Me watching the original Matrix “That filthy guy willing to betray humanity just to be a little happy” Me living in the post covid/trump ruins the world/Jewish people doing a genocide… “Hook me up, you don’t even have to make me rich, but that Joey Pants was on to something”
I'm down with this
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WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Enkrod@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Honestly, the 90s was a shit time for many LGBTQ people and often PoCs as well. Can we have (at least) todays levels of wokeness? Oh and today levels of healthcare… and today levels of assistive technology for people needing assistance, oh and…
chaogomu@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Treat it like a Ren Faire.
Wear the No Fear shirts and carry a Walkman, but do it for fun.
Sit back, watch some Reading Rainbow or Erie Indiana.
Maybe sing the Song that Never Ends.
It’s all play acting, but it’s nice. Especially if we focus on the nice parts of the 90s, the stuff that led to the wokeness of today.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
We don’t need to recreate every aspect.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Yeah I really don’t want to have to lie to my doctor and say I’m into men to get my estrogen
mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Ya, and maybe we can have “Blockbuster’s” and it’ll be a co-op clone of the og.
Enkrod@feddit.org 11 hours ago
I’m down for anything co-op
Rhaedas@fedia.io 14 hours ago
Black Mirror’s San Junipero.
It’s interesting how so many virtual realities tend to offer the 80s-90s as the best world to be in.
pumpupthejam@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Sounds like oomer behavior.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 12 hours ago I can’t tell if you meant boomer or zoomer and now I think you did that on purpose because both work.
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago i’m still gonna run around with an Shenandoah beard, wide hat and wil clothes, and you can’t stop me
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 12 hours ago
What’s a Shenandoah beard?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 11 hours ago
Basically a reverse hitler.
MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The nightmare of the 90s is alive in Ft Wayne
Shortstack@reddthat.com 15 hours ago
Bruh it’s been gentrified for a long time
Gresham, the former sketchy part of town is posh now lol
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
You’re shockingly close to the plot of The Matrix.
Karjalan@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Also, tangentially, the plot of project zomboid. Basically the zombie apocalypse happens in the late 90s so the survivors are stuck there forever
rustyfish@piefed.world 14 hours ago
More like The Village by M Knight Shamalambalan.
I would sign up?
lividweasel@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Whoa, Black Betty, Shyamalan
Godort@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Me in 1999: Really? This is the peak of human civilization? Everything sucks though.
Me now: Maybe they were onto something
MoffKalast@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
“I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization.” - ChatGPT
mrmisses@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Lost me at allowing AOL. I was there as a teenager for the first AOL and looking back it was not a good thing.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Warning for /u/mrmisses: 12:15:11 PM You’ve been warned by /u/SpruceBringsteen. Your warning level has increased from 0% to 20%.
otacon239@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Really, you have the opportunity to recreate the past and I’m stuck with AIM? I’ll stick to XMPP and IRC thanks.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
IRC is the shit. I remember wasting so many hours as a teenager just shooting the shit with random people.
AmyAye@nord.pub 12 hours ago IRC still exists man.
Malica@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago Our parents playing with fire
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 14 hours ago Come waste some more hours, I posted the details of the network I’m on in a other comment in this thread (dont want to spam it too much and make people upset about it). Its very active and full of cool people :)
Rhaedas@fedia.io 14 hours ago
My channels were niche ones with the same regular people. A safe place to hang out and talk about anything. It was my introvert version of going to the mall.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Or at least ICQ!
bizarroland@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
We should also have a couple of BBSs that run multiple MUDs.
LoremIpsumGenerator@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Skate parks, bmx(s), towering ice cream, starcraft on battlenet.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Sergio@piefed.social 15 hours ago
OK, but we demand IRC instead of AOL-IM.
dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
IRC is still around and kicking. My friends and I use it all the time.
ElJefe@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
And Domino’s instead of Pizza Hut
somebody_to_love@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
Give me back the golden era of Usenet!
- Malica@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Yahoo Messenger
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Maybe that’s why I still use IRC. I was doing this subconsciously all along.
jdr@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
I want Pidgin or Trillian so I can talk to my friends on both MSN and Yahoo.
Also shoutouts to the brief period where everything was xmpp and Gmail could talk to Facebook and self-hosted.
cknight@fedinsfw.app 8 hours ago Just one open source free platform would be fine. IRC with modern protocols for pics and video that can be viewed in the chat app of your choosing. Keep it simple, or add backgrounds. Mini chat boxes, or transparancy. Basic low resource use, or heavy, you decide, same open cross app platform.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Though if your friend is over and wants to check their msn, DO NOT LET THEM LOG IN TO YOUR TRILLIAN. It will merge your friends lists because Trillian followed a “one person many accounts” model, not a “many people each with many accounts” one.
- HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Well, the IRC part is easy. Just got to connect and start chatting.
If you are interested, may I suggest irc.inthemansion.com/6697 join #lobby to get started Theres also a webchat available on the website :)
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
It’s period appropriate, should be fine
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Both. Pagers with LCD or eink only. No LED screens.
- cknight@fedinsfw.app 8 hours ago
OLED. Can still use modern advances in practical tech. Can still have open source, modern kernel linux, modern ram and low power 3nm chips. Just keep all the tech simple and clean of marketing and addiction. All the good, less of the bad.
Ele7en7@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I think I have my Advisor Gold around here somewhere
artifex@piefed.zip 15 hours ago
This is how you accidentally start a Gen-X commune.
thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Can I have my portable cd player back?
NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 14 hours ago
I mean, you can get an old phone and rip your CDs and put each one on a separate 1 GB SDcard…
papalonian@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
They can also… Get a portable cd player
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
gnufuu@lemmy.ca
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Have you seen those Pizza Hut Classics? Old school as hell!