>>6877421I was really just shitposting, but since you asked:
>>6877421The Internet in general was a LOT more fun, although that era essentially persisted clear up to about 2009, and actually got better in the 00's in many ways.
In the U.S., at least, society in general ran a lot more smoothly. The consequences of economic and climatic mismanagement had not started to catch up with us too badly yet; people argued about dumb "culture wars" shi,t but everyone with half a brain had the sense not to take any of it seriously; it was somewhat rarer for political careers to end in failure and disgrace, and the parties were not so willing to nosedive the entire country just to spite the people on the other side of the aisle; and as horrid as public education may have been at the time, it was not nearly as cringeworthy and blatantly designed to sabotage its own alleged goals as it seems today.
Basically the good thing about the 90's/earlier 00's was just the fun of growing up in the transitional era to the all-pervasive Internet, when everything had more of a wild west atmosphere and there were some minimal quality control filters for who tended to get online, like having to be at least smart enough to beat the learning curve for safe and purposeful web browsing on a PC. Aside from that, it's more that a lot of shit kind of sucks right now, so many other time periods look good by comparison, and any that someone happens to have personally lived through will look especially so to them.
