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Post by al on Oct 24, 2019 10:47:44 GMT 10
I was watching a documentary filmed in 2003 and I thought it was the '90s until some obvious signs gave it away. To be fair it was in Texas and the people were middle aged, but the VHS tapes and people paying with cash and just the social attitude people had (as opposed to being on their phone all the time) made it looks very 90s. Sorry gotta divert the thread. Do people not use cash where you live? I’d guess at least a quarter of the transactions I take at my work are cash.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Oct 24, 2019 10:53:39 GMT 10
I was watching a documentary filmed in 2003 and I thought it was the '90s until some obvious signs gave it away. To be fair it was in Texas and the people were middle aged, but the VHS tapes and people paying with cash and just the social attitude people had (as opposed to being on their phone all the time) made it looks very 90s. Sorry gotta divert the thread. Do people not use cash where you live? I’d guess at least a quarter of the transactions I take at my work are cash. That's interesting, because it's becoming rare to see people making purchases with cash here. I mostly see people paying through pay-wave whenever I go to pay for petrol or go through the drive-thru.
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Post by al on Oct 25, 2019 1:34:47 GMT 10
That's interesting, because it's becoming rare to see people making purchases with cash here. I mostly see people paying through pay-wave whenever I go to pay for petrol or go through the drive-thru. What’s pay-wave? I don’t go to drive-thrus very often but I’m gonna start paying attention at different kinds of places. I know of a few small businesses that actually only take cash due to the high fees. Checks however, I can’t imagine those having a much longer life.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Oct 25, 2019 8:42:16 GMT 10
That's interesting, because it's becoming rare to see people making purchases with cash here. I mostly see people paying through pay-wave whenever I go to pay for petrol or go through the drive-thru. What’s pay-wave? I don’t go to drive-thrus very often but I’m gonna start paying attention at different kinds of places. I know of a few small businesses that actually only take cash due to the high fees. Checks however, I can’t imagine those having a much longer life. It's basically like a "tap and go" payment method. You place the barcode side of your credit/debit card just above an electronic scanner and it will instantly deduct the cost of whatever you are wanting to purchase straight from your bank account.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2019 7:48:58 GMT 10
I was watching a documentary filmed in 2003 and I thought it was the '90s until some obvious signs gave it away. To be fair it was in Texas and the people were middle aged, but the VHS tapes and people paying with cash and just the social attitude people had (as opposed to being on their phone all the time) made it looks very 90s. Sorry gotta divert the thread. Do people not use cash where you live? I’d guess at least a quarter of the transactions I take at my work are cash. Some people use cash, but it's becoming rare. I see it mostly at temporary food stands and the like where carrying a card reader isn't always feasible.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2019 7:52:11 GMT 10
That's interesting, because it's becoming rare to see people making purchases with cash here. I mostly see people paying through pay-wave whenever I go to pay for petrol or go through the drive-thru. What’s pay-wave? I don’t go to drive-thrus very often but I’m gonna start paying attention at different kinds of places. I know of a few small businesses that actually only take cash due to the high fees. Checks however, I can’t imagine those having a much longer life. He means tap/NFC. When I went to the US, you guys still swiped credit cards which is ancient 90s tech to us Canadians  We wave our credit cards or phone in front of a machine to make purchases. Canada has only a handful of giant banks (as opposed to the US which has thousands of small banks) so we adopt high tech finance equipment very readily.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2019 12:27:56 GMT 10
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Post by mc98 on Oct 27, 2019 11:47:10 GMT 10
It kinda irks me when people say 2001-2003 are 90s or 1991-1993 are 80s.
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Post by pink.panda_v3 on Oct 27, 2019 12:08:04 GMT 10
In a way, though, the early 2010s were sorta like an extension of the late 2000s, but it was mostly little crumbles of 2000s leftovers.
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Post by Telso on Oct 30, 2019 0:29:18 GMT 10
I was watching a documentary filmed in 2003 and I thought it was the '90s until some obvious signs gave it away. To be fair it was in Texas and the people were middle aged, but the VHS tapes and people paying with cash and just the social attitude people had (as opposed to being on their phone all the time) made it looks very 90s. I think the late 90s and early 2000s are one large era. 1998 has more in common with 2003 than 1993. It's not like 2000 came and everything changed overnight lol. It's an arbitrary way of looking at things. Well basically this post is representative of the whole "it's dated and retroish so it's 90s" mentality which I'm really not fond of and is kind of reductive of what the 90s were about.
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Post by astropoug on May 9, 2022 17:43:09 GMT 10
It really depends on the context. For the most part, you’ll find the first year or two of a decade tends to be quite similar to the previous, and in some cases is outright similar.
For example, I personally believe that 1990 is an extension of the 80s. Sure there were 90s things like The Simpsons, Sega Genesis, and Seinfeld that had some prominence, but for the most part, the culture of that particular year was overwhelmingly dominated by 80s holdovers like The Cosby Show, hair metal, Back to the Future, macho action movies, 8-bit video games, etc.
However, I think of 1991-1992 as being merely 80s influenced rather than an extension of the 80s. By that point, culture was mostly 90s, and the 80s stuff was beginning to decline, but not completely dead yet.
With the early 2000s, people say the 90s weren’t dead because shows like Friends and Frasier were still around but the thing is that they did not define the culture like they did in 1994 or 1995 for example. Early 2000s was all about shows like Malcolm in the Middle and Jackass. IMO, no offense but I think it’s pretty clear that after 9/11 the 90s was pretty much dead, and the 2000s mindset had come in. It did not matter if there were 90s carryovers, when the culture that created them was long gone.
Whereas 1990 still very much had the 80s Cold War/Reagan mindset, and it’s pretty clear if you look at pop culture from that year.
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Post by John Titor on May 10, 2022 0:19:09 GMT 10
It really depends on the context. For the most part, you’ll find the first year or two of a decade tends to be quite similar to the previous, and in some cases is outright similar. For example, I personally believe that 1990 is an extension of the 80s. Sure there were 90s things like The Simpsons, Sega Genesis, and Seinfeld that had some prominence, but for the most part, the culture of that particular year was overwhelmingly dominated by 80s holdovers like The Cosby Show, hair metal, Back to the Future, macho action movies, 8-bit video games, etc. However, I think of 1991-1992 as being merely 80s influenced rather than an extension of the 80s. By that point, culture was mostly 90s, and the 80s stuff was beginning to decline, but not completely dead yet. With the early 2000s, people say the 90s weren’t dead because shows like Friends and Frasier were still around but the thing is that they did not define the culture like they did in 1994 or 1995 for example. Early 2000s was all about shows like Malcolm in the Middle and Jackass. IMO, no offense but I think it’s pretty clear that after 9/11 the 90s was pretty much dead, and the 2000s mindset had come in. It did not matter if there were 90s carryovers, when the culture that created them was long gone. Whereas 1990 still very much had the 80s Cold War/Reagan mindset, and it’s pretty clear if you look at pop culture from that year. even by Summer 2001 it did not even feel like the 90s anymore, people just like to put a checkmark on 9/11 because it sounds better that started the shift
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Post by dudewitdausername on May 10, 2022 1:07:17 GMT 10
I'm tired of seeing people grouping the earlier part of any decade with the previous decade. For example, some people call the early 2000s (2000-2003) an extension of the 90s and that is a completely false statement. The early 00s had a completely different vibe from the 90s. The "90s" things that you see in the early 00s are simply leftovers that lingered throughout the decade but they are completely overshadowed by the current trends of that period. Flannels were dead, Gangsta rap was dead, 90s defining artists changed styles. I worry that in the future that people will call the early 2010s an extension of the "2000s". What do you guys think of this? how u gonna say "gangsta rap was dead" in the early 2000s when 50 Cent blew up in '03... That'd be like saying trap is dead in the early 20s.
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Post by nightmarefarm on May 10, 2022 4:33:48 GMT 10
This feels true for decades in recent memory besides the 00s-10s switchover. 2009 felt completely nothing like the early 10s besides maybe 2010 and only the latter half of 2009 did.
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Post by carcar on May 10, 2022 10:16:23 GMT 10
Well they're all bordering decades at the end of the day there's going to be more similarities with. Just be cause the calendar changed numbers doesn't mean society entirely changed and the use of certain appliances cease to be used and replaced by newer things. Change is gradual, in the early 2010s I still used a P2P and amongst other items associated with the 2000's despite newer trends we're still on ongoing.
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