Generation X

Tell me what life was like before the internet and 9/11?

Was life a lot simpler and better?

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Well being a 90's KID was so totally RAD

You rang ur friends' doorbell.

it was great at the time but looking back we were all blue pilled faggots being fed the anti authority bullshit
great music though

And had to remember phone numbers. Like everyones.

Also laser tag, wish that would make a comeback

I used the internet before the web.

Before it was commercially and was just a bunch of intellectuals arguing across the planet. I thought e-mail was magic.

I think that's why I like Sup Forums. It reminds me of those early days. No rules. No SJWs. It was bliss.

I had my scores posted on the front of my bedroom door.

This. I could actually remember like 10+ phone numbers, now? 0.

It was easier and it was not. Information was not so easy to find.

Internet reduced the size of the world so much we felt there shouldn't be so strict borders in europe.

Social media has made the world difficult for todays kids (i have one).

911 changed the usa. It was really nice place to visit and spend time before. It was free.

Rio is still a good lp.

You had to pay for anime and music

>used before the web

Tell us about the USENET days m8..:

you could go Anywhere and not even think about a fucking cell phone because nobody had one. The good ole days are gone. Welcome to digital hell.

Alt.binaries.tasteless ?

People would have conversations with strangers instead of staring at their phones.
Being fat / gay / retarded was seen as a downside and not something to be proud of.
Less worry in general about economy / terrorism / the future.
No scene girl / nu-male / died hair tattooed special snowflake plague.
Life was more cheerful.

9/11 really changed a lot of shit. I feel bad for all the people that have only known post-9/11 America.

It was ultramega ok

We felt free and united,.
Oh boy, were we wrong about the 'end of the occupation'

Definitely simpler. I don't know if I'd say it was better.
At least thanks to the internet, we can easily see how the media lies to people.

We had better super hero shit, also better cartoons.

That's probably one of the things I remember most fondly. I used to bother my mom to record in a VHS all this shit while I was in school. Good times.

Lasertag, holy fuck. I had a top ten score at the place we used to go to, they had a leaderboard there.

My name was 'Mankind' since I loved WWF at the time and he was my favorite wrestler.

I bet I can still find my scorecard printout if I looked hard enough.

You could only call people if they were home. They had to answer to see who was calling.

>gen x
>before the internet

Eternal Summer never ends, never ends.

I've seen her on the beach and I've seen her on TV. Who is she?

it was boring desu

Duck Tales fuck yeah, always wanted to fuck the female copilot one

Don't forget that the Television has been around for a really long time. T.V. Culture was way more homogenized. Internet kind of broke us out of that homogenization. There were less conflicting views on e truth once upon a time. The internet seemed to enlighten us a first, but now we have is a situation where people are consuming tidbits of information left and right and no one is actually vetting its truthfulness, which is a lesson about truth in itself.

Your name isn't Rio but I don't care for sand...
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Simpler, yes.
Some things got better somehow, for example online stores made shit available even in places where if a real seller said a lie like 'that doesn't exist' it well, had to be true wasn't it?
Others went to shit buy mostly the downfall was the advent of social media. It took us too fast, too pushed by trends and new tech combined.

We were happier, but didn't know it

Saturday morning cartoons, Nintendo, and Capri Sun. Shit was tight.

>the snowflake generation will never know the feel when calling the girl you like and having anxiety attack whether her father answers the phone
This is why they will never grow up. It's a rite of passage.

You had to fap using your imagination, women's razors had not been invented, and it was easier to get laid than blown. Google was known as The Library.

Is it easier to get blown than laid now?

Glorious. Best place to hone your bantz. Also much much less idiots.

> tfw I still have a FF plugin for Gopher protocol...

Supposedly....definitely was for a while after Lewinsky/Clinton

This. The western people got too comfortable for their own good. How can one learn true value of anything if he has everything done for him by someone else?

>using a phone book
>using a pay phone
>using a library card catalog for a research paper
>using that one wall mounted phone with the long wire
>paying late fees at Blockbuster
>be kind, rewind
>5.25" floppies
>D&D

It was great. All the great energy that goes into internet culture now was going into movies and music. There was less of an emphasis on gym culture because people weren't in front of a screen all day, so people tended to be more naturally healthy.

The men were more masculine and the women were more feminine. Macho action movies and romantic comedies were the rage. Even a nerdy guy like Kurt Cobain looks high testosterone compared today's nu-males. Feminazi's were usually mocked as the intolerant prudes they were.

The country was also much, much whiter. Rock music was far more popular than rap. White trash listed to country music and weren't wiggers. Dindu's would chimp out just as much, but people didn't give a shit and mostly ignored them. The cities weren't gentrified and were basically Dindu Hell. What they really were were containment areas. The media was still liberal, but they weren't as nearly aggressively anti-white.

The Right were the militant SJW''s. The Religious Right were menace to civilization. The Far Left had not seized power in the progressive movement, and most liberals were of the Jim Webb-type. So the Left was far more fun and open-minded than today.

People prided themselves on being politically incorrect. The more shocking, lewd, and offensive you were in popular culture, the more you were celebrated. It was the Jerry Springer and WWF Attitude Era.

We had most of the same problems we have today, but they weren't as obvious. The biggest national debate wasn't over whether white people deserve to get disenfranchised, but whether a blowjob is actually sex.

A lot of it was annoying at the time, but I'd give anything to have some of it back. There more I realize what we've lost, and how the youngins aren't going to ever experience it, the angrier I get.

>using 80s slang to describe the 90s

I remember buying weekly Gaming magazines for Previews and Cheatcodes.

It was fucking shit but we didn't know because we couldn't talk to each other. All we had was the TV and bullshit cunt newspapers. if you bought a decent newspaper as a working class person you'd be ridiculed for it. People who had divergent poltical opinions were ostracised and regarded as borderline personality disorders. Music was shit for the most part including Duran fucking Duran. Pubs were territorial snakepits where people held a seat and the kind of place where if you was a stranger walking in the pool balls would stop moving as everyone turned to survey you. Beer was SHIT and people would say a Snakebite(lager mixed with cider) was "rocket fuel". Nightclubs were disgusting shitholes but because the lights were low or flashing so as to induce epilepsy you couldn't see the muck but it didn't stop the floor being sticky. Bouncers were psychopaths and unregulated, nightclub owners were affiliated with gangsters and ordinary people were treated like shit.

Honestly a lot of the civility that exists in mainstream society is contrived and shallow but it's *nice* and the worst you get is passive aggressive graduates disappointed and frustrated they're working Costa or Euro style bistros. I'm fucking jelly of teens and early 20's people today, I know it isn't a bed of roses, in fact a lot of it is shit but don't imagine it was any better for the vast majority of people. he only thing they had which I'm sorry you don't is a sense of purpose and belonging but that began to evaporate in the late 70's with the advent of Punk and especially the Sex-Pistols.

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There were only two recognized genders then. If you were a faggot, you kept it in the closet or you had your ass handed to you by the chads. Music was more varied back then. My high school was pretty much a blend of Breakfast Club and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Camaros and Mustangs were the cars to have, girls liked 280Zs. That's about it, I guess.

> we couldn't talk to each other

That's true. The internet has really united people like never before. Because of the lack of communication among people, countrymen tended to stick by their own, regardless of their own personal feelings. Conservatives and liberals in the US tended to act more cohesively together. Because of Sup Forums and other places, it's changed. I think many on the American Right feel a far stronger sense of brotherhood and commonality with Russians or Poles or Hungarians then they do their own liberal countrymen.

It wasn't perfect, but it was a lot better than now.

>More jobs, things costed less and people had less debt
>Teenagers worked in fast-food/retail, not boomers
>Video games and movies were awesome, actual good stuff on TV
>Early Internet was just a place for hobbyists, academics and nerds (actual nerds, not the modern definition of "nerd"), no SJW/alt-right/meme/surveillance/datamining BS like it is now
>Nobody cared about Islam or even knew what a Muslim was
>Instead of economic collapse, endless war, waves of violent migrants and terrorism, people were scared of violent video games and Marilyn Manson

Off topic here but that art style is super cool, wish Moonbeam City hadn't been canceled

This...and in my neighborhood, younger kids never talked shit to adults or older teenagers like the snowflakes do now. A beating would certainly be incoming.

The music was awesome IMO...in the late 80's we were still listening to the late 70's/early 80's punk, Metallica in their infancy, Motley Crue, AC/DC and the club music, which was pretty good.

The internet was semi-free of propaganda.Now its 100% full of propaganda.Boards,games,videos,music,everything is propaganda now.Nothing left.

It was every bit as awesome as the Nagel art you posted...Praise KEK!

"...then daddy struck laser." Severely underrated show. Great theme song too.

Oh, I forgot the most important part. Grew up without seeing a nigger until I was around 13ish.

Beat me by a couple of years I think.

My first memories of the internet are going on the internet to talk to other people on the internet about going on the internet.

You used to have to actually phone or visit stores to shop around for prices instead of going to a store to look at something and then ordering it on your phone from amazon.

There was only maybe 12 channels instead of hundreds. Way less vidya games. Music was actually good.

First time I used the internet was in 1993 and it was gopher.

Yes. Back then a lot of women did not like fellatio. Now BJ's are a first date thing.

70s/80s was perma-fear of nuclear annihilation. our amydalas are fucked up, too. probably worse than millennials. i'm _guessing_ it's on par with gen-z safety/anxiety issues.
millennials were hyper-protected due to the constant fears late boomers & gen-x grew up under.

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I paid for music. I cashed in savings bonds to buy Jane's addiction bootleg CDs. I archived newspaper clippings. I didn't recoil in fear when the phone rang. I jerked off to porn catalogs and still images. The Wall Street journal was were one looked up stock prices. I had to go across town or order thru the mail doc martens

Blowjobs were considered slutty. There are many married men who have never had their benis in their wife's mouth.

I hate this generation. Fuck videogames fuck Snapchat, fuck Facebook , fuck the nightlife "culture"

>You had to pay for anime and music

You had to buy a CD/tape first, then discover there's only one good song on it.

This scene suddenly has new perspective

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>>using a phone book
>omg i was just doxxed!
our generation called that 'looking someone up.'

USENET still exists lad. Binary retention is years, not days/weeks.

I was wondering what the origin of that art style was.

vaporwave nigga

I consider the smartphone trend to be much more annoying.

It was more natural during the time when people used to stare at a wall or at the floor and contemplate about things, it wasn't time waste if you were contemplating about something important to you, or if you couldn't think about important stuff you could've start chatting with the person right next to you.

I miss those days...

Blacks and Whites actually got along.
Asians were harmless and were still too cucked by communism to dominate the West.
Gays and trannies didn't demand attention every 5 seconds.

It was the best. The internet was magic I can't even describe it. Just hearing that modem connecting would get you excited.

It seemed a lot more relaxed and comfortable. Could be because I was a kid though.

That's my go-to election song lol. Loved this one, too!
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there was hope. even with the lies about nuclear weapons.. never thought it would be this fucking shit today.. niggers shud be in space ships n shit ...

this was Number 1 on my birthday... basically it was saying... Lets all become beige mongoloids with out of proportion features and reach a global IQ average of 83

I may be an edge case, but it was incredible, esp if you were tech.

I lived a block away from the twin towers and had to climb rubble to get to my apartment building.

It makes me sad millenials are such pussies

The pace of life was just very different. You had to wait for things. You had to wait for the shows you wanted to come on TV. You had to look in the newspaper to see when the shows you wanted to watch came on. No cell phones for the most part, so if you agreed to meet someone and they were late, you'd just wait for them to show up, not knowing what delayed them. If you wanted to go to the store on Sunday, you were out of luck as most of them were closed except for grocery stores and such. We remembered phone numbers extremely well. Phone books and yellow pages were very important. All research was done in books at the library. If you wanted to know some piece of information, you really had to work to get it...find the right book/periodical...ask a person who already knew. I liked it better, to be honest. I feel like the internet made human relationships harder and made us extremely impatient. That said, now that we have it, going back would be a nightmare. It's like when you say you want to go back to Vanilla warcraft, but then you try and every little mission takes forever because you have to read through the quest text and there aren't any map indicators to show you where to go, so you say "Fuck this shit" and go back to playing live.

People who never lived without the internet really have no grasp of how having every piece of information within the entirety of human history at your finger tips has changed things though.

straight forward and always enjoyable

it was so surreal and peaceful i never questioned anything and i never thought bad on anyone

it was truly heaven on earth and its such a shame no one will ever get to enjoy it like that again.

Patrick Nagel.

>jealous as fuck at people who were teens in the 80s
>sad as fuck for kids who had to grow up in the 00s and after
the internet was a huge mistake
technology should have stopped at VHS and audio cassettes

lel, laser tag just arrived in germany a couple years ago

>This thread.
>Dude.
>what have i done with my life.

The other change that comes to mind is the progression of friendships has changed drastically. Now, when you meet someone, you look at their facebook and very quickly get an idea of who they, their hobbies, likes and dislikes, life goals, etc and you "know" them right away, though only on a very superficial level. Before the internet, the only way to get to know someone was literally to spend time with them and talk to them and the information came to you in a slow drip. It took time.

I remember this. I called a girl I was after. The father answered and asked me if I was prepared for marriage. I was only 17. He grilled me as to whether or not I was serious about marriage and being financially capable to take care of her. He shut it down in the kindest possible manner. I was just looking for fun, because I was immature. Protecting his children is what a good father does. I bet that girl turned out great.

looking back we were all blue pilled faggots being fed the anti authority bullshit

This is true to a certain extent, and why I think gen Xers are partially to blame for the behavior of the younger generations. Children need guidelines. The attitude of gen X during the 90s was largely, apathetic, so we let our kids do whatever and give them whatever. I tried rewatching films like Clerks, Slacker and SubUrbia (1996) and couldn't finish them. They annoyed me. The peoples' attitudes and outlooks on life annoyed me. Then it hit me how I had somewhat grown up, and realized how ignorant I was when I was younger. I could no longer relate. The youngest generations didn't become who they are entirely of their own volition.

You were a lot better at memorizing things like phone numbers and birthdays, because you didn't have technology to do it for you. Payphones were a thing. You couldn't socialize with your friends all at the same time without leaving your house, so you definitely got out more. Wanted to play a video game with a friend? You went to their house or they came to yours. Video rental stores were a thing. Memes weren't a thing, your group of friends might have their own inside jokes but it only meant something to about 4-5 people.

If I could, I'd time travel back to about 1992, live till About Fall of 2000, then time travel back to 1992 all over again and repeat that till I died.

You where proud to be an American where at least you knew you where free.

>No rules. No SJWs. It was bliss
I know that feel

MFW Watching American Gladiators actually made me feel patriotic.

People really loved America back then. Like....a lot. We were crazy about America. When I was a kid, my entire neighborhood blocked off the streets on the 4th of July and had massive barbecues, set off fireworks, sang Lee Greenwood and shit. Good times. Fucking Commies these days....Get off my lawn you fucking kids.

I know, imagine the reaction to dressing your kind like this today?

It's still like this in the south, though.

It's just that half of the kids in camo hunting and fishing are hispanic and listen to rap music.

this is considered racist now.
youre making a snowflake cry somewhere right now.
please delete it.

House was cheap.

pic would be $200,000

sounds like you didn't get the memo. or did you maybe take the contents too much to heart?

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When the vets from Desert Storm came home, my dad took me to meet one of them from the neighborhood who was an army paratrooper. He told me about his time over there and I asked him to sign a newspaper that I had kept from the day Iraq called it quits. Still have it.

Things didn't cost less!
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it got canned because it wasnt very good. the art style and overall concept was great, but it was just a generic comedy show.

IMO if it had played it straight as a cop show, it wouldve been better

life was better. the internet was also better in the beginning.

I hardly remember anymore. The best part was that you could disconnect from everyone and everything. Road trip? You may as well have vanished into thin air (and you actually had to have some navigation skill in order not to get lost). My memory for facts was better (no Googling on the fly to fact check your arguments). There was still a real underground music scene... you learned about the latest punk band from a friend of a friend's brother who would then actually dub a vinyl record to a cassette tape which would be copied and passed around. I grew up just outside of DC and was a teenager in the 90's (DC was murder capital of the world then)...you HAD to be tough and know how to fight... even the girls had to know, or at least be prepared to. I dunno... you had to really hunt for knowledge and information about anything you wanted to know. Our minds weren't lazy.

Not so much the camo but the "Desert Storm" logo, imagine a kid in an "Iraqi Freedom" shirt.

The war was portrayed in a positive light, at least that's what I remember.

Reality hits you hard bro.

vaporwave is neo-90's (early-mid 90's specifically)

redpill me on this, why do everyone even non americans separate everything between 9/11 and after? it is just a terorrist attack, why is it used as, like, a wall between timelines or smth

*remembering twenty different phone numbers by heart
*You knew most people in the nightclubs
*Travel to your neighbouring state/country was exotic
*Far fewer food items in the supermarkets
*Video rentals
*Hash in the UK was 30 a score
*Forest/beach 'illegal' parties - you had to know people to get invited
*Local gangs always fought, you had to be in one or the other.
*People had 'hobbies'
*People had penpals
*You 'sent away' for crap in the back of magazines
*Classified ads for dating
*People would visit each other much more, as in, every day, always a knock at the door
*Your mother was scared of 'heavy breathers' on the phone line and called the phone company in abject fear when a false connection happened and you picked up the receiver and said some stupid shit like "I CAN HEAR YOU BREATHING. I CAN HEAR YOU"
*BMX's, Skateboards, outdoor stuff like wind surfing, amusement parks.
*Smoking everywhere inside. The air was blue with smoke.
*Old Spice and Brut
*People wrote letters to each other even though they lived in the same city.
*Cinemas were packed, always.
*Working in a department store was considered a job for life.
*Nobody was scared to call a spade a spade.
*More people were ignorant of the average things.
*Nobody knew anything about law, government, politics etc. Only uni grads.
*Far fewer people went to uni
*Fashion and style industries were not yet scraping the bottom of the barrel
*Big production music. Vast amounts of money was spent on development of music. Unlike the tiny budgets of today. Lots of albums in the eighties impossible to compete with in today's cash starved companies.
*Trends took years to influence other countries. Fashion, speech, lifestyle etc.
*Class was far more apparent

My girlfriend unironically looks a hell of a lot like a new romantic painting. So hot. I'm going to be sucking that 80s-esque vagina hourly.

30 year old user here

Dont romanticize it too much. Yea, we all played outside every night until dark but all we were doing was rollerblading in our jncos.

Before 9/11, war was a big deal. Desert Storm was a minor operation at best, but since we were actually mobilizing our Armed Forces to invade another country, we all thought it was ground shaking. Since 9/11 we have become accustomed to the idea of perpetual war.

9/11 is a convenient cultural marker. In reality, things started changing around 1998/1999 during the first dot-com bubble crash and downturn, and finally came to a massive head in 2007.

So 9/11 is just sort of the cultural hallmark and event of violence that marks the end of our golden age, but the actual end spans roughly a 10 year period.