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Do you think the 90s are legit old school?

  • Yes, the '90s are legit old school

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  • Not really just yet

    Votes: 27 32.9%

In your opinion: Do you think the 90s are legit old school yet?

[Generation Y] 
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#1 ·
I might say from a core Y-er's perspective, they are, even though some mid-late '90s fashion doesn't seem that outdated yet to a certain extent in my opinion. Music-wise, I would say that 1990-1996 are legit old school, or if anything, ancient. I might give 1997-1999 another 5 years or so.
 
#2 ·
I don't know why you keep insisting that gen y is getting old! lol! We are still so young! You hear me!? Stop trying to make me feel ancient. :tongue:

But okay, I suppose from a pop culture ONLY perspective, yeah, 90s fashion/music/TV is "old school."



I mean who could walk down the street wearing those outfits today and not feel ridiculous!? Haha... Then again, we weren't really old enough to have any influence on fashion. I identify 100% more with fashion today as someone in their mid 20s than what Gen X people were wearing (Melissa Joan Hart in this particular photo) in the early 90s. Basically because I am old enough to buy my own clothes with my own disposable income.
 
#4 ·
I say most of the 90s are old school because the music was alot different than it is today. Most people didnt have much technology. All they had were walkmans, film cameras, 2D game consoles with cartridges, brick phones, brick computers, VHS, (DVDs didnt exist until later) and pagers/beepers. Another thing is that people weren't on the internet as they are today. Kids were playing outside alot often than today as they had adventures, imagination and fun. There were a variety of games like video games, board games, outside games, computer games etc. As for the fashion, it was crazy. Does anyone here remember Fila sport shoes? Those were the popular sport shoes. Today, it is now Jordans.
 
#5 ·
I'd definitely say the 90s are legit old school (yo)! Basically, peoples' lives in the 90s were way different than our lives are today. No internet for most of the decade, and the internet that did exist in the 90s is also a fossil (have you listened to the dial up connection sound recently for nostalgia purposes? haha)... Phones with cords, pagers, a day back when "google" couldn't be used as a verb, etc.

Yep, totally old school. :tongue:
 
#8 ·
Yes, especially early to mid 90s. In fact, last year I helped my friends throw a 90's Party. All oldschool 90's music, 90's candy, people dressed up like Walker Texas Ranger, Daria, Pete and Pete ect. and Are You Afraid of the Dark playing on repeat. Lots of bright colors, ball chains, grunge, fanny packs and beepers. "Hey girl let me get your beeper number!"

Also, lots of jokes about blowjobs and white broncos...

But let me tell you, nothing beats doing a keg stand with All The Small Things playing in the background. ;D
 
#12 ·
For sure.
 
#13 ·
Yeah, it's still insane to think that it's 20 years ago! That being said for the most part I consider anything from 95-04 is old school compared to today's pop culture/time period :D
 
#15 ·
I wanted to complain that this made me feel old.

I was going to skip the "get off my lawn" gag and go with Grampa Simpson's "I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time."

Then I realized that quote is more than 20 years old.

Sigh.

Legit old school it is.
 
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#18 ·
I actually don't feel that the 90s are "old school". Maybe the really early 90s are old school but the mid and late 90s still seem like they weren't THAT long ago. I feel very connected to the 90s and it feels like that decade is still a big part of me, and since I'm only 25, they can't really be called old school just yet. The 80s are pretty old school though.
 
#21 · (Edited)
Here's how I define '00s in terms of "old-schoolness".

2000: Very, very old school. Just slightly more new school than 1999.
2001: The first 2/3 of the year was a lot like 1999-2000, but Fall 2001 was what really ushered in the early '00s "9/11" era.
2002: Definitely '00s, but still very old school. Aside from terrorism fear, very little remains of this time, and the technology, TV and Web looks quite similar to that of the late '90s. This was also the last year that was not really a part of social media movement.
2003: The peak of the "Early Noughties". Totally '00s, but somehow it's still more like 2000 than 2006. Quite old school. The very beginning of social media movement.
2004: The last year that is really 100% "back in the day" relative to 2016. Some very primitive late '00s/early '10s things were already present by then, but it's still just before the "Age of Tech" started to immerse everything in the late '00s and early '10s.
2005: Old school, but a little less old school. Crunk rap gave into snap rap, XBOX 360 and YouTube were introduced, but it's still more like 2003 than 2007.
2006: The last year that's really a different era from now (makes sense, since it's 10 years ago already). Emo was at its prime, a shift began in fashion, music and tech, and social media became pretty ubiquitous. Basically a border between Old and New School. Still it's more old school than 2007-2009.
2007: Very '00s, but still new school from a 2016 perspective. Nothing REALLY retro about 2007 yet.
2008: Noticeably dated, but still quite new school. This was when the Great Recession happened, the second social media boom began to take place, and popular culture, music and technology went through another big shift yet again.
2009: Definitely new school. The very beginning of the current era, arguably the beginning of the current cultural decade. A lot of things introduced this year are directly connected to the early '10s (but not so much mid '10s), though there was a plenty of '00s stuff that was still going strong by then.
 
#23 ·
Yes, but not "retro" like the 70s or 80s. And it probably won't be for a while. Somebody on another site once said something to the effect of, "The 90s were the 20th century becoming the 21st century," which I found spot-on. The 90s have aged well and are still fairly modern to this day; they make the 80s look primitive.
 
#25 ·
Does anyone agree that the '90s still seem way too recent to really be the "parents'" decade
I agree. For myself, I will probably never view the 90s as being a "parents" decade, because I was born in 1999 and I grew up with a lot of things from the decade as well. If I was born in the 2000s, it may be different, however it seems strange labeling the decade I was born in as a "parents" decade. :p
 
#33 ·
Does she like it, if so she has good taste, if not


Culturally a lot has changed. The '90s were the back end of the crack epidemic and all that shit there... the best you could hope for as a young blood coming up was a pager, a gold chain, a 5.0 on Dayton's, and a pair of Jordans strapped on your feet.
 
#32 ·
I agree. Most people, even if they're just 10 years younger than me, don't even know the most basic things about back then. I mean they grew up with an iPhone while I witnessed the first ones that looked liked you could hit somebody over the head with it. Just an example. But there are tons of.
 
#34 ·
The 90s definitely feel dated compared to today. So much as changed. It is definitely old school, but of course it still feels modern when compared to the 60s or 70s which are more retro. Even 2000s feels dated, especially the earlier part. The first half of the 90s were different from the second half, especially when looking at 98-99 which pretty much feels similar to early 2000s.
 
#35 ·
Every year something important (culturally or otherwise) from the 1990s becomes 20 years old*. Movies, songs, games, TV shows are all now two decades old. So that's old school IMO.

However, the 90s don't feel as old as they actually are to me. I'm still saying the same 2-3 Simpsons quotes, music if anything sounds less dated now (plenty of 2000s/2010s indy rock songs would fit in just fine with the 1990's alt-rock era and vice versa).

1990s are incredibly dated from a technology standpoint. Google search 1990s cell phones XD. AOL was a thing.

Sports-wise we had the (wonderful to watch) steroid era in baseball, Michael Jordan in basketball, no salary cap in the NFL. We didn't know how terrible concussions were yet. Pro wrestling still kinda had Kayfabe (belief and portrayal that it was all real).

*most obvious thing I've said on this forum ever
 
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#38 · (Edited)
Well as a younger Millennials.Millennials are people who were born from 1982-2000(Late 1998 to Mid 2017 Youth Culture are mostly belong to Millennials instead of Z even though gen z instigated to rise a bit),Yes,i agree with what you said.As for Michael Jeffrey Jordan's Era commenced from Late 1984 to Mid 1998 so it is definitely or mostly 1980s and 1990s basketball era.As for Pop or teen culture,it is mostly Younger Generation X except Late 1998 and 1999 with the boys band reached its peak in those years..So over 50 or 70% of the 1990s are definitely belong to the culture of MTV Generation/Generation X(Early/Late 1981 to Mid 1998)(born from 1965-1981) instead of Millennials with Mariah Carey's Butterfly,Nirvana,Green Day,Post Grunge Band with Boys band or Girls Band or Millennials's song rising like Backstreet's Back Alright by Backstreet Boys,Spice Girls and etcs
 
#36 ·
Its weird to think that the people who id'd as kids in the 90s are becoming more and more the new "Adults". Of course, i dont see getting older as a bad thing, but I can impagine 90's aestehtics having a sort of dated "old person" feel for children now as i felt with my parents 80s stuff
 
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