@@nostalgicviibes wait, you’re the original poster?! Omg!! So cool! Did y’all end up ever having the reunion?! how did it go?! thank you for documenting history
@@reformedgarbage5415 Not really. The cool thing about living thru many decades, is you experience them all. You can say this one was objectively better or worse - you don't need rose tinted glasses. It's young people who only know the current years of their life, who think it's always been this crappy. I hate to tell you this, but in the 80s I was a kid from a bad home (@buse, d*ugs, verbal/physical/emotional torment, etc)..... in the 90s I was a teenager in the foster system and very poor.... in the early 2000s I was homeless, working nights at a Taco Bell, and eventually forced to enlist in the military during two wars to survive when winter came around.... AND STILL: I would say without hesitation that THOSE days beat the heck out of the present day. The government, global affairs, the way people behaved, less reliance on technology, and a million other things from the largest to the smallest facets of life, was better. You don't need a drop of nostalgia to know that. There is a reason that most people who have been alive since the 50s and 60s, say these days are worse. And in 20 more years during the fall out of WWIII, the AI apocalypse and the global water shortages - some ignorant wet behind the ear kid whose barely been a live for a decade or two, will smugly tell you that your recollection of 2024 being better is just "nostalgia".
I don’t want to be corny or anything but this shit really feels like an alternate world, yet it has only been around 27 years since this recording. Insane.
@@starninja7461 i don't this it's that extreme. he's talking to the other kids because he's making a video. i'm sure he'd talk to them off camera too, but this isn't an entirely accurate representation. plus, kids still do talk to each other, yet we're often a bit biased in thinking that things were better before
This is exactly how I would have reacted to a camera in my face in 1996. The year I graduated. No one was thinking anyone would really see the video except the person filming. We had no social media. We did not go to other people’s houses and watch the videos they filmed. We just lived in the moment. I miss that world!
Man I envy people who completed school before the internet was even a thing. Everyone has just accepted phones today, but they truly are ruining the lives of people. Kids today just stare into TikTok all day and gets mad if dad wants to take a walk with them.
@@bj0urne Phones weren't really a big deal until smartphones though. Having internet in your house was dope but when you were out you were out. That was a nice balance. I resisted smart phones longer than most thinking I didn't need internet outside the house and I was right. It was only about 10 years ago they consumed the world though. Having a nokia and internet at home before that was a good balance imo.
I was teaching my first kids in 2006 (HS seniors) at 25. They're now in their late 30s.... it's wild, and now my own kid is their age. Time does indeed fly by as we get older.
I think that was so smart of him to FILM this for the future. Most people dont think ahead like that, but it is nice to see a glimpse from the past and how my older siblings grew up. I wish that things were still like this in school. I like that literally everyone knows each other and seems to talk to one another. That is something really rare now....
Yea nown I was born in 96 when I made it to high school everyone was in there little bubble although everyone knew each other it wasn’t vibes like this
It really also depends where you live. At my old school where I used to live in a rural area everyone knew everyone like that. Now I go to a school with 3,000 students where that's impossible.
A thing I always notice when seeing old footage like this: people are calm. The camera phones, social media and the loss of privacy messed things up real fast.
I was in High school in 1996 aswell (which I only mention out of necessity to what I'm about to say), and I can tell you why my generation was so compatible calm (and its not all smart phones either). Imagine being 15 years old. No one you know owned a computure. Your bed room is literally a bed in a room... you MIGHT have a stereo with some tapes or CDs and a 13" TV with a SNES or PS1 (if your a nerd up on the times). The try has 3-5 tv stations (if you don't have cable - which was expensive & new back then, so few kids had it) - and those four channels (NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and PBS) played info Medicaid all day until the evening. You had to literally WAIT until a certain day, or hour late at night to watch a show you wanted (and you needed a $10 book called a TV guide to know when things were on). If you wanted to listen to music you did not have, you had to turn on the radio and wait to call in to the station to request a song. If you wanted to speak to a friend, you had to wit to use the home phone landline - and if a parent refused, or someone else was on... or your friends family was on, or refused to let them talk.... you had to wait until school the next day (or week). If you wanted to watch a movie or play a game you did not own, you had to wait until you had money and could bum a ride to the video store.If they didn't have it, or it was checked out.... You had to wait a week or more til they got it in. If you wanted to buy something, or hang out with other kids... yep... you waited until you could schedule a day to get to the mall, or theater, or comic shop, or come over to a friends house. If you liked videogames, music, film, fashion, etc... you had to with until the first of each month for a magazine subscription to get the news on it. Speaking on news. If you wanted to know what was going on in the world - unless you had cable - you had to wait for the evening news. ... seeing a theme? And while you were waiting all the time, you lived in a world were there was often more to do outside, than in your house since most homes on!y owned 1-2 TVs and no fancy gadgets, devices, or internet. Life was much slower, boring, and our brains were used to very little stimulation outside substances, parties or concerts.
It's the last day of school, I don't get how people don't understand the way people act during the final day isn't close to what a regular day is.... From the Seniors about to leave forever, to the teachers done with their lessons plans and about to go on break themselves. Everyone is not acting like they would regularly... And each school just like each student had their own expernces... Imagine being in high school during the 90's in a school where thigns are divded by race and youre a fat nerd type... Let me tell you...high was brutal for that person. 90's nostalgia or not....Also mental health was nothing so on no level would some people get any help at any fundamental degree they needed.
@@zambrogue136 We do know because of crime statistics. We know because of studies social media has on children of nowadays. They act very differently as there are now cameras around, any childish thing they do will be punished more severely, will never be forgotten, and will always be held against them. We know because the economy was a lot better back then, we had a surplus, not a deficit. There were not as many school shootings, homeless people, and 9/11 had not happened. America was very safe.
@@JackbenImbel2274 Social engineering and culture creation is very real .. And yes, things are definitely different today than they were 30 to 40 years ago.
I just turned 40 today. This video reall put my age in perspective... now i am depressed. But i really appreciate people like who give us a video time machine to the good days. Thank you🙏🏻
😆 I know man. wife, 3 kids, a full-time job. how can anybody find the time and money to have a mid life crises these days? Biden has taken everything from us!
@Gus_Magnus I don't know HIS answer to your question, but mine is as follows: The cool thing about living thru many decades, is you experience them all. You can say this one was objectively better or worse - you don't need rose tinted glasses. It's young people who only know the current years of their life, who think it's always been this crappy. I hate to tell you this, but in the 80s I was a kid from a bad home (@buse, d*ugs, verbal/physical/emotional torment, etc)..... in the 90s I was a teenager in the foster system and very poor.... in the early 2000s I was homeless, working nights at a Taco Bell, and eventually forced to enlist in the military during two wars to survive when winter came around.... AND STILL: I would say without hesitation that THOSE days beat the heck out of the present day. The government, global affairs, the way people behaved, less reliance on technology, and a million other things from the largest to the smallest facets of life, was better. You don't need a drop of nostalgia to know that. There is a reason that most people who have been alive since the 50s and 60s, say these days are worse than the 80s and 90s. I'm not sure how old you are (you've got the name of a older guy): but in 20 more years, if you are still around.... during the fall out of WWIII, the AI apocalypse and the global water shortages.... some ignorant wet behind the ear kid whose barely been a live for a decade or two, will smugly tell you that your recollection of 2024 being better is just "nostalgia".
If this were today you'd have 100 other students recording their last day. It's what makes these old videos more genuine. Busting out a camera back in the day meant something.
@@Woolong-ql1jh I seriously hate how everyone is like these days. If not everyone had a camera “these days” bullying, police brutality, and cool concerts wouldn’t have been filmed.
In 1996 they couldn't fathom 10 years done the road. Now it's been almost 30. I was a few yrs behind these kids but this was our life too ... No phones, no social media. No time period was perfect but the 90s were the last of an era. Never thought we'd miss it, did we?
These were the good days. I miss it. No iphones, no social media, no distractions to be antisocial, and everyone was out and about. We had more time on our hands to be productive and meet people in person. It was just REAL. Everyone is pretty chill and you were authentic in your own unique way🙂
Damn, it’s crazy to see how chill and laid back everyone is, including the teachers. I graduated two years ago, but if I recorded then I would definitely get in trouble. I would have to hide it and not allow any teachers to see. It’s just mind blowing to see how happy these teens look and how down to earth the teachers were
John 3:16 ; For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Born in 87, and this makes me depressed and happy at the same time. Growing up in the 90’s were a privilege. Everybody born in the late 90’s, early 2000’s, I feel sorry for you. And everybody being born now, there’s no words
Wasn’t so much gen z that took history and ruined it and twisted it around. It was the radical left wing professors and especially the radical left wing US government that destroyed the education sector across the board. Gen z just listened and believed what they’re being taught by their older teachers bc that’s what you do. You trust your teachers at least up until college when you’re old enough to think for yourself. I despise gen z, but it’s really not their fault. It’s the Democrat government, the professors, Google that controls and censors fair conservative information, and only gives you access to left wing information and news, the same with UA-cam bc Google owns UA-cam, it’s a lot of factors that all directly link to the radical left wing of not just the country, but the world and the elitists like soros, bill gates and the rest of them
Genius filming it. At the time it has little meaning but the more time goes by the more meaning it has and the fascination of what these kids did with their lives.
Graduated in 2020. On my last day of school, I didnt know it was my last day. I was walking out the door, leaving early to take a train to boston for a trip me and my siblings were going on and my teacher said “oh looks like we are gonna have 2 weeks off for this covid thing.” So many people I saw that day, classmates and teachers, I never saw again. Didn’t get to go to graduation. Didn’t get to go to prom. I hated school, couldn’t wait for it to be over, but I’m sad I missed out on this. Didn’t get to bask in the glory that was the last day of school. Didnt get to hug anyone goodbye. Even if you hate school, cherish the friendships, the acquaintances you have that you dont hang out with outside of school, the relationships you have with your favorite teachers. It goes by so fast.
Watching this makes me realise how backwards we've gone. The interaction, the camaraderie, the chilled vibes, the community feeling, the togetherness, the love. Damn 😕
@@cj-cv7zv Not only that how are they going to speak on everyone's experience when they weren't around...People love using their one narrow view as a definitive, some places today have great high School experiences just like the ones my Nieces and Nephew did. With one Neice I know for a fact no one can tell her shit about the friends she made and the fun she had. Just like people acting the 90's were some love circles at high school, people want to completely ignore the many problems that plagued schools such as the extreme tribalism some schools had. People want to complain about cliques today but man the reality of that in the 90's in some places was insane. People just love complaining about what they have today and act like the grass was 1000% greener in the past...You aint wrong when you said people have been doing this for generations...lol
@@bigbay1159 yeah like im pretty sure we have records of the ancient greeks complaining about the younger generations and in more recent (not really) memory, teacher's complaining about how reliant kids are on paper instead of slate
This WAS an excellent time. I graduated in 98, and this was an amazing time to be a kid. No social media, smartphones, or anything in between. At the most, a few kids had pagers. These people are amongst the last of the Gen X’ers.
Well, yeah. You think they were gonna film someone getting bullied in the locker room or making fun of the handicapped kids? This is a small snapshot of real life. And just like Facebook and other social media, you're not getting the whole picture. People were awful back then, too.
@@nobodycaresofficial1 I have plenty of positivity. I just know the main theme all these comments is that times and people were better back then. It's just nostalgia and disingenuity speaking.
1995-96 = freshman year for me. I remember the graduating class (1996) from my HS were great people and great role models. Also...This was the season the Chicago Bulls won 72 games.
Oh my gosh!! I'm 32yo now and I'm already so nostalgic watching this video... I can't imagine how nostalgic you over 40s are now, watching this video! The 90s were definitely the best!
Yes us over 40s are so nostalgic; in between applications of Ben-Gay and re-rolling our compression socks. Also,what are you getting nostalgic for? You were 4 in 1996. 🙄😆
@@jennevermore6937 I was born in 1991 in Brazil, since I was very little I developed a very sharp photographic memory, I clearly remember things from when I was 4 - 5 years old. Regarding school, I remember visiting my older sister's school, around '97, she was in high school, I remember really liking the environment there, and when it was my turn, in the early 2000s , despite some changes, the place is very similar to what it was in the 90s, and that makes me have a great affection for that time. Another thing that makes me miss the 90s is the 1998 World Cup, where we lost the final to France, I remember crying a lot in front of my late grandmother's house, and she consoled me... Or the early morning hours where my father allowed me to stay awake next to you, waiting hours for the Mike Tyson fight to start, and last only a few minutes. Another cool memory is when my uncle took us to a store to buy Chicago Bulls hats to watch the 98 final against the Jazz. There are many good memories from that time. I may sound pessimistic, but I think the world has seen its best, I think in the late 2000s things started to get worse.
Graduated in 99 and this tugged at my emotions more than any other video. Those of us born in that time frame truly were the last to exist before the tech proliferation. Dont cry because its over, smile because we got to live it and we got to be there......
I also graduated in 1996 from Haldane high school in Cold Spring, NY.(a small school in the mid Hudson Valley) Damn does this video bring back just so many great memories of my high school days. I love seeing the clothes that were in style then like Hugo Boss,Tommy Hilfiger,Nautica,etc. Life was so much simpler,all I cared about was riding my skateboard, chilling with my friends and being infactuated with my high school sweetheart / girlfriend Nicole. Damn how time absolutely flys after high school ends😢
Props to this guy behind the cam, Class of 95 right here. Brings back memories. Other than the technology and clothes, everything is probably the same today. Glad he was able to capture so much.
Growing up in the 80's / 90's was literally the Wild Wild West. No social media, no cell phones, and no tracking devices. You were literally on your own, all we had was creativity, and vibes to thrive on. And was more than enough.
If you could only go back to 1994.....1995....1996 and show a video of what the world in 2023 would be like.......the shock, horror and disbelief on everyone's faces would be indescribable.
This guy is the perfect cameraman...seems like he knows almost everyone. Such a good video to get a glimpse of the 90's! Everything was so much organic, and natural witout social media and the internet!
Good thing is that no one is in his phone and everyone looking up or talking , all kids in video must be lucky to see themselves and thanking guy after 30 year which was originally made to watch after 10 years , nostalgia hitting hard being from same year high school
1990 here, I'm so glad I managed to quit smoking a couple years after HS. In the late 80's at my 1st HS, it was always a cat & mouse game between the students & security guards, to avoid getting busted smoking between classes. We'd have to take turns as lookouts posted in the hallway in front of the bathrooms to sound the alarm when security was spotted heading out way. Meanwhile 20 kids are inside sucking down cancer sticks as fast as possible. Others would duck outside & hide in the bushes. Later I moved across town to a different HS, they were way more lax about smoking & let students cross the street to smoke between classes so it wasn't technically on school property.
If you could only go back to 1994.....1995....1996 and show a video of what the world in 2023 would be like.......the shock, horror and disbelief on everyone's faces would be indescribable.
Although we didn’t appreciate it then, the 90’s were a great time to be young. No cell phones or internet. Everyone was just hanging out and having fun. Things happened in real time not through the lenses of a cell phone camera . Glad to have been a young person in the 90’s
I hate nostalgia bullcrap comments like this one and all the simpletons who like it. No, life was not easier or more fun in the 90´s. Life got much more easier when the internet became mainstream. Before that everything was a chore. People are still hanging around and having fun in 2024. Sometimes they just do it online and game together and thats fun.
yah life was much slower paced, more meaningful cuz we had more time to do it all and weren't completely drained, and way less distractions...the endless distractions have effected social skills especially in young people and there is very little genuine empathy anymore... i was so shocked this kid filming knew everyone's name..this is proof how much times have changed
@@kimmyfreak200 Life was more boring you mean. Thank god for this easy access to culture these days. So much beauty i´m exploring that i would never bothered to do otherwise. The world of classical composers and ancient litterature. For us culture nerds the modern tech is a blessing
"Life was more boring" No, it wasnt , It seems you werent even alive back then, so dont give opinion in something you didnt experience, If some people prefer a pre internet era, whats the problem, your opinion is not a rule and you "sound" really immature @@BirgerJarl-it5lz
Graduated in 1996 here!! So nostalgic. Things seemed so much slower back then. Everything nowadays is instant gratification and moving on to the next thing. Young ones...take time to relax and breathe. Time moves fast. Hang out with your friends without the urge to capture and post every moment on social media. LIVE in the moment! You can't get this moment in time back, so make the best of it!
@@sophieminter0 There was something special about those 2 decades. Since we didn't have internet or social media (not that these things are bad) I think friendships & interaction with others were more engaging. I know some of the best times I had with friends were just being together with nothing to do. Just hanging out in our basements, backyards or parking lots. I'm from Chicago, back in the 80s-90s there was a Dunkin Donut's parking lot that was a popular place to hang in at. We did absolutely nothing, just hung out with each other. Take a look ua-cam.com/users/results?search_query=wild+chicago+dunking+donuts
This brings a tear to my eye. Having graduated in 99, its so nice to see a circle of teens talking, making eye contact with no cell phones in sight. I am glad this was captured on film for others to enjoy.
I’m 20 right now was born in 2003 and honestly this time era on here without phones seemed like everyone got along and a real relationship(friends/bf/gf) and the teachers seemed chill and wasn’t overly stressed I would of loved it and I never honestly grew up with a cell phone in my hand all the time and I’m glad but I just wish their was my generation that grew up like this too and so on: cell phones ruined it what was a wrong with the pay phones fr or house phones we need people back not “Zombies” you should say🤦🏻🤙🏻
I didn't even go online until 1996, and when I did, it was in the classroom. I couldn't have imagined that years later, analog video would be digitized and viewed on a device that could fit in the palm of our hands. Yes, there's a lot I miss from this era, but I also love that we can now easily preserve these memories and share them with just about anyone around the world for free! (Remember how much a long distance call was in 1996!?)
eVeRyOnE. No, not everyone. Pretty sure people still have charm and some are a-holes just like in those days. People are still people. Worst bullcrap nostalgia comment i heard in a long time. Simpleton
Bro, life was so natural back then. It was like everyone one was in the present moment. You were in the moment, everyone was in the moment and felt more alive. It felt more real. I graduated high school in 1999. What a time to be young. I have dreams about it all the time.
Love how the classrooms used to be so calm, everyone's so friendly and even the students relationship with their teachers... And also love how he posted it 20 years later!!
Crazy watching this...I can't barely remember my last day of high school...I have some memories of end of the school year 9 thru 12th but it's just bits and pieces.
Miss those days this how I remember high school class of 99. Everyone socialized they didn’t have their heads on a phone. No social media. People were happier back then. Was a better time.
I'm class of 2003. '97 wasn't that much different. This is nostalgic for me as well. Styles are just a tad different. Mostly though, we were all in baggy shit lol
@ just that girl. Yeah. I was class of 97. But my sister was " 02 " class. And the school and atmosphere were still basically the same. Because I volunteered a lot at the school. I got to observe the kids almost daily. And not much had changed! It wasn't until the late 00s early 2010s. That it started to radically change.
i graduated in 2007. those last couple days of high school really were special. i get nostalgic about those days anytime i listen to Blink 182, one of my favorite bands from that era. You are so glad to be done with high-school and excited that summer is finally here, no more tests, homework, all the campfires you will have. You are excited about the future and eager to begin a new chapter. Yet you are kind of sad at the same time. You know you probably will never again see many of the people you knew for the last 4 to 8 years. You didn't think you would ever miss some of them. Then all the memories you made with everyone hit you. You realize high school wasn't so bad after all......
What happened to us in 20 years? I realise that the presence of a camera means people act differently, but look how everyone had a level of common decency, respect, and how these kids glow with an appearance of happiness and health. They all look so relaxed & carefree. Walk the hallway of a high school now, half the kids look either depressed, unhealthy, scared, lonely, or aggressive, mean, antisocial, distrusting. Sad.
I don't want to be a downer but I grew up in the same decade and it wasn't all rosey in highschools back then. My school had a similar "jock/cheerleader vs unpopular" vibe that gave birth to the Columbine horror. Following the massacre there were many changes made in schools all across the country that tried to curb down bullying and the general 'meanness' that pervaded. (Some critics feel they went over board and that the generation that grew up during the "everyone gets an award" era were coddled a bit too much).
@@sanseverything900 I disagree with this. I grew up in the 80's and 90s too. And there were still different cliques but everyone got along and there was crossover. My kids are at school now and the cliques are much more hard parted. The popular vs unpopular dynamic is way way worse. Our culture as a whole is more polarised, and schools are no different. Bullying is way worse too. Look at the suicide rate in adolescents. It is up 40% since 1980. Juvenile delinquency is up 50%. Kids getting busted for drugs is up astronomically. Depression and kids with severe mental issues is up like tenfold. There's a vast portion of kids that are on some kind of antidepressant or clinical drug. Something is seriously wrong and pretending there isn't a problem is not the answer That's not to
@@dannystalford5029 social media is the disease. *Adults* can barely handle the pressure and challenges having a social media presence can cause. How is a hormonal teenager supposed to manage? My generation is riddled with mental illness and political extremism that they only have solely because of the influence of social media's habit of promoting the most egregious/outrageous material, the new standards against which peers are set, and adult influencers that should know better shamelessly peddling to kids.
I’m Class of 2020 looking back at the 90s man no smartphones, iPads, laptops just everyone doing their own thing. Man looks like y’all was chill back then and a lot more open to communicating face to face. Nobody head in a screen looks like a good time to be a teen.
Great video.! You were one of the smart kids with camcorders! We had mobile phones back then, but not with cameras. lol And not everyone had mobile phones back then just doctors, lawyers or rich ppl.. They were expensive and large. Life was exactly like this back in the 90s lol. Even in the late 80s and early '00s. Slower pace and ppl interacted more on personal level it seems. . Love the internet ball remark! Interenet was very new and primitive at the time. Some ppl knew of it, some didnt. It was pretty underground at the time. Class of '94 here. GenX in my late 40s. Time flies! My youngest daughter is in high school now. My sons are in their 20s.
God time goes by so quickly. I graduated in 97. I still feel like I’m 17. I just cannot believe I am 45 years old. It’s so crazy. I’m my dad’s age. Time is such a weird thing. This video feels like yesterday.
When kids….music….films…tv shows….TV commercials….baseball…basketball….goals….social values….morales…..EVERYTHING WAS BETTER! Shout out to class of ‘94
Not tv-shows. Shows like The sopranos, Breaking Bad, sons of anarchy and Game of thrones could only be a wet dream in the 90´s. Only the X-files was good. The rest was just crappy sitcoms 24/7, remember? Movies stopped being good in the early 90´s. The 80´s was the best era in filmmaking. The 2000´s was the best era of Tv-shows. Never trust nostalgia. Only simpletons with mid-life crisis fall for that
So awesome how he kept reiterating to those that weren't hip to the camera thing that they would be thanking him in 10 yrs. Man I'm 57 yrs old and would give anything to go back to 1996 and be 31 again, so now I'm thanking him ! So happy this footage was preserved !
i know. i wish someone had this when i graduated in 1986, But as we all know it is insane how time flies. One moment i was living life and partying in the bars in the 80s and 90s and now im 55 years old and it feels like it was a movie that i fast forwarded. Effin scary
@@DivineAffection I partied from my twenties to early thirties . Woosh gone in an instant. I still have some house or garage get togethers with friends but the good years are gone. Enjoy while u can because it flies in a flash . Ya covid robbed a couple years for anyone in there early to mid twenties for sure . Too bad
Well said! I'm 36 and I tell those in their 30s to quit wishing they were in their teens and 20s and enjoy their 30s. When they are jn their 50s they'll it'll to be 30 something again!
I graduated in 96 as well. Watching this brings back my own memories of was the last day of school was back then. The feels are real. Miss that time in my life so much!! Wish we could get it back! Thank you for creating your own video and sharing with us. It is a treasure to see and remember what it was like. No time like it....
I was 15 at the time. To think that the past really isn't as far away, and that it's really only change that happens fast. You do grow old, if you make it, and realize you somewhat feel the same internally, but physically, you're not as peppy. Age sets in and all of a sudden you are 42. Then as the saying goes, time flies, and the older you get, the faster it tends to go. (Especially when you're having fun ; ) ? ) Though I do recall a few fairly elderly people that more than once told me: "Don't get old" I look back at it after they are gone, and think of old age as being a progressively miserable time... after a few bodily misfunctions like eyesight going out, and knees and backs being thrown out where you can't walk on occasion, you tend to agree with them. Health is key, else you are in queue to check out early. Oh the good old days. One thing I regret is regret itself. And one regret that seems to bring you down is definitely guilt. Be nice to others. Not everyone has it easy. And to think you might have caused anyone emotional grief at any extent plays on your guilt strings. I'm glad I wasn't too much of a burden, though sometimes I was. I've always had a kind soul, but sometimes peer pressure causes you to do stupid shit outside of your natural comfort bounds, so you feel more accepted. In hindsight... I'd have bullied the bullies who pressure you to do stupid shit. ... Then we all move on and live completely different lives.
@Kunal You'll be just fine in that regard. I too was an "intellectual introvert". I keep to myself a lot. It does get lonely, and having a kind personality you tend to pick up friends, even if they don't like you. Part of my regret is letting so called "friends" run your life or pressure you to do things that either get you in trouble, or only serves them. I felt that most of my friends weren't really friends at all, and when you stop serving them, then they don't come around anymore. You'll know true friends when you have them. Not to say you don't, but I think you get my point.
No phones just a camera to record the good times No one getting offended by words Normal people trying to have a conversations with each other God i missed these times!
none of the crap happening now is by accident. It's just way too much in such a short time. I can tell you this: The world we lived in no longer exists. We are accelerating into a manufactured future.
you guys are acting that doesn't happen now. "no one getting offended" Well no one in the video was saying anything offensive. You guys are being real dumb right now.
I love how everyone in the school was SUPER chill anytime there was a camera in their face. Probably cause they knew that it was filmed for personal use and not something that was gonna be air blasted on something called social media
You hit the nail on the head. Back then people "documented" moments in time purely for the sake of doing it because it felt exciting and interesting at that time to somehow record something that they could look back upon again themselves or share years laters with others. Nowadays kids are actively filming anything controversial, dramatic or "click worthy" to bask in. Different times...
@@PsychoBenches ahh gotcha. I read it as you saying processed food and plastic were less regulated at the time. Agreed. Instantaneous communication with social media does seem to have made things socially worse overall. :/
I graduated in 95. This video makes me nostalgic but uneasy. This is like Sarah Connor's vision outside of the playground in T2. No one had any idea what our world would be like in the 2020s. We were young, dumb, and happy.
If you could only go back to 1994.....1995....1996 and show a video of what the world in 2023 would be like.......the shock, horror and disbelief on everyone's faces would be indescribable.
@@palestar828yes the past is over over glorified by people who experienced it or didn’t get to. The films & everything glorify it. The same might just happen with this generation it may just be life
Hard to believe this was 27 years ago… Can hardly fathom it. Sometimes I can’t even grasp that it isn’t still the early 2000s. I’d love to see where these fine folks are now. Fills me with awe, remorse, gladness, sadness, etc all in one. Nostalgia is hard to define, but this video pretty well does it. Thank you for this treasure, and I hope God blesses all of those we got to see here. If an update video ever surfaces, I’d be honored to watch it. 🙂
What will really blow your mind is that in 100 years, if youtube still exists or another social media video platform will still have videos like this posted. Were the first generations with access to personal videos and stuff posted to the net.
@@bumwog Theirs a disconnect though cause videos are not in colour and very grainy. When you see videos nearly as good as they are today with colour and clear its like it was shot yesterday also society has been very close in the past 20-30 years.
The guy behind the camera sounds so friendly!! He knows everyone and you can tell that they love him back!
Aw thanks
@@nostalgicviibes I graduated that same year! Are you 44/45 now? So many memories... thanks for sharing this 🤗
@@nostalgicviibes wait, you’re the original poster?! Omg!! So cool! Did y’all end up ever having the reunion?! how did it go?! thank you for documenting history
I thought exactly the same, so sweet and kind to everyone!
@@nostalgicviibes I also would like to know if that reunion happened and what everyone thought.
No internet, no insta, no facebook, no tinder. Life was natural.
Even though I was still a little boy back then, I feel lucky to have experienced a decade of life before the internet became mainstream.
Yep. I didn't have internet until I was 15 so I got to experience both sides of it@@HeavenlyIntervention
Good times man
well I remember using the internet via Netscape pretty regularly back in 1996. Seemed like that was the year that changed everything.
Natural? and what about TV, videogames? cds?
The 90’s were the absolute best decade I swear.
late 80s and 90s
Last decade of real life
Yes.
Nostalgia bias.
@@reformedgarbage5415 Not really. The cool thing about living thru many decades, is you experience them all. You can say this one was objectively better or worse - you don't need rose tinted glasses. It's young people who only know the current years of their life, who think it's always been this crappy.
I hate to tell you this, but in the 80s I was a kid from a bad home (@buse, d*ugs, verbal/physical/emotional torment, etc)..... in the 90s I was a teenager in the foster system and very poor.... in the early 2000s I was homeless, working nights at a Taco Bell, and eventually forced to enlist in the military during two wars to survive when winter came around....
AND STILL: I would say without hesitation that THOSE days beat the heck out of the present day. The government, global affairs, the way people behaved, less reliance on technology, and a million other things from the largest to the smallest facets of life, was better. You don't need a drop of nostalgia to know that. There is a reason that most people who have been alive since the 50s and 60s, say these days are worse.
And in 20 more years during the fall out of WWIII, the AI apocalypse and the global water shortages - some ignorant wet behind the ear kid whose barely been a live for a decade or two, will smugly tell you that your recollection of 2024 being better is just "nostalgia".
Look how IN THE MOMENT we all were.
The 80s and 90s were truly the best of times.
The decades when the 20th century was at its peak.
I don’t want to be corny or anything but this shit really feels like an alternate world, yet it has only been around 27 years since this recording. Insane.
kids when they where forced too talk too other people like a human being vs kids who live on the phones all day.
@@starninja7461 and they had more cleaner thoughts process
@@starninja7461 i don't this it's that extreme. he's talking to the other kids because he's making a video. i'm sure he'd talk to them off camera too, but this isn't an entirely accurate representation. plus, kids still do talk to each other, yet we're often a bit biased in thinking that things were better before
@@cvspvr exactly
Humanity wasn't ruined by social media back then
This is exactly how I would have reacted to a camera in my face in 1996. The year I graduated. No one was thinking anyone would really see the video except the person filming. We had no social media. We did not go to other people’s houses and watch the videos they filmed. We just lived in the moment. I miss that world!
I grew up in the 90s anticipating living in that world when I'd grow up..never happened
@@FaithflNdscreet My thoughts exactly. I had a about one year of adult life and then 9/11 and reality TV happened and changed the feel of everything.
Really interesting to watch this video, recorded the year I was born.
Man I envy people who completed school before the internet was even a thing. Everyone has just accepted phones today, but they truly are ruining the lives of people. Kids today just stare into TikTok all day and gets mad if dad wants to take a walk with them.
@@bj0urne Phones weren't really a big deal until smartphones though. Having internet in your house was dope but when you were out you were out. That was a nice balance. I resisted smart phones longer than most thinking I didn't need internet outside the house and I was right. It was only about 10 years ago they consumed the world though. Having a nokia and internet at home before that was a good balance imo.
I graduated in 95....this vid was so nostalgic
The algorithm brings us together again 😊 love your channel man, keep up the good work!
I graduated in 25 and this is very nostalgic
Same haha is this Lord Esteban ?
@@HasteHub 25 years ago?
I took a fat shit in 2002. God damn it was amazing 😍
I graduated high school in 1987 and was teaching high school in 1996. Now I am teaching children of kids I taught in the 90’s. Time is insane.
I was teaching my first kids in 2006 (HS seniors) at 25. They're now in their late 30s.... it's wild, and now my own kid is their age. Time does indeed fly by as we get older.
I graduated in 95. My German teacher ended up being my sons German teacher and my soccer coach ended up being his government teacher 😂
What a concept. Kids sitting and talking to each other. No phones. I graduated HS in 2000 and love the time I grew up in.
I think that was so smart of him to FILM this for the future. Most people dont think ahead like that, but it is nice to see a glimpse from the past and how my older siblings grew up. I wish that things were still like this in school. I like that literally everyone knows each other and seems to talk to one another. That is something really rare now....
Yea nown I was born in 96 when I made it to high school everyone was in there little bubble although everyone knew each other it wasn’t vibes like this
It really also depends where you live. At my old school where I used to live in a rural area everyone knew everyone like that. Now I go to a school with 3,000 students where that's impossible.
Everyone films almost everything now a days and gets put online. There wont be a problem watching us in 50 years, it'll all be online.
@@FinnishArmy over saturation
I was in that class of 1996, I started I think in September of 95 or so
A thing I always notice when seeing old footage like this: people are calm.
The camera phones, social media and the loss of privacy messed things up real fast.
I was in High school in 1996 aswell (which I only mention out of necessity to what I'm about to say), and I can tell you why my generation was so compatible calm (and its not all smart phones either).
Imagine being 15 years old. No one you know owned a computure. Your bed room is literally a bed in a room... you MIGHT have a stereo with some tapes or CDs and a 13" TV with a SNES or PS1 (if your a nerd up on the times).
The try has 3-5 tv stations (if you don't have cable - which was expensive & new back then, so few kids had it) - and those four channels (NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and PBS) played info Medicaid all day until the evening. You had to literally WAIT until a certain day, or hour late at night to watch a show you wanted (and you needed a $10 book called a TV guide to know when things were on).
If you wanted to listen to music you did not have, you had to turn on the radio and wait to call in to the station to request a song.
If you wanted to speak to a friend, you had to wit to use the home phone landline - and if a parent refused, or someone else was on... or your friends family was on, or refused to let them talk.... you had to wait until school the next day (or week).
If you wanted to watch a movie or play a game you did not own, you had to wait until you had money and could bum a ride to the video store.If they didn't have it, or it was checked out.... You had to wait a week or more til they got it in.
If you wanted to buy something, or hang out with other kids... yep... you waited until you could schedule a day to get to the mall, or theater, or comic shop, or come over to a friends house.
If you liked videogames, music, film, fashion, etc... you had to with until the first of each month for a magazine subscription to get the news on it.
Speaking on news. If you wanted to know what was going on in the world - unless you had cable - you had to wait for the evening news.
... seeing a theme?
And while you were waiting all the time, you lived in a world were there was often more to do outside, than in your house since most homes on!y owned 1-2 TVs and no fancy gadgets, devices, or internet.
Life was much slower, boring, and our brains were used to very little stimulation outside substances, parties or concerts.
@@mr.selfimprovement3241 Thanks man. Very well stated.
It's the last day of school, I don't get how people don't understand the way people act during the final day isn't close to what a regular day is....
From the Seniors about to leave forever, to the teachers done with their lessons plans and about to go on break themselves. Everyone is not acting like they would regularly...
And each school just like each student had their own expernces...
Imagine being in high school during the 90's in a school where thigns are divded by race and youre a fat nerd type...
Let me tell you...high was brutal for that person. 90's nostalgia or not....Also mental health was nothing so on no level would some people get any help at any fundamental degree they needed.
It's 5g and 4g what make people aggrier...
So true!
Young generations will deny, but everything was happier and safer in the 90s
100%
Or maybe it wasn't, and we did not know because internet was not prevalent lol. Now, we can see everything.
@@zambrogue136 We do know because of crime statistics. We know because of studies social media has on children of nowadays. They act very differently as there are now cameras around, any childish thing they do will be punished more severely, will never be forgotten, and will always be held against them. We know because the economy was a lot better back then, we had a surplus, not a deficit. There were not as many school shootings, homeless people, and 9/11 had not happened. America was very safe.
@@JackbenImbel2274 Social engineering and culture creation is very real .. And yes, things are definitely different today than they were 30 to 40 years ago.
Not in Rwanda.
I just turned 40 today. This video reall put my age in perspective... now i am depressed. But i really appreciate people like who give us a video time machine to the good days. Thank you🙏🏻
😆 I know man. wife, 3 kids, a full-time job. how can anybody find the time and money to have a mid life crises these days? Biden has taken everything from us!
@Gus_Magnus I don't know HIS answer to your question, but mine is as follows: The cool thing about living thru many decades, is you experience them all. You can say this one was objectively better or worse - you don't need rose tinted glasses. It's young people who only know the current years of their life, who think it's always been this crappy.
I hate to tell you this, but in the 80s I was a kid from a bad home (@buse, d*ugs, verbal/physical/emotional torment, etc)..... in the 90s I was a teenager in the foster system and very poor.... in the early 2000s I was homeless, working nights at a Taco Bell, and eventually forced to enlist in the military during two wars to survive when winter came around....
AND STILL: I would say without hesitation that THOSE days beat the heck out of the present day. The government, global affairs, the way people behaved, less reliance on technology, and a million other things from the largest to the smallest facets of life, was better. You don't need a drop of nostalgia to know that. There is a reason that most people who have been alive since the 50s and 60s, say these days are worse than the 80s and 90s.
I'm not sure how old you are (you've got the name of a older guy): but in 20 more years, if you are still around.... during the fall out of WWIII, the AI apocalypse and the global water shortages.... some ignorant wet behind the ear kid whose barely been a live for a decade or two, will smugly tell you that your recollection of 2024 being better is just "nostalgia".
If this were today you'd have 100 other students recording their last day. It's what makes these old videos more genuine. Busting out a camera back in the day meant something.
Well that and it's hard to imagine but he was walking around with a real video camera. Not a phone.
if u think about it he isn’t holding a phone he is holding a video camera
I seriously hate how literally everyone has a camera these days.
@@Woolong-ql1jh I seriously hate how everyone is like these days. If not everyone had a camera “these days” bullying, police brutality, and cool concerts wouldn’t have been filmed.
@@andtheywillknowusbyourname5511 there is a good and bad to everything.
Damn everyone talked to each other back then so different.
Rogue Valor right!
People talk to each other nowadays too you dipshits
Rogue Valor What do you mean? Asides from minor lingo this sounds exactly like how everyone at my high school talks (am sophomore).
no one wants to talk back to you or what lol
We weren't affraid if someone got offended. We had some thicker skin.
In 1996 they couldn't fathom 10 years done the road. Now it's been almost 30.
I was a few yrs behind these kids but this was our life too ... No phones, no social media. No time period was perfect but the 90s were the last of an era. Never thought we'd miss it, did we?
Even the early 2000s was good as well, music was still being played on MTV
These were the good days. I miss it. No iphones, no social media, no distractions to be antisocial, and everyone was out and about. We had more time on our hands to be productive and meet people in person. It was just REAL. Everyone is pretty chill and you were authentic in your own unique way🙂
The teachers seem so chill with the students
Bruja pre-columbine life.
@@JBthree24 The columbine killers were in 9th grade here
fr i want thattt
Teachers are always chill. But of course they are because it’s last day of highschool
The teachers was all chill because it was the last day of school.
Damn, it’s crazy to see how chill and laid back everyone is, including the teachers. I graduated two years ago, but if I recorded then I would definitely get in trouble. I would have to hide it and not allow any teachers to see. It’s just mind blowing to see how happy these teens look and how down to earth the teachers were
John 3:16 ; For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
The woke killed it all. I’m class of 04 and while we weren’t totally chill it was def much simpler
@@catspjs6229 how can you blame the "woke" when its always the church crowd always trying to suppress everything and indoctrinate people
@@catspjs6229 The woke didn't kill recording your fellow students in schools, in fact my school would allow this.
@@Sam-bn3dy Amen. Thanks for this scripture
Born in 87, and this makes me depressed and happy at the same time. Growing up in the 90’s were a privilege. Everybody born in the late 90’s, early 2000’s, I feel sorry for you. And everybody being born now, there’s no words
Thank you. Yup life sucks
joe biden and the democrats screwed america over
Wasn’t so much gen z that took history and ruined it and twisted it around. It was the radical left wing professors and especially the radical left wing US government that destroyed the education sector across the board. Gen z just listened and believed what they’re being taught by their older teachers bc that’s what you do. You trust your teachers at least up until college when you’re old enough to think for yourself. I despise gen z, but it’s really not their fault. It’s the Democrat government, the professors, Google that controls and censors fair conservative information, and only gives you access to left wing information and news, the same with UA-cam bc Google owns UA-cam, it’s a lot of factors that all directly link to the radical left wing of not just the country, but the world and the elitists like soros, bill gates and the rest of them
Someone born in 2007 will be saying the same thing about kids in the 2040s.
@@PrimericanIdol no they won’t
To think that these kids are now in their mid 40s is somehow weird and it's kinda depressing how time just flies by.
We are fine.
@@mr.selfimprovement3241 The depressing part is, my time flies by too.🤣
@@ratatosk001That's how it's supposed to be.
The kid filming is so forward thinking... Big respect
Aw shucks :)
Genius filming it. At the time it has little meaning but the more time goes by the more meaning it has and the fascination of what these kids did with their lives.
Stupid comment
Certainly a forward thinker.
I love how he has to explain this is for our reunion because it was such a strange concept of recording video footage like this back then.
That's right! Good call
I'm from 85, but I'm feel so nostalgic watching this kind of footages. Thank you. Memories from São Paulo - Brazil.
"10 years from now gyms probably won't exist-- they'll have like internet ball."
Accurate.
@@lurch789 what drugs maintain cardiovascular fitness and muscle tone ?
baller
Yeah and no diversity with gang violence. Schools should be all white just as the country should.
Pong
gym class suxx anyway. I'd rather play video games.
Graduated in 2020. On my last day of school, I didnt know it was my last day. I was walking out the door, leaving early to take a train to boston for a trip me and my siblings were going on and my teacher said “oh looks like we are gonna have 2 weeks off for this covid thing.” So many people I saw that day, classmates and teachers, I never saw again. Didn’t get to go to graduation. Didn’t get to go to prom. I hated school, couldn’t wait for it to be over, but I’m sad I missed out on this. Didn’t get to bask in the glory that was the last day of school. Didnt get to hug anyone goodbye. Even if you hate school, cherish the friendships, the acquaintances you have that you dont hang out with outside of school, the relationships you have with your favorite teachers. It goes by so fast.
Damn this is sad af. Great reflection, though.
yeah same I was 2020 never thought it was my last day
I fucking feel you. This is exactly me almost three years ago now. Time is flying
i aint reading allat
Sad to hear. Thanks for sharing.
Honestly this just makes me sad with what the world has become.
The world we live in now is completely unrecognizable from the one just 25 years ago
Everyone is just so chill and happy. Walking and talking with a sense of ease. Beautiful. I remember life was like this.
In the 90's everybody looks 10 years older than their actual age
Your level of maturity doesn't dictate your physical appearance.
I swear americans just do that genetically somehow
Hairstyle's
Well not me:) I am 36 now and I look like an 18 years old. Watching this makes me feel bad. I never really enjoyed school but still.
And todays kids look 20 years older,so?
Watching this makes me realise how backwards we've gone. The interaction, the camaraderie, the chilled vibes, the community feeling, the togetherness, the love. Damn 😕
Ppl still have that nigga relax
you act like we dont have that now, adults back then were saying the exact same things about kids as you are now
@@cj-cv7zv Not only that how are they going to speak on everyone's experience when they weren't around...People love using their one narrow view as a definitive, some places today have great high School experiences just like the ones my Nieces and Nephew did.
With one Neice I know for a fact no one can tell her shit about the friends she made and the fun she had.
Just like people acting the 90's were some love circles at high school, people want to completely ignore the many problems that plagued schools such as the extreme tribalism some schools had.
People want to complain about cliques today but man the reality of that in the 90's in some places was insane.
People just love complaining about what they have today and act like the grass was 1000% greener in the past...You aint wrong when you said people have been doing this for generations...lol
@@bigbay1159 yeah like im pretty sure we have records of the ancient greeks complaining about the younger generations and in more recent (not really) memory, teacher's complaining about how reliant kids are on paper instead of slate
@@cj-cv7zv never has there been cameras everywhere available on everyone, all the time. Its called a paradigm shift.
This WAS an excellent time. I graduated in 98, and this was an amazing time to be a kid. No social media, smartphones, or anything in between. At the most, a few kids had pagers. These people are amongst the last of the Gen X’ers.
I love how laid back and acquainted everyone is with each other, even the teachers. This is a kind of camaraderie I don’t see anymore 🥺
Well, yeah. You think they were gonna film someone getting bullied in the locker room or making fun of the handicapped kids? This is a small snapshot of real life. And just like Facebook and other social media, you're not getting the whole picture. People were awful back then, too.
@@xDjembex Think of positive stuff man we get it
@@nobodycaresofficial1 I have plenty of positivity. I just know the main theme all these comments is that times and people were better back then. It's just nostalgia and disingenuity speaking.
No shit it's laid back, what school isn't laid back on the last day of school?
Man I wish they brought back highschools
He knows more people in that school than I’ve known my whole life😂 seems like a chill guy
1995-96 = freshman year for me. I remember the graduating class (1996) from my HS were great people and great role models.
Also...This was the season the Chicago Bulls won 72 games.
The Bulls were a huge part of 90s culture in America, not just sports culture but culture overall. No other sports team can say that.
Oh my gosh!! I'm 32yo now and I'm already so nostalgic watching this video... I can't imagine how nostalgic you over 40s are now, watching this video! The 90s were definitely the best!
Yes us over 40s are so nostalgic; in between applications of Ben-Gay and re-rolling our compression socks. Also,what are you getting nostalgic for? You were 4 in 1996. 🙄😆
@@jennevermore6937 I was born in 1991 in Brazil, since I was very little I developed a very sharp photographic memory, I clearly remember things from when I was 4 - 5 years old. Regarding school, I remember visiting my older sister's school, around '97, she was in high school, I remember really liking the environment there, and when it was my turn, in the early 2000s , despite some changes, the place is very similar to what it was in the 90s, and that makes me have a great affection for that time. Another thing that makes me miss the 90s is the 1998 World Cup, where we lost the final to France, I remember crying a lot in front of my late grandmother's house, and she consoled me... Or the early morning hours where my father allowed me to stay awake next to you, waiting hours for the Mike Tyson fight to start, and last only a few minutes. Another cool memory is when my uncle took us to a store to buy Chicago Bulls hats to watch the 98 final against the Jazz. There are many good memories from that time. I may sound pessimistic, but I think the world has seen its best, I think in the late 2000s things started to get worse.
10:20 ''10 years from now basketball gym's won't exist, we'll have like internet ball'' well he was partly right......
Pretty accurate.
VADOR 93 well there’s nba 2k
He was right. Playing "internet ball" like NBA 2K is more common then playing actual basketball as of now
Terence Taylor boomer
lol he predicted 2k
Graduated in 99 and this tugged at my emotions more than any other video. Those of us born in that time frame truly were the last to exist before the tech proliferation. Dont cry because its over, smile because we got to live it and we got to be there......
Thanks for sharing!
Very true. Kids today will never get to experience true privacy. Class of 92.
Exvcatly!!
yea we made it out sane
@@IChIDH I Had Terrible Tim At High School But Somehow Someway Still Sane Or Just About And Survived
I also graduated in 1996 from Haldane high school in Cold Spring, NY.(a small school in the mid Hudson Valley) Damn does this video bring back just so many great memories of my high school days. I love seeing the clothes that were in style then like Hugo Boss,Tommy Hilfiger,Nautica,etc.
Life was so much simpler,all I cared about was riding my skateboard, chilling with my friends and being infactuated with my high school sweetheart / girlfriend Nicole. Damn how time absolutely flys after high school ends😢
And CK one was a popular cologne back then...It's what I used in my HS years.
Props to this guy behind the cam, Class of 95 right here. Brings back memories. Other than the technology and clothes, everything is probably the same today. Glad he was able to capture so much.
This is every high school movie you've ever watched.
Growing up in the 80's / 90's was literally the Wild Wild West. No social media, no cell phones, and no tracking devices. You were literally on your own, all we had was creativity, and vibes to thrive on. And was more than enough.
We had pagers!
If you could only go back to 1994.....1995....1996 and show a video of what the world in 2023 would be like.......the shock, horror and disbelief on everyone's faces would be indescribable.
so true
@@smithn.wesson495 I wonder what they would say about Joe Biden.
@@xSTstSTx Nobody would believe someone that old and stupid would be the "President" of the US.
This guy is the perfect cameraman...seems like he knows almost everyone. Such a good video to get a glimpse of the 90's!
Everything was so much organic, and natural witout social media and the internet!
Good thing is that no one is in his phone and everyone looking up or talking , all kids in video must be lucky to see themselves and thanking guy after 30 year which was originally made to watch after 10 years , nostalgia hitting hard being from same year high school
Everyone casually smoking cigs in the bathroom
Bro what ya doing here
😂
Public school lol
Nate!?
1990 here, I'm so glad I managed to quit smoking a couple years after HS. In the late 80's at my 1st HS, it was always a cat & mouse game between the students & security guards, to avoid getting busted smoking between classes. We'd have to take turns as lookouts posted in the hallway in front of the bathrooms to sound the alarm when security was spotted heading out way. Meanwhile 20 kids are inside sucking down cancer sticks as fast as possible. Others would duck outside & hide in the bushes. Later I moved across town to a different HS, they were way more lax about smoking & let students cross the street to smoke between classes so it wasn't technically on school property.
If you could only go back to 1994.....1995....1996 and show a video of what the world in 2023 would be like.......the shock, horror and disbelief on everyone's faces would be indescribable.
that is so true. i graduated in 94 and i miss it so much. next year I'll be 50
@@youbadolivez Same here, Class of '94 as well !
@@youbadolivezhow are you nowadays, can you share some wise teachings from your life experiences, differences about past and present generation
You talk like the 90s were super safe times... We just didn't had Social Media to understand our sorrounds
Even the teachers were chill and cool.
I’m from the Uk and left senior school same year in 1996. I’m 44 now, and time goes by so quick!
Graduated in 95. We are all now in our mid 40s 😢
Although we didn’t appreciate it then, the 90’s were a great time to be young. No cell phones or internet. Everyone was just hanging out and having fun. Things happened in real time not through the lenses of a cell phone camera . Glad to have been a young person in the 90’s
Yea i always thought of the 90s as the decade that nothing happened. Compared to the randomness and craziness of this era, i miss those days
I hate nostalgia bullcrap comments like this one and all the simpletons who like it. No, life was not easier or more fun in the 90´s. Life got much more easier when the internet became mainstream. Before that everything was a chore. People are still hanging around and having fun in 2024. Sometimes they just do it online and game together and thats fun.
yah life was much slower paced, more meaningful cuz we had more time to do it all and weren't completely drained, and way less distractions...the endless distractions have effected social skills especially in young people and there is very little genuine empathy anymore... i was so shocked this kid filming knew everyone's name..this is proof how much times have changed
@@kimmyfreak200 Life was more boring you mean. Thank god for this easy access to culture these days. So much beauty i´m exploring that i would never bothered to do otherwise. The world of classical composers and ancient litterature. For us culture nerds the modern tech is a blessing
"Life was more boring" No, it wasnt , It seems you werent even alive back then, so dont give opinion in something you didnt experience, If some people prefer a pre internet era, whats the problem, your opinion is not a rule and you "sound" really immature @@BirgerJarl-it5lz
Graduated in 1996 here!! So nostalgic. Things seemed so much slower back then. Everything nowadays is instant gratification and moving on to the next thing. Young ones...take time to relax and breathe. Time moves fast. Hang out with your friends without the urge to capture and post every moment on social media. LIVE in the moment! You can't get this moment in time back, so make the best of it!
Agree!
Thanks 🖐️
Totally agree with this!!
same here
Class of 96 as well. Crazy how time flies
World looked more neat and less noisy back then. People were low key and talk politely. Nowadays kids and even late teens are so loud.
I graduated in 2003, I looked up to my cousin who graduated in 1996. I loved the late 90s
I'm extremely lucky to be a kid in the 80's and a teen in the 90's. Two great decades!
I feel the same way. I think we did have it really good.
All down hill after that tho....😂
Me too I was born in 1980
I am glad you appreciate that! I wish I could have been a teen then :)
@@sophieminter0 There was something special about those 2 decades. Since we didn't have internet or social media (not that these things are bad) I think friendships & interaction with others were more engaging. I know some of the best times I had with friends were just being together with nothing to do. Just hanging out in our basements, backyards or parking lots. I'm from Chicago, back in the 80s-90s there was a Dunkin Donut's parking lot that was a popular place to hang in at. We did absolutely nothing, just hung out with each other. Take a look ua-cam.com/users/results?search_query=wild+chicago+dunking+donuts
This brings a tear to my eye. Having graduated in 99, its so nice to see a circle of teens talking, making eye contact with no cell phones in sight. I am glad this was captured on film for others to enjoy.
same! Class of 99' Who would've ever thought we'd be looking back at the past like this, huh? Trippy.
I’m 20 right now was born in 2003 and honestly this time era on here without phones seemed like everyone got along and a real relationship(friends/bf/gf) and the teachers seemed chill and wasn’t overly stressed I would of loved it and I never honestly grew up with a cell phone in my hand all the time and I’m glad but I just wish their was my generation that grew up like this too and so on: cell phones ruined it what was a wrong with the pay phones fr or house phones we need people back not “Zombies” you should say🤦🏻🤙🏻
Yeah but there was a lot of drinking and sexual assault
@@prettyclassylady6218 and….. everyone still turned out to be a productive member of society.
@@prettyclassylady6218 oh
I graduated in 96. Thank you to whoever posted this. I miss these days!❤
I didn't even go online until 1996, and when I did, it was in the classroom. I couldn't have imagined that years later, analog video would be digitized and viewed on a device that could fit in the palm of our hands. Yes, there's a lot I miss from this era, but I also love that we can now easily preserve these memories and share them with just about anyone around the world for free! (Remember how much a long distance call was in 1996!?)
these guys are 40 now
TheBlue8ird Mid to late 30’s
Muddelly Mudd noo they’re most definitely 40
Addie Russell it literally says 96 in the title
KCEgamer Like 41 because my parents graduated 2 years later and they’re 39 so these people are like 40-41
TheBlue8ird in 30s but ight
Everyone had personalities and charm back in the day! This is a perfect example!
eVeRyOnE. No, not everyone. Pretty sure people still have charm and some are a-holes just like in those days. People are still people. Worst bullcrap nostalgia comment i heard in a long time. Simpleton
not really, everyone wanted to be the class clown like Zach Morris
@@k.m.7351Zack Morris was more the class arsehole than the class clown! 🤦🙄
Bro, life was so natural back then. It was like everyone one was in the present moment. You were in the moment, everyone was in the moment and felt more alive. It felt more real. I graduated high school in 1999. What a time to be young. I have dreams about it all the time.
Today is just a completely different world. And not for the better. Even with how people interact with each other. Its crazy to see.
When you watch movies like "Scream," these are the real teens of that time.
hahaha I was thinking the exact same thing. Scream 1996 was being filmed at this exact time
The "teens" in that movie were all 30yr old actors. These kids look better.
@@hendo337 early 20's not 30's. LOL!
This was the year Tupac was shot dead.
Love how the classrooms used to be so calm, everyone's so friendly and even the students relationship with their teachers...
And also love how he posted it 20 years later!!
Now you got Neanderthals blocking traffic blaming everybody for something 200 years ago...
it was last day of school, so expected
Crazy watching this...I can't barely remember my last day of high school...I have some memories of end of the school year 9 thru 12th but it's just bits and pieces.
@@Ella-cz4yl you must be one of the Billy goats walking into traffic like a baffoon
Not sure which school you go to but at mine it’s pretty chill and we talk to the teachers normally/friendly as well
Miss those days this how I remember high school class of 99. Everyone socialized they didn’t have their heads on a phone. No social media. People were happier back then. Was a better time.
90's Babes 😍😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️😘😘😘😘
This is so cool and interesting to watch! The 90's were the best. Hands down.
Christie MacDougall nope, 80s was the best
I agree, the 80's were fantastic. Best time to be a kid too.
Christie MacDougall 2010s is the best
I'd have to say that the mid to late 80's were the best time to be a kid. The 90's started sucking around 95-96.
Love Myself nope! 90's all the way dude.
Class of 97. Best decade to be a teenager EVER. I MISS THOSE EASY SIMPLE PEACEFUL DAYS EVERY SINGLE DAY.😭💔
Class of 97 checking in!
I'm class of 2003. '97 wasn't that much different. This is nostalgic for me as well. Styles are just a tad different. Mostly though, we were all in baggy shit lol
Every decade is good for white America
@ just that girl. Yeah. I was class of 97. But my sister was " 02 " class. And the school and atmosphere were still basically the same. Because I volunteered a lot at the school. I got to observe the kids almost daily. And not much had changed! It wasn't until the late 00s early 2010s. That it started to radically change.
No, the 80s was the best!
i graduated in 2007. those last couple days of high school really were special. i get nostalgic about those days anytime i listen to Blink 182, one of my favorite bands from that era. You are so glad to be done with high-school and excited that summer is finally here, no more tests, homework, all the campfires you will have. You are excited about the future and eager to begin a new chapter. Yet you are kind of sad at the same time. You know you probably will never again see many of the people you knew for the last 4 to 8 years. You didn't think you would ever miss some of them. Then all the memories you made with everyone hit you. You realize high school wasn't so bad after all......
This is my graduating year as well, and it seems like MAYBE 10-years ago!! Now I’m a grandmother of two!!
🤯 😢😮❤🙏
What happened to us in 20 years? I realise that the presence of a camera means people act differently, but look how everyone had a level of common decency, respect, and how these kids glow with an appearance of happiness and health. They all look so relaxed & carefree.
Walk the hallway of a high school now, half the kids look either depressed, unhealthy, scared, lonely, or aggressive, mean, antisocial, distrusting. Sad.
I don't want to be a downer but I grew up in the same decade and it wasn't all rosey in highschools back then. My school had a similar "jock/cheerleader vs unpopular" vibe that gave birth to the Columbine horror. Following the massacre there were many changes made in schools all across the country that tried to curb down bullying and the general 'meanness' that pervaded. (Some critics feel they went over board and that the generation that grew up during the "everyone gets an award" era were coddled a bit too much).
agree
@@sanseverything900 I disagree with this. I grew up in the 80's and 90s too. And there were still different cliques but everyone got along and there was crossover. My kids are at school now and the cliques are much more hard parted. The popular vs unpopular dynamic is way way worse. Our culture as a whole is more polarised, and schools are no different.
Bullying is way worse too. Look at the suicide rate in adolescents. It is up 40% since 1980. Juvenile delinquency is up 50%. Kids getting busted for drugs is up astronomically. Depression and kids with severe mental issues is up like tenfold. There's a vast portion of kids that are on some kind of antidepressant or clinical drug.
Something is seriously wrong and pretending there isn't a problem is not the answer
That's not to
they were happy to be done with school and ful of hope
@@dannystalford5029 social media is the disease. *Adults* can barely handle the pressure and challenges having a social media presence can cause. How is a hormonal teenager supposed to manage? My generation is riddled with mental illness and political extremism that they only have solely because of the influence of social media's habit of promoting the most egregious/outrageous material, the new standards against which peers are set, and adult influencers that should know better shamelessly peddling to kids.
I’m Class of 2020 looking back at the 90s man no smartphones, iPads, laptops just everyone doing their own thing. Man looks like y’all was chill back then and a lot more open to communicating face to face. Nobody head in a screen looks like a good time to be a teen.
Great video.! You were one of the smart kids with camcorders! We had mobile phones back then, but not with cameras. lol And not everyone had mobile phones back then just doctors, lawyers or rich ppl.. They were expensive and large. Life was exactly like this back in the 90s lol. Even in the late 80s and early '00s. Slower pace and ppl interacted more on personal level it seems. . Love the internet ball remark! Interenet was very new and primitive at the time. Some ppl knew of it, some didnt. It was pretty underground at the time.
Class of '94 here. GenX in my late 40s.
Time flies! My youngest daughter is in high school now. My sons are in their 20s.
a message to the future generations; this is what our schools looked like, we’ll hope this will help you guys in the education industry you’re in now
Yeah and no diversity with gang violence. Schools should be all white just as the country should.
You don’t have to apologize for anything. This was the real life that I miss.
God time goes by so quickly. I graduated in 97. I still feel like I’m 17. I just cannot believe I am 45 years old. It’s so crazy. I’m my dad’s age. Time is such a weird thing. This video feels like yesterday.
Aw man, I'm around the same age as these kids (77-78). This brought me back to a much better place and a simpler life. Bittersweet.
When kids….music….films…tv shows….TV commercials….baseball…basketball….goals….social values….morales…..EVERYTHING WAS BETTER! Shout out to class of ‘94
Not tv-shows. Shows like The sopranos, Breaking Bad, sons of anarchy and Game of thrones could only be a wet dream in the 90´s. Only the X-files was good. The rest was just crappy sitcoms 24/7, remember? Movies stopped being good in the early 90´s. The 80´s was the best era in filmmaking. The 2000´s was the best era of Tv-shows. Never trust nostalgia. Only simpletons with mid-life crisis fall for that
Yo 94 here too...
So awesome how he kept reiterating to those that weren't hip to the camera thing that they would be thanking him in 10 yrs. Man I'm 57 yrs old and would give anything to go back to 1996 and be 31 again, so now I'm thanking him ! So happy this footage was preserved !
i know. i wish someone had this when i graduated in 1986, But as we all know it is insane how time flies. One moment i was living life and partying in the bars in the 80s and 90s and now im 55 years old and it feels like it was a movie that i fast forwarded. Effin scary
@@jckhammer did you party through your twenties because i feel covid has robbed me of some partying years
@@DivineAffection I partied from my twenties to early thirties . Woosh gone in an instant. I still have some house or garage get togethers with friends but the good years are gone. Enjoy while u can because it flies in a flash . Ya covid robbed a couple years for anyone in there early to mid twenties for sure . Too bad
@@jckhammer At least some 90 year olds lived a few more months though. Worth a decade of young people's lives for sure.
Well said! I'm 36 and I tell those in their 30s to quit wishing they were in their teens and 20s and enjoy their 30s. When they are jn their 50s they'll it'll to be 30 something again!
i was in high school in 96. I'll go back to the 90s ANY day. Life was a lot better before the internet.
I graduated in 96 as well. Watching this brings back my own memories of was the last day of school was back then. The feels are real. Miss that time in my life so much!! Wish we could get it back! Thank you for creating your own video and sharing with us. It is a treasure to see and remember what it was like. No time like it....
Can we all agree to make high school like this again? No phones, relaxed, and everyone is friendly with each other.
Can not happen. World is different now. Cold, sad, connected but disconnected, angry, narcissistic and confused. Social media ruined it.
@@Xeshiraz perfectly worded
@@Xeshiraz true :/
@@Xeshiraz what the hell you described it so well
My school is banning phones this year, and I'm starting to think it'll be a good thing.
While I was born in 96, this was so intensly nostalgic it threw me through a loop. Crazy how times have changed.
I was 15 at the time. To think that the past really isn't as far away, and that it's really only change that happens fast.
You do grow old, if you make it, and realize you somewhat feel the same internally, but physically, you're not as peppy. Age sets in and all of a sudden you are 42.
Then as the saying goes, time flies, and the older you get, the faster it tends to go. (Especially when you're having fun ; ) ? )
Though I do recall a few fairly elderly people that more than once told me:
"Don't get old"
I look back at it after they are gone, and think of old age as being a progressively miserable time... after a few bodily misfunctions like eyesight going out, and knees and backs being thrown out where you can't walk on occasion, you tend to agree with them.
Health is key, else you are in queue to check out early.
Oh the good old days.
One thing I regret is regret itself. And one regret that seems to bring you down is definitely guilt.
Be nice to others. Not everyone has it easy. And to think you might have caused anyone emotional grief at any extent plays on your guilt strings. I'm glad I wasn't too much of a burden, though sometimes I was. I've always had a kind soul, but sometimes peer pressure causes you to do stupid shit outside of your natural comfort bounds, so you feel more accepted. In hindsight... I'd have bullied the bullies who pressure you to do stupid shit. ... Then we all move on and live completely different lives.
@Kunal You'll be just fine in that regard. I too was an "intellectual introvert".
I keep to myself a lot. It does get lonely, and having a kind personality you tend to pick up friends, even if they don't like you.
Part of my regret is letting so called "friends" run your life or pressure you to do things that either get you in trouble, or only serves them. I felt that most of my friends weren't really friends at all, and when you stop serving them, then they don't come around anymore. You'll know true friends when you have them. Not to say you don't, but I think you get my point.
Same
@Kunal lol
i was born in 96 too. i remember these vibes in schoool but cells phones really changed everything
All 50’s now
Unreal
'96 BABY!!! Wanted to get out for 4 years, now I'd give almost anything to go back. Great video, thanks.
Ah the 90's, when people weren't obsessed about likes & view counts.
Omg those were the days 😍
Pssh, all of our geocities and angelfire sites had webpage counters. We were stoked when that number increased.
Yh bc none of that stuff excisted back then.
@@numan2985 You didn’t exist back then
@@samdustinchris yeah how do u know
No phones just a camera to record the good times
No one getting offended by words
Normal people trying to have a conversations with each other
God i missed these times!
Exactly.
none of the crap happening now is by accident. It's just way too much in such a short time. I can tell you this: The world we lived in no longer exists. We are accelerating into a manufactured future.
same
In 96 I was 10 years old buying Twix down the street from my grandparents house for 25 cents and a 1 liter soda for 50 cents
you guys are acting that doesn't happen now. "no one getting offended" Well no one in the video was saying anything offensive. You guys are being real dumb right now.
Man I so miss the 90s
I love how everyone in the school was SUPER chill anytime there was a camera in their face. Probably cause they knew that it was filmed for personal use and not something that was gonna be air blasted on something called social media
people were just more natural then as well kids today are fakers
You hit the nail on the head. Back then people "documented" moments in time purely for the sake of doing it because it felt exciting and interesting at that time to somehow record something that they could look back upon again themselves or share years laters with others. Nowadays kids are actively filming anything controversial, dramatic or "click worthy" to bask in. Different times...
Damn, what were they feeding Highschoolers in 96?! They look so healthy and fit... probably can blame that on social media if im honest.
Plastic, xeno and phytoestrogens in food, water, candy, processed food and a mix of social media yeah
@@PsychoBenches social media? In '96? Not unless you mean the school newspaper...
@@Swordfish393 Yeah thats the point, they didnt have social media
@@PsychoBenches ahh gotcha. I read it as you saying processed food and plastic were less regulated at the time. Agreed. Instantaneous communication with social media does seem to have made things socially worse overall. :/
@@Swordfish393 It makes people more insecure, lazy, self esteem issues and all
Title should be "The World Right Before Insanity"
98 Grad and my goodness does this video pull at the soul! I was so blessed to in school at that time and some of the greatest memories.
I started high school in 96! Wow this is amazing! 🥲
😀
I graduated in 95. This video makes me nostalgic but uneasy. This is like Sarah Connor's vision outside of the playground in T2.
No one had any idea what our world would be like in the 2020s. We were young, dumb, and happy.
If you could only go back to 1994.....1995....1996 and show a video of what the world in 2023 would be like.......the shock, horror and disbelief on everyone's faces would be indescribable.
would much rather be dumb and happy
Naive maybe but not dumb
I love the teachers in these videos they all seem so geeky
If you notice almost everyone is happy. No drama, no back chatting to teachers and each other, no "BRO" & "FAM" etc...
Less blacks
In fairness everyone is happy on the last day of school
Good to see teachers chilled and good relationships with pupils.
I love videos like this. A raw, unromanticized look at the '90s.
Nary a cellphone and not too many computers either.
Unromanticized?
@@palestar828yes the past is over over glorified by people who experienced it or didn’t get to. The films & everything glorify it. The same might just happen with this generation it may just be life
C'mon there was another side. For instance, the playground homophobia in the mid '90s defies belief.
Literally zero fat ppl.
I can't believe I watched the whole thing--40 freaking minutes, and I don't regret it.
This footage is like a time capsule. Watching this feels like I traveled back in time to 1996. Thanks for the upload.
woh people actually look at each other and talk to each other !
Not like the weirdos from today!
Hard to believe this was 27 years ago… Can hardly fathom it. Sometimes I can’t even grasp that it isn’t still the early 2000s. I’d love to see where these fine folks are now. Fills me with awe, remorse, gladness, sadness, etc all in one. Nostalgia is hard to define, but this video pretty well does it. Thank you for this treasure, and I hope God blesses all of those we got to see here. If an update video ever surfaces, I’d be honored to watch it. 🙂
What will really blow your mind is that in 100 years, if youtube still exists or another social media video platform will still have videos like this posted. Were the first generations with access to personal videos and stuff posted to the net.
@@twocansams6335 there's videos on youtube right now from well over 100 years ago
You summed this video up beautifully.
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@@bumwog Theirs a disconnect though cause videos are not in colour and very grainy. When you see videos nearly as good as they are today with colour and clear its like it was shot yesterday also society has been very close in the past 20-30 years.
The level of forward thinking by such a young dude is exceptional. Great work