Was growing up in the late 80's and mid 90's better then today? Post stories and reasons why it was, if it was

Was growing up in the late 80's and mid 90's better then today? Post stories and reasons why it was, if it was.

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We had no shitskins back then. Wish I could go back just for that reason alone.

It was before the Federal Govt. in the USA forced over the air TV stations to put "educational" childrens shows on in the morning.

Cartoons were widely available with many good ones up until about 2002 or 2004.

Just walk a movie and tv medley from '85 until '95. It's undeniable that there was more and better original content from corporate media at the time, which is why everything now is a remake of old franchises. You could still be alone with friends and not be tethered to broader social networks through social media. Kids still have 1 on 1 conversations, but you could be truly alone in a way that is much less common today. The lack of internet also made everything seem more special. Every comic you owned, every book, or magazine, or poster you had in your room felt more precious--you couldn't just order stuff off of Amazon.

No internet and very few video games, you actually went outside with friends and lived life and made memories.

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You tell me

This video soothes my soul, it is oddly relaxing on a spiritual level. Well, for me at least.

There were actually far MORE video games at the time, as in individual titles. Though most games had fewer hours of play, and of course most kids couldn't afford a huge collection...yes somehow I always managed to find a shitload of quarters for the arcade. Actually, I think arcades might be the thing I miss the most of everything from the late '80's/early '90's. There's just no social context anymore where 8 year olds, teenagers, and grown adults all socialize on the same level. I think that was healthier for everyone's psychology. Now it's seem as weird for different age groups to be in the same place. I would play games alongside 30-something men drinking beer and smoking when I was 9 or 10, and no one ever felt unsafe.

fuck yes it was.

only thing we worried about was commies parachuting from the sky like in the ''red dawn'' movie.(the original one duh)

>, you actually went outside with friends and lived life and made memories.
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just google an image from the 80s, one from the 90s, and one from today and see for yourself, god what a shitty thread

It makes me incredibly sad, because I'm old enough to remember when it was like that.

pre 89

buying Legos in PEWEX for... US dollars, yeah we had specialized shop that only accepted US dollars and had all western shit

mother smugling stuff from DDR and NDR , not some single person but literaly whole trucks of stuff having connections both with local mafia and border guard/police/military

90`s were fun too, people waking up from communism, "wild capitalism" stuff you could dream on before 89 now showing up in shops

OH FUCK TV CAN HAVE MORE THAN TWO CHANELLS

lucky enough to get english classes and watch carton network in its best times

The summers were great. I could entertain myself before I had access to drinking, smoking or porn. Just ride my bike from 9am until sundown.

much better.
if you are genZ you just have no idea.
i remember when i used to go out on fridays there were at least a 100 people sitting in the nearby park just talking and having fun.
nowdays everyone are flocking to bars/club/staying at home like its obligatory.
you could just go down stairs in the morning and play with whoever was playing downstairs, there was no tension between people like today.
also 18,19,20 yr olds actually went outside in large groups and filled the streets. it wasn't like today where you also have people hanging around commercial area's. everywhere you went was packed with people

Remember waking up early, eating breakfast, and riding your bike everywhere with your friends? Remember how much it sucked to get a flat tire. I miss it.

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1980 was the highest crime NY ever had in years. Back then it was easier to commit crime unlike it is now today with mass surveillance.

I suppose I should have been more specific.I meant in particular videogames at home. Growing up with SNES, playing videogames was very much a social thing for me - if I weren't playing my brother, I'd be playing with my friends. I'd rarely being playing a videogame alone, ever. Nowadays, videogames are very much an isolatory thing. Now, I know that you can play vidya online these days, but it not the same thing at all.
That is an interesting point you raise in the second half of your post, I totally agree with you.

As for arcades, yeah I miss them too.

Remeber beeing 6yr old kid, mother got in some serious shit with grandma. Fliped her shit, packed up "we are going to see my old friend, he`s running arcade near the sea". All those machines.

Other thing I miss are net caffes. They were little worlds where you would meet friends, buy 2-3hs and play first COD MOHA or CS.

Or staying for the night and playing AVP scaring shit out each other.

Aside from family being more involved with videogames, more people were outside riding their bikes, more people filled the streets. It wasn't safe back then its just people weren't aware of the shit that was happening. Australia was renowned for bashing poofters left, right and center, bar fights were fucking brutal, not just two people would fight, it would involve the whole place and the bouncers would get bashed too.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_Murders

Shortly after 9/11 Kraft Foods Inc introduced green and purple Ketchups to distract the people from the fact that 9/11 was in inside job.

yes besides big cities there was barely any minorities anywhere. Tons of people still left doors and cars unlocked, etc. Being mostly white people there was very little crime and degeneracy

>little crime and degeneracy 80s-90s

That was the golden time for degeneracy

remember the age old tradition where cool places were passed down from older kids to younger kids and then shared some more. There was no internet to know exactly where everything was and exploring was a fucking adventure

>That was the golden time for degeneracy
no it wasn't compared to any time after. what we thought was degenerate then was fucking tame by today's standards

It was nice, but then again I don't have anything to compare it to so

naw, that stuff existed years before 9/11.

Certainly. Born in 81 here. Only the best music made it on the radio so you didn't have to filter through so much shit. Radio was good. (Shit today, duh.) Games weren'
t just about graphics and boring/easy. We all had money cause things were cheap as fuck. No social media. Good times!

Still today you have tons of porn and young ladies are pretty "easy" compared to the past.

I was born in 85. Slow amount of information was a novelty and I loved spending my allowance at video rental stores. I'm depressed that I'll never be able to work at one of those stores, and so demoralized about it, I've been working at a Walmart for over a decade because I had no other career dream.

>Still today you have tons of porn and young ladies are pretty "easy" compared to the past.
That's not a good thing, user...

Be Kind Rewind must be really uplifting or really depressing to watch.

Blockbuster

eh, it's a balance. At any time I want I can see streaming hotties dancing around, awesome. Easy girls are good, but don't get super sluts. Don't want those STDs. So find a LADY, not a ho.

Also, we had awesome cartoons, but some of the toons today I hear are cool too.

it was ok.

Local joints were even better. It's like the difference between Barnes and Noble and a mom and pop bookstore. You got really interesting selections, and of course they still had all of the new releases. Also, you'd always try to sneak a peak at the adult room, which was always behind a black curtain.

the Kikery and Anti-whiteness hadn't gotten to 2004 levels yet. Not that it wasn't going on

"Come home when the streetlights come on."

Blacks kept to their neighborhoods, no social media, vidya was 10 people sitting around a CRT playing Golden Eye. The 90s were the last normal time to grow up, I'd fucking hate being in HS now.

I've only felt a combination of emotions once, while watching drive. My father had a white Chevelle from the early 70s and I swear I lived that REAL HUMAN BEAN scene in 1991.

I used to invite some of the less cool kids to my house, but only because I wanted access to some new videogames. They knew. Each new videogame was an adventure, with entirely new concepts. Also riding your bike, going over to houses to see if friends were home and if they weren't, go to our favorite spots to see if anybody was there. You never new who you where going to run into. A lot more mystery and surprises. Listening to music alone, or with friends while doing nothing else. Just fucking around and doing nothing with friends is a lost art. I found it quite nice to be bored and in company. A lot more space and freedom. We would get away with shit people would call the cops on you for today.

No, it sucked dick.
however Blockbuster Video was the dopest shit for video games ever.

time before we got tired of video games and tv and driving.

>"Come home when the streetlights come on."

Also this.

The internet is amazing. The medical advances are too. Home video recording/players mean you can watch what you want, when you want.

But pretty much everything else is shit.

>the last normal time to grow up
That's the essence of it. There was a vast common experience growing up in the post-war American suburbs from 1950-2000. Lots of things changes over time, and there were certainly cracks appearing before the whole thing actually came crashing down, but the basic cadence of life for most Americans was fairly consistent until the Internet changed the way humans socialize and did commerce, and that didn't REALLY snowball until social media came on the scene.

I was born in 1983.

Latch-key kid. New York, both parents worked 80+hrs a week on Water st. in Manhattan.

Had a mobile phone at age 10, also a beeper. Internet used exclusively to pirate dragon ball episodes, porn and music off Napster.

Media was whiter, but let's not lie and say half of the programs on television were blacked or not completely blacked. All the cartoons and programs I watched as a child had "diverse" casts, SNICK being a prime candidate pushing a non-white agenda.

Smartphones have essentially zombified people. Despite having a mobile phone, I played outside almost all the time. Skateboarding, smoking weed and hanging out at the mall trying to crush puss. Sports on the weekend. Lacrosse and baseball being the most popular at the time, so played both.

Worked a full time job from 16 until 18 when I went away to college in 2003. 6 years of that, passed the bar, practice law 2 counties north of where i grew up. I ended up fine, as did my friends.

Today's kids have niggers as rebellious rolemodels, all forms of white media portray us as cucked from birth. Noped my 6yo out of public schools once I realized what they were indoctrinating her with. CATHOLIC school now.

Growing up in the 90s was nice, but I won't lie to myself about being exposed to the media blitz, and only waking up to Jewish tricks in my mid-twenties.

kek, i remember when beepers were the shit.

>SNICK being a prime candidate pushing a non-white agenda.
Doug Funny is a race traitor for trying to fuck Patty Mayonaise and Skeeter is a dirty nigger.
Thank you for reminding me.

"All That" was the dam breaking. Half the cast were spics and niggers. Don't forget about pedo-daddy from iCarly being on this program and being accused of raping half the cast.

They were definitely cognizant of diversity back then too. I remember a lot of wheelchair kids shoehorned into stuff. It was all much more mild than today though, and whites were almost always front and center because RL demographics hadn't shifted yet. Most minority sidekicks were blacks, not Hispanics.

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i know we had a lot of fun, but i don't remember most of it. kek

Is that Dan "smell my finger" Schneider trying to tackle Keenan!?

life is still fun, it's just not balls to the wall fun.

Of course it was better because Hillary was such a milf then

I believe that all of our issues are directly rooted in social media. It's given the mob a louder voice than ever before, and the fringes have been granted some sort of weird authority.

You guys want all this to go away? Painful as it is for everyone here and irony level turned up to 5000 - turn off the internet.

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Yes. Keenan's face = there's a finger in my ass.

kek

>Mid 90's to early 2000's Golden Age
>Head over to friend's place after high school and play Golden Eye
>Friday nights then head over to McDonalds where lots of classmates were
>Drive around listening to music doing dumb things
>Four black kids in high school
>Kid in my class was a professional rollerblader, actually good
>Disney Afternoons, not that Judge Judy, Maury shit
>"Hey did you watch the Simpsons last night?"
>Just pass this college prep course and you'll get into college
>Applied to two, got into both
>Cartoon Network playing awesome cartoons
>"Just go to college, graduate, and you'll get a great job"

Then 2007 happened and for whatever reason, things just started going downhill.

The difference was that nobody was pushing it at the time
A couple black characters in a cast was the most you would see
None of this "less white people" garbage.

>MFW I can never be a child in a 1950's suburb...

I'm actually getting nostalgic.

Yeah, but you have a fag-flag.

walking around the mall, driving around in the city getting lost on purpose were some of the funnest things, now there just a hassle.

>Then 2007 happened and for whatever reason, things just started going downhill.

The (((bankers))) killed the middle classes prosperity in 07-08.

It can't be turned off, but it can be kept from destroying society. Westerners are dismayed by it, but China understand's what's going on. CPC is not some tinpot dictatorship. It is a sophisticated governing body concerned with maintaining peace and stability for 1.3 billion people. They don't fuck around, and they're not stupid. They're correctly diagnosed the dangers of the Internet, imo. Everyone in the west is worried about being able to live-stream political dissent, while the bulk of online activism actually becomes the fringe attempting to silence the majority. And as if western powers would allow a free and open Internet if/when there was an actual political uprising that threatened the current order. They'd shut everything down China-style in a second. The only difference is that China isn't waiting around for everything to spin out of control before they do anything about it.

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I think the 80's were a little better, but only because there was no internet.
You had no choice but to go outside and figure out your day.
NES was the best we had - pretty good, but you still ended up going to the beach.
In any event, my city is now a hell hole.
Mostly Mexicans who hate me for being white.
If I had kids I don't know what I'd do.
They'd be out numbered and reviled.
Growing up white in Los Angeles these days must be pretty lame.

Fuck off, Muhammad.

my city is still cool. i got a nice peice of chicken i'm going to eat, highlight of my day. kek

Pop music fell apart starting in 1993.
60's-80's pop was awesome.
The only good stuff I've found being produced these days is all indie.
I don't regard that as a good thing.
Most people listen to utter crap.

yeah some off the radar indie shit is real good. odd they aren't more popular.

Bankers have an interest in middle class prosperity. Who will they make loans to without the middle class?

Rich people, who buy houses and rent them out to the middle-class

>Mid 90's to early 2000's Golden Age
No. These are the exact years of the major decline in society began to occur. From 95 on its been shit. Just because you were a child during the late 90s early 2000s doesn't make it a golden age. You were a child fucking off back then. Of course it seems golden through your nostalgia goggles.

>From 95 on its been shit.
I completely agree. From my experience, there was a sharp turn downhill, beginning from the mid 90s (I think '96 is more accurate), and things have been going down ever since.

yes there was no multi genders special snow flakes and sjws back in the 80s and 90s. Just males and females and everyone being normal.

Van Halen

its funny you mention that, because people did talk more about the ketchup change at the time than 9/11

92 here. What was Pantera like?youtube.com/watch?v=E929gqIcwwI