>Nearly half (47%) of adults ages 18-29 said if they had the option, they’d choose to live in the past>Meanwhile, 38% of Gen Zers said they’d prefer to live in the present>some members of gen z wish to live in an era “right before social media and computers mediated life,” nostalgia researcher and existential psychologist Clay Routledge said in an interview.>Ben Isaacs, a 20-year-old student in Colorado, said he selected “less than 50 years in the past” in the poll as the period he’d live in if he could choose. Isaacs specifically pointed to the 1990s as a time with “a lack of phones, more personal experience, but also still some of the ease of modern technology.”https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/discomfort-modern-technology-gen-z-desire-live-past-poll-rcna340897
Lol zoomers
>>533825117>nostalgia researcherit's time, God.
>>533825117cant blame them
>>533825117Having lived in the 90's I don't blame them and want the same thing.
>>533825117Gen Z just wants to do something performatively for social media.
I can't blame them, it was very comfy.Cellphones with SMS capabilities is when things started to deteriorate in hindsight, but the real impact wasn't realized until many years later.
>>533825219this>>533825234and this
/g/tards will still find a way to hate them for it.
>>533825117one of their better takeseverything was superior to anything we have todayincluding NO fucking brownst.GenX
>>533825117the present is shit and the future will only get worse
>>53382511780s was peak whitey music90s noticable the nogs were overrepresented with their retarded beats and lame ass lyrics00s white flight very noticable>nowwhites have almost completely abandoned the music industry - same thing happened to bowling roller skating boxing horse dog racing - all used to be hugely popular and now just fringe
>nostalgia researcher and existential psychologist
>>533825117>if they had the option, they’d choose to live in the pastCan't blame them.
>>533825117living in 1990 wouldnt be bad if it went on a separate timeline that doesn't become this
I would go back to the 90s given the chance. Make it all stop.
Zoomies will never know what it was like to live in the 80s and 90s. They will never have this.
>competition is so high that nobody wants to live in the current age but those with slaves (boomers/jews)Anyone who has to work hates it because there's too many people, and in order to compete you have to work yourself to death and keep a smile on your face.
>>533825378youre just mad you dont have a cool job
>>533825235Current thing is to keep microphones open all day to let AI digest this into guidance and automated life fixes. I tried resisting for several weeks, but I can not compete in waging if I do not do it. And that is just 0.00001% of what will be going on in 2040.
>>533825568I have a cool job and I still hate working
>>533825117Send Zoomettes my way. I'm a 90s expert. I can provide them with raves, drugs, Linux with IRC, tube TVs, Walkmans, 90s hits, Nokia phones, and a permanent job contract.
>>533825716i dont care. thats why they pay you.
>>533825754nah you're a faggot
>>533825117They're voting left so all they're getting is a gulag.
>>533825117I kind of want to go back but the ease of access to advanced technology present day is just so good. Thirty years from now when everything is gate kept and monitored we'll want to go back to 2026 when you could say nigger on the internet without having your bank account frozen and getting abducted by government mental health experts.
>>533825782cry about it i guess
>>533825117So back before Friendster, and we all had ICQ and AIM? Sounds fun.
>>533825852or just remind you that you're a fag
If I lived in the 90s Id be stuck playing shitty old game consoles like the snes and segaFuck that, already been through that once
>>533825117>nostalgia researcher We live.
>>533825117Sup ((((NBC)))). Watching Arthur with a ))))cock(((( in your ass?
>>533825933>keeps cryingright on schedule
>>533825510I would breed the fucking shit out of this woman like no does business. I'd make an ubermensch army of hybrid Aryan Gargoyles and nuke africa from orbit.
>>533825117doesn't everyone?
>>533825117I was born i 93, I just want normal time back. I can't stand this jewish hellhole
>>533825969no i just think you're a faggot, incels are also faggots, you're an incel that escaped containment
>>533826023>projection>impotent rage>waaaaaaaaaaahthe baby wants attention
Now and in the hour of your reap.
>>533825971Brother join the club. Demona was when I discovered I like pussy.
>>533825947We played Quake on LAN with Pentiums though. We would literally carry the box and pack everything else in backpacks. The LAN session would be from Friday to Sunday usually. We got drugs and alcohol via IRC.
>>533825947I still play those consoles. I like that you just turn the thing on and the game starts playing. No online bullshit. No 13 year old squearkers. No multiplayer with cheaters. When 3D hit people cared more about the graphics than if the game was actually fun and consumerism took over.
>>533825145>>533825378Somebody has to help design the 90s simulation, right?Including the part where everything goes to shit 30 years later to remind you to wake up before the simulation ends.
>>533825145> and existential psychologist
I don’t want to go back. My pocket jew has made my life much better.
>>533825117I wonder how quickly they'd regret that. Could their tic tok addled brains even handle existing in the 90's? Their perception of the 90's is almost surely entirely formed from clips of 90's movies they've unlikely seen from beginning to end.
>>533825117you mean like every single generation before?>le news
>>533825947>playing shitty old game consoles like the snes and segaI guess our LAN parties really were a EUro only thingburgers only played their shitty fucking consoles
>>533826659I'm sure they could adapt. Turn on the TV. Watch some Beavis & Butthead. Connect to dial up internet and get sick of everything loading slow. Join an IRC channel. Talk to some weirdos. Go to some concerts. Slowly an identity starts to form around your own experiences. Not the ones you experience vicariously through others.
>>533826659its not that hard. its literally just an addiction, you detox for a week and your brain rewires itself.without a phone you just get bored and redirect the energy. youd end up hyper focused on lifting or going to the library for dvds every 2 days instead. not that hard.
>>533826834Zoomers wouldn’t be able to find the library without turn by turn directions.
>>533826834my advice would be to get a dumbphone (just makes calls, texts) so when youre out in the real world you get bored and youre forced to engage with the world to find stimulationi spend enough time on the internet when im home, when i'm out of the house its the last thing i want to doi've talked to women about the books they're reading, ogled women and imagine what they look like naked. helped old people carry things/navigate across the street. death glared ugly jeets till they break eye contact. these are the simple stuff you just dont bother with when you have a masturbatory device in your hand constantly
>>533827032secondary benefit of using a dumbphone is you must be very brief in your text messaging.>k>c u there>niceyou arent going to waste the time to text a paragraph on those things. which signals that you are high value.infact i would rather just call someone up and talk to them directly. which is exceedingly rare these days and sets you apart from the modern numale significantly
>>533825219this
>>533827341I typed on t9 the same way I type on my PC or smartphone. I could do it with insane speeds too. A skill that will never be put to use again.
>>533825219YEP
Do they know you can simply not use social media? I don't use any of that. No Instagram, Facebook, tiktok, Twitter. All my interactions with people are outside. At the train station, when walking my dog, at a bar. You can just go outside and talk to people instead of be on your phone all day, even in 2026.
>>533825117For reference, zoomers never knew the 90s, the eldest of them were barely even sentient by the time the millennium turned over. That's a pretty severe indictment of the modern way of life when a generation pines for an era most of them weren't even born in. It's something to think about.
>>533826092then find it somewhere else
>>533826747Slightly more of an EU thing, but it was still a big scene over here too. I remember well into the 2000s, there was over a dozen LAN party meetups across the country daily in cities throughout the US on a site called Lanparty.com (affiliated with those awesome Gamespy Planet sites). Consoles were always where a majority of gamers played, though.
>>533827032Real talk. I unintentionally starved myself from the internet for a few months. Just texts and calls. I was back to beating it to the gas station clerk and Macy's catalogs and flirting naturally with everyone, just genuinely laughing with others and living in the moment. Life felt real. It felt like the 90s all over again. When I went back online, I quickly started to decay again
>import infinite browns>civilization regresses to middle agesThere you go, zoomers
>>533825117 I don't want to live in the past. Our current times since smartphones are so much more interesting and dynamic. During the 90s and 2000s - at least in my country - there was this "end of history" feeling which heavily dominated our everyday lives. In retrospect it was a spiritually dead and a less political era - this past era now feels crushing and suffocating. Or to quote Fukuyama: "not just the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end-point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." After 2010 there was finally noticeable movement after what had felt like decades of a historical stalemate, it probably started around 2011 with the attacks in Norway. And after Trump came in 2016 I realized that Fukuyama was wrong and man that was a relief. I really think that man is not made for eternal peace and contentment, we need the struggle and some constant uncertainness to feel alive.
they would have been bored
>>533825117get off your fucking phones you fucking idiots
>It's still 1999 if you put down the phone and go outside
>>533828321>he doesnt want a loyal hijabi wifeNgmi
>>533828540>hes indianngmi
>>533825117They don't want to ride this 90s cock though.
there is nothing better than the 90ies for teenagers
>>533825117
>>533825117>That picI grew up with cassette walkmans, then discmans, then minidiscs, then finally mp3 players. Don't get me wrong most things were better in the past but technology isn't one of them where we can now have great wireless headphones or iems playing lossless FLAC with something that fits in your pocket without needing to wear baggy jeans with 6 pockets.
yeah it was much better before the digital world was corporatizedI used to go online to escape normies. Now it's better to irl
>>533826747>dude eurojank and playing the same burger FPSs over and over is better than japanese games!One of the tragedies of modern times (2000 onwards) is that they made western games more popular, loon at the state of video games since 6th gen, we went fron soulful colorful action games full of soul, to soulless nigger Urban simulators
>>533826747We had public lan networks in local gaming shops.It was pretty kino but not a very profitable model and most shut down fairly quickly.
>>533825117>90s are goodReal meaning:>everything after 2012 sucks
>>533825117if zoomers lived in the 90s it would have been utterly fucking miserable for everyone else
>>533825117People don't understand just how much social media has destroyed the human race. Genuine people just don't exist anymore. I've found people put up with far less. You say one thing they don't agree with and they ghost you like they were pushing an unfriend/unfollow button. I've been friends with plenty of people I don't agree with but now? They drop you like a sack of potatoes. Then you have to start walking on eggshells, parsing everything you say before you say it. It's hell.
>>533831965why? are you assuming a mass time traveling scenario where millions of zoomers are just like now, but living among 90s people?
>>533832315yeah, because when I think about the coolest things about the 90's, I immediately think that miserable status-obsessed yuppies who can't read, write and have terrible taste in music would fit in great there
>>533825117Whites want to live in the past, non-Whites want to live now.
>>533826747>I guess our LAN parties really were a EUro only thingI cannot fucking believe you would even make such an obviously false claim.
zoomers are a failed negroid tranny generation
>>533832507>miserable status-obsessed yuppies who can't read, write and have terrible taste in musicSo, no changes then
>>533831965They would be different since they would not be indoctrinated like they are now.
>>533825117All they have to do is put away their smartphones, install a landline, use dial up internet, and call each other from the phone tied to their wall. Also, they'll need to socially interact only with those in their vicinity or those they go to school with whether they truly get along with them or not.
>>533825454>>533825505Ok, we'll send you back to the 90s, but you have to live in Iraq or Yugoslavia.
>>533826747>LAN parties really were a EUro only thingNah I knew people who did that shit. Fucking nerds.
>>533825219Correct.
>>533833451literally only thing I watch is your fucking burger youtubers and ALL you retards ONLY ever talk about it dumb fucking console'tard gamesI've never heard a burger reminisce about LAN parties!
>All they have to do is put away their smartphones, install a landline, use dial up internet, and call each other from the phone tied to their wall.
>>533825117Everyone wants to live around white people and it's hilarious cope to even state anything to the contrary
>>533834047The vast majority of the photos of LAN parties are of Americans. We had CPL events, Quakecon etc... we all had LAN parties. Yes console babies going to console but they are not part of this conversation at all.
>>533831965The only reason to be miserable in 90s was to see awesome stuff in the all shop displays while being unable to afford it.The whole circus and bread thing was still there.
>>533825219Any sane person shouldYou have to have like a job a side hustle and a podcast to make it today it's a joke. All to contribute to the slop economy
>>533825336Absolute peak existence was Berlin in the 80s and I'm not talking about the graffito'd side of the wall.
Nostalgia is the pastime of a dying empire.
>>533825355What makes you arrive at the conclusion that whites aren’t in the music industry anymore
>>533825117I was born in 1990 and everyone back then was saying they wished they were bron in the 70s or 80s. "I belong in another decade" was such a common thing to say on MySpace that ir was cringe and overdone. Every generation does this. Reminder that this board is a psyop and posts meant to divide like this are here by design.
>>533825117Anybody here remember the good times? (70's and 80's)No security camerasNo cellphonesUltima on your Apple ][+ or AtariCould say whatever you wanted and not be sanctioned/cancelledCompliment a girl on her tits and she would blush and say thank you!Guaranteed jobs straight out of high-schoolFaggots beaten regularlySecret porn stashes in the woodsMale teachers as role modelsCities not overrun by minoritiesNo helmets or any protective gearZero fear of germsReal language with little euphemismExchanged letters with girls at school. Girls would even mail you letters.Pictures actually meant something because you had to pay to get them processedFriends were actual friends and had your backMoms still knew how to cookSmoking at schoolAlmost everyone got in fights at school. Right of passage.Girls dressed up and did their hair even to goto 7-11Porn was the Sears CatalogAll night skating at the rink. Dropped off at 6 pm on Friday. Picked up at 3 pm on Saturday.
>>533825219Ditto. Up to early 2000s was really comfy. Whenever everyone got on Facebook and started taking pictures of everything then it was over. We need to go back.
>>533825219>Having lived in the 90'Yeah me too, it's not the time period I'd pick though. Lots of cancerous rot that just hadn't metastisized as far yet. Political correctness, faggotry. Boomers were still money grubbing then too. No, I'd go further back, probably late 40's through 1970 or so, somewhere in there.
>>533835070Its weird how most of this list is child coded. You dont miss the 70s you miss being a kid. Grow up.
>>533835070You're describing the majority of my '90s-'00s experience.Only major difference was cell phones (for phone calls) and internet porn becoming easily accessible.
These kids wouldn't last 3 minutes in 1992.
In the later 90s and 2000s I always dreamed of a pocket computer I could get on the internet with. So I’m glad I have it but would want smartphones to remain expensive niche things like palm pilots Also 9/11 really helped make the whole world shittier. I bet most of those zoom zooms would prefer to repeat summer 2001 before 9/11 rather than say 1994 on repeat. Although 98 & 99 were kino. But summer 2001 you had ps2, some higher speed internet
Fuck all of yall and your pleb answers (90s). I would choose to live through the 60s and experience peak rock and roll.
>>533835070Another one that's specific to women is being able to go outside and be assured that you can turn down a guy and not have him freak out and stomp on your head like a certain news story that just happened. Men could take rejection and move right on with their without a hitch, women knew and understood that, so there was no anxiety about the interaction from either side.
>>533831333You also can't download an mp3 for 99 cents.
>>533835474>>533835474Jobs pay $1.50 an hour, as soon as you leave college you get drafted into Vietnam, have to leave behind everyone and everything you know in Canada for 10 years missing all the great bands, oh yeah and random hitchhiker murders and no pay phone for miles (I mean that was a thing from the invention of the automobile until widespread cell phone use in the 90s)
>>533825117I fully get them, 00s were my high school and college years and it was awesome, 90s might have been even better. Unless you were a chubby girl, heroine chic was the look everybody wanted and it sucked ass (advantage was that the girls that now would be called paifnully THICC were designated girlfriends for loser nerds).
>>533831333Gotta bring back those JNCOs with those deep pockets.
>>533835595yeah, it’s $1.29 now
>>533831333I had the minidiscs when they came out, i bought one specifically because my cd player would skip while hitting bumps riding my bike, the minidiscs used mp3's >>533835595you can use cassette to record songs you like from the radio, skipping commercials and shitty songs of course, if you werent stupid you could have had entire collection of personal playlists, for free
>>533835743fat girls are still for the borderline incel/losers, someones gotta pump out future ditch diggers though
>>533831333Headphones were much better back then IEM are trash, wireless are trash. Studio monitor headphones were great and still are great. Hard drives/storage are significantly cheaper but
>>53382511790s westcoast gangsta rap/funk was peak and will be allowed in the ethnostate to raise our Thttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XASNM1XEQPs
>>533835729>$1.50 an hourInflation adjusted to ~$16.00 today and you could walk into jobs back then.>random hitchhiker murders and no pay phone for milesGetting killed by chimping niggers and in constant communication is way better.>Vietnam draftJobs pay $1.50 an hourOkay, that sucked.
>>533835595>>533835797>Can't into piracyPathetic
>>533825219Unless you're Eastern Europe in that case 90's was hell.
>>533825219I had so much optimism then
>>533837047I never said I couldn’t into piracy, I was merely addressing the purchasing of MP3s point. My Jellyfin server exists for a reason.
>>533826188This was my weekends in my early 20s. Good times were had.
>>533826834There was this thing called bookstores and books.
90’s and early 2000’s to some extent were good for that reason. There was plenty of technology but it wasn’t really accessible to normies. I guess the iPhone came out when I started high school and that was the end of that.
>>533837796after a day of being out and about you dont want to read a book
I was born in the 90s, Zoomer may relive the 90s by riding my dick.
>>533834047We did that here too. Nerds everywhere did it, despite how heavy those fucking CRTs were. But these days its so easy and convenient to play games online and voice chat so no one bothers. We still meet in person for board games and RPGs and shit like that.
>Ben Isaacs
>>533825117Gen X.Then:>Get some friends together>Go to the record store/video rental/vidya store>Listen to some vinyl/cds/cassettes or pick out a good movie or a vidya>Grab a coffee or maybe a pizza before you head back>Enjoy it in a coffee shop, park bench or in the grass>Maybe head by the mall>Maybe make out with your kind of slutty but not fullblown whore gf>Go home and enjoy the media with your friends>Later fuck your two bodycount gfNow:>Idk. What do zoomers even do? Jerk off and kys? Life is awful now but at least I used to have one. Zoomers are just doomed.
>>533825117>i want to live without smartphone so bad but I literally cannot go without smartphone and social media for five seconds reeeeeeeeeezoomers in a nutshell
>>533838895They are addicted. They were receiving constant adhd stimulation since they were really young.Listen to them talk about trying to quit "doomscrolling", they talk like heroin addicts, having "relapses" and whatnot.
>>533835070>Porn was the Sears CatalogKids these days probably don't realize that even though there was porn in the olden days, usually kids had zero access to it. The most risque thing you would see is your friend's uncle's Playboys and all you would see is boobs and maybe a hint of bush. I was 12 years old the first time I was over at someone's house and an older kid had a porno movie on VHS, but it was shitty quality with bad lighting. I couldn't even figure out what was going on.
They want the memories but not the reality. They want some fantasy world of mom jeans and malls and no social media or AI slop.They want the memories of high trust societies and high modernist consumerism They want the vidya and animu and Pokeymans and Saturday morning cartoons and cheesy plastic corporate surrealism But they will literally murder you and then themselves if you tell them they can only have it if Whites become 90% majority, fags and troons are closeted, and niggers are aggressively either kept in ghettos or forcibly turned as White and cheesy as culturally possible, with as few Arabs, Hindus, Slavs, or Irish as possible Also we worship dumbass White boy culture We worship WWF and extreme sports and heavy metal and unironic manly shit and teen sex comedies where you get to make fun of fags all you want White girls get Girl PowerNigs get Fresh Prince and Michael Jackson and Mr T. because they were cool, or else they get a bullet. You don't get one without the other. No arguments. End of discussion.
No shit? We have most of the actually feasible technology improvements that were available and it's all just made the world gayer and even more retarded.
