There are people that are currently being nostalgic about the '90s, which was the decade I was born in. I was born in the early 1990s which was the dawn of the information and digital age, and why look back? There are people that want to be nostalgic about the '60s and '70s, which I never lived in and it wasn't that great. The hippie thing was not that cool and it was a period of war, gas shortages, and lack of morality. The feminist movement was a big joke and probably a destruction of society.
We are in the 2010s decade which means we are in another period of war and economic turmoil. When there is a time where there is no war or economic turmoil? But I have to gloat about the technology of today's age. The 1990s internet looks like cheese compared to today's web and you can finally get the web on your TV, which is what TV is made for in the first place. The internet TV revolution is great and you can get access to a lot more entertainment than you ever had access to back in the cheap days of the 1990s.
In the 1990s, music downloading was unexistent and you basically have to listen to the radio. Now you can get access to music that "you" actually like than listening to the local radio, which plays music that is cheesy. The gaming industry has improved a lot in the 21st century way better than the cheese of the 1990s.
Of course, there are some things about the 1990s that seem to be sentimental than the world of now, but I don't see much different. The 1990s was actually a boring era - we didn't have much culture compared to the current times. Our culture now is actually a lot more broad and the internet is starting to create pop culture.
We are in a era where the individual is important and pretty much individualism is going to rise more and more. By the true 21st century, education is going to be a lot better than it was during the cheese and the yawn of the 1990s. Now you can have the option of actually learning high school and college on the web, which was something that you didn't have in the dusty textbook era of the 1990s. Education will be a lot more fun now than it was in the 1990s - you can learn it your way and YouTube will be a great way to educate. I can educate myself on a lot of things off of YouTube if you weed out the junk.
The internet is full of actually very good stuff and the internet has been destroyed in the MySpace era of the 2000s, which was starting in the 1990s. MySpace was the last of the .com boom and it looks like MySpace had the cheese of the cheap Geocities graphics of the 1990s. The 1990s is not a period to be retroed - we are way better off today with modern technology than the 1990s.
Wait until the world picks up again around the 2020s. Things will be a lot better and actually the lifestyle of today seems to be a lot better than the 1990s. The 1990s was about materialism and working, sucking up to greed and trying to outgreed each other. Very immature and inethical. But now, in the modern era, we are going to be more focused on what is more important - the family. The recession had brought back family values which I haven't seen in the greed of the 1990s and the 2000s.
2006 seems so old school as of 2012 going onto 2013. 2003 sounds like we are going retro - the SmartTV is plain awesomness and computers had become a lot more user friendly and intelligent.
I had now grasped some of the modern innovations that made my life better since I got some money from working at my local Walmart. There is a value of working and making money. There is nothing against women working - they are human beings and they do need a sense of accomplishment. Now the gender roles had returned -women are not going to be corporate executives anymore. Women are now returning to a more "womenly" jobs such as the human service and hospitality sector.
We had been modernizing a lot but there are always some of the traditional values that should come back and are coming back now than it was during the 1990s. Now were making importance of raising children and that is shown on the internet - every step of the way. The web is not full of teenager pranks and anime references as it was in the world of the millennium. YouTube and social media was simply "teen rebellion" back then, but now it has turned to be the haven for baby videos and pet videos, which shows the comeback of family values. Facebook has become the family connection center as relatives and close friends connect, and Hulu has started out to become "family friendly" entertainment.
We are actually getting better and maybe we needed some economic butt kicking going on here - there was too much greed.
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