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[PeskyToaster]

Nostalgia is for suckers. I always look forward.

 

[mazpratim]

00s were amazing, early 00s was just as good as the 90s pretty much

 

[evilromero]

I don't like saying that I was 'born in the wrong generation' because it's pretty cringe-worthy, but I really do feel like I should've been born ten years earlier, so I could have experienced the late 90s and early-mid 2000s more thoroughly.

The music, the games, the technology, just everything felt right to me. A lot of it is the nostalgia talking, but I genuinely miss the music, trends in graphical design and a time before everything was internet/cloud based.

Late 80s and early 90s console wars is where it's at. Experiencing the rebirth of the video game industry at the hands of Nintendo's brilliant minds is something I'm so glad I got to live through. It truly was a magical time. Kind of like Rare and Nintendo through the 90s.

 

[Ovid]

As someone born in the early 80s if I could erase the 90s from human memory I would be in a much happier place.

Why?

The 90's were great. Great music, AOL, cool television shows.

It was awesome.

 

[GamerJM]

I would even go so far as to say that the real, clear divide for me was the advent of youtube/smartphones/social networks in 2005-2007. Even 9/11 didn't feel like a new era to me. Early 2000s pop was dominated by the same people as late 90s pop; our technology was nearly identical; our lifestyles were only slightly more electronic in 2003 than they were in 1997.

But widespread adoption of broadband internet and mobile phones created a major leap in the middle of last decade.

Yeah, I agree, though I think in like 2004 you can start to see the culture transition.

 

[NekoFever]

Yeah, I agree, though I think in like 2004 you can start to see the culture transition.

2004 was when the Janet Jackson nipple thing happened. That had a huge effect on how far entertainment companies are willing to push boundaries. There's a very clear difference in what movies and TV shows could get away with before and after that furore.

 

[Sinfamy]

The 90's and early 2000's were a terrible period for everything.
Music, movies, TV, fashion was all cheesy as fuck.

 

[DarkKyo]

The 90's and early 2000's were a terrible period for everything.
Music, movies, TV, fashion was all cheesy as fuck.

Yeah, there's nothing cheesy from the 80's.