worst generation

*and I wondered

I was using email & usenet in 94...those were easier to adjust to, for some reason, I think bcs at uni they were only accessible on unix terminals so it didn't *look* so hitech, the way Netscape on a Windows computer did.

i guess what i am thinking is that if you spent any of your supposed formative years of adulthood (ie junior high through college) in the period between 1991-1995, you are prob gen x

I quit telling people about how I liked to troll the Prodigy message boards at age 12, because invariably they never heard of the Prodigy internet service, and it made me sound like a precocious twat.

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never forget

I was born in 75 and definitely consider myself gen x though also on the young side.

During college in the 90s, we had access to email and the internet, but I just couldn't really grasp what the big deal was. It didn't really click in my head until around 2000 when I was working with computers full time.

oh man I remember when the original Mosaic browser started going around, I felt like I was staring at a magical new porn delivery service

alt.music.pearl-jam

"this used to be my playground" ;_;

i have to say for tech stuff, being born in the right year and right place would mean the difference of being a dotcom millionaire and just some bitter dude who knows some computer stuff. like three year windows, none of this 1961 - 1975 business.

really a fair amount of gen x def in reality is a strange attachment/nostalgia for early 90s culture

This feels pretty OTM to me. Mostly because it's the only real aspect of Gen-X-ism that seems to fit my own schizophrenic "narrative".

I was a walking gen-x cliche, lol.
Still am I guess. I get kinda bummed if I think about Cobain too much

You are a Gen-X-er if this thread was ever your life:

The 90s

b-b-but early 90s culture was predominately nostalgia for 70s and 80s!
re: cobain: "I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath."

I took computer classes in high school and at university, so I sent my first electronic mail way back in 1984 (if you called it "email" nobody would know what you were talking about). My email address was something like uunet!university!lastname!firstname, with the explanation points pronounced "bang" when read aloud. I used FTP to send electronic files back and forth. I recall if you knew enough about the computer at the other end, you could download stuff using "internet protocol". I don't recall hearing the network of computers thus connected referred to as "the internet" until 1989 or so, and even then it was primitive pre-Web stuff like Telnet and WAIS. For me in the late '80s and early '90s, Usenet *was* the Internet as far I was concerned.

I remember Mr Veg trying to send me a song as an attachment...holy fuck was that ever an ordeal. I think we gave up and he sent me the whole cd in the mail instead.

lol 90s

haha I remember emailing someone during my freshman or sophomore year of college whose email address was an indecipherable mess of bangs, hashes and percent symbols

i'm an old gen xor, so to me 90s music mostly seemed like a ripoff, a watering-down or at best an outgrowth of the "real" late 80s shizz, but same diff, really. evol is to goo as goo is to whatever smashing pumpkins record some kid liked.

then again, i was all over pavement, GBV, shit like that, so 90s = me, i guess

I remember distinctly feeling relief in the 90s that finally people were dressing in a sensible way (Gap, J. Crew) that surely would never go out of style. Also, I was mostly very high.

i was appalled looking at an old yearbook that mullets had lasted well into the 90s.

if you like kubrick movies, i think you can say that every single one of them would have been diminished by the introduction of a mullet on the main character.

well, maybe not eyes wide shut.

i was just glad to be rid of non-stop hair-metal on the radio.

The 90's sartorially for America had as little panache as any since the 40's.

yeah, i think my generation looked askance at sartorial panache. it was for yuppies, don johnson and whoever had decided that women needed big hair and shoulder pads.

wasn't 90s this big zoot suit swing revival thing though?

There's shitty clothes in every generation but the 90's largely eschewed dressing up or over-dressing, except for me of course.

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wasn't 90s this big zoot suit swing revival thing though?

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 5:51 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you're asking seriously, this was really only a niche thing that only lasted for a small sliver of the 90s

I guess 90s "funky" dress was kind of a thing.

in 1996 I had my heart set on a pair of MASSIVELY wide/baggy mustard-colored jeans

sanity prevailed

I had blue-and-white vertically striped below-the-knee denim shorts that I always wore with a stussy t-shirt

http://www.thefashionpolice.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/90s-fashion-trends.jpg

I remember distinctly feeling relief in the 90s that finally people were dressing in a sensible way (Gap, J. Crew) that surely would never go out of style.

Right before I got my own job and was able to buy my own clothes, my mom bought me four pairs of khakis and threw all my other pants away. This strain of fashion was the #1 reason I hated the '90s. I made up for it by borrowing some vinyl pants from my friend, which were too short for my legs and which snow would melt onto and just sit in droplets for up to an hour after going indoors, making me damp every time my arm brushed against my leg. STILL BETTER THAN KHAKIS.

yeah, the arrival of funky alternative fashion was the point at which i thought maybe i was no longer on the same generational boat as my peers. did at one point own a pair of bright orange jnco sneakers though.

I feel more than ever like I dress as a "person from the '90s," meaning I dress like a slovenly slob who still buys novel shit at thrift stores.

band tshirts, jeans, vans. the only thing that has changed about my wardrobe is the sizing, lol

Unexpected '90s nostalgia: we have two small kids, both girls, and when my wife looks around and sees all the middle and high school aged Children of Britney dressed slutty-chic, she thinks back to the heyday of grunge, when she and her friends all wore baggy, sexless, second-hand flannel shirts and thinks, wow, my own parents lucked out in the kid fashion department.

(Waves fist, complains that Gen Y and Millennials dress like hookers)

maybe if everyone's parents were patrick duffy & susanne somers...
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wait, is that a white urkel?

the worst problem my Mum had with my dress as a teenager was worrying that in addition to wearing men's tshirts and shorts that I was going to start wearing men's underwear too

hold on, Gen Y: late ~1970's-2000 makes me the same generation as my progeny . confused.

But that's true of early boomers too.

Oh I know, I just thought it was funny that my son and I just fit into either end of that time range

I don't know about Gen X, but Generation ILX is def. perennially obsessed with the early 90s.

ilX

wait, is that a white urkel?

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:20 (34 minutes ago) Permalink

No, but as part of a cheesy ratings stunt Urkel did make a guest appearance on that show!

He literally took off in a homemade jet pack in an episode of Family Matters and landed in an episode of Step By Step.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Miller-Boyett Productions.

^