Britney being famous, Madonna being famous

Jordan was a monster. I was heavily disappointed with last year's playoffs (including 90% of the Finals). Right now, things seem to be getting interesting. A lot of good players who will hopefully keep making basketball interesting. In a few years, I really want to see the Bucks and Phillies rise to bring back jumbo basketball with traditional bigs.

CaptainExplosion said: StarOcean said: I wouldn't know, I was born at the tailend I remember the early 2000's though. Which were not too dissimilar. Biggest differences between the 1990's and early 00's is the 00's was the rise of the internet and international conflict that continues into today With all the responses I've gotten like this one, I've been thinking; Is the world really getting worse with each passing decade?

The world wasn't perfect. There's simply a nostalgia effect from many of us.

Technology, medicine, science, and much more have advanced in astonishing rates. I am fine with setting aside the Fresh Prince or my Gamecube if it means I can live in a world which manages to fix much of our problems

No social media nonsense, more freedom, better music in the 1990s, great decade for films and tv shows. The world was a happier, better and safer place before the 9/11 attack in the early 2000s. Michael Jordan during the 1990s winning 6 NBA championships.

Ah, this brings back so many memories. So good. Plopping down on the couch on a Sunday afternoon and ...

I hope NBC gets the rights back to NBA basketball. ABC sucks. 

It's not just nostalgia though I think the 90s was geniunely a safer time. After the Cold War ended, basically there was no major international conflict, it was 10 years of relative peace (unfortunately Yugoslavia/Croatia and Rwanada not so much though, but globally), economic properity, etc. Turn on the news in the 90s and the biggest worry was if this doofus going to jail or not:

Literally the above was all that was on the news 24/7 for like two straight years, lol. 

Turn on the news now and it's like we're living some depressing dystopian alternate history time line with Trump as president, terrorist attacks all over the place, Russia reasserting itself militarily, etc. etc. 

Basically we traded all that for smartphones, PVRs, and faster internet. 

How things were able to be a cultural phenomenon. The last big cultural thing was Dabbing and Pokemon Go. How long did each of those last? 3 months at most..

Might have been a better time to be an American, but it in a global sense it wasn't really a better time to be a human in general. 

Really? What's better today? Random terrorists driving trucks into crowds of people? At least the IRA conflict they directly targetted opposition not random carnage when ever. For anywhere not named Rwanda and Croatia/Yugoslavia I don't think many places are better off today. China and India maybe but mostly due to advancement but the spoils of which are limited to a very small upper class of people. 

Well globally speaking things like infant mortality, disease, female literacy, life expectancy, etc are better now than back then.