1995 was amazing, really the whole 90s.
Amazing music, peace, and nobody was afraid to tell all the douchebags of the world to go f themselves.
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 10 months ago
Well damn.
The 90s are definitely a nicer place to be than the 50s, though.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It was the peak of civilization
- no internet (or at least popular, easy access internet)
- no social media
- no streaming content
- no online distractions
Which meant
- you spent more time talking to people
- you just spent more time with people
- you read more to ease the boredom
- you used a library more
- you read actual newspapers written by journalists more
- you questioned the government more
- you had to pay to use an inconvenient landline all the time which meant you called less and wanted to just see people more
Now with a high speed internet connection, we’re disconnected from one another and we believe in every hair brained idea we find online.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Found the extrovert.
Civilization didn’t even start until broadband.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
YOU HAD PEACE!!!
Peace of mind.
Peace that everyone wasn’t trying to force you to believe their opinions or be judged as evil.
I love the internet, but it desperately eroded the barrier that stood between our internal self-image and literally everyone else.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 10 months ago
Yeah IDK about peace, but in terms of tolerance in ‘the west’ it was a huge step up over 1955, and rave culture in particular (where it was a thing anyway; might have been focused on european countries like UK and Germany?) was probably more tolerant and friendly than a lot of popular ‘party’ scenes today.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I’m sure someone will come along and point out that the 90s were no more or less peaceful than any other decade.
But it did seem like a time of hope. Collapse of USSR. End of Cold War. Feels like now we’re doing the same thing, just historians will come up with a new label for it.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m sure someone will come along and point out that the 90s were no more or less peaceful than any other decade
Not to be that guy, but there was the whole Bosnian Genocide thing from 92-95 and the Gulf War from 90-91 that really legitimized the US practice of inference in the Middle East in the eyes of many US citizens. Up until then, most Americans still saw intervention a la the Iran Contra Affair as a negative.
Plus, the Troubles in North Ireland were still in pretty high gear until 1998, most of Africa was involved in civil wars and ethnic cleansing for a large chunk of the 90’s, and the collapse of the USSR, which was viewed as a positive in many parts of the world, did leave a power vacuum that resulted in numerous civil wars and separatist movements throughout eastern Europe and western Asia
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yugoslavia is actually a good example.
We bombed the peace into Serbia.
AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I agree that the music was fine. I don’t know about the rest of it.
SassyRamen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t forget saturday morning cartoons and music on mtv
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
fire hydrant wearing a cowboy hat and playing a guitar
“After these messages… we’ll be right back.”
dmention7@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Well shit, that’s a core memory reactivated.
It’s crazy how vividly you can remember something like that, while moments earlier having absolutely no consciousness of it.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 10 months ago
The murder rate peaked in 1993.