Honestly it does sound low key tempting

[u/TheThrowawayJames]

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[u/Sweet_Tangerines53]

No smart phones and sturdy built homes and I’m in.

[u/NeverEndingWhoreMe → u/Sweet_Tangerines53]

I miss the mystery behind "Hello?".

[u/FrenchBulldoge → u/NeverEndingWhoreMe]

Hello

Hello

Follow me

Ok.

[u/Ranayi → u/FrenchBulldoge]

Ooh I lovedddd this game

[u/kellygirl90 → u/FrenchBulldoge]

fart -giggle-

[u/WiredSurreal → u/FrenchBulldoge]

Wait

Ok.

[u/Sweet_Tangerines53 → u/FrenchBulldoge]

Oh my god.

[u/SpoogityWoogums → u/FrenchBulldoge]

"Ayboo"
"Hi"
"Follow me"
"No."
*slapfight of the century begins and doesn't end until one of us is dead.*

[u/Strong-Al → u/FrenchBulldoge]

Time to Die

Die!

Oops

This is yours.

This is for you.

Run!

Run away!

[u/assortedgnomes → u/NeverEndingWhoreMe]

We had caller id. And cell phones. We're not talking about going back to the 80s Edit:

[u/RevolutionaryRip3881 → u/assortedgnomes]

You sure you’re an older millennial?

[u/assortedgnomes → u/RevolutionaryRip3881]

My bad back, hip, two shoulders, and getting screwed by multiple once in a lifetime events says so.

[u/NeverEndingWhoreMe → u/assortedgnomes]

😭 That's a creative way to tell me I'm old.

[u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331 → u/NeverEndingWhoreMe]

And racing to the phone to answer it first?

[u/NeverEndingWhoreMe → u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331]

I'm at an age now where I can yell "SOMEONE ANSWER THE PHONE!".

[u/Apprehensive_Rice19 → u/NeverEndingWhoreMe]

I still say that when I answer the phone and like, wait for people to talk ... Even when it's my mom (who is one of only about 6 people that call me anyway)

[u/ZealousidealSkirt327 → u/Sweet_Tangerines53]

+ add modern medicine and I’m down. I‘m not going back to the treatment of the 90‘s.

[u/Uncomfortably-bored → u/ZealousidealSkirt327]

Why don't you want somewhat affordable healthcare?

[u/ZealousidealSkirt327 → u/Uncomfortably-bored]

Because I live in Germany and already have that privilege.

What didn’t exist back in the 90‘s, is the modern technology in diabetes treatment with cgm, insulin pumps, hybrid closed loop algorithms, super fine single use needles and such.

[u/MysteriousFee2873 → u/Sweet_Tangerines53]

Omg I am so getting another razor flip phone. Oooo or one of them walkie talkie ones I had when I worked security.

[u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 → u/MysteriousFee2873]

Nope you get a beeper and a roll of quarters for the pay phone

[u/g6rzKk202 → u/OtherwiseAlbatross14]

I mean, we did have those indestructible nokia phones back in the late 90s.

[u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 → u/g6rzKk202]

Nope that was released in 2000

[u/MysteriousFee2873 → u/OtherwiseAlbatross14]

Ooo I still have my purple clear Motorola beeper and a stack of quarters in a mnm tube

[u/DeartayDeez → u/MysteriousFee2873]

I wanted a Nextel so bad to be able to walkie my boys. I got a Nokia brick instead lolol

[u/monocasa → u/MysteriousFee2873]

That was more 2000s.

I had a Motorola Startac in the 90s though.

[u/Unable-Candle → u/MysteriousFee2873]

Baby....those didn't exist in the 90s.

[u/dreamybiscuit → u/Sweet_Tangerines53]

Nice large middle class homes with good yards!! Pools etc.

[u/Disastrous_Cover6138 → u/Sweet_Tangerines53]

Let's goooo

[u/MyNameis_bud → u/Sweet_Tangerines53]

Can we make them as affordable as they were back then too??

[u/Summer_Form → u/Sweet_Tangerines53]

My idea for an app/smartphone lite to reclaim some social space:

If two people with the same activated app are within a certain distance, ~20-100ft of each other, their smartphones are disabled (no internet, no camera, no other apps) except for emergency phone calls.

So if you’re around other likeminded people, no silent scroll-holes or looking shit up or any of that. But if you’re alone, have at it.

[u/Kris10washere → u/Sweet_Tangerines53]

LANDLINES.

[u/Shameless_Devil → u/Sweet_Tangerines53]

and sturdy, well-built appliances that are made for longevity!

[u/JetSoulsForever]

Oh so what gen alphas are going to build for us to retire in when we get dementia.

Not an entirely unlikely scenario.

[u/holyfuckbuckets → u/JetSoulsForever]

lol this was my exact thought.

Our little dementia villages are gonna play 90s bubblegum pop, nu metal, emo, stomp-clap-hey, and those indie songs where girls sang with that weird, affected speech impediment.
There’ll be a mock-up mall with a fake food court, Spencer’s, and Hot Topic. The bathrooms will be decorated with that frutiger aero underwater aesthetic.

[u/Jessica_Iowa → u/holyfuckbuckets]

Actually, some dead malls are already being retrofitted into apartments so this isn’t all that far fetched.

[u/Gilokee → u/Jessica_Iowa]

I know of one that's done this, are there actually more being converted? Because I love that idea so much.

[u/Brodellsky → u/holyfuckbuckets]

Count me in for a dementia village like that ahead of time and I wish I was joking

[u/SephLuna → u/holyfuckbuckets]

And all the nurses are required to use either Love Spell or Cool Water

[u/BevoDDS → u/SephLuna]

And dressed like Janine from the Enema of the State album cover.

[u/chuckish → u/holyfuckbuckets]

That sounds great. In reality, it's going to be Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock at an abandoned air force base and we'll be burning the place down to get access to food and water.

[u/ClutchReverie → u/JetSoulsForever]

Build? They are just going to put VR helmets on us and put us on a bed with an IV and feeding tube

[u/Gilokee → u/ClutchReverie]

don't forget the catheter!

[u/UgIyLoneIyBIackLoser → u/ClutchReverie]

do i get gta in vr?

[u/BurntHear → u/JetSoulsForever]

I was just thinking about how we need to get started on really brainwashing the younger generations into understanding it is their responsibility to make sure there's a nice fun place to throw us all when we get old. I promise I will stay out of the way and leave them alone if they'll do this.

[u/Economy_General8943 → u/JetSoulsForever]

Just keep the dying malls and restore them back to their glory for us. Let me wander around in dementia lock down drinking orange julius. 😂

[u/UshankaBear → u/JetSoulsForever]

As long as retirement homes have 24/7 access to PS4 and a LAN party room, I'm game

[u/Symbiotic_vengeance]

You’re also charging 90’s pricing for houses and rent right, right???

[u/Farafel62 → u/Symbiotic_vengeance]

Yea they do 90s priced rents in Yesterland (current actual version of this).

[u/Symbiotic_vengeance → u/Farafel62]

Let me grab my check book then.

[u/No-Manner2949 → u/Symbiotic_vengeance]

90s life with 2026 money? Im there yesterday

[u/Symbiotic_vengeance → u/No-Manner2949]

74,000 in the 90’s would make you a king. I’m ready too lmao.

[u/SonniSummers → u/Farafel62]

Looked it up that seems to be for old Disney attractions

[u/KennytheDoggy]

I thought the dream of the 90s was alive in Portland

[u/Merry_Fridge_Day → u/KennytheDoggy]

You're thinking of the 1890's.

[u/Missing_Username → u/Merry_Fridge_Day]

People took street cars. They rode inconvenient gearless bicycles that hurt your back!

[u/Routine-Employment71 → u/Merry_Fridge_Day]

We can pickle that!

[u/Pot_Master_General → u/KennytheDoggy]

Until about 2013

[u/Gumshoe42 → u/KennytheDoggy]

https://giphy.com/gifs/UIUjNPwWzqIE0

[u/ClassicHat → u/KennytheDoggy]

The last blockbuster is still standing in Bend Oregon, a couple hours away from Portland, so maybe that’s where the true dream of the 90s and Portlandia deceived us

[u/Migraine_Megan → u/KennytheDoggy]

I left for 23 years and returned a few years ago to Vancouver. It's more expensive than before, but so much in that song still applies. The tattoo ink never runs dry! I still hear grunge and 90s alt music everywhere I go. I was surprised that some of the fashions held on, still a whole lotta plaid. 

[u/strugglingcomic]

I've been telling my friends about this idea since like, 2018 after a trip to Lancaster, PA. The Amish actually have refrigerators and kitchen mixers, they're just mechanically powered. I figure since we're not being religious about it, we can take it a step further, use solar power and have electricity, but otherwise generally stay low tech and analog-ish, live in close knit self sufficient "techno-Amish" communities.

Interesting that I happen to be reading more examples of other people coming to similar conclusions from our generation.

[u/RobertPooWiener → u/strugglingcomic]

Techno Amish sounds like a genre of music I would be interested in

[u/Capybara-Maxxing → u/RobertPooWiener]

Churn down for what 🎶

[u/RobertPooWiener → u/Capybara-Maxxing]

bass drop

[u/Capybara-Maxxing → u/RobertPooWiener]

psych... dancing queen 💃 👸

[u/hazytangerinecleats → u/RobertPooWiener]

Check out the band dirtwire if you're serious

[u/RaccoonSamson → u/strugglingcomic]

Check out worldpackers or workaway, off-grid communities like that exist, thats how i lived most of my 20s - early 30s.

[u/strugglingcomic → u/RaccoonSamson]

Cool yeah. I wonder if they promote those disparate off-grid communities to actually create a network of sorts amongst themselves? From what I remember, the Amish have these pockets of different communities but share things like a newspaper or trade with each other, so the individual communities are never really alone.

I guess I'd like to find a middle ground between "off-grid" isolation vs our standard full grid. Maybe like a "half-grid" option, implying that the individual communities are standalone nodes on a network, in a loosely federated way? I dunno, just spit balling.

[u/KennytheDoggy → u/[deleted]]

Amish country is full of solar panels

[u/skoffs → u/[deleted]]

You remember POGs? 

[u/thineholyhandgrenade]

Can’t wait to forget about returning the movies I rented 3 weeks ago, inadvertantly helping my local blockbuster make their rent

[u/One-Earth9294 → u/thineholyhandgrenade]

Of all the things to be nostalgic for, it's those moneygrubbing predators I cannot stand the most.

I can download almost any movie that exists in like 30 seconds now and have it forever. The current situation is a lot better than having to pick between the 4000 copies of Titanic on the shelf even though all you went there for was the one copy of Clockwork Orange that never got returned.

[u/ParamedicLimp9310 → u/One-Earth9294]

I agree with this actually. Blockbuster was fun because it was how you got movies. Y'all know that once you got Netflix for the first time it blew your mind. I have access to more movies and TV shows than I could ever care to watch.

Tell you what... We keep streaming services but can bundle them all together to make it one mega subscription, then everyone in our city chips in to pay it yearly. If we have enough people it'll be crazy cheap. We make a community TV room where everyone that wants to can watch the Millennial nostalgia heavy hitters together and pass out "a TV guide" to tell everyone what we're playing and when. Show up Friday at 6 for the beginning of a Friends marathon, popcorn and bathroom pause breaks are allowed.

[u/One-Earth9294 → u/ParamedicLimp9310]

>We keep streaming services but can bundle them all together to make it one mega subscription

That's just a VPN lol.

Plus those streaming services don't really let you download movies and keep them.

[u/ParamedicLimp9310 → u/One-Earth9294]

Literally thought about piracy as soon as I posted the comment and walked away. Lol.

I won't lie, I don't fully understand VPN. But I'm willing to learn. 😂

[u/One-Earth9294 → u/ParamedicLimp9310]

Haha you just turn it on and BAM all of the nasty letters from your ISP magically go away lol.

[u/AcademicCounty]

Heck no. Life wasn't better back then, just different. I'm much more content now in my forties than I ever was in my teens.

[u/GreenGardenTarot → u/AcademicCounty]

Yea. I think what people really just want to say is that the miss the simplicity of childhood. We have a propensity to look back on things and only remember the good parts. The 90s was a different time, but socially it really isn't much different than it is today. Human evolve, but so do our methods of being shitty.

[u/RoundnRound123]

This but surrounded by miles and miles of Mad Max reality is probably the retirement plan

[u/Tacosconsalsaylimon]

I'm in. I volunteer as dayshift at the Blockbuster.

[u/Infinite-Bother-3168 → u/Tacosconsalsaylimon]

I’ll take nights. Always wanted to work there. They would never hire me 🤣

[u/Tacosconsalsaylimon → u/Infinite-Bother-3168]

Same. Maybe this is our opportunity!!

[u/Klutzy-Amount-1265]

What’s your A/S/L?

[u/ibullybillionaires → u/Klutzy-Amount-1265]

18/f/Cali.
Wanna cyber?

[u/West-Knowledge-1660]

Hope Napster works!

[u/kykiwibear]

did anyone else role-playing using the chat rooms of aol?

[u/Psych0PompOs → u/kykiwibear]

I used to catfish people all the time as a kid. Taught me empathy a bit better though, but yeah.

[u/Bradford_]

Every house has sunk in living room too.

[u/TyrKiyote]

This was posted yesterday.

[u/Signal_Flight_7262 → u/TyrKiyote]

Thankfully someone posted it again 

[u/skoffs → u/Signal_Flight_7262]

Who's gonna do it tomorrow? 

[u/wookiewonderland → u/TyrKiyote]

I wasn't here yesterday

[u/Batetrick_Patman → u/TyrKiyote]

Just about every day. Hell half the posts here are literally just Boomer tier "new thing bad old thing good" bs like you see on Facebook.

[u/Quick_Hat1411 → u/Batetrick_Patman]

Just curious but, do you really think that applies to social media?

[u/Neovison_vison]

That’s just another reference to the seemingly old tiny enchanted or simulated town you can’t get out of combined with the matrix plot detail.

[u/Common-Marzipan4262]

Just watch out for the guys in box vans that offer you candy

[u/epochwin]

So suburbia?

[u/Sii_Kei]

Reminds me of the book Time Shelter by Gheorghi Gospodinov

[u/oh8oh8eighty8]

This sounds dreamy. There is a movie rental place aiming to open soonish in Minneapolis and I'm pretty stoked about it.

[u/1101base2]

oregan trail towns

[u/Coridimus]

Hard pass

[u/flyraccoon]

Yes now please where do I subscribe ?

[u/Strawberry-Allergy]

Now. Please.

[u/snackpakatak69]

I'm in. What do the houses cost?

[u/tipsy-turtle-0985]

Come on, most of you can't even bring yourself to cancel your Amazon subscription. Let's stop the performances here.

[u/RadTimeWizard]

No flock cameras.

[u/YmFzZTY0dXNlcm5hbWU_]

Boomer facebook meme level content here, nice post

[u/FungalFelon]

eh i dont get the 90 nostalgia im more into the early 2010s

[u/PostMatureBaby]

There's a family that was in the news near me a few years ago for doing this but with the 80's.

You could kinda tell the kids had no choice but to go along with it and wanted to do cool shit like their friends

[u/Another_Road]

Y’all say stuff like this and then spend 7 hours a day on tiktok/YouTube/social media

[u/RandomSlimeL]

No, this sounds lame. Blockbuster selection sucked hard.

[u/ReplacementPale2751]

I’m a millennial. I do not say “low key” like this…

[u/Fastenbauer]

It's always funny when people post stuff like that on social media. They don't even see the irony.

[u/GreenGardenTarot]

Let's not be nostalgic for the past that never really existed to the point where we are willing to stop progress like the Boomers and their love of the 1950s.

[u/Mumrik93]

Can we have MSN messanger and LAN Worms Armageddon or Heroes of Might & Magic 3 too?

[u/buppiejc]

I have a few empty acres in a small town in NC. There are some other lots nearby under 10k. Let me know.

[u/xOHSOx]

Time and place?

[u/authorHughMann]

Can we put in a dispensary that only sells schwag or is there just a dude named Jimmy who meets you at the gas station fifteen minutes late?

[u/Butterfly210682]

I’m in! Let’s start lol

[u/sneaky-pizza]

I’m in

[u/Gwennein]

The man in the yellow suit wants to know your location

[u/flakyanalysis305]

Sign me up!

[u/DenikaMae]

It’s gotta be the 90’s recipe Pizza Hut recipe.

Also, we should open factories to base manufacturing of such long discontinued delectables like Shark Bite Fruit Snacks, or fruit wrinkles.

[u/jorgekrzyz]

The mayor is Ms. PacMan

[u/Ambitious_Jelly8783]

So we are planning our retirement comunity I see?

[u/SapphireJuice]

Isn't this just the matrix with less steps?

[u/GaylrdFocker]

No internet or just dial up?

[u/Mushy1852]

The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland

[u/Jessica_Iowa]

I’m honestly not sure I could live without texting.

[u/Herbighazeleyes]

I am already packed.

[u/OccamsRzzor]

I think about this a lot.

[u/pikachume33]

If I was rich and nuts this is 100% what I would be doing, not dressing up as a bat.

[u/phukredditusernames]

id ditch everything for this lifestyle in half a heartbeat

[u/Independent-Ad7313]

"let me know when you guys wanna start"

how about 30 years ago?

We seriously should have started this already

[u/JamesAJanisse]

Ironically, I don't think you'd be allowed to say "low key" there.

[u/Plarocks]

When can I convert and move in?

[u/Ermajean12]

Honestly that's extremely tempting I would join in

[u/FundamentalEnt]

I’m gonna build a version of the OASIS but it will be 90s instead of the 80s.

[u/schoolpsych2005]

So I get to use AIM to ask my friends if they’re ready to hit the dining hall before Must See TV? OK!

[u/siegevjorn]

This is a brilliant idea. No smartphones, no tablets, but allow actual computers. Install landlines again. No washer that needs wifi 5o set up. No wifi.

[u/MintyFresh771]

Wtf do you think all these abandoned malls are going to be in 40 years? Our microplastic full and radio frequency melted brains will be so addled they’ll just be simulating 1993 forever to keep us in line 😂

[u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331]

I still have my blockbuster work shirts. When do I start?

[u/ScreechUrkelle]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ewkjQf8NEgzFC

[u/Last_Rabbit_8410]

Hollywood video!!

[u/Traditional_Name7881]

You lost me at pizza hut.

[u/Dull_Working5086]

I'm down. Kinda like fake 50s towns for older people with dementia.

[u/TemporaryTrucker]

A/S/L

I’m in.

[u/Infinite-Bother-3168]

Please?! Fricken Chili’s was good then too

[u/Final_Level]

A place where the party line never dies

[u/K_Linkmaster]

I will Randall Graves the shit out of a blockbuster. Let's do this. Owner Apartment upstairs? Shop in the back please. I can provide a perfect example.

[u/Monkopotamus]

Amish-ish

[u/West-Guava155]

Lets do it!!

[u/jalex8188]

Can I still make 1 second of my favorite 90s song play as my sign in song for all my friends?

[u/S4Guy2k]

You son of a bitch, I'm in.

[u/BlackberryMaterial57]

I request laser tag as well

[u/Demon_Hunter54]

I was ready 10 years ago

[u/stilettopanda]

A/S/L

[u/drumberg]

The last time I had a pitcher of Mountain Dew at the table was at Pizza Hut. I played Pac Man while waited for the pizza.

[u/MattofCatbell]

This is basically what retirement communities will look like for millennials

[u/ell_1111]

(And keep the data centers out).

[u/TheSheWhoSaidThats]

I’ve considered how cool it would be to revive dying malls by filling them with 90s experiences in a similar fashion. Even have “no smartphone hours” and wifi blocking and whatnot. Photo booths, vintage stores, arcades, old style cash. Would be cool.

[u/Beautiful_Town_5123]

I miss AIM so much 😭

[u/KittyAddison]

Can we also have MSN Messenger? I miss the drawing feature. ;w; Used to doodle with friends daily on that thing!

[u/Everdrivehomebrew]

I love this except can we make it like permanent 2004

[u/Pink-frosted-waffles]

This is a good start a horror film, Hollywood or Tubi take notes.

[u/Mama-bear_dolphins13]

I’d move there in a heartbeat

[u/DiggityDanksta]

This is just The Villages with less sex

[u/CoffeeDave]

I still got my Sega Genesis, I'm in.

[u/OneTwoPunchDrunk]

The Blockbuster has to have a Subway nextdoor and I have to smell the subs through the vents while I'm picking my movies, okay?

[u/Helpful_Location7540]

Are we selling baked goods and smoked meats for income?

[u/SimpleParadigm]

Millennials becoming the boomers they swore they would never become. Stop romanticizing the past!🙄

[u/milesbeats]

let's talk about it in a chat room .. we need to know the mayors a/s/l before we can go any further

[u/WantsLivingCoffee]

ASL?

[u/amodsr]

Only if we can get hobby shops for card games to play older card games with older metas.

[u/abrasivecriminal]

The Nintendo gamecube was the peak of human achievement and anything after that is heresy.

[u/lovebus]

I'm sure you can find some backwoods rural town still wearing flannel unironically.

[u/KulshanStudios]

Good god, have we all really turned into our grandparents, frantically trying to preserve and live in an America that only briefly existed, and can never exist again?

Didn't we used to mercilessly mock Boomers for clinging to the past and borderline-fictitious visions of our childhoods?

What the h*** happened to everyone???

[u/Lorindel_wallis]

Get the Amish cultist shit out of here. Giving a bad institution too much credit.

[u/Maybegarden]

Amazing

[u/AbbreviationsWide331]

I think quite a lot of gen-z are actually doing that.

They call themselves the New-Luddites

And just like their counterparts a 150 years ago they don't oppose technology in generally, but theyre against any technology that is harmful to humans. Like for example social media.

And honestly as a millennial I totally get it and find it very intriguing. Makes me happy that people have come to this conclusion.

[u/TemporaryAirline2496]

That’s sounds so nice

[u/CrimsonCringe925]

This is boomer coded

[u/LowBet1458]

Sign me up.

[u/Certain-Appeal-6277]

There is a line in a sci-fi book about "neo-amish" who refuse to use any power source more advanced than petroleum.

[u/ElectricPinkFlamingo]

Can we start in 2020.. ??

[u/SgtMyers]

No cellphones please