In this thread, we list the things we MOST miss about the 90's.

[UpsideDownFlag]

I miss:

Being able to afford college
Nirvana
Bill Clinton
Booming stock markets
Less terrorism


how about you?

edit: I put this in the GD: politics forum because i figured there'd be a lot of political stuff that people missed, like the clintons, etc.

[Worst Username Ever]

1. peace

[Rambis]

53. Peace!

:-(

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. my $500 an hour job designing webpages

cause HTML knowledge was worth your weight in gold in 1995-6

[frankly_fedup2]

5. So tell me . . .

What kind of education is required to make $500 an hour to make web pages. Or, what education do I need to make web pages for $100 an hour (I'd be happy with that).

[7th_Sephiroth]

8. first of all you need a time machine

this is back when webpages were a new thing for companies to start doing and they were suckers, this is back when ALL there was was HTML, now you got homeless guys with signs saying Will code HTML for food

[frankly_fedup2]

12. LOL. Thanks. I have another question though . . .

Were you able to save some of that money? Are you still working with computers? Did you go back to school to specialize in something else for the new world?

I hear militias are getting a lot of work in Iraq and get paid pretty good, although there are some problems with kidnappings and beheadings.

[7th_Sephiroth]

15. saved a bit, ($10,000) bought a fancy car tho

i'm also an MCSE but i install power monitors now

[RT Atlanta]

3. Others...

Y2K bug;

Living in Seattle;

Missing some relatives who passed on during the decade;

A more "open time" during our country's history.

[HughBeaumont]

4. Economic Prosperity for most of the country

Mr. Bungle
Leaders who weren't proto-fascist dumbasses
Being able to afford college
Being able to major in what I wanted without having to consider whether it would be offshored

[Ekova]

7. Agreed on the Bungle...

(and everything else).

[DuaneBidoux]

6. I miss all the terrible mainstream headlines about Monica and Bill.

Oh what nirvana we occupy when these make up 20 minutes of network news each and every night. Such stories as headlines show that all is truly right with the world.

Give me the good old days when stocks went up, Monica went down, the wealth went up, and deficits went down, love of America by foreigners went up, and unemployment went down, people with health insurance went up, people in poverty went down...etc., etc., etc.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

9. The Bridge to the 21st Century that Bill Clinton talked about......

on Election Night 1996 (November 5th).

That bridge would bring us to a hopeful and prosperous 21st Century.
This Bridge damaged on 12/12/2000 when the SCOTUS APPOINTED BUSH PRESIDENT! Bush burned this bridge in the following time after 9/11. The opening days of the 21st Century were NOTHING like I expected.

Bill Clinton
Economic Prosperity
Lower Crime and Abortion Rates
Balanced Budgets
Rising Incomes
Affordable Real Estate
Reasonable Oil Prices
A sense of youth, innocence, and optimism that you can conquer the world, so to speak.
The Kyoto Treaty was a reality
No September 11th

The 1990's were GREAT!!!

November 5th, 1996 should be GLORIFIED!!! It was a Glorius day for the World!

[frankly_fedup2]

10. What I miss the most about the 90's is . . .

1. Not as much day-to-day anxiety.
2. I was on less medication.
3. I had no fear about the future.
4. I felt there would be a future.
5. I worked my butt off because we could never get ahead. Everything was booming.
6. Bill Clinton.
7. My son was in Jr. High and high school and was still living at home.
8. Gas was under $1.
9. Cigarettes were around $10 a carton instead of the $23-$33 now.
10. Beers gone up too.

[missouri dem]

11. Hope

[zbdent]

13. The slightest hint of a "liberal media"

. . .

[UpsideDownFlag]

54. i dont remember any. although, i didnt really pay attention to bias prior

to the Monica Hullabaloo.

[Buzz Clik]

14. I had never heard of George Walker Bush

[Bush was AWOL]

41. lol

[VolcanoJen]

16. Rage Against the Machine, Travelling confidently, playing with the market.

But, mostly I miss big tippers. :-( Those were the days, my friend. Everybody had fat pockets and an appetite for fun.

[WMliberal]

17. weezer being good

peace and prosperity
my dad having a job
my first love
napster (yeah,it's peak was in 2000-2001, but close enough)
the internet before spyware and pop-ups

[AbbeyRoad]

42. ah. another weezer fan, eh?

I miss 90's Weezer as well. Maladroit was a bit of a departure, but still better than a lot of crap floating out there. I think they're close to wrapping up album 5, which I hope returns to their nerd rock roots.

[WMliberal]

52. it better. because i'm a sucker and will buy it regardless

of what the critics say.
I don't want to waste money like i did on the Green album and Maladroit.

[quiet.american]

18. September 11th hadn't happened yet

[demnan]

19. The Kyoto Treaty

Well actually I miss the fact that my salary increased astronomically every time I changed jobs, but that has been said.

[richabk]

20. Ally McBeal before Billy turned blonde n/t

[UpsideDownFlag]

22. ally mcbeal? i miss the (good) era of the simpsons much more.

and the early south park episodes.

and seinfeld. but not as much.

[gauguin57]

21. Bill Clinton. No question. Clintons and the Gores.

Peace. Prosperity. Watching the surplus rise (and the economy expand, and jobs increase) under a Democratic president.

Having a job at which I could actually put away a little bit of money. Having an insurance plan in which I didn't have to take out a home-equity loan to pay the co-pay!!

Trusting the media even a little tiny little weenie bitty bit.

Cleaner air, cleaner water -- the environment not being in total fucking peril.

My final years of being willing to get any tan whatsoever (my skin looks like Nosferatu these days -- I know too many people of my generation with skin cancer and lizard skin!).

Early Tori Amos CDs (yeah, I can still listen to them, but they're not "new" to me anymore). Also hearing Shawn Colvin for the first time (yeah ... see above). So many others.

[TXDemGal]

23. Jobs. Peace. Prosperity.

Wasn't that the Repuke slogan when they ran Poppy in '92? It didn't apply to them then, either. As always, the smoke and mirrors party.

[UpsideDownFlag]

24. smoke, mirrors, and diebold. nt

[mogster]

25. I miss the reason and common sense

I miss a sense of having a future.
The friendly and open tone between friendly and open societies.
UN-related, fact-based, well-executed military operations.
The works.

But most of all I miss reason and common sense.

We're passing out of the Age of Reason and into the Age of Fucking Misunderestimated Morons.
Ah, well.

BRING IT ON!

[rndmprsn]

26. too many to list...

my healthcare
my ex-girlfriend
my father RIP
my good paying IT job
bill clinton
IDM
being in my 20's
my VW corrado
world trade centers
no patriot act
no bush....!

[deadparrot]

27. I miss the time when

the "scandal" in the White House was that the president received a blow job.

And I'm not even a big Clinton fan.

[Auntie Bush]

28. BILL CLINTON

[GumboYaYa]

29. The easiest venture capital market ever sene.

All you had to have was .com in your name and they threw money at you. It was insanity lieke we will never see again. That was more fun than should heve been allowed. Even though I didn't join the billionaires club, I am so glad I got to play in that game when it was around.

[Robeson]

30. Good Music

[Catfight]

31. The classified ads that were more than a paragraph, like 4 pages! nt

[Miami Liberal]

32. My innocence

back then I believed in my country, I believed in our future. Most of all I miss the Clinton presidency.

[UpsideDownFlag]

33. innocence was nice. i was a teenager for most of the nineties.

didn't have a care in the world, just knew life was good.

[Metatron]

34. Ted Turner's CNN

Bill Clinton
Jerry Garcia

[leesa]

35. Hope

[tedoll78]

36. The 90's were wonderful for me..

- going through high school and college
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Clinton appointing Supreme Court justices
- the music was better
- I worked less and partied much, much more
- I had more money (okay, it was student loan money, but still..)
- falling in love
- finding-out that I LIKE small-town living!
- this was largely before Britney Spears and her ilk had "caught-fire"
- hell, even Saturday Night Live was better back then..

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[Bush was AWOL]

39. I miss not being told to be afraid

I don't recall Clinton and his admin. trying to scare the shit out of the American people.

[LVdem]

40. Peace & prosperity...

My mullet....just kidding.
The Clintons
No Bushes

stuff like that

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[fujiyama]

44. Not having to worry about politics

because I knew regardless of how ridiculous a bill congress passed, Clinton's veto was always there.

I also miss not having to wonder about leaving the country.

[Hawkeye Pierce]

45. I miss having an actual elected president.

[laheina]

46. Is this for a VH1 show?

*When progressive rock was really progressive

*Flannel -- which looked good even when it had been wadded up :)

*All my jeans had holes in them

*SUVs were a cultural oddity that people only drove to get out of the mud and snow

* NOT having to straighten my hair, which I've stopped doing anyway

*When being an environmentalist was ubercool.

*The early internet

*The ten minutes between the eighties and the millennium when everything wasn't so commercial (or didn't seem that way at the time)

*My cheer leading uniform, which was made from crazy double knit polyester that no stain could stick to-- and not knowing enough to be embarrassed to wear it:)

[HR_Pufnstuf]

47. small pHisH shows.

washa uffize and drive me to firenze.

[Lexingtonian]

48. ah, yes

creativity with selfconfident irony- rare, but still discoverable then
tons of good mid/late 80s music being played (yes, music that could be danced to!)
having sex with Cocteau Twins playing
New Age music that was actually new
summer nights under the moon in Malibu- at the Lagoon, at Dan Blocker, Sequit Point, Malibu Lake, the Spring, anywhere on Mulholland, anywhere looking out over the sea
all the dot-com millionaire philanthropy
the optimism about cancer and biomedical breakthroughs just ahead
performance art being unbelievably daring and cool
all the offers to head over to her place
everyone having/craving/needing access to e-mail and Internet
the first cell phones- talk about a status symbol
none of my friends having mortgages/kids/"responsibility" yet

[lildreamer316]

49. My $500 -an-hour job stripping!

...well, maybe closer to $50-100; but hey, now I make $50 in one night after paying the same in tipout! (NC sucks for this job). Ah, the good ol' days....;)

[shayes51]

50. All that retirement money

we lost in the Bush Stock Market.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

51. Peace processes in Northern Ireland and the Middle East

Sound economic planning in government
Economic prosperity
Optimism about the 21st century
Less reality TV game shows

[Butterflies]

55. Bill Clinton in the White House

I haven't felt like America belongs to the people ever since.

[bettys boy]

56. I miss

The prospect of achieving a European-style social democracy
The dot coms
My Army buddies
College, and its many many women
Nirvana, Seaweed, Seven Year Bitch, The Pleasure Elite, Public Enemy...