How have we changed from 1995/x?
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i was pretty me me me back then compared to now.
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1995 ... I was half way through university. Having a good time with friends and spending far too long online (so not much has changed really there).
Only really differences would be that whilst I was at university I had 'net access but I had none at all over the holidays ... so no checking of email for two months over the summer (not helped as well when you had a mail quota on the universities system and were a member of several active mailing lists. And no mobile phones so no instant communication ... if you wanted to meet up with people you had to organise it when you saw them the next day rather than just thinking I'm bored I wonder what everyone is doing.
Only really differences would be that whilst I was at university I had 'net access but I had none at all over the holidays ... so no checking of email for two months over the summer (not helped as well when you had a mail quota on the universities system and were a member of several active mailing lists. And no mobile phones so no instant communication ... if you wanted to meet up with people you had to organise it when you saw them the next day rather than just thinking I'm bored I wonder what everyone is doing.
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What?, there was a lot to do online in '95 ... I was a member of several large international discussion community mailing lists on various subjects and spent quite a bit of time on things like usenet. Yes the web might have been fairly young but it didn't mean there wasn't interesting content around on that as well (in some cases more than now as it was less commercialised so there tended to be more little sites on a subject rather than big fancy ones).
In fact the first thing I probably did online, other than email, was download the shareware version of Doom back in December 1993 so by '95 I'd been online for two years already.
Really? We had landlines in 1995 which enabled up to call our respective friends households to see if they were doing out.
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We were all pretty busy so the chances of actually getting any of them if you phoned the respective houses (even if you got the right one in some cases as were they at home or at the address they were staying at at university). Also there were times when I didn't have easy access to a phone line (without using a phone box which I wasn't going to waste my money doing when I was seeing people in my department everyday anyway so could arrange things in advance, in person, a lot more easily).
Watching Bill Hicks do his Gulf War routine last week made me realise how little things have changed. The routine is still as painfully relevant as it was 20 years ago.
lol exactly. People do seem to go off on one, like it was some kind of pre-technology barren wasteland. People used telephones, just like they had been doing for the previous 50 years or whatever...
Other than Very limited mobile telephone communication, basic limited Internet (and everything that brings inc online shopping et al) everything was fundamentally the same.
I've been thinking about it and i'm so glad i grew up and spent my formative years in a period where the internet didn't dominate my life
1995 i was 15 years old without a care in the world. No rent to pay, no bills, no mobile phone, not even a PC just a simple life and a great life. Its just misery, sadness and stress now nothing is what i imagined it to be. Thought i would be someone but things haven't turned out the way i wanted.
Which someone could invent a time machine and i could go back and start all over again
Which someone could invent a time machine and i could go back and start all over again
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Iv change from 9 to 27 
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Snap!
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OP, interesting that you pinpointed 1995. That was actually my best year of all time. I turned good GCSE results, turned 17, joined 6th form, had loads of friends. Plus, it was all dance vs indie which I liked. None of that X Factor and r'n'b that people pass off as being 'dance music' nowadays.
Ref: 10 most annoying things about 1995, it would have to be that Blur vs Oasis week, when both bands released a single in the same week. The media hype was a bit much for my liking.
Ref: 10 most annoying things about 1995, it would have to be that Blur vs Oasis week, when both bands released a single in the same week. The media hype was a bit much for my liking.
Super Probotector (think that was the name, great game!)
I was still a young un in 95, no massive memories of it all. What does make me laugh though is that I still think of the 90's as modern. Then you watch old football matches on sky sports and the haircuts, clothing and other things like the filming quality are shockingly bad
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I played Probotector on the Megadrive. Best Megadrive game ever!!
Just seen that picture posted further up with Windows 95, 98 etc. Loved the Vista one
The only problem is that it missed out Windows Me. That was far worse then Vista, and the picture for that one should have been a house that's been bulldozed, or has smashed in windows or something 
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Just seen that picture posted further up with Windows 95, 98 etc. Loved the Vista one
Its not even funny now... They already KNEW...
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Its not even funny now... They already KNEW...
You missed 2000 out.
Also that Windows house photo was posted in the random image thread with a pic for Win ME.
Courtesy of Haggisman
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I was 17 in 1975 when my Mum & Dad had a telephone and none of my mates parents had one.
Even my girlfriend (Mrs Dimple) came from a well to do family and they didn't have one and she had to go to the phone box at predetermined times.