Agree with others. Things really starting changing after 9-11 in ways that today's kids don't understand how much easier life was pre 2001.

For all the "be kind" and so-called tolerance of today, we were much more laid back as a society in the 1990s. Much if it is due to the pervasive and negative influence of social media distorting everything in general.

90s--I remember thinking at the time, that it was probably a golden time
00s
80s
70s--I was a kid and teen. I remember the Vietnam War was a constant, then the gas shortage, Watergate, ending with hostages in Iran. It was a stressful time
10s
20s

Born in 1974

1990s
1980s
1970s
2000s
2010
now

90s
20s
10s
80s
70s
00s

1990s were great.
9/11 ruined so much.
I feel like everything has been awful since then.

I was 19 when 9/11 happened. But looking back, it does feel like the world began slowly unraveling shortly thereafter. I think social media was pretty corrosive too.

In light of how bad things got after 9/11, did OBL “win”? It certainly feels like it.

This makes me sad for my kids. Born in the early 2000’s post 9/11. I hope they can look back on their lives and have some of the same nostalgia and warm feelings we older people have .

The period after Bill Clinton was elected but before the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke was a great time. Awesome music and the world just felt like it was moving in the right direction.

The 90s were awesome; had hope for the future, there was an assault weapons ban after the attempted assassination of Reagan, the Berlin Wall has fallen and the recession was over.

Anonymous wrote:People should only rank decades in which they were an adult supporting themselves. Anyone 50ish was a child in the 80s.

53.
Child 1-13 1970-1983.
Teen 13-19 1984-1989.
20s 1990-1999 (did party like it was 1999!!)
30s 2000-2009
40s 2010-2019
50s 2020-present

Gen X was really the best. No phones. No helicopter parents. Free-range.

Anonymous wrote:80's were the best.

Everything else.

GenX born in 1970.

70s were right up there!!

Definitely 70s and 80s!
90s pretty good
the world kept getting worse after 9/11 and advent of social media/iphones and people being able to track you/feeling need to be hooked to a phone by text, etc.

Anonymous wrote:1988 was great.

Everything was great until around 2001.

(Age 50)

For me, the 1970s were great because of the promise of the future. Everything was “natural” and “peace and love,” and I was very optimistic. But I agree with PP that 2001 was the beginning of the new dark ages.

Anonymous wrote:1994-2004. There was an assault weapon ban in place, and not a single person was killed in a mass shooting the entire time.

Hmm. Columbine was in 1999 wasn't it?

1994-2004. There was an assault weapon ban in place, and not a single person was killed in a mass shooting the entire time.

1970s - I was a kid. #1 for sure
1980s - free and easy
1990s - serious relationships
(big gap)
2000s - lumpy
2020s - not as bad as the 2010s but it's early!
2010s - whatever can go wrong, does go wrong (or dies)