What were the 90s like, /r9k/?

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>>34314989
Are you asking because you actually don't know?
They were... interesting. Everything was less PC, America was generally a happy place, it wasn't as politically charged as it is today, 9/11 changed the entire political landscape in this country and it has never recovered.

pretty shit honestly

kids born in 95+ pretend they were even cognitive during the time and think it was amazing for some reason

>>34314989
You woke up and things were awesome. Then your day was awesome and you went to sleep watching awesome TV shows. Radio stations played more than four songs, stand up comedy was a thing, no one cared what you were wearing and there were no cancerous smart phones. Also the internet was only used by young nerdy men and literally no one else. Even mentioning the word "internet" made everyone look at you funny.

same as every decade
fucking stupid

>>34315076
>no one was born before 1995

Throw away your smartphone and turn your pc off, and there you have it you're now experiencing what it was like in the 90s

>>34315076
I remember when I was 4 in 1999, and I remember the early 2000's which were pretty much like the 90's for me because my parents didn't buy new shit until like 2010

>>34315076
>tfw my earliest memory is of me laughing at 9/11 and my dad pimp slapping me because I'm 4 and dont fully understand what is really happening

Its still funny you fucking asshole.

>>34315206
>LE 9/11 WAS LE FUNNY xDD ZE END OF ZE WORLD on NEWGROUNDs dot COM xD

>>>/b/
>>>/pol/

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>>34314989
1990 baby here

It was pretty good, we had shit like pic related

>>34315035
I was born in 98, I don't really remember them or the early 2000s.

1990 here

Much prefer early to mid 00s over the 90s. Anyone who doesn't is just trying to be an edgy contrarion.

1985 here.

The 90s were great. There wasn't any of this political correctness victim culture that exists today. The 24 hour news cycle wasn't really a thing - many TV stations signed off late at night and it was either static or infomercials. The Internet and computers were much less accessible to the average person, so you were only on there if you really wanted it. The first computer dad built (instead of buying another Tandy from RadioShack) cost $3000 in 1992. It was a 486 DX/2 66mHz with a 300mb hard drive, 32 megs of RAM, Soundblaster Pro audio, 56k modem, and a bunch of other shit I'm forgetting. The guy at the computer parts store tried to talk him out of the hard drive and modem, saying, "You'll never fill a 300 meg hard drive" and "the fastest pages out there only connect at 14.4!" Email used to go out once a day at midnight, when it was cheapest to transmit. Before html web pages were common you had to dial in to bulletin board systems - and you could only connect to them if you had their phone number. I remember installing Windows 95 from floppy disks. I remember in school when they posted up notices that the school was not going to have Internet for a day because they were upgrading to a T1 line (1.544Mb/sec),which was something I'd only heard of on the X-Files.

The 90s was the last good generation to grow up in. I feel sorry for all you younger anons that missed it.

>>34316328
this lad gets it.
diablo 2, morrowind, gothic, warcraft III. it was a blast

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>>34315076
>TFW remember the end of the 90's
>TFW remember a world before 9/11
>TFW Remember the big boom that was pokemon

Anon don't you ever say I don't remember the 90's even though I was born in 95. I remember those days anon. They were great times.

>>34316655
What do you say to all the people who claim you have nostalgia glasses?

born in 83. became 7 at the turn of the 90s. tmnt, pumps, nintendo, genesis, snes, n64, ps, PC gaming online, doom duke nukem shadow warrior, warez, 10 minute mp3 downloads, 56k, and lots of lsd, shrooms and raves for the last two years. was fun.

what was the internet like before 2005?

>>34316940
Back then I was watching shitty flash videos on Ebaumsworld. Internet still felt new and exciting. The idea of talking to people online seemed unnappealing to me, just watched videos and looked at pictures of nekkid womens

>>34316691

You're forgetting Starcraft

>>34316777

Nice trips

You're the first to say that to me honestly

>>34316691

Seeing the rise of the internet and the wild west days was fun before normalfags got hold of it and made it just another social media platform. Early internet shits all over the grunge scene any day.

>>34314989
Born 1992. From what I remember;
>Very colorful advertising and fashion sensibilities
>All food was just sugar and corn syrup
>If you were good, parents would take you to McDonalds for dinner
>Big butts were not a thing
>Baywatch always gave me boners
>Almost every commercial had some catchy theme song
>Genesis does what Nintendon't
>Adventures of Batman and Robin
>Massive amount of Disney VHS movies
>Going to the park a lot to play instead of staying at home
>Everything in media was a cliche and "extreme"

Just off the top of my head

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>mfw nobody remembers Battletoads

flash games took like an hour to load to play it. i remember reading harry potter waiting for the game from newgrpounds to load. my brother was always on the computer i was in the family room playing nes, or snes.

>>34317254
Nobody remembers because getting through the wall stage was really hard.

87 here

Childhood was alot more simpler and sociable than it is today.
>Fridays were great as a kid because it usually meant going over to a friends house to stay up all night watching movies and playing games you rented at the Video store.
>Places like Skating rinks and bowling alleys were always packed and usually were full of our parents bowling on leagues and drinking beer while we went to the arcade and blew through all our money playing Mortal Kombat, Area 51, and Time Crisis 2.
>Going outside was not seen as dangerous back then and we were able to go great distances away from our houses to a field or in the woods to play til way past dark and our parents usually didn't give a fuck

I think it was better but then again Thats just my opinion

>>34316691
92 here

Fug I played starcraft and Diablo. Ever play Mystic?
Anyone here know about Microsoft Bob?

>>34314989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8d5v-ydpAc

fookin top, lad

>>34317254
I had it but never played it because it was too hard for young me.

>>34317377
Myst*

And also mst3k

born in 88'

remember playing my NES and SNES, moving up to a PS1..

all I can say 90's was like a dream, i feel bad for people who didn't experience pre 9/11

>>34317254

>No one remembers Flashback
I found that hard as fuck as a kid but could never get past the first level since I had no idea what the hell to do. Also that one Sonic game with the fucking crab and you had to dodge those cannonballs to kill it. What the fuck were the developers thinking with that?

>>34314989
Like someone else said. Throw away your computer and cell phone and you will know what it was like.
Owning a computer was too expensive for most people.
Television was way more important. Friday nights were for tv watching.
Video games could be hit or miss. You could spend a significant amount of money on a videogame and end up with a dud.
The satanic panic was a thing. Kind of like the SJW panic today, but with religion.

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>>34317476
>Video Games could be hit or miss

Thats why I loved Blockbusters. I was always allowed to rent one game (SNES and eventually PS1) when my parents wanted to rent some movies for the weekend. That was before they got divorced.

I hate how over political everything has become now. Why can't things just be fun for the sake of being fun and none of that far right or SJW shit? I mean there was a small fraction of it in the media during the 90s but not as bad as it is today.

>>34317599
Social Media allowed everyone to have a voice no matter how fucked in the head they are. Tom from Myspace, Zuckerberg, and the guy who created twitter should be hung for their crimes

>>34315076
Was born 97 and mostly played NES and Gameboy as a kid.
Pc games I played when I was younger were also always old shit like Age of Empire 2.
Fucking loved DBZ back then.

Kind of ironic how I probably consumed more 90s media as a kid than most people my age but don't ever talk about being le 90's kid.

>>34317647

It's really a big, black void people scream into to give themselves that bit of ego boost and self importance for a couple minutes. An absolute cancer on society.

>>34314989
If you can't remember you're too young to be posting on this board

>>34315206
I was 10 when it happened. Me and my friends were laughing about it on the bus all the way to school. We made a song to the tune of "Mary had a little lamb" about it and were singing it. Then we got to class and the hysterical, cunt teacher we had was yelling at (not just us, but the entire class): "THIS ISN'T FUNNY!! THIS IS GOING TO BE THE START OF WWIII!!!!"

>>34315154
more like replace your pc with a 486

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>>34315035
Don't forget to make your 9/11 cakes on Purim, goy!

>>34317565
I remember renting N64s there and a few games at a time, like 1080 Snowboarding or Super Mario 64

Shit was cash

>>34314989
93 here, the 90s were a glorious time of pre school, comfy naps, playing duke 3D wolfenstien , quake. so much wonder about the world,

>>34315536
Are you by any chance newfag?

>>34316691
Gothic 2 NOTR > Gothic 2 > Gothic > Gothic 3 > Gothic 3 Forsaken Gods > ArcaniA: Gothic

>>34317361
'92 here and thats dead on

>>34314989
Everything was brighter and had more colors.
People seemed to be happier, at least in 1994-2001. Some countries had a recession before that, which sucked.
Things were less politically correct but also less right-wing. In fact, politics weren't even as present as they're today.
Computers were slower and more difficult to use, but games were better.
People played with Sega Genesis/MegaDrive/Saturn or NES/SNES until mid-'90s and then either switched to PS1 or PC.
Phones were only used for calling and maybe texting.
People watched more television. Netflix didn't exist in its current form so movies were watched at home on VHS tapes and later DVDs if you had interest in the latest technology.
When they searched for services or businesses, they primarily used newspapers or yellow pages until the very end of the decade.
"Internet memes" did exist, but most people knew them through old media.
Social media didn't really exist and most social interaction online was in chatrooms or forums.
Pokemon was great.
People spent more time together.

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>>34314989
Imagine not having cell phones or computers, because at the time they were extremely expensive and they didn't do much. Imagine not having to see fanatical SJWs, feminists fighting for the wrong reasons, people who don't identify with the pronouns other than he or she, and stupid "memes" or "trends". It was a simpler time where people weren't openly stupid and would go outside and converse with each other.

9/11 was a breaking point for the United States and the rise of handheld phones and portable computers was what brought the "downfall" of modern times.

Everyone is disconnected from reality and is stuck in their own fantasy worlds in the internet.

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>>34314989
>No normies on the Internet. It was like /r9k/ was the Internet
>Game consoles with games that didn't need to update for three hours at random times
>You went around the neighborhood to play on different consoles, and became friends with half the future NEETS there, by necessity
>No PC police
>Entertainment wanted to entertain, not preach
>Future looked bright
It was paradise, young robot.

>tfw you realize there will never be a game as great and potentially comfy as Ultima Online again

>>34318262

I stopped gaming once they added achievements and infinite health in everything, made things far too easier. I hate how it's now just another form of social media. Nothing is really one thing anymore and you're paying for the same thing by two different companies at war with one another.

'93 and half of '94 were probably the best years of my life but I didn't get to enjoy most of the '90s. Dad got transferred to another town in September '94 so at 13 I was forced to leave my childhood home, all my friends and a potential girlfriend behind. This event scarred me deeply, I believe it defined who I am today and is responsible for my commitment issues and general gloominess.
Anyway, it took quite some time to fit in the new place but in the end I managed to make a few good friends that remain good friends today. Still, I'll always get a bittersweet feeling everytime someone mentions the '90s.

>>34315354
Calm down...
I like it too.

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Proof that the 90s were awesome and that 2000 started the steady swirl down the toilet.

>people watched a lot more TV, some of it was great most was forgettable or even mind-numbing shit.
>video games were good enough to have something to do with friends or kill a couple hours, but not to the level that you could get lost in fictional worlds for days at a time.
>music was a lot harder to get by, so people tended to stick to certain band and genres a lot more.
>going to the videotheque to get raunchy comedies and cheesy horror movies was goat.
>in general there was a lot less to do at home so kids were on the streets all day, it made people more social but bullying and shit was also much harder to avoid.
>people were a lot less ADD.
>most people were more naive and sociable.
>the future looked bright.

>>34315423
Born 98 here.
I had that shit too 6 years ago.

I remember watching Bobby's World.

>>34318262
> tfw can't grief normies like one could in UO
I played NWN online and after acquiring maxed gear the only fun I had was griefing everyone else on the server.

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>>34318369
Best time to be alive. Everyone was happier, music was better and it was way easier to find your way into a happy relationship. Plus there was lots to do.

>>34318293
These days, I'm mostly stuck playing Dwarf Fortress, UnReal world, NetHack, and a variety of Angbands in a vain attempt to try and preserve the feeling of a bygone era.
It's just making me more autistic as the years go on.

I've picked up programming though. I can at least try and recreate those old feelings for a new generation of gamer, that won't appreciate it anyway.
Been thinking of doing a robotcore MUD, actually.

>>34317159
>Massive amount of Disney VHS movies

I miss this. I was exposed to all the classics from a young age.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa9brPtlg_A

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>>34318386
As did I on FOX kids every Saturday morning along with Power Rangers and The Tick

>>34318424
>Been thinking of doing a robotcore MUD, actually.
i'd play it, that sounds like it'd be hilarious

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Why when theres some sort of a nostalgia thread of 90s or early 00s you fuckin NERDS always talk about computers and fuckin video games playstation and other nerd shit.Even in this times have u ever went outside to actually play some real games like football,running,tennis or some other stuff and actually breath fresh air.Fuck,,i got my first computer in 2006 or 2007 but before that i was almost always outside like an actual human being.Were u all glued to a screen 24/7?This shit is sad..

>>34318420
>music was better
techno, house and eurodance all day every day

>>34318494
I went around the neighborhood to play vidya.
At least I'm not a failed normie.

Fashion was more autist-friendly.
>bright clothes
>clothes with cute or funny images
>it was socially acceptable to wear comfy sports clothes without actually doing or playing sports

1986 here.
We had the Sega vs Nintendo console war that produced hundreds of great games. Classic Simpsons, Beavis and Butthead, WCW vs WWF when both were good and arguably the last semi-original musical movement in grunge, Trainspotting, Doom, the beginnings of the internet, less PC culture and not much in the way of war in the Western world after the Gulf in the early 90's.

Plus in the UK we got rid of Thatcher and had a few decent years before the Iraq war in '03 fucked it all up.

A nice time to grow up.

>>34318485
I'll post it here, if it ever happens.

Sounds like a nice side project, at any rate. Potentially infinite in content scope, no complicated graphics to mess with, puzzles, roleplaying, and a community consisting of robots because nobody else would even consider playing a MUD in 2017...

>>34318613

At least Cameron was pretty good, not great but still better than any post-Thatcher PM we've had. Blair fucking off and Cameron cleaning up his mess, then again he fucked everything up again by holding the whole referendum.

I'm sick of those faggots who idealise the 90s. Go fuck yourselves with your selective memory.
I'm sure that 20 yrs from now, 2000s cunts will claim how awesome were 2010s.

>>34314989
warez and cp sites were easily findeable

now for cp you need to indulge in the so called deepweb
and warez are Specialisated

>>34314989
It seems like most people are too young to remember the 90s, so I'll give you the run down.

People were a lot more social and it mattered more, so the types of cliques (e.g. jocks, nerds, goth, ravers, skaters, etc.) held pretty true. Nerds were actually bullied during this time period (it wasn't cool then). The dress was extremely goofy. Baggy clothing was pretty much in for a lot of people that didn't fit into popular cliques (JNCO jeans, big hoodies); but those that were considered "popular" dressed a lot more modest than they do now (slim fitting "CHAMPION" shirts, tight fitting jeans, autism sneakers). Also, medium clean cut hair was the style. Some people gelled it, others didn't.

As far as home life and communication went, a lot of people had beepers since cell phones were expensive as hell. Only a few people actually had a computer and most nobody would sit on it all day except "nerds." Also, your phone line would be tied up if you were on the internet, so you'd have to pick up the phone and make sure nobody was on it but you'd get booted off if anyone picked up while you were on. It was frustrating as fuck sometimes, but it's all we knew.

The internet was actually an incredible place at that time. Normal faggots wouldn't even go close to the internet and the people that you actually met on it were... surprisingly the nicest people you'd ever talk to. It was extremely comfy being up at all hours of the night talking with strangers on IRC / BBS'. Everyone would share information and if you knew the right people, you could get your hands on warez.

cont.

>>34318671
None of them have been much cop but I'd hardly call Cameron good, or in any way successful. The country he left behind is no better than when he took it on

>>34318679

I actually saw someone wearing a "BORN IN THE 90S" t-shirt this summer. She couldn't have been more than Generation Z.

>>34318507
Oh my man. You know it and you know it damn well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts91RENzrWk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQR6pKLd-ho

>>34318394
The end of true PvP is the single worst thing to happen to MMOs.
Why even bother playing with other people if you can't even fight them over something meaningful?

Why did so many normies have to invade vidya in the 2000s, making it all shit?

>>34318731

>It wasn't cool to be a nerd
I really hate how normalfags have now bandwagoned on the faux nerd trend when they would've stigmatized a lot of people for it if it wasn't popular.

>>34315076
1995 baby here

from what I remember, the nineties were very blurry

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>>34318613
America was also an Awesome country to live in, Clinton freed the fuck out of little Kosovo and Steve Urkel was a thing.

>>34318420
>it was way easier to find your way into a happy relationship
Not sure if that's true but it sure seemed like it. I mean, maybe it seems harder today because I'm old but still, back then the dating game was way different. More balanced I guess? Everyone seemed to have a chance, the 80/20 rule didn't exist.

>>34318826
In 1992 the only color that existed was brown, bet you didn't know that. My earliest memory

>>34318856
>them comfy as fuck end credits

I still remember it like it was yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs0qUVDExBA

>>34318856
>Clinton freed the fuck out of little Kosovo

And pissed off the Serbians to hell.

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>>34314989
>>34318731
I remember at that point in time, the internet wasn't polluted with garbage. If you came across personal websites, you'd find that people would share their interests and provide actual information and documentation behind it. It was really pretty quaint. It felt homey. You could reach out to people without them brushing you off and they'd be more than happy to correspond with you. Nowadays it seems like people can't bother to be assed with communicating at all. If they do, it'll be short lived, because muh ADHD, I guess.

Video games were fucking fun. They were literally nightmare mode and would often cause you to rage quit because some of the time they felt literally impossible to beat. Online gaming really wasn't a thought in anyone's mind. I mean, it crossed our minds like "Damn, it'd be cool if we could play this at our houses together," but it wasn't really important. Also, barely ANY girls played video games or used computers. There were a few. A very select few and they were absolute QT to the maximum. I'm talking literal girl of your dreams attractive, but it would always be that they lived impossibly far away, but you'd stay in touch. Speaking of which, I still remain in contact with most of the people I've met back then.

Honestly, I wish it would all go back. Being on the internet now just makes me want to never get back on. I guess I just keep coming back out of habit. I just remember the days when you could write code for hours on end, hop on IRC, share it with one another, and just talk for hours. Sure, you can do the same thing but memes have literally made everything cancer. Everyone memes. You can't escape it. It's infected the internet like the AIDs virus.

Quite frankly, I miss it so much, desu.

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>born late '97
>have no memories prior to roughly 2003

think i missed out desu

>>34314989
it was p cool, I remember going outside a lot more in the 90's to play with the neighborhood kids and do hoodrat shit. Then my family got a computer and computer games started getting really fucking good and thats when my life flipped turned upside down

>>34318015
Gothic>Gothic 2 NOTR/Gothic 2 :^)
I have to disagree, even though I played Gothic 2 NOTR most of the time because it's gameplay is much more fluently. Gothic 1 has an unbeatable feeling, just magical: The music, the story, the atmosphere are much better than in Gothic 2.

However, wish the 00/90s were back. I don't like the way Internet has evolved, fucking Smartphones and Social Media. It's nothing special anymore to be happy to be home because you can carry your shit around, information can be found everywhere in the Internet, it just sucks.

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Born in 1990
The first wave of Pokemon mania and WWF and WCW being hot is what I'll always have fond memories of. Remembering the summer when Pokemon first hit gives me a nostalgia glow. Trading cards, nagging my Dad to get me a copy of Pokemon Blue, running home from school to watch the show, forcing my parents to eat at Burger King to get the free toys. Good stuff.

>>34318886
Well girls were not such whores back then. There were proper dances and no such thing as "twerking" and the lyrics to songs rarely involved girls singing about being porn stars.

>>34314989
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mfMrVKnGzwg

>>34318970

I was never into WWE much, more of a DBZ kind of guy but the hype surrounding Pokemon generation one was unreal. Getting Blue was one of my fondest Christmases.

>All those fights that broke out over Pokemon card games at school
>That one kid who somehow had a Japanese edition card
>That one kid who's cart went missing and we all had to stay behind for bag search

>>34318934
Too hell with Serbs though. There has never been a point in history when they weren't jerks pissed off at nothing.

>>34318934
Fuck Kosovo, they should give it back

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>>34314989
Democratic Party propaganda everywhere throughout the mainstream media. But at least it was entertaining propaganda. About the only truth we had back in the early 90's was from Rush Limbaugh. They were always trying to sneak in leftist/anti-gun/anti-drug/anti-violence/anti-freethought bullshit into kids shows, late evening sitcoms, and the evening news. Clinton was raping the country, but eventually the Republicans regained control of Congress and minimized that damage...

Oh, but the games.....the console wars were THE SHIT. Video games got good....REALLY FUCKING GOOD, and all of the sudden there was finally real competition between companies to make good imaginative original innovative shit. Sega Genesis, Nintendo SNES, NEC TurboGrafx 16, Sony Playstation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64.....an era like that will never exist again.

Here is a sample of 90's internet

http://www.heavensgate.com/

>>34319038
To hell with Kosovo. A bunch of mudslimes from Albania that wanted their own land and stole it from Serbia. But also fuck Serbia for starting WWI.

You probably think Israel should exist too.

>>34315026

HO-LY SHIT

This commercial brings back nostalgia like a hammer!

>>34317421
I played Riven when I was way too young for it. It still managed to captivate me, I beat it using a strategy guide.

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>>34318494
Holy shit I was just saying this. I always went outside in the 90's and 00's like a regular person. I went for walks, played outside, went to the beach, swimming and movies. I didn't even get my first computer still 06 and I'm kinda happy about that.

>>34316777
>>34316655
>dude I was born in 96 and barely expirence do the 90s

I wish I did...I grew up in a shit time

>Flick on Toonami after coming home from school waiting for DBZ
>DBZ advert after some other show ends
>DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN NO ONE KNOWS

>>34318145

>9/11 was a breaking point for the United States and the rise of handheld phones and portable computers was what brought the "downfall" of modern times.

Nailed it

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>>34314989
No social media, no smartphones, no niggers or normie bitches or Chads on the internet. It was for nerdy whites and asians. LAN parties. All the benefits of the technology age with none of the faggotry.
Glorious days.

>>34319029
CP EVERYWHERE on the net back then.

>>34318494
I went outside quite a bit but I did use the computer at night when nobody was using the phone.

>Why when theres some sort of a nostalgia thread of 90s or early 00s you fuckin NERDS always talk about computers and fuckin video games playstation and other nerd shit.
That's because that was legitimately the best time in the world for all of these things. Any geek could attest to this. You'll never see a time period like that again. Neck yourself with a controller cord.

>>34319144
>No social media, no smartphones, no niggers or normie bitches or Chads on the internet. It was for nerdy whites and asians
Nobody gave a fuck about your skin color on the Internet at that point in time, faggot. The fact that you think people did tells me you were probably one of those kids that played Counter Strike and thought he was 31337 calling other people "n00bs."

>>34318937
I feel so sad I missed this desu

i could write walls of text but generally people were more inviting and friendly, nowadays you hope to meet people that don't have a completely terrible personality

>>34317361
>>Going outside was not seen as dangerous back then and we were able to go great distances away from our houses to a field or in the woods to play til way past dark and our parents usually didn't give a fuck

I dunno about that. I was born in '85, and it seemed like that was more of a thing than it is now. We always had PSA's and America's Most Wanted teaching us to be afraid of strangers....like anyone we didn't know wanted to molest us and leave us dead in a ditch somewhere.

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>>34319144
What went wrong? Are we too kind to those less intelligent than us?

>>34319198
It was the best time of my life.

>>34319204
>nowadays you hope to meet people that don't have a completely terrible personality
Or hope they even have one to begin with.

>>34319231
I remember this. Parents were even telling kids there were razor blades and poison in candy. Hahaha. Do they still do this?

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>>34318970
Born in 1991 here. Exactly this. Oh how I miss going to football/soccer practice, and trading Pokemon cards afterwards, scamming the other kids with my superior knowledge of the rarity of certain cards.

Just going outside without letting anyone but your mum or dad know, and just ring the doorbells of other kids so you could hang out outside together. I even got to finger a girl at age 11, tongue kissed my first girl at age 8, saw 2 girls naked at age 12 (the one I fingered and her cousin), and had loads of practice tongue kissing with both of them. Almost lost my virginity when we were 12, if only she didn't have her period.

How did all of that turn into sitting in front of my computer every waking hour, having had no sex for 4 years... I'm now a fat ugly fuck because I became an alcoholic after quitting heroin, coke and amphetamines.

I would do literally anything to be able to go back to when I was 8 years old and just live it all over again.

God how I miss playing Ghouls and Ghosts on my Sega Master System as a kid. Skateboarding with friends trying to learn the kickflip to impress the girl mentioned above...

You kids born after the 90s have NO FUCKING CLUE how awesome 1995-2007 or so were.

I still remember watching The Simpsons when suddenly my dad told me to change the channel because of 9/11. I was so pissed he turned off a Halloween episode that was airing, I loved those. He yelled at me in a panicked frenzy that 'if this is real there won't be any more Simpsons to watch, you better pay attention boy, this could turn into WW3!!!'.

The music was better, the internet was AMAZING compared to now (normies ruined it). I miss it so much my heart hurts.

>>34319037
Yup
>those fake cards with the purple backs
>that friend who went overseas and brought back jungle cards
>opening packs together and seeing your friend get a shiny charizard

>>34319253
As a youngfaggot(not underage mods)
>no they don't
>but life is bleaker
>no one really does anything except causing trouble or play vidya
>I really wanted a Simpson childhood like in the original seasons
>kids being kids
>I remember the "Bart the general" episode
>I sobbed knowing that'll never happen now

>>34319197
>triggered nigger detected
No one gave a fuck about your skin color because no one acted like a fucking nigger. Like it or not, Twitter and its accessibility on smartphones brought in all the retarded ghetto niggers. The simple "say something short and meaningless with bad spelling" concept, basically a text, brought in the braindead monkeys en masse. You cannot possibly deny this.

>>34318494
i actually went out alot. what kept me in home afterwards is not technology itself but rather the time when i felt like i couldn't communicate with anyone because i viewed most people as extremely dumb or naive, and its even more sad if its true

>>34318937
I wonder if old people from the ~60s would say the same thing about their generation vs ours.

>>34319241
Nah, there was a market for opening the internet to normalfaggots and businessmen exploited it and made a ton of cash. Can't fault them for that.

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>>34319304
Please senpai stop, my heart cannot take the nostalgic heartbreak.

>>34318369
FUCKED UP AXIS
RRRRREEEEEEEE
It makes a 15% difference look like a 60% difference

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>people say rose tinted glasses are a thing while looking back
>i bet for future kids, they will not look back happily on these times

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>>34319297
>Just going outside without letting anyone but your mum or dad know, and just ring the doorbells of other kids so you could hang out outside together. I even got to finger a girl at age 11, tongue kissed my first girl at age 8, saw 2 girls naked at age 12 (the one I fingered and her cousin), and had loads of practice tongue kissing with both of them. Almost lost my virginity when we were 12, if only she didn't have her period.
NORMIE GET OUT GET OUT REEEEEEEEEEE

>>34319037
I remember our school banned everything Pokemon related because of all those problems

>The fading affect bias, more commonly known as FAB, is a psychological phenomenon in which information regarding negative emotions tends to be forgotten more quickly than that associated with pleasant emotions. Although there have been some contradictory findings regarding the presence of FAB, it has been largely found to be real.

nostalgicunts BTFO

>>34314989
91fag here. I will say for a fact that video games were way better in the 90's.

>>34319441
But the 2000s legit suck

>>34319304
>nearly scammed a 3rd grader for trading his original foil charizard for 3 commons
>had a giant bag with like a 1000 bottle caps and some nigger spilled it and i lost a hefty sum of it
>earned these bottle caps from kids because i practiced all day at home
>had a sleepovers with a friend that were awesome, his parents were terrible to him
>now he is a passive aggressive shithead and we don't even relate to eachother anymore

>>34314989
Not gonna lie, the 90s were the best times of my life. I was poor, ugly, and skinny but boy I had friends, I had gone to different places, and I was carefree. No technology meant I could get away with friends for weeks

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>>34319398
The agony of knowing what it feels like and also knowing there is very little chance of ever enjoying it again like I did back then due to being red pilled is worse than being a virgin. I wish I was still a virgin so I didn't know this pain. Be happy you don't know what you're missing.

>>34314989
Largely the same as today. Unless you had a mental illness like being a tranny or robotism, in which case it was immeasurably worse:
>No vidya unless you were a richfag
>No internet unless you were a richfag
>That meant no hug box like /r9k/ or Tumblr
>No porn, unless you found some magazine of your dads which was some weak shit compared to today.
>Also bullies were much worse back then

The only thing the 90s had going for it was Saturday morning cartoons and a lack of Twitter. This was the 90s anything else is pure rose tinted glasses.

>>34319437
Same here, lel. Some kids got into a fist fight over it. Retarded little autists.
I actually got punched in the nuts for the first time from a kid I beat in a battle with the game boy link cable. I remember it vividly. Still friends with him.

>>34319502
You didn't have to be rich to have Internet....it was better

>>34319341
I know brother. It hurst me too.

>>34319514
Like hell you didn't. The only time I got to go on the internet was at school, and that was considered a novelty.

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>tv programs telling you that you can visit their website by going to use the computer at the library, but to ask your parents first before using the internet

>>34319502
Internet was free for us, man. Public libraries gave it away for free in my area.

>>34314989
all the drugs you could want, pills, booze, rave music and all the easy honest girls you could want

fuck if i had been born in '75 rather than 92' i'd be living the dream at the age i am now and in my late 30's i would have had all the anime an vidya. instead of all that now and being dead at 30.

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>>34319314
>triggered nigger
Nope, try again.

>no one acted like a fucking nigger
You mean the white people that intentionally pretend to be black people to trigger faggots like you? Sure.

>Like it or not, Twitter and its accessibility on smartphones brought in all the retarded ghetto niggers.
No, the decline in price of cellular devices did. Moreover, the fact that so many white people bought into black people memes is what caused it to propagate.

>The simple "say something short and meaningless with bad spelling" concept, basically a text, brought in the braindead monkeys en masse. You cannot possibly deny this.
If by brain dead monkey, you mean stupid people, sure. I can buy that. I'm not sure why you sit there complaining about blacks ruining the Internet, yet you yourself have contributed nothing to technology to even begin complaining. You're just sitting here shitposting about race. Don't forget, you're just a consumer yourself.

>>34319320
Probably. I guess that's a part of getting older.

>>34314989
>both biological parents
part of me still feels pity when i hear somebody say "my mom" instead of "my parents." or if they say "step-" anything. Step-By-Step was a funny show because the show's stepfamily was much more stable and enriching than even any *traditional* family in real life. like lol ok sure.

>racial stereotypes, overwhelming number of white leads, etc.
this is noteworthy not because it was more pronounced in the 90s. but because it has not changed whatsoever. and i don't believe in "tokenism" as some people call it. like making the mexican kid the basketball star for no reason. i genuinely think there is value to portraying the nuances of humanity in tv and movies. i think that's why kids are so fucking retarded. not because of *too much* media. but because the media they consume is shit. think about it. nobody ever says "people who read lots of books read too much." but they say "people who watch lots of tv watch too much tv." so what's the difference? books are generally considered enriching. there are trashy books too. but for the most part, books provide something meaningful. they teach people different viewpoints. tv is just attractive people, a dumbfuck storyline, and a shitton of commercials. movies basically the same.

>tv and movies
clear decline in quality and imagination since the 90s. not even biased. all movies now are 1)le nerdy superhero shit, 2)edgy anti-hero shit, 3)scary movies, 4)poor people problems or 3rd world problems. nothing like national lampoon. or old adam sandler stuff. or something out of left field like roger rabbit or space jam. it's batman, a batman prequel, a batman spin-off with batman villains, and batman with legos. it's fucking enraging.

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>>34319555
>when we had a talk in school about using the internet and never EVER using your real name

im 30

good things in the 90s
>kid shows
>vidya
>no social media and normie degeneracy vomiting all over the internet

bad things
>every year there was some stupid trend like pogs and beanie babies
>not much to do on the internet. forums and chat rooms and some sketchy porn sites were pretty much it
>television shows were mostly fucking trash, the only good one i can even think of is the x files
>way more difficult to discover new music that wasn't radio crap

meh, it was alright i guess, nothing special. the 70s seem like they were way more fun

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>>34319730
And now it's encouraged

>>34319773
>sketchy porn sites

There was always a gamble of fucking up your computer just to see some tits.

>>34319730
>>34319774
lmao
Yeah..

>>34319730
>everyone referred to the internet as the "information superhighway"

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>>34319730
>"Now... hold the floppy disk by the label! Like so..."

>>34319862
Yeah.
Always seemed completely boring to me as all we ever used the internet for in school was a shitty encyclopaedia.

>>34319502
>No vidya unless you were a richfag
Not true, middle class fags could easily afford it. There was also renting and borrowing.

>No internet unless you were a richfag
Who cares, the internet was boring back then. The tv was literally more interesting.

>That meant no hug box like /r9k/ or Tumblr
You didn't need one.

>No porn
Good, that means no sexual frustration. Also, finding your dads magazines once in a blue moon was like finding treasure. It made that shit actually matter.

>Also bullies were much worse back then
That's probably true. You can't have everything I guess.

>>34319297
> I'm now a fat ugly fuck because I became an alcoholic after quitting heroin, coke and amphetamines.

This
>coke and amphetamines

Alleviates this
> fat ugly fuck

...and possibly this
>had no sex for 4 years

Why did you boot your best friends from your life?? They were only trying to help.

>>34319933
Our school computer ran Encarta and pretty much nothing else. I'm not even sure if it was connected to the internet but we all thought it was

>>34315076
i was born in 3word country so the 90s to you are like the 80s to me because the new technologies only came from 1world country's

Pretty good. Pez candies, less electronics, played outside with neigbourhood kids, building sandcastles and losing lego's there all the time. Aesthetic cars judged by these times etc
(28yr old here)

Nachos were a hit

>>34314989
They were good, for the most part. Liberals were pretty reasonable and generally didn't believe in this kooky SJW shit they do nowadays. People in general were just less politically correct and stuck up their own assholes than they are now.

That said, I wouldn't go back. Modern technology has made getting information infinitely easier than it was in the '90s.

>>34319832

I remember looking for the legend of Zelda cheats so I typed in Zelda.com, which was a porn site near my parents

>>34320058
Found the millennial.

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>>34318908
>dat saxophone
>dem old social values
>dat Christian America
Dave Coulier was never funny.

>>34317062
I agree mate. I remember Encyclopedia Dramatica old /b/ before it went to shit and something awful and ytmnd

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Born in 1985, my life in the 90s
>Playing PC games Doom, Wolfenstein and Commander Keen
>Trading game boy cartridges and glow pogs with other kids at school
>Saturday morning cartoons made weekends great
>Surfing Scooby Doo fan sites on geocities on a 56kbs modem
>Collecting "Monsters in My Pocket"
>Super Soakers summers

Maybe I miss being a kid, but I wish I could of stayed in the 90s forever.

>>34320759

I hate they way they've ruined memes now. Everything is a fucking meme to them, I just saw an SJW anti-Trump poster holding up a sign saying MEME and it was the most cancer thing imaginable I've seen lately. Memes and everything else relating to the internet was better when it was small inside jokes, the minute LOL became mainstream was when it was over.

Still very hilarious to think how this place has had more influence on the internet despite the whole anonymity matter while other sites require you to attention whore have all crashed and burned.

>>34319341
Thought that was Winnie the Pooh on the bottom left there

>>34314989

It's probably overrated

90's nostalgia is a plebbit meme

>>34318145
>It was a simpler time where people weren't openly stupid and would go outside and converse with each other.
Confirmed for not growing up in the 90s.

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>>34315110
1989 here. your just wrong sir. playing pokemon with all the kids on the street. stealing my friend ninja turtle action figure and buring it in wet cement. skateboarding being cool and relevent. fucking tech decks.

>>34322066

90s worship fags are all about muh consumerism. Doesn't surprise me they are all Gen Z kiddies who are addicted to their idevices.

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>>34314989
way better than now

originally, I was there

Terrible. Internet connections barely were a thing, games were alright for their time, but honestly nothing mindblowing. Early 2000's was when games REALLY got good.
Spent a bunch of time playing outside with other neighborhood kids, dingdong ditches, peeing in public places and so on.
Plenty of tv watching, being bored and so on. There was really nothing good at that time, schools were strict as fuck too. It was a time when it was legal for teachers here to slap your dumb head and make you stand in the hallway if you were lazy or fucked around.
It was also okay for parents to whip your ass with a belt real hard.

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>tfw they brought back shitty Crystal Pepsi and Surge but they will never bring back Citra

>>34320616
4chan is like 98% millenial, genius. And I'm not even one.

It's easy to tell who's lying or not If they mention anything related to "PC culture".

Back then everybody was afraid of saying "nigger" or anything along the lines. Everyone was in for women getting into the workforce, and the modern women (the office lady) was THE kind of woman.

It's that easy. ITT just a bunch of /pol/ teenagers who think they know anything about the 90s.

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>>34323019
>They will never bring back Snapple Elements

>>34323117
Come on, it was not the same. People were not that easily offended. There was no checking of privileges, no weird pronouns, no anti-white male rhetoric. PC culture back then was all about gay acceptance, anti-racism and saying "special needs person" instead of "retard".

Anyone else think it is odd how much Autism has proliferated? Seems like an easy diagnoses for shy, white people from lazy psychologists but I've never seen it sprung up so much as it did after Autism acceptance happened. Then again people are just using it now as some sort of trendy badge to make themselves more snowflake.

>>34323497
Shrinks get kickbacks from Pharmaceutical companies. Why do you think they have pens and sticky notes with drug brands on them? They are scamming people into thinking they are ill when they aren't and are making drug addicts for life.

>>34318494

I just brought up stuff that I think was more relevant to everyone.

I wasn't a sports kid, but I had a Honda minibike and a gokart. I lived in a rural area so my folks didn't care, and I'd put like 20 or more miles on a day somedays. Used to ride the minibike to my friends' house when I didn't feel like riding my bicycle.