People who were teenagers in the 90s are now old enough to commission TV programmes. Give it another 10 years and you'll be seeing nostalgia programmes about the 00s.

>>21504
Huh. I'd forgotten how sexy the Spice Girls were. Surprised I didn't polish more out during my internet-less teenlad years.

I guess I'd commission a TV program about them. You know, to document their important place in our cultural history.

>>21505
I think the Noughties were blander because I can see virtually no difference in culture between it and the decade we are in.

>>21507

There's a lot of difference, especially in the realm of the internet.
For me the noughties were the decade that marked the decline of the internet as a weird scary other-place.

You must also be forgetting how awful the early noughties were for fashion and music.

Producers are in their mid-30s now.

>>21508
>There's a lot of difference, especially in the realm of the internet.

Care to elaborate? Because I agree with the guy you're replying to. This decade and the one before it seem to just blend together for me. I'd like to work out if it's just an age thing or something.

> the most bland, unexciting decades

00s.

You can argue the toss about whether the '90s or the '00s were the most boring but my vote goes to 1710, literally nobody remembers what they were doing back then.

The worst thing is that 90s haircuts are coming back.

>>21573

What is a 90s haircut?

>>21574

Usually a blue rinse

>>21574
Bowl haircuts and curtains.

>>21576
And this, whatever it's called.

>>21577
The Pidgeotto.

The 90s are weird. On the one hand one of the most interesting periods for computer technology, "the internet" and (from my recently obtained interests) aviation history. On the other, they were second only to the 2000s as a global political nadir (the "end of history" in full swing, the "third way" not a joke.), there are a lot of weird semi-political artefacts from "the end of history" left behind (Remember when strategy games would have America, Russia and "Europe" as countries? Remember British Airways world-tails experiment?) and on top of that they're quite culturally overrated. Good stuff, sure, but highly overrated. I think in particular here there are some memory issues: The nature of getting everything on the internet now is that lots of young British people are "nostalgic" for things that only foreigners - usually Americans - actually did at the time.

Also - and this often passes without comment, they were the last decade in which we had a meaningful empire. Hong Kong was our last meaningful colonial possession and I'm always slightly surprised by how little recognition the handover seems to have in the British psyche. Not to mention the travesty that was closing the joyride machine known as Kai Tak airport. A lot of magic left the world in 1998. One thing I've always wondered: What year was it the BBC stopped standardizing accents? Even in Election 92, you get accents you'd never hear nowadays. Especially from the Scots. Kind of wish the BBC was still doing that.

>>21507
Watch Monkey Dust. It's actually quite impressive the degree to which - despite everything - we've broken free. Things aren't good by any means, but they're distinct, which is a small miracle in and of itself. (Though to be honest, I partially wish we could rewind the internet to 2007 and leave it. And probably most consumer technology for that matter - except batteries.)

>>21574

Frosted tips bruh.

Needs more wedge lads.

>>21576>>21577>>21580>>21581

I'm sorry I asked.

>>21582

We're not finished yet.

>>21579

I miss post-pub telly. The Word, Eurotrash, Fantasy Football, Banzai. I suppose 24-hour licensing did for it, but there was something quite charming about shit telly made for (and often by) people who were pissed out of their head.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8z4a86aggU

>>21584

Don't forget Get Stuffed.

>>21585

Fuck me, I loved Get Stuffed. Annoyingly, it gets taken down pretty much instantly whenever someone tries to upload the episodes.

It's such a pure and concentrated burst of nostalgia, even when they were still trolling out old episodes in the mid-noughties. The faded colours of cheap old camcorders, the forced overenthusiasm, the properly grotty kitchens, the hopelessly amateurish music and titles, the genuine awfulness of the recipes.

It represents everything that is wonderful and awful about being young. You're absolutely fucking useless, but you're too cocky to have realised it yet. You're somehow both completely self-obsessed and completely oblivious to your own ridiculousness, both utterly neurotic and wildly overconfident. Everything seems possible, even when you're hurtling headlong into humiliation or heartbreak. Before long you'll realise that your flat is a shithole and your mates are all twats and your qualifications aren't even good for toilet paper, but for now you're just having fun, because this is fun, isn't it? We're all having fun, aren't we? Aren't we?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3jJb9TgJcg

>>21584
Dont forget Bits and Vids.

Fuck me I loved Vids. I wish it would come back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XbB6XqefXc

>>21585>>21587

Now I understand this a lot better.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXfKVTq8i7k

The comments are definitely worth a gander.

>>21603

And I guess this was the genesis for Videogaiden.

I am learning so, so much right now.

>>21605

It really is a pitch-perfect pisstake.

While we're on an obscure late-night vibe, does anyone remember Gaytime TV? It's amazing how far we've come in twenty-odd years.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn14pbJSFVo

>>21609
The first five minutes talk about how this or that is the first ever such-and-such for gays and lesbians. I wonder if this is what they called the pink pound. "We've got a new perfume coming out, let's say it's the first one specifically for gays and it'll sell loads."

>>21610

>I wonder if this is what they called the pink pound.

Very much so, but it marked a really important change for gay and lesbian people.

Back in 1995, Section 28 was still in force, a law stating that no local authority may "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship". Homosexuality had been officially decriminalised in 1967, but gay men were still being arrested well into the 80s on charges of "outraging public decency". The age of consent wouldn't be equalised until 2000. The trauma of the AIDS epidemic was still very raw - just a few years previously, an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence. A lot of people saw a lot of friends die, eaten away by tumours and infections and god knows what.

As laughable as it seems now, the idea of a gay advert or a gay perfume was genuinely thrilling. Those little tokens of acceptance really meant something. The attitude of "your money is as good as anyone else's" marked a real sea change. We weren't quite normal yet, but we weren't perverts or plague carriers any more.

>>21603
We need some GET STUFFED