“The 90s and 2000s were the same, only difference were cell phones”- how true is this?

[Spence]

I had a cell phone in 6th grade in 96 (emergency use only, then minutes back then were expensive af ) so that isn’t the crux of what made the 00’s feel different. There was definitely a mood change after 9/11 in the country for sure.

Fashion was completely different from Zoobah print pants of the 90’s to wide legged jeans in the 00’s. Hell, durags didn’t even really show up until Wu-Tang blew up the spot in 02/03 and then DMX took that ball and ran with it. Just look at the cover of essence, slam, and source to show you where the differences were in dress.

 

[Space Cowboy]

Let me help you all.

The everything changed in 2008. The financial crisis changed everything. After that point technology took off in the following years. It’s also when the baggy cloths era was coming to an end. Big box stores like Circuit City were closing.

So really 2000 - 2010 was an extension of the 90’s.

See?

 

[Phantum]

The sweet spot was when MySpace was popping and Facebook didn't blow up yet.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Despite all of this I still understand of what they mean by it being the 90's Part Two.

The 1990's was a decade full of angst but also positivity. It's a decade typified by a rebellious spirit but also a love for life. 1996 and up were such a good ass time. The most controversial thing during those times was the President getting a blowjob. despite the war on terror, things in America at least were pretty good and the nation was mostly united until they invaded Iraq. That's when things really started to take a turn in very dark waters, and eventually the positivity and rebellious spirit of the 90's died. But it still kept on in some corners, mostly in culture that continued that rebellious spirit and positive streak in things like South Park, The Boondocks, Home Movies with stuff like The Matrix sequels, or in music. Until the crash of 2007, the 2000's was mostly positive but that angst and negative streak kept building and building and building until everything in America was divided. I'd probably say the 90's unofficially ended, in terms of mindset, with Hurricane Katrina. There was so little to be positive about at that time and something about America felt dismal but in the heart of it we still had good ol days. I don't know. It was weird. A weird decade.

things got dark after 9/11, life fundamentally changed and if you’re an older millennial or late gen x, you saw a gang of people you knew shipped off to Iraq and Afghanistan to fight a pointless war. Plus that presidency started with a stolen election, wasn’t no overwhelming sense of positivity in the 00’s. shyt got real and has only gotten darker since

 

[How Sway?]

Granted I was a kid back in those days, but in hindsight, 2004 was a quite different than 96 -99.

The cultural 2000s was pretty much in full swing by 2003 I think. Maybe even 02.

By 08, it was starting to change and we began to see sneak peaks of what would be in store during the 2010s decade.

2004 was definitely different from 09/2010 to me.

 

[maxamusa]

nah, there was a lot more $$$ circulating in the 90s than the 00s. the 90s breh had it way easier n a lot of ways.

 

[Dameon Farrow]

All I know is I wanna pop people in the mouth when they say relationships were better and females were treated better. They were still getting dogged and dudes were still grimey. Probably grimier as dudes are more antisocial these days and it's easer to get put on blast than back then.

As for the op question? Not true. That's the short answer.

 

[2 one 3]

What was different after 9/11

EVERYTHING…

 

[num123]

The spread of the Internet to a wider populace in the 2000's makes that statement cap.

 

[Wig Twistin Season]

90s — Brothers were starving, crime was high, our image was positive, but the reality was much different. People were dealing with the fall out of the crack era and the kids were taking over everything. Socially, it was wide open because everything happened live and in person, from meeting women to running into your ops (who were there for the same reason).

00s — Those kids figured out how to get money. Everybody and their momma was hustling something. The rap your way to a millionaire option became a thing a lot of people chased. Information started to spread. Conspiracy theories became “knowledge”. Bad info became the norm. The internet opened the door for a lot. Post 9/11 all that freedom slowly started becoming restricted. We had more money, but our image started to plummet.

 

[Roger king]

'' I barack hussein obama do solemnly swear'' it was then brehs

 

[Space Cowboy]

The spread of the Internet to a wider populace in the 2000's makes that statement cap.

I'm starting to think your perception of 90's vs 2000's depends on if you had a computer in the 90's or not. My family had a computer, I took computer classes and everything. We had the internet and I was using for research for reports in 1996 and 1997. So the 2000's was an extension of the 90's for me. Thee things I was doing in the broadband I was doing in the 56k era...just more slowly.

One time I downloaded an anime. It took me a full 24 hours to download it on 56k. My dad was pissed.

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

You absolutely had to leave the house in the 90s to be entertained. It was only so many hours of Tecmo Bowl a person could stand

 

[Unbothered]

I could imagine that maybe for the first few years of the '00s (say 2000-2002 or 2003) things might've felt like an extension of the late 90s but the middle and later parts of the 00s (2005-2009) not.

For example, TV shows and movies during that period ('00-'02 or '03) still represented a late 90s style of filmmaking, and TV cop procedurals, music, etc were much different in tone and feeling than what came later in the middle/second half of that decade.

The first few years of a new decade always feel the same as its predecessor at first but, by the time you reach the middle and second half of that decade, it all feels different and unique in its way. The early 2010s ('10-'12 or '13) likely felt closer to the late 2000s (06-09) than the mid-late 2010s did and the same thing with the late '80s and early '90s, it likely felt like an extension in some ways.

Things don't automatically change or feel different at the beginning of a new decade. It takes time for a cultural and societal shift (among other things) to become noticeable.

 

[Space Cowboy]

things got dark after 9/11, life fundamentally changed and if you’re an older millennial or late gen x, you saw a gang of people you knew shipped off to Iraq and Afghanistan to fight a pointless war. Plus that presidency started with a stolen election, wasn’t no overwhelming sense of positivity in the 00’s. shyt got real and has only gotten darker since

The 90's could be dark too. Early 90's was grisly. All three of the main 90's music heroes died that decade. Crime was insane if you weren't in the burbs in the early 90's. I couldn't wear the colors red or blue, or wear anything FILA, we were still early in the AIDS epidemic back then. To pretend the 90's was a perfect paradise is nuts. Yeah, the war made things dark but over here in USA we didn't have to see or live it for the most part. Things started to change during the crash of 2007 and katrina.