A Matter of Perspective...Not!

Alright, so the Generation Z kids wont agree because they don’t know any better, as all of us Gen Y-ers know, the 90's were, in fact, the bomb. But in lieu of Y2K, the familiarity of our golden childhood days is quickly slipping away.


In the last decade audio players went from cassette tapes to walkmans (dude!) to cds to mp3 players, which will surely be phased out any month now. Landlines have been damned to quaintness as every man, woman, 9 year old and their dog has their own personal cell phone (minimal radiation emissions!) to text each other when it's time for dinner. Kids born after the mid-90's have never known a time in their life when the internet hasn't been available for completing school projects at the last minute. Oh, hey, does anyone want a Polaroid? Better get one soon if you do, because they're not going to be making them for much longer.
Polaroid is getting out of the Polaroid business. What the hell is this?


Turn of the century kids never got to appreciate that which went before them; cds, cell phones, computers and crappy tv have just been the norm. Gone are the days of good cartoons and simple childhood pleasures. Here's a prime example; a beloved elementary school toy, Bop It, as the 90's kids will remember it.



And here is the ungodly post-millennium version, Bop It Download. How are kids supposed to play with that thing? How do you even hold it?




Are you happy now, Gen Z?




What about another simple toy, Skip It? Where are those now? Oh, wait, nobody cares, because kids are too busy playing with their Nintendo DS's and Hannah Montana Music Video sets.


And as time went on, baseball cards became [insert popular anime-model tv show] cards, Barbies became Bratz, and Pogs simply disappeared. MTV traded music videos for "reality" shows about a bunch of jerkoff 20-somethings that live on the beach of South California. Saturday morning timeslots got filled with Disney drivel and the 17th incarnation of Power Rangers. N*Sync gave way to Eminem. Though to be honest, I can't tell which of those two is the greater evil.


The shortcomings of the new millennium are many, and I could write a page-long post full of reasons why, but I don't want to be writing all night, and you don't want to be reading all night, right? I haven't even talked about the difference music, gone in-depth with cartoon comparison, or talked about the plague that is reality television. So consider this post the first of...well, a series of posts about why the 90's were better than Now.

'Til next time, all the best.