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Gotta Love the Mid 90s Technology

posted 16 years ago by billthrill1
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None of the guys have cell phones, they use answering machines, and they play NHL on Sega.

If the movie took place in 2009, the guys would have been on their cell phones texting every five seconds, playing Xbox live, and looking up all these girls from the bars on facebook.

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[–] Degree7 10 years ago

It's funny, everyone I knew admitted that the 90s sucked! The fashion sucked, the music sucked, and the technology has dated very quickly.

But now, everyone's nostalgic for the 90s because the 2010s suck even more.

~ I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.

[–] Philip_90 9 years ago

It's funny, everyone I knew admitted that the 90s sucked! The fashion sucked, the music sucked, and the technology has dated very quickly.

But now, everyone's nostalgic for the 90s because the 2010s suck even more.

I was born in the 90's so the nostalgic feelings I have for this decade aren't for its music, fashion or whatever but how we'd live back then. Back then we could say playing outside and there wouldn't be a problem, nowadays it's just not safe and kids have to be always at home unless their parents are with them.

The video game industry, well, mostly indie developers are trying to imitate the games from the 80's and 90's with the 8bit visuals but honestly if I wanted to play a game like that I'd pick up a Nintendo or Sega game instead.

[–] Degree7 9 years ago

That's pure nostalgia talk. Kids still play outside, and it's no more dangerous than it was 20 years ago.

[–] Eric1485 9 years ago

I also loved the use of the prepaid phone card throughout the movie, those things were critical to have on you in case you had to make a call.