I think people don’t realize how dependent we were on pagers.
“Not all Gen X’ers were disinterested slackers in the ’90s.”
“The ’90s was a lot more analog than its presented.
People still read newspapers and magazines.
Cellphones were not ubiquitous.
Cassette tapes and VHS tapes still dominated.”
Maroon and hunter green were everywhere.
From cars to vacuums to bedding and beyond."
“Money was tight then, too.
People were happy with fewer luxuries, because we could get by.
And the very idea of giving a child a equipment worth hundreds of dollars was ludicrous!
I still feel this way.”
“The early ’90s and late ’90s were two very different times culturally.
I can’t stand it when I see a picture of the Spice Girls with a ‘So ’90s!’
“That Nirvana ruled the ’90s, and killed off all other forms of hard rock.
“Grunge always seems to get the spotlight, but an overwhelming number of people were pretty preppy actually.
“The rave scene was bigger and better than anyone seems to remember.”
“That ‘mom jeans’ were cool.
No one under 35 wore them they looked like shit.”
“The ’80s never really went away.
“That the ’90s were some kind of utopia.
For some reason younger people think that ’90s fashion is what the characters onSaved by the Bellwore.
By the mid-to-late ’90s, fashions were so different that the style from the show was passe.”
“Everything was ‘X-TREME!’
They were still marketing to us then.
I spent the whole early aughts saying ‘Green’ is the new ‘X-TREME.'”
“Internet being widely available.
Back then you spent your time either out of the house or at home watching TV.”
“A lot of people mention grunge and gangsta rap, but country was very hot, too.
“I loved the ’90s so much.
But people do forget that homophobia was even worse than we remember.”
“That everyone loved Kurt Cobain and/or that Nirvana and him even ‘spoke’ for an entire generation.”
Smoking in the car with your kids in it, at McDonald’s, at school, etc.”
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