Title: 1990s: The Good Decade - HISTORY
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1990s: The Good Decade
The man who gave the world "Generation X" looks back at the oft-maligned 1990s.
Other 1990s moments…
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Douglas Coupland, 2007. ( Credit: Christopher Morris/Corbis via Getty Images)
What made the 1990s feel like the 1990s? It wasn’t just MTV ’s all-weekend Madonnathons, grungewear and the theme song from “ Friends .” At the very least, in North America and Europe, the 1990s possessed a sense of happiness that seems long vanished. Money still generated money. Computers were becoming fast easy and cheap, and with them came a sense equality for everyone. Things were palpably getting better everywhere. History was over and it felt great. I also remember working at Wired magazine, though, in 1993, and having a discussion about the internet with one of the editors, Kevin Kelly.