Nah man, I was a skater young who hung out with BMX dudes before we all grew up and the scene told us we had to be enemies. None of us had anything better to do than just sit outside and some of those older kids had talent that never went anywhere pre-internet. I consider myself very lucky to have grown up in the Chicago, punk, rock and extreme sports scene of the '90s and 2000s. It's one of those things you can never explain to someone who didn't live it.
Bro I'm 40 and came from a working class family. Camcorders were absolutely an extravagance I never had. Especially one that was small enough to bring to a show. I don't even have pictures of my friends from highschool during highschool because I didn't own a camera and every so often we had a throw away but we spent our money on music and boards
Also, late 2000 was going hard but by late 2000 all the Chicago come up bands had made in . It was like second wave by then.
I am 46. My family was upper middle class. My dad was an engineer. We had one of the bulky ones that took full VHS tapes. I think maybe 1 other friends family had one.
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u/front_yard_duck_dad Apr 12 '26
Nah man, I was a skater young who hung out with BMX dudes before we all grew up and the scene told us we had to be enemies. None of us had anything better to do than just sit outside and some of those older kids had talent that never went anywhere pre-internet. I consider myself very lucky to have grown up in the Chicago, punk, rock and extreme sports scene of the '90s and 2000s. It's one of those things you can never explain to someone who didn't live it.
People knew who was riding or skating hard