I’ve given this a lot of thought lately, and while it might make me seem really old (I am!), there were good and bad things about growing up when I did.
Do you remember when MTV played music videos? I loved watching 120 Minutes, Headbanger’s Ball and Alternative Nation. I remember thinking The Real World was kind of neat during season 2, and then it all became a blur and next thing I knew VH1 was the music channel and suddenly it was all Behind the Music shows and now there’s some crap on the television where things I used to like were.
I remember back when the History Channel actually had shows about history. You know, real things that happened back in the past (Also known as history!) that made perfect sense. Now all I hear on that channel is “Ancient Astronaut Theorists predict…” No! Ancient Astronaut Theorist isn’t an actual title. You can’t get a Ph.D in Ancient Astronaut Theory. It’s a fancy term for “we know how it was done thanks to records, but it’s more fun to make it look like aliens built the pyramids and it’s easier to stretch out into a 47 minute show.”
I was a terrible child, but holy crap, if I’d had the technology we have now, I’d be dead. In middle school (Back in the early 90’s!) I was able to skip almost an entire year of school with four friends that lived close to me and phones with cords I had to talk on near my family. Cell phone back then? Holy hell, I would have done so many worse things than I did!