Time to reminisce about the ’90s, ’00s, and ’10s.
These decades provided great music, movies, TV shows, technological devices, and questionable but groundbreaking fashion moments. If you were born in these decades or lived through them as an adult, it’s time to decide which decade was the best among them.
Cast your votes and let the greatest decade win! 🏆
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Communication Channels
This isn't accurate. In the 10s almost everybody already had a smartphone. I had those foldable cell phones in 2002...
That's true, I had my first smartphone around 2010-12, can't remember exactly. And I am sure I haven't been amongst the first ones.
Load More Replies...Those Nokia brick phones were literally the most solid phones ever. I dropped that thing several times I lost it several times and it was my mom's. And I always thought it was so cool to play Snake.
Music Format
Streaming = you don't own anything, and the music can suddenly be erased from existence without even warning you, just because some corporate suit said so.
There are a million websites that will allow you to download your favourite songs in mp3 format these days. If you want to build a collection, there's nothing stopping you. But the convenience of making a playlist of favourites and streaming is awesome. Even better, using one favourite song to generate a playlist that slaps is a really nice perk of the streaming era
Load More Replies...I'm a sucker for all 3 of these! CDs in my car, MP3 player for the bus and being in public since my phone doesn't have music and streaming when I can get on my laptop.
Bring back the vinyl records. My parents still have the record player they bought in the 80s as well as the records. It was so easy to go to the song you wanted by moving the needle
Fantasy Movies
And Twister, Home Alone, Terminator 2, The Adams Family, Forrest Gump, Thelma and Louise, Groudhog Day, Hocus Pocus, Independence Day, Scream, Space Jam, Titanic, Fight Club, The Green Mile, The Matrix, The Sixth Sense... So many great movies from the 90's!
Load More Replies...Blah blah blah, Harry Potter is bad now. Something about transmissions, I think.
Style Of Sneakers
Runners/sneakers/joggers, whatever you call them have only ever been functional for me, I don't care what they look like except I hate the oversized things
I liked the 80s Nikes. They didn't have those clunky soles around the sides.
The Adidas shoe soles were not protruding from the body of the shoe, either at the toe or heel. That allows for safer walking, keeping a natural walking stride. This loweres the chance of falling, which is important, especially as people age.
Old style sneakers lasted at least a year, usually until the soles wore out. I can't find one brand of modern running shoes that last more than 4 months before my feet wear through the lining and rub against bare plastic or even poke through the sides. I only buy from companies with warranties because I need to get a replacement pair almost every freaking time now.
"Style" added to sneaker (a.k.a. tennis shoes, a.k.a. dock shoes) is just and excuse to jack the prices.
Boy Bands
Where's grunge? Stone Temple Pilots with Weiland's moves in Big Bang Baby. Yes!!!!
Cartoons
That's right Doc, excluding us is just dessspicable.
Load More Replies...Powerpuff Girls was too late 90s to really let it sink in as a 90s cartoon. At least add Spongebob or something set a bit further back.
Car Models
All sports cars are stupid. Every time I see one all I can think of is the education that money could have bought instead
When I was a kid I would have gladly died for a 90s-era T-top Camaro or any Shelby Mustang from the 60s. Then I turned 16 and I bought myself an '86 Mazda 323 XD When it died two years later, I inherited the '01 Volkswagen Eurovan my mom had bought (she was going to install a wheelchair ramp for my dad, but it was too expensive and we got a used van with a ramp already installed.) 23 years later, I'm still driving my big blue brick of a Eurovan. I don't think I could even stand driving a modern sports/muscle car - not after two decades of driving a tall van with near-180-degrees of visibility out the front and sides XD I'll still admire the appearance of some of the muscle cars (still love me the look of a Shelby 'stang) but yeah... too expensive, too small (I have two large dogs), not enough visibility.
Load More Replies...I agree! I think I watch Perry Mason just for the cars.
Load More Replies...Home Decor
Oh, honey, if you think inflatable furniture and beaded curtains are from the '00s.... XD
Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
Load More Replies...TV Shows
It would really help if you TOLD US WHAT THE SHOWS WERE. I don't even recognize the people in the middle and right-hand photo.
I think that's Zendaya, so... Euphoria? But that wouldn't be the '10s... This whole article is awful. RIPCORD!
Load More Replies...Of these, Friends, but I don't enjoy it now. Like many things, you don't notice how bad they were when you saw them in your teens.
Since I don't watch TV, I am not qualified to choose one of these anonymous shows.
High Heels
I had those big chunky 90's sandals and fell àrse-over-tit twice both times at the top of concrete steps nearly killed myself. Shame because they were really comfortable.
90s, cos the early 2000 shoes are there for some reason 😂 and I love the 60 twist to that era
Fashion
Honestly, I pick and choose things from each of these periods, as well as ones before.
Movies
Jeans
My favourite was the bell bottoms in the '00s, not as big as the 70s, so didn't get in your way when walking so much.
Load More Replies...Music
There's a reason people STILL listen to 1980s music 40+ years on, and it's NOT because of MTV.
Choose any decade and you'll find people listening to that music. For example, people still listen to music from the 1800s. And in 20 years' time we'll have people who still listen to 2020s music.
Load More Replies...Give me Americana or pre 90s music of almost any genre. Especially r&b.
I grew up in a town with one rock station, one light music station, and one country music station. All of them were for people who didn't listen to new music. I prefer to keep the best of the best from the past and enjoy all the new content. We live in a golden age for music. There's an endless variety of great beats out there waiting to be discovered
Games
Doom, Duke Nukem, Dune II, Shadow Warrior, Command & Conquer, Wolfenstein 3d, Lemmings. So pc games, not consoles for me ;)
Lemmings! I loved those nuts! Sadly, I lemmingslaughtered many of them.
Load More Replies...Tomb Raider, Jak and Daxter, Shadow of the Colossus, Beyond Good and Evil, Metroid Prime, .hack //G.U., Persona 3/4/5
Talk Shows
These are all terrible shows with bad hosts. I'll stick with John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Seth Meyers thank you very much
I truly do not watch TV and I hate talk shows with a passion.
Load More Replies...Pass. Give me Ferguson for both the '00s and '10s and Letterman for '90s.
I rarely watch talk shows at all. I did like Adam Hills in Gordon Street Tonight, he was funnier before he got so full of himself and did so many skits.
Makeup Trends
Exactly what I was going to say. The 80s was all about the blue eye shadow.
Load More Replies...Hairstyles
‘90s vs ‘00s vs ‘10s
What are we supposed to be picking/judging here? The faces of random female celebrities? The hairstyles of random female celebrities?
Girl Bands
The Bangles. Girlschool. The Go-Gos. THOSE were "girl bands" because they were musicians.
However, the Bangles and Go-Gos were manufactured.
Load More Replies...The Shirelles and The Pointer Sisters > all these other choices.
Social Media
Do you guys remember Friendster? I live in SE Asia and it was huge here in the 00s
The only reason I got onto any social media was that when I finished high school, my friends kept forgetting to invite me to events because I wasn't on Facebook. I still haven't used anything else.
Can we please stop pretending that social media is anything besides junkfood for the mind? It just brings out the worst of the worst. Every year society gets a little more terrible mainly because of how people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump and their supporters use social media. It was bad enough when we just had the 4chan cesspool of misogyny and racism, but now they've all gone mainstream.
So what’s the average age of a BPer? How many of us are sat thinking, 90s, 00s or 10s? Are you kidding me? the 60s, 70s or 80s were far better? 😂
I'll always have a soft spot for the 80s was the time I watched Saturday morning with my older brother and played video games. Miss you bro, you still technically live, but the accident took your mind away from us.
Load More Replies...Nah, the best decade was the 70s, because it's the time when *I* was young /s
How in the world did you manage to cover over 30 years of media, music, television, movies, style and technology and still be so myopic? It's the underdrawing of an unfinished painting. I'm saying it needs more work.
OP, how old are you? 25? 30? XD It shows. Anyway, the world existed long before the 90s, and many of the "trends" you talk about that "happened" in the 00s or the 10s happened WAY before then and simply made a comeback in those more-recent decades.
Well that was a waste of time. I'm obviously FAR too old to take part.
So what’s the average age of a BPer? How many of us are sat thinking, 90s, 00s or 10s? Are you kidding me? the 60s, 70s or 80s were far better? 😂
I'll always have a soft spot for the 80s was the time I watched Saturday morning with my older brother and played video games. Miss you bro, you still technically live, but the accident took your mind away from us.
Load More Replies...Nah, the best decade was the 70s, because it's the time when *I* was young /s
How in the world did you manage to cover over 30 years of media, music, television, movies, style and technology and still be so myopic? It's the underdrawing of an unfinished painting. I'm saying it needs more work.
OP, how old are you? 25? 30? XD It shows. Anyway, the world existed long before the 90s, and many of the "trends" you talk about that "happened" in the 00s or the 10s happened WAY before then and simply made a comeback in those more-recent decades.
Well that was a waste of time. I'm obviously FAR too old to take part.
