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.
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Content: I finished writing my first novel, “Generation X,” in early April 1990. It was published in March 1991. Around this time Richard Linklater put out his seminal film, “Slacker,” and then there came Nirvana and Pearl Jam and Grunge and Microsoft. And then suddenly there was a decade. As a magazine friend told me near then end of the 90s, “Three of anything is a trend!” pinterest-pin-it
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.