For those that lived through the 90s, and late 80s. How do you think the world has changed. Personally i think we were much more relaxed back then, there was also a certain type of hatred and conflict back then though that you wont see nowadays, partially due to all the civil right movements. But then in 2001, 9/11 came along and the "western worlds" view was changed dramatically.
How do you see the world nowadays?
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Kids have got much more mouthy & lazy now
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Almost all of this can be explained by the information age.
Not much has changed - we just know everything about everything now, or think we do. Additionally, thanks to the internet and comments under news articles etc we also know what everyone thinks about everything.
20 years ago conspiracy theorists met up in rooms in pubs and nobody knew they were there.
Today they post on otherwise normal internet forums.
Not much has changed - we just know everything about everything now, or think we do. Additionally, thanks to the internet and comments under news articles etc we also know what everyone thinks about everything.
20 years ago conspiracy theorists met up in rooms in pubs and nobody knew they were there.
Today they post on otherwise normal internet forums.
Did the whole room laugh when they said to hide under the desks or was it accepted as a legitimate safe zone back then?
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That aint so long ago really, we had chatrooms in the early 90's on the internet. Cant see why people didn't talk about conspiracy theories etc.
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It's funny(in a sense) how things change though and go round in circles. Remember how kevin Mitnick was jailed in 1995 for several years for hacking into systems. Then for a good while attitudes changed, hackers were considered reasonably harmless. We now seem to be back to those harsh attitudes where hackers are considered terrorists and will be given pretty lengthy sentences if their caught. Irrelevant to this discussion you may say but I'm highlighting how attitudes go back and forth.
They probably did. But a tiny minority of people had access to such things. Now anyone can read the comments on the bottom of a newspaper article.
When you are 11 the 'under-the-table' nuclear bomb shelter is a valid and impervious place to survive the Red Death.......
Better to have half a dozen doors and a mattress or three though.....with a bucket and several packets of rich tea biscuits you could survive forever......
I was a kid in the 80s and teen in the 90s and I was about as mouthy and lazy a it is possible to be. I'm pretty sure every generation looks back and laments the degradation of the current kids.
I do see the world differently from how I did in either of those decades but I think that has more to do with me having more responsibilities and interest in the wider world now.
If I had to sum up each decade I would say the 80s was itchy (school uniforms and woolen jumpers) and the 90s was messy.
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Yeah my era was late 80s and throughout 90s too. I definitely agree that life was more relaxed back then.
Things that I do like nowadays:
- most places serve real coffee (as opposed to instant)
- popup adverts a thing of the past / better browsers nowadays
- average broadband speed is greater than T1 (T1 is my benchmark)
- tablets, phones, nettops and single-board entering the computing market
- home shopping
- no more IRA attacks
Things I don't like nowadays:
- too much r'n'b in the UK top 40 / played at venues / as ringtones
- too many reality music shows. Eurovision was enough IMO
- ICT, goddammit it's IT!
- colleagues tied to their phones with the Facebook app / related gossip "oh I unfriended Dave last night"
- callcentre out-sourcing (I'm hard of hearing, not good with accents)
- having to live by the month, can't afford clubbing now
- the fact that My Little Pony is everywhere. Just leave that to the 80s
Things that I do like nowadays:
- most places serve real coffee (as opposed to instant)
- popup adverts a thing of the past / better browsers nowadays
- average broadband speed is greater than T1 (T1 is my benchmark)
- tablets, phones, nettops and single-board entering the computing market
- home shopping
- no more IRA attacks
Things I don't like nowadays:
- too much r'n'b in the UK top 40 / played at venues / as ringtones
- too many reality music shows. Eurovision was enough IMO
- ICT, goddammit it's IT!
- colleagues tied to their phones with the Facebook app / related gossip "oh I unfriended Dave last night"
- callcentre out-sourcing (I'm hard of hearing, not good with accents)
- having to live by the month, can't afford clubbing now
- the fact that My Little Pony is everywhere. Just leave that to the 80s
I'm not very old but I can imagine that it feels a lot smaller as travelling is so easily available now.
Personally I think people have become too paranoid. Kids can't play outside because there must be a rapist lurking around every corner etc. And i think people watch way too much TV.
Personally I think people have become too paranoid. Kids can't play outside because there must be a rapist lurking around every corner etc. And i think people watch way too much TV.
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A lot of people are becoming very lonely people because of computers. People have become more paranoid about daily life. For example trusting the media.
