Current Events > The mid 90's feels so different compared to the late 90's

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I was born in the early 90s and pretty much only remember 98 and 99. Even today when I see media like TV shows, ads, or fashion from just a couple years prior to my developed memories, to me everything looks ancient. Its like everything was becoming moremodernized(?) in that 2-3 year stretch from 96-99. What a crazy phenomenon, you know? Anyone else understand where Im coming from?

Video game graphics were developing super fast, too. In the mid 90s they were still in "how do we 3D?" land, but Dreamcast games look fairly good even by today's standards.

Thats how every decade was

I understand you're coming from the 90s

MICHALECOLE posted...

Thats how every decade was

In my lifetime that was the greatest shift in culture, technology, and aesthetics. I cant speak on 86-89 and so on.

I also mean this in the sense that everything that was produced from 99 feels significantly more modern than what came just a few years prior. Ive noticed this when I look through old family photos. Photos of me taken in 93 look 30 years old to me, but then Ill see a photo from the late 90s and the fashion and home aesthetics make everything look like it could potentially have been from the 2000s or early 2010s even.

I found the shift from 80s to 90s to be way more severe than anything that explicitly happened in the 90s. But mainly because the first few years of the 90s still kind of feel like the 80s (in the same way the first few years of the 80s still kind of look, feel, and sound like the 70s).

But it's always going to be rooted in your personal experience. The shift from being a toddler/young kid to being a teenager is going to be a huge shift for you no matter what the world is doing around you, and it's going to color your perception of things later on.