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 { Zoomers! Read carefully. You must not forget that times used to be better. The dystopia we live in now is not what we should settle for. ~drummyfish }
 
-It is now confirmed that 1990s (or just 90s) were almost definitely the best decade in recent written [history](history.md), at least in [Europe](europe.md) (the main continent of [Earth](earth.md)) but to a degree probably also in other, less significant parts of the world ([USA](usa.md) etc.). They were the peak of civilization before the [collapse](collapse.md) quickly brought by the [21st century](21st_century.md). 90s still left behind some echoes during the years 2000-2010 -- according to some still a bearable decade -- however it was already going downhill at the time. 90s followed the [80](80s)s (quite logically, at least to those of above [Trump](trump.md) intellect), a decade that was itself also pretty good, and so in a similar fashion some good old 80s vibes carried on to the 90s.
+It is now confirmed that 1990s (or just 90s, but NEVER "90's") were almost definitely the best decade in recent written [history](history.md), at least in [Europe](europe.md) (the main continent of [Earth](earth.md)) but to a certain extent also in other, less significant parts of the world ([USA](usa.md) etc.). The decade saw a peak of civilization before the [collapse](collapse.md) quickly brought by the symbolic [turn of the millennium](21st_century.md). 90s still left behind some reverberant echoes of their greatness slowly dying out during the subsequent 2000-2010 decade -- according to some still a bearable decade -- but then it all started to quickly plummet downhill regardless. 90s followed the [80s](80s.md) (quite logically, at least to those of above [Trump](trump.md) intellect), a decade that was itself also pretty good, and so in a similar fashion some good old 80s vibes likewise carried on to the 90s.
 
-During the 90s [millennials](millennial.md) (also called gen Y) were born, as well as some of the oldest [zoomers](zoomer.md). The decade was characterized for example by sagging trousers, loose and torn clothes in general, jeans and hoodies, baseball caps turned backwards, vibrant [colors](color.md), optimistic and cheerful mood, [real life](irl.md) friends and sleepovers, [Tamagotchi](tamagotchi.md) and [Pokemon](pokemon.md), cool [digital](digital.md) watches (non-smart), [GameBoy](gameboy.md), [CRT](crt.md) monitors, [floppy](floppy.md) disks, ball [mice](mouse.md), archaic Internet and [web](www.md) 1.0 through slow dial-up, cassette tapes and walkmans { is it walkmans or walkmen lol? ~drummyfish }, bizarre button cellphones, phone booths in streets, boybands, MTV music, movies on [VHS](vhs.md) (and VHS rental stores), soulful non-[furry](furry.md) cartoons aired only early on Saturday mornings and many other wonderful things.
+During the 90s [millennials](millennial.md) (also called gen Y) were born, as well as some of the oldest [zoomers](zoomer.md). The decade was characterized for example by sagging trousers, loose and torn clothes in general, jeans and hoodies, baseball caps turned backwards, vibrant pastel [colors](color.md), optimistic and cheerful mood, [real life](irl.md) friends and sleepovers, [Tamagotchi](tamagotchi.md) and [Pokemon](pokemon.md), cool [digital](digital.md) watches (non-smart), [GameBoy](gameboy.md), [CRT](crt.md) monitors, [floppy](floppy.md) disks, ball [mice](mouse.md), archaic [Internet](internet.md) and [web](www.md) 1.0 through slow dial-up, cassette tapes and walkmans { is it walkmans or walkmen lol? ~drummyfish }, bizarre button cellphones, phone booths in streets, boybands, MTV music, movies on [VHS](vhs.md) (and VHS rental stores), soulful non-[furry](furry.md) cartoons aired only early on Saturday mornings and many other wonderful things.
 
 So, from the European point of view, here is a short summary of why 90s were so good:
 
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 - There was a relatively high [freedom of speech](free_speech.md), no one gave a single shit about [political correctness](political_correctness.md) (no one even knew that term) and people in post-soviet countries actually saw freedom of speech as an achievement that many died for and which they previously only dreamed of, they valued it greatly -- [censorship](censorship.md) was still considered highly undesirable by majority of people.
 - [Toxic](toxic.md) [US](usa.md) culture still hadn't made it to Europe so people weren't obsessed with [productivity](productivity_cult.md), shooting up schools, [tattoos](tattoo.md), self interest and other shit.
 - Zero crime, no [fear culture](fear_culture.md).
-- If you bought something it would definitely last more than a week -- actually much longer, even 10, 20 or 30 years.
-- Furthermore if something broke, it could easily be repaired, sometimes even by yourself. There were even people who specialized in repairing TVs and radios for example.
+- If you bought something it would definitely last more than a week -- actually much longer, even 10, 20 or 30 years and beyond.
+- In addition to product longevity if something indeed did break, it could easily be repaired, sometimes even by yourself. There were even people who specialized in repairing TVs and radios for example.
 - Professionals actually knew something about their profession, you could trust that if someone did something for living, he'd be kind of good at it. As a result things were generally of good quality, including for example movie dubbings and subtitles (nowadays it's standard that subtitles are made by people who cannot read or write or even talk at all), news, books, electronics, tools etc.
 - ALL computers had [CRT](crt.md)s!
 - People talked normally, there was no [newspeak](newspeak.md) [bullshit](bullshit.md)! The "issue" of politically correct pronouns didn't exist, such insanity would be seen as completely ridiculous, "he" was the default pronoun, everyone said "mankind", "spokesman", no one had an issue with it. If someone just mentioned that a pronoun can be "offensive" he would be probably be immediately put in a mental asylum.
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 - When you went abroad for that rare vacation sometimes there would be maybe 5 other tourists but not 20 billion of them, you would also see no Starbucks or similar Yankee shit, you genuinely just went to a foreign country, not to Disneyland, you really saw a foreign culture.
 - Also the world wasn't yet so globalized, people knew their neighbors, countries and individual village still had their own culture, everything was diverse because Internet still wasn't mainstream and the Earth wasn't collectively owned by 3 gigacorporations.
 - You weren't overfed of everything -- there was less and in effect you enjoyed it much more. For example Internet connection wasn't common, it was always exciting to get on the net for a while! You had to wait a week for the new episode of your favorite series. You have to wait a whole year to save up for that shiny Pokemon Gameboy game, it was genuine joy to get it. You had to consider what to put on that floppy drive, you only had 2.4 MB. Cell phones were luxury and if you got one, even a complete shit, it meant something, you would be enjoying it every day.
-- Yes, capitalism was around but it wasn't YET as extremely degenerated as today and where it was, it was still staying in the USA. Not for long though.
-- The good things of the early 2000s were yet to come at this point :)
+- Yes, [capitalism](capitalism.md) was around but it wasn't YET as extremely degenerated as today and where it was, it was still staying in the USA, post "socialist" countries have just hopped in onto capitalism and weren't yet receiving lethal doses of it. Not for long though.
+- The sparser but still very real good things that were about to come in the 2000s were yet to look forward to :)
 - Actors and singers, even if stupid, were at least somewhat good looking people and not vomit inducing monsters.
-- Needless to say nature and weather were much nicer also -- where today there are McDonald's parking lots back then were forests, air was cleaner, more animals were around, winters had actual snow, you could still find places without plastic garbage lying all around.
-- Politics was shit, as it always is, but it wasn't an absolute unimaginable [joke](jokes.md) like it is nowadays, there were still socialist parties who kind of cared for the common people and sometimes there were even people in politics who had some sense of morality and whom you could at least partially respect, like Vaclav Havel.
+- Needless to say nature and weather were much nicer also -- where today there are McDonald's parking lots back then were forests, air was cleaner, more animals were around, winters had actual snow, you could still find places without plastic garbage lying all around, silent and peaceful places.
+- Politics was shit, like it always is, but it wasn't an absolute unimaginable [joke](jokes.md) like nowadays, there were still socialist parties who kind of cared for the common people and sometimes there were even people in politics who had some sense of morality and whom you could at least partially respect, like Vaclav Havel.
 - Fun wasn't illegal and you didn't have to put 1000 pages of disclaimer on a joke.
 - People weren't completely enslaved and crippled by juggling thousands of bullshit activities all the time like posting photos of food while checking emails, investment portfolio, crypto wallet and bank account at the same time while using the other hand to update a banking app to be able to pay stream subscriptions, monthly internet bills while also keeping up with paying insurance for health, house, car, dogs and making sure that with current inflation rate there will be something left to buy food and, trusting current weather forecasts, enough heating to not freeze in the winter and maybe even buy your grandma another gender switch surgery for Christmas.
 - ([Drummyfish](drummyfish.md) was born.)