• InverseParallax@lemmy.world
    English
    10·
    1 month ago

    1995 was amazing, really the whole 90s.

    Amazing music, peace, and nobody was afraid to tell all the douchebags of the world to go f themselves.

      • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 month ago

        fire hydrant wearing a cowboy hat and playing a guitar

        “After these messages… we’ll be right back.”

        • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          1 month ago

          Well shit, that’s a core memory reactivated.

          It’s crazy how vividly you can remember something like that, while moments earlier having absolutely no consciousness of it.

          • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 month ago

            Here’s a fun little tidbit. Remember Marc Summers, and Double Dare? Remember how messy that show got?

            Well Marc was actually a germophobe, and every time he got messy he would be having an anxiety attack as the show was being recorded. On double dare. DOUBLE DARE!!! The show that was so messy, it’s logo literally had a blob of green slime as the backdrop!

            And every moment you see him, covered in mess, smiling away, just know that internally, he’s having a panic attack and in hell.

            Yay childhood memories!

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      It was the peak of civilization

      • no internet (or at least popular, easy access internet)
      • no social media
      • no streaming content
      • no online distractions

      Which meant

      • you spent more time talking to people
      • you just spent more time with people
      • you read more to ease the boredom
      • you used a library more
      • you read actual newspapers written by journalists more
      • you questioned the government more
      • you had to pay to use an inconvenient landline all the time which meant you called less and wanted to just see people more

      Now with a high speed internet connection, we’re disconnected from one another and we believe in every hair brained idea we find online.

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
        English
        2·
        1 month ago

        YOU HAD PEACE!!!

        Peace of mind.

        Peace that everyone wasn’t trying to force you to believe their opinions or be judged as evil.

        I love the internet, but it desperately eroded the barrier that stood between our internal self-image and literally everyone else in the world.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
      2·
      1 month ago

      Yeah IDK about peace, but in terms of tolerance in ‘the west’ it was a huge step up over 1955, and rave culture in particular (where it was a thing anyway; might have been focused on european countries like UK and Germany?) was probably more tolerant and friendly than a lot of popular ‘party’ scenes today.