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So what has changed?

#21
Sonic_Death said:
Born in 88. I remember people always complaining about calling long distance well.. what a crock that was haha.
-Thank god Facebook didn't crop up till my senior year of High School and wasn't that popular then. That would've been a horror show.
-I didn't have a cell phone till 11th grade, and even then, i saw it as an emergency purposes kind of thing.. I didn't want to give in to the trend. I see 8 year olds playing with iphones now.
-Baggy clothes used to be "in", and now it's the complete opposite. Skinny jeans and skin-tight shirts.
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I was born in '89 and can definitely agree to above statements. We were born right on the cusp of the great-big-bad-Internet and computers taking over the world.

I still think it's amazing how big of technology gap there is between us and the baby-boomer and older generation (no offense to those of you in that generation in here). My dad is an engineer and knows a thing about computers, but he still comes to me with simple computer problems. Before, kids would look up to older people to learn everything. Now it's almost the exact opposite with technology, younger people teaching older people.
 
#22
My step brother is 15 now and all he does is play his xbox. I am talking from the moment he gets up, until the moment he goes to sleep. One time his xbox broke, and all his focus shifted to fixing his xbox so he could get right back to it. It's sickening, really. I was born in 89 and sure I had an NES and super NES, and eventually the N64 (best system ever!) but I played outside daily, and was involved in sports year round. I can't get this kid to do ANY of that. I even got him a guitar, which he never touches despite my assurance that it will help him out drastically with the ladies. I guess he thinks Halo Reach is where you meet your best friends.
Bahumbug
 
#23
Everything, and with the exception of science and technology, for the worse, to my tastes.

The world I was born into has not merely changed, it's as dead as Carthage.

The staggering, geometric rate of change over the past hundred years or more has exceeded the human species' ability to assimilate it while retaining its sanity.

Almost all the change in human history has happened within my lifetime.

Yours too, probably, unless you're very young.
 
#26
While I agree that more change and progress has been made in the past 100 years than any other period in history, it still is only 100 years. as they say: Rome wasn't built in a day...
Likewise, everything we know was certainly not built in 100 years
 
#29
What a difference a couple of years makes. I was born in '84 and when I was a kid in the early '90's I always played outside. It started riding my bike from the lamp post in front of my house to the corner, so my mother could see me from the window.

Later I used to play manhunt, basketball, stick ball and fantasy games. Since there were no cell phones I had to be in when the street lights came on at dusk. I'm sure there were kidnapping, but that wasn't such a fear that parents kept there children home.

I had a Nintendo in the '80's and a super Nintendo in the '90's (my favorite console to this day) but I don't remember games being an all consuming passion like it seems to ne today. Just a way to spend some time on a rainy day or when your friends didn't want to play or whatever.

I remember in '96 I asked for a pager, and my grandmother said they were for drug dealers, lol. (We lived in a bad neighborhood of the Bronx)

In high school nobody had cell phones. Not one person in my graduating class of 2002 had a cell phone. Maybe that was due to the area not being wealthy, but it didn't seem to matter. We still contacted each other without a problem.

It wasn't a long time ago, but it feels like ancient history. I miss the times when I couldn't be contacted at any second of the day. People take personal relationships for granted these days because you don't spend a significant amount of time away from one another to actually miss each other.
 
#30
fmoore200 said:
It wasn't a long time ago, but it feels like ancient history. I miss the times when I couldn't be contacted at any second of the day. People take personal relationships for granted these days because you don't spend a significant amount of time away from one another to actually miss each other.
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I've never looked at a relationship that way. I was born in 1990, and had a cell phone (or at least access to a cell phone for whenever I left the house) by the time I was in middle school and started to date.
 
#31
I was born in '82. I'm going to forgo all of these cohort-oriented metanarratives about "we had more values or better manners or respected our elders or worked harder, etc." back then. I'm skeptical about large generalizations like that. Besides, when I was younger, I thought a lot of my elders were full of crap. Now that I'm older and look back, I still think a lot of my elders were full of crap. But I digress.

As others have pointed out, when I was growing up, everyone wasn't tied to their cell phone and there were multiple payphones at every gas station. And making a phone call at one of those could be expensive. You basically called someone, said what you needed to say, and then got off the phone before the operator came on to ask you for more quarters. :D

I really enjoyed console gaming back then. I had an NES and an SNES. I eventually bought a used Playstation when I was a senior in high school, but I never went beyond the first PSX. The 8- and 16-bit eras provided me with a lot of fun. I remember playing some crap games and thinking, "Wow, these blow!" After discovering the Angry Video Game Nerd, I learned that I wasn't the only one to have thought those games sucked.

I also got to experience the popularity of alternative music. I'm sure hipsters and scenesters will deride the commercialization of alternative music, but I loved it. I remember watching videos on MTV when they actually played music from bands like Bush, Silverchair, Soundgarden, etc. Hip-hop had a lot of cool stuff going on too. Country was getting too commercialized for my tastes, as that was when EVERYBODY was trying to copy Garth Brooks - and I like Garth Brooks, just wasn't a fan of all of the Garth Brooks clones.

I'm definitely nostalgic for the 90s. I love the music and pop culture. I recently found My So Called Life episodes on Netflix, and I've been watching those. :D With that said, I think that there is always something of value happening at all times. The 90s will always have a place in my heart, but I don't live there anymore. I'm not ready to sit down and watch a Timelife Music informercial where they have an attractive young woman and someone like Jerry Cantrell selling a compliation box set of 90s rock music. :D
 
#33
jmattbassplaya said:
I've never looked at a relationship that way. I was born in 1990, and had a cell phone (or at least access to a cell phone for whenever I left the house) by the time I was in middle school and started to date.
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I wasn't trying to say that anybody that was born after me treats relationships frivolously. It is more of a personal statement. I have noticed those around me (including myself) have changed how they treat people in general as technology has evolved.

An example of this: I have seen children and adults sit down for dinner and spend more time texting their friends than talking to the people right in front of them - and is acceptable! (To be honest I am on the metro north with my wife and we are both on our cell phones)
 
#34
KalTM said:
My step brother is 15 now and all he does is play his xbox. I am talking from the moment he gets up, until the moment he goes to sleep. One time his xbox broke, and all his focus shifted to fixing his xbox so he could get right back to it. It's sickening, really. I was born in 89 and sure I had an NES and super NES, and eventually the N64 (best system ever!) but I played outside daily, and was involved in sports year round. I can't get this kid to do ANY of that. I even got him a guitar, which he never touches despite my assurance that it will help him out drastically with the ladies. I guess he thinks Halo Reach is where you meet your best friends.
Bahumbug
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I'm literally the only person in my grade (and most likely my whole school) who doesn't own an xbox. I don't own a PS3 (or PS2 for that matter). I have a Sega Genesis and an N64 but I haven't played them in years, and I used to have a gamecube (it was my brothers old one) but I played it a whole of 3 times and I'm not quite sure where it is now.

Though I will add that I have contemplated getting a PS3 because nobody in my immediate family has gotten a blueray player, and I have a feeling thats all it'd get used for.
 
#35
fmoore200 said:
I wasn't trying to say that anybody that was born after me treats relationships frivolously. It is more of a personal statement. I have noticed those around me (including myself) have changed how they treat people in general as technology has evolved.

An example of this: I have seen children and adults sit down for dinner and spend more time texting their friends than talking to the people right in front of them - and is acceptable! (To be honest I am on the metro north with my wife and we are both on our cell phones)
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I know you weren't, no worries :)

But what you said is very true. People have instant access to anyone, anywhere, so long as both parties want to keep the line of communication open. I can still remember being a kid and if I wanted to go play with someone what I had to do was walk or ride my bike over to their place, knock on their door, and hope they were home. These days I can simply text or call someone's cell phone and be instantly connected. It's just interesting for me to think what high school, college, and marital relationships must of been like not even 15-20 years ago.

I don't think this was necessarily the point you were trying to get across, but I definitely stopped and thought about this after reading your post.
 
#37
I wonder what has changed in regards to safety. Kids not walking to school, Halloween being held at 2:00 in the afternoon, no one hitchhiking. Dangerous people have always existed, but what makes them so much more prevalent now?
 
#40
IMO...between texting, and video games, there's going to be significantly more wrist problems in young adults than ever before. I'm expecting an increased number of studies documenting those problems in a few years.

Well, I turned 12 in '69 in the 'burbs. We didn't see that many hippies that far out of the city. ;) We spent plenty of time outside, in the neighboring woods, riding bicycles or otherwise breathing fresh air.
 

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