What are you missing from the 90s, 2000 era

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Just that really. Times have changed massively especially with social media and all the new technology in the world, what's everyone missing?

Not worrying about being in constant photos and awful pictures then being posted on line for everyone to see!

People being kinder to each other.

You need to be like me and just say no to photos lol.

90p for a chip butty

Full for hours

My youth, my grandparents, snow, sane politicians.

Oh yes my grandparents - I miss them too :(

I had an urge to listen to Alisha's attic yesterday. Great 90s stuff. Otherwise optimism!

I miss computers being your servants, doing what you tell them to do: no more, no less.

Now, they have minds of their own. They keep updating when your back is turned: you pick it up to use it, and "installing updates: please be patient". They're always trying to sell you stuff: antivirus warnings, cookie warnings, intrusive full-page adverts. With slower internet, it was harder for them to bombard you with all this. There's a tiny thing in the bottom left corner of mine that keeps showing me propaganda: "temperatures hit new record for November" (both ways). "Cold weather now". Well, duh. Yes, I suppose it's possible to turn these things off, but I'm annoyed at having to give it headspace.

Absolutely this.
also, the anticipation of meeting up with friends in real life to chat, to laugh because it hadn’t already been said online…

Also, the joy of not talking to the tops of someone’s heads because they’re bent over their phone either scrolling their social media or looking at their tablets answering work emails

Buying a magazine and taking it to my room to curl up in bed to read it. I was talking to my parents about this yesterday- my teenagers will never understand the thrill of seeing the new Just 17 (or similar) in the shop and getting home to read it. There are no magazines for teens these days

The way shops actually had their whole range in stock if you went to the larger ones and you could try everything on. And CDs. And Bill Clinton saying abortion should be safe, legal and rare.

My amazing figure

Being on the cusp of emerging technology felt so exciting. I remember getting encarta for our PC and being amazed that you could watch little videos of some of the things.
Little did I realise that once we were immersed in a world of new technology, it would feel so boring.

My pelvic floor

Great comment!

Being able to walk down to HMV to buy tickets for pretty much any gig I fancied, rather than joining an online scrum only for everything to be sold out by the time I get admitted from the waiting room.

Said tickets for the biggest bands costing £20.

And spontenaity. Seems like you can't do anything fun now without an advance booking.

Half-decent and competent politicians.

Really?!
I think people were much less kinder in the 90’s/2000’s.

@Switcher Oh yes, shopping was so much easier. You could head out to any kind of shop, and you could be almost certain they would have what you needed: no need to check stock, or click and collect and all that nonsense. You could have the pleasure of browsing. Now, online is the default; and deals and discounts and choosing delivery "options" are so bloody complicated. Then there's pressure to review everything you buy.

Optimism that the world was becoming a better, more exciting place.

Cheaper house prices - the idea of owning your own home felt like a reality not a dream and I think that inspired a sense of aspiration and hope for young people.

A slower pace of life. Small things felt more valued and gratification was delayed. CDs and clothes were more expensive but we appreciated them more and had fewer so cherished what we had. I don’t think my kids have ever ‘had’ to grow to love an album filler or wait more than a day or two for new clothes.

Also, I really miss a world without social media and all the performative bollocks that it entails.

Woolworths pick & mix

Also. I miss the vibe of different clothes shops. They all had a personality that translated into the clothes. Very few have that now and many just copy each other. So interchangeable and devoid of character.

I know, it's weird and it keeps accelerating. Even a few years ago I'd go to John Lewis each year and try on a whole new wardrobe and spend hundreds of pounds to get my whole season sorted in one (way quicker when you add up all that time browsing, deciding, and returning the duds), and now there's so little stock there's no point.