PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoThe past wasn't that greatlemmy.worldimagemessage-square70linkfedilinkarrow-up1805arrow-down112
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minus-squareparaphrand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 days ago I just wanna go back, back to 1999
minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·2 days agoI agree. I don’t need a historian for this. I remember it, and yeah it definitely wasn’t perfect. But I am not convinced I’m sugar coating it through retrospection. Mid to late 90s was peak civilization as far as I can tell.
minus-squareCactus_Head@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-21 day ago Mid to late 90s was peak civilization as far as I can tell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars:_1990–2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_of_interracial_marriage_in_the_United_States Who gets to decide that tho?
minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 day agoI do if I’m phrasing it like that.
minus-squareSmee@poeng.linklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoI’d prefer a few years earlier, the 90’s was rad dude.
minus-squareamateurcrastinator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoThe HIV epidemic was something to behold!
minus-squareSmee@poeng.linklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·18 hours ago By the end of the decade (1999), it was estimated that around 34 million people were living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. As of 2021, the number of people living with HIV globally was approximately 38 million. Let’s go back and spread awareness and condoms dude, then we smoke a blunt and do 90’s stuff!
minus-squareWhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoAgent Smith was right. It was the peak of our civilization.
I agree. I don’t need a historian for this. I remember it, and yeah it definitely wasn’t perfect. But I am not convinced I’m sugar coating it through retrospection. Mid to late 90s was peak civilization as far as I can tell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars:_1990–2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_of_interracial_marriage_in_the_United_States
Who gets to decide that tho?
I do if I’m phrasing it like that.
I’d prefer a few years earlier, the 90’s was rad dude.
The HIV epidemic was something to behold!
Let’s go back and spread awareness and condoms dude, then we smoke a blunt and do 90’s stuff!
Agent Smith was right. It was the peak of our civilization.