What decade would you time lock in forever?

[Dark Avenger]

If you could pick any decade to be time locked in, where nothing will advance to the decade that comes after (we'll still grow and age etc.), and the world forever stays locked with how things were in this decade. What would it be and why?

[ladyfiaran22]

Just a question, could we still access stuff made in earlier decades? Like movies, music and such? My tastes are all over the place and I’d want a lot of variety with my music and entertainment options

[Dark Avenger]

May 27, 2020 8:57:15 GMT -5 ladyfiaran22 said:

Just a question, could we still access stuff made in earlier decades? Like movies, music and such? My tastes are all over the place and I’d want a lot of variety with my music and entertainment options

You can. Nothing changes from earlier decades.

[ladyfiaran22]

That’s awesome. If I could be time-locked into a decade, it would be the 90s. I was a kid in the first half and honestly it was a very happy time, especially for the first half. My parents were still together and I wasn’t fat and sarcastic, plus the early to mid-90 had excellent music. As a kid in the early 90s, there were Saturday morning cartoons and we’d get up early to watch them. I especially liked the Ninja Turtles on Channel 4 and the Bugs Bunny and Tweety show on Channel 7 which had the old Looney Tunes, and on Channel 2 at 12:30 there was a show which had animated adaptations of children’s books, forgot the name.

As for music, I loved alternative and grunge and I got into it around ‘92 via my older cousins. I was glued to the K-Rock station and MTV with 120 Minutes and sometimes Headbanger’s Ball for metal. It seemed as though every month there’d be another cool album come out, every time we went to Sam Goody’s at the mall I’d buy a new cassette for my Walkman. To this day 90s alternative makes me nostalgic, listening to mid-90s Pearl Jam really opened my eyes to different music and by the mid-90s I got into punk via Green Day, Offspring and Rancid.

I also listened to our local oldies station before Clear Channel took over and I loved 50s, 60s and 70s music so I grew up hearing all sorts of cool stuff. Monday night the oldies station had 70s music, Tuesday night would have artists from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Wednesday night would have Cousin Brucie play themed music like all songs from a particular year or all female Motown groups, Thursday night would have all 60s, Friday night all 50s, Saturday night was all request and Sunday would be all request 50s music. Unfortunately Clear Channel took over in the early 2000s and they stopped having the different themed nights, they only played the mainstream oldies hits and I stopped listening to them and listened only to K-Rock and our local classic rock station on the radio.

[Tim]

The 80's for me.  That was my decade.

[BettyNewbie]

May 27, 2020 10:55:12 GMT -5 ladyfiaran22 said:

That’s awesome. If I could be time-locked into a decade, it would be the 90s. I was a kid in the first half and honestly it was a very happy time, especially for the first half. My parents were still together and I wasn’t fat and sarcastic, plus the early to mid-90 had excellent music. As a kid in the early 90s, there were Saturday morning cartoons and we’d get up early to watch them. I especially liked the Ninja Turtles on Channel 4 and the Bugs Bunny and Tweety show on Channel 7 which had the old Looney Tunes, and on Channel 2 at 12:30 there was a show which had animated adaptations of children’s books, forgot the name.

As for music, I loved alternative and grunge and I got into it around ‘92 via my older cousins. I was glued to the K-Rock station and MTV with 120 Minutes and sometimes Headbanger’s Ball for metal. It seemed as though every month there’d be another cool album come out, every time we went to Sam Goody’s at the mall I’d buy a new cassette for my Walkman. To this day 90s alternative makes me nostalgic, listening to mid-90s Pearl Jam really opened my eyes to different music and by the mid-90s I got into punk via Green Day, Offspring and Rancid.

I also listened to our local oldies station before Clear Channel took over and I loved 50s, 60s and 70s music so I grew up hearing all sorts of cool stuff. Monday night the oldies station had 70s music, Tuesday night would have artists from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Wednesday night would have Cousin Brucie play themed music like all songs from a particular year or all female Motown groups, Thursday night would have all 60s, Friday night all 50s, Saturday night was all request and Sunday would be all request 50s music. Unfortunately Clear Channel took over in the early 2000s and they stopped having the different themed nights, they only played the mainstream oldies hits and I stopped listening to them and listened only to K-Rock and our local classic rock station on the radio.

This is pretty close to my answer, too. I could settle for stopping time in 2004 so I could still have Sims 1 and broadband internet, but otherwise, I'd be fine with never going past 1999. Just about all of my favorite TV shows, movies, and music are from the 90s or earlier, and I'd also be going back to a world with a booming economy and no 9/11 or COVID-19. And, Benjamin Harrison was still the most recent president to lose the popular vote.

[Tim]

Most of us chose the decade of our youth, I see.

[ladyfiaran22]

I know, it seems as though when you were a kid was the best time ever. I get very nostalgic when I hear 90s alternative or oldies music since it reminds me of being a kid, I still believe those two are the best music ever. I was a kid and I didn’t have to worry about being popular or boys, being a kid a kid back then was awesome before social media and ubiquitous screens. The TV would stop showing cartoons at eight in the morning weekdays and during school holidays we’d be outside much as possible, even in the winter we’d play in the snow. Sadly, I never see kids play in the snow anymore during winter, parents are terrified the kids will catch something or break their bones in they play in the snow.

[Tim]

I know the 80's had the Cold War and such.  But don't forget it ended that same decade.

[BettyNewbie]

May 27, 2020 23:21:36 GMT -5 Tim said:

I know the 80's had the Cold War and such.  But don't forget it ended that same decade.

Actually, it ended in the 90s. The Soviet Union fell in 1991.

And, even if you go off the Berlin Wall falling, instead, that was still only the very tail end of the 80s. (And, culturally, 1989 was probably more like the 90s than it was the rest of the 80s.)

Also, the 80s had Ronnie Raygun and "greed is good" down here. It might've been different up in Canada, but in the US, the 90s were a much better decade than the 80s.

[ladyfiaran22]

I was a kid when Reagan was president and saw him on TV but I had no idea what he was doing, I was born in 1982. Clinton might have been getting busy in the Oval Office but at least during his term the economy was doing good and our treasury had a surplus, it seemed as though his first term was a good time for our country.

One thing I miss as a kid is how kids would go out to play or visit the library or just do stuff, instead of being on a screen all day. I’ve seen this first hand in my family, my cousins’ kids are all hooked on screens and won’t play outside. Two summers ago we visited one of my cousins, my Mom’s niece J. She has four kids under the age of 10 with the youngest being a baby. The three older kids had cell phones and each phone was playing a YouTube video loudly, then they wanted to watch cartoons. They chose something from On Demand and kept switching between episodes every 30 seconds, with all the phones still playing loud YouTube videos still on. It was giving me a headache and my brother was getting dizzy since he’s sensitive to stimuli. Mom asked why the kids didn’t play outside and J said that playing outdoors is for poor people 😳

Sadly, this is common with a lot of kids I deal with. Parents seem to think that having lots of electronic gizmos means they’re rich and playing outdoors, going to the park or library or doing free activities is for poor people. J and her family are working class and phones and On Demand cost money, but they think playing outdoors is for poor people even though they don’t live in a violent area and have a backyard, they live in Florida.

[BettyNewbie]

May 28, 2020 7:56:08 GMT -5 ladyfiaran22 said:

I was a kid when Reagan was president and saw him on TV but I had no idea what he was doing, I was born in 1982. Clinton might have been getting busy in the Oval Office but at least during his term the economy was doing good and our treasury had a surplus, it seemed as though his first term was a good time for our country.

Although the few remaining Reagan Republicans want to distance themselves from Orange Hitler, he is the monster they created. Everything about Ronnie's election was a repudiation of the 60s. The "welfare queen" myth fed into racial resentment and led to the gutting of the New Deal and Great Society programs. AIDS and the War on Drugs became new excuses to demonize marginalized LGBT and POC communities. The path was cleared for the GOP's descent into a full-blown fascist party.

We had a chance to course-correct with Clinton, but voters refused to show up in 1994, resulting in the GOP taking over Congress and putting a stranglehold over his administration.

May 28, 2020 7:56:08 GMT -5 ladyfiaran22 said:

One thing I miss as a kid is how kids would go out to play or visit the library or just do stuff, instead of being on a screen all day. I’ve seen this first hand in my family, my cousins’ kids are all hooked on screens and won’t play outside. Two summers ago we visited one of my cousins, my Mom’s niece J. She has four kids under the age of 10 with the youngest being a baby. The three older kids had cell phones and each phone was playing a YouTube video loudly, then they wanted to watch cartoons. They chose something from On Demand and kept switching between episodes every 30 seconds, with all the phones still playing loud YouTube videos still on. It was giving me a headache and my brother was getting dizzy since he’s sensitive to stimuli. Mom asked why the kids didn’t play outside and J said that playing outdoors is for poor people 😳

Sadly, this is common with a lot of kids I deal with. Parents seem to think that having lots of electronic gizmos means they’re rich and playing outdoors, going to the park or library or doing free activities is for poor people. J and her family are working class and phones and On Demand cost money, but they think playing outdoors is for poor people even though they don’t live in a violent area and have a backyard, they live in Florida.

And, I fear that COVID-19 will only further drive people to live behind screens instead of the real world. Not even nerds and introverts should be celebrating that "new normal." People were not made to spend their entire lives in front of a screen in their bedroom. They need to have physical interaction and lived experience. Passively staring at a screen will NOT give your brain the stimulation it needs.

As much as I enjoy the conveniences of my smartphone, I despise everything about mobile internet. And, I REALLY despise modern social media. This technology has done more harm than good to people.

[ladyfiaran22]

I was referring to a few years back, but it’s going to get worse now that a lot of stuff is closed. More parents are going to put their kids in front of screens because it might be safer and this is going to give them problems with human interaction and cognitive development. I’m glad my older brother and I grew up pre Internet with three channels, we had to play outside and get books from the library. When schools open up again, kids are going to behind with cognitive and social skills.

But seriously, the 90s with access to older stuff would be my ideal time to be stuck in. The best music and TV and films, a great economy and no worries about mass shootings or school shootings, until the end. My cousin’s kids are going to grow up addicted to screens and stuck indoors and have all sorts of cognitive and social problems due to Coronavirus 😣

[Tim]

no worries about mass shootings or school shootings, until the end

Oh yeah, Columbine. 

Many consider that, not 9/11, is what ended the 90's.

[Squad 51]

For me it'd be then half 80ies, half 90ies. As many times said before, I was twelve when the wall came down because I actually lived behind the Iron Curtain. There were good times, there were bad times which is normal, I guess.