Were the 90s a literal paradise? Just saw this movie...

This

Yes, people actually hung out before smart phones and the internet.

Mid-late 90's was a weird time because while people had cell phones, the internet was still in it's infancy.

SIKE

It was the best time objectively since the 50s in terms of collective prosperity

This. Someone made a point that the reason why shit like Jnco jeans and baggy shit was popular in the 90s was because the economy was good, then went to skinny jeans and shit in the 2000s. I just thought it was interesting how those factors influence trends

2012 is when everything went to shit, and smartphones began to become ubiquitous and cheap. It's an elephant in the room but giving everyone affordable, simple and unfettered access to both the internet and early social media was one of the final nails in the coffin for society.

conventional smartphones (iPhone and Android) should have remained a luxury, with BlackBerry introducing more normie-tier phones, giving them the chance to text more conveniently

>"b-b-but social media"
>pre-normie Twitter was just a bunch of tech enthusiasts
>pre-normie Facebook was just a more private, cleaned up MySpace
>MySpace was limited to white trash and hoodrats

Myspace was better than facebook anyway. You could he more creative and expressive on there than Facebook.

pre-nornie Facebook was just for college students to deal drugs on their campus.

this, it's a weird feeling, it's hard to describe

it's like cell phones were out, almost everyone had them, but they were used sort of pointlessly, to call your friend and talk all night, not like today at all

real human interaction was still our only means of communicating, the internet was mostly IRC and bulletin boards, you'd talk to some girl all night about something funny you read online, but they would never see it, so you had to describe it and they had to just take your word for it

cell phone bills were outrageous in the beginning, I myself ran up a $500 one for a month when I didn't really understand data and messaging

>MySpace was limited to white trash and hoodrats
Bullshit, I'm 29, literally everyone in my age group were on MySpace as teenagers, same with my older brother who was in a yuppie liberal arts college.

I fucking hated how much obnoxious CSS people would rape their profiles with at the time, but in hindsight it's so much nicer than the bland shit now. Pretty much everyone from that time has some foundation for HTML/CSS too, meanwhile the zoomer intern at my work doesn't know how to write a fucking line break.

>stan lee: "you need to talk to your (sick) friend, he seems obsessed with the genitals of super heroes".
fucking kek, that scene was thrown as a joke and now just look were we stand .

Smith did a really good job at capturing the early-mid 90s. Too bad he makes utter crap now.

>oh it's a sailboat

True, the only problem back then was the risk of getting screwed in a very uncomfortable place.

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Your 2012 date is wrong. As soon as the iPhone came around in 07, it had an effect because people could get it on an installment plan and it just made it grow explosively.

The economy crashed a year later as well and that basically fucked up the entire country in a way that it never really recovered from except in terms of stock market. Even before the Corona crash, people were usually wirthheld the usual boom economy because corporations was playing it safe due to the 08 crash.

Then we started getting into comic book and remake movies on an absurd level as well and Hollywood really started going hard into the foreign markets as well and that basically ruined most of Hollywood to the point at which they basically can't write good scripts because foreigners won't understand them but know that you can just recycle old material because they don't know it.

So between 2008 and 2020, we basically saw the internet getting shit, the economy getting shit and turned most of Hollywood into a nostalgia machine.

in the back of a volkswagen?

based I'm gonna watch this movie right after I smoke a spliff

KWAB

I wish I'd been born in 1987 desu. Just going to high school without internet would've drastically improved my life.

It was 2007. But 2012 was definitely when every normie got a smartphone. I think I got my first one at the start of 2014. It definitely changed the world for the worse. Now everyone has a distraction in public and more importantly people have a camera in public, that they're willing to use, it's literally a Communist utopia.

87 here, we had internet but it was different. I basically got to watch the transition from an analog society to a digital one.

This
If you didn't have at least some teenage years in the 90s, you missed out.

I was younger than these guys but a teen in the late 90s. This movie was pretty accurate, albeit exaggerated, of my mid teens

Lol we had internet man. It was different than now but not that different. YouTube and Google were around. Shit just took longer