Movies in the 90's: oooph oooh ahhh ohhh ugh I gotta go to my well-paying and secure office job in a world without fear for nuclear annihilation and we don't give a shit about the climate yet uhhh if only I was feeling bad instead, wish I didn't have such a stable life oh nooo I live in a house that I own
I seem to be the only person that hated the 90s. Ugh. Now at least I got fast internet and hentai is not just sailor moon x dbz.
Fast internet is nice, but what if it wasn’t a corporatized nightmare overrun with money-chasing investor-backed start-ups and giant monocorps trying to monetize and exploit every single inch of it?
Anything change on the last bit? before it was dial up and mom kept complaining about its cost.
I mean, I’m not saying 90s internet didn’t have any of that, but I wouldn’t have described it as “overrun”. Seemed to me, as a child, like most of it was just companies getting an online presence for their existing business to try and be part of wave.
ISPs have always sucked, though.
Ah it's like when a new Game is out and there is no Meta so it's random fun until the try hards are min maxing and now I have to min max to compete sucking the fun.
Yeah, that's a pretty decent analogy. It was a wild time, and my fondness is probably tainted by nostalgia, but I'd trade our current internet for it in a second.
As a nonbinary person, I'd much rather live now than the 1990s
Not for everyone. Even in the best of times people fell through the cracks. Homophobia, racism. Just human things
pretty sure the US is doubling down on all that right now
It was the mid ’70s. ’79 was the Volker shock; ’82 was Allentown; and by the late ’90s the US was already bipartisanly neoliberalized, WTO’d, and de-industrialized.