"Waking up early to watch Saturday morning cartoons. Coming home from school to watch cartoons. Nowadays everything is on-demand and you can watch whatever you want whenever you want"
"This tho!! Having some sort of schedule for shows gave a special structure to the days."
"Having the freedom to do really stupid sh#t without having it plastered all over social media."
"Ooh, yeah. I am so thankful I went to college before camera phones were a thing."
"The Super Soaker 300."
"Toys in general. Action figures were amazing back then. I have yet to see an action figure that can surpass the size and quality of Street Sharks."
"That was the best part and we didn’t even know it. It was that brief interlude between the Cold War and the War on Terror. Whole world has been an ever-growing pile of sh#t ever since."
"My bullies having no access to me outside of school."
"For real. I don’t envy kids today. All that garbage had to happen face to face. Bullies in the 90’s had to be willing to get hit too. It’s way easier to be a dick today."
"All the free sh#tty personal pan pizzas I got from Book It.
Book It was a gold mine for poor nerds."
"Yep, pretty much. As convenient as the internet and cellphones are now, I do miss the days when we couldn’t just look up things online in a matter of seconds. And I miss when people weren’t always immediately reachable because they have their phone glued to their hips."
"Renting a movie at a video store.
It was a whole process because even if you had a movie or movies in mind, there was a chance all the copies were rented and you had to find something else. It was an adventure though combing through the aisles and trying to find the perfect one to fit the mood of the night"
"The cartoons. IMO 90s aired some of the best cartoons made- now it’s all cr#p."
"We weren’t constantly inundated with news about every stupid and enraging thing that politicians do all over the country."
"I mean, we were but it was in fewer outlets and easier to ignore."
"Mix tapes/CDs.
There was an art to making them and receiving one was pure excitement because you had no idea what to expect until the next track started playing."
"Pressing record at just the right time when a song comes on the radio."
"Honestly this. Just going outside and playing with friends until it got dark."
"No Facebook. No Instagram. No Twitter. Social media connects people, but it has also made the world a much more argumentative place."
"When you bought a video game, you got the entire game."
"Having an actual belief that life would be better in the future. What a f@#king idiot I was."
"You could ride your bike to the beach a mile and a half away, sit and play, and buggie board, then go to taco bell or the deli and get some food. All without your parents getting arrested for child negligence and CPS putting you in a foster home."
"MTV actually played music."
"It feels like people didn’t define themselves as strongly by their views and opinions back then.
People did still have views, but they didn’t form the core of your identity."
"Having technology evolve while we grew up.
We went from records and tapes, to boomboxes, to portable CD players, to MP3 players, to digital music wherever we want.
We went from landlines to portable phones, to flip phones, to cell phones and now to androids/iphones which are essentially mini computers.
Computers went from a luxury novelty item, to a household staple, to something everyone has one or more of; with an internet that went from obscure niche interest, to widening up just enough to give curious teenagers a taste at making their presence online (hello, Geocities!) to an inescapable fact of life. Social media is a bit too much, maybe it needs to be backtracked a little. Storage went from giant floppies, to half-sized not-so-floppys with twice the space, to Zip disks for a hot minute, to rewritable CDs and flash drives, and finally we said “eff it” and put everything in a cloud or bought hard drives large enough to hold a copy of almost every book on Earth."
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