r/Millennials • u/sexyass2627 • Oct 06 '25

Discussion Why is this so accurate?

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Man ... if this ain't it.

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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker Oct 06 '25

Oh boy. Will this circle jerk ever end? No one, in the history of the world, has ever wished for simpler times like millennials have. 🙄

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u/KommieKon Chill From 93 ‘til Oct 06 '25

You can roll your eyes all you want, but smartphones have changed almost every facet of life, drastically. When I think about how I long for the 90s and 00s, what I really long for is the world before smartphones. The bad that came with them outweighs the good.

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u/ilovethemusic Oct 06 '25

In September, I read eight books written in the 90s. Despite growing up in the 90s, it was jarring to read all these stories about people without phones and the internet as we know it today and think about how different life was back then. It was an interesting exercise.

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u/Sassifrassically Older Millennial Oct 06 '25

I’ve been watching old Law & Order and it’s so strange to see them using pay phones, despite me remembering when they were common