What was society like before 9/11?

it was chill. smartphones didn't exist. internet was big but not yuuuuuuge. females under the age of 18 weren't thoths. N64/PS1 was the sheeeeeeit

you'll never be a 90's kid again

Rarely thought about international events. I can only really remember the Bosnian/Serbian wars and the Gulf War (I was born in 85).

It still felt like a white country. You'd rarely go places and be outnumbered.

There was more of a masculine, edgy culture (Eminem, WWE Attitude era, heavy metal was mainstream).

It all started to change with Columbine and then 9/11 put the final nail in the coffin.

It was Standard Definition

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>>133743315
Less suicidal for the most part.

>>133744206
pretty much this. I wish I was born earlier than 1990. the 90's were comfy

>>133743315
We didn't realize how much sand niggers and black niggers hate whites.

>>133743315

People had too much. More than they ever needed.

>>133743315
you're under age

>>133744853
This

There was a good faith mentality generally everywhere, wasn't much, but its absence is deafening.

>>133743315
A better question is what was society like before the internet.

The answer is: much better.

>>133743315

just check this video from 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA&t=76s

>>133743315

Whiter.

>>133744564
Its amazing how many Jackie Chan movies I watched back then that I didn't realize both how low resolution they were or how terrible the plots really were

I'd nuke China and taiwan right fucking now. I literally shake out of hate when I see one of those dog eaters in Osaka. Kill every single one of them. Niggers of Asia.

pd: remove koreans too.

>>133743315
>trump would just fuck up his business and not the country for 16+ years
>hating on people for being brown and or Muslim was frowned upon
It was less cucked

>>133745674
Kill yourself cuck

>>133745558
>literally shake

:^)

>>133743315
people chilled at the malls
arcades were a huge thing
neighborhood kids played tag football in the streets
kids used to go to the local lake/water and fish
kids used to buy smokes out of vending machines

>>133745865
T. Trumptard

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>>133743315
The internet was its own subculture where you could connect with others around the world and talk about shared interests all while remaining completely anonymous. Personal websites, BBS, and IRC were huge. Letting normies on the internet and making it an extension of real life was the worst mistake we made. People actually get prosecuted for things they post on the internet. It's madness.

There were no cell phones so you had to call your friends house number to hang out with them. I still have my friends numbers memorized.

Kids played vidya, but spent lots of time outside too. In the suburbs it was basically go run around until sundown. Summer lasted forever. Now kids never leave their house but just watch Minecraft Let's Play on their tablets.

There were still racial issues (Rodney King, OJ, etc.) but everyday black/white relations were just normal. Now with BLM and all this craziness, everyone is looking over there shoulder.

Movies were still original and entertaining. 90's cinema had tons of unique filmmakers doing cool shit. Now it's all capeshit, sequels, and rehashes. Film studious NEVER take risks. 90's was the last era where they used practical effects. Now everything is a video game cartoon.

>>133746350
cuck

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>>133745051
>A better question is what was society like before the internet.
>The answer is: much better.

Crime in general has been decreasing year by year for decades. The media just convinces everybody that the sky is falling and that we need to ban guns for "the children". The idea you used to be able to leave your door unlocked is an absolute myth.

>>133744499
This. WWF Attitude era. Vince getting beat up by Stone Cold Steve Austin and JR freaking out on commentary every Monday night was the shit.

More or less the majority of people were optimistic what with the start of the year 2000 and probably we were all thinking something great would happen.

Boy were we wrong, now we got this world in such a mess.

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>>133746363
Vidya was better back then. We got our first 3D games, and the gameplay was still actually challenging and interesting. Now every game is "run to beacon", "press X", "win game". Games back then you actually had to use your brain. Also, split screen multiplayer.

Overall, people just felt safer. You could walk down the street, smile at people, and actually live life. Now everyone is trapped in their electronic devices, and the only time they look up is for the next nigger or sandnigger attack.

>>133743315
>cheap and affordable housing, higher education
>plenty job opportunities (no h1bs!!!)
>quality cheap native goods. cheap petrol etc
>no diversity or identity politics
>intact communities
>stability, prosperity and safety

>>133746363
>IRC were huge

warez
apps
porn
serialz
gamez

i fucking loved IRC
i miss the old internet days

>>133746763
this is what minorities are going through right now in the US. They have no idea, all of their shows and music will be gone soon...

>>133746408
>replying with "cuck"

Ebic insult bro!!!! I'm btfo!!!!

>>133743315
Dumb

>>133746823
>warez, appz, pr0n
and progz

There were campfires, we'd hold hands and sing songs and tell stories.

We'd roast marshmallows, because hotdogs were too much of a luxury in those days.. reserved for mostly for special occasions.

>>133744206
90's we're comfy as fuck. All them Final Fantasy games.

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>>133743315

Better in some ways, worse in others.

Using your Blockbuster sign as an example, going to video stores was a little mini-event. You'd go with your friends, family or girlfriend, walk around the store, hope the tape was in, mingle with a bunch of other people on Friday night there to do the same thing - chill out and have a movie night. Then argue over who was going to return the tape, maybe the tracking was off, or maybe some dildo put the wrong tape back in the box.

You look back now on that with fond memories, but a lot of it was really just a pain. If you dropped Netflix on the 90's, people would have thought it was a godsend. People abandon old technology for a reason.

I think some of it just looks better with nostalgia glasses on but when you were there, you wanted something better.

But things like the way people acted, the overall attitude of America, the music scene, etc. was absolutely better. People felt safe, were overwhelmingly optimistic. Was a good time.

i don't know, but technology was shittier, everything was slower. Many things are better nowdays, except muslim invaders, thanks to amurica.

>>133743315
I want to say that it was a simpler time, a happier time.

Like the way you can look back at the 50s and think "Wow it was so much simpler back then, everyone looks happy!" Something like that. The world was still modern, but the outside world wasn't this scary, big bad place. And at home, everyone cared more about what was "RADICAL!" And being cool (even old people tried to be 90s cool and fit in) instead of complaining and tearing down fucking everything.

Maybe it was different in other places since I only grew up in America, but for the US it felt like the golden age; the height of modern development, success and unity, while people still having an open, friendly and optimistic mindset.

Basically since 9/11 it's basically felt like a downward spiral across the board.

>>133746823
That still exists tho

>>133746950
Stop derailing the thread you fucking cuck, go watch your girl getting plowed

>>133743315
id say post 9/11 wasnt bad until bush left office

>amerifats sad they have to live in the real world now

boo fucking hoo

Kids these days don't know about printing your Pokemon Snap pictures off of a special machine at blockbuster. Videogames were God tier back in the 90 s. Quake, doom, conkers bad fur day. You weren't supposed to put your personal info on the web because everybody had a sense that it was a bad fucking idea. Cell phones were pretty rare, pagers were a thing. In general I think people were more at ease. 9/11 changed everything.

>>133747585
>we can't have what America had so that means nobody should have it.

Fuck you faggot.

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>>133747585

Well. Yeah.

Consider what America originally was. Escape from the dumb fuck traditions and mores and norms that held back advancement.

We never wanted to be part of your dogshit world. We loved our bubble.

>>133747728
videogames are better nowdays.

back then migrants were rare, there might be 0.01% muslims somewehre are 50,000 a year net migration, now it's 10 times that. Those that did come over went to London and stayed there.

now it's all over of course but at one time it was a nice country very optimistic around that tony blair new labour period.

>>133744930
Commies get out

>>133747415
>i state an opinion that isn't "man trump is gr8 and fucking brown people are ruining America "
>I'm somehow derailing the thread when all you do is repeat "yousa cuck!!!!" 100x
Do you have brain damage?

>>133747867
Gtfo normie

>>133747867
They look prettier, but they are just re wrapped shined up versions of classics. Quake Arena was the shit. I blew so many hours on the school computers playing Unreal. Shooters used to have some way cooler fucking guns. Turok for instance.

>>133744963
9/11 was 15 years ago, if you were 2 1/2 when it happened you are now a legal adult.

>>133747585
You ruined what we had.

We will never forgive you.

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People keep saying 9/11 did us in, which was a big part but the final nail in the coffin was the 2008 financial crash. Peoples livelihoods were destroyed, entire job sectors, and a housing market to this day that's yet to really recover to some of the rust belts states where i live to this day. And this brought on a huge cultural shock as well to. The boom times of the early 2000s were over and this brought in more radical positions. The lgbtqp, Obama being elected on the bias of being black and a carrot and stick method oh being able to fix the economy, and even More racial tension and division! It go so much worse after the crash :***((

>>133748111
This also in terms of video games; They look amazing and beholding. But the gameplay and now even outright story T. Mass effect Andromeda as perfect recent example are shit no other way to put it. We got video games that look goo but with horrible gameplay and stories.

>>133748111
a kid, who has never played before, would choose modern fps shooter any day. Although i don't like fps, i think they have more depth nowdays.
You have been infected by nostalgia my friend.

>You will never go into AIM chat rooms around 2000 and larp as a teenage girl to troll the virgins

Times were simpler

>>133748597
modern FPS games fucking suck. Get down to 1% health, hide behind cover for 10 seconds, back to 100% health.

A couple years ago I was saying this to a friend and he challenged me to beat the last level of Call of Duty Black Ops on max difficulty then and there. I had never played the game before. I beat it on my first try without ever having played that game before.

>>133746265
Yep, life was similar for this Michigan man.

>>133743315
>people had integrity
>radical feminism and white male guilt wasnt a thing
>there wasn't BREAKING NEWS 24/7 so when something bad did happen you weren't so desensitized that you didnt care
Side bar: I mean look at the Manchester Bombing, The Nice attacks, or the Bataclan. back in '01 that would be 9/11 tier news, now Europeans dont give a shit because it happens every day
>SJWism, rape culture, feminism didnt exist outside of the fringes of society or pollute entertainment
>videogames were on the up swing in popularity
>Racebating didnt exist
>Economy was better
>Being middle class actually meant that you were making pretty good money
>Gas was $1.50 per gallon
>Music was better, even rap was good and not so niggerfied that it sucked
>If someone was shot by the police, then everyone thought they probably deserved it
>food wasn't full of unhealthy chemicals and preservatives
>You could actually afford to buy a house for a decent price
>social media and smartphones didn't dominate everyone's lives
>Kids could actually be outside alone and not risk being kidnapped by a pedo
>Getting into college and getting a degree actually meant something
>Islam didn't exist outside of the middle east
It was a better time anon

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>>133748373
>obama presidency
>starts with even king nigger against fag marriage
>degeneracy was still mostly looked upon as bad
>race relations were pretty good
>8 years later
>faggotry completely accepted and encouraged
>"slut shaming" is somehow an actual accepted term among normies
>race relations destroyed, whites becoming afrikaners of america
>republicans refuse to turn back the tide on any of this because this shit is actually popular now

You might be onto something, anon

>>133748597
Nah. Games were actually better back then. When you bought a game you got a full fucking videogame. None of this paying for anything past 20 hours of play time. Expansions were pretty much a full sequel. When you bought an expansion it actually was worth it. You've been infected with pleb tier taste in gaming.

>>133747849
tl:dr: that bitch Eve ate the apple and ruined everything.

>>133743315

I'm 34 now. I was a senior in high school when 9/11 happened. Here's the major societal changes (in my opinion):

1) News: absolutely NOTHING like it is today. CNN was actually a respectable outlet with legit reporting. There were no "personalities" like Tucker or Hannity (or any liberal equivalents either). Getting news from the internet still wasn't really a thing pre-9/11.

2) Phones: no smartphones. 90% of my calls to friends were on my home landline. I had a cell phone (the Nokia brick that had the snake game on it) but I rarely used it to talk, mostly to text on. Having unlimited texting was actually a service you had to pay extra for back then, lol. People weren't glued to their phones constantly because phones couldn't do much besides text and call people. If you went to dinner at a restaurant, people would actually be looking at each other and not down at their phones.

3) Gaming: N64, PS1 and Dreamcast ruled my gaming life. Goldeneye for N64 was basically the console shooter king until Perfect Dark came out a few years later. PS1 had come out in the mid-90's and not many people had it but then Final Fantasy 7 came out and did for the PS1 what Halo did for the Xbox (the first one). Dreamcast was a major deal bc it was the first time you could LITERALLY have an arcade experience at home. Prior to that, games ported from arcade to console most often had compromises to the graphics and/or sound, but Dreamcast basically shattered that barrier. All in all, a pretty great time to be a console gamer.

4) Buying Stuff: Amazon existed, but from what I remember initially they focused mostly on books and music. If you wanted a CD or book that you couldn't find at Borders or Barnes and Noble you went to Amazon. At that point in time, you wouldn't really be like "oh I'll just buy my toilet paper on Amazon!" Prime didn't exist so if you wanted something shipping costs played a big role in that.

>>133748583
Yeah... Still haven't purchased andromeda. When it hits 20 bucks I might give it a try.

>>133748583
>look amazing
>Andromeda

>>133747163
I still rent dvds sometimes.

>>133749245
What was the Czech Republic like in the 90's, anon?

>>133743315
its was a time before time... the way back time. a time when magazines were eaten by early man and giant 56k modems roamed the earth. man had started to make simple tools and started dominating the wild life with kodak "cameras". this was before phones developed a larger brain that was capable of playing angry birds

>>133749004
i like for example xcom 2 and civilizations series wouldn't play the originals.

>>133749050
Phantasy star online. Fucking hell dreamcast was ahead of its time. 56k modem on a console. N64 was the shit. Getting together with 3 friends to play goldeneye was the shiiiiiit.

I was in my early 30s it marked the end of 20 years of prosperity where things got better every year. Every year since we got poorer, more degenerate and more depressed

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>>133748722
my grandma had a webtv back in the day from 1998 to 2004/5. thing was a pos compared to a computer, but it was better than nothing. best thing about it was using it for chatrooms, you could troll the fuck out of those rooms get permabaned, but I found out if you unplug the webtv it would reset the permaban. I would do this about 20 times a day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsaN68Q9BDM&

>>133748373
>The boom times of the early 2000s
the early 2000s was a bust a fuckin recession

housing scam resulting in the 2007 bubble

no one got jerbz so they went to fight some towelheads

the depressed economy was propped up by a housing bubble. the govt and financial institutions provided a "bail out" to the people in the form of low interest rates and lax regulations. the lack of job opportunities in the depressed economy forced people to exploit new career incentives created by financial institutions and govt focused on real estate speculation. with everyone speculating in real estate through "free money", the bubble burst.

>>133749050
Malls still were good and had music stores that would carry rare CD singles.

>>133749350
I think you are a faggot because, for example, you suck dicks.

You probably wouldn't play the original deus ex you fucking homo. Though the modern releases of that series are pretty good.

Starcraft. Warcraft. Diablo. All of them are better than their modern iterations.

>>133745036
truth

>>133749589
starcraft is in your ass. and diablo and warcraft. fuck you.

Your retard, idiot.

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>>133745446
What the fuck did you just say about me you little bitch?

>>133749756
You fucking what mate? Tasteless Finnish faggot.

>>133749050
>Pre-2001 news was respectable
Tip toppity kekerino
You probably think Walter Cronkite was trustworthy.
If the CIA is going to continue to illegally drone strike people, I hope you to be collateral damage. government sheep like you deserve what they get.

>>133749589
>>133749756
you ever play Infantry Online? shit was addicting .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aAtc3Qdzak

>>133749904
Okay. SO what is your theory that videogames are badder nowdays?

>>133749004
A good example of this is comparing Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind to Skyrim. Morrowind had tons of lore, and depth to the story and you could actually ruin your game for killing/angering the wrong people. It also took 20 hours minimum to complete and that is if you just clicked through the dialogue and didnt explore at all. If you factor in exploration and guild you could easily spend 70-100 hours in the game.

Skyrim on the other hand has a main quest that can be completed in 5 hours and maybe 30 hours of content outside of that. It looks better and has "more" locations, but it is a mile wide and an inch deep in terms of content.

>>133749904
This is a list, that someone made and it shows what he liked the most at that year. What do you think, what would you play?

1984 Tetris
1985 Super Mario Bros
1986 Castlevania
1987 Space Quest II
1988 Super Mario Bros 3
1989 Prince of Persia
1990 Silent Service II
1991 Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
1992 Wolfenstein 3D
1993 Doom
1994 Doom II
1995 Command & Conquer
1996 Duke Nukem 3D
1997 Age of Empires
1998 Fallout 2
1999 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
2000 Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
2001 Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis
2002 Battlefield 1942
2003 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
2004 Half-Life 2
2005 Battlefied 2
2006 TES IV: Oblivion
2007 The Witcher
2008 Mass Effect (PC)
2009 Dragon Age: Origins
2010 Mass Effect II
2011 TES V: Skyrim
2012 XCOM: Enemy Unknown
2013 Metro: Last Light
2014 Shadowrun: Dragonfall
2015 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
2016 Dark Souls III

>>133750075
1. They don't release games of any decent length unless you are willing to shit out another 60 bucks for a (((season pass)))
2. They are cramming political correctness into fucking everything
3. Modern games are not challenging enough.
4. They are selling the hobby out to sell to retarded demographics, and making games to the lowest common denominator.

They look prettier but there is no originality. No mans sky had the potential to be amazing and instead they handed us absolute shit.

>>133743315
Only foreigner here was an adopted gook. First time i saw a nigger was like seing an extra terrestial.

>>133749589
>Starcraft 1 vs. Starcraft 2
My favorite part about Starcraft is that it was full fucking game. I never played anything past the shitty Terran storyline on Starcraft 2 because They literally divided up the faction content into 3 separate games

>>133749916
>says pre-2001 news was respectful, deserves death

Another great advantage to living in 2017 is the abundance of antipsychotics. Run to a psychiatrist and get some.

>>133750428
Bingo.

>>133750745
Bullshit.

>>133743315

In America? More free.

More focused on living life than on terror or debt as a whole.

In a way they tipped their hand, because instead of the manipulation slowly sneaking up on this gen we were forced to question their lies.

>>133745242
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA

Beat me to it

The 80s and 90s were so comfy

>>133750700
Plus the map creator. Fucking a I used to make some insane shit with that on the original Starcraft.

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>those alien bastards are gonna pay for shootin' down my ride

>>133750811
How old are you faggot?

>>133743315
Still shit the difference is we did not have iphones back then.

>>133750957
>when first person shooters only had horizontal x-axis camera panning

>>133750811
found the 15 year old who has only played COD, Minecraft, and Skyrim

Life felt warm. Stepping outside your door felt like going on an adventure. Even if you were just going shopping.

>>133751059

We didn't have iPhones during most of the the oughts either.

>>133751002
i am hundred years old. Now if you had to choose 3 games from this anons list, what would it be? And please don't lie to me.

1990: The Secret of Monkey Island
1991: Monkey Island 2
1992: World of Illusion (Megadrive)
1993: NHL94 (Megadrive)
1994: DOOM II
1995: NHL96
1996: NHL97
1997: Quake II
1998: Unreal
1999: Aliens vs Predator
2000: The Longest Journey
2001: Aliens vs Predator 2
2002: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
2003: The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon
2004: DOOM 3
2005: Quake 4
2006: Gothic 3
2007: The Witcher
2008: GTA IV
2009: Demon's Souls
2010: Heavy Rain
2011: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
2012: Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
2013: GTA V
2014: Alien Isolation
2015: The Witcher 3
2016: Dishonored 2
2017: Resident Evil 7

The future seemed bright because Islam wasn't really in the collective consciousness... But now darkness has engulfed the realm.

Everybody I knew took karate. Everyone played sports. We played lots of video games. It that was mostly a night thing the days were spent fucking around on bmx bikes around the neighborhood. It was carefree.

>>133743315

Trust still existed.

In my opinion... four years ago is when the USA started to change to complete shit...with its anti white male propaganda bs.

>>133750557
oh the games on that list there are very few i'd say are good once you get past 2008 oddly it goes to shit in terms of gameplay then story. Dragon age origins is actually one of the better ones on that list i'll give you that . but past that it gets meh. And maybe even wither 3 but i can't say for sure from personal experience but i've heard good things.

>>133751512
Monkey Island 1 & 2
and Doom 2

>>133751512
Doom2 Quake2 and Unreal.

>>133751512
RA3

>>133751512

>97
>not goldeneye

dropped

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>>133743315
80's kid/90's teen here. 80's were so fkn comfy. No 24/7 surveillance.
Typical Saturday. Watch cartoons from 7-10 while eating Count Chocula.
Then watch Godzilla movies till 12.
Meet my friends, and we would bring out our best G.I Joe figures and artillery and have "wars".
Then wait for the ice cream man.
Go ride our bikes to the local department store and check out new records and cassettes, toys, play hockey in the aisle...
Go home and play some Atari. Oh, and kung fu movies on Saturday afternoons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTw2m1o3f10

The 90's were a continuation of that, still no 24/7 surveillance, but now hanging out with girls and getting head while watching Beavis & Butthead
Getting stoned before school with friends and not stressing about government testing. Just making shit in wood shop or electronics shop.
Playing Joe Montana's Football on SEGA with friends. You could actually have a guy taken out on a stretcher and ambulance if you hit him hard enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GyBy-V03g4
Find some local concerts to go to for $10
Playing Street Fighter for hours in a pizza place

I feel bad for you newfags.

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>>133751543
>The future seemed bright

>>133751545
>1992
>stretching you leg muscles to kick some ass

>2017
>stretching your anus to take rhino horn up the ass

>>133751512
>Unreal
>Not Unreal Tournament
But why?

>>133743315
Born in 87, turned 30 yesterday actually.
I was into riding my bmx bike, tae kwon do, rc cars, hanging with friends, tekken, and interstate 76 (pc game) right around the time of 9/11. These things were about all I thought about.
Definitely more "comfy" as everyone keeps saying. A lot of pros, but god damn there were a lot of cons. Fuckton of blue pills were being passed around with no challenge, "informed" people were people who watched the msm, a whole lot of George Bush hate, even in the rural areas like where I grew up.

>>133751591
you overslept by a decade or 2

Could go around bashing packis and no one cared. Not even the teachers.

>>133751709
literally my childhood

>>133749504
And now they're blowing up the stock market. There is gonna be a phenomenal crash during Trump's first term. They're trying to time it now so that he can't turn things around before election day.

>>133751865
Happy Birthday

>>133749999
quads checked, and i did play it with a friend from high school like pretty much daily

>>133743315
There were real live unicorns and girls walked around naked singing prettily while servicing your every whim. Everyone was employed doing what they loved, and everyone drove lamborghini testerossas. There was no sadness, no guilt, no chronic depression, everyday was sunny and warm, except the ones that weren't. There were exactly the right amount of cats and dogs so there was no Sarah McLachlan caterwauling on TV, lovers really fell in love to stay, stood beside each other come what may, families really bowed their heads to pray and daddies really never went away. Yes that was the good old days.

Giv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n23FV4w7zFE

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>>133752277
>>133752277

So people are talking about vidya, but for PCs the distribution methods were wayyy different. Lots of little stores would have a cardboard display full of shareware diskettes - this is how I first played Wolfenstein 3D - with instructions on how to order the full game.

Respond if you played and remember these games on diskette:
Animal Quest
The Hunt for Dr. Riptide
Galactix
Zone 66
Blake Stone
Commander Keen in Goodbye Galaxy
Duke Nukem (sidescroller)
Duke Nukem II (sidescroller)
Raptor
Hexagon
Night Raid

>>133752455

>shareware and spawned copies

comfiest timeline desu

>>133746763
it's like they were intentionally trying to make the most 90's photograph possible

>>133752455
>Duke Nukem (sidescroller)
>Duke Nukem II (sidescroller)
loved those games

>>133748773
sure you did, faggot.

>>133752141
Thanks. Did a lot of drinking and got no hangover! Did good.

>>133746763
>and the only time they look up is for the next nigger or sandnigger attack.
now that everyone is doinf that it creates an opportunity people are naturally becoming more introverted so you need to become an extrovert. Start small and practice, make eye contact smile. I'm not shitting if you can control the situation and make people feel comfortable you can get away with fucking murder.

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>>133746823
WareZ
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Back when you didn't fuck with dudes with names like xXScReEnNaMeXx because you knew they had the latest progs and they would totes bust out their "punters" and leave you looking at the sign in screen .

Back when an outside ISP connection, a second phone line, and a brute force program meant 100s of free AOL accounts and all of your friends thinking you were some kind of l33tO haxOr

Back before anybody knew what a troll was and you spent 3 weeks downloading a pirated game only to find out there was a password on the .rar or .zip files.

Back when knowing a tiny bit if Visual Basics made you a legit programmer and knowing a handful of html codes meant you were a certified "webmaster"....

Lel... Still remember my Metallica fan page, gawdy as fuck, stuffed full of shitty little .gif files and blinking text.
>You must be using the latest Netscape Navigator to get the full experience of this page

Everything was so new and shiny, you felt like a true explorer surfing the web. Every site was made by amatures and enthusiast and the internet felt like the wild west.

Fuck me the nostalgia is almost too much. Those times will always be the "good ol days" for me.

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>>133752052
"You sunoffabitch!"

>>133743315
Better. In no way perfect, but much, much better than it is now.

>>133743315
You could go on a plane without needing a colonoscopy. The pilot would sometimes let kids into the cockpit to see what flying was like.

>>133743315
Imagine waiting a half hour for a single mp3 file to download and 25 minutes in your mom needs to make a call. File lost.

>>133747024
>Proggies
>AoHell
>Fate X
>Havok
>Hellraiser
>AOpussy
>Chen Punter
>Pepsi
>Proggie named after whatever popular film was showing at the moment

>>133753232
I remember getting the "honorary" pilot wings after you got to see the cockpit.

>>133752960
this


fucking kill me now. anything internet before WoW and the massive faggot normie influx of 05

You played outside until it got dark.
You actually went door-to-door trick-or-treating without adult supervision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idg8TNknvDU

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>>133752455
nope, but we had this game for pc, when i was kid. Format was 5.25" Floppy Disk. I couldn't understand english back then, and my brother had to translate. But it was scary game, with all the drug dealers and murderers. Probably one of the scariest games of all time.

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>>133752960

Please, anon. I can't handle all these feels.

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>>133753387
Damn you anon. I just got teary eyed

>>133747163
>Spending 45 minutes trying to decide on what game to rent because your parents said you could only get one
>Being the cool kid because you had a dual tape VHS player that you could copy the latest movie rentals with

>Be kind, please rewind...

>>133753456
You people are weird. Those times are nothing to be nostalgic about. Sure I understand you miss playing tie fighter collector cd on your Packard bell, but christ it wasn't that great.

I still can't emphasize how much better vidya was back then. There was no datamining, no gamefaqs, hell there weren't any forums really. Yeah if you were a nerd you could maybe find someone on the internet who was talking about it but really it was up to you to figure things out. Big releases might have a strategy guide and if you were fortunate enough to live near a Fred Meyer you could hop on your bikes and go figure out the hard part. It was great because every game really felt new and exploring was a big part of gaming.

Let me give an example: I was playing Donkey Kong Country on a new save file. I had beat the first level and was walking towards the second pushing some buttons on my controller when I warped to the end of world 3. I had no idea what happened, this was basically magic! Video games regularly had this kind of magic and wonder.

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>>133753646
>Reading every word
>Hanging up the inserts on your bedroom wall

>>133743315
I was 11 when 9/11 happened so society was great before it because I was a worthless child who did nothing but have fun and now I project that onto the 90's and claim they were better than now because I have to actually work and provide for myself. You all are such fucking pussies.

>>133752960
Is your metallica page on waybackmachine?

>>133753746

The internet truly what objectively better back then, though. This is a fact that cannot be argued.

>>133752960
cyberspace was our turf- a secret hideout
it was raw and untamed chaotic cyberbeast of recluses and for hermits

now the cyberspace has been gentrified and all the undersirables, the original inhabitants, the trollz, evicted

>>133753746
No, it really was.

>>133753607
Wish I still had mine......

>>133753816
Holy shit... I never thought to look for it.
It just might be, I'd have to remember the provider it was on
>Angelfire
>Geocities
>Tripod
Fugggg. Ty anon, I'm finding that fucker for sure.

>>133743315

>Almost every women in college was skinny,
>Colleges didn't have SJW, and you hardly heard about feminism on campus
>No smartphones so everyone was more open and carefree
>No tinder, so bars were full of people who wanted to meet
>You met your friends face to face 10x more than now.

>>133743315

Flying was a hell of a lot better, internet didn't have all these faggots on it.

>>133753849
Yep, turned into a hollow corporate space, devoid of the curiosity and wonder that once made it such a mysterious and adventurous place.

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>>133751664
>>133751662

>Doom 2

>>133747163
>You look back now on that with fond memories, but a lot of it was really just a pain. If you dropped Netflix on the 90's, people would have thought it was a godsend. People abandon old technology for a reason.

>I think some of it just looks better with nostalgia glasses on but when you were there, you wanted something better.

Guess it depends how you define better.

Imagine a future 50 years from now when you can order literally everything you need to live on the internet (we're there already basically) and everyone also works from home. Wow how convenient! You literally never have to leave the house or interact with a human! Progress! Convenience! So much better!

>>133753836
Yeah sure. Did you try to play civ 3 pc multiplayer on dialup? It was suffering.

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>>133743315
It was aight

t. oldfag

>>133747163
Human interaction is 10x better than technology that takes that away. What tech has done has increased the suicide rate. Middle school kids are now killing themselves.

>>133744206
.>thoths

u wot

>>133754500
Thot goths, thoths.

>>133743315
probably shitty

>>133743315
People knew what freedom was. Anyone under 20 now has no idea what it's like to live in a society where you are not a tracked slave

>>133752960
Aw fuck me.

>>133743315
It was better... No niggers running around in every city like these days...

>>133753994
Cool.
I tried to find my old rogue spear clan website with no luck, remembered the clan but couldn't remember the website name unfortunately.

>>133749416
This. The time right before the internet was the perfect time. Nothing will beat the 80-90s, especially if you lived in NYC, LA, or Chicago. It was like a party without any smartphones.

Was the shit.
Cars were good, tv wasn't fag nigger shit, doom 2, ps , dreamcast (mutha fukken vector man)
No fucking smart phones.
God I wonna go back.

big brother wasn't up your ass

>>133743315

It wasn't really much different from now, maybe earlier on some of the aesthetics left over from the 80's were better, the technology was shitter, on the whole tv shows are better now.

It was a lot harder to be a shut in NEET because back then internet wasn't as common and there was less to do on it so boredom would drive you insane.

>>133743315
A lot more white people

/thread

>>133743315
NAFTA and outsourcing really hadn't hit home yet
Gulf War high still, America was undefeated
the internet was something for nerds that was on a computer in the corner of a room, so if you were online then no normies
malls were getting shittier but they were still there along with arcades
most of the internet looked similar to the Drudge Report

>>133752960
>Back when knowing a tiny bit if Visual Basics made you a legit programmer and knowing a handful of html codes meant you were a certified "webmaster"....

getting decent IT jobs without a list of professional certs or a degree
$55k right out of high school in some areas, and when $55k was good fucking money

>>133743315
Back then we knew not to go chasing waterfalls.

>>133743315
damn, i remember walking into a blockbuster with my dad almost every Saturday to rent a game, movie and buy some popcorn and those fkin butterfinger bb's and chocolate covered raisins.

Good times.

>>133743315
>We will never go back to a time when the concept of a cell phone with a camera was considered the most retarded idea in existence

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also not only were there no smartphones, but regular cell phones were so expensive and rare that only businessmen used them
this was a gag back in 1995

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPzZIJ-4Cq4

>>133755115
>getting decent IT jobs without a list of professional certs or a degree

and no poojeetz to make nativez unemployed due to globalist diversity(white replacement) agenda

>>133748373
Absolutely correct. This is what destroyed the job market for "millenials". All because they had to lend money to niggers.

>>133746540
Let's be fair. Violent crime peaked in the mid 90s, so you can't just show a chart starting from there.

>>133755284
Family video still exists, my gf and I go there a couple times a month. If anything it's nostalgic, dvds and blu ray instead of vhs but it's a video rental store so it's cool. Their color scheme reminds me of something from the 90s for some reason.

>>133755344
There's a reason why vanity is a deadly sin

>>133744499
I paid attention to most big events and I was a little kid. OKC bombing, Ruby Ridge, the OJ trial, the first WTC attack, the embassy bombings, USS Cole, Desert Storm, Yugoslavia, all of it... It was an eventful time on its own, but there was definitely a feeling of order and western control.

>>133755585
"Urban" people from the cities is all it was. Gang violence out the ass. Gang culture was extremely glorified and this culture leaked everywhere, even to white country areas. Saggy clothes, some of the speak, etc.

>>133745558
I can't tell any of you slanty eyed subhumans apart.

>>133743315
it was alright

You used to be able to get fire works shipped to your door step.

Nobody except fundamentalist Christians thought anything about Muslims.

Stewardesses would personally wipe your ass even in coach

Boomer here. I actually liked the 80s even more than the 90s. There was more of a general feeling of optimism that can be seen in 80s fashion, and heard in the music of the time.

The video at >>133745242 gives a pretty good idea of the general atmosphere of the era.
>Embed

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUDw4oDl5NQ

Games were still somewhat of a niche and you were still considered a nerd if you played them a lot. Gaming died when normies and girls became infatuated with it.

>>133756080
>Stewardesses would personally wipe your ass with their tongue even in coach

and now they treat you like toilet power. what gives?

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>>133755579
(((They))) sure did

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>>133743315
House was cheap.

>>133747426
This... The war years were actually pretty good. The key problem with our society is the political instability.

>>133751512
monkey island, q2, morrowind

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Cheap money (easy monetary policy) coupled with massive deficit spending and the abandonment of any kind of sound monetary system is what killed general prosperity in the West. The trend started in the early 70s with the "temporary" suspension of the Bretton-Woods standard by Richard Nixon, this event effectively turned all currencies in the world into fiat currencies at the same time - removing any kind of checks and balances for government spending.

The 90s was the period when low interest rates began resulting in easy monetary policy which in turn inflated huge asset bubbles - we have seen a continuation of these mistakes since then, just the problems are much bigger now and the bubble is in nearly every asset class at a magnitude several times larger than anything seen before.

>>133751512
>Doom II
>Quake II
>Aliens vs Predator

>>133743315
I was still a child but I remember we still had dial up back then. Man the internet was fun. I got to experience it briefly before they made it easy for niggers to use the internet, and it was awesome back in those days.

It's not really a decade thing. It's a racial demographics thing. The less white a nation is(aside from east Asia) the shittier everything is.

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>>133757489
>back when the internet was white

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>>133757005
DELETE THIS

>>133756080
>Nobody except fundamentalist Christians thought anything about Muslims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DEUFLCLcbI

>>133747983
Cuck.

>>133757728
Before the majority of Internet usage was conducted through cell phones.

>>133745558
Fuck China and Korea, no matter how many times Japan apologizes they bitch and act like they were absolute angels during the War.

>>133747585
Go play with some sand

>>133751512
No Unreal Tournament? Fag

>>133745242
>>133750908
Look how comfortable they are talking to eachother
they're not shy at all
Was it porn that fucked our societies up to the point where people cant even communicate with eachother properly anymore

>>133750557
>tfw you'll never set up boy scout patrol functions just so the eight of us can stay up all night playing AoE and Goldeneye all night long.

>>133743315

The 90's had it's problems and bullshit. It was far from idyllic domestically in the U.S.

As far as I'm concerned, domestically, the 1980's was better.

I lived the 90s life until like 2006; my city still had a vhs rental store and I'd go there every week only to see more tapes get replaced with dvds only for it to get closed due to netflix. I didn't have ok internet until 4 yrs ago as I only had dial-up available in my area despite not living in a small rural town. Muslims and the millennial blacks literally ruined everything.

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>>133743315
better times... simpler times.

those times are gone now.

>>133752520

It was probably taken in the last 4 months of the 90's

redditfag 20 something's have literally no reference to the 90s

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Sage

>>133750557
I was born in '82, I experienced almost all of the best video games. Only Pong was before my time. I can say that GTA V with its online component is the greatest, grandest video game to ever exist.

>>133743315
a lot more optimisitic and positive. The cold war was over, germany reunited, terrorist attack were mainly a thing of the past and people were excited for the new millenium.

Too bad that everything completely turned to shit after 911.

old guy here

we went to the arcade and play Galaga and Pac Man.
Hung out at malls
Internet appeared....it was free and you hooked up to your phone line...$10 a month
Cable could be "adjusted" so you got free cable
No cameras hardly anywhere...you could do anything and no record of it
At the clubs they had $.10 shot night...kamikazees etc
good times

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I read the comments of americans here and it feels like you truly lost something.
My condolences.

Tbh it was far wealthier. That's the main difference.

>>133743315
Much less cynical. Then reality crept up and retarded white people went bat shit crazy.

>>133763706
Seeing the world get raped everyday is soul crushing, I just want to see Trump really maga since Obama's "Hope" was a load of globalist bullshit.

>>133748925
stop making me sad I was born in 96

>>133763855
well, globalists (rockefeller & assoc) transferred our private wealth to asia

US is China's greatest ally. if it was not for the US, China would still be a country based on subsistence farming.
US literally created superpower China...
Nixon birthed superpower China and the US continued to transfer the wealth and future of the west to China
china would not be what it is today solely based on china's abilities and without western transfer of wealth and technology

China's rise was due to a transfer of wealth from the west.

>murica transfer of wealth/technology/industry to poor rural china
>murica create power strong china
>murica claim a strong china a problem
>murica plans on fighting strong china with totalitarian TTP eroding more citizen rights
>not creating a scapegoat to implement totalitarianism


the power brokers transferred:
-literally all the financial funds of US workers to China,
-transferred technology and jobs to China
-hyperinflated the housing so that only the Chinese (recipients of western funds) could afford the housing

the transfer of funds was done involuntarily without the consent of the owners of the funds
the power brokers took western funds sitting in banks and invested all of that in China.


all that wealth transfer was from your pockets. the private funds in bank accounts, the housing assets, the jobs, all transferred by corporate USA without your agreement...

>>133744635
I've noticed that it's actually a thing these days for normie kids to post onto ifunny or whatever about how much they want to kill themselves, how they have no friends, or any number of depressing things. Self-deprecation has become a form of comedy among today's youth and I think it's probably exactly what ((they)) wanted.

>>133744499
>>133745326
>>133755021
>>133755508
>>133757728

I just remember the 90s being so fucking fun and people were just so easy going and carefree. The parks were filled with kids rollerblading, skate boarding, playing with super soakers/water balloons. People just walking around listening to their walkman/cd player. Kids and teens always invited each other over to play the newest video games or watch the newest movie their parents got for them on vhs.

Beaches, malls, theaters, amusement parks were packed and nobody seemed to give a shit as long as they were having fun! The biggest difference of all was most people were WHITE!

>>133761397
not if I can help it, in about 10 years, with movie magic

>>133763855
>said the Jew, holding bags filled with all of the money he swindled

>>133743315
GOOD TIMES

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

>>133747163
>I think some of it just looks better with nostalgia glasses on but when you were there, you wanted something better.
I literally never felt like that and I vividly remember going down to the video store near my house to rent N64 games up until around the time the Xbox came out, then you'd go there to get Xbox games. I think you're just wrong; there's a reason why vinyl record sales are still kickin.

The journey is just as important as the destination.

>>133765245
this

>>133745242
i didn't ask for these feels

>>133745446
>watches martial Arts movies for the plot

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take me back

>>133756292
C&C <3

If you're feeling nostalgic: http://www.openra.net/

>>133765245
That's also why vhs collecting while still fairly niche is a reasonably popular thing. I make vhs covers for modern movies to display.

>>133760191
nah, mostly the internet. it allowed everything to be filmed and people to gossip and trash talk anonymously in a completely new way that made people shy and cringey and introvert. it allows people to literally spend their entire lives inside a house without interacting with others.

ever thought about the fact that you literally will never see a woman between 12-30 not holding a smartphone in her hand? that's a massive problem.

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>>133750557

Auto vidya > Meme FPS zombie alien shitter

I though you scandinavians were badass drivers, and no single /o/to vidya in your list, kys faggot

>>133745242
The worst part about watching this is knowing that we'll never have a society as comfy as this ever again.

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>>133745242
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA&t=76s
S-STOP POSTING IT

IT'S NOT FAIR

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>>133766339
take me back lord

>>133744206
>females under the age of 18 weren't thots

This isn't the case. Teen girls have been whores since late 50s. Don't let this man tell you otherwise.

>>133766339
This video hits me hard every time....every fucking time. I was only a kid back then, but I remember it God damn it....and it was real.

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>>133766339
Soon we will root out the degeneracy and everything will be back to normal.
>Tfw /pol/ hates normies because they aren't normal, just brainwashed
>Tfw /pol/ is actually the last bastion of loyalty towards the memory of a dying society

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>>133765245
>The journey is just as important as the destination.

This. Just like the fap after a 3 hour wait to download JennaJameson.wmv on LimeWire felt a fuckton better than just opening youporn and finding a good porno in less than 5 minutes.

Even if the porn you spent 3 hours downloading was subpar, you'd just have to fap, and it felt great.

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If you dressed like this back then, you were considered a slut. This form of dress is now considered modest.

>>133766708
>LimeWire

I mean Napster/KaZaa. LimeWire came pretty late.

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>>133766708
>limewire porn
holy shit what a nightmare

>>133766809
You can find 12 year olds wearing this shit with a paint bucket's worth of makeup, it's fucking disgusting.

>>133761551
No, we don't have enough of this thread. This thread has been replaced with shit threads for months now. It's threads like these that help me remember why I come here.

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>>133747983

The report's in. You are one.

>>133765192
Everybody in this video is rolling tits or tripping. Some of these guys look like they might be about to die. We've all been there.

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>>133755579
>All because they had to lend money to niggers.
I wasn't ready for this feel, anon.

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>>133754500

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>>133743315
A better world

>>133755490
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30DcHyi-hZE

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>>133743315

America use to be a white perfect society but then 9/11 change everything

>>133744499
>It all started to change with Columbine and then 9/11 put the final nail in the coffin.

A whole worlds culture changed in drastic ways, gee i wonder who could be behind that...

>>133743315

Let's see, watching Digimon and Pokemon every staruday morning. That afternoon we'd walk about a half mile to the park and play for hours, then my dad would take us to the shopping center nearby, eat yoshinoya for lunch, rent a movie at blockbuster (remember how it smelled in there?!), go into the asian footsore and get weird Japanese candy (grew up in Palo Alto area a lot of asians), then go home mom would have dinner ready, eat that watch the movie go to sleep and have amazing dreams.

I was born in 1990 and it's terrible that kids nowadays will never know that life. Even youngsters are having this SJW anti family anti human shit shoved down their throat. :(

>>133768257
Are you literally me? I had almost identical experience. Born '91, always Pokemon every saturday morning, out all day doing random stuff, biking, being creative, building stuff, going into the mall and playing with the video games, go home, mom made dinner, watch TV etc.

Just an overall better life experience. The internet has ruined humanity. I wish it was never created.

>>133753607
They'd also give you a soda, then dinner, then a soda refill, and then a light desert if you wished. Stewardesses would work the whole trip, now they barely get through the announcements and overpriced food & beverage run before full on hang out mode in the back. Now you have to pay extra to bring luggage while the nigger's fat rolls next to you engulf 1/3 of your space. Big downgrade.

>>133752872
Truth.

I grew up poor in the South. Moved up North for work to a big city.

These people are basically all betas. Even the alpha nogs act docile when you make eye contact and aren't a nervous shit about everything.

>>133768257
There really was a distinctive smell in Blockbuster.....

>>133743315
very different times desu

I really hope shit can start getting better soon.
Can this be the official thread song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrEljMfXYo

>>133769292
>I really hope shit can start getting better soon.

You're going to be disappointed.

>>133768162
Dylan was a jew after all.

>>133754413
Spirituality will become ever more
Important.

These tools are only meant to improve life when used correctly, and how is sitting in a cubicle better than at your own home desk? Still exploitative to a degree

>>133743315
Bluepilled

>>133771218
Back when we could afford to be

Also how the fuck are you posting here?

>>133754413
I predict something akin to the movie "surrogates" where people become ever more unhealthy, ugly, agoraphobic, and antisocial. Living their lives through avatars that they use whenever they need to do something outside of their home.

Real dystopian shit lies ahead.

>>133771421
Kim's got internet too y'know.

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ITT:
>30+ year olds that are still, pathetically enough, browsing 4chan
Most 4channers are in the age-range of 15-25. Grow up, Grampas.

[spoiler]p.s. Op, watch CNN's "The Nineties"/"The Eighties" series. Despite being shown on Cuck News Network, they're actually pretty comfy and were directed by Tom Hanks.[/spoiler]

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>>133743315
it was a great time to be a pilot

>wake up
>simple life
>capri suns
>10 speed bikes
>roaming the fields
>no worries
>no true fears
>challenged everything, but had respect
>learned from elders
>taught family was important
>had real pride
>got a job
>worked hard
>making something of ones self
fast forward
>social media introduced
>fuck my shit up
>everything i do is wrong
>goddamn i miss the old days

feels like there is no going back
well not at least in this current fucked up society and generation

>>133760191

It's still like that today. It's just that these people make it look easy especially to the sheltered introverts in this thread who act as if everyone in the 80s was charismatic/pleasant in that video.

It's like the old people who think sitcoms were an accurate recreation of certain time periods.

>>133768589

I mean I feel like this was just the traditional typical suburban life. And the mall holy shit I remember what a magical experience going to the mall. There was this store in Valco Mall (Santa Clara fags remember that place???) that sold swords and shit. As a child I'd go in there and dream about how when I was a 'big kid' I'd fucking spend all my money on armor and swords.

Shame kids nowadays will never know these joys.

>>133768936
It was a mix of VHS's, popcorn and air conditioning

>>133743315
Porn wasnt as accessible.

Magazines and google image searches were all people had.

>>133766708

So spending hours being unproductive only to settle is considered comfy now? I think this thread is really looking back with Rose tinted glasses. Those wasted hours sucked.

>>133754465

>Ignoring that crime and murder rates have decreased.

People are just so comfy that there's less things to stress about which means mental health issues are more prevelant than ever before. People can now actually focus on their inner demons instead of being distracted with other mindless things such as spending 2 hours just to rent a shitty movie.

>>133772084
Dude, all of this is exactly what I had felt.
I don't know if it's the natural process of aging, and expanding your interactions beyond your life, bubble, and comfort zone or if things seriously tanked, but we totally lack respect for anything anymore. The challenge no longer lies in mutual appreciation for further yourselves and learning but discrediting and attacking for the sake of winner take all. It's sick.

>>133748373
Throughout all this chaos, I hope one day to have a big family like they did in full house. It was one of my favorite tv shows as a kid.

>>133743315
>What was society like before 9/11?
You won't believe it but the media were actually good.
The better ones used to call out the worst bullshit.

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>>133772164
That was a random 7-11 featuring dudebros, Frenchies and brown people. They're all joking and laughing and enjoying American culture in America. You also notice no one is fat, even the Mexican getting the danish.

>>133772291
>google image searches were all people had
kek, the internet was much more fun, it was like an adventure every time you connected using a 56k modem, there weren't many popular sites. No youtube, no xvideos, no pornhub, no facebook and there were actual alternative search engines, all the porn we had access too was on tgp sites.

somethings I remember off the top of my head that most youngfags won't know about.

Napster
http://ytmnd.com/
yatta

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>>133743315
Hollywood video was fucking everywhere in portland then dissapered in a year.

>>133772801
it is sick. the truth hurts. doesnt mean you cant remember some good times..thats all.

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>>133743315

>What was society like before 9/11?

When 9/11 happened I was 12 years old so my perception is very limited as I was a child and too young to really understand the world much like most of the people who are replying in this thread. It's even more laughable when people think that the 90's were some type of conservative period or some shit. Anyone remember cartoons like Captain Planet that shoved down hardcore socialist ideals in the minds of young people? INCLUDING ENCOURAGING KIDS HOW HAVING A FAMILY IS NOT THAT GREAT AND THAT STERILIZATION IS BEST?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZCg9HsDntY


This doesn't even include other indoctrination shows like Magic School Bus or many other PBS cartoons.

>>133744499

>It still felt like a white country.

That depended where you lived I guess. I live in Maryland, we had illegals who'd just come to our classes out of nowhere completely confusing the teacher since they weren't on the list. Illegal moms would toss kids in and there was no way you could deny them education.

> edgy culture (Eminem, WWE Attitude era, heavy metal was mainstream).

No, post-industrial and grundge were mainstream and heavy metal was already fading off by the late 80's and early 90's. And Eminem was a nigger culture lover and this was when rap was becoming very popular among non-blacks. WWF Attitude embraced redneck and trailer trash culture compared to the more conservative and overall patriotic era of the 1980's with Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage.

>>133744206

>it was chill.

It's always calm before the storm. There was a lot of shitty things happening in the world and the US (LA riots & Clinton being an awful Pres). 9/11 was something plotted by Jihadists since the early 90's. See: WTC 1993 bombings.

>>133755490

>but regular cell phones were so expensive and rare that only businessmen used them

That's an outright lie for the mid-late 90's. What you're talking about is the 80's, that's when cells were expensive as hell.

>>133773468
These were way better than blockbuster

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>>133745242
>tfw born in 1998 and never lived in these comfy times

Everything is pain.

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even 90's CGI was better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ljsPqIfPD0

one of the early autism flash vids.

>>133754465
Good, I hate people and I'm glad I don't have to interact with a cashier at a fast food place who places the wrong order and then have to go back up to them and complain that this is not the right order. Technology is certainly better than humans and will eventually replace the majority of the population due to human error and slow speeds. Why would anyone want to converse with someone when you want to just eat for example. It's just too much of a hassle.

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>>133768257
>go to sleep and have amazing dreams

>>133743315
Same shit

Although airports were relaxed. I still remember just buying my ticket and going through the metal detector and then into the airplane. Now it takes about 1,5h in total going through all the gates and shit

>>133768257

>Even youngsters are having this SJW anti family anti human shit shoved down their throat.

This was shoved down our throat since the mid 70's when Baby Boomers started becoming politicians. You were just too young to notice it. You never go full force with an objective, you slowly but steady enforce it over a period of time. It's Indoctrination 101.

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>>133746363
fucking this anon.
first nostalgafeels I've gotten since November 8 2016.
thanks anon. really activates my almonds

>>133773665
don't worry lad, those times will return once the next big thing arrives, which will be AI and real virtual reality.

At the moment the world is just stagnating.

90s were so comfy. Defeated Communism, people were chill, no actual crime, malls were full of people, arcades it was awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWnC79QoDKs

still remember in the 90s turning on the radio and this playing instead of the degenerate music we got now.

I just played doom and quake an ungodly amount, I tombstoned my neighbors mixed daughter into a miscarriage on accident, good times.

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This thread is all nostalgia feels guys stop it.

>>133743315
what are you doing here?

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>>133746363

>There were still racial issues (Rodney King, OJ, etc.) but everyday black/white relations were just normal. Now with BLM and all this craziness, everyone is looking over there shoulder.

BLM always existed in some form or another (see: black panthers and million man march in 95) And you're downplaying just how bad the Rodney King issue was. It was so bad it caused the LA Riots which make the recent riots in Baltimore and Ferguson look absolutely quaint and peaceful. They weren't normal at all. Crime was extremely high in cities like DC, NYC and LA compared to what they're like today.

>>133743315
>What was society like before 9/11?

I grew up in the 80's and it was glorious. People weren't so overly political. Liberals were just people who tried to be hippies but wasn't really into it. No one really watched the news that much unless there was a Soviet scare or some major world event.

You could say whatever you wanted because we had full freedom of speech (not this retarded 'hate speech' bull shit).

Things were awesome in the 80's and 90's. Hell, no one really knew what a muslim was and anyone gay was just that one guy in town that no one really knew if he was actually gay or not.

Political correctness was barely existent. It was there but people just laughed at it because it was retarded.

Life before 9/11 was great. Everything changed after that day. Two things destroying this nation. Muslims and Liberals. Both should be purged out of the U.S..

>>133774794
Non-whites were happy to stay in their ghettos and containment zones back then. Now they want everything that white people have; including our women and the very land we live on.

Do we still believe Muslims did 9/11?

>>133774204

>Defeated Communism

We didn't defeat Communism. Communism just collapsed by itself. Also, if we did 'defeat' communism then why are the elements of Communism so rampant in the country with the Democrat party who's been pushing for more and more Socialism and Communist ideals for the past 4 decades and that we elected a hardcore leftist like Bill Clinton in office? Also why is Communist China emerging as a world superpower where we owe them trillions of dollars in debt?

>>133743315
Shit was amazing, you could have five dollars in your pocket and buy a bag of Doritos, Hot cheetos, an Arizona ice tea and a Snickers bar and still have change.

Kids went out and play games like tag, super soaker water fights, the neighbors were always in touch, neighbor kids would come over and play video games and watch dragonball z

>tfw I will never relieve that.

>>133775005

>Non-whites were happy to stay in their ghettos and containment zones back then.

No they weren't. In Central Maryland, we saw a tremendous increase of illegals flooding into urban areas. My county in particular was all the more happy to include as many foreigners as possible starting in the 80's. Across the country you had Democrats creating section 8 housing with new various plans such as relocating niggers to places with less crime in hopes they'd turn out better. It didn't, it just ghettofied more places. They weren't staying in 'containment zones' they just expanded containment zones.

>>133773528
>That's an outright lie for the mid-late 90's. What you're talking about is the 80's, that's when cells were expensive as hell.

what were you doing in the mid to late 90s?
kids didn't have cellphones and people still made collect calls and shit