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My 90s TV: Browse 90s Television

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527 points optimalsolver | 4 comments | 30 Jan 21 23:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.542s | source
1. game_the0ry ◴[31 Jan 21 04:03 UTC] No.25975783[source]▶
I really miss the 90s.

Is it just me or did the mood of the times have a sense levity and optimism that just isn't present today in 2021? I think so and I see it in the older tv shows.

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2. bestnameever ◴[31 Jan 21 04:38 UTC] No.25976013[source]▶
I've always thought something shifted after 9/11.
3. parenthesis ◴[31 Jan 21 14:02 UTC] No.25978864[source]▶
The teenagers and young adults in the 90s were for the first time too young to remember the woes of the 70s.

The cold war was over, but pre 9/11.

Coordinated global action can solve environmental problems (phasing out of CFCs). Turns out CO2 emissions not such an easy problem to solve.

Rave / House music culture based on euphoric togetherness rather than sex and violence.

The economically rising east asian nations giving the west ever more affordable consumer goods, but not yet threatening US domination of the world order (especially after the bubble in Japan burst).

The utopian promise of the `information super highway'.

4. alisonkisk ◴[01 Feb 21 04:30 UTC] No.25985548[source]▶
Nearly everybody is nostalgic for their youth.