Millennials don't know how awesome the 90s were.

I can't answer for TandyMan but I kinda get what he means by that - and yet I can't give an example myself. I don't even know what I mean by that, but there sorta-kinda was. Don't know why.

Probably because he was young then, vs there actually being magic in the air, lol. People from the 80s/2000s/70s who were the same age at that point probably felt the same. That said I do think things were better before everyone spent their life looking down at a phone.

If you ever experienced the sound of a dial up modem followed by "Welcome! You've got mail!" You'd know exactly what he means!

This was what I was going to say. Millennials were born between 81-96 or around there depending who you listen to, so that means that almost all milennials would know what the 90's were like.

I had internet in 1995. It was dial-up and search engines sucked. So, finding sites was a pain unless you had the exact URL already.

Yeah. You had to know how to use maps. And you had to read books. Knowledge and capability mattered.

And somehow we were able to live with that. Back then we weren't as obsessed with social media, which was a good thing. The 90s were awesome.

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That's exactly why some people liked the 90s - it was the last era when life was simpler. You don't miss what you haven't had yet. And those things, while convenient now, also complicate society.

The World Wide Web became available in 1994 by phone line, and everyone and their dog was using it by 1996, where were you?

But we had Encarta!!!

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Very true, though I will say that some things have not changed, it's just the methods people use to do them have changed, such as finding your way around a new town, moving, buying a house, buying a car, getting married, having kids. A lot really hasn't changed, save for the WAY we do it.

What really bothers me is how we're all reminded by the internet that society has gotten dumber. People don't have to work as hard to learn something, but not everything they learn is useful or accurate.

One thing I plan on teaching my kids someday, is how to appreciate how we used to do things, and how to do some stuff that many parents have forgotten to teach their kids, like critical thinking, writing cursive, studying all the stuff they leave out of school, how to read a roadmap and get out of being lost without help from a cell or GPS, how we used to do stuff before the internet, how we communicated in the past, etc.

LSD isn't popular anymore. Everybody wants crack and meth. But acid was wonderful. You didn't murder your girlfriend and kids or anything.

Actually kind of comforting in a strange sense knowing that no matter the time, place, or generation, there's still a lot of things people can relate to with each other.

~~/o/

You have mentioned this song several times as I recall
Not a bad ditty
Is it a favorite of yours?