I remember growing up in the 90s. It was just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, leading into one of the most prosperous times of the entire century. Real prosperity and progress, not just the dotcom shitcoins but a true paradigm shift in the average life with the advent of the personal computer. Communicating and transacting instantly over a world wide web of people all over the world from your home was like some kind of crazy Star Trek episode. I often wondered whether this is what the 1920s must have felt like, with all the new amazing refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioning, and other electric appliances.
Meanwhile the video game industry grew out of its niche arcade scene and exploded into vibrancy. I don't think the level of fun in the world has ever skyrocketed more quickly. But Windows 95 was what really cemented it all for me. Using it for the very first time was like magic. It felt like we were truly living in the best possible timeline.
I remember everything. Here that? The sound of faint wind howling in the distance.
Jordan Gray
>I don't think the level of fun in the world has ever skyrocketed more quickly. This is such a true and sad sentence. Meanwhile I feel like the internet boom in the 2000s didn't really improve our lives at all. Despite all the "social" media we're much less social and much less happy in general. Shit like Instagram is just a way for people to pretend like their life is amazing and interesting now. But people forget that it was the mundane shit that made life so fun: youtu.be/RYbe-35_BaA?t=201
Imagine doing something like that today. You'd probably get shot
just a question because idk how I'd answer this either. You think it's maybe because in the past 30 or so years we haven't really invented anything that was a true quality of life improvement? Outside of the smart phone which is debatable alot of the tech developments in computers phones cars appliances etc most are just accessibility improvements theres no average life changing industry that everyone truly needs to have. Resolutions got better, cpus got quicker, we are putting usb ports on everything, but nothing insane like a mobile phone has come out. And before some one is like oh AI or w.e thats why I said average life changing. Yeah we are making strides and making some new industries but most are still in an infancy where it isn't accessible to the average person.
Owen Bennett
Good pasta
Tyler Walker
Basically the millennials and zoomers haven't contributed anything useful to society. They just took the inventions from the 80s/90s and incrementally improved on them. Better user experience and all that. But nothing novel comes out of these new worthless generations.
Easton Collins
Nostalgic thread, OP. I remember being awestruck by countless technological advancements growing up--computers, laptops, cell phones, bluetooth headsets, and HD TV. More, going to the mall and shopping with family and friends was comfy af, especially whenever it was accompanied with a pretzels, cinnamonbuns, or smoothies. How times have changed, indeed.
Jacob Ross
shitposting on neoseeker grinding the fuck out of runescape making my own geocities website
those were the days
Matthew Wood
jeez it isnt like anyone else reminiscence of the old that has gone to pass
Jack Brown
based, but also created an intense sense of nostalgia that has permanently turned grown men into children.
Chase Ross
The 90s didn't "create" that. The decades that followed created that because they were so shitty comparatively.
Side note I hate malls nowadays, or maybe I just hate 2010s architecture
It's much harder now to invent the next groundbreaking invention. Making a machine wash clothes seems easier than one that can teleport you.
Blake Brown
this is what happens when you allow any reject to become a licensed architect, minimalism is a codeword for cheap nowadays, even though the core of minimalsim is lowkey extravangant attriums and facades of structurally useless geometric shapes everything about modern architecture is reminiscent of cattle and slaves, its worse than brutalism, its like a lowest bidder consumerist shit pit for domesticated animals
Julian Thomas
Electricity seemed like fiction to those who didn't dream. The next level of human development can't be reached in a fiscal quarter.
Jason Hill
>even though the core of minimalsim is lowkey extravangant attriums and facades of structurally useless geometric shapes Is something like this considered minimalist? Because if so I think the 90s did even that better. Though I dunno if neon lights can be considered lowkey
Imagine how gravy is must have been to be a Boomer born in the 60s >Enter the work force in the 80s and ride a wave of prosperity all the way up to 9/11 >Get to participate in a giant asset bubble >When everything crashes because of your negligence you print trillions and have your kids foot the bill
Americans becoming highly leveraged at every single level or society from the individual, to corporations to government
They really had it all handed to them on a silver platter. I'm just glad science isn't yet at the point where people can live forever, but I can see that coming in the future.
David Bailey
That's not a typical Saturday; it's during the Xmas season.
Sebastian Perez
Not for them and not for us
Sebastian Morris
>the level of fun in the world has ever skyrocketed more quickly The worst part is that all the promise of those early years fizzled out around the time WoW became popular. Before that it looked like we were heading into a future where games would be like SAO or the holodeck but instead they somehow starting becoming less fun and innovation almost completely disappeared especially in the MMO genre.
Robert Stewart
Internet was a niche back then and only based and redpilled humans used it, nowadays pajeets, niggers and stacies are on it, so by default everything gets ruined by extroverts again
Brody Jenkins
never thought of it that way but yeah, was like a private club back then
Some of these Boomers made tens of millions in the stock market working minimum wage jobs their entire lives and they live in houses that have appreciated 5,000%-15,000%
For that unique "humans figured out how to transfer consciousness into a digital form and eventually discarded the physical world until a once-in-a-millennium solar flare destroyed it all in an instant, and you've stumbled underground into an old abandoned computer consulting firm with crumbling earthtone walls and the wireframe model on the monitor is a lost soul who has been trapped inside their own mind for countless ages desperately screaming for escape" feeling
how haven't people worked out that life is what happens in the in between times, and now instant photography sharing has exploited all that. a society of extreme performers and zero authenticity.
I blame photography and strive not to watch dog videos as that is time that the owner could have better spent serving his animals than the generic viewer. It changes all the relationships in the context to manipulative and exploitative.
Ayden Miller
looks like hell on earth, is this what americans consider comfy nostalgia?
Josiah Miller
fuck yeah !
Easton Johnson
it was getting ridiculous to almost 1/10th of the year being devoted to christmas shopping
Colton Lewis
Kinda yeah. But I'm honestly interested in where you're from and what your idea is
