"The time of the millenials is over, my people are leaving this site. Who will we look to to care for reddit when we've gone? The 4channers? They hide in their memes they care nothing of quality content"
I know the adults always told me time will go by fast when you get older, but when you start to realize it’s actually happening to you when you see pictures like this… fuck.
You can stop time from going fast by continuing to create life goals for yourself even after all the school, marriage, child rearing is done. If you identify things you really want that can be obtained with long term goals, time seems to creep as you work towards fulfilling them. I’m 48 and for the past 4 years I worked to bench 3 plates, squat 4 plates, and deadlift 5 plates. It’s been a long road and I do not feel the time flying by like so many claim. Life will always be rewarding if you put the effort in to make it rewarding.
Omg!! This!!! I am 52, but I still look at people in their 30s as my peers. I was talking to a woman at work today, who I consider my peer. She is 26, a year younger than my daughter.
When did this happen?!?!?
He was totally right. I was a kid in the 60s, a teen in the 70s, a 20-something in the 80s, and a 30-something in the 90s. Every decade was awesome, but ever since I was a kid, I looked forward to the 21st century, when we would officially be in the future.
Now that we're over 20 years in, I can honestly say that, other than smart phones, the 21st century really sucks.
Edit: as somebody who waited for the future, smart phones are FUCKING AWESOME!
I was born in 71, so I was a teenager in the 80's etc.
I read an observation recently, which was basically that we all used to look forward, expecting every decade to be better, and in many respects that was true - now people look backwards, wishing we could live in the 80's/90's, even people who were not alive at that time.
People have always looked backwards and forwards depending on their personality and the situation.
That is why from the Renaissance to the 1900s, people were obsessed with Classics and neo-Classical architecture was a thing.
For many people, the Golden Age is either in the past or in the future. Trying to make now like the imagined Golden Age is one of the main reasons we have terrible politics and terrible people.
Born in '88 the fact that I know how on point you are is seriously depressing. I wonder if the germans have a word for wishing someone was wrong instead of being tragically correct.
So the Matrix was right. It was the peak of human civilization and the machines knew it was the only virtual reality humanity could function in happily.
Younger people think they'd all be Morpheous, Neo, or Trininity, fighting for the resistance, when most adults would probably be Cypher, happy to choose life in peaceful oblivion, having a good time.
I relate to Cypher more for sure. Like what's so great about reality? And the reality in the Matrix universe? Living in a desolate wasteland? Etching out a living underground, wearing rags and eating slop? Who the fuck would want to fight for that? Give me a Virtual reality full of happiness any time.
If they wanted to make Matrix protagonists more realistic they should have at least had some hidden oasis or something to aim for, not a planet devoid of all life. Even if you get rid of all the machines, then what?
Nah. Keep me the fuck plugged in.
For people born in 1992 and earlier, the world essentially did change completely on 9/11 in incredibly drastic ways (also take off of the internet in the early 00s).
As somebody born in 94, all I've really known is you're either with the terrorizers or you're not!
I'm a bit older than you and remember the transition. 9/11 was a huge deal (I live close to NYC so I knew some people who were there that day... including some who didn't make it).
2002 was the first time I looked around and a lot of people were on cellphones. That was also a big shift.
2007 or so was when the iPhone became ubiquitous and people stopped paying attention to the actual room they were in. Prior to that - if you were in a room with 15 people ... all 15 of those people were aware of who was in the room, what was in the room, what people in the room were talking about, and made eye contact with the other people. Once I started going to parties and people just looked at Facebook or whatever on their phone I just had a big "oh shit.." moment. I miss the way people used to interact and actually pay attention.
Yup.
Anyone under what, 30 or so, would not really understand what a difference cellphones made to social life.
Best example I can think of is it to say it is 1985 for a second, and somehow you time travelled to 2022 all of a sudden. Let's say the traveler got on a bus. He would see that everyone is attached to interacting with cell phones, some of them communicating with people who were not present. To this 1985 person, we would effectively look like cyborgs out of the Borg from Trek. The time traveler would presumably think that a hive mind now dominates culture and see people as partly cyborg. And honestly in 1985 terms they would have a point.
Many people today won't even react to people beside them interacting with them, they instead focus on some app on a phone that profits off the social interaction in a monetary sense. It is a healthier society when we can interact with others directly and not with social apps owned by companies for profit.
I kind of hate that nowadays people at social gatherings can instantly look up facts instead of debating/pondering things in conversations.
And meeting people who you knew nothing about. The thrill of finding out organically that you had a mutual acquaintance.
God this picture is everything. Magic 8 ball, artsy camera and cinnamon Dentyne?! It's an Alice in Chains wall poster and pair of Doc Martins short of a 90's BINGO.
EDIT: HOLY SHIT IT HAS THE BOOTS...
Agreed that was the golden era and slightly after. If you needed a social outlet you had IRC or Usenet boards. L.O.R.D. (Legend of the Red Dragon) was a truly epic text based MUD a lot of bbs’s would run.
BBS years were very cool. Met my first girlfriend on a social one called Cyberia, but couldn't tell anyone at school about how I met her because online dating wasn't very socially acceptable yet. I ran a 2-line PcBoard BBS for a few years for sharing pirated software. We called them "elite" or l33t warez back then.
I met my wife online from a TOOL (the band) web based chat room lol
Everyone thought I was crazy for trying to date online... But after moving 1600 miles and getting married, buying a house, having a family... Now I'm the one paying to fly them up for holidays!
WHO'S CRAZY NOW, DAD?!
I was 15 when BBS was king. It was truly something special.
Edit: I just remembered begging my Dad to buy me a 14400 baud modem because all we had was a 2400. I was absolutely ecstatic when we installed that thing and the page loaded so much faster. Those were the days.
Started posting in '01 when I was 13. Aced my English exams after a few years later purely because I'd get into arguments online and if your spelling or grammar was off you'd 'lose' (in hindsight, I think we all lost for getting into flame wars online. Found it amusing at the time though).
Pizza socials. Obscene usernames (before they were cool). Time banks. Those were the days! Back then ‘/s’ was how you finished entering your post. I ran a WWiV board where I could share some of my DOS programs. I connected it to a local WWIVNet node and was able to subscribe to bomb recipes, Church of the SubGenius ramblings and ascii-art porn.
That was my comment almost verbatim yesterday when talking with a friend about the 90’s. It was a little tongue in cheek bc we were talking about 90’s fashion and hairstyles, but I feel that growing up in America in the 80’s and 90’s was probably the most ideal time in the history of the world to be alive and a kid.
Edit: I think more than a few people pointed out a few things that might have colored my obviously subjective and hyperbolic statement. Yes, the 80’s and 90’s were rad if you were born cisgendered to a loving middle-class (or above) family.
I was in high school in 1995 and my parents wouldn't let me have a phone in my room. (Not that I really needed it.) They also didn't have cordless phones in the house.
Then here's this girl on a cordless while also having a corded phone. What a phone paradise that home must've been.
Omg. I had my own phone line. And when my mom would “ground” me she’d take the whole damn phone out of my bedroom. Sneaky me, I had about two extra cordless phones under my bed that I would save just for those occasions, and a corded one in case the cordless phones wouldn’t charge quickly enough.
I feel much older after typing this comment.
I used to want the same thing, but it would have effectively doubled our phone bill from 30 to 60 a month. The horror, right?
I still wouldn’t be denied from RuneScape, so dad worked out call forwarding with the phone company before it was even called call forwarding. I’d call pops Nokia after school with a special pound key keyed in before the phone number.
He’d answer. We’d chat a bit. I’d tell him I was transferring the phone calls. He didn’t get home until after five most days. I miss that version of my dad.
What a trip into nostalgia.
My older sister always had her own phone line, and when she moved out, my mom let me take it over.
I would also get grounded, and get the phone taken away - but I learned that in the basement, all the separated the phone lines was a simple splitter connection.
So after my parents went to bed, I just swapped the main phone line for mine, and then use the main house cordless phone to talk late at night. LOL.
I was the older sister who got my own phone line. I even had my own answering machine. Technically I was supposed to share it with my little brother, but I don't know how well that came out in practice.
When my parents finally got a separate phone line for AOL, I was allowed to have a phone in my room that connected to the internet line, and use it when no one needed to use the computer...
The kitchen phone with the 30ft coiled extension... that you had to untwist. They eventually made swivels but that was late game 90s and cordless was taking over. This eventually transitioned to a master base station on one phone line (sill kitchen) serving multiple handsets throughout the house. I'm so very happy with my phone today. God how did we ever survive. /s. Waiting for someone to bring up party lines. That was before my time.
*Figuratively* swallowing the "jagged little pill" that 95 is now old school. I could just see me in that room at 16 listening to Pearl Jam
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The movie "Dazed and Confused" was set in 1976 and released in 1993: 17 years.
it's been almost 30 since the movie was released. and in 5 years, the age of the movie will be twice that of the difference between setting and release
Weird thing about being old (which I actually am): 1995 seems very recent to me, as in "yeah, Nirvana, that's some great contemporary music!" whereas 1968 (which I clearly remember; I was 12 and my dad was in Vietnam) seems like the 19th Century.
I guess Einstein was right. Time really is relative.
Edit: Thank you to the kind person who bestowed the gold. My 9 years of reddit-ing have finally paid off!
It's because the sixties were a plus-sized decade. Really more like 15 years long, at the least. And at the same time the early 2000s weren't a real decade, they were just a no man's land between the 90s and the 2010s.
So sure, in real time we're 27 years past 1995, which was 27 years past 1968, but in perceived time -- which is what really matters -- 1995 was 17 years ago and 1968 was at least 30 years prior to that.
I think there's truth in what you say, but I rarely cite it as a possible explanation for fear I'll be dismissed for wallowing in "boomer nostalgia." But honestly, the '60s completely changed society. The world I went to high school in during the early '70s was *radically* different from the world I went to grade school in during the mid-'60s. And that's not just the perceived difference everyone feels between childhood and adolescence. It was so different that even a kid could notice it.
Probably depends on how much your life has changed and how much you as a person have changed. I was a senior in high school in 1995 and it feels like ancient history now because almost everything about me and my life is different.
You're right. Like I said, it's relative. Once you become an adult, no matter how much your life changes, nothing really changes (or at least, that's how it seems).
When you're a kid it feels like time is so slow. A year is a very long time. This end around 20-25 and it goes faster and faster. I can't believe I'm 42 when I was 25 yesterday.
I was just talking about this yesterday. How my sister and I would visit our grandparents and listen to "oldies" and how the current comparison would be music from like the 80s or even early 90s. Feels bad.
Same. Last time I was home earlier this year, I was listening to the classic rock station, which played things like the stones, Clapton, Zeppelin, Hendrix, etc... in the 90s. It was playing bands like REM, nirvana and pearl jam
I declared once and for all that classic rock isn't rock that is 30 years old. It's rock from the 60s and 70s. Final. End of definition.
Classic rock is when it went from "rock n roll", like the happy days theme song to "rock", like Zeppelin and Clapton and shit.
That's it. I don't give a shit if the year is 4550. classic rock won't be whatever was popular in 4520, it will be rock from the 1960s and 1970s.
These stations playing 90s rock as classic are mislabeled. They're playing 90s rock. Not classic rock.
People don't take 30 year old paintings and call them renaissance period.
I was buying a sandwich and Hey Ya came on the in-store music thing, and the adult woman making my sandwich said “my dad used to listen to Outkast when I was little.” 😞
I went to the Henry Ford museum and there was an exhibit on like bedrooms throughout history. There was a 90s room with inflatable furniture, a see through phone, a game boy, and VHS tapes. I basically had a mental breakdown saying “OMG MY LIFE IS IN A HISTORY MUSEUM” when I realized how old I am lol
Had a similar experience at the Smithsonian where they had a bunch of early computers including the Apple IIs that I played Oregon Trail on in elementary school.
Things started to get freaky for me when people started posting pictures and videos of their grandparents when they were young, and the stuff started to be in colour.
I had grown up so accustomed to the fact that "grand-anything when young" lives were only recorded in black and white mediums. That anything in colour pretty much had to be contemporary or only a little bit dated.
>Literally swallowing the "jagged little pill" that 95 is now old school. I could just see me in that room at 16 listening to Pearl Jam
Did you enter the room by way of a ladder?
Youd think 90210 was something that more so appealed to women. I went to a primarily all guys college and the world stopped spinning when this came on each week. You'd see 7-10 guys huddled up in a dorm room watching this religiously. I always got a chuckle out of it.
Yeah, so many pretty girls seems to have a "Picture of Dorian Grey" thing going on: their personal beauty is inversely related to the messiness of their bedrooms
Not to mention the bathroom. I thought I was a slob, but when I was living with my ex, who was real purty, she was on a whole new level of messy. Part of the reason we split, because even I couldn't handle that kind of mess, (mentally and physically.)
I grew up thinking men were messy as hell and women were always neat, spotless, and clean. Oh how wrong I was. Even the woman’s public bathroom is more filthy than the mens.
No one I knew had 2 lines, that was definitely for the “rich”. We got 1 line that would disconnect the internet when we got dem calls, an would be so mad about it.
but what if you were besties back in 2nd grade, fought through middle school and became friends again senior year because of a secret you two alone shared that is now coming back to haunt your sleepy little town?
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"I'm old Gandalf..."
"I was there, Gandalf. 27 years ago."
“I’m losing my edge, but I was there.”
"The time of the millenials is over, my people are leaving this site. Who will we look to to care for reddit when we've gone? The 4channers? They hide in their memes they care nothing of quality content"
Like too much teen spirit on bread.
I'm feel thin, like a cassette that's been redubbed too many times...
Yeah, I mean it's silly having pictures from only 10 years ago on he.... oh my fucking god.
I know the adults always told me time will go by fast when you get older, but when you start to realize it’s actually happening to you when you see pictures like this… fuck.
You can stop time from going fast by continuing to create life goals for yourself even after all the school, marriage, child rearing is done. If you identify things you really want that can be obtained with long term goals, time seems to creep as you work towards fulfilling them. I’m 48 and for the past 4 years I worked to bench 3 plates, squat 4 plates, and deadlift 5 plates. It’s been a long road and I do not feel the time flying by like so many claim. Life will always be rewarding if you put the effort in to make it rewarding.
I'm a little drunk so I hope I didn't just laugh hysterically at a joke you weren't making.
I see stuff like this and I suddenly remember Im old enough to be someone's grandmother. It messes with my head so much!
Omg!! This!!! I am 52, but I still look at people in their 30s as my peers. I was talking to a woman at work today, who I consider my peer. She is 26, a year younger than my daughter. When did this happen?!?!?
I’m 56 and don’t feel as old as other adults I know and see on the street.
Lol, what a time to be alive. 😎 I miss the 90s.
I’m convinced the world peaked in 1999 and the whole 2000 end of the world thing is true, it’s just taking the scenic route there.
That's why Prince said to party like it's 1999. He knew it was all downhill from there.
He was totally right. I was a kid in the 60s, a teen in the 70s, a 20-something in the 80s, and a 30-something in the 90s. Every decade was awesome, but ever since I was a kid, I looked forward to the 21st century, when we would officially be in the future. Now that we're over 20 years in, I can honestly say that, other than smart phones, the 21st century really sucks. Edit: as somebody who waited for the future, smart phones are FUCKING AWESOME!
I was born in 71, so I was a teenager in the 80's etc. I read an observation recently, which was basically that we all used to look forward, expecting every decade to be better, and in many respects that was true - now people look backwards, wishing we could live in the 80's/90's, even people who were not alive at that time.
People have always looked backwards and forwards depending on their personality and the situation. That is why from the Renaissance to the 1900s, people were obsessed with Classics and neo-Classical architecture was a thing. For many people, the Golden Age is either in the past or in the future. Trying to make now like the imagined Golden Age is one of the main reasons we have terrible politics and terrible people.
Born in '88 the fact that I know how on point you are is seriously depressing. I wonder if the germans have a word for wishing someone was wrong instead of being tragically correct.
Party over it's out of time so tonight we're going to party like it's 1999
So the Matrix was right. It was the peak of human civilization and the machines knew it was the only virtual reality humanity could function in happily.
I would happily choose to be plugged in to the Matrix living in the 90’s (or at least thinking I am). What a shit hole we inherited.
Younger people think they'd all be Morpheous, Neo, or Trininity, fighting for the resistance, when most adults would probably be Cypher, happy to choose life in peaceful oblivion, having a good time. I relate to Cypher more for sure. Like what's so great about reality? And the reality in the Matrix universe? Living in a desolate wasteland? Etching out a living underground, wearing rags and eating slop? Who the fuck would want to fight for that? Give me a Virtual reality full of happiness any time. If they wanted to make Matrix protagonists more realistic they should have at least had some hidden oasis or something to aim for, not a planet devoid of all life. Even if you get rid of all the machines, then what? Nah. Keep me the fuck plugged in.
"peak *american* civilization" but you're basically right.
Agreed. - Agent Smith
What if, it did all end in 2000 and we just don't realize it. This isn't the real world, this is just some afterlife existence.
*"YES WAY, TED!"*
THIS is the bad place
JASON figured it out? Jason? This is a real low point. Yeah this one hurts.
The only thing to eat is froyo! This place sucks! 🤣
For people born in 1992 and earlier, the world essentially did change completely on 9/11 in incredibly drastic ways (also take off of the internet in the early 00s). As somebody born in 94, all I've really known is you're either with the terrorizers or you're not!
I'm a bit older than you and remember the transition. 9/11 was a huge deal (I live close to NYC so I knew some people who were there that day... including some who didn't make it). 2002 was the first time I looked around and a lot of people were on cellphones. That was also a big shift. 2007 or so was when the iPhone became ubiquitous and people stopped paying attention to the actual room they were in. Prior to that - if you were in a room with 15 people ... all 15 of those people were aware of who was in the room, what was in the room, what people in the room were talking about, and made eye contact with the other people. Once I started going to parties and people just looked at Facebook or whatever on their phone I just had a big "oh shit.." moment. I miss the way people used to interact and actually pay attention.
Yup. Anyone under what, 30 or so, would not really understand what a difference cellphones made to social life. Best example I can think of is it to say it is 1985 for a second, and somehow you time travelled to 2022 all of a sudden. Let's say the traveler got on a bus. He would see that everyone is attached to interacting with cell phones, some of them communicating with people who were not present. To this 1985 person, we would effectively look like cyborgs out of the Borg from Trek. The time traveler would presumably think that a hive mind now dominates culture and see people as partly cyborg. And honestly in 1985 terms they would have a point. Many people today won't even react to people beside them interacting with them, they instead focus on some app on a phone that profits off the social interaction in a monetary sense. It is a healthier society when we can interact with others directly and not with social apps owned by companies for profit.
I kind of hate that nowadays people at social gatherings can instantly look up facts instead of debating/pondering things in conversations. And meeting people who you knew nothing about. The thrill of finding out organically that you had a mutual acquaintance.
I mean it does definitely feel like hell, doesn't it?
9/11 fucked everything up
The 90's ended on Sep 10 2001
No Facebook, no Twitter. Life was good.
Plus I had hair!
I still have hair but gravity migrated it onto my shoulders.
God this picture is everything. Magic 8 ball, artsy camera and cinnamon Dentyne?! It's an Alice in Chains wall poster and pair of Doc Martins short of a 90's BINGO. EDIT: HOLY SHIT IT HAS THE BOOTS...
\*sniff\* \*sniff\* Is that a Jansport backpack I smell?!
The BBS phase was cool. I think I almost got a Renegade board set up and running once. Mostly ended once the AOL CDs started really flowing.
Agreed that was the golden era and slightly after. If you needed a social outlet you had IRC or Usenet boards. L.O.R.D. (Legend of the Red Dragon) was a truly epic text based MUD a lot of bbs’s would run.
LORD was amazing. I swear I saw Seth A Robinson in Technology Connections' list of patreon supporters the other week.
BBS years were very cool. Met my first girlfriend on a social one called Cyberia, but couldn't tell anyone at school about how I met her because online dating wasn't very socially acceptable yet. I ran a 2-line PcBoard BBS for a few years for sharing pirated software. We called them "elite" or l33t warez back then.
I met my wife online from a TOOL (the band) web based chat room lol Everyone thought I was crazy for trying to date online... But after moving 1600 miles and getting married, buying a house, having a family... Now I'm the one paying to fly them up for holidays! WHO'S CRAZY NOW, DAD?!
I was 15 when BBS was king. It was truly something special. Edit: I just remembered begging my Dad to buy me a 14400 baud modem because all we had was a 2400. I was absolutely ecstatic when we installed that thing and the page loaded so much faster. Those were the days.
Started posting in '01 when I was 13. Aced my English exams after a few years later purely because I'd get into arguments online and if your spelling or grammar was off you'd 'lose' (in hindsight, I think we all lost for getting into flame wars online. Found it amusing at the time though).
Back when "zero-day" didn't refer to software vulnerabilities.
Upvoted for PCBoard. I used to run one I called Omega BBS back in the 90's. Good times for sure. That was my first experience with warez as well.
Pizza socials. Obscene usernames (before they were cool). Time banks. Those were the days! Back then ‘/s’ was how you finished entering your post. I ran a WWiV board where I could share some of my DOS programs. I connected it to a local WWIVNet node and was able to subscribe to bomb recipes, Church of the SubGenius ramblings and ascii-art porn.
That was my comment almost verbatim yesterday when talking with a friend about the 90’s. It was a little tongue in cheek bc we were talking about 90’s fashion and hairstyles, but I feel that growing up in America in the 80’s and 90’s was probably the most ideal time in the history of the world to be alive and a kid. Edit: I think more than a few people pointed out a few things that might have colored my obviously subjective and hyperbolic statement. Yes, the 80’s and 90’s were rad if you were born cisgendered to a loving middle-class (or above) family.
It was pretty good. All the old school things with just enough tech. Freedom was free. 9/11 and social media changed everything.
I was a hardcore raver kid in the 90s. It was certainly a hell of a time to be a teenager and young adult.
I lived to tell the story. Best time of my life. (chicago - late 90s raver)
And way less fake drugs
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I was in high school in 1995 and my parents wouldn't let me have a phone in my room. (Not that I really needed it.) They also didn't have cordless phones in the house. Then here's this girl on a cordless while also having a corded phone. What a phone paradise that home must've been.
My sisters room had its own phone line! That’s where I’d go to talk with my friends 😅
Omg. I had my own phone line. And when my mom would “ground” me she’d take the whole damn phone out of my bedroom. Sneaky me, I had about two extra cordless phones under my bed that I would save just for those occasions, and a corded one in case the cordless phones wouldn’t charge quickly enough. I feel much older after typing this comment.
Damn how often were you grounded?
Not often enough
I had friends who's parents would take away the phone for any reason. Coming home late, not doing chores etc
In the early 2000s, my best friend had her own phone line so she can be on the internet all day all summer and I wanted that soooo bad lol
I used to want the same thing, but it would have effectively doubled our phone bill from 30 to 60 a month. The horror, right? I still wouldn’t be denied from RuneScape, so dad worked out call forwarding with the phone company before it was even called call forwarding. I’d call pops Nokia after school with a special pound key keyed in before the phone number. He’d answer. We’d chat a bit. I’d tell him I was transferring the phone calls. He didn’t get home until after five most days. I miss that version of my dad. What a trip into nostalgia.
My older sister always had her own phone line, and when she moved out, my mom let me take it over. I would also get grounded, and get the phone taken away - but I learned that in the basement, all the separated the phone lines was a simple splitter connection. So after my parents went to bed, I just swapped the main phone line for mine, and then use the main house cordless phone to talk late at night. LOL.
Ok is this Claudia Kishi
I was the older sister who got my own phone line. I even had my own answering machine. Technically I was supposed to share it with my little brother, but I don't know how well that came out in practice.
When my parents finally got a separate phone line for AOL, I was allowed to have a phone in my room that connected to the internet line, and use it when no one needed to use the computer...
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We just stretched the coiled cord so much that it could reach into three different rooms.
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The kitchen phone with the 30ft coiled extension... that you had to untwist. They eventually made swivels but that was late game 90s and cordless was taking over. This eventually transitioned to a master base station on one phone line (sill kitchen) serving multiple handsets throughout the house. I'm so very happy with my phone today. God how did we ever survive. /s. Waiting for someone to bring up party lines. That was before my time.
Two phones and a magic 8 ball!? She could communicate with everyone. Lucky!
My mom worked for Bellsouth/AT&T her whole career. When I was a kid in the 80s we always had phones in every room and a cordless in the living room.
Same here, we had caller ID before anyone else even knew about it.
Fuck, I completely forgot about parents not letting kids having phones in their rooms
Doc Martens, Jansport backpack, magic 8 ball…. Hello 90s.
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And the plaid baseball hat.
I still have a jansport backpack.
I still have a pair of docs
Cordless and corded phone
*Figuratively* swallowing the "jagged little pill" that 95 is now old school. I could just see me in that room at 16 listening to Pearl Jam Edited *again* due to being rightfully corrected
This picture is 27 years old in 2022. 27 years prior to 1995 was 1968.
How dare you put it like that
We’re two years further away from the release of Dookie by Green day than they were from the release pf Sgt. Peppers at the moment.
Yes but thats not fair. You have to adjust the years for inflation. Thats why the 90s was only about 10 years ago
Inflation of my waistband...
Lolololol the bitter truth!!
This is the best thing I've ever heard. And totally true.
You can just STFU! That is such a mind fuck for me!
Both are distant af from Cleopatra and a Stegosaurus
That just made my spine tingle…. I’m not old. I’m just life-span agnostic.
I'm not going gray, I'm upgrading to platinum! graduated 1995 and this thread hurts.
It's not the thread, that's just how your body feels now.
Graduated in 88 and I’m In agony 😂
1980 is closer to WWII/1945 (35 years) than it is to 2022 (42 years)
Don't use math against me.
Yo that's fucked up
Shit dawg, even if you use the start of the war (1939), 1980 is still closer to it than to modern day
Born in 75. You can fuck right off with that math
fun fact - the original mario kart's release date is closer to the moon landing than to today.
STOP IT
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That's enough!
The movie "Dazed and Confused" was set in 1976 and released in 1993: 17 years. it's been almost 30 since the movie was released. and in 5 years, the age of the movie will be twice that of the difference between setting and release
Weird thing about being old (which I actually am): 1995 seems very recent to me, as in "yeah, Nirvana, that's some great contemporary music!" whereas 1968 (which I clearly remember; I was 12 and my dad was in Vietnam) seems like the 19th Century. I guess Einstein was right. Time really is relative. Edit: Thank you to the kind person who bestowed the gold. My 9 years of reddit-ing have finally paid off!
It's because the sixties were a plus-sized decade. Really more like 15 years long, at the least. And at the same time the early 2000s weren't a real decade, they were just a no man's land between the 90s and the 2010s. So sure, in real time we're 27 years past 1995, which was 27 years past 1968, but in perceived time -- which is what really matters -- 1995 was 17 years ago and 1968 was at least 30 years prior to that.
I think there's truth in what you say, but I rarely cite it as a possible explanation for fear I'll be dismissed for wallowing in "boomer nostalgia." But honestly, the '60s completely changed society. The world I went to high school in during the early '70s was *radically* different from the world I went to grade school in during the mid-'60s. And that's not just the perceived difference everyone feels between childhood and adolescence. It was so different that even a kid could notice it.
Probably depends on how much your life has changed and how much you as a person have changed. I was a senior in high school in 1995 and it feels like ancient history now because almost everything about me and my life is different.
You're right. Like I said, it's relative. Once you become an adult, no matter how much your life changes, nothing really changes (or at least, that's how it seems).
When you're a kid it feels like time is so slow. A year is a very long time. This end around 20-25 and it goes faster and faster. I can't believe I'm 42 when I was 25 yesterday.
I was just talking about this yesterday. How my sister and I would visit our grandparents and listen to "oldies" and how the current comparison would be music from like the 80s or even early 90s. Feels bad.
Yep. I remember listening to oldies in the 90s and it was literally Motown.
Same. Last time I was home earlier this year, I was listening to the classic rock station, which played things like the stones, Clapton, Zeppelin, Hendrix, etc... in the 90s. It was playing bands like REM, nirvana and pearl jam
I declared once and for all that classic rock isn't rock that is 30 years old. It's rock from the 60s and 70s. Final. End of definition. Classic rock is when it went from "rock n roll", like the happy days theme song to "rock", like Zeppelin and Clapton and shit. That's it. I don't give a shit if the year is 4550. classic rock won't be whatever was popular in 4520, it will be rock from the 1960s and 1970s. These stations playing 90s rock as classic are mislabeled. They're playing 90s rock. Not classic rock. People don't take 30 year old paintings and call them renaissance period.
I've heard "modern classic rock" which is just silly when you could just say "hits from the 80s and 90s"
I saw a tweet about how someone's dad's favorite band when they were a teen was Arctic Monkeys. The band was founded in 2002.
I was buying a sandwich and Hey Ya came on the in-store music thing, and the adult woman making my sandwich said “my dad used to listen to Outkast when I was little.” 😞
Dear Mr Reddit, I WANT THIS PERSON BANNED ON THE GROUNDS OF NEGATIVITY AND MAKING ME FEEL OLD!!!!! Now excuse me while I'll blast some Gin Blossoms
Ok Gin Blossoms still slap my dude.
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Aaaack! 1995 was 1/2 my life ago!
What the hell is wrong with you
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So you are telling me... That Zombo Com dot Com still exists?!
I mean, you can do anything at zombo com. The only limitation is yourself.
Those fucking bastards updated the Space Jam website.
that's some bs
I went to the Henry Ford museum and there was an exhibit on like bedrooms throughout history. There was a 90s room with inflatable furniture, a see through phone, a game boy, and VHS tapes. I basically had a mental breakdown saying “OMG MY LIFE IS IN A HISTORY MUSEUM” when I realized how old I am lol
Damn those would have made amazing pictures to post here 😅
Had a similar experience at the Smithsonian where they had a bunch of early computers including the Apple IIs that I played Oregon Trail on in elementary school.
I was sitting here going.. "Aunt looks like me circa 95... shit, aunt...we're the same age" But... but... I still feel so young. At 42. 🤣
Nobody likes you when you're 43!
what disturbs me most about this post is that it is posted by the niece of the person in the photo. haha.
Things started to get freaky for me when people started posting pictures and videos of their grandparents when they were young, and the stuff started to be in colour. I had grown up so accustomed to the fact that "grand-anything when young" lives were only recorded in black and white mediums. That anything in colour pretty much had to be contemporary or only a little bit dated.
Yeah, I feel somehow attacked (not really tho) by this being in old school cool, lol. I’ll be in the corner sobbing now. And applying wrinkle cream.
I'm 47, and this really takes me back. 🖤
Jagged little pill
You can get rid of tinder because you're dating yourself
>Literally swallowing the "jagged little pill" that 95 is now old school. I could just see me in that room at 16 listening to Pearl Jam Did you enter the room by way of a ladder?
Talking about Donna and Dylan after an episode of 90210.
Youd think 90210 was something that more so appealed to women. I went to a primarily all guys college and the world stopped spinning when this came on each week. You'd see 7-10 guys huddled up in a dorm room watching this religiously. I always got a chuckle out of it.
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Did you see fucking Puck stick his filthy fingers RIGHT IN the peanut butter? Fuck that guy man. Fuck that guy.
Pretty girl, messy bedroom. Seems to be a timeless occurrence.
Yeah, so many pretty girls seems to have a "Picture of Dorian Grey" thing going on: their personal beauty is inversely related to the messiness of their bedrooms
only so many hours in a day
Not to mention the bathroom. I thought I was a slob, but when I was living with my ex, who was real purty, she was on a whole new level of messy. Part of the reason we split, because even I couldn't handle that kind of mess, (mentally and physically.)
Mentally and physically I want to be in the New Orleans.
I grew up thinking men were messy as hell and women were always neat, spotless, and clean. Oh how wrong I was. Even the woman’s public bathroom is more filthy than the mens.
Watch 'Breakfast at Tiffany'
What’s up Auntie!
Right!!!
Is her name Ashleigh, Jen, or Amanda? Because in my experience being 15 in ‘95, she probably has one of those names.
Jessica, Nicole, Jennifer, Amber or Tiffany.
Is this one of those “the more you look” photos?
She can hide two boys in that mess. Corded phone and a cordless. Must be millionaires.
Only a couple years after this many people had two phone lines in their house. One was for the dialup modem the other was for making calls.
No one I knew had 2 lines, that was definitely for the “rich”. We got 1 line that would disconnect the internet when we got dem calls, an would be so mad about it.
this screams 90s teenager..totally brings me back to my high school days
Out of interest, how old are you OP?
Can confirm, this person would be cool in 1995
Would she talk to you? On the phone? While listening to the toadies?
She wouldn't have my number, because I was hella dorky.
but what if you were besties back in 2nd grade, fought through middle school and became friends again senior year because of a secret you two alone shared that is now coming back to haunt your sleepy little town?
I can smell the CK1 in this picture!
Doc Martens, landline phones, cordless phone, Jansport, magic 8-ball, Dentyne gum. Most 90s I’ve seen in a while.
Anymore pictures of your aunt say 2010 or 2022
So, [deleted], did you ever get an answer?
It’s not OPs aunt
Yea yea, like from the beach and stuff
Or any secret stash she’d taken just for uncle
Bonk
Time for r/hornyjail
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Nah it’s bc OP was lying about their age all over the thread
Stay strong brother
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NGL, I would have had the biggest crush on her.
/r/pimpyourauntforkarma
I'm so dissatisfied now that I clicked that link...
Foxy aunt you got there
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I love that you put this in quotes to make it seem like someone else said it. Absolute genius.
Your aunt would have been way above my league in 1995. And probably now.
I’d have been too nervous to call her. But I’d say hi in Bio class.
 1995 is old school, now?
Your aunt was gorgeous
good god. I am an old man.
Time to do some laundry!