1955 was as old in 1990 as 1990 is in 2025.

I miss the 90s. 😞

The release of "1985" by Bowling for Soup was closer to actual 1985 than we are to its release.
- The release of "1985" by bo burnham though...

If Back to the Future we're remade today, he'd be going back in time to 1995.
I'd like to see a remake of Back to the Future just so we can have a scene where Doc Brown refuses to believe Donald Trump will be president.
- Ronald Reagan, the actor?!
  https://youtu.be/Y6or29F-_yA?t=44
- Like the Sly Stallone comment in demolition man about the Schwarzenegger library.
  
  In retrospect, the standard of what seemed ridiculous and over-the-top at the time was a bit higher.
  Idiocracy isn't even remotely funny nowadays, it's genuinely just very anxiety inducing now. And it's honestly too fucking positive. A government actually trying to fix issues? Yeah, right.
- I’d like to see a remake of The United States of America where Donald Trump is never the president.
  
  The allure of fantasy
- Even better: Make the alternate timeline a utopia with doc Brown saying he hasn't had time to analyze the differences and leave it at that. Throughout the movie have framed portraits of Bernie Sanders ifrom 1995 n the background of any scene indoors.

I did nothing to you and yet you attack me on a personal level?!

Other ways to feel old:
Smells Like Teen Spirit came out in 1991, just 22 years after the moon landing. As of now, it's been 34 years since its release.
Back to the Future came out in 1985, which is 40 years ago, and only 30 years from 1955.
The Matrix is a 1999 film. It was old enough to drink... five years ago.
Alex Warren, who is currently #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, hadn't yet reached one year old on 9/11.
The video game Doom came out in 1993. Pac-Man came out in 1980. 13 years between the games. But it's been 32 years since Doom.
Should I go on?
- You can go on away from here with your personal attacks.
- On average the entire human population turns over every 120 years.
  Everyone alive today wasn't here 120 years ago
  Everyone alive today won't be alive in 120 years
  The modern human species is about 60,000 years old .... we've only been technologically modern in the past 150 years, geologically speaking, we're still cavemen.
- Your content is entertaining but you are a dick.
  
  I... can't dispute that.
- You're wrong. It's an established fact that the 90s were ten years ago.
  
  You’re correct. The 90s has always been and will always be ten years ago.
- This relevant XKCD is a teenager now
  
  Ouch. Guess I deserved that inevitable retaliation.
- The future scenes in Back to the Future II take place ten years in the past.
  
  Oof
- I was having a good day
  
  Sorry, I'll make up for it with this weird music video that wishes you a nice day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mkiGMtbrPM
  Hope it helps.

Well, fuck you too

In 2060s, people look back at the good old days of 2020s. Doomscrolling, AI generated images, brainrot, existential dread, LLMs, those were the days…
- Wait. There'll still be people around in 2060?
  
  You could be there too. Are you good at surviving through famine or avoiding violent people?
- In 2060, people will curse the people of 2020 who did almost nothing to mitigate climate change.
  
  Maybe. Or the propaganda will have been so successful that nobody will discuss climate change because that’s just the way things are.
  
  Nah, by then we will be living in underground cave cities. Machines will control the devastated surface
- Atleast we have internet and visible stars
  
  We’re working on those. Just a little bit more tyrannical dictatorship and a whole lot more smoke should do the trick.

Listen here you little shit...

Well damn.
1990-1995 were definitely a nicer place to be than 1955-1960, though, so we got that going for us as far as the 35yo past is concerned.
- 1990-1995 were definitely a nicer place to be than 1955-1960,
  The murder rate peaked in 1993.
- 1995 was amazing, really the whole 90s.
  Amazing music, peace, and nobody was afraid to tell all the douchebags of the world to go f themselves.
  
  It was the peak of civilization
  no internet (or at least popular, easy access internet)
  no social media
  no streaming content
  no online distractions
  Which meant
  you spent more time talking to people
  you just spent more time with people
  you read more to ease the boredom
  you used a library more
  you read actual newspapers written by journalists more
  you questioned the government more
  you had to pay to use an inconvenient landline all the time which meant you called less and wanted to just see people more
  Now with a high speed internet connection, we're disconnected from one another and we believe in every hair brained idea we find online.
  
  Don't forget saturday morning cartoons and music on mtv
  
  I’m sure someone will come along and point out that the 90s were no more or less peaceful than any other decade.
  But it did seem like a time of hope. Collapse of USSR. End of Cold War. Feels like now we’re doing the same thing, just historians will come up with a new label for it.
  
  Yeah IDK about peace, but in terms of tolerance in 'the west' it was a huge step up over 1955, and rave culture in particular (where it was a thing anyway; might have been focused on european countries like UK and Germany?) was probably more tolerant and friendly than a lot of popular 'party' scenes today.
  
  I agree that the music was fine. I don't know about the rest of it.

My dad was born in 1955. My oldest brother was born in 1990.
This is fucking with me
- I was born in 1973. My grandfather was born in 1892 !
- My oldest brother was born in 1990.
  This is fucking with me
- 35 is not a reasonable age to become a parent? Is a bit older than it used to be.