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?

The excitement of collecting a developed roll of photos.

I miss the devil-may-care attitude I had in the 90s, everyone seemed to be having FUN and not taking life too seriously. Life for me, then, was great fun and it was lush. But I was young so that's probably why I remember it fondly. There's plenty I don't miss too though.

This Life.

Yes!!! Just 17 lying on the mat by the front door having just been delivered.

Oh my god yes! And the free gifts. I still have a strong memory of two mini lip balms/glosses that came free with Sugar Magazine. I used them until they ran out and then refilled the wee pots with my own as I found them so cute and tiny.

Sitting on the stairs chatting to friends on the landline. The general mild excitement of the phone ringing and not knowing who it was!!!

Receiving/ writing postcards and letters. Looking forward to printed photographs with no clue how they turned out, feeling optimistic about the future, it not being odd to be unreachable, hanging out with friends and nobody checking their phone, just one TV and all have to watch the same, not worrying about kids getting access to completely inappropriate stuff via their friends.

90s: living in a hot country. New series of Friends and new Harry Potter books coming out.

00s: going on a night out at 7pm, spending a tenner and dancing all night long. No one dances anymore 🙁.

The bubble of excitement getting my photos developed and usually meeting a friend after to go through them. The joy of a good one for a frame and the disappointment of a spoiled one!

Top of the Pops

And the conversations that would run from it. Everyone giving theories about what would happen and debates about characters or plot lines. No one was ever ahead of anyone in a series.

I miss the adventure that came with visiting places with little or no information about them. Whether it was a holiday or a day out, all you really had to go on was a leaflet/brochure or perhaps a few comments from friends who'd been before. I loved the discovering somewhere new on holiday and the sense of excitement about what it would look like, what restaurants etc would be nearby etc. Nowadays no one books anywhere without checking loads of reviews and photos online, checking out reviews for nearby places to visit and often watching videos on YouTube.

Obviously I could simply book a holiday without research but since there's the facility to find out more obviously I want to do that to make sure we don't end up somewhere terrible.

Optimism.

Scrunchies

Mitshubishi's

Smoking in clubs and pubs
Everyone going to the pub
No internet (or dial up)
Less crime
Four TV channels

Those were the days 😎

The price of petrol🤣 baring in mind I was born in 1995 (so I was a kid in the 90s/00s) but I remember my mam getting petrol for something daft like 90p per litre - so jealous!

Shopping with my friend in the 90's, when there were actually shops to browse round. Looking at clothes and smelling the perfumes in The Body Shop. We always felt safe catching the bus and wandering a city despite only being early teens. I wouldn't let my DD of the same age do it now
Going to Woolworths to buy the latest single or your favourite album then going home to listen to it.
Also agree about the excitement of the latest magazine coming out.
After school tv was good; sMart, Newsround, Grange Hill, Byker Grove.
The music was good, make up was colourful and fun. It wasn't perfect of course but it just felt a happier totally different time.

The slower pace of life, people obviously still had their worries and hardships but nobody felt like they have to live up to things they see on social media and were probably happier and healthier as a result.

Discovering things that have happened on the news (and only the six or nine pm bulletins) unless it was something deadly serious and there was a newsflash.

I realised this year that I have got one item of my Christmas shopping from the high street this year because it's not there anymore , so going round all the different great shops finding gifts.

Phoning a friend and spending half an hour chatting on the landline and arranging when/where to meet because we didn't have mobiles

Less choice of TV channels and discussing something that was on last night instead of "did you see x last?" "No, what's it on? Oh I don't have that".

The wait to find out who was number one or what was going to happen next on a certain TV show. Instead of everything being available on demand and spoilers everywhere.

And not to mention the food, the fashion, the music, the magazines, the TV shows.

So yeah, not much really. Bet your glad you asked OP 😂.

Think we had the same childhood. Wish I'd seen your post first, I could have saved myself writing out War & Peace !

Is Christmas #1 even a thing that people pay attention to anymore?

Woolworths .. especially at Christmas.

@Switcher And shopping was easier before all the "Black Friday" nonsense. You feel under pressure to buy, you feel cheated if you do buy something you need and don't get a massive discount. And if you're sceptical, like me, you're thinking it's a massive con, and the prices aren't actually any lower than normal; or they've been inflated by stealth beforehand, and then brought down to their normal level. I think I actually buy less during things like Black Friday, it's just too stressful.

90s were more politically stable in the UK and a lot of Europe and it was cheaper to have quite a nice life. The cold war damped right down, travelling was easy. Late 90s was peak stability, security and quality of life - that first Blair administration was fantastic domestically. I miss all that because it just made day to day life easier and less stressful.

I feel the opposite, lol! I was always irritated to pay full price for 25 Dec, then to see the price drop off a cliff on 26 Dec.