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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

The last person to die who was born in the 90's isn't a 90's kid, or at least won't remember the 90's.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

IDK, it's not impossible that someone who was born in the 80s will live go be freakishly old and outlive all the 90s kids.

not probable, but who knows, maybe they somehow avoided eating plastic based baby food or some shit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

As if someone born on December 31st 1999 wouldn't self identify as a 90's kid

Source: I was born in 1998 and I'm nostalgic of Nirvana, a group that disbanded before I was born

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

If you read your history books you'll find it was a little more than just disbanded.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

First time I heard what happened, it really blew my mind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, it really left a hole in the music world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, they could have replaced Cobain and continued. But they decided to disband instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

Technically, they could have. But it wouldn't have really been Nirvana without Cobain. It was pretty much Cobain's cult of personality. If they had tried to continue without him, it would have been another one of those bands that starkly contrasts between before and after and the comment above would have been about never knowing Nirvana in its heyday.

Even if the continuation was good (and Dave Grohl is proof that there was enough talent for it in the rest of the band), it would have still been tainted by the lack of Cobain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

There's like a 30-year span of 90s kids.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

The meme specifies that he was born in the 1900s and grew up in the 1990s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I was born in 1990 and remember lots of stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I remember Berlin, Challenger, and that dumb fuck Regan.

I don't remember anything "90s kids" had because we were poor and all I had access to was PBS and some hand-me-down toys.

I didn't even know what Nickelodeon was.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 hours ago

Humans, Reporters, and medical care in a hundred years?

Funny comic!

[–] [email protected] 74 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (5 children)

As a 90s kid I definitely feel like there's such a huge generational gap in the past 20 years though, so much changed so rapidly since then.

Like watching MP3 players come and go. And the transition of videotapes to discs to streaming. Or watching nobody own a cellphone to the entire world not being able to go anywhere without one. As well as throwaway cameras to everyone having one in their pockets.

Pre 00s and after is such a difference in just about everything. I wonder what the pre 10s and after will be like.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Funny how the fact that I've owned a Walkman, discman, iPod classic, iPod nano, and iPhone as music solutions is kind of generation defining.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

We literally went from doing essays in a library to using internet and printers (at first my teachers even forbid students from using Internet as a source), heck I even wrote on a typewriter a few times

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

"Wikipedia is not a source, anyone can edit it! You can't be certain anything on there is true!!"

Now wikipedia is probably the last bastion of decent information online. At minimum, a well-souced article gives you an excellent starting point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Remember to donate to Wikipedia if you haven't, we desperately need them to remain independently funded

[–] [email protected] 2 points 51 minutes ago

Look into it. I cannot explain this well. They actually have more than enough money. In fact they are spending recklessly in other projects because of that.

Yes we should donate if that changes but right now it would be better to donate to less well funded open projects.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

Oooh, that's a fun one. I can just barely remember some of my early research projects for school - getting source material at the library was a bear. What a time to be alive.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

Pre-10s: I used google for everything and bought needless shit online. Dont trust anything you read there though.

Post-10s: I use AI for everything and buy needless shit online. Don't trust anything you read there though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's been fast like that since the end of WWII.
My parents were born in the early 60s and they saw records replaced with eight tracks and then cassettes and then CDs and then mp3s and now streaming.
Answering machines were a novelty when my parents were children and now we have cell phones.
The internet wasn't even something you could have imagined in your wildest dreams in the 1970s.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

My uncle was on Wall Street in the 80s, and he distinctly remembers everyone mocking email as a passing fad later in the decade

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

This all hits home. And for me, in the rural US at the time, the world got a lot bigger.

We went from expensive long-distance telephone calls and local BBSes to instant access to everyone and everything.

We went from 2-lane roads to affordable(ish) flights and direct highways.

Despite where we may be today, as an early adopter of everything, I'm happy to have had a front row seat to all that.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

Beeeeeeeeee BRRRRRRRR waDONg brDONG tshhhhhhhhhhhh TSHHHHHHHHHHHPTBHPTHBBPT

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

You got 15 minutes!

My parents

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Go 'way mom I'm asking Jeeves! It's for homework!

Types "boob porno sex"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Before MILF was even a term

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

"Get off the dang computer, your grandma could call any minute!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

<they forget 2 minutes later and pick up the phone>

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

Finally, a genuine connection

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

There's also a Meeeeeeemooooomeeeeemoooo or a Neeeeeeee-nrrrrr Neeeeee-nrrrrrr, if you will.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Some 80's children will remember you also could get that sound from loading data from a K-7 tape.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago

The "you've got mail" guy recently died.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

This reminds me of a movie I saw. Mr. Nobody. Jared Leto plays the last mortal human on earth in the year 2092. He's interviewed right before his death about his life and the things he did back before humans solved mortality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

90s kids were born in the 80s. People always get this shit wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

I was born in 1990. Fully a '90s kid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I enjoyed this comic as much as I enjoyed being a 90's kid.