaking, we're still cavemen.
Your content is entertaining but you are a dick.
I... can't dispute that.
You're wrong. It's an established fact that the 90s were ten years ago.
You’re correct. The 90s has always been and will always be ten years ago.
The future scenes in Back to the Future II take place ten years in the past.
Oof
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Listen here you little shit...
Well, fuck you too
In 2060s, people look back at the good old days of 2020s. Doomscrolling, AI generated images, brainrot, existential dread, LLMs, those were the days…
In 2060, people will curse the people of 2020 who did almost nothing to mitigate climate change.
Maybe. Or the propaganda will have been so successful that nobody will discuss climate change because that’s just the way things are.
Nah, by then we will be living in underground cave cities. Machines will control the devastated surface
Wait. There'll still be people around in 2060?
You could be there too. Are you good at surviving through famine or avoiding violent people?
Well damn.
1990-1995 were definitely a nicer place to be than 1955-1960, though, so we got that going for us as far as the 35yo past is concerned.
1990-1995 were definitely a nicer place to be than 1955-1960,
The murder rate peaked in 1993.
1995 was amazing, really the whole 90s.
Amazing music, peace, and nobody was afraid to tell all the douchebags of the world to go f themselves.
It was the peak of civilization
- no internet (or at least popular, easy access internet)
- no social media
- no streaming content
- no online distractions
Which meant
- you spent more time talking to people
- you just spent more time with people
- you read more to ease the boredom
- you used a library more
- you read actual newspapers written by journalists more
- you questioned the government more
- you had to pay to use an inconvenient landline all the time which meant you called less and wanted to just see people more
Now with a high speed internet connection, we're disconnected from one another and we believe in every hair brained idea we find online.
Found the extrovert.
Civilization didn't even start until broadband.
YOU HAD PEACE!!!
Peace of mind.
Peace that everyone wasn't trying to force you to believe their opinions or be judged as evil.
I love the internet, but it desperately eroded the barrier that stood between our internal self-image and literally everyone else in the world.
I’m sure someone will come along and point out that the 90s were no more or less peaceful than any other decade.
But it did seem like a time of hope. Collapse of USSR. End of Cold War. Feels like now we’re doing the same thing, just historians will come up with a new label for it.
I’m sure someone will come along and point out that the 90s were no more or less peaceful than any other decade
Not to be that guy, but there was the whole Bosnian Genocide thing from 92-95 and the Gulf War from 90-91 that really legitimized the US practice of inference in the Middle East in the eyes of many US citizens. Up until then, most Americans still saw intervention a la the Iran Contra Affair as a negative.
Plus, the Troubles in North Ireland were still in pretty high gear until 1998, most of Africa was involved in civil wars and ethnic cleansing for a large chunk of the 90's, and the collapse of the USSR, which was viewed as a positive in many parts of the world, did leave a power vacuum that resulted in numerous civil wars and militant separatist movements throughout eastern Europe and western Asia
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My dad was born in 1955. My oldest brother was born in 1990.
This is fucking with me
I was born in 1973. My grandfather was born in 1892 !
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You can tell OP is a teenager when they think 35 is old. Don't you have a bedtime, little bro?
If Back to the Future were made today, Marty would be going back to the year 1995 instead of 1955.
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NO ITS NOT SHUT UP
LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA LA
Fuck you. How dare you attack me like this
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