What were the 90's like?

What were the 90's like?

Surely it is better then now...

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It was, everything went to shit after 2004

It was pretty fun doing to blockbuster picking out some horror movie with goofy art on it then fucking at home. Wait we can still do that with netflix.

Ya. Seems about right.
War on terror changed this country, and not for the better

Black people were seldom on television, gay and interracial relationships weren't shoved down your throat

It was a peaceful time

it was good if you were born in them or late 80's
as an adult it would've been shit

Buying candy on the line was fun too

My dad would sat "user, for doing well on your report card- you and your sister, Anonandra, can pick one movie, one game, and 2 snacks."

It was a dream come true.

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the decline actually started back in the 1970's, it just didn't become noticable until the early 2000's. it was in the 70's when birthrates declined rapidly, industry started leaving the west, wages stagnated, wealth inequality grew, governments became gigantic, fiat currency introduced worldwide, rise of leftism and cultural marxism, borders were opened.

The 70s started extreme sports and extreme language like tubular. The 80s maxxed it out.

The 90s was the try hard decade which stewed in its own angst and culminated in Green Day. It sucked.

I used to rent these final fantasy animes that had nothing to do with the games

Also the street fighter anime where Ken has brown/red hair.

>Anonandra

BLAAACCK

What mod is this

do you member' the 90s man

ya bro the 90s bro i member'

ya good times brehs

nostalgiaFAGS

>thinking back to better times is faggotry and not introspective

60's counterculture paved the way

>The 70s started extreme sports and extreme language like tubular
Mutherfucker your obviously weren't there lmao
That was the 90s you pogue bastard

>implying 30's café culture didn't pave the way for the 60's

Alright kiddies, time for a history lesson.

The reason why you all whine over why you miss the 90's is because you were KIDS. You didn't have to worry about paying the rent on time or putting food on the table, the only shit you cared about was what you wanted for Christmas and when your cartoons were scheduled.

That right there is the source of 90's nostalgiafaggotry.

This guy probably turned 13 in 2004. The world didn't get any worse, you just grew up.

Boring as fuck, post millennium has been far more interesting.

Dont listen to these millenials who didn't even live in the 90s.

Everything after 96 is decidedly shit, only a few things before then was barely passable.

Pros
-Fewer restrictions on getting a license as a teen
-Lower insurance
-No one gave a shit about muslims
-Gays were novel, interesting and then quickly dismissed
-Certain cartoons weren't completely shit

Cons
-Illegals began their mass immigration and were being shipped in by the truckload
-Blockbuster was expensive and the stock was always shit
-Porn was in picture form and still took a while to download
-Hansen
-An entire decade devoted to blaming video games for violence.
-Picket Fences tried to blame schoolyard violence on Jurassic Park
-Rap music created countless wiggers and the elevation of ghetto behaviors as acceptable
-OJ got away with murder
-Forrest Gump is lauded as a good movie but it is a horrible story with a flimsy premise and an unlikable retard protagonist

They were pretty cool but no one knew how good they really had it so nobody enjoyed them at the time.

You're sucking your own dick.

Look at rock climbing. It was a legit sport in the 70s up to the mid-80s. The 90s pussified it

Found the hermit.

this. quit living in the past, right now is absolutely fucking nuts

You just reminded me of this, for fuck's sake. What the hell is this pop bitch doing in a rap video?

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>rock climbing
>legit sport

o i am laffin

I really hope the Purple Parrots beat the Maroon Monkeys.

Comparing their best made movie to Saturday morning tv animation.

>Giving a shit about a child focused anime series

Three words "s'more galore parfait"
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You're so fucking high.

in the year 2036

you're gonna look back to 2016 and think

"man, I miss the 2010 golden age of the internet"

so enjoy it while it's here instead of obsessing over the shitty 90's

The 90's were the best.

I pity anyone who will never know what it was like to open up an NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, or a PSX when they came out. Also the kids who never got a chance to know what a VCR was, actually using CD's, and Cassettes in the vehicle. Things that are common now, were brand new back then (no shit).

But you can watch TV and see some new season of Pokemon, where as back in '97, it was brand new, no one had ever seen or heard of it, well, at least over on our side of the world.

Technology was so amazing, and new. Every year or two, something new seemed to come out that revolutionized something else.

Box TV's, VCR's, video stores, home phones, it was totally different.

I miss it.

What did people do before smart phones? I work pumping gas and everyone is face deep in phones passengers etc what did people do before them?

You played sports alot. You rode your bicycle everywhere with neighborhood friends. The 4th of July was friendly and anticipated instead of nigger terror night. School wasnt very climate controlled and it made it hard to concentrate. Mom and Pop were doing well because the 90s saw a surge in small business success. The Rodney King beatings were deplorable, Ross Perot was an idiot and The Matrix was the coolest movie to date. Nobody had cell phones and the niggers drove little slammed cars with gold wire wheels and Kangol hats

Mariah Carey has had a long history of bad decisions. It is truly astounding. She recently got dropped by a multi-millionaire. He wanted to get away from that crazy bitch.

Nah, I'll be doing both.

/oldfag/ here. Born in 71. I make way more money now than I did in my 20s.
I can say, without a doubt, the 90s were better than the past 8 years. You could actually have a movie with white actors without autistic screeching about racism.
The 2010s PC culture has really fucked things up. Sure, political correctness was around in the 90s but it wasnt nearly as bad as it is now.

Either you'd talk to someone else or you'd just sit there awkwardly twiddling your thumbs until someone came over and talked to you.

what are you making in woodshop class?

I threw up in my mouth

Sounds a lot better most people now are social degenerate

The net was wide open. No dominance by large media corporations. Anything went (just slowly). A good time for music if you like alternative rock, punk, ska, etc. No being molested to get on a fucking plane. Dotcom boom was fun and profitable. Overall A+ decade for me.

In Estonia, the 90's was a period where we had lots of mafia, beatings, robberies and the murder rates that compare to some fucking latin american country these days, but the police cracked down on them hard and it got better by the beginning of 00's.

I was born in 93 and don't remember much from 90's but it kinda represents a strange period of freedom for me. Back then, people were optimistic about the free Estonia, we had our own currency and it seemed it can only go up from there. Boy was I wrong!

>I need to talk to user
>I'll call his house phone
>*nobody answers*
>Guess I'll talk to him another day

The 90's.

Aol prodigy and msn

More Pros
-Anime was god-tier
-Video Games were god-tier (Quake, Unreal Tournament, DOOM)

More Cons
-NAFTA
-The DMCA
-The Assault Weapons Ban
-Waco/Ruby Ridge

77 here.

Early 90's pc was "little person" instead of midget and "handicapped" instead of fucking retarded and they built some ramps here and there.

Jesus what have we become.

>Dragonball ended in 1995, I was a child.

it wasn't shown in the west til 2000 (around then)

The 90's were a fucking drag and I'm glad we're finally out of that cultural slump.

Is it easy for whites from non EU to migrate to Estonia? I have $800k AUS would this allow me, my wife and our son to become citizens/perm residents and live a decent life in Estonia? Wife wants to go.

Wrote directions on a piece of paper. Learned to read a map. Waited until you got home or to work to check on net crap. Drove better for damn sure. Payphones were everywhere. When I was on call, we literally had a phone (even a pager at one point) we took home with us so we couldn't miss a call. Small cameras were popular for pix. I got rid of my cell about a year ago, best decision ever. Damn tired of people always expecting to be able to reach me.

It's fun watching overly PC hollywood implode though. You can look at it one way, but i'm having a goddamn blast watching youtube videos of all these people who sold their souls to a false cause slowly self-destruct. it's hilarious

The 90s were great, everything just werked

Starting around 1982, the economy started getting better and it continued getting better, except for a brief blip around 1990, until around 2000.

Real median household income peaked in 1999. College and housing are more expensive now relative to income than they were then. There are way more regulations now. It's harder to start a business. Hell, they even shut down kids lemon aide stands for not complying with regulations these days.

Technology is better now. Computers are light years ahead of where they were. Cell phones and long distance calling are cheaper. But a lot of things are clearly worse than before.

Wasn't that a bunch of anime?

Pokemon, Digimon, Dragon Ball....ehh, that's all I got

They were just as degenerated back then but it wasn't considered the norm so it was kept behind closed doors. Social networking and those handheld communication devices have allowed humanity to come to a realization that for the most part they're all loathsome self obsessed slobs, on this realisation instead of working to improve collectively it was embraced full force, the aforementioned doors were flung open and revealed a masturbating chimpanzee.

This time 10/10

Looking to hang with friends? Ride ur bike around the neighborhood until you found them or went door to door.

has anyone else released that we grew up during a massive cultural shift? we're the guys that spill over from the old world to the new world. we're going to be the old grandpa's who get to answer questions about what life was like when cell phones didn't exist. that's our generation.

Well she is half black and looks like an albino nigger.

Yes they were there. Spent a few days lusting over all of the Sun Ultra-Sparcs that AOL had all over the damn place. There were no doubt early juggernauts, but the net itself felt like something *new* every day. Odd shit came and went, sometimes it stuck around. Early memes, early social platforms, design was incredibly diverse (and often times shit...browsers were too though) and interesting. Feels like the wild west compared to the stale net of today.

*realized

Good: pokemon poptarts
Bad: illegal meximanlets suddenly fucking everywhere

t. Border state

So why would you give a shit about the 2015 version?

Yeah, there are adolescent and adult themed anime to. I don't hate on the cartoon drawing style but how old do you have to be to stop watching super hero bullshit. When you see a bronnie you see a mentally handicapped retard. When an adult brings up how the love anime and then list shit like dragonballz one punch man and attack on titan I see the very same thing.

They somewhat stopped making non pornographic anime for adults in the 80s/90s.

>go with family to blockbuster
>grab a movie, brother rents Jade Cocoon for PS1
>beg parents for some Cotton Candy at the check out
>get a bunch of snacks
>throw a quarter into the cool gumball machines the had at the door
>go back home
>play jade cocoon with brother for the rest of the night

times were so simple....

jesus christ. do i love this because of nostalgia or because nobody gives a shit here. what an awful show, but god be damned if it wasn't hilariously so.

>crawl through styrofoam-pit just to climb a ladder to put together a monkey that only 1/10 kids could accomplish.
>the monkey was only three pieces
>sit on a chair
>get grabbed by ancient mudslime
>tfw you win a cruise to some shithole with a pool
>mfw the loser gets sketchers

amazing

Most difficult part is learning the language, Otherwise, moving here outside of EU requires a visa. I don't know the process, but I think it should be manageable, if you can explain it well enough what is your reason to move here.

Otherwise, 800k AUS dollars is a huge money, and you will live a very good life and could even buy a good home in a upscale neighborhood (Like Pirita district in Tallinn, or Viimsi near Tallinn where the richer folks live and no russian roaches roam about), but in the countryside, you could get a motherfucking farm with money such as that.

Also, we welcome all and every white folks that have respect for our culture, ppl and want to learn the language. Just assume that people are usually paranoid about rich white ppl moving here to screw estonians over with some con schemes, just assure them that this is certainly not the case and you are good to go. Good luck!

You used to be able to stock a whole drawer with AOL 3.5 floppy disks you'd get free from literally everywhere. The mail, stuffed in magazines, inside packages of shit you bought...

90s Social Networking >>>> 2016 Social Networking

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IRC was very fun. Especially with the microsoft chat plugin that made everything a comic panel.

Anyone ever dial up with this wicked browser? Primitive stuff, NO standards, good times.

Crime is another thing in the US that's better now than in the 90's. Crime in the US peaked around 1980 and has continued to decline ever since.

On the other hand, people weren't so god damned fat back then.

lol it's like IRC

Before the Mexicans came you could find a fat girlfriend and a car for under 500 dollars.

Early chat rooms were a blast. Usenet also.

They read books or magazines. Or conversed with people around them. Smart phones are fucking cancer.

>Black hands.

Never noticed that.

the internet was a lot better, I spent so much time on the internet I didn't notice by the time I went outside sometime in the 2000s that my city had completely transformed into a ghetto barrio

What's wrong with the unibrow baby? You do realise it's been a character in the Simpsons since the 90's right?

This was the GOAT late 90s porn site

For better or worse, I do remember Cyberdog

you weren't meant to, it's social conditioning.

>Not downloading porn from CERN

We had CD players and iPods. iPods were gigantic and could only play music.

When they started play videos people went crazy for them. That was later though.

That's not why I posted it. It's to show the quality hand drawn animation from the 90s vs the stiff, lifeless flash animation from today.

Judging from 80's-90's american movies, songs, TV and stuff, I can see that indeed that your country was flooded with some nigger-gang bullshit at the time indeed.

In Estonia, I could add that the mafia thing (local mafia mostly, not always russian) was so bad that the small business owners actually had to pay to some groups to protect them from the others, because police was not able to protect them, but yeah, crime kept falling constantly as police established themselves in the brand new country and locked up the mafia figureheads.

>Dad owned small video store in 90s
>The behemoth Blockbuster is buying many small video stores and minimizing competition in the market
>Dad's landlord fucks him over and cancels his lease in a backroom deal with Blockbuster
>Effectively Dad's video store goes out of business
>Dad sues landlord/blockbuster for the bullshit they did and he wins 250k
>Dad buys a piece of real estate with the cash
>Video store industry becomes obsolete and outdated
>Blockbuster proceeds to go bankrupt and out of business
>Today Dad's real estate he bought is worth over 1 million dollars and Dad gets 8k/month from a leasing the property

Sometimes, the little guy wins.

>mfw literally going on sex.com as a kid

Yeah, if you lived in Tajikistan, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and herzegovina, Iraq, Chechnya or anywhere in africa, the 90's probably weren't that great for you.

I remember this

Aside from the Internet and some tv shows most of it was shit.
The 80s were better.

90's internet porn

>colored hyperlink
>"brunette with dick in ass"
>click hyperlink
>3 sec delay
>image starts loading
>20 sec to download image
>image is scan of print
>1 in 4 chance of being good

man that looks awful. porn has gotten so good lately

>Hansen
>implying that's not a pro

youtube.com/watch?v=NHozn0YXAeE

We knew thw difference between then and than back then.

Good times, good times. Lots of drugs. Excess. Pedophilia was just bubbling to the surface, nothing like we know now.

Aye, the 90s. Would do again.

I take it you still haven't realised that no one asks for the elders opinion on anything? They are after all just delusional senile bigots of a bygone age. You could ask 90 year olds about the second world war, how it impacted life the build up etc today but I bet you don't, yet you're on Sup Forums.

Strange actually I was helping a 90ish year old neighbor never spoke to her before, she mentioned how she felt that history was repeating itself and that I'd be drafted into a world war.

Tfw le born in le wrong generassion ;_;