How have we changed from 1995/x?

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Watched some show on c5 called '10 most annoying things about 1995', bit strange to watch as in some ways 1995 seems liked yesterday, but it looked pretty ancient watching it on tv, so how have things changed, the clothes looked pretty shabby, tucked in shirts, mullets etc, people seemed more polite though and a bit more naive.

Maybe better camera tech and HD give tv an illusion of more colourful, fitter more superior people, can't believe how time just flies. Are we really that different to people in 1995, must be all the tech and world events that have changed us so much. Anyone here live in the past like I sometimes do?
 
people seemed more polite though and a bit more naive.

what?

Edit : In what way ? I mean... Are we talking from some silly Pre 9/11 stand point? We just finished Gulf War 1 a few years earlier... Still screwing the middle east. No one was scared of Muslims.
 
Efour said:
people seemed more polite though and a bit more naive.

what?

Edit : In what way ? I mean... Are we talking from some silly Pre 9/11 stand point? We just finished Gulf War 1 a few years earlier... Still screwing the middle east. No one was scared of Muslims.
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Exactly, I seem to have totally lost touch with the past, I mean how have we changed if at all, just the fashion, tech, and social attitudes. I think things were less complex back then.
 
Hmm less complex.. No i think it was about the same minus social media.

Personally I was only teenager back then, thought the world was my oyster, no real money worries or anything. Would go out 2 or 3 nights a week just for fun.. had Uni to look forward to.
 
I'd hate to be a teenager these days, though. They are so well dressed and nicely groomed that I think back to my grunge days, to my baggy flannel shirts, to my curtain haircut and think that I got away with making little effort! More money and time for Amigas, football, Monkey Island, Citadel Miniatures, and Dungeon Keeper.
 
1995 was a good year. bukem was spinning the best dnb ever made and i could walk into woolworths and buy some pic n mix and a super nintendo!
 
The internet hadn't really taken off back then (I think I got online with a dial up modem in about 1997) and that has changed almost everyones life tremendously. Life was simpler back then and more enjoyable (at least for me) with fewer rules. If you wanted to buy something you went and found it in a shop nearby. So there was less choice across most things.

I was far happier then as I was young, free and while not single, I wasn't marriewd with children. My career was just starting so I had less stress at work and it was more enjoyable than today.But obviously that is a personal thing and everyone will have a different opinion there.

Given a choice I'd happily go back to that time. It's no co-incidence that a couple of years ago I bought the car in my sig - something made in 1994.
 
I first went online in 1993/1994, I think people seemed a lot happier in '95 than today

Everyone seems to have an 'im right' 'i deserve it' 'i want' attitude these days

We need to be more tolerant towards each other imho Everyone seems to want everything on a plate, and spelling out in minute detail (at least from a work perspective)

The younger guys are moaning about not getting payrises and promotions. When I ask them to get some exams done, they turn their noses up.
 
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I am living in my idea of a science fiction future tbh....when I was a kid, pretty much most things I take for granted today would have been like something out of star-trek.
 
Castiel said:
I am living in my idea of a science fiction future tbh....when I was a kid, pretty much most things I take for granted today would have been like something out of star-trek.
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This, if you think what the internet, computing, mobile phones etc was back then. We've come a huge way in technology and something you (or at least I) don't realise till you actually stop and think, its easy to forget how far things have come, as every year is just a small step, but those continuous small steps, after just a few years adds up to a big change.
 
Edrof said:
I'd hate to be a teenager these days
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Agree, so much social pressure on them now to have a perfect life, like living in a goldfish bowl.
A much simpler life for me back then, work was easy and secure and I had no responsibilities. Actually a bit of social pressure might have been a good thing in hindsight, ahem :)
Also, nobody knew back then just how moronic and insanely barbaric some people were in the Middle East, to think we have been living a few hundred miles from those nutjobs for hundreds of years and not known a thing :eek:
 
glen8 said:
Everyone seems to have an 'im right' 'i deserve it' 'i want' attitude these days

We need to be more tolerant towards each other imho Everyone seems to want everything on a plate, and spelling out in minute detail (at least from a work perspective)
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I agree with this. We seem to have lost the art of personal responsibility.

Castiel said:
I am living in my idea of a science fiction future tbh....when I was a kid, pretty much most things I take for granted today would have been like something out of star-trek.
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Also very true - mobile phones, internet, mass online gaming, tablets with wireless connectivity, food from almost every corner of the world, streamed media, video conferencing, etc. It is truly remarkable just what technologies we have available now and with the start of an era of 3D printing the only star trek technologies we don't really have is the teleport and the ability to reach light speed.
 
Glaucus said:
This, if you think what the internet, computing, mobile phones etc was back then. We've come a huge way in technology and something you (or at least I) don't realise till you actually stop and think, its easy to forget how far things have come
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Very true. Back when the original GTA (the 2D top down one) came out back in 1997, I remember joking with friends about how mad it would be if it was all 3D and you could just walk around in a giant city in a game.

We agreed it'd never happen.
 
It was almost 20 years ago so it's no surprise a lot has changed since then. I was only 10 so I don't think I can give an accurate description of whether it was better. People always say the good ol' days were better though.

I was certainly a lot less complex. I had a Megadrive, a TV and a VCR (I think) at that point although I go a PS shortly after. Things moved fast though and in just 5 years we got DVD, mobile phones and Internet becoming more viable all thrust upon us in that small space of time. No wonder we've changed for the better or worst.
 
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56k dial up porn :( sad times
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but it was more of a magical experience. your mate coming into school with a floppy disc, loading it up in the sixth form room and gazing at big haired 90's porn photo's was great! it's all too' easy these days.
 
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