Why were people so much happier in the 90's?

Why were people so much happier in the 90's?

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It's becuase we thought God was punishing the gays.

>AIDs was originally called GRID, Gay Related Immune Deficiency.

No internet.

Traditional roles in life were still smiled upon. Faggots were frowned upon.

Left hadn't gone insane, country was supermajority white, Clinton was doing good as president.

This. Also no social media or smart phones

they didn't care about politics or social justice as much
and were happier watching shit head movies like biodome without paying attention to the context

Actually do you know what I honestly think it was?

No mobile phone cameras.

There's no way any of the Raves I went to in the 90's could ever of happened in an era where people all have hidden cameras, and can record evidence.

Bullying was super fun back then as well.

You could talk shit on public transport.

There was a freedom to do anything you wanted, without the threat of being shamed on social media.

why were people so much happier in 2012?

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>facts about the 90s as told by a thread full of people born in 1998

People really wern't happier, but it was a better time
Probably the best decade if you were a kid

>happier watching shit head movies like biodome without paying attention to the context
Yes, there was a lot more Pauly Shore back then

Actually initially the scientific term was
>fag flu

Because dumbass boomers didn't have a clue of what was going on in the world, not that they ever cared for what the future would be like for their own children mind you...

>having a social media account in 2017
>choosing against freedom

got to admit '95 was a good year.

1982 here my dude.

Fox News had not yet fully infiltrated the living rooms of millions of slack-jawed mouth-breathers

because nobody used social media

My happiest time was when Trump won

SJWs could only talk to people around them not echo chambers on the internet and so realised they were delusional.

why were people so much happier in 2016?

Pretty much this. I feel sorry for kids not being able to grow up without being destroyed on social media for making the same stupid mistakes everyone makes.

these were the days of Doom, Duke3d, Warcraft 2 and Starcraft. Most of these games are now husks of their former glory.

9/11 ruined everything. The internet helped a lot too

Nah toys were expensive as Fuck.

I think the RC car I got (jethopper) cost $100, which is a couple of hundred dollars these days. The rechargable batteries cost another $30.

We mostly just road bikes around in groups, and threw things at other groups of kids on bikes.

sorry, i should have included garden variety retards in my previous comment as well.

jokes on you, im from 1999

Because it felt like there was nowhere to go but up and that we were going to keep reaching for the stars. But then everything started to stagnate and the smart people started getting replaced by jealous idiots.

Though the bbs groups, warez was exploding.

because CNN actually reported on somewhat real news back then

Because they still had their rectums intact and inflation was lower.

>Hurr, I'm on an user website asking for sources and personal details.

Go fuck yourself kid.

People still thought the technology is going to be used for good instead of for a Stasi dystopia.

We had jobs
You could quit your job today, and find another (in town, no less) in a few days.
>There was work, in the 90's

We had many of the same problems.
The only difference was we didn't have the internet blasting those problems in our face on a daily basis. Black people still nigged out, cops occasionally shot one of 'em, faggots stayed in one part of town, Mexicans stayed in theirs. Teenagers just hung out and grumbled amongst themselves. When the media finally deigned to cover one of these subgroups, they almost always glossed over the details, leading most to have a healthy dislike of the media in general. The media still tried to sensationalize and beg for attention, (rainbow parties, black gangsters, drugs) but it was considered a sign of intelligence to ignore the propaganda spewing from the TV. The internet changed all of that.
Hell, go watch Bowling for Columbine today (or don't, just get a summary online) The biggest leftist shill at the time was arguing that the media was corrupt and over-sensationalized. The movie came out in 02 but it's a good barometer for how the left felt about the media.

Because the NWO hadn't shifted to the next stage yet. Each decade will get worse and worse as the population is reduced to slaves for the elite. Our government and the people paying them aren't nearly as "incompetent" as the public thinks. They're willfully doing harm.

9/11 still hadn't happened.

The terrorists won.

Because we lived in an economic dreamland based on spending money nobody had.

Could never really get into the scene desu.

All of the message boards here talked about phreaking and telephone hardware (and calling cards) that we didn't have in Australia.

Because PCU the movie was still a comedy so retarded no one could imagine it happening in real life until the 00s.

There was balanced budget tho

9-11 didn't happen yet

I fought on the beaches of Normandy whilst you were still a speck in the milkman's eye you little dreg.

>The terrorists won.

In the latest issue of Superman, Clark listens to Lois getting ploughed through the walls

Second this

Basically this

All you youngfags need to watch this. This is how far we've fallen in like 20 years

Any chance of a pic of your balls mate?

I bet they're down to your knees by now.

>No internet.
How ironic. :3

Social media was non-existent.

>tfw playing Quake1 for the first time
>safe schools
>no political bullshit
>place didn't look like Heart of Darkness

The world turns, what was can come again.
Except perhaps another good Quake game.

oh ya the 90s when we had president clinton and all the media empires consolidated

I actually lived through the 90s and wasn't born during it. it wasn't that great

we were all younger. and partied everyday.

He's LARPing.

My c64 could connect to Boards back In 1990.

>tfw born in "98 and have fond memories of the early 2000s

Sorry, gramps, nostalgia affects us all.

Kek, cucking Superman what an alpha.

No lie. This would've made the nightly news in the 90's. Superman "died" in the 90's and it was considered newsworthy. Lois fucking someone else would've had thinkpieces to examine our dystopian culture. Now, it'd be celebrated that Lois is such an independent woman

The 90s was still fucking degenerate and because there was no Internet there was absolutely no alternative. You were pretty much stuck in the culture that the Jewish media bosses had made for you.

you want to go to the beach sure pile in a car at 1 in the morning drive 2 hours.

>Soviet union just collapsed
>cold war and threat of nuclear holocaust are a thing of the past
>no great recession
>no 9/11
>no war on terror

Gee, I wonder why.

I am happy when i was a kid.

It wasn't that people were happier, it was that they had fewer reasons to feel soul crushing despair at every turn.

isn't this the superior method of living, though? What good does caring about the rest of the world do? It doesn't actually change it. It just makes people feel worse about themselves because of things that are completely beyond their control

To pretend like it wasn't a shitload better than today is just wrong

They'd be a lot fonder if your country wasn't headed to being another shithole, my man.

All you have now is Colin McGregor and drinking.

I saved for 3 months in highschool to buy a 4mb AGP card to play that.

And then spent all my time playing Diablo 1 which didn't need it. Sigh.

Every country is heading towards being another shithole, the UK for us is like looking in a mirror and seeing just how low we'll end up seeing as we tend to copy most of what you lads do.

9 11 and all the shit that followed
no somali niggers flooding small towns thanks to obama either

More freedom. Big Brother NSA/CIA didn't take off yet. No SJWs.

>No internet
Not true. Only niggers didn't have computers/internet in the 90s.

This. Thor becoming a skinny cancerous woman would have been newsworthy, too.
It just shows how far comic books have fallen. I can't wait for the movie fad to die so the whole industry collapses.

lose your job, just go get another one.

I was in the US Army and in Germany in the late 90's. Germans were highly optimistic about the future. The reunification left an afterglow that lasted throughout the 90's. Went back on vacation two years ago and it was like the walking dead. People wandered around angry and bitter.

Yes.

So, barring technology, things were better socially in the past.

The user mentioning phone cameras had a good point.

Kids born today are going to live through civil war or breakdown as their nations turn into south Africa 2.0....but hey they'll at least get the new iPhone

>no internet
You mean no social media. Social media brought more people to the Internet than ever. It created socially retarded people by the millions and also ruined a lot of what the Internet was in the early days.

Computers and Internet, aside from when used for your job, we're not something everyone used. It was a hobby for some and a nerdy addiction for others.

Because it was fun.

>it was like the walking dead. People wandered around angry and bitter.
That's all I ever experienced this country as. Born in 1994. Maybe the 2000s were different, but maybe that's because of my childhood lens. The world went to shit around 2009

Way less intrusion of social-media -- since it was basically non-existent outside of chatrooms.

Fuck I miss chatrooms.

The internet was better, except for the connection-speed. Way more variety in website design. I remember those Top 100 list websites that would rank fansites n shieett and you could have a ball exploring that. Now it's consolidated and feels the same wherever you click.

I really enjoyed the experience of going out and renting a movie/game. It was a crapshoot -- unless you already rented the thing before -- and was a fun time, usually.

People didn't need to speak on their cellphones or text every fucking minute because they were still a novelty -- well, they also didn't really have the text function until the early-00s? I forget when it got big with that.

>tfw will never relive 1999, one of the best years ever

>No internet.

I would change that to "Normies did not have internet".

I got high speed internet in 1995. The internet was calm and only for a very targeted audience. I was 10 at the time and I remember telling people on the monkey bars that I had the internet, and they did not believe me.

Shits hilarious when I look back.

I do agree, though. An open internet does make it shittier and the people unhappy because they are constantly jacked into it looking for rage porn.

Wrong. Culture was more diverse then compared to now. Alternative culture existed in the west more then it does now. Conversations were more free and so was thought. Today the only alternative to MSM is a dying Botswanian Basket Weaving image board quickly being over run by MSM, propaganda and the agents that dispence both.

Kek. Where you born in 98?

i feel like the 90s was like.. the tv-series Friends.

you had your friends, you lived your live. Everyone in the country was more connected to each other, there was more common ground. You were together in the boat.

Today, everyone belongs to a group (women, asians, blacks, latinos, refugees, leftist, nationalist etc.). There is no common ground in a country anymore. This is of course most prominent in the US, where these identity politics have been shoved down the throat of everyone.

Worst I think is that men are completely neglected by politics/society, while the states revenues are still on the implicit assumption that men continue contributing as they did in the past.

Dont see that happening. And since this is a more recent event (starting about 2006-2008?), each year is gonna be worse for fiscal revenues. Worst, it seems irreversible and is only gonna accelerate. When the shit hits the fan .. I dont know how it will end. I honestly dont.

Better recreational drugs. After 2000 the government went hard against criminalizing drugs that they became worse for your health to consume.

70s were better than 90s

>Today, everyone belongs to a group (women, asians, blacks, latinos, refugees, leftist, nationalist etc.). There is no common ground in a country anymore.
That was the case then but no one cared back then. The only ones who ever complained were the same groups that never, ever stop complaining
niggers
>itz cuz I'm BLACK
and fags
>people are mean

Fags were ok in the 90s, they weren't loud mouthed becuase they were bashed a lot.

Trans wasn't invented yet, and fags that dresses like women were just called drag queens and they were fucking HELARIOUS.

9/11 hadn't happened yet.

>Trans wasn't invented yet, and fags that dresses like women were just called drag queens and they were fucking HELARIOUS.
I remember that. Fags and drag queens were funny and full of sass. They could be kind of annoying in large doses, but they were so rare it was like spotting a unicorn in the wild. I don't remember anyone "angry" about 'em, it was just "Whoah! Check it out a wild faggot appears!"

my mom had a lot of drag/fag friends when I was young and I remember them always being fucking hilarious. One of them found me on FB (hurr normie) and I saw their page was full of "fuck Trump" etc stuff and it just made me thing where did the "Yeah I'm gay so what, I'm my own person" attitude went.

before social justice made comedy a hate crime, before liberals destroyed the economy with globalism and nafta, before the open border ruse went into full swing and destroyed the culture and community. before obama destroyed the old economy that had things like pensions and the ability for upward movement without a degree within a company and replaced it with slave driver companies that will offshore the second you want a living.

It was a time when the left seemed cool because they hadnt yet destroyed america.

>No internet
Kill yourself faggot.

...

Even before that it was "gay cancer" lol.

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It was actually called Queer Pox originally

The 90s were a time of super Political Correctness, except it was PC from the right-wing. At least in the U.S. it was like this. Social deviant leftists were pushed underground so we didn't have to see their filth in public.

Queers like Marilyn Manson were a laughing stock for the general public. "What a fuckin' freak" you would say as you laugh at how degenerate a person can be. Nowadays he is an "inspiration" "unique" an "individual".

>mfw

The lack of social networks and mobile phones with cameras in them made most of what they experienced unique.

>Fuck I miss chatrooms

Same here. Only reason I come here is because it has that sort of feel.

i heard it was called gay pneumonia

oh my god

>OP posts pic of man excited to have 2 copies of windows 95
>asks why people were so happy in the 90s
it really is obvious
people were happy with complete bullshit i the 90s, we are now bored with said bullshit