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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, also: you paid rent, landline, gas and electric. Plenty of people didn't have cable and it was normal not to watch much TV as a 20-something. You didn't pay for internet at home or cell phone in most cases as a young person. I never had a pager although I knew people who did.[/quote]

Everybody had cable, everybody watched a lot of TV. This person is insane.[/quote]Not everyone had cable TV. The poster is correct: young people could not afford cable, had other things going on, or were too busy working a job, sometimes two jobs, or grinding away in college.

Before the internet and smart phones, people went out more. Watching reruns on cable TV wasn’t all that great.

And there was a big music scene out there, unlike today. Depeche Mode was touring, so was Bowie, Jimmy Buffett, Blues Traveler, Dave Matthews Band, and many others. [/quote]

65 percent of US households had cable tv in 1995

No cable in the 90s for me either, or Internet. I got all that in 2002 when I met my husband, and he insisted. My friends and I were out all the time in the 90s--we played on coed softball and volleyball teams, worked a lot, went to Happy Hours. I never saw Friends on TV in Prime Time--only reruns when on maternity leave in 2005.
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