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[quote=Anonymous][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.

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I backpacked through Europe at 21 with less than $1000 in savings, and made it last months. I didn't have a smartphone yet - it was 2009. I was riding out the recession hoping that "experiences" would qualify me for jobs later (it ultimately did - languages and street smarts are good to have). My parents sort of freaked out when I couldn't be reached by phone for a few days, but they got over it. They could do all the worrying and fretting they wanted, but I was on my own and there was nothing they could do about it. [/quote]

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