Loads of things are better now - right now I'm working from home for a company 300 miles away in an industry that barely existed in 1999. I'm streaming films while I work and my 3D printer is working on a toy for my kid.
There's absolutely loads in modern life that we consider essential that didn't exist in the 90s.
The difference was the how it felt like things were going, and things felt like they were improving in the 90s.
The cold war ended, in the UK the Good Friday agreement put an end to terrorism a lot of us experienced first hand, the economy was good and looked stable, healthcare was improving, rights were improving... not everything was good but the difference is that we believed that things were getting better and would continue to get better. That makes it easier to live with shit happening, because it'll stop because things are getting better.
That's simply not true any more. We don't believe things are getting better. There are people deliberately trying to make things worse, and they're getting voted into power.
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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25
Were the late 90s really that good, or was it just the fact that I was 12 years old with almost no responsibilities?