What do you miss about the 1990's

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It didn't run on a video game council. It was an old program for the pcs of the time.

People interacted with each other because there was no such thing as "social media."

I don't think they had anything that could be called a PC in 1971.

Tickets to get into movie theaters were relatively cheap if compared to ticket prices today.

I played it on an ancient 80s computer. Idk about the 70s though.

Fares for public transportation were also cheap in comparison to public transit fares in the world of now.

I disagree with this premise. Whenever a tragedy strikes, pomp-and-circumstance becomes more prominent. Like after 9/11, people who weren't particularly patriotic began putting American flags all over their cars for a few months. The Columbine vigils were comparable. But I disagree that 1999 was some ultra-religious time vs 2021.

Also, remember there are religions other than Christianity. With more Muslim and Hindu immigrants now, I do wonder if many youth are actually more religious.

There are some shows that are still like that. I know Picard and The Mandalorian were like that, because I waited for all the episodes to get released, so I could binge them with a free trial B)

...but that meant I missed out on all the "DID YOU SEE THE MANDALORIAN LAST NIGHT??" talk at work. Oh well.

Last night? the series finished ages ago.

In my mind the 1990s are really fresh in my memories. They were far happier time for me than the 1980s but I have strong nostalgia for both eras.

I am just telling it the way I remember it. I looked for some statistics and found some that seem to support my observation, but nothing good enough to win any arguments. It does seem to me there was nothing like this after the Parkland shooting in Florida 3 years ago. I can remember some survivors giving speeches but not the daily scenes of students sitting in megachurches and praying that I recall from Columbine.

Just to play devil's advocate, Parkland is in South Florida. Columbine was in Colorado. Though not the bible belt, Colorado is probably more evangelical (at least in pomp-and-circumstance) than South Florida. Oddly enough, other parts of Florida (like the panhandle) are more Bible Belt-like than Littleton, CO, but your example seems more geographically-specific than time-specific. Plus, Columbine was probably the first MAJOR school shooting with high-death count carried out by students. In a perverse way, it was virgin territory how to proceed afterward. It still think the late 1990s was too recent to honestly say it was a 'dramatically more religious time' than now.

When I look back, it seems like I miss pretty much everything about the 90s. But specifically:


1. I didn't believe the world was doomed back then. I do now and I wish I didn't.
2. It was the only time in my life when the UK has not had a right-wing Conservative government. It wasn't perfect, but it felt optimistic and progressive. I wasn't ashamed to be English.
3. Magic eye pictures
4. UK TV comedy was good. They made sketch shows and sitcoms rather than just panel shows with the same few stand-ups over and over.
5. There were new films, not just sequels, reboots and endless rehashing of comic books.
6. Technology was exciting - PCs in particular were making leaps and bounds with every generation.
7. Kids TV - getting home and watching Bad Influence, Animaniacs, Knightmare, Maid Marian and her Merry Men
8. Saturday Morning kids TV was good too.
9. The Big Breakfast
9.1 Time Team
9.5 I guess just TV, before it became on-demand, when you had to sit down and watch at a certain time and if you missed it, well tough.
10. Sega games consoles
11. I had a friend who lived a few doors down from me and we would walk to and from school together. I miss her so much and think about her a crazy amount considering we only knew each other for a few years and that was now, what 30 odd years ago. She contacted me once in that original flush of reconnecting that Facebook enabled and I wrote back but she's never responded to anything I've sent since so I don't know what I did there. We were just friends, never anything romantic. I don't imagine she has any idea how important she was to me.
12. The smell of WH Smiths in Winchester - it doesn't smell the same any more.
13. Hearing the radio from the factory across from where I lived. I didn't listen to much music but the popular songs of the day drifted through my window and now have a very nostalgic draw for me.
14. Making Doom wads
15. 3.5" floppy disks and those storage boxes that you flipped through.
16. Cassette tapes and VHS - mainly opening up a fresh one and sticking on the stickers perfectly.
17. Not feeling like I've messed my life up.
18. Lugging my 486DX complete with CRT monitor to my friend's house and connecting with a serial cable to play deathmatch Doom.

I miss the feeling of stacking floppy disks. Thought I was organised buying a disc holder

I'm almost 69 and I don't miss any of that old technology. I can legitimately imagine somebody might truly miss the Amiga. I guess if there's anything I miss, it's when you would mostly work on Unix in a shell environment. Nowadays you're more likely to be dealing with Web UIs.

Even the 2000s, having left J2EE for Spring/Angular I'd hate to have to go back.

I miss my Amiga, Commodore 64 and Atari (albeit from the 80s). Just feelings of nostalgia rather than the technology itself, Silly things like the letterbox opening in the move "Sleepless in Seattle" when Tom Hanks received an email