>>15885756This is what life was like in the 1990s, and it was a lot simpler and more laid-back.
Unless you were in the Deep South or the inner city, everyone was white. It was really rare and unusual to see someone from the Middle East or SE Asia or India. Mexicans were funny drunks found only in the border states.
People dressed nicer, with button-down shirts, polo shirts, slacks, clean jeans, good sneakers. Nobody wore just T-shirts and cargo shorts.
Everyone was in better shape just from being more active. Only a few people were actually fat.
If you had a tattoo, it was just one, on the bicep for a guy, or small of the back for a girl.
People read magazines and paperbacks to pass the time in airports and laundromats.
If you wanted a movie, you went once a week to a local store, and rented one or two VHS tapes.
Only a few people had computers, and they were slow, so you only used them in an office. You went to a mall arcade to play video games.
Phones were landlines at home, or at work, or else payphones. Most people had answering machines by the 1990s.
You could watch the evening news if you felt like it, but you could also skip it and just catch up by reading something like Time magazine.
If you wanted something not found at the mall or local stores, you used mail-order catalogs. And once you ordered something, you were on a list, so people just sent you more catalogs.
Stores like Sears and K-Mart had cheap but good stuff in them.
Donald Trump was famous from the mid-80s onward, and everyone liked him.
You had to make an effort to get porn, something like Penthouse at a convenience store, or go to an adult bookstore in the seedy part of town.
Nobody knew much about the lives of celebrities, they were just people you saw in movies or on TV once in a while.
If you didn't know something, you went to the library and found an encyclopedia or a book, and you would spend a couple hours learning something.