What are the 90's known for? What will the 2000's be known for?

[Brent]

This thread got me thinking, in this past century every decade is known for something. The roaring 20's, the wars in the 40's, the rock and roll of the 50's, the hippies of the 60's, 70's rock and cool style, the 80's big hair and other crazy stuff. You can look back at each decade and pull out a certain style, a certain look, and lots of stuff that happened in our history in them and say yeah and instantly recognize a decade.


So..... what are the 90's known for?

What WILL the '00's be known for (2000-2009) when we look back?

 

[T J]

The century of madness.

 

[Neeka Keet]

The calm before the storm.

 

[What's his face]

90s: POGS. Wool sweaters. The revival of the bowl cut. Lewinski Scandal. 56K modems. Nintendo 64. Really bad techno dance music.
00s: iPods. George W. Bush. Xbox. Long, shaggy hair. Facebook. Prequels and remakes in popular media franchaises.

 

[Mallory]

...70's rock and cool style,

Clearly you didn't live through the 70's. Government imposed wage and price controls, double digit unemployment and interest rates, inflation, a gas crisis, etc. and so on.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

...70's rock and cool style,

Clearly you didn't live through the 70's. Government imposed wage and price controls, double digit unemployment and interest rates, inflation, a gas crisis, etc. and so on.

Not to mention, nobody who lived through the 70s thinks that the styles were cool.

 

[Brent]

...70's rock and cool style,

Clearly you didn't live through the 70's. Government imposed wage and price controls, double digit unemployment and interest rates, inflation, a gas crisis, etc. and so on.

Nope, i didn't, but anyway my point is that every decade is known for something, we look back and can picture a certain style, a certain theme, but what of the 90's? and what of the decade we are in now?

 

[T'Baio]

The 90's, culturally anyway, will probably be known for "grunge."

 

[rramarr]

90s: A lot of great endings and beginnings on TV and no one partied like its 1999.

December 6, 1991 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
January 3, 1993 DS9 Begins
February 22, 1993 Babylon 5 begins
May 23, 1994 Star Trek TNG ends
November 18, 1994 Star Trek: Generations
January 16, 1995 Voyager begins
November 22, 1996 Star Trek: First Contact
July 27, 1997 Stargate SG1 begins
November 25, 1998 Babylon 5 ends
December 11, 1998 Star Trek: Insurrection
March 19, 1999 Farscape begins
March 31 1999 The Matrix
May 19, 1999 Star wars Episode I
June 2, 1999 DS9 ends
June 9, 1999 Crusade begins
September 1, 1999 Crusade ends

00s: Mostly for what ended on TV, 9/11, the Bush Wars, A super power in denial of ending, and the election of Obama.

May 23, 2001 Voyager ends
September 26, 2001 Enterprise begins
May 16, 2002 Star Wars Episode II
December 13, 2002 Star Trek: Nemesis
March 21, 2003 Farscape ends
October 18, 2004 Battlestar Galactica begins
May 13, 2005 Andromeda and Enterprise ends
May 19, 2005 Star Wars Episode III
March 13, 2007 Stargate SG1 ends

 

[Hober Mallow]

What WILL the '00's be known for (2000-2009) when we look back?

Paranoia. Being terrified of a bunch of cave-dwellers who haven't advanced their videos past VHS. Piddling ourselves everytime one of our leaders said the word "terror" on TV.

Oh, and iPods.

 

[msbae]

Government imposed wage and price controls, double digit unemployment and interest rates, inflation, a gas crisis, etc. and so on.

Sounds like History is repeating itself...

Considering this, I'd say the 2000's will be known as the 1970's part duex. The only difference is the far more advanced technology and comparatively crappy music.

 

[Hoser]

Not to mention, nobody who lived through the 70s thinks that the styles were cool.

I do.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

The 90's: Nirvana, blow jobs, emergence of the Internet,

The 00's: Neocons, technology fully integrated into daily life, Obama, the Google age,

 

[rramarr]

me too!

 

[RJDiogenes]

I liked the styles of the 70s, too. The 60s and 70s will always appear "normal" to me, and everything else a deviation from that.

I think the theme of the 90s will be Mediocrity.

I think the theme of the 00s will be Extremism.

 

[Squiggy]

90s: Personal Computers, internet
2000: War on Terror

 

[TheBrew]

90s-2000s: The rise and fall of Britney Spears.

 

[cultcross]

I actually think the 00's will be better known for the internet than the 90's. True, PCs arrived during the 90s, and people began diving into the internet, but usage was still quite limited, and it was a fringe pursuit, still quite geeky to be on it for more than checking your emails. The massive uptake of the internet, the shift of so much media and news online, and the 'user generated content' revolution happened in the 00's - this is the era an entire generation of teenagers spent their whole teenage years online, and just like any other decade, youth drive the trends.

 

[Crewman47]

One of the things I can think of just now is the TV programming. Over the late 80's into the 90's, where I grew up in, TV seemed to be at a high peak for the majority of the shows that were on. You had 3 shows of Star Trek running, Stargate, Babylon 5, Seaquest, Friends and several other well done series, a lot more then than what we have even today, imo that is.

I didn't have Sky TV and had to make do with 4 terrestrial channels, (channel 5 not out until '97 or '98 I think), and everyday there was always something good on the tube. These days you do have your new shows like NuBSG, Lost, Firefly, New Doctor Who, Primeval etc but alot of whats on TV and Sky TV are reruns of what was on during the 90's. Again this is my opinion but even with the new shows that are on today there just doesn't seem to be as much variety now as what there was in the 80's and 90's.

 

[Goliath]

The 90's, culturally anyway, will probably be known for "grunge."

More likely for hip hop, I think.