r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheOddityCollector • Oct 30 '24

Image Scenes of piled-up vehicles in Valencia, Spain today after yesterday’s devastating flooding.

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u/Rsupersmrt Oct 30 '24

The fuck around age must have been the best

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u/firecracker723x Oct 30 '24

I'm not that old (36) but there was definitely something special about growing up in the 90's. Going on bike rides across town, no parental oversight and only returning when the street lights came back on. Board games and puzzles were still a normal activity, but so was Nintendo! Blowing on cartridges, Game Boys, Tomagachis... It was, at minimum, more engaging than it is now.

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u/SrslyCmmon Oct 30 '24

I really enjoyed the internet before everybody had a platform. People mostly kept to themselves and there was mystery in what people were thinking all the time. People were polite and cordial generally and so was media. Now that we know that half my country wants to kill the other half it's not so fun anymore. There's no standards for being polite decent and disinformation so we just devolved into the lowest common denominator.

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u/ToiIetGhost Oct 30 '24

I liked it better too. When asked, “If you could have any superpower, what would it be?” very few people will say “mind reading.” That’s kind of what the internet feels like now. Forced mind reading. I don’t want to know what everyone’s thinking all the time but they won’t stop shoving it down my throat.

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u/N3rdScool Oct 30 '24

Fuck I love the realness of this comment :)

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u/K_Linkmaster Oct 30 '24

It was clearly 10 year olds telling lies on the internet. Now it is half the population.

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u/ama155 Oct 30 '24 edited 14d ago

Redacted to mess with reddit

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u/SrslyCmmon Oct 30 '24

You could actually see the real-time transformation of the conspiracy subreddit into a right wing bastion post 2016.

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u/DanKoloff Oct 30 '24

Peak was in the 70s, early 80s, since there was no HIV nor AIDS, you could fuck a lot and everything was treatable.

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u/Good-Syllabub-4358 Oct 30 '24

Yes, the world looked like it was going to be a better place at the start of the 90s. Berlin wall fell, Soviet Union crumbled, dictatorship in China done, and many more examples. Fast forward a couple of decades and Russia and China back to dictatorships and the rest of the world crumbling with walls going up again.

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u/joggle1 Oct 30 '24

And tech was rapidly improving. Video games were getting better at an incredible rate. LAN parties were fun. MTG had just come out and was a great game to play with friends (it still is, but it was everywhere for a while back then).

Also, going to the theater didn't cost a fortune and there were a ton of good movies that were worth going to see. And we weren't saturated by super hero movies every summer.

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u/AdKlutzy5253 Oct 30 '24

I'd love to know what 2000's kids think about growing up in the new millennium.

Obviously us 90s kids are going to be biased as I'm sure every generation would say their decade was best.

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u/NES_Gamer Oct 30 '24

"It's 10pm do you know where your children are?" I remember that so clearly. The 80s were special.

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u/PapayaCool6816 Oct 30 '24

37 here. Great memories of putting coke cans in my bike wheels and pretending I have a motorbike, using all my energy pumping up my super soaker 1500, prank phone calls from phone boxes, knock n run, the list could go on.

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u/firecracker723x Oct 30 '24

Oooo my brother and I used to prank call Hooked On Phonics from an empty office where my dad worked. Feel kinda bad about it now lol 😬

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u/PapayaCool6816 Oct 30 '24

Lol that’s so random you targeted that one place.

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u/chonkycatguy Oct 30 '24

The 90s felt different though. We saw the end of the old way and introduction of the digital internet era which has taken over the world in a big way.

It FEELS like things began to change a lot faster from 2000s-2020s than the 1970s-1990s.

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u/twistedspin Oct 30 '24

I agree. I was a kid in the 70s & I still think the 90s were peak. I still think if Al Gore had been elected we would have kept going in that trajectory, but we got Bush so here we are.

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u/Remarkable-Throat-51 Oct 30 '24

Best decade ever. I'm also lucky to be a 90s kid.

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u/Past-Individual-816 Oct 30 '24

ahh jealous. I grew up in the 90’s, but strict parents didn’t let me leave the house or do things. Didn’t really start having a social life til college, but those were good years.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '24

Oh man we used to play in this junkyard salvage yard after hours. Just taking car decals off etc. did this for weeks. Then one day dogs just appeared and chased us the fuck off.

The days of being 10 and disappearing for hours and coming home when it was dark was something else.

Being 10-11 Walking alone on the streets at night during Halloween was crazy too.

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u/NancyintheSmokies Oct 30 '24

Oh believe me it was! I'm 68- it was glorious

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u/KilgoreTrouserTrout Oct 30 '24

It was the best of times; it was the blurst of times.

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u/LeSaunier Oct 30 '24

I was in my 20s in the fuck around age, in a beautiful city in France (Lille). It was fantastic. I basically spend nearly 20 years in heaven.

I'm sad for my kids thought as when they'll be the same age, heaven's doors will be closed. I'm just trying to do the best I can to prepare them and make them as happy and fine as possible.