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[quote=Anonymous]I echo the observation that in 1995, 1979 seemed like an ancient world inhabited by strange people wearing ugly fashion and using primitive technology, but now I'm much further away from 1995 than I was from 1979 in 1995! Kids must think my 1995 was a strange world inhabited by people wearing ugly clothes and using primitive technology! I did ask my 11 year old nephew if he thought we looked weird in photos from the 1990s and he said yes. It made me both pause and laugh!

Smoking is the one thing that utterly transformed in terms of perception and noticeability. I remember smoking on planes and being stuck in the last row of the non-smoking section in front of a cigar smoker. I remember smoking in malls and restaurants and the smell on teachers when they came in from a cigarette break. I am HS class of '98 and it seemed like at least half my senior class at a fancy prep school smoked. But today? I recently happened to be at a gas station buying a bottle of water and it occurred to me that the cigarette rack is a lot smaller that it used to be. And I never see youths smoking. At all. Not even sneaking a contraband cigarette. And the less people smoke, the more those who still do stand out and the sharper the smell is.

On the other hand, the sight of all the young people with tattoos seems so very bizarre and weird to me.

But what really has changed is technology. In the 1990s we didn't have to keep track of innumerable passwords and deal with two step verifications every time we logged online. Or chatbots. Healthcare is much more complicated and bureaucratic. Everything is one step forward but also one step backwards. Everything that was meant to make things easier for humans has only ended up making life more complicated and a hassle.

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