What was life like before 9/11?
Pretty good desu
You weren't cool unless you wore jyncos, had a walkman with some blink 182 cds, choke collar necklaces, and MSN messenger, downloading music off KaZaa and limewire, jacked off to Denise Austin at 6am when she had her work out show, and no one had cell phones.
>>69689754
no facebook, no sjw, no feminism, everyone was holding hands together singing kumbaya my lord
>>69689754
Pretty much heaven, we had just finished slaughtering the Muslims in Bosnia and China was a comfy distant 2nd. Movies were mostly patriotic or comedic, crossdressing and homosexuals were amusing but harmless and invisible in actual society, fenminists were openly mocked by everyone, black people kept to their ghettos. You could get a cushy 85k a year job straight out of college pushing paper in an office, occasionally showing someone how to use a word processor. Investing all your money in stocks saw 100% return year on year, so most people retired in their 30s with millions of dollars and bought condos all over the country, living the American dream.
Then Muslims ruined it all.
>>69689754
Country music still had credibility.
>>69690119
that's post 9/11 mate
No cell phones and no social media was god tier.
1999 and 2000 were probably some of the comfiest years in recorded history
>>69689754
Was pretty good. There were inklings of what was to come, with Bill Clinton's NAFTA freshly signed and jobs were already being outsourced to China and Mexico. It was already clear WW2 prosperity was over, and our leaders were turning a blind eye to illegal immigration.
>>69690455
Fuck you country music died in the 1980's and Cash is the only one who kept it alive
>>69690779
>mfw someone else knows the power of based 98&99
>mfw it's a leaf
Please tell me you remember the comfy
>>69690914
This is "country music" now
https://youtu.be/yF1-IHn8cRU
>>69689754
Everyone was happier. Everyone had more money. Life felt worth living. It was slight and it was all in the subconscious, but people just changed after 9/11. Happiness now is a shell.
>>69689754
everybody was sad because they thought there would be no more happenings ever because of world peace
>>69690689
Absolutely, a social interaction which is absent from most western countries these days
>>69690960
>mfwnoface
>>69690960
>tfw people shittalk the 90s because they were "boring"
>>69690914
>Cash is the only one who kept it alive
What a sad post. Johnny Cash sucks.
Back in the day when a recession hit you really didn't care.
>>69689754
not so turbulent
>>69689754
Underage b&
This is an unsafe board faggot
>>69689754
it was a magical time.
>>69691072
Actually this nick from tiger army is trying to keep the old school country sound. leave it to a guy from a different genre.
https://youtu.be/HtYGegYvGZg
>>69690960
you fucking bet i do, graduated high school in 97, caught the tail end of the 90s rave scene, graduated college right before 9/11, its sad that my adult life has been defined by some shithead muslims fucking shit up in a different country
Those days when we were all oblivious to the perils of liberalism right in front of our innocent eyes.
I was very young pre-9/11, but I remember no cell phones and no computers.
I remember running down the driveway to greet my Father when he returned from work.
I remember the animals my Mother would bring home from her job at the veterinary clinic. As a family we would nurse them back to health, and them send them on their way to be adopted by another family.
Haha, I even remember appointment television, where you only had one opportunity to watch your favorite show, and if you missed it well you better cross your fingers for a re-run.
Things were a lot better pre-9/11, our nation was largely at peace as far as I can remember.
>born in 93
>life was okay until 06
>>69690550
>jncos post 9/11
>>69689754
Things were pretty OK till about 2005.
Tbh the 1990's across the pond were shit.
>IRA continued to fuck our shit up (Manchester 1996)
>Recession
>Tony Blair and his group of cucks
>Establishment of the devolved governments*
>Gulf War
>Literally the worse time to have been living in anywhere outside of South East England
* - Now if the devolved governments had right-wing governments then I wouldn't have put this on my list but Holyrood gave the SNP the right to fuck Scotland's shit up. After all, devolution was only started so that if Labour lost an election they could continue implementing socialist policies in Scotland since most were devolved.
When Tony Blair resigned Britain was alright for a few years but now we have to put up with Commie Corbyn and Fat Fuck Salmond.
I'm hoping the SNP get fucked over in May.
>>69690331
kek
THE GOOD OL' DAYS AFTER 9/11
>>69693091
At first I was like wtf u on about m8 i had a nice childhood
i did grow up in south east england though - what was shit about the rest of the country?
>>69692220
This picture seems vaguely familiar, do you know who this is?
>>69690960
Yeah. I was in college then. The Cold War was over, and we'd won. The economy was in pretty good shape, and all of us in college knew that we'd probably end up with decent jobs if we did reasonably well. All we had to worry about was binge drinking and the occasional hurricane.
>>69693091
>devolution was only started so that if Labour lost an election they could continue implementing socialist policies in Scotland since most were devolved.
That's working out great for them I see.
>>69693328
it's me
>>69693485
You do realise that the SNP winning Holyrood in 2007 was unexpected, right? Holyrood's political structure was DESIGNED so no party could have a majority.
>>69693265
Nothing was particularly shit. I grew up in Glasgow in the 90's, the only bad thing about the 90s was all the football sectarian violence, but I don't come from a billy or Tim family so it didn't bother me. Based secular upbringing.
I played outside almost every day and read lots of books and I had a NES and a gameboy color. Things were OK.
>>69693265
Probably due to the lack of funding in many council areas so they had to shut down non-statutory shit to compensate for the money they lost.
>>69690119
>blink 182
>MSN messenger
>KaZaa limewire
thats the early 2000's
>>69692220
>posting pics of me
delet this
>>69693525
i-i think I had that same microphone
privateer 2 was a pretty disappointing game tb.h
>>69692220
>>69693525
by the way, what is that model spaceship behind your chair, with the spikey wings?
JockJams was in full swing, islam was something prisoners converted too, saturday morning cartoons existed, 3D vidya was blocky and tough to look at, the economy was solid, racial tensions where low, the internet was a new thing and full of .gifs and popops, and Afghans where known for roadside foodtrucks instead of blowing themselves up.
>>69689754
My first real memory is of watching the twin towers crashing down. I've only every known the U.S. as being perpetually at war, and militant femnists and SJW's. I dislike them, but I know nothing different.
It feels distinctly uncomfortable when we are not engaged in some sort of war; I miss it.
You had to watch a lot of porn encoded in Real Media, it was a nightmare.
it was better
>>69692994
They are still around.
http://www.jnco.com/collections/pants
>>69694212
Fuckin' Realplayer.
I'm so glad that's long gone.
I brought a folding knife through the security check at Heathrow twice.
I wonder if their security is any better these days?
>>69694312
It gave very good compression ratios, it was great for downloading anime before dvd writers became a thing
Starcraft was pretty cool and playable on a 36.6 connection. Dat pentium tho.
>>69694016
A kitbash of old broken toys.
>>69693839
it was ok, not great, but ok.
>>69693760
delete yourself!
>>69694466
>had to visit my friend and burn CDs of Azumanga Daioh and KareKano before Internet became a thing
>anime was delivered from big cities
>.avi
>LA player
We had smaller versions of Dreamhack, maybe like 15-20 people a few times a year, in someone's house or apartment.
>>69695056
>downloading RM's off of Hotline
>waiting in the queue for days to get the last episode of Magical Cat-Girl Nuku-Nuku
>go to get dinner at the campus cafeteria
>pass by college girls lying in the new spring grass, wearing short shorts and halter tops, reading Keats or whatever
>eat dinner at a table alone and go back to my dorm room to queue up some other series that I'll just burn to a CD and not watch
In retrospect it would appear that I wasted my youth
>>69694302
Well.. theyre better than diaper pants the kids are wearing these days. That's all I got to say about that
>>69690914
>>69691072
>>69691914
To listen to Chris Stapleton and Stugrill Simpson and stop complaining you faggots
You're as bad as the kids who listen to top 40 and thinks it's a perfect summation of all music
>>69695846
>>69694302
kek
I never knew what these were called but I remember all the greaseball wop manlets at my college would walk around wearing these with wife beaters and glaring greasily at people
>>69689754
We all lived in big ass mansions and left our doors open all day. Police barely existed and we spent our days playing Pokemon Red and Blue and running around outside.
>>69689754
It as just more innocent.
>>69689754
If you were a girl, this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUc
If you were a boy, this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwJazZIWNgg
If you lived in the Texas, this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZRA-Dwv86E
And right before 9/11, this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jWHffIx5E
Essentially...
I can't speak for anywhere else.
>>69689754
It really was remarkable compared to now. Nowadays feels like I'm living in some depressing distopic movie. The 90s were like a fun, normal time. Right before 9/11, there was peace, a good job market. Degeneracy wasn't the norm, no fucking internet Or really shitty internet so niggers and degenerates couldn't ruin your life if they felt like it. No Twitter. And best of all no 4chan to ruin your life either.
>>69692771
Thought that was Paula abdul for a sec
>>69694724
If that's really you then did life get better for yourself?
>>69698189
>implying life could ever get better than the life seen in that pic
Games used to be fun
>>69689754
Much better than now. The Muslims ruined everything and I wish we rose up and hitlered the bastards. I would not shrug in my duty of pulling a Muslim child from its push chair. RAM a knife up its ass. Lay a slice of ham on its passed out prostate face and body and pound thatham into them with a sledge hammer.
Was it really that different? All I remember was a huge jump in airport security (and a push for more security in general) and more patriotism.
>>69698466
Sweden NO!
>>69698956
In addition to the death of optimism and beliefs that the world had become a better place, it resulted in the Iraq and Afghan wars which brought about the chain of events that created the gigantic disaster consuming the world today.
It was the finger pulling the trigger, and right now the bullet is about halfway through the world's brain
You whipper snapper fags don't know shit. I went to high school in the 70s and college in the 80s. There were pay phones as far as the eye could see and everyone carried dimes. You could fill up your big block V8 and take your high school qt for dinner and a movie for less than 20 bucks and have change left over for beer and smokes to prime that pussy. God damn I miss our old glory.
>>69699861
Fuck you hirahito you degenerate tsunami surfer. We should have nuked the same niggers like we did you.
>>69691072
It's literally all the same song just with different lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o
Sadly I was born a bit too early in a shitty part of the world. I wish I had been growing up in NJ in the 90's
Life is better now in my country desu.
Sad America's best times are behind it.
>>69700452
>mfw a black person was Swedish near me
Internet was really slow but a lot of new and exciting stuff, it felt like you were really exploring something. People were a lot more social online, you could find random people to chat with in ICQ, and make random online friends with weird nicknames across the world. Now people only talk to people they know online and use their real names.
In terms of access to music/movies/games, internet was worse, but in terms of socializing and human interaction, 90's net was a LOT better. MySpace followed shortly by Facebook ruined everything.
>>69701574
>Now people only talk to people they know online and use their real names
that's very true Steve, we should discuss it in greater depth at the barbecue next Sunday
>>69697809
the 90s had a very poor aesthetic
>>69689754
I could get on a plane without having to take my shoes off.
>>69700371
Back then the term pussy still applied. Chicks had a bush like a cat shelter in a fucking tomato patch and real men liked everything about it--the stink, hair in your mouth, on your white leather sofa, fucking hair everywhere. We stunk like rutting animals and drank shlitz beer and smoked unfiltered Camels while watching Johnny Carson.
Real women knew their role in the household and even accepted the fact that the occasional hard slap was required to keep their tits up.
Fuck you man. That last link. This much nostalgia at once just fucking hurts.
>>69689754
Excellent. There was no homework, just a basic and simple effort to learn letters and numbers and colors. There was a mandatory naptime for everyone and there were plenty of toys that taught you to cooperate with others. No stress, just learning to ride a bike with your friends and running around and shit.
>>69690331
you are funny
i love these pre 9/11 threads. power rangers, teenage mutant ninja turtles were for boys and girl gamers xD didnt exist yet
>>69704100
>Back then the term pussy still applied. Chicks had a bush like a cat shelter in a fucking tomato patch and real men liked everything about it--the stink, hair in your mouth, on your white leather sofa, fucking hair everywhere. We stunk like rutting animals and drank shlitz beer and smoked unfiltered Camels while watching Johnny Carson.
what.. the fuck are you talking about? are you retarded?
having a muff doesn't mean you stink--you just have to wash like you would otherwise
jesus fucking christ you are mentally ill
>this is a low-class american in a nutshell
>>69704285
Shit, this was in response to
>>69697809
Also games brought people together IRL rather than "logging on" to play with friends. Link cables for the Gameboy and shit.
>>69689754
The people on here were mostly little kids or teens before 9/11. They think it was absolutely fantastic and completely different because they had no responsibility nor sense of the problems in the wider world.
The world is always what you make of it. A plane crashing into a building doesn't have to affect how you live your life unless you allow it to.
This coming from an 18-year-old high school senior with more of a brain than these "le 90's kids"
>>69690331
don forged da pard aboud da burgers.
>>69697809
she was fantastic goddamn i had a huge crush on alanis morrisette
>>69705131
>low-class American
Retired early thanks in large part to 80s market.
>Wife's pussy still hairy and musky.
Eh, can't win em all.
>>69695846
I have never seen a kid wear these.
>>69706008
>>Wife's pussy still hairy and musky.
post pics obviously
>>69706265
Neither have I, and I'm 18.
>>69691072
I'm sure you've seen this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o
>>69705395
>tfw >>69705395
90's kid
>>69708242
Born in the 90's. I barely have any conscious memories from before 9/11 other than my Baptism and going out to a cottage.
>>69689754
Nigger lives didn't matter, fag rights were a huge joke that everyone laughed at and they were shit on gloriously wherever they went, napster and aol 2.0 were awesome, westwood studios were the shit, kids from 7 to 10 years old could go to parks by themselves without the police being called, tony hawk and dave mirra were fucking cool games to play and to see them on tv was even better. Amazon and ebay were fuckin cool back then too. Food and shampoo allowed on airplanes, traveling to europe was cool and safe, not as many illegals as today and cartoons were still politically incorrect.
I miss the 90's and the new millenium.
Race relations were better in this country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA
>>69709060
Have you ever seen the follow-up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8n11y2lxrE
>>69709283
The people are less sociable. There is definitely a different vibe. Is it because of phones? Idk
>>69709452
Probably mainly because it's not as late and the people aren't the same drunk crowd stopping for a snack after the bar closed. Being drunk makes everyone more sociable.
>>69692910
My mom did that too. Big part of my live and always will be.
Like every other period, there were good and bad parts about it.
I was a bit young to remember much, but the 50s and early 60s were cozy. TV was a huge part of my life. Bonanza, Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy, and other such shows were always on the palette. I and a couple of friends would have regular expeditions, where we would bike many miles all day in the wide-open terrain of Indiana. Googie architecture was a real thing and was everywhere, from movie houses to brightly-lit gas stations. Those buildings were quite ephemeral, through we had no way of knowing that at the time of course. By the early 70s they had mostly vanished.
The mid-west was rather detached from a lot of the angst which was going on the mid- to late-60s. No riots or anything like that which I can remember. Had a job working at a small-town diner, knew everyone who went, super laid-back. I loved that job. Even in small-town Indiana, you still had the feeling the country was falling apart at that time. A few folks I knew got sent to 'Nam, but I had a very high draft number and miraculously never got called.
A friend and I actually drove to Woodstock in an ancient Studebaker. With several run-ins with the police, the drive was more eventful than the show. We ran behind because of the weather and a breakdown, and we were only there for the last 3 days.
The 70s were lousy, in a word. I went to college in '70 and graduated in '74, right in the heart of the recession. With a freshly-minted degree I was so ambitions to get on with my life, but nobody could find work. I don't think anyone who doesn't remember that time can understand just how bad it was. There were some enjoyable moments and good times, but overall it's a decade I'd rather forget.
Should I continue?
>>69710014
Wow! An extremely old fag! Please, continue to enlighten my 18-year-old mind...
>>69710014
How about the 80's? What was your favourite decade?
>>69695833
I wouldnt feel bad, everyone thinks they wasted their youths.
>>69689754
Thank Allah for 9/11 or I would have been in stuck in blissful ignorance and missed so many wonderful radical islamic nasheeds.
Wait let me correct myself
Thank israel for 9/11.
Thank you jews!!!
>>69690455
OMG
WV native here.
You can't really get away from country here, its on the radios and in the bars and stores etc.
I gotta say MODERN COUNTRY MUSIC IS A FUCKING WASTELAND. 80's and 90's country looks like a fucking Atlantean renaissance compared to today.
>>69710134
>>69710194
I'm on it, just give me a moment. My word processor just crashed.
>>69712050
No rush.
>>69701818
No the 90s aesthetic looked amazing.
But only in the 90s. That's what makes it so badass.
>>69712550
I had to type this twice, but here ya go.
I got a job working the retail beat in a large department store in '79, which I maintained through the '80s. The job was difficult and the pay mediocre, but during the abysmal Carter years, I was happy to have it.
A few things made the 80s good for me. In '81 I married my college sweetheart (we got back together after all that time!), and we are still very happily married. She was a court clerk at the time which gave us a bastion of financial stability (my salary was commission based and was hit-or-miss), but we still had to live quite frugally. We shared just 1 spoon for the first few years of our marriage.
I had a large group of close friends, and we used to play war games and role-playing games almost every weekend. Zines were hugely fun to read and write for. I miss zines and gaming more than about anything else in the '80s. Social media just isn't the same.
In '85 I tried for a CS Master's degree in hopes of moving on from retail. The first semester was fun, with history of computing and other similar light classes. The second term, though, was like the last ring of hell. I had intro courses into the archaic languages FORTRAN and Cobol. To create a program back then, they had to be charted, written, transferred into punch-cards, and then 'debugged'. You had to hand your punch cards to the guy in 'the cage', who would put on the queue for compiling. Waiting for this usually took 4 to 5 hours, at least. Then, you'd get a print of the output, which for me was usually a blank page with a little bit of code on the top. How does one even troubleshoot THAT? The whole thing was horrendous.
The last straw came for me when I accidentally dropped my meticulously-organized box of punch cards in the parking lot of the school. I went into a fit of rage, drove away, and never once went back.
Cont'd
>>69714352
People just need to learn to put their phones away and then people like you would have nothing to be nostalgic about.
>>69689754
Great. I love the 80s and 90s. Wish my future children could live in those times. I know that dream is a lie so I choose not to have children.
>>69695846
>a watch on both wrists
kek
>>69698466
Hah, it's far too late for you retards.
>>69689754
>dat mermaid
>>69714352
good to meet a fellow Gen X'er here.
In my experience, there was plenty of multiculti shit going on pre-9/11. I was teaching high-school then to classrooms full of Mexicans (not "Mexican-Americans", but flag-waving Mexicans here in the U.S.) I woke up to the news of a plane hitting the WTC and I was brushing my teeth and watching live when the second one hit. I knew the world was about to change.
But like I said, the multicultural wave was rolling, and I got an earful all through college, I had some good professors though. I managed to get a teaching position and learned I pretty much hated it. I spent a lot of my spare time browsing Stormfront and VDARE and wondering where America's soul had gone, because all I saw around me was Mexican culture -- and this was Northern California.
>>69714352
I lost my retail job in '88, as was probably for the better. I jumped right into a Library Science degree program right after, which I graduated from in '90. I got a job in the reference department at the university library where I interned, and I'm still working there now. I understand that it's difficult to find stable work with good pay and benefits like this nowadays, and I feel like I made it just under the wire.
Being comfortably middle class we had a kid in '91, which was of-course all-consuming and changed our lifestyles radically. In a lot of ways, my life got a whole lot less interesting, but I have no regrets and still value this stability. The 'air' of the '90s through '94 was basically a crossover of the '80s. The 90s Internet was not as fun as people say. Very early on I did research work on a database which patrons actually had to pay for because they charged by the minute. I don't remember the name right now. In terms of mid- to late-90s Inernet, I never used IRC or any of the other stuff that it's known for nowadays, and it was SLOW. It's easy to have a warm, fuzzy image of what the Net was in the '90s due to its comparatively dismal state nowadays, but it was NOT fun to use.
I'm wondering if I should go on. My life from here on is a lot less interesting, and I have better things to do on a Saturday afternoon.
>>69714844
don't get ahead of your self lee chang
>>69715636
>But like I said, the multicultural wave was rolling, and I got an earful all through college
Yeah, I remember this. The PC culture of the late '80s and '90s was pretty abhorrent. That's why I loved zines so much, you could say what you want as long as your opinion was intelligently-crafted and well-written. Having good friends whom I could speak my mind to helped.
I remember the hippie culture as being really tolerant, and I think the PC movement was a spin-off on that. We were supposed to love each other, unless you were in uniform of course. It just went way out of control, and I don't know how or why. It's even worse now than in the '90s, I feel. If not anything else you're allowed to blame us.
Cool as shit.
The culture in the '80s was so tailored towards families with young children and then there was this explosion of teen culture in the '90s and then club culture in the early '00s with the rise of electronic music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymNFyxvIdaM
It really felt like I was specifically being catered to.
Muslims were just those silly brown people from the desert who burned flags, activists complained about real issues, seeing massive technological advancements in a short time and just focusing on a consumer lifestyle when capitalism was still fun.
>>69689754
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ8BFffUe_E
>>69717792
Holy shit, I remember that movie! I used to have it on VHS when I was really little along with the Pokemon movie!
>>69689754
No endless Capeshit like we've got now so it was pretty good.
>>69701758
kekt
>>69692220
>themorethingschangethemoretheystaythesame.jpg
>>69692220
Holy fuck I think that's my economics professor in his younger years.
>>69714655
>just need to learn to put their phones away
oh and I suppose we should just teach crack addicts to leave the pipe alone?
>I can pick out any outfit in my closet and still fit in to any generation for the pass 60 years.
Feels good being from an upperclass southern family
>>69719210
It seriously pisses me off when I'm at school and literally everybody in class is just fiddling with their phones on Twitter. Put them away, you stupid cunts!
>>69689754
Insanely comfy in the US for white people who worked.
9/11 was like turning a spigot off.
>>69719320
From the thumbnail I thought the guy on the right had prosthetic legs.
>>69719430
Ugh. I know, right? Whenever I'm walking around 1920's New York, everyone has their face stuffed in a newspaper.
PUT THE PAPER DOWN, YOU CUNTS!
>>69690119
>jyncos
JEANS
NIGGERS
CAN'T
OWN
>>69719320
>dress shirt with shorts
I just feel like a fucking dweeb when I dress this way
>>69689754
I love these threads.
