Comment on 1955 was as old in 1990 as 1990 is in 2025.

• 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.

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Found the extrovert.

    Civilization didn’t even start until broadband.

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  • 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  • 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

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    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yugoslavia is actually a good example.

      We bombed the peace into Serbia.

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• AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I agree that the music was fine. I don’t know about the rest of it.

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• SassyRamen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t forget saturday morning cartoons and music on mtv

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    fire hydrant wearing a cowboy hat and playing a guitar

    “After these messages… we’ll be right back.”

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    • 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.

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      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Here’s a fun little tidbit. Remember Marc Summers, and Double Dare? Remember how messy that show got?

        Well Marc was actually a germophobe, and every time he got messy he would be having an anxiety attack as the show was being recorded. On double dare. DOUBLE DARE!!! The show that was so messy, it’s logo literally had a blob of green slime as the backdrop!

        And every moment you see him, covered in mess, smiling away, just know that internally, he’s having a panic attack and in hell.

        Yay childhood memories!

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