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[Mr Reasonable]

How can you afford to follow the band on tour (gas, food, sometimes lodging) but can’t afford $25 to go to a show?

I was thinking along similar lines. I wonder if Taylor Swift fans ever follow along trying to sell $6000 of hemp jewellery to get a ticket.

 

[ClanOfNone]

Dial back the portal ten years to 86 and I’ll pop on through.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

they were the last decades at all, as far as I can tell

Starting sometime after 2000, the concept of a decade seems to have dissolved... it's just one blur of online culture and then memes without any sense of overall cultural identity or coherence

Certainly an interesting thought. Maybe once we get to the 30s things will feel different.

I rather fear that it'll just be more self absorbed squabbling, general societal decline, funnelling of wealth to the richest in the world with the same backdrop of climate collapse.

By then, trying to sell hemp jewellery with people who are happy to stand around in a carpark because a band they like is playing will probably seem like an idyllic dream.

 

[Bloobs]

Would you step through if such a portal exisited?

Yes, I would save 2pac and terminate P Diddy

 

[diffusionx]

Take me back. We used to be a country.

 

[Mr Hyde]

I would definitely go back to 96 just to relive Resident Evil again for the first time.

Gaming in the 90s was awesome

 

[jason10mm]

Missing out on Bitcoin is one of my life's few regrets.

Far far FAR worse would have been one of those guys who cashed out at $20 or even $200 instead of holding to $30k+ the life of regret....

Or to have lost the bitcoin locker drive, or forgotten the password and you got 200 mill in there.....fuck that, I'd rather have missed the boat entirely!

 

[killatopak]

I can actually quote Patrick Bateman and return some tapes.

 

[daffyduck]

The 80s?

 

[ahtlas7]

Dude, amazing times were had in 1996. Oh yeah!

 

[lachesis]

1996. I think I lost my v-card. (old gaf joke) lol...

 

[nightmare-slain]

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[Syphon Filter]

No. The 1990s was a lame era. Peaceful but lame.

The 1980s were a little spooky if you were tuned into the Cold War. Pun intended. Good music tho. Dark Wave lives!

90's is the best era ever by far.

 

[IntentionalPun]

LOL 1996 was a pivotal year for me. I dropped out of college and started working at MS as a contractor in PSS. If I told myself to not go into tech but stay in school, my entire life would change, like entirely. Choosing to work instead of school put me on the path to meet my wife who I have kids with. Soooo much would change lol.

I also dropped out of college in 1996!

I did it to sell drugs though.

But in 1997 got my first job in tech lol

 

[Nydius]

LOL 1996 was a pivotal year for me. I dropped out of college and started working at MS as a contractor in PSS. If I told myself to not go into tech but stay in school, my entire life would change, like entirely. Choosing to work instead of school put me on the path to meet my wife who I have kids with. Soooo much would change lol.

1996 was definitely a turning point year for me too. I had been out of high school for a year but hadn’t immediately gone to college because I had gotten a job at a local retail computer shop. I used to shoot pool in league play back then, and met the woman I’d eventually marry. Went to the Atlanta Olympics that August and got caught up in a swell of patriotism and enlisted in the Air Force later that same month.

The first 8-9 months of 1996 radically altered the course of my life. I’m struggling to think of a more consequential year for me since then, honestly.

 

[Hookshot]

In 1996 I wasn't allowed to eat burgers because of BSE.... not really as exciting as some here.