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? asked in Dining OutGermanyDresden · 3 years ago

What was it like living in the '90s?

I was born in 2000, just 1 year after the '90s ended. I hate my parents, but because they love me so much, I love them too ;-)

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  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    It was not that bad. Cars mostly had tape players, some had cd players too. My first truck was a 1992 Chevy, that came with a "bag phone" connected to an antenna on the roof that was wicked expensive to talk on.There was no option to turn the key back and listen to the radio like in my second car, a 1997 Oldsmobile Achieva (no cd player, just cassette. My first laptop was massive, it had a ball instead of a track pad and two round buttons, it ran Windows 95, and the entire time I had it I never connected to the internet once. One interesting thing is that I used the laptop bag for that pc all the way up until 2015 when this girl I was with made me get rid of it. Our family home at the time had two massive TV antennas on the roof of the house, which picked up CBS, FOX, and ABC from one city, and NBC, FOX, and, ABC from another city. No HD quality on those channels....Once in a while we picked up one TV station from Canada, which I thought was cool at the time. In my bed room, I had a gateway 2000 desktop computer, which was awesome, but really expensive. Now, it doesn't even compare to computers today. If you wanted to record something, you'd have to buy video cassette tapes, I still have a whole bunch ranging from 1995 until 2014. Video cameras where still a thing, paid phones were everywhere. Music actually had variety, and you could remember where you were when you first heard a song. Cars could take a lot more abuse back then, and minimum wage was less than half of what it is today, like 5 bucks an hour. It was pretty cool.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

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  • 3 years ago

    Wonderful. Those losers born in 2000 and afterwards weren't yet born

  • 3 years ago

    You haven't lived until you've found some dudes porn stash in the woods because the internet wasn't a thing yet. Also parachute pants.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    My mom would actually watch the movie with my dad and I. Now, my little brother (Who was born in 2001 which is why I didn't mention him earlier because he was not alive in the '90s) and mother are on their phones when we're watching a movie for family night.

    Families don't bond anymore, thanks to social media.

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