What was daily life like in the 80s/90s/00s?

[MP_]

I used to collect Mad magazines as a kid too but then when I got older I switched to collecting Viz magazines instead.

I used to buy the odd music magazine too like Rolling Stone, NME and Uncut but now I don't buy any magazines at all or any newspapers either.

I did the Mad magazine then swapped to viz too. I loved finbar Saunders and his double entendres

 

[peternorth]

No social media and limited internet meant that the world was a lot 'smaller'. You didn't have access to see how everyone else was living life, what they were wearing, buying, or seeing.

I suspect that sense of keeping up with the joneses was always a thing, but when the joneses were the people living next door and not the millions of people on social media, it was a bit easier.

The world was big back then. No internet meant we had to use magazines and the odd travel show to see what the world looked like. There was a mystique about going to a foreign country.

 

[peternorth]

Postcards. Aerogram.


Then came Fax machines.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Postcards. Aerogram.


Then came Fax machines.

Reading out telegrams at weddings

 

[faible]

The world was big back then. No internet meant we had to use magazines and the odd travel show to see what the world looked like. There was a mystique about going to a foreign country.

I meant smaller in the sense that you tended to only worry about what was around you, not the entire world at once. But yes also bigger and more mysterious.

 

[Gough]

Postcards. Aerogram.


Then came Fax machines.

When my gran died we found all the old aerograms and letters I'd written to her while I was living overseas, my buyers regret about Tony Blair was spot on. I wish I'd kept the ones she wrote to me.

 

[the_interloper]

I used to read Kerrang in the 90s to get month old news about Metallica playing a new song at a live show or something. So now if it happens the set list is available immediately and 1000 videos on YouTube of a new song about the same time.

 

[peternorth]

Hard rubbish at the moment witnessing many 80s and 90s goods on the nature strip.

 

[Pistol Night]

Reading out telegrams at weddings

With the obligatory well wishes from Ma and Pa Farken and the whole Farken family

 

[peternorth]

Reading out telegrams at weddings

With the obligatory well wishes from Ma and Pa Farken and the whole Farken family

half of which were made up

 

[MP_]

Hard rubbish at the moment witnessing many 80s and 90s goods on the nature strip.

my dad would get excited about hard rubbish day, we'd get in the car early to go have a look at what stuff was out there

 

[Cuzz09]

In our area, I remember a HUGE skip being put in the street for a week or so at a time for anyone to use.

We used to climb in it and search through stuff, was great fun as a kid.

Reminded me of that giant truck thing with those little guys in Star Wars

On SM-S908E using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

I don’t remember road rage being a thing back then. Of course there were a few idiots around but maybe incidents just weren’t deemed interesting enough to report. And there were no dash cams or mobiles.

But on the whole society was more civil back then. I’m quite shocked by the undercurrent of hostility that’s rife today, not to mention youth crime, and much if not most of that can be attributed to social media.

 

[Gough]

Oldham Athletic were a founding member of the Premier League in 1992, now they're one spot above Maidenhead United at the foot of the fifth division National League

 

[mr bagcroft]

I used to read Kerrang in the 90s to get month old news about Metallica playing a new song at a live show or something. So now if it happens the set list is available immediately and 1000 videos on YouTube of a new song about the same time.

and 77 people doing covers of it within 24 hours.

 

[the_interloper]

and 77 people doing covers of it within 24 hours.

There's a really good Metallica tribute band in Australia called Damage Inc, they did a cover of one of the new Metallica songs 4 days after it was released, that was impressive. They got a mention from Lars in an interview who found out about it.

 

[kickazz]

I don’t remember road rage being a thing back then. Of course there were a few idiots around but maybe incidents just weren’t deemed interesting enough to report. And there were no dash cams or mobiles.

But on the whole society was more civil back then. I’m quite shocked by the undercurrent of hostility that’s rife today, not to mention youth crime, and much if not most of that can be attributed to social media.

There is a selfishness that is very pervasive now. It's little things, too. People are so used to watching movies on home theatre via streaming that they think they can behave like they are at home when in the cinema.

Fewer interactions with real people and more online mean a loss of civility. I have best mates that vote for the 'wrong' party and it just never has been a problem. The online world is much better at dividing us and dehumanising the 'others'. With less time to to think for ourselves and more consumption of social media and its various curated propaganda we do not have the agency nor cognitive independence we might think we have.

Road rage - I think also has to do with higher stresses and a faster life in general. More people, more traffic, more stress.

 

[Andre]

Fewer interactions with real people and more online mean a loss of civility. I have best mates that vote for the 'wrong' party and it just never has been a problem. The online world is much better at dividing us and dehumanising the 'others'. With less time to to think for ourselves and more consumption of social media and its various curated propaganda we do not have the agency nor cognitive independence we might think we have.

This is the sad irony of the internet. Instead of something that allowed you to connect with and be exposed to many different views / cultures etc., it's 'pushed' people into echo chambers, where everyone holds similar views (they just happen to be living further apart).

 

[kickazz]

This is the sad irony of the internet. Instead of something that allowed you to connect with and be exposed to many different views / cultures etc., it's 'pushed' people into echo chambers, where everyone holds similar views (they just happen to be living further apart).

There is a positive flipside, I think if you have a niche hobby and live in a smaller city it would help with making connections. But the positive feedback loops these echo chambers create are concerning.

 

[revo333]

The behaviour of everyone hasn't changed and wasn't better than what it is now, it's hypocritical if you think so.

The only difference I can see now is it seems to go unpunished more because certain punishments used 20 years ago are frowned upon in todays society.

 

[raskolnikov]

No internet meant we had to use magazines..

I used to pause video tapes.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

The behaviour of everyone hasn't changed and wasn't better than what it is now, it's hypocritical if you think so.

The only difference I can see now is it seems to go unpunished more because certain punishments used 20 years ago are frowned upon in todays society.

It certainly has changed. People are emboldened by social media to do and say things that were off limits back then. Not so much forbidden, but not even thought of. Pushing back on authority figures, police and teachers and even medical staff, is almost standard. People feel no restraints.

 

[kickazz]

The behaviour of everyone hasn't changed and wasn't better than what it is now, it's hypocritical if you think so.

The only difference I can see now is it seems to go unpunished more because certain punishments used 20 years ago are frowned upon in todays society.

Maybe.

I think there has always been and always will be jerks, perhaps the way they show it changes.

People used to litter heaps more for example

 

[kickazz]

Also in the 80s and 90s you most certainly couldn't say "shit" on the radio.

 

[peternorth]

Maybe.

I think there has always been and always will be jerks, perhaps the way they show it changes.

People used to litter heaps more for example

with smart phones (cameras), it gives strength to people to say and do things. Unsociable behaviour is recorded and moreso reactions of the public who try to push back against such actions.

Certainly the internet has provided platforms for everyone to express opinion. Which goes in hand with "im just saying what everyones thinking"

good point about litter.