Weren't the nineties great?

[Candlelight]

I started the 90s age 11 and ended aged 21. Great time.

We had TNG, DS9 and Voyager.

We had Babylon 5.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer has started.

Red Dwarf was in high gear.

We had great action or sci fi movies like Jurassic Park, Independence Day, The Matrix, Starship Troopers, Star Treks 6-9, Star Wars OT Remastered, The Phantom Menace, and many others.

We had the internet coming into it's own.

We had no 9/11 dominating the western world.

VHS collections! Walkmans (for me cos I never upgraded to that fancy CD option)!

Anything you'd like to share?

 

[Geckothan]

I grew up in the 90s and I'd give anything to go back and experience them again. Much better than this terrible excuse for a decade.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I never thought I'd say it, but I really do miss the gay '90's.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

The 90s were OK, I suppose. The early 90s were a different beast to the mid 90s and the late 90s in my mind. (I think I mentioned something like this in another thread about the 90s somewhere...)

 

[RoJoHen]

I miss the music from the 90s.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I miss the music from the 90s.

I would miss it, but I listen to it all the time.

There are things I my life I wouldn't want to give up to go back to the 90s, but the 90s had good things too. You have to remember not to look at it with rose-tinted glasses, even if it is my childhood.

 

[JuanBolio]

They most certainly were. Damn I miss the 90's. Music, movies, TV, the general prosperity of the country... greatest dacade of my life so far. Since 2000 things have more or less gone downhill.

 

[Holdfast]

*shrug*

Like most time periods, there were good and bad bits. I can't say I have an overwhelming love or hatred for it.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Yes, the 98 and 99 World Series *were* great, now that you mention it...

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I'm looking forward to the 2090s, myself. Flying cars built in the United States of India, the Chinese Lunar Hospital near Fra Mauro, the sacking of Australia following World War 6, the first UK number one single to be created by an unborn foetus, the fall and rise of the 7th Zion Ravescene (known as Zyborg Raystream) during the 2095 general election... those will be the days...

 

[Plecostomus]

I'm looking forward to the 2090s, myself. Flying cars built in the United States of India, the Chinese Lunar Hospital near Fra Mauro, the sacking of Australia following World War 6, the first UK number one single to be created by an unborn foetus, the fall and rise of the 7th Zion Ravescene (known as Zyborg Raystream) during the 2095 general election... those will be the days...

Will that be before or after the fifth coming of Jesus?

 

[freak]

I definitely miss the 90s. I started out age 9 and ended age 19 or so. I could have done without the year 1992(that was the year I got bullied and tormented in middle school and don't want to relive that) but 1993 was great, as was '94. And in January of 1995, Voyager premiered on UPN and I was hooked. But what I remember most is the music of the 90s. I still listen to that music to this very day. And of course, there were cute Barbie dolls in the early 90s that I wanted as a child.

 

[john titor]

The 90s kicked ass. Not to mention South Park started in 1997. This decade I don't identify with in any sense, culturally, politically, musically. I just feel out of place in this decade. Maybe the tens will signal a return to the carefree liberated fun of the 90s. You see in the 90s no one cared if baloon pants made you look silly, because people had a sense of fun then. Now you have to be arch, wear tight jeans and look dour. Even the games were better.

 

[C.E. Evans]

You know you're getting ready for your AARP card when you start thinking about past decades being "the good old days"...

 

[JuanBolio]

Yes, the 98 and 99 World Series *were* great, now that you mention it...

I was indifferent to them. The '97 and '98 Stanley Cup playoffs, however...

 

[Balrog]

90's were great. I was on my 20's throughout the 90's and made a lot of money, only to see a good portion of it get pissed away by the last administration!

Internet was and is a great thing. And some of the movies we got were fantastic. But I thought much of the music in the 90's sucked. The music industry took a bad turn in the 80's, and it's gone down hill since. It got so bad, MTV stopped playing music videos.

 

[Aurian]

For me, 90´s sucked. I missed all the good things about it except the music.
I saw all the movies, but the tvseries I did not get to until after the 90´s.

That is how it is when you are in the teens, not watching tv.. and then turning some jerks lump of clay/slave/marionette for the better part of the decade.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

I'm looking forward to the 2090s, myself. Flying cars built in the United States of India, the Chinese Lunar Hospital near Fra Mauro, the sacking of Australia following World War 6, the first UK number one single to be created by an unborn foetus, the fall and rise of the 7th Zion Ravescene (known as Zyborg Raystream) during the 2095 general election... those will be the days...

Will that be before or after the fifth coming of Jesus?

Eighteenth, actually.

By the way, might want to enjoy glazed donuts while they last. And television. And pants. And the distinction between sexes.

 

[Candlelight]

I don't remember many emos in the 90s, although they were brewing.

Doctor Who made a brief come back.

Clinton's smile dominated everything. Then the sex scandel.

They were just fun times. It seems the fun is gone now. Or maybe I grew up and lost it somewhere.

 

[Plecostomus]

They were just fun times. It seems the fun is gone now. Or maybe I grew up and lost it somewhere.

For me the end of the good times occurred right around the time NAFTA was signed into law.

Overnight much industry around here ground to a halt and fled to Mexico on the flimsiest excuse, we had 200 plastic factories here when I moved in, A year later we had 10.

Things started picking up again only to have things flee to China in 2002.... Went from 15 plastic factories and over a hundred tool-and-die/metal shops to less than a dozen viable manufacturing companies.

Really pisses me off, we start recovering from that and now things grind to a halt because of the automotive market crash.

Optics is the "next big thing" but I don't want to get involved I'm going to ride my industry into the ground... Soon as they relax transfer-of-sensitive-technology laws (even further) optics will fly overseas to China.