What was it like growing up in the late 80s and early to mid

>>133319936
Not really. Don't let nostalgia goggles from the "real 90s kids here xD" born in 1998 fool you.

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More White. Less (((technology))). More natural living. More families. Harsher people and more humble. World view was National and not (((global))). Less anti-White propaganda.

>>133320452
>what were the LA Riots

the 90's were a shit time for race relations, at least in America

>>133319936
Relative paradise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA

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>>133319936
No internet? Surrounded by bluepilled faggots? Gangsta rap emerging. Slowly watching white culture and society erode?...Kinda sucked. It would much rather grow up in this period of red pilling desu.

>>133320636
>He didnt have aol or prodigy or msn

>>133319936
born in 1987 here, it was like evolving from the stone age through the distant future, exactly like Turtles in Time. absolute best generation to live through, cannot wait for space exploration when i'm 40.

>>133319936
The culture and direction of the country was better. The technology was shit, and we knew it back then

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Imagine not knowing - and not needing to know anything about Islam except that it motivates a bunch of impoverished crazy people to kill each other.
Imagine being blissfully unaware that your country is being slowly transformed into a third-world hellhole just so leftist political parties can gain permanent power (since their ideas are harebrained and their failures are legion).
Imagine assorted faggotries being merely a "lifestyle choice" and not an Identity whose various sexual acts are given privileged status in the law.

>>133319936
1974 reporting in

You had to walk or ride to your friends house, ring the doorbell, his mom would answer and you'd ask "Hey is Craig home?" And she'd say "nope haven't seen him. He's around somewhere."

Then you'd ride your bike around looking for him.

Riding BMX bikes around the neighborhood. We'd roll a log into the street and put a piece of plywood on it you got from your dads garage and make a jump. No one wore helmets or pads.

Later we played with RC cars in the streets.

Atari 2600 came out and we'd play it but still get bored and go outside and make forts in the woods.

Reagan was fantastic.

Out 80's boyscout leader was convinced we were going to be invaded by the Reds. He showed us how to handle guns and kill a wilderness rabbit by holding its body between your legs and knocking its head out of its socket.

>>133321170
This is too comfy to be real. I want to believe

This thread is full of "le born n the wrong decade" cucks.

Therefore, it fuckin' sucks.

>>133319936
Oh yes the time when Bill Cosby was probably the most respected black man and when nobody outside Arkansas had heard about the Clinton's. To find out anything real about politics you had to listen to certain talk radio. Mainstream media was still deceptive but not near as bad. MTV played music videos and FM radio had live local DJs in your city who would play requests. Girls were way more down to earth, generally.

>>133321170

> new faggots will never hit a makeshift ramp on a GT or haro bike

>>133321170
Born 1980 here.

Dad drove me to friends house in a Datsun in Los Angeles. The valley felt exactly like those coming of age, john hughes movies where things were white and idyllic with just a small taste of ethnicity from Viets, Koreans, greeks. Little did we know that it was already way past creeping up along in southern L.A., a barbaric swamp ready to overrun our lilly whites.

Learn from us , from the 70s and 80s. We were the front lines to the disaster they will befall all of you, to the ruin of all.

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>>133319936
Less zerg on our soil.
Now we pic related.

>>133321771
How did it all go so bad so quick?

>>133319936
the best thing about growing up without internet was rumors were completely unconfirmable so any little urban legend was believable and fascinating, roasting marsh-mellows over a camp fire was a time to share with people not something you take a picture of and post on instagram and facebook and wait desperately for acknowlegment

>>133321564
That's how it was man.

I wasn't a city kid but back then most surburbia areas still had woods.

We all had Daisy BB guns and and later Beeman pellet guns, would ride our bikes into the woods and shoot at birds, squirrels. You'd feel great when you bagged one. Then you'd walk over and see it dying in the leaves, and feel fucking terrible. It was a rite of passage.

You'd play outside until it got dark and your parents would have no idea where you were. Come inside with busted knees and elbows and dirt in the cuts, and your mom would squirt Bactine in them which would sting. And it was all normal.

School work though.... that was a different animal back then.

My dad was one of the first in our neighborhood to own an Encyclopedia set. So kids would come over and borrow them so they could write their report. Otherwise you had to ride your bike to the library. All kids had library cards when you turned about 13.

>>133320552
The LA riots were a singular event with a specific cause.
They were a shock to both the bluepilled masses as well as those who figured the state would be prepared for shit going down by sending in the National Guard or whatever.
These days we have riots every other month when some nog gets shot after robbing a convenience store.

>>133319936
Yes, it was better, but not because the era itself was so great. It just wasn't as terrible as it is now.

Imagine you have a popsicle that's covered in a bit of dirt. That's the early 90s. Now imagine someone shoved that popsicle up their ass. That's the present.
Obviously you'd prefer the former over the latter, but overall you'd rather have a clean 1950s popsicle.

Another thing that was different:

In school, all the way thru high school (I graduated in 93) you were taught American history. A lot of it. Every year.

And you were taught that America was fucking great. Even including Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this was absolutely the right thing to do because it won the war with minimal loss of American life.

>>133319936
We had these really slow 1200-2400 baud modems. It would take like 45 minutes to download a black and white nude cindy crawford fake.

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great movies in a theatre (alien, star wars,bladerunner, brazil), great music, fun tv(charlies angels, six million dollar man, cosby show) and my god so many white people. I say this as a spic from Texas. I miss the white people. I was the only spic in my elementary school. Now it's 98 percent spic

>>133321873
The 1965 Immigration acts basically set the quotas unleashed for the 3rd world whereas before you had to be from west Europe mostly. There were always exemptions for refugees fleeing communism and the such, but now strong able people from Latin America and East Asia were tapped in.

The first zerg wave happened shortly after, by the 1970s there were millions of mexicans moving into the southland for better oppotunity. This was strong encouraged by both parties for sadistic reason, but was going to have major effects when this dribble became an outright flood after Mexico's economy crashed soon after.

At the same time you had mass emigration out of South East Asian shitholes all congregating for new jobs and opportunities. No Chance for integration. You could literally way koreans just eat up central real estate forcing white flight to the suburbs that were under attack from hispanics. Crazy days

>>133322466
>miss the white people

Where did they go?

>>133321771
Good post about the Valley.

I was an east coast (Connecticut) kid. But we still saw, and loved, movies about you guys.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High was one of the best movies (and still is) about the '80s Valley.

Loved that goddamn movie.

Born in late sixties..Everyone was married and I mean everyone in my middle class area..You had no choice but to find things to do and it was easier to learn if you wanted with less distractions..If you were going sideways in early life you went to work and there was always work..Niggers were niggers etc...It was invaluable growing up in a time when you read the classics..We didn't have shit like this to waste time with...I liked the pace..Sorta like camping compared to the autobahn of internet pace..It was awesome man...Advantage today is more niches, but less community...I loved Reagan and even democrats were patriotic as shit..It was America man...

>>133321170
Sounds exactly like my childhood, though I'm an early 80s model.

I was lucky enough that my father bought a relatively compact camera in the early 90s, which me and my friends would constantly borrow. As a result, I have about ten hours of footage from around 1992 to 1997.
We'd even film ourselves just walking around the neighbourhood, going into shops and randomly interviewing people. I had no idea how much I'd appreciate that footage as an adult.

>>133319936
It depends on where you lived. In the areas that are now multicultural shitholes? Everyone that wasn't black was considered "white", so there were way less racial tensions and miscegenation wasn't really a thing yet. Also, the immigrants that were coming here were the third world version of the 1%, so they were actually well behaved and at least if average intelligence

Then the third world eventually ran out of 1%-ers, and the untouchables started to be shipped in. Now no one likes immigrants, especially immigrants

>>133321767
I remember the front and rear foot pegs some kids would put in their bikes for cooler bunnyhops and endos....

Takes me back !

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>>133319936
It was a more innocent time. Trump was just some sort of joke you read about on a tabloid or saw a segment on Robin Leach's program. Today...

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>>133322679
Replaced by illegal immigration. It wasn't so bad at first in the early to late 70's, but then every fucking wetback started having 3-5 fucking anchor babies and there you go. When my dad immigrated legally in the early 70's it was hard to find tortillas in this major city.

>>133322715
If you don't mind me asking, how did you find out about and start browsing 4chan? Also, how optimistic or cynical did most Americans seem when you were growing up? Did they trust politicians and our government in ways they no longer do?

>>133319936

Yes. Being a kid in the 90's was fucking awesome

The culture was way better. Not too degenerate but also not too puritan. Blax and whites were segregated culturally as well, then Enminem happened in the late 90's and it all went to shit

>>133319936
Eh, a little better maybe. It was an economic boom period after all so most people had jobs.

It's not that the 1990's were some utopian age, but the problems that were occurring in the world were generally not occurring in the US and the west more generally. Also:

> Last really great non-electronic musical trends
> maturation of videogames into something genuinely great, not dots and block crap
> political boundaries were clearer, less confusing
> PC thugs were mocked by the left as well as the right in most culture, roundly defeated for a decade
> a lot more direct social interaction, more traditional experiences with real people

There were downsides though too, make no mistake.

>>133319936
it was probably just cause i was a child.
your mind tends to forget the hurt and only remember the good, even if it wasn't good. I think that is just something that comes with getting older.

There was more optimism.
may not of been true. The internet was so obscure and young at the time that if you consumed anything, at least your major caloric intake would of been some form of corporate media. perhaps more specialized, but still corp.

>EVERYTHING was influenced by cali, miami, and cocaine, which is why anyone cared about the first 2.

>go back and watch any thing from that time with Robin Williams.
> All your childhood movie characters were done by a fucking wigged out coke fiend.
> like, how did noone notice that and say something.
>fuck.

>those of you who know know im right.

I'm pretty sure in the 80's parents either left a full stack of pornography or at least 1 magazine in the closet for their children to find so they wouldn't have to have the conversation. This was universal at all my friend's houses.

>>133323473
what were the downsides?

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The 90's were a fools' paradise, no doubt.
We were in "The End Of History". The Agnostic Materialism of Capitalism had beaten the Atheistic Materialism of Communism by delivering more and better material goods. Demographic change wasn't on most people's radar, and they assumed it was a two-way street.
As for gay """rights""" people figured "We'll give the faggots what they want and that'll be the end of it". Oh ho.
The entire outlook on the future was different: we were going to be reaching for the stars, not being overrun by primitive savages.
That's one reason 90s movies and music were so Dark 'n Edgy. It was a reaction to the seemingly aimless, carefree world situation.

Everything went downhill after the advent of the internet. The 90's was the gasp of humanity before it went into decline. 4chan being a prime example of the degeneracy spreading across the world.

>>133320552

And race relations are some how better now?
At least in 90's we knew they were niggers and treated them as such

>>133319936
it was pretty comfy

>>133322125
none with nearly the amount of damage and death that the LA ones did

shit we see now is peanuts compared to that

>>133319936

The 80's were great.

After 1994, things went to shit.

>>133323770
Why 1994 specifically?

>>133323626
Lol a superior gentleman has been spotted. THis is why hapa boys should be shot

>>133320169
It was definitely better than current year retard. Just watch a movie from the time period and you'll get a sense of the milieu.

>>133323679
Have you forgotten about hiphop culture in the mid-90s? It was huge. It even reached Norway. Half the guys in my middle school glass were sagging their pants and listening to Snoop Dogg, 2Pac and NWA. It was a golden age for wiggers.

>>133321767
>GT
Who can forget the flying banana.

>>133322715
Reading this makes me sad. You make the country sound like everyone was proud of a mutual accomplishment, happy with what we made of ourselves through the hard work of us all...
Now we're not allowed to be proud. It's taboo to be patriotic.
It's expected that we disadvantage ourselves for the good of those overseas.
I hope my generation can bring us back there, but I don't know if it's possible.

>>133321641
This decade sucks. It's pretty much what /pol/ is about.

>>133323834

The Clinton Era and explosion of liberalism. Shit we didn't think twice about became "politically incorrect". You started seeing the first rumblings of this around '89-90. But it didn't really get rolling until around 1994.

>>133321170
>>>133319936 (OP)
>1974 reporting in
>You had to walk or ride to your friends house, ring the doorbell, his mom would answer and you'd ask "Hey is Craig home?" And she'd say "nope haven't seen him. He's around somewhere."
>Then you'd ride your bike around looking for him.
>Riding BMX bikes around the neighborhood. We'd roll a log into the street and put a piece of plywood on it you got from your dads garage and make a jump. No one wore helmets or pads.
>Later we played with RC cars in the streets.
>Atari 2600 came out and we'd play it but still get bored and go outside and make forts in the woods.
>Reagan was fantastic.

Was still this great 11 years later. Technology gave a voice to all the idiots and the LCD that we have today unfortunately.

>>133324263
Ah yes, thanks for the reminder. THat was the first 1984ish feeling for me when "Political Incorrectness" became standard rube talking points.

>>133323561

> Less technological convenience, stuff like Netflix streaming is 1000% better than blockbuster
> if you WEREN'T in the west things were generally a LOT worse, things are a bit more "equalized" in terms of global wealth now
> Despite nostalgia glasses folks there were equally as many shitty trends, songs, and films as good that people tend to ignore looking back
> The news cycle was slower, which was good in one way, but it meant big events dragged on for AGES
> Lots of ridiculous internet panic and prognostication and dumb bubble businesses
> Irony was essentially the national youth cultural trend, and it got very old, very fast
> People were "le wrong generation"ing the 1970's really hard.

>>133323965
I'm guessing you're a lot younger than me. The 90s still sucked, things just moved on a slower pace.

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>>133319936
it's really better even in Thailand
>If so why?
No internet
No Iphone
No high cost technology
Micheal Jackson still alive
It's like Human in each country free from something and get to know each other for the first time

>>133319936
I was a 90s kid. Middle class divorce was rare. Skateboards in the neighborhood was common. Teenage mutant ninja turtles cartoon after school. Game boys were fun and nintendo 8 bit was great. Internet was some new thing you'd hear about but nobody knew anything. The neighborhood kids would meet at night and play games on the street or around someone's house. Basketball, billiards and swimming pools were the norm. The races self segregated and the school's didn't inject liberalism.

It was a simpler time.

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>>133319936
I was born in 1980. My whole life, politics was something you maybe kept up with, and only focused on when some serious shit happened (Iran-Contra, "read my lips, no new taxes," Clinton's impeachment, hanging chads, etc.). Now that Trump is president, we're all constantly on edge, watching everything that happens. I'm sure part of it is that the Internet gives us access to minute-by-minute information, but we weren't all constantly on a knife edge over Obama. Trump is a different animal, and not in a good way. The 80's and 90's were a time when you could disagree with the President on purely political grounds because you knew he understood the job, but his policy didn't jive with your ideals. Now, we have a president who has no idea what the president does, how he should conduct himself, what the limitations of the office are, and how he should operate in the international sphere.

So... yeah. Things were better in the 80's and 90's, and far less stressful.

>>133324597
The 90s did suck, but it orders of magnitude better than right now. That being said I live in Toronto so we got hit really really hard over the last two decades.

>>133323770
Mid-1996 is when I would say it went to shit. Especially by 1998. I have a lot of nostalgia for early to mid 90s and none for late 90s.

>>133324855
>I don't like what Trump is doing so it must mean he doesn't know what he is doing.

He's doing what he wants to do, and thus knows what he is doing. You may not like it, but that's probably because you're a faggot.

>>133323745
That's because of the police response now compared to then. Back during the LA Riots they had to bring in the fucking military because the police were under-equipped, slow to actually roll out, and incompetent in general. Now the average police force in a town the size of LA has enough guns to control a small country. They're better-armed, they have actual procedures for riots now, etc etc.

The police have gotten better, otherwise we'd have an LA Riots-tier chimpout every week because DAT POAH BOI DINDU NUFFIN EBEN WEN HE TOL DA OFFISURS TA SHOOT HIM

90s was awful unless you immersed yourself into video games to the point of social alienation, then it was actually pretty great. Everything outside video games and maybe alternative rock (that aged badly anyway) sucked really badly.

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Computers were a lot more fun if you were a proto-/g/entooman. Just getting shit to work was an accomplishment. For normalfags they were either a frivolity or a pain.

>>133325381
You're being intellectually dishonest. Trump tries at a lot of things and gets shot down an awful lot. the only thing he's done the "right way" is appointing a supreme court judge. He signs executive orders because he thinks they're legally binding (they aren't--they're basically suggestions), he meets with foreign dignitaries and embarrasses himself and our country more than even Dubya did, he lies about things that are easily fact-checked like crowd sizes, and he's more focused on his own self-image than on running the country.

You know he's a fuckup. You're just afraid of admitting you're wrong, and that's a normal human reaction. It's okay to cut bait and move on.

>>133319936
80's and 90's music was way better than the neutered, no-edge, low-musicianship bullshit we get now. That's for sure.

>>133322392

bud 99 percent of folk don't know what baud is.

>>133326619
Like, as in, a modem? We're well past that, and I'm not sure it matters.

>>133324855
The reason Trump is in office to begin with, is because of how badly the liberals have fucked over the US.
The tyranny of tolerance can't be defeated by a regular conservative.

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>>133324855
Yeah I've always admired Trump's strategy of using information and media bombardment, as well as controversy, to his advantage, but I feel like it's going to do serious damage to this country long-term. I'm not a shill, I'll probably vote for him again in 2020, I just feel like the current news/media/information atmosphere is toxic and unsustainable. But a lot of /pol/acks have a "burn it down" mentality so they probably enjoy it.

>>133320745
Yes it existed no not in its current form like today where everything is is available 2 clicks away. Think geocities

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super nintendo, ghostbusters, ninja turtles

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It was comfy.

1990 here...remember i had to actually pick up a landline and call my friends " is anon home" or ride my bike and knock to see if they were home.

>>133327076
I don't think Trump has a strategy of "media bombardment." I think he just has no ability to hold back when he thinks of something to say. It's almost like Tourette's Syndrome, but without the lack of reason. He could survive in business because he didn't have to answer to 300 million people and the media's constant vigilance, but he's proving that what works in business doesn't always work in politics. "Fake it 'till you make it" is a terrible way to be president, but if he gave the impression that he was actually learning anything, I might be more sympathetic. He's floundering, the rest of the world can see it, and the smell blood in the water.

Voting for Trump in 2020 is irresponsible, IMO, and because of his own ineptitude, he might not even make it that long.

>>133319936
Politics was a boring thing that went on in the background. Even during the Clinton scandals.

Video games were REALLY good. Like astoundingly good. So good that people have been chasing that high again for 15 years and a lot of them have ruined their lives because of it.

>>133326267
There's really no point in arguing with people who honestly think trump is competent.

>>133327710
>JNCOs FTW. I'd look retarded now, but that shit was comfortable as fuck.

>>133328059
Well...

...yeah. I think people are slowly coming around. Slowly. Very slowly.

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>>133321170
Are you me?

'69 here.
The 80s were OK, high school for me listening to Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden
The 90s were awesome, good MDMA was legal, good GHB you could buy from GNC and techno music was hot.
Limelight and The Tunnel in New York every weekend.

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>>133321170
I remember being scared to death of nuclear war in the early 80s

>>133321170
1980 here. This sums up my childhood, except for my friends and me it was trying to beat Zelda on NES. The best part was the absolute freedom we had, though. If we could catch one another at home, we'd disappear into the woods for hours and no one was worried. Around the time the sun would start to set, you'd hear people calling your name for dinner, and we'd walk home covered in mud and bug bites.
If it wasn't for the fear that the Russians would launch a missile at any moment, I'd say it was extremely carefree.
Oh, and saturday morning cartoons. 24/7 cartoons ruined that feeling of having a giant bowl of cereal and flipping between the three channels during commercial breaks.

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>>133327954
Nothing you said in that post was an argument. Just word soup.

>>133328059
>>133328116
>"H-hey, I think we're winning them over! Maybe Podesta won't murder our families!"

Try harder, shills.

>>133328580
Atlanta Limelight checking in.

..well, really, my uncle was there. I was like, 6.

>>133321564
>1988

Back in the 90's that was how it was. I grew out side the city in rural suburbs, meaning you weren't budded up against another. Here few had BMX bikes and most of us had mountain bikes as the roads had no pavement.

You would ride down the back trails to travel to your friends house and knock on the door to ask if Jimmy could come out to play.

We would spend hours out and the only clock you had was the sun, when ever it would be just off the horizon, it was time to come home.

Then I moved into more city area as a kid, still had my bike, and I remember jumping this one hill as the suburbs were still under development and a mound was there for construction. I was the only one to jump the mound and land it. Awesome times indeed. And yeah, no pads or helmets required by law.

Now a days, especially after 9/11, the world freaked out, can't go out even as an adult. Children are being snatched left and right and terrorism is rampant, Domestic or otherwise. Everything in the 90's was "Awesome" and "Totally Radical Dude." And don't forget about "Extreme". Now the only thing extreme are the extremists . There is no Cursive writing in schools, No Physical Education, No Dodge Ball. And all the men are Neo-Men which are just sissy faggots.

>oh but mah rose colored glasses

No you are the one that needs to take your blinders off. 90's was the last great decade. Now it is hard times, lets hope for strong men to make good times again.

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>>133320634
Sounds so comfy

It was fantastic. The painful, ironic self-awareness and vanity that people have nowadays did not exist. Subcultures were very common back then, not "cringe". Everyone belonged, everyone had some identity.

>>133328733
>I remember being scared to death of nuclear war in the early 80s
How would you compare it today? I do remember we feared it because the arms race back then. Now times look graver desu.

So much less PC horse shit, but the writing was on the wall.

I remember writing a paper in college about how PC would worsen and lead to the downfall of western civilization. I got a C, because (like most of them) my prof was a libshit.

>>133329262
It was just different. I guess you grow a little numb to it over the years. It was just wide open nuke buildups. Not great hardware, drunken Russian leaders. A lot of shit talking. It was a scarier time to me

>>133321170
1973 uk model. confirmed. life was comfy.

Well there were 2 legitimate genders even though their still are 2 genders, we didn't have any of this Tumblr shit

>>133319936
a lot fewer spics

>>133329262
Back then it was a much more clearly defined enemy. "The Soviets will blow us up." Now, it's a lot more nebulous.

people earned the same amount but everything was cheaper

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>>133323652
The very early 00s were also great because of the 1999 high still lingering, but nothing could survive the change of climate immediately following 9/11.

>>133329741
Nowadays the enemy is your jihadi/nog neighbour.

>>133323248
>shitskin thinks he's not equally a part of the problem like other shitskins.
umm, no sweetie

>>133321170
>Reagan brought back The Hostages
>Not allowed to tramp in and out of the house, had to stay outside all day
>Build fort by the creek and fish with your friends, make a fire, cook fish. Maybe beer someone stole from mom and dad.
>Attack Libya and bomb Grenada, everyone unironically chants USA USA USA.
>Have BB gun fights, one pump only.
>Commies are bad, but they're over there and we're not fighting them.
>World could end in nuclear holocaust at any minute.
>No one hates you for being white. Men are manly.
>It's cool to make money, everyone wants a BMW. Hippies are smelly losers.
>Top Gun, Tom Clancy novels, Stephen King is still writing cool books.
>Women are more natural, the Amazon is in, big curvy thighs, big tits, long hair, no plastic
>Normal girls look normal.
>It's expected you drive on your 16th birthday.
>You can ride your dirtbike almost anywhere, no one complains.
>Minor mischief doesn't lead to a major adult criminal record.
>Two hours of news a day, and it's not total bullshit

>>133330100
This sums it up pretty well

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>>133329193
>>133329070
>>133319936

The late 1980s were great. You had that kind of neon thing going on. Hair metal was dying, electro pop was evolving, and indie music was great. Then early 1990s you had grunge, hip hop, and really hard metal like Pantera.

If you were white and lived in suburbia or something it was great. Jobs were plentiful. I made as much as a teen as I did in a recent job - at least hourly.

The late 1990s were where music and cinema started to get big budget and shit. Boy and girl bands, "Alternative" music, the first SJWs, early emo, Hip Hop Metal shit, Korn, shitty Gangsta rap, Limp Bizkit, Eminem and all of that garbage. In the late 90s token minority characters became a requirement and some shows started to shove diversity in our faces. But the economy was still great and there were jobs everywhere.

But for fuck's sake. I miss phone calls, answering machines, emails meaning something, no social media, early internet, console gaming, high hourly wages, coffee shops that weren't corporate, great concerts, fucking CULTURE not mass media garbage... compared to today's EDM and other shitty music fads... compared to today's superhero/Disney-owned blockbuster garbage... music and cinema were great. Plus you could go to any Asian or European country and get pussy easy because people admired your culture without it getting ripped to shreds through online circle-jerks. Fuck I had French, Korean, Norwegian, and Armenian girls. Man I miss being young.

Oh one more thing - credit and loans actually seemed to mean something and the industry hadn't completely been taken over by the corporate Jews. Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush and the sellouts in congress hadn't yet sold out the economy completely. So blacks and hispanics couldn't get stupid subprime loans that they could never afford. College was starting to become expensive but not impossible to afford like today. Sigh... I miss... consequences.

>>133330049
Well... it's not. People are afraid of them anyway.

Not as good as the early and mid 80s but still heaps better.

When I was a kid I remember getting an n64 and gamboy color when they were brand new. I remember getting blue version and then watching the horde come back for Pokemon go. I remember no cell phones in middle school and in hs almost nobody had a smart phone. I remember flipping a shit seeing elementary schoolers from my elementary school with phones in their hand. I watched porn go from forever to load pictures to free tube sites.

Shit is weird. I've gone from memorizing my friends phone numbers to laughing at competitive gaming being a real thing.

>>133330565
I don't understand why all music on the radio now is either trap, dancehall, whining shit music like adele, and generic youtube-fodder "EDM" that sounds as though it was generated by an algorithm.

Culture is dead.

>>133319936
It felt like Islam didn't exist.

>>133330565
I was onboard until your last paragraph when it came to blaming races for stuff. So, yeah... I agree except that racist part.

>>133330929
DJs used to spin actual vinyl records, true artistic talent.

>>133331022
How is it racist? The mortgage crisis occurred in large part because sub-prime shopped loans to minority populations which did not qualify, with huge balloon payments and interest hikes. Blacks and hispanics took a royal screwing from 2008.

>>133331327
It wasn't just because of non-whites. It was because all kinds of people bought shit they couldn't really afford, but were convinced by rich people they should do it anyway. It wasn't racial. Don't make it out to be.

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>>133319936
>What was it like growing up in the late 80s and early to mid 90's? Were things much better? If so why?
yes:

>music (80's, disco, synthpop, grunge, rock, emo rock, LP / remixes that were better than the radio edits, not worse...)
>film (seminal; esp. sci-fi and martial arts)
>gaming (creative; skill-based, nay retard indulging)
>food (no one counted calories)
>drugs (E's actually contained MDMA)
>technology (no PC's, so people got outside)...

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>>133331596
>models were skeleton coke dykes, draped in rags

>>133319936
Less good than now but also less click bait, fake news and the alternative life styles were far less annoying.

>>133328932
Holy fuck I miss dodge ball so badly.

>Initial dash for the line
>Was so intense about the game, would do Dark Souls-tier dodge rolls to stay alive, while most people tried to catch it
>Once the team numbers got down to about 4v4, coach would call off the barrier lines
>coach introduced Captain's Mode, where each team had a captain that had to stay alive (I was never a pussy captain, I fought on the frontlines with my men, and died honorably)
>faggoty ass basketball team would come down to play against the regular P.E. boys and get schooled

Fuck, gimme a time machine.

It was better. People were becoming degenerate, but it wasn't mainstream culture, just supported by a few rock bands like guns and roses and nwa on the side, you could live clean and white and not have filth put in your face just because you wanted to look at a bit of news.

We weren't told every day that we were scum if we didn't want to suck shitskin dick.

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>>133331744
>w̶e̶r̶e̶
WEREN'T

>>133331791
Same we used to play that at school for physical education. Very fun game.

It's probably illegal now because some fat bitch got hit in the face.

>>133321564
79 here, all true

>>133331744
Ah, the good old days. I miss coke. And fat people still being considered ugly.

Every year video games got exponentially better. It was an amazing feeling, i was always looking forward to something cool and new. And then the fucking mudslimes destroyed america.

>>133319936
>Daughter is 5 years old
>Already knows the world is fucked
>Asks if things were better for me and all old people in the past
>All I have to give her hope is that we're more technologically advanced now

It hurts.

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>>133331022
It's not racist. The big banks and housing TOOK ADVANTAGE of uneducated hispanics and blacks and messed up their communities hardcore. In the 1980s and 1990s there were lots of respectable blacks and hispanics in various industries and on TV. Look up Fesh Pince of Blair. My boss was Filipino. The second-in-command was a black guy that owned a White Castle on the side. We got along fine and respected each other's cultures. He used to buy me James Brown and Curtis Mayfield CDs and I bought him a Ramones T-Shirt.

But it was just different. People who respected other cultures weren't virtue signaling and people weren't trying to actively destroy white culture in the way that they have been in the past 10 years.

>>133330281
>Be teenager
>Carry high-powered rifle without case, across town through the HS parking lot to sight it in, no one calls SWAT.
>Feel privileged when the only (rotary) phone in the house has a long cord and you can stretch it to the only bathroom in the house.
>Call girlfriend, have to ask for her when her Dad answers the phone.
>Ride in the bed of a pickup truck, parents aren't arrested for child abuse.
>HS cheerleaders hold car washes at local gas station, men come from miles around as they soap your cars in the sun, wet suds clinging to their half-naked bodies. No one jailed for being a molester.

>>133331791
>Red Rover
>Smear the Queer
>Red dodgeball so painful when the big kids threw it.

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>>133319936
I left the house in the summer at 9 AM to ride my bike around the neighborhood, shoot slingshots in the woods, build dams in the creeks, dig holes and make traps for the neighbor kids, play NES and drink Capri Sun until sundown and not have to look at fucking cell phone the entire day to tell anyone where I was or what I was up to.

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>>133331744
the media still embraced women being feminine in the 90s

the designers actually started putting uglier girls after the 90s because the "supermodels" started being very demanding

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>>133332441

https://youtu.be/H7Wy49bWSfA

I remember things like staying out until 2AM and getting drunk off of Tequila with a French exchange student and our friends.

Mom and Dad offered me pot and martinis... I only drank never smoked because I hated the smell.

Punks and goths at Rocky Horror Picture Show...

Shooting off shotguns and 1911s with dad. Building plastic models of WW2 shit with my military-obsessed friend. Playing Risk. Some of my girlfriends were actually virgins at the ages of 16-21 (now they lose it at like 13-14). If a kid was gay - "Oh, he's gay." - not "OMFG he's transgender call him another pronoun give him his own bathroom have him give a speech awareness multicultural awareness blahahahahahahahah

>>133332441
I can remember carrying my 22 rifle on the bus to take it to school because we would have a shooting match in ag class. Could you imagine doing that today? .

>>133323248
I feel your pain. The legal immigrants have the most to lose from this shit. The place they wanted to move to has lost its character, its soul, and they find themselves part of the hated problem when all they wanted to do was join in, not ruin it.
>Inb4 muh civic Nat

Don't care

>>133332606
we called it spear the queer. weird that was just 20 years ago and socially acceptable. people would shit their pants today if kids were running around fucking each other up in a game called "spear the queer."

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>>133319936
I recently moved to a small town in Kentucky where there is about 95% white people, good paying jobs are everywhere, and food is cheap. It's essentially the 90's here.

>>133332165
Late 80s, middle school quarterback legs get swept out while jumping.
Landed front top teeth first on the middle of the wooden gym floor. Teeth got shoved into nasal cavity. Cleaned the floor and kept playing.

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>>133332422
>Fesh Pince of Blair.

>>133333566
>pol is a hive mind.
There are racist here but there are also progressives here. You are more inclined to see what you want to see but that doesn't mean it's like that.

>>133325407
How does that explain the Ferguson riots, where the first wave went on for two weeks? They were militarised but didn't fire from their armoured vehicles did they? So what's the point of all the leftovers from the armed forces?

>>133331516
It was absolutely racial. Bank CEOs were brought to testify before the Senate and were threatened with punishment because they weren't handing out enough loans to minorities, or were charging them higher rates, so...
>>133332422
The banks, now compelled by the U.S. Government to give low interest loans to "underprivileged" "minorities" had to figure out some way to spread around all that soon-to-be-worthless debt.

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>>133333767
<Fesh Pince of Blair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeIkk6Yo0s8

Honestly though I think that blacks got seriously f'd over by Clinton and Bush. They got put in their place by the bankers and Jews.

>>133333925
To shoot suspected Tea Party Extremists.

>>133319936

Born in the late 70s, and of course grew up in the 80s and early 90s.

One thing that stands out is that all the kids would be out playing in the woods among themselves with no adult supervision. We'd go and make forts in the wilderness and whack each other with sticks and shit like some medieval warfare. I'd walk home from elementary school. Today, in large parts of America, this is kind of unheard of, and if you allow your kids to do that sort of thing, you'll be brought up on charges. Damn shame, as free play is important for psychological development.

I was in Maryland, so there was a fair amount of diversity already. Public schools still had their little black mobs that would occasionally attack people for no reason - but these were usually dealt with swiftly. Indoctrination with cultural understanding was already there, but in a far less potent form. Sex Ed in the 80s was a bit more formal, without going into weird homo tranny crap. It was considered a bit salacious when they handed us bananas to stick rubbers on.

Music was ok in the 80s, though airwaves were full of crap. Alternative and metal were the thing for anyone with decent musical taste. Otherwise it was shit like MC Hammer and Milli Vanilli - same sort of pop bullshit that you get today, though perhaps a bit more entertaining because you could laugh at them instead of vomit.

You had to remember things a lot more, as there were no cellphones. I do wonder what kind of psychological impact this has on people today, in making people more dependent. I could recall the phone numbers of 70 people off the top of my head, and give turn by turn directions by street name and landmarks.

Being in high school in the 90s was nice, particularly with the music scene picking up. A fair amount of parties, sex, and drugs... but generally people were responsible with it.

>>133323038
You should post thus somewhere anon

>>133326267
That is all game. I've been watching this guy closely, all the 'mistakes', outrageous lies, fronting, it's 4d chess.
>he thinks they're legally binding (they aren't--they're basically suggestions),
You don't know how Government works. EOs are law, and must be based in law, just like the travel ban SCOTUS just approved 9-0.

>>133319936
much better

>>133320169
anything after 92 is not 90s kid retard

>>133320552
race relations are worse today than in the 90s

>>133334288
>One thing that stands out is that all the kids would be out playing in the woods among themselves with no adult supervision. We'd go and make forts in the wilderness and whack each other with sticks and shit like some medieval warfare. I'd walk home from elementary school. Today, in large parts of America, this is kind of unheard of, and if you allow your kids to do that sort of thing, you'll be brought up on charges. Damn shame, as free play is important for psychological development.
The loss of Free Play is probably the worst social change that has occurred in the us, and /pol/ doesn't know it because they're too young. Compared to telling kids that people do gender reassignment, confining them in a home-prison is a psychological holocaust.
>>133332378
Teach your daughter the world is her playland, anon, don't teach her to fear. This is the worst Cultural Marxism and the below-the-belt hit the Marxists have slammed us all with. They went after our kids, fear was the weapon.

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>>133334522
THIS
very true

Slide thread, sage

>>133321170

1955 here. 70s were okish 80s nice 90s sucky 2000s better 2010 on suck balls

>>133334450
My cousin born in 95 is most certainly a 90s kid, but pushing it.

>>133334788
t. faggot posting blacked threads.

>>133332378
>>133334288
Children's Hour doesn't exist. It's a crime against mankind. This has long-term negative consequences which are already being seen. It's how the Japanese obscenity was created.

>>133319936
It was the very last time that you could do anything -- anything at all -- without it being everyone else's business.In the late 90s, the internet was already a thing and people were being judged by their internet connections and what they made public on the internet. When MySpace changed from being a place to showcase your band to a place to whore your stupid face around for attention, you were either in the system (and therefore being tracked) or out of it (and therefore not cool).

Before all of this, you could go to a quiet bookstore and it would feel like a little secret. If you were a kid, you could go run into the woods and you only had to be back before dark. You could meet a friend for dinner and they would NEVER cancel because no one had cellphones and you couldn't just text them and say "SORRY LOL I'm GOING TO SUCK SOME LOSER'S COCK I FOUND ON TINDER INSTEAD." If you cancelled on someone, it meant totally abandoning them and standing them up, and you cannot do that to a friend.

Dating was based around things you had in common, and most people who dates knew some of the same people, so whoring around and cheating had checks and balances on it. You could do it, but then EVERYONE would know.

1995 was pretty much the last time that the world was real. We entered the matrix just about the time that AOL CDs were getting mass mailed to every house in the country.

>>133334385
>EOs are law, and must be based in law
Nope. They're basically a wish list. It's the chief executive saying "do this thing" to the executive branch. If they can't do it for logistical reasons, or if it's against the law to do it, it doesn't get done. It's not a law. Not even close. A lot of his executive orders are basically putting into writing that he "wants to do a thing." Big fucking deal.

>just like the travel ban SCOTUS just approved 9-0
Nope again. They said "parts of it stand while we evaluate it." That's not a ringing endorsement.

>>133334962

You know what I miss about pre-internet days? Being able to make-up complete bullshit. You could tell your friends the new playstation is already out in Japan and it had three thumbsticks and they'd be fascinated, now they'd just google it on their phone and tell you to fuck off.

>>133334288
>I could recall the phone numbers of 70 people off the top of my head
I can still remember some of those old numbers, but no current ones

>>133321170
this sums up my childhood well.

Id add in saturday morning cartoons.

Toys or other goodies in the bottom of cereal boxes.

trips to the video store to rent a movie. BETA or VHS. be kind rewind.

sunday school.

channel 3 for nintendo. Blowing caetridges.

>>133334962
>In the late 90s, the internet was already a thing and people were being judged by their internet connections and what they made public on the internet.

No they fucking weren't. Nobody took the Internet seriously until 2007/2008.

>>133335152
Your Denial is delicious.

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>>133335429
k

>>133319936
growing up in the 80s and 90s set the stage for some hardcore feels that the kikes are simply not prepared for at all.

the only niggers were the niggers in remedial english that you literally never had to see. the only spics were in the city where you only went on weekends on the train. the only gooks were the oddball house now and again and they were fucking shutins.

all the stores were focused on you. all the clerks were white and everyone was unashamed to say that niggers stole shit.

playgrounds were full of kids, neighbors all still knew each other, holidays actually fucking meant something, church meant something, the faggots were in the closet and we bashed them because they were fucking faggots.

you see the bullshit going on now? you think we want any of it? see the movements rising now and who is leading them? we want our fucking lives back and we will kill all these degenerates and kikes if that's what it takes to get it.

>>133335278
The best part was being able to recognize phone numbers by the sound
do kids today even know that touch-tone phones made a different sound for each number button?

>>133334962
Yep and photos were of something. You wouldn't waste film on a pic of your knees on holiday or a pic of your own face. If you had no friends you could set a timer on your camera and dash in front of it.
My parents were well off and had cameras and one of the first Handycams but I'm sure there are fewer printed pics of my entire life than there are selfies on my daughter's phone.

T.1980

>>133335421
I did. I was chatting in 1994.

>>133333816
Gobo?

>>133334962

The personal relationship dynamic is a huge loss. It's very difficult to find anyone trustworthy as a partner these days in many parts of the country, and it's no wonder a lot of people are avoiding marriage.

But this extends a bit further too. Now you see people going out, and they bury themselves in their phones. Women on dates will be texting other guys and not give a damn for like 10-15 minutes as they're eating. A handful of close and good friends has been replaced by 500 people who occasionally click a button on your facebook feed. Going places seems less of an interest, but more of a place to get photos for people to like.

Even in work, people just bury themselves in front of a computer, and would rather email than phone, and rather phone than meet in person.

It really seems that we're pushing malignant narcissism on people, and depersonalizing everyone - which has some ugly consequences.

>>133335645
Yeah I remember that. Did you ever dial a pulse phone by flapping the hook? If you had a rotary phone with a lock on it you could still dial out. Long distance cost more than local. International had a time delay so it was weird.
My first mobile phone in 1998 was the size of a brick, cost me a £300 deposit and a text was 50p. Lots of my contemporaries had pagers instead.

>>133335709
I did because it was my career. I remember watching commercials and getting excited when I started seeing web addresses.
>T-1 Frame Relay
God tier, I spent more time at the office than anyone.
>mfw porn is good for your career.

>>133335421
Demoshits are this stupid

>>133335982

Lol, I had a brick Motorola as well. Reception sucked until it got plugged into the car.

I just turned 18 two days ago and my favorite time growing up was the year 2007

>>133319936
The 90s were unironically a pastoral bliss, completely idyllic. I had a perfect childhood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNpHqA9EKHI

>>133336017
I was just an early adopter. We talk about dark web and stuff now, but early net was wild. Msn group pages were shut down because they were a live action Craigslist and people were organising all sorts of illegal stuff. Nothing was tracked. You had to know how to jump into a fast moving chat and get noticed -the only reason I can touch type

>>133321170
I was born in '92, and grew up in a rural area. All of that is familiar to me, although you can replace BMX bikes with mountain bikes.

And Atari 2600 with Playstation 1.

Watch these four movies.. Torrents around I'm sure. Watch them in this order.

This is what it was like growing up in the 70's and being a teenager/young adult in the 80's
Hell you could get into any bar in the 80s with a $5 fake id. Most never even cared unless you looked 12 or something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_News_Bears
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Edge_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_girl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Times_at_Ridgemont_High

90s were great until about 92 then a sharp decline until 98

>>133319936
Back in the 80s we knew Trump was a corrupt evil, anti-Christian, anti-morality cuck. Then somehow in the 2010s a bunch of underaged faggot voters forgot who corrupt and evil Trump cuck was.

>>133321170

1978 fag here, can confirm this is exactly how it was. God fucking dammit.

>>133319936
>What was it like growing up in the late 80s and early to mid 90's? Were things much better? If so why?

I turned 35 a few weeks ago. I am very weary of the world now. It doesn't seem real in a lot of ways, and I wish things could just be normal again. Even though I live in North Carolina, not a super progressive place, this happened the other day:

>Went to a biscuit/donut place for breakfast with my gf
>There were two women with adopted brown children
>Went to a grocery store with gf
>Went to bathroom
>There was a tranny in the men's room
>Come back out and find my girl
>Two dads with two adopted brown children stroll past

I just feel like this shit is fetishized at this point. I miss the ultimate warrior wearing neon green and jumping off the top rope. Things were simpler.

>>133335421
I was involved in HUGE meetups in 1996 where people came from all over the world.

Was thinking about this the other day: music was fucking EXPENSIVE in the early 90's as a kid. Remember cassettes/cds running around $15. Everything is at least twice as expensive now as it was back then. I could get a snickers for $.50, now it's $1.49 and I happily paid $16 for a cd. Glad people started downloading that shit for free in hindsight. Ffs my first job I made $5/hr meaning I would have to work 4 hours to afford a damn cd.

>>133334015
the fuck is that image

>>133321170
1976 ausfag reporting in - yep this was it. We need to go back.

>>133336532
i remember all my cassette getting eaten before cds. then all my cds getting scratched.

>>133321871
I hear you bro.

>>133336690
listen to tape, wait 30 minutes to rewind tape, listen again.

>read this shit
>wish i could go back in a way...don't want to sacrifice modern conveniences but want the world to be better

we now live in an era where we have to try to figure out what jobs will even exist anymore

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>>133319936

I have the hammer and sickle on my birth sertificate. My grandfather got a bullet wound in the 1956 revolution against communism. My father was denied college education because he refused to join the communist party. We literally ate bark because we couldnt buy bread in certain months.

Then in the span of 10 years; McDonalds, Coca-Cola (the vanguards of the invasion) Lego, supermarkets, cellphones, video games, carbon fibre, INTERNET, tapes made obsolete by cds made obsolete by DVDs made obsolete by USB sticks, the withheld musical trends of the 70's 80's and unfolding 90's suddenly and INSTANTLY flooded in, pop culture of the past 60 years INSTANTLY flooding in, traditional culture of the West suddenly made accessible again after 50 years, MOVIES WERE STILL GOOD!

Growing up felt like your brain being raped by a dildo made of LSD. It was beyond insane. If you ever wonder why Eastern Europe is still fucked up, just imagine living in the stonage in a mudhole and suddenly flooded by EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME from modern times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsnUFL49peE

>>133337006
>Growing up felt like your brain being raped by a dildo made of LSD.

never really thought about it that way

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>>133336638
yeah it's the IMF head whatever her name is
she looks like a shriveled alien now

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>>133321170
Can confirm, this guy knows.

>>133336892
Or turn it around and listen to the other side.

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>>133321767
>MFW traded a broken frame huffy for a rich kids GT because mine was apparently lighter than his.
Still got that shit out in the garage.

>>133322071
>We all had Daisy BB guns and and later Beeman pellet guns, would ride our bikes into the woods and shoot at birds, squirrels. You'd feel great when you bagged one. Then you'd walk over and see it dying in the leaves, and feel fucking terrible. It was a rite of passage.

Yep, I bought bot of my nephews a Daisy and they were interested for a day but that was it. Sad times anon.

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>>133337631
Refer to my post above

>>133332961

>>133321767

Yeah. Was lucky enough to have a bmx race course near my house. Huge ramps you could do flips on. We'd get about 5-6 guys and run the course every couple weeks for hours at a time. Had a nice Mongoose, myself - super light.

In my teens, we went back with mountain bikes, and I'll just say they're a lot scarier to flip.

>>133331791
No shit. I loved catching balls just to use as a shield and knocking the other team members out one by one. I used to arch them high so they come nearly straight down on unsuspecting opponents. Good ole days that kids today wouldn't even know.

Because of dumb nigger bitch obama, "It too violent" That and coupled with no PE anymore in schools. NO WONDER KIDS ARE FAT ASS SISSYS.

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I called 911 on my home phone in 1992 and immediately hung up, they called me right back.

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Who remembers these bad ass toys that had lasting fun? I guess they aren't expensive enough for modern toys.

>>133321170
74 here as well, put in skateboarding and it sounds like my younger days, too.

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>>133319936
Music was depressing. I Can't stand to listen to nirvana, pearl Jam, sound garden anymore. That depressing shit just makes me want to kill myself.

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>>133321023
>absolute best generation to live through

Uh, Generation X (born 1960-1975) had:
late '60-70-'s music
"free love"
sex before AIDS existed
flying when flying was fucking cool af
the advent of the personal computers and the digital age
actual free speech
actual privacy
cool-looking cars that were designed to be beautiful, not just aerodynamic
the ability to actaully disappear, by going off the grid

+ all the shit from the 80's, 90's, and today.

>>133319936


I know it's based around the early 70's, and that this is ripped from a TV show - but this is what America looks like to me (ideally).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlvCRx-27aM

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>>133319936
THIS THREAD IS TOO /nostalgia/ for me. :((((((

FUCK 2017!!! FUCK EVERYTHING AFTER 9/11!!!!

>32 now...
>mfw osama + dubya ended my happiness and I landed here with a job at Wendy's and a bad back...

i'll never be happy until we nuke the middle east off the face of the planet, arrest all the niggers and pedos so kids can play all day in the woods again, and get rid of all this blue light

and holy shit the cartoons 24/7 desensitizing us is 100% true. EVERY SINGLE BOY KID WATCHED SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS (x-men was the shit! trick card chereee)

God damn... my family... I haven't actually felt anything for my family since 2001...

How....

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>>133339302
so glamorous, tickets were only like $2200 to fly 500 miles in todays dollars, coach

>>133324855
>>133327076
>>133327954
Low energy

>>133337006
is this why all you crouchniggers still wear adidas everything? holy shit everyone laughs at your adidas

>>133320634
Whoa, they actually talked like that back then, I thought that was just in movies

>>133339181

LMAO
I feel nostalgic right along with you but lol at your suffering

>>133320169
I was born in 88 and it was different, just not a ton. But for sure, my neighborhood was basically completely white. Now that same neighborhood is full of mudbloods. The biggest difference was computers. Not using DOS as much, the advancements in Windows, smart phones, etc.

Cost of living was lower. Wages have stagnated since the 90s due to globalism. So no, its not fucking nostalgia you dumb pieces of toxic commie trash.

It was okay. We're basically living in the cyberpunk dystopia of the future imagined back then, but it's fuckin lame.

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>mfw reading all this shit
fuck being born in 99 lads. All i ever did was play playstation 2, never had a bike and my "friends" were social outcasts who never went anywhere. My parents were overprotective and never let me have a bike, but they let me drive since 14. Biggest achievement of my life was learning java

M-maybe in another life

>>133340097

You owned a PS2. That's good enough

>>133335421
>Nobody took the Internet seriously until 2007/2008.

to be this young.
lel

>>133327076
>I'll probably vote for him again in 2020
He's not going to run again, my guy.
For him this gig is four years, or fewer.

I remember when the only way you'd know what albums a band had was by looking in all the CD stores you could find. Sometimes you'd come across another album that you never knew had existed. If there was an actress you'd liked in a movie, you had to watch the credits carefully for her name, then you'd check the backs of VHS boxes to see what else she was in. I do like being able to use the web to look up handy stuff like that, but I prefer the web as it was in the late 90s/early 2000s before social media got big and ruined everything.

>>133335429
he's right tho

>>133340097
>never had a bike and my "friends" were social outcasts who never went anywhere
That's an interesting point.
There have always been social outcasts, but in the 1970's they didn't stay inside and mope like that, they still went out and did shit. I guess in the mid-'80's when computers came along, people used them as an excuse to not go outside. Unfortunate.

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>>133328816
is this the garbage you're going to tell osiris? seriously?

>>133340238
Its not fun when you're alone...
I still live with my parents and I love them but
>being born in a shitty desert island
>having like 2 social outcast friends
>no female contact whatsoever
>no bike/going around the area with no one on my back
>having to drive with a licensed adult on the car with a shitton of restrictions at 17.5 years old, you cant even sit in the front passenger seat IIRC if you're under that age (i unironically drove better at 14 than most of the fucking retards in here, cutting people off, not signalling, trying to overtake you over solid lines, faggots horning at you because you obey the speed limit)
>speak a heavily modified version of greek that fucks up my accent in every other language i speak
>shittiest fucking school system you've ever seen

What bothered me the most was living in this fucking desert, I could have been born in Greece...

>>133321170
this was the 90s/early 00s too

>>133319936
The internet age is much better.

>>133341066
these are all blessings you're just too stupid to be thankful for

>>133321170
he speaks the truth. also electronica music was confined to gay clubs only

>In the 80's you would have to wait to get your porn from HBO or from a friend that could get the dirty magazines.
>In the 90's we later concluded that hunting down porn in the real world was total bullcrap.
>Today you can go to the next board over to whack off at a pony.
You're welcome.

>>133340863
They played LoL 24/7. Whenever I proposed atleast playing something like Most Wanted together but no. They were always bored and ALWAYS had something better to do than hang out with me.

It was fucking unbearable m8, I always wanted to hang out with my friends like all the other kids, riding our bikes around... Maybe it was more of my choice in friends or the location I'm in. I always imagined being born in North America, its better in every imaginable category. Especially if it was in the early 90s

>>133341198
How was any of that a blessing

>>133334450
Anything after '89 is not a 90's kid.

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Born in 1971 and I remember the constant refrain on TV about how all the shit they were voting in was going to really screw over their children and grandchildren.

You're fucked.

>>133322682
People always say Breakfast Club was the quintessential Gen X movie, but I always thought it was Fast Times. That, and Valley Girl. But then again, I grew up in San Diego and Orange counties.

Remember when blacks had legit reasons to chimp out? Like the LA riots? Those were the days. When exactly did they ALL become insufferable cunts?

>>133321564
Born in 75 and its all true.

Born in 91. If I drive by my old elementary school as its getting out, the white ratio used to be 90% or so and now its like fuckin 70%. Part of it is a shit load of nigras came here after Katrina and stayed, and beans, well, you already know.

To give you an idea, here is an example. Born in 82. School sponsored event every year we would do panty raids. We would burst in and take the panties off of chick at night. The girls loved it, the guys loved it. Today it would be national news as school sponsored rape.

>>133319936
The '90's were the most worthless nothing-decade ever. The bluepill years. Dead like a still pond.
At least the '00's had some ripples in the water.

>>133340097
I drove a 4 wheeler around to my friends houses miles away when I was 12 years old. I would duck into the woods and speed away when cops tried to pull me over for driving on the road.

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>>133321170
'71 fag reporting. There is no hope for the future.

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i like 80s music more than anything i dont care

and im a millenial

>>133335421
Chelsea Clinton, please leave

>>133321170
I'm a '76 model. You pretty much describe my life. Even as little kids, we played with BB guns, bows and arrows, and fireworks. Would disappear into the woods for an entire day, and nobody worried.

My elementary school was 100% white. Our school books included stories like Little Black Sambo, tales of Indian savages, and depicted Manifest Destiny as a glorious thing. Even by the time i got to high school, there was ONE nigger in the entire school, two Hindoos, and a handful of Asians who were mostly adopted from Korea except for one kid whose dad brought a warbride back from Vietnam.

>>133322392
300 baud external modems the size of a modern laptop

I suppose the 90s were considered good because people were enjoying the benefits of modernity, but not feeling its negative effects yet.

The music videos were the BEST!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ABgSzsPGDc

It haunts me every fucking day that I didn't take advantage of the 2008 stock crash, or buy bitcoins when they were first shilled on slashdot every day

>>133337006
Incredible perspective, thank you

>>133341066
You should be taking advantage of such a life. Please anon don't let it slip by.

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>>133321124

Graduated HS in '96 so this era is my childhood. Personally I loved it. Things were different. How much was really different vs just being a kid and not knowing shit??

Here's a few things I notice now knocking on the door of the big 4 OH:

School: everyone had a text book, I could ride any bus home with a friend with a note from my mom, we said the pledge of allegiance every morning, we celebrated Easter, Halloween and Christmas in the classroom. Even had a week long Halloween carnival at our elementary school w/ a haunted house. We ate whatever the fuck we wanted to for lunch. We had ice cream break right before school was out and could eat it on the bus on the ride home. We could smoke if we were 16 and had a signed permission slip. We got 'paddled' by the principal for misbehaving.

Home: parents together til my dad died. Close enough to walk or ride my bike to many family members homes. Neighbors loved like family. We've all been here for generations. Family gatherings multiple times a year. When the matriarch of our family died she did it at home, after 8 yrs of her family caring for her, surrounded by her loved ones.

Social: no internet, which i thank God for everyday. Pro tip: don't be a degenerate and if you do - don't take fucking pictures!

this whole thread made me NUCLEAR and it won't stop hurting.

>>133320552
>Mass chimpouts were actually considered news in the 90s rather than a daily occurrance

>>133319936
>Were things much better?
Yeah. No social media and people seemed more open.

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>>133321771

gen x was the hitech future of the world, and yet they got genocided from there. A harbinger for the future gens.
>the Culling
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>>133322679
>Where did they go?

got culled
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>>133323644
>The entire outlook on the future was different: we were going to be reaching for the stars, not being overrun by primitive savages.

>>133319936

Born in 81, oldfag or too old to be ehre but whatever fuck you. Back to your question. Imagine not being allowed to use calculators in school because it was considered cheating? Imagine having to buy your games in major retailers like Sears because Gamestop didn't exist yet and Funcoland was rare and sporadically placed around the country. MTV played videos all the fuckin time, it was so boring when it repeated the videos. I upgraded my modem from 33k to 56k and was amazed at the speed. Porn images downloaded in shifted lines over time. Porn videos rarely existed online. Music online was spread via midi because fuck you thats what we had. All your video game knowledge came from magazines you purchased at the newspaper store for $4.99. Blockbuster was incredibly rare, i remember when the first one opened where I was, major city mind you. Before that you had to walk down to the local habib's shop that had 30 or so random games and rent those. Video game designers hated you and made it their life to torment you with every design decision. Basketball and baseball skills were mandatory, if you didn't know how to play you were a loser and ostracized. Recess in school was were you caught up with your friend about tv last night. After lunch you hung out outside and talked about which girl had bigger tits. School lunches sometimes had kids mothers come in and help cook these awesome home cooked mega lunches. Art and music classes. I got into 15 or so fights through grammar school and highschool, all of them firt fights, all of them one on one and several of the guys ended up my friends even now. I lost my virginity to my highschool girlfriend, and she to me it was confusing and not very fun, we got better. Finding my dad's porn magazines and being amazed at how big the girl's tits were. The Box was a tv channel that let you call a number and get charged .99 to play a specific music video you wanted, it was communal and other people used it.

>>133323770
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>>133329939
Things started to go downhill in about 1996.

People tend to overrate then 90s as a whole. 90-95 were fantastic years, but the decade began to decline in about 96. The late 90s weren't that good at all tbph.

'96 was definitely when everything went wrong.

>>133319936

>That's how it was man.
>
>I wasn't a city kid but back then most surburbia areas still had woods.
>
>We all had Daisy BB guns and and later Beeman pellet guns, would ride our bikes into the woods and shoot at birds, squirrels. You'd feel great when you bagged one. Then you'd walk over and see it dying in the leaves, and feel fucking terrible. It was a rite of passage.

>Adelaide foot hills 20kg from town.
Mine was BSA 22 air rifle.
You could walk along the road with it over your shoulder and no one cared.

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>>133319936
I was born in 85. Things were very, very comfy pre-9/11. Little league, playing inna woods with friends from sun up to sundown, birth of the internet, everyone pretty much got along. PC/SJW shit wasn't really a thing, there was no impending sense of doom like there is now. No 24/7 infotainment/cable news bullshit. I wish we could go back.

>>133343414

No generation will ever make a movie like The Wizard ever again.

>>133336401
People forget that the internet had a solid base of bulletin boards and neets while it was still in the hands of Universities and the military.

>>133357363

everyone should watch "The Wizard" to get an understanding of that prior to the mid-90s everything was targeted for the juvenile in all of us

commercials were dominated by toys, games, kids cereals, candies and other child products

no tampon, pharmaceutical, obscene, depressing or negative commercials

it was all about keeping you positive and happy

>>133337521
You forgot we had direction control by 1990ish, you didn't have to take the tape out to flip it. I thought I was King ding a ling with my yellow Sony sports walkman

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In the 80's my parents had moved form the inner city tot the suburbs. The Suburbs were building houses and schools at an alarming rate. As a teenager was intrigued with new inventions of personal computers, video games, and camcorders. We were spent alot of time outside getting to know our friends in the neighborhood. There as sill some sexual revolution going on while the reports of AIDS were becoming more apparent. Most teens were learning how to become a Geek. We tell the old guy who worked in Radio Shack that he as wrong and were experimenting with gadgets. We were in community college hacking the main frame and talking to girls with permed hair and half moon earrings.

>>133319936

It was better. None of this SJW stuff could even get off the ground, it would be laughed out of the room.

The worst thing that happened then was "ebonics" and there was a half-hearted attempt at pretending ebonics was based on some African form of grammar rather than simply nogs not knowing how to English.

Other than that, the worst they had was cutesy pop culture college courses like "Cultural Impact of Britney Spears' music". Nobody listened to Dyke Studies, Bean Studies, or Nog Studies. They were all a joke, little did we know that by ignoring them we let the cancer spread.

>>133358612
The best was the meat headed jock who thought he'd go into Women's Studies to get laid. After all, that's where all the chicks are, right?

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>>133356760

We need to steal retro futurism as an image I believe.
Pic related.
It works as a meme and our vision of the future is such a massive departure from the vision of liberals.
Anyone with healthy instincts will naturally prefer to live in some hightech paradise that is in harmony with nature and full of happy, intelligent, decent people rather than a world full of beast turds.

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>what was it like growing up in the late 80s and early to mid 90's?

There was usable internet kind of. Prodigy was the first true GUI online service where you just had to click shit and that was where everyone went online back in the late 80's and early 90's. Service was 9 dollars a month I think. I used to go on the video game message boards on Prodigy and read Super Nintendo fanboys and Gensis fanboys shit on each other. Online console wars was real back then in 1991. Still remember that one faggot who kept saying that the Genesis is a 32 bit system because technically the processor is 32 bits and he would rile up all the SNES fanboys. But the most vile message board were in the team sports message boards, particularly in football. There was real hatred between people.

>>133336384
I just experienced a similar yesterday. Born and raised in NC. Town is less than 2k pop. Hiking at the state park. Tranny dude with a 5 o'clock shadow and his son. Later down the trail he's in the woods whipping g his dick out to take a piss

>>133321170
Oh man, if a kid wore a helmet or elbow pads he would be teased mercilessly. He'd need the pads for the beating he took from his friends for being a pussy.

>>133356897
JukeBox video! Waiting for "baby got back" to get ordered again

>>133321124
This.