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Jan 21, 2023 · As teenagers on TikTok pine for a decade they only know from film and television – and Netflix launches a sitcom sequel, ‘That ’90s Show’ – Eloise Hendy speaks to experts and real-life ...
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The man who gave the world "Generation X" looks back at the oft-maligned 1990s.
On August 11, 1992, I was in suburban Minneapolis for the opening of the Mall of America, the largest shopping mall on Earth. I was on a book tour and in the early afternoon I spent 60 minutes with the local AM radio station host, seated in chairs on a small plywood platform smelling of popcorn and apples, and where every 62 seconds a roller-coaster car shaped like the head of Snoopy roared just above our stand at 547 miles per hour. It’s amazing how quickly that sort of regularized intrusion becomes invisible.
The entire setup was very old-school middle America in the most charming kind of way — all that was missing was a 4-H poultry competition or a barbershop quartet singing “The Michigan Rag.” The host of the local AM station had been the host of the local AM station for a long, long time, looked at me and assumed that I was probably some young smart-ass, and he looked at me (me in my olive green cargos shorts with an appliqué of Chairman Mao’s head on the front) and said, “I guess you must find it really stupid that everyone is here and having a good time and brainlessly shopping like capitalist robots.”
I looked at him with genuine sadness. “No. Not at all!”
“Why not then?”
“Because…” and I got to thinking about it. “I actually think that future generations are going to look at images of today here in Minnesota and see them as a sort of golden age of American culture. The peace. The calm. The abundance. The bottomless goodwill of everyone here. I’m unsure if it’s going to last much longer and I think we should appreciate it while it’s here.”
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- Generation X. The roughly forty-five million children of Generation X, born between 1965 and 1980, truly made their presence felt in the 1990s. These badasses not only partied through Y2k but also overcame perceptions of cynicism, aimlessness, and laziness.
- Y2K. Y2K! I never did lose all my student debt when we hit midnight on December 31, 1999… As the 90s ended, many people believed that the Y2K bug would erase all our debt – and that the end of the world might be heading our way.
- No Trolls. Message boards and chat rooms have assisted hobbyists and like-minded people in congregating virtually since the Internet’s birth. However, since then, society has devolved in direct proportion to the evolution of cyber-technology and the Troll was born.
- Life was simpler. Numerous factors have contributed to an alarming rise of paranoia in our culture since the year 2000. We had so much freedom of movement.
1990 ended with Gorbachev accepting unification with no objections to Germany making its own decision about NATO membership. Find out why by listening here.
Jul 22, 2024 · Millennials Looked Back On Growing Up In The '90s, And Why They Always Knew It Was Unparalleled. ♫ And I miss the '90s like the deserts miss the rain. ♬. by Brian Galindo. BuzzFeed Staff. I've...
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Jul 17, 2012 · What do No Doubt, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Bill Clinton, the Olsen twins, and Pulp Fiction all have in common? They were all things that helped to make the 1990s the best decade ever.
The 1990s is often remembered as a decade of relative peace and prosperity: The Soviet Union fell, ending the decades-long Cold War, and the rise of the Internet ushered in a radical new...
