Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Are the '90s the Old Days Already?

29 Images That Perfectly Explain What The '90s Were Like

5 comments:

Patrick Murtha said...

Sure they are. Think about it: In the early 1970s, Fifties nostalgia was rampant. "Happy Days" premiered in 1974. An even more compressed time-frame: "American Graffiti" came out in 1973, and it's about 1962. Since cultural cycles are increasingly sped up nowadays, thanks largely to technology. the Nineties seem astonishingly old-fashioned from the perspective of young people in 2015.

Unknown said...

The phrase "young people" is the key, all right. No danger of me being in that category.

Rick Robinson said...

I was there, an adult, 45 years old (in 1990) and I don't even know what most of these things are, and I'm pretty sure I didn't miss a thing by not knowing.

Graham Powell said...

That Gap add to "Jump Jive 'n Wail" (#20) is a timeless classic. But the 90s were my decade, and I still can't identify some of these.

Deb said...

Sure is--between 15 and 25 years ago. But I think the real division between "then" and "now" is the point at which cell phones became ubiquitous. Anything prior to that seems like ancient history to young people today.