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⌈ Secret Post #1819 ⌋


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Comments

[childings.livejournal.com]

TBH I thought the 90s were pretty cool back in the 90s
It was kind of awesome when everyone in my family had a job and I had health, vision and dental care and yeah, kids' programming (particularly programming aimed at girls) was of better quality than it is now

I'm in my late twenties so yeah, I was old enough to remember

[zenity.livejournal.com]

This.

[dgcatanisiri.livejournal.com]

It also seemed happier back then. I mean, I've seen some nineties music videos recently and there are so many more smiles and positive statements coming through them. I mean, sure, I enjoy my *motions to icon* cynicism and all, but sometimes I do miss that more upbeat attitude that in general people seemed to have.

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

It was a pretty good time. I was in college then, and starving-- but the Cold War had ended and the threat of instantaneous nuclear annihilation of the entire planet that had been hanging over us for my entire life had ended, the economy was up, the Berlin Wall was down, Russia was now a democracy-- and we didn't know how bad the environment was getting yet. Sure, we knew about the rainforests, but no one really thought the entire ecosystem of the whole planet was on the verge of collapse. We were just beginning to do amazing things with DNA, we were gonna unlock the human genome and that was gonna cure everything from cancer to acne.

It really was an extremely positive time, looking back at it.

[feanorian.livejournal.com]

This. Plus, if you were American, you could mostly trust the government, travel was easy, and the country was untouchable. If you were in a tech-savvy area, the Internet was just getting interesting and so many new things were in the works.

I can see why people would want the 90s back.

[starphotographs.livejournal.com]

This!

And you know, maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but it seems like there was more interest in the space program back then. Now it seems like they've just sort of let it rot. Bah. :\

[kryss-labryn.livejournal.com]

Well, the space shuttles were very new and exciting, and then we'd just launched the Hubble space telescope (resulting in a slew of GM jokes about "objects in the mirror may..." after they screwed up the ginat mirror in it ha ha), and then the Mars explorer was just being sent off... And then of course in the late '80s we had the Challenger disaster which threatened to shut down the space program for a while, so when the space program continued that was pretty cool...

And of course satellites were being launched every other week, it seemed... There was just a tonne of stuff going on.

And what's going on now, really? The shuttles have been mothballed, the US isn't really doing too much (Kennedy wanted to have us on Mars by now and really, the main obstacle is the cost), Canada's space program is mostly tied to the States, so now it's mainly up to China and India to carry on until the US gets its replacements sorted out (if it does; sounds like they're trying to move into a private/corporate model over a government funded one) and of course we don't hear so much about what they're doing as we do with the States, so there just really doesn't seem to be as much going on. Mainly it feels, these days, like everything is slowing down and getting turned off, and that there's just the odd probe headed out. It's just not as active and as exciting a time.

[starphotographs.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes! I remember all of that stuff. Good times.

[childings.livejournal.com]

Well obviously this isn't true for the entire world, but it seemed like a lot of countries were doing better economically back then, so it was easier for people to be happy. Especially compared to everything that has happened in the last decade. So it's understandable.

[(Anonymous)]

I like to think of it as the decade America stuck its head in the sand and pretended that just because the Cold War was over all the shit that it did everywhere else was forgotten, too.

[gabzillaz.livejournal.com]

I noticed the same thing.

[stella-down.livejournal.com]

dude, don't get me wrong, I love the 90s to an embarrassing degree. I just didn't realize that was acceptable now. maybe I can start wearing flannel and Docs and berets again. :D

[childings.livejournal.com]

Well you know what they say about everything old being new again
Also fashion works in twenty year cycles

[sweetgreens.livejournal.com]

Do it! As lj user="childings" pointed out, fashion really does move in 20-year cycles.

I'm a 90s teenager, and my family was too poor to afford to buy me any of the popular styles, so I wore 1970s retro items that I had thrifted (before thrifting was as common a pastime as it is now). Most of my classmates agreed that I was one of the most chic and fashionable girls at school! :D

[sweetgreens.livejournal.com]

FFFF WHAT HAPPENED TO MY HTML TAGS.

[demarafis]

Psssssssssst - if you didn't reply to yourself, you could have edited your earlier comment because of the "everyone is allowed to edit un-replied-to comments because preview is no longer available" preview-fix to the newest update.

[sweetgreens.livejournal.com]

Oops. It's hard to keep track of all of the features of the new commenting system... D:

[demarafis]

No worries. Some old-commenting-system features should be coming back. Keyword: should.
D=

[sweetgreens.livejournal.com]

Let's keep our fingers crossed that they do!

Thanks for the tip, btw. :)

[demarafis]

No problem! Always happy to pass on new info ;)

[starphotographs.livejournal.com]

*side-eyes boots and flannel shirts*

Um...

What was I supposed to be wearing before? XD (Probably something that is too cold/hurts my feet. FUCK THAT SHIT.)

[(Anonymous)]

This. I mean, I still remember the Pepper Ann episode about Women's Rights, and Pepper Ann's attitude of 'Wait, why wouldn't I be able to be president?'. Looking back on it, Pepper Ann would be about my age now and we had a women almost make it into the White House. By the time Peppy 9s 40 we probably will have a women in the White House. But at the same time, the whole thing so fully captured my own perspective when a kid and now I can't help but wince at how naive and how extremely positive it was.

But if you think about it, those shows were major breakthroughs. Friends were not all of one race and gender, Pepper Ann's mom was a divorced single mom and awesome and Arnold's parents were dead and was being raised by his grand father. We got messages of indiviuality, of caring for others, of how it was ok to be different. To dream big, to fight for what you believe in (anyone else remember that episode where Arnold and his friends protested the tree being bowled over by Helga's Dad?).

Sure, they had there issues. But I feel like you really can't compare shows like Phineas and Ferb to them. It has great music, yeah... but IDK. It just seems like the 90's rocked when it came to cartoons.

...The fact that these shows still impact me today, and that I still love them, says a lot I think. Which reminds me, I still need to buy the Recess movie...

[broadwaybabe11.livejournal.com]

Aww, I love this comment. It makes me feel so nostalgic. I was only a little kid in the 90s, early elementary school years, but I remember watching and loving those shows.
They really were so positive. I love that about them.
We grew up with Pepper Ann. The kids now will grow up and remember Bella Swan >.>