Watched a bunch of old VHS type videos from the 80s / 90s on YouTube and I have to say life looked a lot more carefree, fun and happy living in those decades.
Everyone's a fucking asshole to each other now, glued to their phones and social media sites. Makes me sad tbh.
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If you didn't live it you'll never know user. The 90's were based as fuck
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the 1990s were cool as fuck, lil youngfaggot
>Makes me sad tbh.
>as he whines about it on the internet like a little cunt.
>As you be an asshole to him just like he said.
Nice
keep it bumped anons I just wrot a short story that took place in the nineties ill post the last few paragraphs
She followed me home that night because I had a little too much to drink, I stick my hand out the window as I pulled in the driveway and she flashed her lights and drove until she was out of sight.
And that was it. That was the last time I had any meaningful conversation with her. I would drunk dial her from time to time over the next year. It's weird but again I don't know how I got her number down there. But I remember it being in a little black book I carried. She must have given it to me but I don't remember the exchange. Sometimes when I had been out a little too late and was feeling nostalgic I'd give her a ring. We'd talk for fifteen or twenty minutes. Nothing serious just drunken babble. Sometimes her roommate would answer and she was never too happy about me calling at the wee hours of the morning.
these days aren't that bad.
it's just the big major cities where people are fucking retarded.
I live in a small town, and honestly, it's the exact same as it was in the 90's.
you'd barely know cellphones even existed.
I moved to Gainesville the next year to try my shot at higher education. I was up late one night and really drunk. I pulled out my black book and saw her number. I gave her a call and her room mate picked up. She cussed me out
pretty bad, I can't say that I blame her. She told me to stop calling at all hours of the night, and hung up the phone.
That was the last time I called her. It just seemed like the only time it crossed my mind in my busy life was at three am. I met my wife around the same time, and putting in the time to keep up a dying relationship while starting a whole new one seemed like a little too much of a task for me.
That was seventeen years ago. I was nineteen. I reconnected with her years later on social media. We sent each other a couple of messages, and joked about not even knowing what we could have been talking about for hours at a time all those years ago, but we don't stay in touch... at all.
I saw her once, I was at a gun shop of all places. I heard a familiar voice behind me and turned and there she was. She gave me a hug and we talked for a minute, seconds really. Then we said goodbye, fading back into obscurity in each other's minds.
And isn't it kind of like a death? Don't you go through all of the same stages? When you realize that a friendship has died. You deny it at first. Try to hang on. Make phone calls at three in the morning just because you cannot accept that it's over, that this connection you had you will never have again. You try to cling to any fabric of the relationship that may still be alive.
And after you realize that it's gone and not coming back, don't you mourn it? Dont you get the same sinking feeling in your stomach that eats at you when you think about it. A different place in time when things were simpler, wouldn't you give anything to have it back?
And after you've mourned dont you accept it. Do you see it for what it was and look back and enjoy those memories, even if some of them were too painful to put into words? Isn't that what happens when someone dies? We think at the onset that it's the worst thing we will ever deal with, and then years later have a hard time even remembering the details of that persons laugh or smile?
It is such a curious thing for me, to sit here talking to you today, almost two decades removed from the last chapter in this story. I look back at it and I know that at the time this story seemed so important. This person was such a significant part of shaping my life. But today I can barely remember any of the words we spoke to one another. How does life change like that? and seemingly over night.
If you were to talk to fifteen year old me, and told him this story what would he say? Would he believe you? Would he try to change it? Would that event throw my life in a different trajectory if he did try to change it?
You never really think about it at the time. Will this be the last time I have a meaningful conversation with this person who I have known half of my life? If you did know, what would you say? And why does it happen anyway? Is it time, dates, appointments, schedules. Is it part of growing up, or the shift from one era of your life to the next that you can't recognize until you are removed from it and looking at it with a different set of eyes?
This thing, it happens to us all. Our lives completely change before our eyes but we can't see it happening. What ever innocence I had was slowly dying and the harsh realities of the world were starting to close in on me. 9/11 put the last nail in the coffin and none of us knew it at the time but the world that this story took place in was gone, and a new one was born. Maybe that's why this story is so special to me. It's the last reminisce I have of a world gone by. It's the last connection that I have to an age where things were simpler where I was simpler.
A world where you couldn't connect with anyone in the world instantly. A world where you actually had to have conversations with people to get to know them, instead of just looking at a facebook profile and commenting on their statuses. A world where if you picked up the phone you were committed, committed to having something to talk about. Where you couldn't just send a one sentence text to your friend to keep in touch. A world where you remembered phone numbers in your head and didnt just having them stored on your phone.
Maybe it's all these things put together that made us care about each other more than we do today. Whatever it is, in this shift of eras we've all lost something. And just like my friendship with this girl, that something we lost is never coming back. We can deny it, we can mourn it but in the end we have to learn to accept it, and just like how we deal with the loss of a friend either through death or the passage of time we have to be able to look back at it and be thankful that we were able to live it.
The end
so when were you born?
Nice story. You'll probably get called a faggot but I thought your introspection was interesting
>comes to the asshole of the internets asshole and expects everyone to be kind.
leave.
Well, as a genuine oldfag, everything was better before 9/11. 9/11 fucked this country up mentally. We haven't been the same since. That terrorist attack was way more successful than they ever could hope it would be.
thanks, user
I've been coming here since 2007 practically every day. I didn't say I wasn't an asshole too.
Also you think Sup Forums is the worst place on the internet? Yeah these ylyl threads x1000 a day are just too awful to bare
Reminds me of that image macro of Osama sitting and casually talking on the phone and the caption says "You're kidding! Both towers? That's fucking hilarious"
Thanks user
Selection bias.
thank obama
I turned 13 in 2000. Everything up to that point seems better, but if I think back far enough I can remember a people being just as shitty to each other then as they are now.
You've spotted the important difference- widespread high speed internet and telecommunications means that people engage in the same shitty behavior a little more publicly than before. My racist grandpa would say shit about wide receivers and nobody but the people in the room gave a fuck. If he were alive today he'd be ratted out by one of his bratty grand-spawn, pilloried and made to sit through a few days of autistic screeching and death threats.
I'm relieved that I'll be dead before 2030
>mfw I can remember at time when cell phones or internet wasnt even a thought in anyones head
>mfw I spent every waking moment outside with my brothers, catching critters, tromping in the woods trying to kiss girls
>mfw when I remember the day we got our first nintendo 64
>that banjo kazooie
>mfw I remember staying up all night on a landline phone talking to my gf's roleplaying
( nude selfies were an impossibility )
>mfw I remember being active, social and tan
>mfw I remember when internet and cellpones came about
>mfw it was all down hill after that
And to think, there are kids now being born into the age of internet and smartphones.
This IS their youth, this is what they are going to feel nostalgic about when they get older.
>get older
Well, they dont know how fucked they are, this might be the generation that witnesses nuclear war and the end of civilization.
Its kinda not fair for them honestly, they will never know what a simpler life could be.
1990 was the pinnacle of human evolution
>Sup Forums is the worst place on the internet
not even remotely close to what i said kiddo.
Story user here. The story was about a girl I knew from middle school through high school.
93-99. We talked on the phone for hours every night at the for years and then slowly we fazed out of each other's lives. It's really long though but it takes a nice look at the 90,s
People went out to socialize and not just sit together using social media.
No social media.
No cell phones.
No internet.
>No social media.
>No cell phones.
>No internet
wrong.
it wasn't so easily accessible but was around.
My car is an '89 and sometimes i leave the house at night without my phone and drive backroads listenting to cassettes. Just sort of spacing out. Pretending things are better.
Story fag here can confirm. AOL 94or so. Instant messaging did that shit a lot in the 90's but it was pretty crappy
Sadly, coming from that generation, I'd have to agree. All except for school, where kids were more assholes to each other than they are now. My kids have experienced almost no bullying to date, and rarely ever see it (and when they do, they help out the bullied).
Story fag again
I had three way call phone sex once from a land line. I miss the old world
You don't have to use the internet, phone, social media all the time.
You have the option to unplug.
I don't see the big deal.
I'm 30. I don't use any social media but I do use chat programs. I go out to meet my friends. I live in the suburbs with my wife and kid.
I'm 30 and I can tell you the 90s were the shit. Shit went downhill FAST after "Y2K"
im 38 the 90s were great today is knowhere near as good
you were too young to remember or enjoy them faggot
Story fag again.
If girls wanted you to seem them naked they couldn't send you a snap. They had to be standing in front of you, which usually meant they were gonna be taking some d
Yeah, but you were a different person back then, user. Fresh world, fresh opportunities.
I'm not going back to woods porn. Those were dark days.
same fag. i remeber the day kurt cobain died i was 14 odd everyone was gutted
Op if youre still here try this one
youtu.be
Those fucking muslims and socialist did it.
Bitch, please. I went into the 90s at 4 and was out at 14. I lived them.
Yeah, fucking Ruskies and their Orange Pal
Yeah, but you werent into shitty hair metal so it doesnt count
back in the late 80s and 90s terrorist attacks were just as bad if not worse. we had the ira blowing up cites the lockerbie pan am bombing in 1988
Yeah, 9/11, the increase in technology and the shift in music finished it off.
every generation says this.
i'm 37 and had a blast growing up in the 90's
i'm still having a blast now, nothing wrong with any time as long as you can just enjoy the shit you like and ignore the bullshit you don't.
every generation has the retards that just can't shut the fuck up and enjoy life.
This
we had 4 tv channels, one phone in the house and the internet was not even heard of
Nah. Our house had cable going back into the 70s.
hey same guy 38. yes i agree i have not really changed that much and still do everything i like the world is just a smaller place now and i tend to sleep more than i did then haha
Shut up fag you were 12 when the nineties ended. Your opinion is irrelevant
Dating sure as fuck was easier. Without cellphones, internet and social media, a relationship was much lower maintenance. You call each other on the telephone, plan dates, decide to do things based on little to no information, just talk or rumors you've heard. Trust was the most essential part of any relationship. Now it's all kinds of fucked up.
I was 12 when cobian died. Can confirm. Gutted
Yes exactly i miss that way of dating. writing a chicks number down then calling o the old house phone
Can confirm
found the SJW
remember the first remotes that still had a cable going from the box with all the buttons back to the tv?
Except you had to talk to their parents when you called
One thing i can tell you porn was shit. had to buy fap mags from the top shelf of shop or find old mags in the bushes and old vhs shit tapes. thank the lord for internet porn
lol, the dread when her dad picks up the phone
yeah, it had like two massive buttons on it
I was in my 20s in the 90s. Can confirm it was a much better time in many ways. Social media and PC bullshit has fucked everything up. I fear for kids growing up today.
we were good tho the old school way of getting laid. not snap chat or fb bollocks messaging
So true. And didn't have to worry about chicks researching the fuck out of you on social media, or employers.
The thing is that technology will never stop progressing. In the future, what we consider advanced now would be laugh-able trash.
The worst think about these times has to be social media
people used to interact with each other outside their own social circle, it made everyone be better people. now everyone is on phones and you could die in front of them and they wouldn't care.
this made me especially sad when i went back to college, graduated in 2011 and was in my late 20s, even with a
ha, "simpler life". I remember having to actually look information up in a BOOK. what a pain in the ass that was. How about getting directions to go somewhere new. Im not even talking about leaving the state, just going to a different area of your city. Life is constantly getting simpler, its the whinny cunts that cant deal with life and you bitches have been around forever. I most likely would not survive a global catastrophe, but if i did, i know i would be smiling knowing a whole shitload of bitch cunts got snubbed out.
Privacy will be a thing of the past.
>this might be the generation that witnesses nuclear war and the end of civilization
Way to end that nostalgia trip with that edge.
has it ever occurred to you that the reason those videos were recorded was to catch the carefree fun moments and not show the everyday idiot moments where you make yourself look stupid in a sea of fucking idiot misfit closet homos on the internet?
a day back then was, on average, equal to a day today
i remember getting my first motorola brick phone in 1997
you don't have to use social media user, it's pretty easy to avoid stupid shit like that.
i get what you mean by "it fucked things up" by every kid these days is buried in a cell phone.
Fuck man you're making me nostalgia hard for my childhood. Life is depressing now
Yep. Final straw for me was the election. My facebook page was for keeping in touch with family and friends far away. Now I barely even touch it.
my first phone in 98
i fucking loved it.
the 90s were cute af. tfw no long haired bad boy in cargos and flannel to steal me a flower bouquet out of the neighbor's yard. tfw he won't snort glue with me in a haunted house and tell me he loves me.
If you're not on social media you don't exist anymore. Personally I don't use it, but unfortunately that means I rarely hear from friends.
The 80s were better.
This shit was the bomb. I loved playing snake on it.
this was my second after the brick, im still using a moto now the moto g
The media is too rightwing and we got a nazi for president our freedom of speech is gone to much rapes in colleges white people have too much power.
they were good solid phones had one of them too
>life looked a lot more carefree, fun and happy living in those decades.
no. it was just a reaction to the 80s is all. happy people don't OD on smack. GenX was miserable, angsty as fuck, shoot up the school kind of shit.
Im english our government fucked at the moment
Bump because Kurt
Yea man, I remember just hanging out every night with my friends smoking weed and drinking beer around a big ass bonfires in the woods. Sometimes taking acid n shit. No phones, no distractions, just chillin with your friends, trying to hook up with the chicks or bang your friends chick. Those were the days....well actual, I spent the 2000's in a band playing gigs every weekend, smoking weed and drinking beer, girls throwing pussy at me and trying to bang my friends girls still. Just t9 texting on a flip phone. At least you young fags have smartphones at your young age getting nudes n shit from young sluts. Everything has its pros and cons.
lol, I remember many people saying that with phones getting smaller and smaller, they will eventually be watches or even earrings. Then we got color screens.
if they can't be bothered to keep in touch without facebook they are not your friends, let em go.
funny cuz these are actually small compared to the giant fucking phones we have today.
I was in my teens in the 80s. It had it's charm, but unfortunately AIDS ruined everyone's sex life for a long time. And then there was also Just Say No and the war on drugs.
like i said earlier porn these days is great
70s>90s
Yeah! That was my first cell phone in 2000. I think I still have it somewhere.
>AIDS ruined everyone's sex life for a long time
except the faggots, they still had a good time.