Why were people so happy during the 90's?
>>74488119
no wars to speak of
no real threats to america
star trek was still good
star wars was still good
x files was still good
music was awesome
there was this overwhelming feeling that human race wasn't going to go extinct
Bc the government wasn't so overtly trying to fuck them over and everyone got along for the most part. Now white people go outside assuming they're going to be jumped by a group of black teens
>>74488311
>90's
>music was awesome
well he just bought win95.
why don`t you show his face after he tried to install the non-proprietary driver for his graphics card?
THE COMMIES WERE WIPED OUT. RUSSIA IN RECESSION + CORRUPT AF, SPYRO THE DRAGON AND CRASH LAUNCHED, PORN WAS MAKE MAINSTREAM
decent years
>>74488119
We didn't know any better.
>>74488311
>90s music
>awesome
>>74488119
we live in the last decades of the western civilisation, the downfall will come upon us.
they lived in more optimistic times
And western comics dying in the early 90s caused degeneracy to decline.
>>74488119
They were blissfully ignorant, they thought the world would stay that way forever.
>mfw there must be hundreds of smug bastards that an heroed when the bubble burst
>mfw seeing the ones that didn't working shitty jobs while I exploit the system
Ignorance is bliss
>>74488119
i've seen this exact same thread with the exact same first two posts at least 10-12 times in the last 5 years.
>>74488119
No keeping up with the Joneses' via social media
Less bills to pay (subscription and data)
>>74488710
>>74488547
>Kids too young to remember anything earlier than late 90s Boybands and Britney Spears
>>74488119
>Multicultarlism wasn't as big of a thing
>More whites/less hispanics
>Race relations were not as bad as they are now
>Political correctness existed but on a much smaller scale
>Movies didn't push gender/race bullshit
>People were hired for their qualifications over their race
>You didn't turn on a newscast and see forced diversity themes or minority newscasters just for the sake of pushing diversity
>Everybody was just happy to be alive
>You could afford a first house with a small down payment and not be in massive debt or have massive payments
>Moving out of your parents basement was easy as fuck
>People weren't in the massive debt they are now
>University education was actually useful but not required and a lot of people just went straight to the work force instead of continuing their studies and going into shit tons of debt, basically if you couldn't afford university you still could be middle class
>Getting a job was much easier, and they paid more relative to the prices
>If you wanted to be successful you knew you could be successful at something
List goes on. There was just a sense of calm, people were just more relaxed and the world was honestly a better place to live in, even for children. Now you send your kids to school and they have to deal with forced diversity training from youth, politically correct halloweens, politically correct christmas events (some schools dont even do the Christmas stuff anymore as it could offend minorities)
The world was so much better. Now kids just sit on their iphones and get socially conditioned from a young age to be cucks and they have to go through basically 17 years of school to even make near minimum wage income and be debt slaves.
>>74489913
Oh, you're one of those guys who likes Pearl Jam
>>74488710
depends on the genre tbqh , 90s music also had kurt cobain so it could be the worse thing ever. But it also had dream theatre , pantera , tool and many more
>>74490572
Pearl Jam is great, fucboi
>>74488119
This guy bought TWO windows 95... i guess he some how knew about windows 8
>>74488119
Damn good Ecstasy?
( Helter Skelter rave , UK , 1998)
https://youtu.be/wglWKFvsHos
Because the internet as we now know it wasn't a thing.
>>74488119
Ignorant
>>74488119
The 90s were a unique period, anon. Reagan's disasterous economic policies were finally being reversed, the damage the Baby Boomers were doing wasn't yet apparent, and the internet had not yet bred the SJW.
Meanwhile, we're now left with the fallout of all 3 of those things. It'll probably be decades before we recover from the Reagan-Thatcher rape of the western economy, probably much longer before all the Baby Boomer damage is undone. SJW, however, may be here to stay.
>>74488119
Charles Krauthammer calls the 90's the "holiday from history."
>Notices all the white faces
There's the answer anon
Don't forget the mass psychological effect of living in the last decade of a millenium. We literally won't experience that for another one thousand years.
>>74493023
>reagan
>bad economic policies
pick one cuck
>>74488119
ITT: interesting perspectives
>>74488547
>>74488710
>2000+
>coon tunes
yeah fuck off niggers
>>74488664
This is pretty much it.
People in the 90's were generally ignorant as fuck and didn't really know any better. They listened to what the TV told them and weren't as connected as they are now.
Underage kiddos wouldn't understand this. There was a lot of shit back then that was taken for granted that turned out to be completely fucking wrong, too.
>>74489913
Fewer.
>>74488119
The last time in my life I was happy was 1996. I can't remember why but I was so happy to be alive.
>>74488119
No cell phones.
>>74493794
>no cell phones
>no internet
If you wanted to talk to a friend you walked to their house and knocked on their door and hope they were home. I hope life becomes like that again
>>74492020
In 95 very few major companies were online. The Internet was still very much a novelty to most. Though there were no cops online either and porn trading was all the rage, any type of porn you wanted.
>>74488119
Not as many Mud-niggers (Moo-slimes) as today. The last time I was happy was September 11 2001, watching those towers burn, after that, everything went to shit rapidly.
>>74493917
I had my own landline in my room separate from my parents. We also had pagers, which were not nearly as annoying and intrusive as cell phones
>>74489765
That must be some hive mind shut because I was the second post.
Even the star trek and star wars thing? I mean it IS true
>>74493917
You could just call them. But that's only if you're at home. If you were out, you were disconnected and free. Now you're always on a leash.
Ignorance is bliss.
I was born in the UK in '91 and lived there until January of 2000 when I moved to the US. 2000's was still basically the nineties. The year and 9 months of living in the US before 9/11 was the happiest I've ever been in my life. I don't think human beings could be happier than I was. Remembering it gives me an almost MDMA-like high.
>Smash mouth on the radio
>Pokemon and cartoons on every morning and afternoon
>24 hour cartoon channels
>Everything dirt cheap in the US, Walmart even cheaper
>Could literally buy a couple action figures a week out of my allowance
>2 dollar packs of Pokemon cards, pretend they were limited edition English ones, flip 2 dollars into 20
>Buying N64 and PS1 games whenever I want for 20 dollars or less
>Gatorade was mind blowing
>Fast food everywhere
>Huge roads to ride a bike or skateboard down
I'd kill to be teleported back in time.
>>74493917
There was internet faggot, just not like it is now. It was more like deep web then, you had to know the url if you wert outside of AOL, Compuserve, etc.
Because you could put a '.com' on the end of anything and sell it the next day for $10 million.
>>74494491
>I was born in the UK in '91
You were 9 when the 90's were over, you don't count. You know nothing about real life in the 90s.
>>74494491
Uhh, kid, you had no idea what was actually going on in the 90's. I was 18 in 1995, we had way, way more freedom then.
>>74490366
>Political correctness existed but on a much smaller scale
>tfw cartoons always had that one chick who said more sensible thing than today's feminists and was used as comedy relief
>ftw today's feminists surpassed the 90's mockery of them and became worse than their own strawman
Nobody gave a shit about Islam or gave it a second of thought.
Well, except for the Serbs and Russians who were killing kebab in Chechnya and Bosnia.
But for the rest of us in the West - we didn't give it a thought. The 90s were an amazingly happy and upbeat decade.
>>74494713
Not quite. Most of the insiders tipped off the major companies to purchase theirs very early on.But if you were lucky enough to grab a domain you could make some money if you were asking a reasonable amount. Some guy tried to extort Wendy's for millions, so they just took a variation of the restaurant name (Wendysofc.com) until he agreed to sell it to them for far less.
>>74488119
I miss Windows 95.
Shitskins werent polluting the internet
>>74495350
Sorry, wendysofh.com, (old fashioned hamburgers)
>>74488574
R A R E
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You can tell who the underage fucks are who were kiddos in the 90s and don't know shit because they say retarded stuff like "muh shitskins"
>>74493047
Krauthymmener...is a kike neocon and is one of the reasons the 2000's and today suck ass....
The Internet back then was like the wild west, an unexplored territory you felt like a frontier back then, now it's the most chick hipster popular thing to be autistic alone.
>mfw used to frequent the www.sportschat.com chatrooms in the late 90s when I was 11
ah the good old days
No fucking social media.
>>74495287
So much this, sand niggers were still far-away animals, not in your house, raping your wife.
As a kid i lived in Florida for while during the mid 90s. I dont want to remember the past because it makes me wanna commit suicide on the spot.
The way thing have changed, the way whites have started to hate themselves turning a blind eye on their decline are creating such a terrible future is just pure torture
Even worse when you are starting to realize what would have to be done to revert things to the way they were and how it will never happen
>>74488119
It was a bit of a blip in human history. A decade of relative peace. The fall of the Soviet Union meant the west had no real enemy to speak of.
There was also a false sense of prosperity due to credit boom etc, combined with the above reason led to a false sense of security.
Then 9/11 happened and woke everyone up.
>>74488119
no 9/11
no sjw's
feminism wasnt about constantly crying about things
there was no persistent attempt by the media to bad mouth the police for doing their jobs
unemployment was lower
gdp growth was higher
>>74488119
>be late 30's
>Western society in the 90's was awesome but forever alone, no money, depressed for all of it
>Now 2016 and for the past 6 years no longer depressed, have money, and having more sex than I'd ever dreamed of but society, as a whole, has turned to utter shit
It's annoying, I want a time machine, so I can go back as the person I am now and make the most of it, unlike before.
>>74488119
The 90s were decent, but the 80s were better. There was more self-pitying music and dark undercurrents creeping into the media in the 90s that I noticed at the time.
>>74497039
>no sjw's
They existed (though they were just called leftists or "politically correct"), but their influence beyond universities was limited.
>feminism wasnt about constantly crying about things
Feminism has always been totally about whining.
It is outstanding how quickly the bubble burst. Like we went from the happiness and optimism to the despair and hoplessness in less than a decade.
I blame connectivity and social media for the most part. All it has done is rapidly overexpose people to absolute bullshit nonstop. It has made everyone opinionated and egotistical arseholes because they are just being fed the shit that they want to believe and are gradually losing their grasp on reality.
>>74497394
Information is democratic now - collective wisdom has proved itself again and again (wikipedia etc...)
>>74488119
90's and early 00's were interesting over here
>twice as many boys being born than girls
>bad grades were a standard
>cheap drugs
>weapons everywhere
>skinheads
>''brick sales''
>old bmw's, mercedes', ugly riced cars driven by tryhards
>10 yr olds riding gileras or tomos lol
>gypsies running wild
>yugos
>rotting commie blocks
Generally people were dissapointed with their lives. They hoped for better times in the new country
>>74488548
underrated post
>>74488119
Because the world was only getting better and better and people would live longer and longer and be richer and richer and when I grow up we'll have flying cars.
What went wrong?
Creativity was actually encouraged, and not the Deviant Art bullshit idea of creativity either.
Notice everyone doodled on paper all the time when bored. I did it all the time in school. Sometimes took blank paper just to draw anything from boats to trains to city skylines. Remember your teacher telling you to stop drawing and pay attention, but later telling you that you have a gift?
>>74497394
True. I first started getting worried about the future after 9/11 and seriously worried in 2008 with the financial crisis, which has never really gone away. And our governments seem to be run by evil people who openly hate us -- at least they tried to hide that hatred until the past 5-10 years.
>>74497924
meant to say 'literal bricks' not drugs
I hate to say it but ignorance. The rest of the planet was just as shit back then as it is today, the Western world just didn't give nearly as much of a fuck. I am Serbian and I can tell you the 90's were not a happy time for us!
Always a bit surreal most people here in Canada have no fucking clue what Yugoslavia was / have no idea the war happened.
>>74497321
SJWs were laughed at, though. They were the kind that would mention "You can't hug animals with nuclear arms" and "I'm a woman, hear me roar."
>>74488119
It was a time when humanity was at arms reach from each other, so we only shared the best we had to offer each other, looking to impress our respective cultures with what we had, and enjoy the experiences others offered us. You had to work to get those experiences too, the Internet was not nearly as ubiquitous and travel across continents was relatively expensive, but there was a much greater sense of security and self assurance; you weren't going to get blown up at the airport by some radical extremist. But then 9/11 happened and everything was ruined forever. Humanity will never have that sense of optimism and boundless expectation. At least not in our lifetimes.
>>74498423
>Serbian in the 90s
Ouch
>>74488311
>people saw star trek as the future in the 90s
>present times people now view it as that the road movie
>>74498501
>SJWs were laughed at, though.
In most places. I was at University of Toronto in early 90s and SJWs were taken seriously on campus, though there was no open persecution of right-wing students and professors (who were a minority even then, however). The rest of society thought that left-wing radicals were a pain in the ass.
>>74497394
The best way to look at the situation of a nation is to look at culture.
90's were cheesy and optimistic as fuck.
Now notice that how post 2008 there was an obsession with "dark, gritty realism". It's telling that it's considered realism to be in a dark and pessimistic world, in comparison to the 90's where it was all happy.
>>74488119
>we beat the evil russkies
>I'm sure this is because we were so awesome with democracy, liberalism, capitalism and stuff
>let's implement even more of those things!
Look how that turned out, huh.
>>74499091
You guys started the destruction of Western society decades ago by exporting Marxist intellectuals from Europe to the US and funding KGB subversion of our core institutions.
>>74499249
Based.
>>74499249
Nazis pushed those intellectuals out. America took them in. And then sent them back with a vengeance. Ever since '45 America's influence on Europe has been degenerate.
>>74499846
>Nazis pushed those intellectuals out.
Right, because they were inspired and in some cases funded by the Communist USSR.
>Ever since '45 America's influence on Europe has been degenerate.
Don't disagree with that, but the degeneracy was not innately American. The US existed for 150 years before it started going off the rails.
>>74488119
Because you millennial cunts hadnt learned to speak yet
The early 90's sucked, not many jobs and paid shit. Starting around 96 when the Web became more of a thing, jobs started paying on average $5-$10 more an hour.
It was really the last time thete was a broad based inflation in salaries.
>>74498423
>Serbian in the 90s
I'm so sorry. I don't think I'll complain about shit anymore.
>>74488119
They weren't as I recall.
>>74488119
because tcp\ip nigga
>>74497161
>The '80s was better
>It's just like it now except slightly less degenerate
The pathetic thing is that millennials are trying to emulate the '80s because they're devoid of any originality. The '80s, as far as degeneracy is concerned, is right up there with the late '60s and '70s. In fact the '90s was when like a time slip, everything since 2000 has just been a continuation of the '80s, it's like they realised that during the '90s, which was massively peaceful and people were actually getting along, simply wouldn't do. I mean if we just let people live peacefully side by side, what purpose would the left have then with nothing to complain about? How could those poor innocent Jews make vast profits from war when there isn't any? Something has to change, enter 9/11. Muslims are suddenly our enemy and there's more wars than you can shake a shitty stick at.
TO be quite honest guys,
It was the best time to be a minority, race relations were in tip top shape save for the OJ case ,but as a black kid who grew up on Nirvana, Tupac, and Backstreet boyz ( fuck you /pol) racism never crossed my mind, and whites and my family got along extremely well.
>>74502893
now, you're just a nigger and that's all you'll ever be.
drug testing hadn't become main stream in the work place yet
>>74504657
I'm an attorney, and unless you work for a large corporation, there is no drug testing. I've never heard of a firm that drug tests.
Faggots/SJW's/niggers knew their places and weren't such uptight cunts about every single thing.
>>74488119
Because the jews mission to introduce atheism to the western world slowly started to work
>>74500563
Underrated post.
Better chances at making it economically, no 24/7 fear-mongering media at the level it's at today, race relations were peaceful, and people were more active and social. Attention spans weren't anywhere near as short as they are now. Look at old magazines, newspapers, or comics. The ads will have actual words, and lots of them! Today's kids would be too bored and unimaginative to read through them. People dressed a lot more conservatively than now. It's shocking to look back and then look at how degenerate people look today.
It wasn't perfect for sure, though. Looking back at how your only source of information was the jewish-controlled tv is pretty scary. The food had toxic pesticides in it, but genetically it wasn't fucked up at least. Culturally, political correctness was rising. You had the assault weapons ban, NAFTA, the dissolution of Glass-Steagal, the war in Bosnia, the Oklahoma City bombing to try to shut down militia groups, and by the end of the decade the effects of massive mergers and globalism were starting to show themselves.
I'd take some parts back and leave others. Infrastructure wasn't as great back then for example. Cell phones? I don't feel obligated to answer if I don't want to. If you need an alibi, you can say you were driving, in the shower, at dinner, whatever. The way music is consumed is a lot different. You can freely explore a lot more stuff without having to gamble on a $15 cd and it's not just whatever the top 40 stations were playing. Society is a lot more open source, but the prevailing culture is towards the lowest common denominator.
I miss the days without cellphones and social media.
>>74505653
>People dressed a lot more conservatively than now.
This. I wish i could wear a 3 piece suit and a nice hat casually without feeling autistic.
>>74505153
What are you talking about? Are you completely sheltered from the state of employment as it stands today?
Any entry level to management position requires drug testing. And yes, large corporations (Best, Walmart, McD, etc) definitely have drug testing, but most smaller firms do too. You've never heard of a firm that drug tests?
Almost any government contractor or subcontractor has to have drug testing for all employees on site.
Many insurance policies require for certain kinds of work that all employees be drug tested.
Any at-work injury requires IMMEDIATE drug testing to comply with the company's work-comp policy.
In the tech and science sectors, there is much more than just 7-panel drug testing, there is extensive lab work. Have you ever heard of the large national company LabCorp? They make a great deal of their revenue because employers don't want to make people pee in a cup in a secure way. They outsource it to LabCorp.
Fuck, for my job now, which isn't at a large company at all -- I have to sign away that I am willing for them to put a private investigation firm on me as well as an extensive background check + online presence investigation.
>>74488119
they realized it was only 20 more years until Bernie Sanders became president
>>74488311
>no wars to speak of
Lol. operation desert Storm would like a word with you
>>74488311
Black people behaved
Everyone made fun of Feminists
no one liked Mudslimes
Can't help but notice there aren't any niggers in OPs pic. Mm...
I think 80s was better.
>>74507057
Thats not really a war, just killing sand people with no need to rebuild
>>74502893
Aside from all that Rodney King shit it does seem like things were better then than now.
I'm white though
>>74491980
Part 8 is where it's at, musicwise.
>>74507436
call the splc
40% of the workforce wasn't unemployed
the government was much smaller
the economy wasn't fucked
people laughed at nutjobs who want to cut their peckers off or identify as 'gender fluid'
no reddit
no internet
lots of people still felt proud of their nationality
>>74506440
I'm talking about law firms. And, yes, I've never heard of one in my state the drug tests for anyone at any time.
Was 90s Mariah Carey the ultimate woman, /pol/ ?
>>74488311
>no real threats to America
>the Clinton Administration
>>74488311
Immigrant children were known as "that foreign kid" instead of "that goat fucking rapist criminal" Foreign kids were different back then.
>>74488119
Here:
10 gays/100000 people
Racism controlled the ignorant masses
Few criminals
Good music
People was happy with their lives
Sporty people
Counterpart: too much violence against women
>>74507294
>Black people behaved
... are you retarded?
>>74502893
Everybody ya! Rock your body ya!
>>74510632
Blacks are now actively encouraged to be animals. That happened but it was discouraged so it happened less.
>>74507294
>no one liked Mudslimes
but it was literally the only time people liked mudslimes.
>>74510830
what about the LA riots?
Why do you keep making this thread over and over?
racism was lesser this is true ... I repeat this whenever I get a chance -- I was born in 1989 and there was a moment in maybe 5th grade when the teacher told us "we are told not to teach colorblindness anymore". I always remembered that, how she said it. Because they shifted the education. And a couple years ago I did a little research and found that there was a book published by some intellectual that had an effect on school systems. So this is how the shit works, it's just pure indoctrination. Ever since that book they teach kids to see people's race because that "politically correct". In the 90s growing up they taught us to not see race. Today this is unheard of.
>>74493023
>Reagan's disasterous economic policies were finally being reversed
Clinton made them worse by sending jobs across the boarder and overseas.
>>74489523
pretty edgy brah
>>74498423
The USA experienced 7% GDP growth rates during the 90s.
To put that in perspective, we are now at 1-2.5%.
The 90s were quite prosperous times for the USA.
the late 90s early 2000s were really horrible though. The music and culture was awful. I think there was spongebob which was just about the only good things at that time
>>74512189
This desu. Culture really took a nosedive after about 1996.
>>74488548
If there was any Windows OS to jizz about it was NT, RIP
>90's
Sharon-Arafat was the only shit on the news about the middle east.
Music still needed something more than just a laptop to be made.
We stared at gameboys not smartphones (and only if we were alone, or with other freaks)
History/Science channels actually had documentaries and science programs instead of reality shows.
>>74490366
but all of that is wrong, trust me I lived through the 90's
>we had multiculturalism, not forced multi-ethnicity
>There where less hispanics, but they where much much worse
>Race relations where worse, remember the riots after OJ? Rodney King?
>Political correctness was even more rampant, and you had the satanic panic, and the first lady was making laws that made it illegal to sell records with swearing in them or video games with violent content to minors.
>Movies pushed gender and race so heavy that it created an entire new sub genre of movies, the white cop black cop buddy flick. and you had rap music shoved down your gullet in between helpings of radical feminists like mclachlan or morissette.
>The way to easy street was to be black in the government because they had actual quotas during the clinton administration
>you did see all kinds of forced muh feels for the poor people of africa every god damn time you turned on the news
>yes people where just happy to be alive
>yes you could afford your first house without massive debt
>yes you could move out of your parents easily because of cheep housing
>Yes university was very work oriented, they could care less about getting you a well rounded education. They made most of their money off of Alumni during that age.
>Getting a job was easy up until 2006
>You could very easily change your job by moving
>>74488311
>no wars to speak of
oh yeah?
>>74510830
crime was at an all time high in the 90s, not to mention the fucking LA riots.
please off yourself immediatley
>>74512572
I wish homosexuals had never gained any rights.
>>74502498
This nigga hit that shit right on the mothafucking head.
>>74506440
I've had many jobs over the years, and have only been drug tested once. I went back to work for that company six months after I left (it was a temporary contract position) and because I had been tested in the last 6 months, did not need to be tested again.
It was before 9/11
>>74496734
that's a really nice photo. Where is it?
>>74513261
true that but they still had don't ask don't tell, and I think that most people liked it that way
>>74514793
Daytona Beach
>>74516375
I was there in the 90's and people were still driving on the beach, 20mph speed limit. I heard they stopped allowing that a few years back. Can anyone confirm?
>>74488119
Happy? Grunge, Goths, 1st Gulf War, Kosovo War, Bosnian War, World Trade Center bombing, Columbine school shooting, Unabomber, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Oklahoma City bombing, Olympics Bombing in Atlanta, early 90s recession, Russian economic collapse, Ken Star investigations, IRA troubles, gay cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer, stagnation of the desktop and browsers due to Microsoft monolopy, nu-metal, rise of ganster rap, AIDS scare even for straight people, Million Man March, etc etc etc.
