Ask Lemmy

Do you really remember the internet back then? Of course it wasn’t enshittified, there were only dozens of people online. And it really depends on what you mean with enshittified, the designs were horrible and polluted, sure it didn’t had ads, but realistically even a page with adds nowadays is more readable than most websites back then, with tiling images background, gifs everywhere and interesting font choices.

I’m sure that the vast majority of stuff you do online today wasn’t available in 95, so yeah, it might have become “enshittified” but it also became usable, and a shitty usable thing is better than a pure useless thing in my book.

Do you remember the internet back then? Sure, there were some truly terrible websites around back then, but most of the internet wasn't like what MySpace looked like a decade later.

Is it though? Most cars from the 90s are in dumpsters by now, they consumed so much gas that it simply wasn’t worth keeping them. And by the 90s cars had already started using electronics so they don’t even have the appeal that a purely mechanical car from the 60s brings to the table. Also again with the affordability probably wasn’t all that much better than now, where you can probably get a used car for very cheap.

As someone who was around back then, the quality of 90's cars were far better than the 70-80's cars that preceded them (in general). By the 1990's a lot of issues that plagued the early electronics in cars (late 70's-80's) had been sorted out, things like fuel injection became standard, the quality of paints improved drastically - 1990's cars didn't rust out nearly as bad as cars from previous decades. Of course most of these cars are gone now - the newest 1990's cars are over 25 years old at this point, but it's still not uncommon to see them driving around. Much more so than seeing cars from the 60's-70's driving around in the 1990's.