• PunchingWood@lemmy.world
    100·
    4 days ago

    As a 90s kid I definitely feel like there’s such a huge generational gap in the past 20 years though, so much changed so rapidly since then.

    Like watching MP3 players come and go. And the transition of videotapes to discs to streaming. Or watching nobody own a cellphone to the entire world not being able to go anywhere without one. As well as throwaway cameras to everyone having one in their pockets.

    Pre 00s and after is such a difference in just about everything. I wonder what the pre 10s and after will be like.

    • Buglefingers@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      Really though, we were at the center of the tech boom growing up. VHS to live streaming. Physical media is retro in such a short time. It’s not even necessarily the advancements on their own (which saying were massive may be an understatement) but also the implementation and sociatal acceptance.

      We went from “don’t talk to people on the internet, don’t meet with them, don’t give out personal information”, to literal non-stop blogging of all our life events to as many people who care to see it. This is not a lamentation, merely a statement to express how far things have changed in effectively one generation.

      It moved so fast that even most 90s kids don’t have agreeable substance for “the way we did it” since it changed and developed so fast. People two years apart in the 90s can have radically different views of what it was like because it didn’t stay that way for any length of time. VHS to DVD to Blueray and streaming. XBox, Kinect, to VR. Calling, to Email, to AOL, to text, to smartphones and message apps. It was a wild burst of tech that was astonishing and ground shaking.

    • Dagnet@lemmy.world
      39·
      4 days ago

      We literally went from doing essays in a library to using internet and printers (at first my teachers even forbid students from using Internet as a source), heck I even wrote on a typewriter a few times

      • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
        19·
        4 days ago

        “Wikipedia is not a source, anyone can edit it! You can’t be certain anything on there is true!!”

        Now wikipedia is probably the last bastion of decent information online. At minimum, a well-souced article gives you an excellent starting point.

        • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
          33·
          4 days ago

          Remember to donate to Wikipedia if you haven’t, we desperately need them to remain independently funded

          • weker01@sh.itjust.works
            91·
            4 days ago

            Look into it. I cannot explain this well. They actually have more than enough money. In fact they are spending recklessly in other projects because of that.

            Yes we should donate if that changes but right now it would be better to donate to less well funded open projects.

      • Benjaben@lemmy.world
        11·
        4 days ago

        Oooh, that’s a fun one. I can just barely remember some of my early research projects for school - getting source material at the library was a bear. What a time to be alive.

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      4 days ago

      It’s been fast like that since the end of WWII.
      My parents were born in the early 60s and they saw records replaced with eight tracks and then cassettes and then CDs and then mp3s and now streaming.
      Answering machines were a novelty when my parents were children and now we have cell phones.
      The internet wasn’t even something you could have imagined in your wildest dreams in the 1970s.

      • Entropywins@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        Some people did imagine it in the late 60s or early 70s… The first remote connection to a digital computer was at Dartmouth College in 1940, first commercial modem 1950, and Dartmouth time share system in the 1960s. Your statement is correct, though I definitely couldn’t have imagined it, but thankfully, some people did.

      • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
        3·
        4 days ago

        My uncle was on Wall Street in the 80s, and he distinctly remembers everyone mocking email as a passing fad later in the decade

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      10·
      4 days ago

      Pre-10s: I used google for everything and bought needless shit online. Dont trust anything you read there though.

      Post-10s: I use AI for everything and buy needless shit online. Don’t trust anything you read there though.

    • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 days ago

      Funny how the fact that I’ve owned a Walkman, discman, iPod classic, iPod nano, and iPhone as music solutions is kind of generation defining.

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      This all hits home. And for me, in the rural US at the time, the world got a lot bigger.

      We went from expensive long-distance telephone calls and local BBSes to instant access to everyone and everything.

      We went from 2-lane roads to affordable(ish) flights and direct highways.

      Despite where we may be today, as an early adopter of everything, I’m happy to have had a front row seat to all that.

  • Bumblefumble@lemm.ee
    371·
    4 days ago

    The last person to die who was born in the 90’s isn’t a 90’s kid, or at least won’t remember the 90’s.

    • Chiarottide@lemmy.world
      191·
      4 days ago

      As if someone born on December 31st 1999 wouldn’t self identify as a 90’s kid

      Source: I was born in 1998 and I’m nostalgic of Nirvana, a group that disbanded before I was born

        • Chiarottide@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 days ago

          I hear that a shotgun was involved or something like that? I guess they were always arguing about who would sit in the front of the bus and it got so bad they just stopped playing

          • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
            13·
            4 days ago

            Technically, they could have. But it wouldn’t have really been Nirvana without Cobain. It was pretty much Cobain’s cult of personality. If they had tried to continue without him, it would have been another one of those bands that starkly contrasts between before and after and the comment above would have been about never knowing Nirvana in its heyday.

            Even if the continuation was good (and Dave Grohl is proof that there was enough talent for it in the rest of the band), it would have still been tainted by the lack of Cobain.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 days ago

        I was born in the 80’s but never have I ever considered myself an “80’s kid”, because that’s not really a meme, as much as all “only 90’s kids will remember”.

    • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
      10·
      4 days ago

      IDK, it’s not impossible that someone who was born in the 80s will live go be freakishly old and outlive all the 90s kids.

      not probable, but who knows, maybe they somehow avoided eating plastic based baby food or some shit.

      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 days ago

        I remember Berlin, Challenger, and that dumb fuck Regan.

        I don’t remember anything “90s kids” had because we were poor and all I had access to was PBS and some hand-me-down toys.

        I didn’t even know what Nickelodeon was.

  • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    4 days ago

    This reminds me of a movie I saw. Mr. Nobody. Jared Leto plays the last mortal human on earth in the year 2092. He’s interviewed right before his death about his life and the things he did back before humans solved mortality.