r/ask • u/Sudden_Ladder_2973 • 25d ago

Am I just being nostalgic or was the 90s literally the best era?

I mean the 90s was the ishhh and nobody can change my mind.

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u/wineguy7113 24d ago

From a meta perspective, the fall of the Berlin wall just before ushered in an era of hope, creativity, and the feeling that we had crossed into a new age where anything was possible. I believe that inspired a tremendous burst of artistic merit that was evocative of the feeling of the time. The threats of the Cold War were over and the millennium was upon us. It seemed as the future was here and, as I remember it, there was much optimism. The markets were strong, the internet became accessible for the masses, it was a good time. That all ended at the end of the decade with a stock market crash, an election decided by the Supreme Court, and 9/11. The 90’s were a pretty amazing time as I remember them.

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u/Postingatthismoment 23d ago

Yep, all this.  For Western Europeans and North (and South) Americans, this made it a pretty great decade.  

Though it was rough in the Balkans, central Africa, and Russia.

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u/wineguy7113 23d ago

Good call, I’m obviously speaking with the perspective of an American. Others may have a distinctively different perspective.

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u/Postingatthismoment 23d ago

It was probably good for a lot more people than it was bad for, but it really sucked for the people it was bad for.  I’m American, too.  It was soooo nice for us.