Was the 90s the best decade ever, or is it mostly just nostalgia?

I often grapple with this in my question a lot seeing how I have extremely fond memories of the 90s for so many reasons. I feel like everything from the music, the video games, movies, government, the economy, and just the overall Zeitgiest of the time was just the greatest that has ever been. So what is your take on this, was the 90s a truly unmatchable decade or is it mostly just tainted by people's unjustified nostalgia?

Hey Arnold? Nirvana? Those whacky Y2K theories?

Your question offends me...

Probably nostalgia... Though there were definitely some great moments. Then again, every decade has its great moments.Aquat1cF1sh

The early-mid 00's were pretty good, but it all went downhill starting in 2007.

The 90s was a better time to grow up in. Sure we didn't have as much advanced technology, but there will never be a day that I wish I'd had a smartphone instead of a treehouse growing up, or a top of the line computer instead of waterguns and fast food toys.

Things were so much simpler back then. Saturday morning cartoons were awesome, breakfast cereal and snacks were awesome, and getting bumps and scratches and war wounds was just part of being a kid. Nobody over analyzed the "hidden meanings" or how "appropriate" everything and anything on TV was or assumed it would make us all violent or mental. Nobody nitpicked at how many calories or grams of fat or trans fats or aspartame or artificial blah blah blah was in foods, and when we fell down and hurt ourselves we walked it off, we didn't get rushed to the hospital for every scratch and cut.

The 90s was just better. Everything was cheaper, too. Gas was less than a buck a liter then. I doubt the next generation will ever see that.

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well i was born in mid 90s, so for me early 00s > 90s :P

Probably nostalgia... For me it was great sure, but then again I was 16 when it started and exited at 26 (obviously). That's an interesting chunk of a persons life - bright eyed and bushy tailed youth with the right level of naivity to digest and enjoy many first-time life experiences as they tread the path to adulthood.

Sadly cynisism is something we have to fend off as we grow older, and it becomes increasingly harder to recapture that feeling of experiencing something fantastic for the first time.

So yes, in a rather long winded and unnecessary answer to your question, it may have been the best decade purely by virtue of my age at the time.

It was the best just for the simple fact that I was born at the start of the decade.

It was the best just for the simple fact that I was born at the start of the decade.

soulless4now

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It was the best just for the simple fact that I was born at the start of the decade.

funsohng

Nostalgia.

Most people have some attachment to the time when they were younger because they hadn't learned to be cynical yet.

Last great decade if you ask me.

It all depends on what you did personally within the decade I think, that being said, it's definetly my favourite decade that I've lived through.

The 90's was the best because that's when I was young and care free. And now I'm older and the world sucks :P

The 90's was good. But I think the 60-70 might take the cake.

90's were great because of one thing and one thing only. Mom jeans.

Definitely nostalgia.scorch-62

I was born in 88 so I can remember things from 1992 onwards. I can tell you the 90s wern't that great. music = meh, fashion = meh. Some things were good like TV and cartoons, but remember the crappy CGI in movies?

Nostalgia most likely. I liked the 80's better but probably for the same reasons.

Purely nostalgia. People will always view the era they grew up in through rose-tinted glasses.

Up until now I would say yes. I have hope for the future.

My Reasons:

• golden era of rap music - UGK, 2Pac, Wu-Tang, ATCQ, Spice 1, early 36 Mafia, OutKast, etc.
• other genres were great as well - Rage Against the Machine & Sublime
• cartoons were much better
• MTV was actually Music TV
• Better athletes: Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, Roy Jones Jr., Oscar De La Hoya, Barry Sanders, Ricky Williams (at Texas), Brett Farve, young A-Rod, Ken Griffey Jr., etc.
• life was more simplistic for kids and easygoing

MTV was actually Music TVcmpepper23

Only up 'til around 1994.

It's going to be the last decade in human history to have produce good music.

The 90's was one of the best decades ever.

The economy was booming in the net boom.

Nation had a post war victory vib(from USSRs collapse)

So the 90s are right up with the roaring 20s and baby booming 50s

The 90's was one of the best decades ever.

The economy was booming in the net boom.

Nation had a post war victory vib(from USSRs collapse)

So the 90s are right up with the roaring 20s and baby booming 50s

dercoo

Yeah, those decades were great. Well, as long as you were the right race and on the right place on the social-economic ladder they were.

Things were better before the internet. People use to actually be people and not just some 1's and 0's you know from online. Technology is killing society. The 90's were Mankind's swan song.

Things were better before the internet. People use to actually be people and not just some 1's and 0's you know from online. Technology is killing society. The 90's were Mankind's swan song.

Alter_Echo

Today I keep in regular contact with friends scatter around the globe. Some I'm met in person, some I've not, but all of whom I've met online. My life has been enriched by these people. If that's killing society then I say keep killing.

Its just nostalgia. The 90's is not as great as people make it to be. They act like it was a care free time when everyone was friendly and had no worries.

90's is better then 80's and double zeros, it is also my coming to age era so that might cloud things a little but:P.

The 90's was the best decade to grow up in we had the best T.V shows,the greatest videogames everthe 90's rule thank God I was born in the 90's.

Man everything in the 90's was better. The TV shows especially. Not much good things comes on nowadays :(

I think the 90's were probably the best decade to grow up in. For kids, school was pretty good, there were good cartoons, cool toys, and having fun meant hanging out with your friends doing real activities.

Now it's a bunch of garbage such as terrible disney shows and music, kids texting on cellphones and being glued to a computer instead of getting out for a change.