Does anyone else refuse to believe the 90s were like 30 years ago?

[smahala1991]

To be honest, most of us 90s and early 00s kids don't even feel like adults like our parents would have been back then.

[WhiteSteve]

Bro, that’s my entire life now….. just absolute disbelief at how many years have passed. I think we come in with warped time passage perspectives as young people. If you’re 20, “10 years ago” is SO fucking long ago, literally half your life ago, and the difference of being an adult or a child. Now, at 44…looking back when I was 34, there’s really hardly any difference. My life is largely the same, I look and feel largely the same, and it’s really only current events and pop culture that put things in perspective. 2014 is NOT long ago to me. Like it’s JUST starting to feel like a while ago, with respect to my own life. I think that’s why adults get so “uncool” to younger people, because 2 or 3 years is fucking forever ago, and the trends and music and slang are tired to them. That’s how I feel about like TWELVE years ago.

Like I was just thinking a week ago…. whatever happened to Wiz Khalifa? Haven’t seen him lately, and I’m JUST noticing now. What happened is his time came and went, and he was really an early 2010s artist. But I still see Drake around…. except I think Drake is like Michael Jackson in ‘93. He’s still hanging around and can drop a successful single. But is he THRILLER Mike? Probably not, but he has name recognition and it will sell regardless. But seeing him around still doesn’t make it 2010.

Comparatively, when I was 14 in 1993, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg were blowing up, the grunge scene with Nirvana, etc, and if someone brought Cyndi Lauper at that point, I’d be like “who else you want to talk about? Bing Crosby?”

So the value of time then was more noticeable now than it is then. If you play the old music for me, I’m like “ohhhh shit! Classic!”, and it’s still a relevant song. Someone younger than me is gonna be like “uhhhh…. are you playing one of those “CD” things right now?”😂

[NathanDavis]

yeah, the little ones keep reminding me of it...

it started when they would find out 90's music and when I knew them, songs, they would be like "and how would YOU know this song?" the nerve...

[jennifer_bloom]

When I was a kid, time passed by so incredibly and unbelievably slow that one year felt like 30 years.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Yes, because the 70s, 80s, music never left us and people have to admit that Phil Collins rocks.

[9in_Serpent]

Its pretty simple life and kids were affordable for our parents now its just impossible except for the 1% obviously who exploited all of us

[AviatorTom]

I'm older and lived through the 90s. It doesn't seem like it was that long ago. I even remember the Y2K fiasco. But then I do the math... 2024 minus 1994 = 30 years ago.

[TheGuyWhoKnowsStuff]

Yes, they ended 24 years ago but started 33 years ago. Let's be precise.

[exitseven]

it is really hard to believe the 9/11 was over 20 years ago.

[RavVid]

I tend to hang out more with older guys so I do.