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Sometimes I resent that I didn't "grow up" in the '90s

AnonusAnonus
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I do

They seem much more fun than the 2000s

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  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    nah, they were a pile of doodoo.

    except maybe some of the video games.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I'm curious, AU, what is it about the '90s that fascinates you?
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Central Avenue said:

    I'm curious, AU, what is it about the '90s that fascinates you?

    The cartoon renaissance, the fact that media companies (except WB) were not yet stupid, the '90s feeling themselves to be the pinnacle of history
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    1. Exaggerated
    2. Ha ha ha ha no
    3. wut
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Exaggerated?

    Maybe it is - the discourse on cartoons is controlled mostly by the people who work on them, seeing as how most of the general population doesn't care too closely about animation - but I don't deny it happened anyway

  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    When I wanted to use the computer I could just lift the phone, which would disconnect my brother from the internet, so he would leave and I could jump in. So it's not all it's cracked up to be.

    On the other hand, Clinton owned. Well, except for getting rid of Glass-Steagal, but it's not like I knew what that meant at the time.

    As for cartoon renaissance, I think cartoons are actually going through something of a renaissance today. Just look at Avatar/Korra, Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, etc. (It's not like cartoons in the 90s, so I understand if they don't fit your tastes, but if they were then it wouldn't really be a renaissance.)
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    Anonus said:

    Exaggerated?


    Maybe it is - the discourse on cartoons is controlled mostly by the people who work on them, seeing as how most of the general population doesn't care too closely about animation - but I don't deny it happened anyway

    That's because of 20-year cycles. 20-year old things are retro and thus cool again
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    Anonus said:

    Oh, I thought you were referencing "The End of History and the Last Man."

    I wonder how much of that is because "tens" is more awkward to say than "nineties". (I always wanted "aughts" to catch on, but it never did.)
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I like Avatar and GF but haven't seen a lot of SU

    In order for the renaissance to be understood you should know that in the '70s and '80s animation had gotten a bum rap quality-wise and wasn't something really capturing people's imaginations anymore, at least with regards to new stuff
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Haven said:

    Anonus said:

    Oh, I thought you were referencing "The End of History and the Last Man."

    I wonder how much of that is because "tens" is more awkward to say than "nineties". (I always wanted "aughts" to catch on, but it never did.)
    I wanted "oh-ohs" to catch on, because it's fun to say and has two syllables
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    and would Pepper Ann have been made in 1977? or 1987?
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Corvidium said:

    Anonus said:

    Exaggerated?


    Maybe it is - the discourse on cartoons is controlled mostly by the people who work on them, seeing as how most of the general population doesn't care too closely about animation - but I don't deny it happened anyway

    That's because of 20-year cycles. 20-year old things are retro and thus cool again
    i am aware of the 20 year nostalgia cycle, but why are you bringing it up here?
  • Obā-sanObā-san
    edited 2015-02-16 01:45:50

    i like aughts
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    nobody seems to like "oh-ohs" but me

    people don't like repeating it to themselves and giggling
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    also with regards to "the '90s":

    there's a character in an episode of Johnny Bravo who says that she hates the '90s
  • MetaFourMetaFour
    For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    I grew up in the 90s and it really didn't seem that special to me.

    Heck, for the most part I'm in a better position to enjoy the good stuff of that decade now than I was then.
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Me too, but there's things complicating it to me (e.g. the relative unavailability of a show about a certain bespectacled redheaded she-dweeb)
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    you have a crush on Pepper Ann
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    I personally wish they'd stopped with Daria at Season 3. Seasons 4 and 5 were much worse.
  • AnonusAnonus
    edited 2015-02-16 07:25:04
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Imipolex G said:

    you have a crush on Pepper Ann

    No
    Corvidium said:

    I personally wish they'd stopped with Daria at Season 3. Seasons 4 and 5 were much worse.

    I've seen Pepper Ann compared to Daria...
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Yes
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Imi's Daria cosplay
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    The nineties was awful for everyone.

    Please live in today.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    2001 was a pretty exciting and dramatic year for me.

    The 1990s for me were good, though.  They were my childhood, and that meant not having much of a care in the way of having to turn my world on my own effort.
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    The nineties was awful for everyone but GMH.

    Please live in today.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    My fondness for the 1990s is driven solely by nostalgia and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

    (1990 baby, here)
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Man, the 90's were so great.
  • BunnyBunny
    edited 2015-02-16 16:59:20
    Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    90s were alright

    though I like when I was born because it allows me to benefit from the rise of crowdfunding and all the cool indie games that come from that
  • sunn wolfsunn wolf
    I've seen nostalgia listicles about 'the early 00s' appearing already. give it 5-10 years they'll be everywhere
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    sunn wolf said:

    I've seen nostalgia listicles about 'the early 00s' appearing already. give it 5-10 years they'll be everywhere

    Indeed.

    (also where?)
  • sunn wolfsunn wolf
    idk i couldn't give you specific sites but I've seen them pop up on my facebook feed
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Central Avenue said:

    Imi's Daria cosplay

    I have been compared to that character, but I've never seen the show so idk

    Anyhoo, for me it was the 80s that were great because little kids have no responsibility. In the 90s I got existential crisis'd and it was all downhill from there
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    Related to this topic, every so often I see a post on tumblr that just makes me wonder what it'd be like to have grown up with texting or social media in its current form. When I was in high school we had livejournal and stuff like that, but facebook didn't come along until right before I started college, and I didn't have a phone that could text until about that time too. 
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    When I was in high school, email was the cool new thing

    also we still used floppy disks
  • sunn wolfsunn wolf
    floppy disks were still around, but definitively on the way out, when i started secondary school. during my first year there i remember keeping some of my work on one
  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    We were definitely still using floppies when I was in high school...we didn't even have a network then.
  • CorvinaCorvina
    Vampire Lady of Corvidia

    (The other Jane)
    I wasn't in high school.
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    we didn't have school lunches, we had to fight and kill the bears roaming in the untamed wilderness just outside if we wanted to eat
  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    I remember my parents having a couple drawers in our designated office cabinet/drawer thing more or less dedicated to floppies. They were a bit before my time, though. 

    I was actually using them recently, interestingly - there were some old records stored on floppies that I wanted to get at, so I had to go buy a reader off amazon for them. 
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I made heavy use of floppies in elementary and middle school. I became well acquainted with WinZip trying to fit my ugly-was 6th grade PowerPoint files in 1.44 MB
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