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[quote=Anonymous]Three main things: - There was very little social media, especially for teens. I didn't get an email address until I started college or a cell phone until a couple years after graduation. That was common. If a regular citizen did something embarrassing or stupid, it didn't/ couldn't go viral. - Terrorism wasn't on the radar like it is now. There was a tangible shift after 9/11. - There was a general expectation that by 22, you were to be "grown and flown". That usually entailed living in a crappy apartment with roommates and eating a lot of frozen waffles for at least a couple years, but it also entailed the kind of freedom that a lot of 22 year olds don't have today. I don't know anyone today who would be okay with their 22 year old daughter backpacking through Europe with friends and staying in youth hostels with no means of regular communication or health insurance, but it was a perfectly normal thing in 1995. [/quote]
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