Was the world destroyed and re-made on January 1, 1990?

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Well in a literal sense no, it obviously wasn't. In a figurative sense, sort of.

Yeah it seems everything became techy, alterna, and uncertain in the nineties and it's still very much the nineties in terms of mindset today. Globalization, diversity, and technology have been the zeitgeist of the past twenty two years.

Abacacus I think we both can agree with that statement.

The internet is what has changed the world in this age. I find it cool that we get to experience a technological advancement on the same level or greater than the printing press.

I guess I don't have personal experience to draw on though seeing I have no conscious memories of the 80's, being born in '87.

It kind of makes the world seem more boring in a way too, though, since it's destroying differences.

1990 sure looks different to 1980

It does not look so different to 1989.

And 2000 looks very different to 1990.

10 years worth of change, much?

No 1990 (s**t, even '92) looks the same as 1989, people even still had big hair, but everyone who's older than me I know tells me that 1990 was way different from the 80s and actually had more in common with NOW than with even the late 80s.

Lots of things seemed to change in 1990. In the UK the 80's were gone and we got rid of Thatcher. Happy ecstasy raves were popular and the whole greed is good idea had become a turn off.

I think in 1989 lots of political changes took place in Europe and the soviet union lots a lot of power and the cold war ended.

This is utterly subjective but history does not seem to agree.

The 2000s were much different from the 90s. I can as well just mention the internet and 9/11. The 80s were a very strange decade because it is probably true that if you can remember the 80s you didn't live in them. But that's how decades work.

That is why I don't believe world war 2 happened

Did the world change in 1990, or is the OP biased because he was born around that year?

Maybe a little of both.
Lived through the eighties and nineties and it didnt seem like a huge change at the time. But in retrospect I can see it how the year could be viewed as pivotal.

In a sense 1989 (with the fall of communism) was the year when the FIRST World War finnally ended.

The great european war of 1914 paved the way for both communism and nazism/fascism and begat the second world war, which inturn begat the Cold War.

The fall of communism meant the end of the cold war. The eastern european nations freed of Russian domination, and even the soviet union itsself breaking up into independant states. The loose ends of 1918 finnally got tied up!

The USA hasnt deployed a new nuke since 1989. And we now have a whole new set of enemies who have nothing to do with soviet communism to justify our war machine (funny how we dont get peace - just a different cast of characters for enemies).

It was also the start of what MTV called "the digital decade" when the internet and other information technology began to impact the daily lives of us regular consumers.
About that time we started to use scanners for UPC's in the store I worked in. Before that we rang up merchandise by hand keying in the price and department. Bar codes had been printed on merchandise since the seventies but it wasnt until the late eighties that stores started to use scanners for them.

So- yes I think its fair to view 1990 as a boundry line in time between eras.

The world has been going to hell in a hand basket since God invented dirt. Look up the second law of thermodynamics.

ruveyn

Everything was indeed different in the good old 80's. It was generally speaking a much better world back then. It was a much happier and stress free place to live. since the 90's everything has spiralled completely out of control.

People always say the past was better. Mark twain even said howa couple decades ago was much better. (dunno how well known mark twain is outside of the US)

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

Guess what said that?

Title was good, but I have to admit I don't understand the rest of the thread.