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Post by carcar on Apr 17, 2022 1:00:11 GMT 10
Compared to today and the 2010s people back them seemed to act like they were in a movie, and that were living in a surreal time period. Coined by the catchphrase “it’s the 90s !”. What owed to this phenomena and why did it seem to end once the calendar entered the 2000s
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Post by nightmarefarm on Apr 17, 2022 1:15:41 GMT 10
Easy. It was the last decade of the millennium and the new millennium was almost there. It was also arguably the most peaceful stretch in history.
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Post by John Titor on Apr 17, 2022 2:31:51 GMT 10
Compared to today and the 2010s people back them seemed to act like they were in a movie, and that were living in a surreal time period. Coined by the catchphrase “it’s the 90s !”. What owed to this phenomena and why did it seem to end once the calendar entered the 2000s |As someone who was alive for all of the 90s I can tell you that energy continued in the early and mid 2000s, as for what spawned the phrase "it's the 90s" it was sitcoms like Rosanne and Married with Children that coined it literally. People were sick of the 80s culture in the 90s and wanted something new. It ended around 97 when we had been in a new "grunge/Dark" era for a few years at that point so there was no need to cite anything. That energy of anything can happen was very present in the early 2000s, just in a "2000s" way
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Post by John Titor on Apr 17, 2022 2:34:46 GMT 10
Easy. It was the last decade of the millennium and the new millennium was almost there. It was also arguably the most peaceful stretch in history. Thats not why people were excited
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Post by slashpop on Apr 17, 2022 7:57:38 GMT 10
Compared to today and the 2010s people back them seemed to act like they were in a movie, and that were living in a surreal time period. Coined by the catchphrase “it’s the 90s !”. What owed to this phenomena and why did it seem to end once the calendar entered the 2000s Even as a much younger kid who witnessed the late 80s turning into the 90s, it felt we were entering a new and mysterious decade and there was this vague sense that the new decade was going to be more advanced and something quite different. I didn’t think much of it at the time, since I was very young but in retrospect I think the decade numerically being closer to the end of the 20th century played a part, 80’s sci fi movies set in future in the 90s contributed, many of these were made in the 90s as well, and later on certain periods within the decade advanced technologically quite rapidly and felt culturally different in a short period of time so there also was this sense during those times of the 90s being quite different and more modern than decades prior, and there also was this resentment at the oldness and mindset of the 80s at some point early in the decade. “For the 90s” was commonly used in marketing and advertising across numerous media in the early 90s. “it’s the 90s get with the times “ was used as early as the early 90s, by mid 90s we were saying that’s so 80s whenever something looked out of date or corny. Tbh I’ve heard people say similar things with other decades even if it’s not the same.
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Post by John Titor on Apr 17, 2022 8:03:44 GMT 10
Compared to today and the 2010s people back them seemed to act like they were in a movie, and that were living in a surreal time period. Coined by the catchphrase “it’s the 90s !”. What owed to this phenomena and why did it seem to end once the calendar entered the 2000s Even as a much younger kid who witnessed the late 80s turning into the 90s, it felt we were entering a new and mysterious decade and there was this vague sense that the new decade was going to be more advanced and something quite different. I didn’t think much of it at the time, since I was very young but in retrospect I think the decade numerically being closer to the end of the 20th century played a part, 80’s sci fi movies set in future in the 90s contributed, many of these were made in the 90s as well, and later on certain periods within the decade advanced technologically quite rapidly and felt culturally different in a short period of time so there also was this sense during those times of the 90s being quite different and more modern than decades prior. “it’s the 90s get with the times “ was used as early as the early 90s, by mid 90s we were saying that’s so 80s whenever something looked out of date or corny. Tbh I’ve heard people say similar things with other decades even if it’s not the same. Around 95/96 those hits of the 80s commercials started airing on tv, made it look so dated
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Post by slashpop on Apr 17, 2022 8:09:57 GMT 10
Even as a much younger kid who witnessed the late 80s turning into the 90s, it felt we were entering a new and mysterious decade and there was this vague sense that the new decade was going to be more advanced and something quite different. I didn’t think much of it at the time, since I was very young but in retrospect I think the decade numerically being closer to the end of the 20th century played a part, 80’s sci fi movies set in future in the 90s contributed, many of these were made in the 90s as well, and later on certain periods within the decade advanced technologically quite rapidly and felt culturally different in a short period of time so there also was this sense during those times of the 90s being quite different and more modern than decades prior. “it’s the 90s get with the times “ was used as early as the early 90s, by mid 90s we were saying that’s so 80s whenever something looked out of date or corny. Tbh I’ve heard people say similar things with other decades even if it’s not the same. Around 95/96 those hits of the 80s commercials started airing on tv, made it look so dated. Yeah remember those. It just really wasn’t cool to be 80s at that time.
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Post by astropoug on Apr 17, 2022 8:20:57 GMT 10
-Major cultural and technological shift from the 80s
-Fall of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War
-Backlash toward the 80s and people wanting something new
That said, the 80s were actually a lot like this too. There were lots of songs and commercials and whatnot from the 80s that talk about the 80s within the 80s. I think because both decades were so different from the preceding one plus the previous decade receiving lots of backlash in that decade.
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