I miss the 90s. 😞
1955 was as old in 1990 as 1990 is in 2025.
Submitted 1 day ago by Sackeshi@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 1 day ago
If Back to the Future we’re remade today, he’d be going back in time to 1995.
I’d like to see a remake of Back to the Future just so we can have a scene where Doc Brown refuses to believe Donald Trump will be president.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Ronald Reagan, the actor?!
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I’d like to see a remake of The United States of America where Donald Trump is never the president.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 day ago
The allure of fantasy
oo1@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Like the Sly Stallone comment in demolition man about the Schwarzenegger library.
Dasus@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
In retrospect, the standard of what seemed ridiculous and over-the-top at the time was a bit higher.
Idiocracy isn’t even remotely funny nowadays, it’s genuinely just very anxiety inducing now. And it’s honestly too fucking positive. A government actually trying to fix issues? Yeah, right.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Even better: Make the alternate timeline a utopia with doc Brown saying he hasn’t had time to analyze the differences and leave it at that. Throughout the movie have framed portraits of Bernie Sanders in the background of any scene indoors.
kescusay@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Other ways to feel old:
- Smells Like Teen Spirit came out in 1991, just 22 years after the moon landing. As of now, it’s been 34 years since its release.
- Back to the Future came out in 1985, which is 40 years ago, and only 30 years from 1955.
- The Matrix is a 1999 film. It was old enough to drink… five years ago.
- Alex Warren, who is currently #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, hadn’t yet reached one year old on 9/11.
- The video game Doom came out in 1993. Pac-Man came out in 1980. 13 years between the games. But it’s been 32 years since Doom.
Should I go on?
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You’re wrong. It’s an established fact that the 90s were ten years ago.
BertramDitore@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
You’re correct. The 90s has always been and will always be ten years ago.
DarthKaren@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
You can go on away from here with your personal attacks.
blacklisted@lemmy.org 1 day ago
I found your content entertaining but you are a dick.
kescusay@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I… can’t dispute that.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
This relevant XKCD is a teenager now
kescusay@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ouch. Guess I deserved that inevitable retaliation.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The future scenes in Back to the Future II take place ten years in the past.
bradboimler@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Oof
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
On average the entire human population turns over every 120 years.
Everyone alive today wasn’t here 120 years ago
Everyone alive today won’t be alive in 120 years
The modern human species is about 60,000 years old … we’ve only been technologically modern in the past 150 years, geologically speaking, we’re still cavemen.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I was having a good day
kescusay@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sorry, I’ll make up for it with this weird music video that wishes you a nice day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mkiGMtbrPM
Hope it helps.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Listen here you little shit…
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
The release of “1985” by Bowling for Soup was closer to actual 1985 than we are to its release.
levzzz@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The release of “1985” by bo burnham though…
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, fuck you too
chatroom@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
You can tell OP is a teenager when they think 35 is old. Don’t you have a bedtime, little bro?
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 day ago
Well damn.
The 90s are definitely a nicer place to be than the 50s, though.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
SassyRamen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Don’t forget saturday morning cartoons and music on mtv
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day 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.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 hours 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.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 day 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.
AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I agree that the music was fine. I don’t know about the rest of it.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 day ago
The murder rate peaked in 1993.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
In 2060, people look back at the good old days of 2020s. Doomscrolling, AI generated images, brainrot, existential dread, LLMs, those were the days…
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In 2060, people will curse the people of 2020 who did almost nothing to mitigate climate change.
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Maybe. Or the propaganda will have been so successful that nobody will discuss climate change because that’s just the way things are.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Nah, by then we will be living in underground cave cities. Machines will control the devastated surface
Strobelt@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Wait. There’ll still be people around in 2060?
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
You could be there too. Are you good at surviving through famine or avoiding violent people?
And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Atleast we have internet and visible stars
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
We’re working on those. Just a little bit more tyrannical dictatorship and a whole lot more smoke should do the trick.
Donebrach@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Almost as if the 50’s were being plagued by the same dumb rich out of touch assholes from the 1920s and it cause some issues for society down the line in the 90s. Turns out 35 years ain’t that long of a time in the grand scheme of things.
13igTyme@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The tax rate in the 50s was 90% or more depending on the year.
anachrohack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My dad was born in 1955. My oldest brother was born in 1990.
This is fucking with me
remotedev@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
My oldest brother was born in 1990.
This is fucking with me
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I was born in 1973. My grandfather was born in 1892 !
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
35 is not a reasonable age to become a parent? Is a bit older than it used to be.
TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 1 day ago
If Back to the Future were made today, Marty would be going back to the year 1995 instead of 1955.
pemptago@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
And Marty would be 57 years old
LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 1 day ago
NO ITS NOT SHUT UP
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
LA LA LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU LA LA LA LA
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That is how time works
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
I know how time works … I just don’t want to reminded of it … (now my back hurts … again)
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
…I JUST woke up! Why do you want me to feel old???
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dont do that
zod000@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
That’s not true, that’s impossible!
I am all of the sudden Luke Skywalker, a character from that old classic film.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
June is still worried about the Beaver.
You_are_dust@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I did nothing to you and yet you attack me on a personal level?!