5/17/2023 0 Comments Nostalgia 90sNapster launched in 1999 and YouTube came around in 2005, which meant if you didn't have the money to buy new CDs and you'd already burned all your friends' CDs onto your desktop computer, you just had to sit around and listen to the music you already had. Your existence was probably a bunch more focused on IRL than URLs. While we had the internet in the grunge era, it didn't necessarily dominate your life at that point. ![]() It's because we had such less access to entertainment back then - and '90s kids loved what they did have so much. But I don't think that we're still obsessed with all of the above because it was so much better than the equivalent 2017 music, TV, and movies. One argument goes like this: the music, TV, and films made between 19 were so amazing, so completely unforgettable, that how can we get over that decade? And, sure, it was the decade of Nirvana, TLC at their peak, the unforgettable TV series My So-Called Life, and ever-quotable movie Clueless. When you think about it, a lot of what's obsessed over in terms of the decade is its pop culture. Unlike those a decade or so younger, you also remember what it's like to exist in a world prior to hanging out online and all the inconveniences and delights this entailed. Unlike the generation before, you grew up with access to the internet. The internet changed how we would consume entertainment, and, if you grew up in the decade that seems rife for nostalgia these days, you're in a pretty unique position. ![]() This is probably why '90s kids can't get over the '90s. Arguably, it's no coincidence that the 1990s are the decade we're still obsessed with started immediately following the invention of the World Wide Web.
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