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What do you miss about 1995?

posted 9 years ago by pd3145
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The music was awesome. TV was awesome - original, no reality shows. People were not glued to their phones all day. No terrorist threats, just to name a few.

[–] peterdohertyisapoet 9 years ago

MUSIC
more human contact
piano
having natural long ash blonde hair and super skinny body
getting into clubs and thinking it was like discovering Narnia (hello I was 12/13)
dreaming about the perfect first boyfriend (that he was, but two yrs later)
not thinking about sex or clothes or work
my aunt (she died in 1997)

[–] kyle-sharp 9 years ago

Calling your friends on the phone and knowing their numbers cause you had to memorize them. Being more social as people and...90s hip hop!

[–] nypiscesgirl 9 years ago

My 20s! I miss everything from the music to the TV shows. I miss the "Real World" of the 90s (especially the early 90s). I miss MTV actually playing videos and when the VMAs and MTV Movie Awards were must-see TV. I really loved this era and get so nostalgic just thinking about it. I wish I could be transported back. But most importantly, I miss my grandparents. :(

[–] SuperCore 9 years ago

I turned 17 in the summer of 1995. Things I miss:

- All the I did for extracurriculars at school (track, theater, art, etc)
- My metabolism
- Some of the drama associated with that period. Dealing with over emotional girlfriends all Dawson's Creek style (long before the show came to be)
- My high school car.
- $1 gas so you could make as many road trips as you wanted without feeling broke.
- My high school job, shift manager of a $1.50 movie theater.
- Weekends doing anything to kill boredom with my friends in my uninteresting hometown.
- Beavis & Butt-Head and Alternative Nation at midnight
- No phones. People talked to you and you talked back when out and about.
- Filling notebooks and sketch pads with my imagination rather than getting sucked into some dumb game on my phone.
- My mom's cooking nearly every evening.
- That year my grandmother lived with us as she was terminal and needed care. It was great getting to know her better before she was gone.
- My dog D.J. was 2 years old and such much fun.
- My two best friends and I attempted to write and record sketches. We were going to try and shop our show to the local public access (long before YouTube).
- Drip's, the best coffee house ever was still around.
- Going to Media Play on a Sunday with my best friend. We'd spend hours browsing the CD section and nearly all of them were $9.99.
- Sending away for 12 CD's for a penny with BMG music services...and not paying the bill for a while.
- Going to the comic book store.
- Movie matinee's were $3.50. I think I saw Braveheart about 8 times in the theater.
- As another poster said, things were a surprise.

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