90's and Now....

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This video is probably just a commercial\trailer for something. However I like it and want to comment.

I was a teenager in the 90's. However, contrary to all those who wax nostalgic for it I wouldn't go back because I actually prefer the stuff I have now compared to what I had back then. I would have killed back then to have what I have now. I think there's something to be said for being able to appreciate the here and now rather than always having rose tinted glasses for the past.

I just don't care much for when people irrationally assert that everything was better in the past. Particularly technologically... no.. VHS tapes where NOT the pinnacle of video technology!

I could say blu-ray and streaming are the pinnacle but in 10-20 years they might look as antiquated as VHS tapes look now.

On the other hand at this point it does seem to me that streaming is more the future than physical media. Especially once newer more efficient codecs and sound standards happen in that space and the internet infrastructure in the US in particular catches up. Much to some's chagrin.

That being said I liked this video because it's interesting to me to compare and contrast the things people do now to what they did in the past. It'd be cool if we all could have a video like this that shows us similar things from now and decade ZYX.

Like for example in the 90's I used to play either a clunky PC with a 14 inch CRT using a clunky keyboard and mouse for the vast majority my PC games. I also used to play SNES on a big 27 inch TV in a bulky wooden cabinet with 4 channel (Left, Center, Right and one surround channel on two side speakers) Dolby Surround... Which I also used to watch movies.

Everything was wired as opposed to virtually everything being wireless except where it doesn't make sense like my speakers. My system right now is like a combination of the best of both the systems I used in the 90's with some additional upgrades thrown in.

I used to fantasize about how good movies would look without all the notorious color bleeding NTSC had at the time and with higher resolution.

On the social side in the 90's I had more real life friends but not many. Now it's sort of the same except for me having friends in social media instead of in person and still not having many.

I used to IM people more in the late 90s and I probably was more open to meeting new friends online at the time. I was pretty naive as to how people where when I first started using IM with ICQ and AIM. Also, there weren't very many if any bots clogging up certain IM services making me doubt if real people are sending me friend requests. Especially since... being someone who never had many friends growing up and rarely dated I didn't have a lot of social experience to be frank.

The decor in my room was a lot more plain back in the 90's with mostly white walls and paper posters instead of what I have now. My parents used to choose for me much of my furniture and I used to have a mish mash of cheap faux antique... and very few accent lights.

As opposed to the painted walls I have now (yellow) and most of the furniture I've chosen is now for myself and I've been upgrading migrating to more modern design and furnishings with nice accent lights where appropriate.

Although it could be argued that my room is more visually cluttered right now than in the 90's.

As for what I would have done differently back then I'm not sure what I could have done differently. I kind of feel like in order to do so I would have had to have been a different person entirely... or be the person I am today.