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How was it like living in the early 90s ?

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I can only imagine I’m so mad I grew up in the 2000s I could cry. I would have love to have been an adult during 2004 on back into the 1960s
 

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I can only imagine I’m so mad I grew up in the 2000s I could cry. I would have love to have been an adult during 2004 on back into the 1960s
Nowadays everything is trashy and mediocre.People have no class now,there's social media stars and fashion nowadays is sh!t.
 

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can't imagine what life was like before I was welcomed into the world. It's just not the same.
 

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I’m guessing that it was a lot like the early to mid 2000’s. Thankfully I got to live in that era as a 94 baby. The food was better, music was better, most fashion was better and it wasn’t all this wokeness and heavy topics going on.
 

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I’m guessing that it was a lot like the early to mid 2000’s. Thankfully I got to live in that era as a 94 baby. The food was better, music was better, most fashion was better and it wasn’t all this wokeness and heavy topics going on.
2006 was the last great year. 2007 is when everything turned to sh!t. I was five in 2006 and i remember playing outside every day after school.
 

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I was small but everything just seemed more at ease in some ways pre 9/11 and also because technology wasn't as rampant, life was more slow paced. You had to have a lot patience waiting on the internet to run, receiving phone calls and looking them up via phone book, calling taxi places to come pick you up, buying casettes and records and bringing them home to play on your boom box and waiting for your favorite shows to air. Nihilistic themes started to show up in pop culture as well which definitely set the tone of the 90s.
 

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The early 90s were FUN! The music, the weed at the healthfood store, sneaking into Marcy pool every Sunday night, riding bikes from the sty to flatbush..yea we had crack but even then, you had fiends that would boost the world. Things happened but there was a certain unity.

I can't explain thoroughly enough. NWA(their music was the catalyst) changed the music from positive like Native Tongues, Queen Latifah respect for Woman and the consciousness of say Digable Planets and dancing a la Kid & Play, to N.W.A/B.W.P.(b!tches Wit Problems) gang shyt, east vs west, etc. It became less about the wordplay and more about who could get the best old school (60s/70s) samples.

The sun felt different, the air smelled sweeter, we related to each other on more personal levels. And most importantly, there wasn't any internet to dumb us down, make us feel bad about ourselves, do things for likes or make us do anything for "the bag" or coins. We were much more creative because we didn't spend the day lookin down at our phones & actually had to come up with things to keep ourselves entertained and busy.

I think most generations see the era before as something they missed. For a time I listened to jazz and big band music because it made me feel apart of a time I revered which was the 20s. That time in particular because of the Harlem Renaissance, black ppl were thriving, apart from and without needing others.

Thanks for letting me ramble on with my nostalgia lol :heart:
 

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The same as it is now. I wasn't adult, but I was tween. The only difference was the pop culture was so much better. I do remember the war and the Rodney King beating had blacks and whites divided on a lot of issues like today. Then there was the murder off Latasha Harlins had blacks and Asians divided in LA. There were riots centered around both of those events in several major cities. It didn't help at all when the OJ Simpson saga started and when Tupac was murdered soon after. We didn't have social media back then to discuss views and opinions about current events. But things were so much more affordable. The early 90s started off rough, but that decade ended smoothly.
 

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I was in my Early teens, so I couldn't tell ya as far as being an adult.
 

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I was in college/ early to mid 20's during that time. Men asked you out on real dates. People danced with each other face to face, not this stiff stand in a line TikTok sh!t they do now. House parties were fun and someone was always having one. The future seemed bright.
 

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Bliss and you actually had privacy

Today’s world is a little to connected. If I went out walking or caught the bus unless you were with me nobody had a clue where I was or what I was doing

oh I wasn’t an adult just a teenager actually I was like a kid really 97 I was 10 lol but I remember
 

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I was born in the beginning of the 90s, but it was really the best years I swear. Happiness, connectedness, love, and content with simple life.

Despite the bad things in the world, people were happier and kinder to each other.

The internet was actually fun back then too. You had so many websites to enjoy. Now it's just like 4 (social media), and people are mean on them.
 

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I wish I was in high school in the 90s
Yes, 1990s high school was like the saved by the bell show. At least mine was. It was great time to be a teenager and a adult. No one knew your business and people were better back then.
 

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The early 90s were FUN! The music, the weed at the healthfood store, sneaking into Marcy pool every Sunday night, riding bikes from the sty to flatbush..yea we had crack but even then, you had fiends that would boost the world. Things happened but there was a certain unity.

I can't explain thoroughly enough. NWA(their music was the catalyst) changed the music from positive like Native Tongues, Queen Latifah respect for Woman and the consciousness of say Digable Planets and dancing a la Kid & Play, to N.W.A/B.W.P.(b!tches Wit Problems) gang shyt, east vs west, etc. It became less about the wordplay and more about who could get the best old school (60s/70s) samples.

The sun felt different, the air smelled sweeter, we related to each other on more personal levels. And most importantly, there wasn't any internet to dumb us down, make us feel bad about ourselves, do things for likes or make us do anything for "the bag" or coins. We were much more creative because we didn't spend the day lookin down at our phones & actually had to come up with things to keep ourselves entertained and busy.

I think most generations see the era before as something they missed. For a time I listened to jazz and big band music because it made me feel apart of a time I revered which was the 20s. That time in particular because of the Harlem Renaissance, black ppl were thriving, apart from and without needing others.

Thanks for letting me ramble on with my nostalgia lol :heart:
THIS:smile4 poetically expressed:love you should write a book, I'd read it:yesyes
 

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Black women were so much more beautiful. There was music celebrating us, men weren't afraid to say they were in love and wanted to protect us and be with us.

Music was amazing, but we kinda Took it for granted.

Going to nightclubs in NYC was so much fun!

Like everybody was saying, there wasn't technology to tell you that you weren't cool, or compare yourself to people across the world, you were a star in your own lil circle
 

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