Discussion What decade is your favourite?

[Hobbit]

Do you have a favourite decade? If so, do you wish you could go back to it? Or did you experience it?
I, for one, was a '99 baby, but man do I yearn for the 90s despite being in the womb and only being alive for 3/4 of 1999. It seemed like a simple time, honestly. But I also love the 2000s, partially because of nostalgia from being raised in that decade. The very early 2010s were pretty cool, but that was when things started going downhill, at least during the middle portion of the 2010s. I think my love for the 2000s/2010-2013 is because of nostalgia, honestly. Life was simpler back then. I had no worries. (Well, I don't really have any worries nowadays because I'm a NEET who receives disabilitybux, but you get my point.) I guess I'm not alone in romanticising the past, because with each generation comes a new set of people who say "I wish I was born in x year," or, "I was born in the wrong generation." Romanticism of the past is quite common among new generations, and even those who experienced the old generations and thus have rose-tinted glasses on when looking back at them.
So, I repeat:
Do you have a favourite decade, and do you wish you could re-experience it again or experience it for the first time?

 

[Bitter]

I wish I had lived the 90s better, At least keep memories of toys or other things that I may have had at that time, I keep almost nothing of it.

 

[Enju]

Early 2010s was pretty cool. I remember coming home from school and playing Wii or my PC.

 

[Deleted member 9]

70s mogged for music. Wish I could live then.
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Yes, King Crimson, Rush, Mahavishnu, Sabbath, Zeppelin, VdGG, Return to Forever, Miles Davis. Many god tier artist you could see live and for mere dollars. Music was actually something you had to experience first hand, you either heard about an artist word of mouth, saw them as an opening act, or got into them through vinyl cover art that intrigued you.

Could have owned a home a year after graduating high school, and raise a family. Would already be retired at this point in time if I was born back then. Instead a rot on forums.

Racism was right think. Could push niggers out of my community and assault minorities, receiving a Nobel piece prize for my actions.


Imagine serving in Vietnam. Killing gooks while dropping lsd and listening to sabbath back at your barracks

 

[Enju]

70s mogged for music. Wish I could live then.
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Yes, King Crimson, Rush, Mahavishnu, Sabbath, Zeppelin, VdGG, Return to Forever, Miles Davis. Many god tier artist you could see live and for mere dollars. Music was actually something you had to experience first hand, you either heard about an artist word of mouth, saw them as an opening act, or got into them through vinyl cover art that intrigued you.

Listening to music back then definitely seemed more special for the reasons you mentioned. Up until the internet, you either listened through radio, vinyl, or CD. Most people only had a collection of albums and they would trade with other people. The thing with the internet is every song is available, for free, and it takes only seconds to find. While that is great for finding new types of music and songs, it takes the specialness out of listening to a new album or song. Though im not sure I would 100% like the idea of listening to music that isn’t on the internet because I listen to some Jpop and the chance of finding Japanese originated songs in the west then is low.

 

[ForeverLost]

2000-2016

 

[The Patriarchy]

98-08

 

[Suigin Trismegistus]

90s hands down. But honestly, any decade before the current one is better.

 

[The Patriarchy]

pauly shore
90s hands down. But honestly, any decade before the current one is better.

This is how TV remembers the early to mid 90s. What do you think of when you think of early to mid 90s? Why is it appealing to you?

 

[The Patriarchy]

The golden age started ith windows 98 and ended with the "housing bubble"/war on georgia

 

[Suigin Trismegistus]

This is how TV remembers the early to mid 90s. What do you think of when you think of early to mid 90s? Why is it appealing to you?

• The bulky cell/mobile phones of the time were fairly rare to non-existent.
• Last decade before helicopter parenting took hold, growing up then, I spent a lot of time outside with relative freedom.
• Internet was raw and untamed. Mainstream social media sites didn't exist.
• The rate of technological change was perceptually noticeable from one year to the next, you felt like you were living in a time of great progress.
• The things people were able to make their computers of the time do were considered ground-breaking, nowadays it's just slop and brainrot

 

[The Patriarchy]

• The bulky cell/mobile phones of the time were fairly rare to non-existent.
• Last decade before helicopter parenting took hold, growing up then, I spent a lot of time outside with relative freedom.
• Internet was raw and untamed. Mainstream social media sites didn't exist.
• The rate of technological change was perceptually noticeable from one year to the next, you felt like you were living in a time of great progress.
• The things people were able to make their computers of the time do were considered ground-breaking, nowadays it's just slop and brainrot

I was talking about early to mid 90s, I already have a hard time disagreeing with late 90s.

Mainstream social media sites didn't exist.

Friendster
livejournal

• The rate of technological change was perceptually noticeable from one year to the next, you felt like you were living in a time of great progress.

fuck... We live in the age Of AI right now lol.
I felt like it was tech stagnation until now.

The things people were able to make their computers of the time do were considered ground-breaking, nowadays it's just slop and brainrot

nostalgic hyperbole

 

[Suigin Trismegistus]

I was talking about early to mid 90s, I already have a hard time disagreeing with late 90s.

I was mostly talking early to mid too.

Friendster
livejournal

Friendster was 2002 and LiveJournal was 1999.

I felt like it was tech stagnation until now.

Yes, it was stagnation from like 2008 until approximately 2021. That's how it felt for me.

 

[The Patriarchy]

Friendster was 2002 and LiveJournal was 1999.

Im from another reality where Friendster started in the 90s
Also Shaun of the Dead was released in the 90s

 

[Suigin Trismegistus]

Im from another reality where Friendster started in the 90s
Also Shaun of the Dead was released in the 90s

Probably everything up until you graduated highschool and moved out felt like it belonged to the 90s.

 

[The Patriarchy]

Probably everything up until you graduated highschool and moved out felt like it belonged to the 90s.

Im the most real neet most people ever come in contact with on here. I still havent grown up and got a job lol
No I distinctly remember watching Shaun of the Dead on comedy central in the 90s
Tila tequila rose to fame on friendster in the late 90s but i dont remember it that clearly

 

[Suigin Trismegistus]

Im the most real neet most people ever come in contact with on here. I still havent grown up and got a job lol
No I distinctly remember watching Shaun of the Dead on comedy central in the 90s
Tila tequila rose to fame on friendster in the late 90s but i dont remember it that clearly

Interesting. I'm not sure I've experienced that drastic of a timeline shift.

 

[PoopyPigeon]

1960s. Space race was at it's peak and that was the time when humanity was the most concerned about our cosmic state of being. Not a commie, but thanks to them for initiating it.


There are other historical decades I really love in regards to history, but I'm not mentioning them since it may reveal my country.

 

[johnvee]

the 90s, but only because that was my teenage years.