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foxsgallery:

In all seriousness, though. A lot of people tend to wonder why people born in a period their childhood was mostly in the 1990s and early 2000s seem to have such obnoxiously strong nostalgia. I think there’s many reasons why:

-We grew up in a pre-9/11 world in that fairly peaceful era after the end of The Cold War but before the war on terrorism and the strife it brought happened. It was like this weird little snapshot in time where large parts of the world were at close as humanity has come to peace.

-We saw saw the major revolution in tech the 90s brought so kind of lived in both eras. We lived with a world of chunky CRT monitors and Windows 98 in out childhoods but moved on to either flatscreens displays or laptops as teens. We saw analog media abandoned for DVDs and CDs and that weird transitional period where everything was “coming to VHS and DVD July 17th!”

-We grew-up in the time downloads and streaming were a pipe-dream for anything bigger than 100MB even with DSL. So we saw the glory days of the electronics section where there was big box PC games as far as the eye can see and a $10 discount rack full of weird budget shit.

-We lived through cultural revolutions in media like the renaissance age of animation bringing new respect to the medium. As tweens we watched TV Shows like The X-Files that changed the face of television when they were first airing. Or at least in re-runs.

-Remember Edutainment games? We also lived in a time those were fun and creative stuff from Jump Start and Humongous Entertainment. Hours wasted in the classroom during free time or at home playing Clue Finders or Oregon Trail.

There was just so much cool shit and so many shifts in culture going on the 90s that it’s hard for the world we live in now to live up to it. It was a fascinating decade to live grow up in. 

The 90s was a ideallic time right before some of the biggest modern advancements in tech. Games were pixelated gems like DOOM before the N64 and PlayStation brought on the 3D revolution. We watched the tech around us develop at breakneck speed, at the point where our teens took place in an entirely different world than our childhood.

It’ll be a long time before any generation goes through the same kind of paradigm shift that 90s kids did.

(via takashi0)