No smart phones, Pokemon Yellow on the Gameboy color with my homie and a link cable, freeze tag on a summer night by a park pavilion, bike rides around the neighborhood, The Matrix is about to drop in theatres and change the world... we didnt know how great we had it!
@@DragScopeDevin I got some Turkey sandwiches and Kool-Aid jammers in a cooler down by the park. Cmon down and cheer up. Mikes not grounded anymore and we are all gonna play some wiffle ball. I got that new nerf football that whistles too.
@@carryingfire286 Things & conditions give pleasure & pain, look at your present, drop the 'smartphone' in your pocket, hug what/who matters and have faith in what's good, because we all know what is necessary to be at peace
I turned 18 that spring, graduated high school. They called us "The Last of the GenXers" in the news and that we were the final graduating class of the millennium. At the time I didn't think much of it. But today, 25 years later I truly appreciate what a special time it was. Not because it was a "better" or "simpler" time, but because I miss the quiet of those days. Technology and media still hadn't completely taken over our lives. It was easy to get lost in the quiet, natural even. That's what I wish we could have back, especially for younger people. The quiet.
Yes. Class of 2000 here. Completely agreed. It was possible to be your own person then, as alone as you wish. Connection took real effort… so it was real connection. My children will never know.
The age before internet became widely accessible, when even the process of acquiring a small nugget of information was still very hands on and rewarding. When people relied on multiple physical objects that each played their own unique part in helping them get around and through the day. In a way, it felt like people were "fully equipped". Now, smartphones pretty much do everything with a few taps on the screen.
I had so much optimism grown up as a teen though the 80's & 90's I though the future would be bright that I needed shades 😁😁 I feel like I was robbed of a future that didn't happen, I look outside & it's not the world I vision it to be, listening to this does give me nistoulga in a way of a future that could have been.
1999 + Twin Towers, peak retrowave memorabilia... On the anniversary of 9/11 too. Every year I meditate on that event with artwork, fusing 9/11 with the archetypal Tower's collapse, as a ageless symbol. This year - "eternity" was the key word ✨️⚪️✨️
@@Luminescencehere Yep anything from late 70's & before 2000 I believe was the pinnacle of human experience "Golden Era" after 2000 it went down hill to the crap we have now. SAD yes but I was glad I experience the 80's & 90's as a teen & young adult, maybe a few decades will past before we experience, for the young gen now day's sorry you missed out on it.
Even my nostalgia is bittersweet.. a time that is less real than dust. An echo of a memory. And yet here I am, revisiting a distant thought I can't help but glorify, when the infinite present is as solid as a rock.
They were beyond impressive when I had the good fortune to see them in person twice. They were majestic. They should have rebuilt them exactly the way they were.
No smart phones, Pokemon Yellow on the Gameboy color with my homie and a link cable, freeze tag on a summer night by a park pavilion, bike rides around the neighborhood, The Matrix is about to drop in theatres and change the world... we didnt know how great we had it!
you forgot to add the Concorde flying over manhattan!
You’re going to make me cry
@@DragScopeDevin I got some Turkey sandwiches and Kool-Aid jammers in a cooler down by the park. Cmon down and cheer up. Mikes not grounded anymore and we are all gonna play some wiffle ball. I got that new nerf football that whistles too.
@@carryingfire286 Things & conditions give pleasure & pain, look at your present, drop the 'smartphone' in your pocket, hug what/who matters and have faith in what's good, because we all know what is necessary to be at peace
The Matrix and Prince predicted that 1999 would be the peak of human civilisation. So far they have both been proven right.
I turned 18 that spring, graduated high school. They called us "The Last of the GenXers" in the news and that we were the final graduating class of the millennium. At the time I didn't think much of it. But today, 25 years later I truly appreciate what a special time it was. Not because it was a "better" or "simpler" time, but because I miss the quiet of those days. Technology and media still hadn't completely taken over our lives. It was easy to get lost in the quiet, natural even. That's what I wish we could have back, especially for younger people. The quiet.
Yes. Class of 2000 here. Completely agreed. It was possible to be your own person then, as alone as you wish. Connection took real effort… so it was real connection. My children will never know.
I'm sure there's a "market for that"?
The quiet. The "peace". I too yearn for that.
The age before internet became widely accessible, when even the process of acquiring a small nugget of information was still very hands on and rewarding. When people relied on multiple physical objects that each played their own unique part in helping them get around and through the day. In a way, it felt like people were "fully equipped". Now, smartphones pretty much do everything with a few taps on the screen.
I had so much optimism grown up as a teen though the 80's & 90's I though the future would be bright that I needed shades 😁😁 I feel like I was robbed of a future that didn't happen, I look outside & it's not the world I vision it to be, listening to this does give me nistoulga in a way of a future that could have been.
Nistoulga
The world is ending, but you're "cool."
1999 + Twin Towers, peak retrowave memorabilia... On the anniversary of 9/11 too. Every year I meditate on that event with artwork, fusing 9/11 with the archetypal Tower's collapse, as a ageless symbol. This year - "eternity" was the key word ✨️⚪️✨️
Ah yes i remember that year vividly. I was 9 years old back then. Best music, Movies, Games, Pop Culture of that year and world events.
1990
I read that as "remember that year wildly" and I was trying to imagine. lol
Peak of human experience. According to The Matrix. And it seems to check out IRL :D
those times where simply... perfect
@@Luminescencehere Yep anything from late 70's & before 2000 I believe was the pinnacle of human experience "Golden Era" after 2000 it went down hill to the crap we have now. SAD yes but I was glad I experience the 80's & 90's as a teen & young adult, maybe a few decades will past before we experience, for the young gen now day's sorry you missed out on it.
@@Luminescencehere Not really.
Even my nostalgia is bittersweet.. a time that is less real than dust. An echo of a memory. And yet here I am, revisiting a distant thought I can't help but glorify, when the infinite present is as solid as a rock.
keep making this videos ❤
A better time
true that
@@Luminescencehere Good times
Before 9/11 screwed the world up.
Indeed
They were beyond impressive when I had the good fortune to see them in person twice. They were majestic. They should have rebuilt them exactly the way they were.
I clicked on this video because it shows my birth year.
Simpleton
many sensations
I was born in 1999. I don't think i would have had my life any other way
Peak Neoliberalism. An Era I might not have the best opinions on but it truly was a great time to be alive for most. I just hope what's next is better
Uhhh...it won't be better.
Neoliberalism???? Hahahahaha
Stop interjecting crappy politics into this. Just enjoy it for what it was. As kids we didn’t think politics, we just enjoyed it.
Man I miss being 16.
Don't we all.
vibes!
I will never have the chance to visit them.
Life seemed simple back then. Of course I was 7, but simple. Yeah the world was still wild but nowhere near what it is today.
yup, simpler times that's for sure
Just before the cellphone privacy killer BS exploded.....
😴😴
Subscribing would mean a lot and would also help us a bunch.
I turned 6 in 1999 lol.
I'd like to smoke cigarettes until they kill me, but I can't afford it.
You're going on a date with Becky? That's great! Don't forget to come inside.
What’s the song at 15:00?? Sounds so much like Beach House
1999 isn't a vaporwave year. If you want to capture the aesthetic of that time, I recommend Madonna's "Ray of Light" album.
Pairs nicely with Limp Bizkit's "Significant Other."
Hell no to both. Yuck. We want music, not ear r.a.p.e.
@@mywifesboyfriend5558 That's what they said about Mozart, and look who's laughing now.
@@Mike-zj3zj Madonna aint no Mozart tho friend.
@@carryingfire286 I hear she was always drunk and arrived hours late for her shows.
"Boobtube."