Why do people miss the '90s when 2012 is so similar still?

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One of ther reasons I wish I was around back then. And other bands as well from that time.

People who miss the 90's are more likely adults who are in their 30's and 20's who were kids and teens in the 90's. I miss old school nickelodeon and old school Disney and the kid shows were great and the toys were better, I remember the days where gas prices were low and costs were cheaper then. Do I miss the 90's? Maybe.

Plus music these days seem to suck I can't stand it. But that doesn't mean I can't go online and listen to music from the 90's or can't watch old TV shows from the 90's thanks to netflix and internet. Plus you can listen to the radio station that plays music from 12-22 years ago. I think it's memories people have that makes them feel they miss the 90's.

I guess that I'm the exception here. I'm more nostalgic about the 80s. I couldn't wait to get out of high school so I could ignore all the trends of the 90s.

There are a couple of things that I like about the 90s. Austin Powers and the Internet, so I guess that they were okay.

Oh, what about the days when it cost £2/hr to surf the web at the library. When yahoo and netscape was bread and butter. these days it doesn't take a week be fully set up with a PC. You don't get the pleasure of shouting "is anyone expecting a phonecall? I'm going on the internet for an hour" It sounds so prehistoric yet unbelievably recent - and it made small things so exciting.

I'm glad to have been active in a time when the music industry actually made money and you didn't need to win a televised singing competition to get signed - instead just look pretty and play in the right place at the right time (poor spelling of London, Fri/Sat). what happened smoking on the train?! ! terminator 2 for the first time round anyone?

And most of all.......

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Actually, I haven't been exposed to the bands popular in the 90s. I barely even know the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
Sucks for me for growing up in other countries...

HAHAHA

1992 - Oasis exists
2012 - No Oasis

Seriously though, it was a good time to grow up in, and I'm glad my 'embarrassing teenage phase' was Britpop, and not something else.

I'm lucky enough to remember Ian McCulloch's cover of 'Lover Lover Lover' from that time...



The Libertines! (for me)

I guess for some people it's personal. I was a lot better off in the 90's than I am today. My mom was still around, the economy was booming, there were plenty of jobs, and the future looked great! Now myself and many others I know live In poverty. The level of jobs and income I grew up with is likely never to return.. ever. We're being told now that the 1960's to the 1990's was a fluke... a one-off economic boom that happened because America won WWII and the cold war and had a total monopoly on everything in the world. seems like the baby boomer generation really screwed us. They exported all the production and engineering jobs overseas and have been retiring in style, selling their children's future out to China as national debt... that will have to be paid off once china becomes stronger and demanding our land or assets for pay.

So yeh... 1990's and 2010's is a WORLD of difference to some.

Be that as it may, I miss living in the 90's so much!

Well I was born in September of 98, but since I can remember as far back as being 2, there were quite a few things from the 90's and 90's like stuff still being made that I was around for. And yes, it is obvious how different the world is today from back then, it is a bunch of crap now, it was awesome then. I miss the noughties more though, but at least we went out with a bang in 2008, the best year ever. And then Obama came along and well... you know the rest.

Was born in 89 so I spend almost my entire youth in the 90's.

A thing I dearly miss nowadays is the video game progression in graphics. Especially in the 90's there was a huge jump in graphics. I still remember being impressed by the Super Nintendo when I first played it.

4/5 years later we had the Nintendo 64/PS1 with far more capabilities and a big jump in graphics. Seeing Mario 64 back then for the first time made me say "No way we're ever getting better graphics than this!".

At the very end of the 90's there were showcases of video games from the PS2/Gamecube and dang, they made the graphics from their predecessors look very bad.

I never really had this feeling of "wow, that looks so much better/more real!" ever since. Don't get me wrong, graphics aren't everything in video games but those "wow moments" were great.

Born in '87, the 90s were a great time for me (even though it had its ups and downs); I never quite had the SNES in its heyday, but I got the N64 at Christmas 1997. Good times......

but no smartphones back then

now everyone has gone crazy over it and twitter

Well, I think they've been finding out that the F-22 is pretty expensive to maintain. I think also they aren't going to phase out the F-15 series for quite a while, since it seems that they keep coming back to it over and over and refining it with minor tweaks. I think they are on 'E' now, with a proposed 'SE' (Silent Eagle) upgrade to E.

I'm thinking it is because they are easy (and relatively cheap) to upkeep, and that they seem to come pretty close to being the 'ideal' jetfighter.

I think what I miss about the 90s' was that my family was more together then, and that people in general weren't 'joined at the hip' with their technology so much. Kids still played outside, instead of growing pale and fat with inactivity, reminding me so much like inert wood grubs under a log.