In 1990 I was at secondary school being a fat speccy kid with a curly mullet and a penchant for Iron Maiden and Megadeth. My main hobbies were playing games on my Commodore Amiga, Dungeons and Dragons style role-playing games and collecting/painting Warhammer miniatures. |
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I was working as a programmer on 2 large mainframes, water cooled
PCs were still not mainstream
Broadband wasn't a consideration and dial up connection at 256k was impressive
30 years from now, if I'm still here, AI will be mainstream
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1990 tasting lasers and throwing shapes !
Speed of Information and ease off access to information has changed the world some good some bad
Nope not point worrying if it happens it happens if not then why worry ?
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over a year ago
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I was 5 and loving life!
I am scared of the future. That we will have drone warfare and not be able to hide anywhere and people with heads in jars on their body will take over the world
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By *lceeWoman
over a year ago
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"In 1990 I was at secondary school being a fat speccy kid with a curly mullet and a penchant for Iron Maiden and Megadeth. My main hobbies were playing games on my Commodore Amiga, Dungeons and Dragons style role-playing games and collecting/painting Warhammer miniatures. "
I was totally the geeky 7yr old girl in the corner, reading a comic and hero-worshipping you from afar  |
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over a year ago
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First year of uni. Met husband no.1.
Social Media has to be the biggest change. Making ‘friends’ with people I’ll never meet in rl. Online dating. Easy access to porn. Surrounded by every imaginable piece of information but buried in fake news and propaganda. |
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By *os19Man
over a year ago
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In 1990 I was 22 years of age I will always remember Sir Alex Ferguson always been one game away from been sacked If Man Utd got knocked out of the FA Cup off course they went on to win it and the rest is history.The 1990 World Cup Gazza outstanding performances and tears , the one moment of magic produced by Maradona against Brazil.I didn’t know it at the time as the term Friends With Benefits wasn’t used but I had a couple of those.Whatever the next 30 years bring I hope to be around to see it |
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over a year ago
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"Is 30 years ago. 2050 is 30 years away.
What were you doing in 1990? How’s the world changed? Are you worried about the future? "
not really a good year for me died twice in June had a massive car crash was kept in a induced coma for a few months hospital for 6months couldn't walk for a year took 4 yrs to get back to health so live life how I want to if I want it I take it or do it it's definitely changed got more expensive haha |
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First date with mrs, was on 12th January 1990...
I was 26, working for Smiths Aerospace, driving a crappy Renault 21, living in a 1-bed flat with 24 years left on the mortgage (15% interest, back then!).
Most aspects of my life, have changed for the better (apart from losing mrs): No mortgage, no debts, loads more friends, than 30 years ago.
Nobody can predict the future but I'm hoping at some point, there'll be someone new, to share it with. |
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On the 28th of January 1990 I was taken into hospital very I'll, 8 weeks of Doctors scratching heads and painful tests later I was diagnosed with a cancer called Hodgkin's Lymphoma. As it was already at stage 4 I was given less than 6 months,I was still only 20. Weekly Chemo with chemicals that felt like bleach insued and after 3 months of this I had a CT scan to see if the treatment had made any difference... To the amazement of all who wrote me off it had gone into remission where its stayed to this day. Theres a moral to this somewhere lol
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"In 1990 I was at secondary school being a fat speccy kid with a curly mullet and a penchant for Iron Maiden and Megadeth. My main hobbies were playing games on my Commodore Amiga, Dungeons and Dragons style role-playing games and collecting/painting Warhammer miniatures.
I was totally the geeky 7yr old girl in the corner, reading a comic and hero-worshipping you from afar "
I would have been so stoked to know I was being hero-worshipped, unfortunately I had rather low self esteem back then and if you or anyone else had told me I'd have assumed that one was making a joke at my expense... Question is would you hero-worship me now..?  |
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"Is 30 years ago. 2050 is 30 years away.
What were you doing in 1990? How’s the world changed? Are you worried about the future? "
OMG I was pregnant with my first (and only) born - I was 21 nothing worried me about the future.
Mr was travelling the world with work! (Haven’t asked him, but not sure he worried about anything either!) |
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"Is 30 years ago. 2050 is 30 years away.
What were you doing in 1990? How’s the world changed? Are you worried about the future? "
Past my driving test 30 years ago(04.01.90)Scary thought  |
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"On the 28th of January 1990 I was taken into hospital very I'll, 8 weeks of Doctors scratching heads and painful tests later I was diagnosed with a cancer called Hodgkin's Lymphoma. As it was already at stage 4 I was given less than 6 months,I was still only 20. Weekly Chemo with chemicals that felt like bleach insued and after 3 months of this I had a CT scan to see if the treatment had made any difference... To the amazement of all who wrote me off it had gone into remission where its stayed to this day. Theres a moral to this somewhere lol
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touche same here I was 21 spent months at Western park ended up in wheelchair because of the treatment only last year I googled it and realized how close to death I was but we still here irritating the world |
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I was 15 in 1990 which meant I was probably doing something wrong that felt right at the time, it probably involved a field and lots of colours........
30 years from now? I will be 74. I will be dead |
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I was 12, still going to Sunday school every week and church camp once a year.
I was a good girl 
Although I did get caught shop lifting from children’s world when I was 10 |
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By *reya73Woman
over a year ago
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I was 17, it was all kicking off. I was in a band, doing lots of dancing to acid house, sneaking off to illegal raves with my big brother and his mates.
Lost my place at college.
I washed dishes in a restaurant to stay for the summer in Corfu.
Then I got glandular fever which put a stop to all play.
I'm so so so sorry mam and dad!
My sadness for the future is that my kids won't get the same kind of life experience because everything is handed on a plate, reviewed, mapped, instant, filtered.
Paradoxically .. I'm kinda glad they won't be able to get up to some of the tricks I did! |
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Having a blast
Loved the 90s
Met Mr in 98 married in 2000
First house in 96
Drove a convertible too fast mostly
Lots of gigs and lots of d*unken fun times
Thanks for the trip down memory lane
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over a year ago
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"On the 28th of January 1990 I was taken into hospital very I'll, 8 weeks of Doctors scratching heads and painful tests later I was diagnosed with a cancer called Hodgkin's Lymphoma. As it was already at stage 4 I was given less than 6 months,I was still only 20. Weekly Chemo with chemicals that felt like bleach insued and after 3 months of this I had a CT scan to see if the treatment had made any difference... To the amazement of all who wrote me off it had gone into remission where its stayed to this day. Theres a moral to this somewhere lol
touche same here I was 21 spent months at Western park ended up in wheelchair because of the treatment only last year I googled it and realized how close to death I was but we still here irritating the world"
It's the fuck'em attitude that wins everytime lol. |
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over a year ago
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Damn that’s scary time goes by so quick I wasn’t born then not long after though 
The world has changed a lot though one of the biggest things is the internet and how far it’s come with technology |
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I was 19. Been left home a year and working full time for two years in an in house legal department. Loving life in the East End, drinking in The George; the locals and work colleagues were my my first family away from home
What will be doing in 30 years time, probably blowing in the wind |
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By *r MoriartyMan
over a year ago
The Land that time forgot (Norfolk) |
"Is 30 years ago. 2050 is 30 years away.
What were you doing in 1990? How’s the world changed? Are you worried about the future? "
England were shit at penalties, not much has changed. |
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over a year ago
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Can't remember much of the 90's, a bit of a drug and alcohol induced haze.
If I'm around in 30 years that will probably be a drug induced haze for different reasons. So life will have stood still for me |
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"Is 30 years ago. 2050 is 30 years away.
What were you doing in 1990? How’s the world changed? Are you worried about the future? "
In 1990 I was waiting for my first meet on FAB....some things never change
Yes I'm worried about the future... next week as my car is due MOT-----££$$£$£$£$ |
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in 1990 .... omg!! I was 18
February sold our flat in Scotland
April I married
June bought our house in Hull
July I turned 19 - 4 weeks later
I gave birth to my first child
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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1990 i was partying, 2050 i'll be dead most likely and fair chance a large proportion of the rest of the population will be due to pollution, global warming or war |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I had my nose pierced and had my first tattoo. I moved out of home and I slept with one of the most beautiful men I've ever met. And I saw The Kinks live  |
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"1990 i was partying, 2050 i'll be dead most likely and fair chance a large proportion of the rest of the population will be due to pollution, global warming or war"
Well that cheered everyone up |
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I started secondary school in 1990. I was concerned about animal welfare and how badly we treated the animals. I stood up for people when they were being bullied and was very vocal in my opinion when I thought something was wrong.
30 years later? I'm still like that, just more choosy about my battles instead of taking on the world. It all got a bit much.
30 years from now? If we haven't all pressed the red button at the same time and blown each other into smithereens, I hope I still fight for the little guy. |
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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago
Durham, North Yorkshire and can travel |
30 years has gone over in a flash! Scary.
I dread to think how the world will be in another 30 years time. The one thing I have noticed is respect. There seems to be less and less of it these days. No. respect for others. I was brought up to respect elders, has respect for the police and school teachers. It all seems to of gone rapidly down hill.
Manners too, simple manners cost nothing yet people don't bother.
It all makes me feel sad. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Is 30 years ago. 2050 is 30 years away.
What were you doing in 1990? How’s the world changed? Are you worried about the future? "
I was leaving primary school and ready to start secondary school that year. (We started secondary at 12 in 1990) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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1990
Awful year. My then partner decided she wanted someone else so I had to move out leaving an 18 month old Son...
...oh and lost my job three days later |
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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago
Durham, North Yorkshire and can travel |
"1990
Awful year. My then partner decided she wanted someone else so I had to move out leaving an 18 month old Son...
...oh and lost my job three days later"
That is so sad. Hope you moved on with your life and are now happy. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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1990 I would have been driving around in my red souped up Mini listening to The Shamen and trying to pull girls.
As far as change goes, well the music was 10 times better than the shite these days for a start, but good jobs were definitely harder to find, well at least in my area.
Cant say I really worry too much about what the future holds. I just take each day as it comes |
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"In 1990 I was at secondary school being a fat speccy kid with a curly mullet and a penchant for Iron Maiden and Megadeth. My main hobbies were playing games on my Commodore Amiga, Dungeons and Dragons style role-playing games and collecting/painting Warhammer miniatures.
I was totally the geeky 7yr old girl in the corner, reading a comic and hero-worshipping you from afar "
I was the 23 year old, thinking oh fuck no, I'm never having kids.
Must say though....very vivid images there. I can so completely see you both! |
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I was 8 in 1990 and living on the family farm so was playing army with my mates every weekend or with my airfix models and figures, building dens out in the woods and jumping off the top of the bale stack onto a heap of loose straw at the bottom, how none of us ever broke bones I don't know |
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over a year ago
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I'll be 63 in 2050, I have no idea what the world will be like, technology moves so quickly. As for 3, probably running around the house with my dick out, some things don't change! |
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1990 I was 20 years old and had been living in Egypt for just over a year, it was also the year that changed my life forever. 2050 I will be 79 years old hope I get to see that but not counting on anything |
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I was 19 in 1990. I fell in love with my ex that year ... ahh..those days when i was stupid .
It's the year I watched the rise of Katrin Krabbe..the most elegant sprinter ever...albeit short lived. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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learned to fly (PPL) and got into what was the start of 20 years skydiving, was also young enough and fit enough to enjoy the greatest sport on earth (Surfing)
today I enjoy travel, driving and motorcycles, and live on the fear that one day we will no longer be able to enjoy the freedom that the combustion engine gives us. |
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Putting things in perspective, 30 years going back from 1990 to 1960 there is a huge difference. 1990 to now, not much so. Even how people talk and interact with each other...not much change from what I can remember when comparing to 1990. But 1960, definately yes. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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Up to November 1990 - I was 25, single, a shift leader for a telecoms company.
Probably had the largest disposable income I've ever had, living life to the full, able to do what I want when I wanted - can't remember what gigs (apart from The Blow Monkeys) but went to a few, Italia 90, still going to White Hart Lane regularly and generally happy.
Then November that year I got a mortgage and got together with what was to become my ex-wife (and thorn in my side for years to come) and life was never the same again
In 30 years from now? If I'm still here (which I doubt) I'll be looking back at a life wondering how it could have been better probably |
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I was 9 years old, the parks was bustling with kids playing out and scuffing their knees, now the parks are deserted or full of kids drinking and doing drugs after dark...sad times |
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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago
All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest |
14 and had started high school. Rap was going mainstream; MC hammer, Vanilla Ice, Young MC were all big. Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Beverley Hills 90210 were the shows everyone in school was watching. People used pagers! Landline was monopolized for chatting with friends and planning where to go hang out. No social media! No woke, PC or SJW bullshit to worry about. MTV was huge! Ahh, yes I remember it well. Good times |
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I became a teenager that year, and it's when I really started to discover music and develop my own tastes, rather than just listening to whatever was in the charts...although I discovered recently that I still know all the words to Ice Ice Baby |
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"I try not to dwell on the future. I suspect it's going to be dire but I'm utterly powerless to stop it.
I have a rad theory if you ant to hear it?
Bit long winded though.
S"
Sure, why not.
My basic stance is that those who can change anything are too selfish and short sighted to even give a shit about their children or grandchildren let alone the rest of us. I can do the best I can, but when I think it was 70% of global carbon emissions are from six companies, me as one of however many billion peons can cause no noticeable impact. I do the best I can anyway.
I have no children, I would not inflict my sense of the future upon them, and if it all gets too much I'll take myself out. |
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"Taking ecstasy ..acid .. raving .shagging ..great times at 9 years old
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I mis-read the original post. Thought it was the 90's it refered to . 98 onwards for me  |
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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago
All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest |
"I became a teenager that year, and it's when I really started to discover music and develop my own tastes, rather than just listening to whatever was in the charts...although I discovered recently that I still know all the words to Ice Ice Baby "
And what's wrong with that? Even if the hair and clothes were a bit over the top |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
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"I try not to dwell on the future. I suspect it's going to be dire but I'm utterly powerless to stop it.
I have a rad theory if you ant to hear it?
Bit long winded though.
S
Sure, why not.
My basic stance is that those who can change anything are too selfish and short sighted to even give a shit about their children or grandchildren let alone the rest of us. I can do the best I can, but when I think it was 70% of global carbon emissions are from six companies, me as one of however many billion peons can cause no noticeable impact. I do the best I can anyway.
I have no children, I would not inflict my sense of the future upon them, and if it all gets too much I'll take myself out. "
We “Are” the issue with the climate, not what we leak out/produce. An estimated 1Billion on the planet in 1800, now 6.7Billion & increasing. My take is the planet will sneeze at some point & most of us will end up on the tissue in the bin.
My take on time is that it is all happening now, look at it like a giant almost never ending tightly wound slinky. Material things can only travel along their set path, the mind for some & ethereal things can travel across from one winding to the next or slightly back or forward along the slinky. In time terms say slight is a few hundred years.
Work on that & whether you have coffee/tea/juice today has already been decided. As has when you die etc. (Bit Matrixy I know) but if the Minds ethereal can jump across/forward/backwards it would explain ghosts, Deja Vu & dreams that seem to come true. Possibly UFO’s too who I’ve always seen as time travellers rather than space travellers.
A bit out there I know
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"I try not to dwell on the future. I suspect it's going to be dire but I'm utterly powerless to stop it.
I have a rad theory if you ant to hear it?
Bit long winded though.
S
Sure, why not.
My basic stance is that those who can change anything are too selfish and short sighted to even give a shit about their children or grandchildren let alone the rest of us. I can do the best I can, but when I think it was 70% of global carbon emissions are from six companies, me as one of however many billion peons can cause no noticeable impact. I do the best I can anyway.
I have no children, I would not inflict my sense of the future upon them, and if it all gets too much I'll take myself out.
We “Are” the issue with the climate, not what we leak out/produce. An estimated 1Billion on the planet in 1800, now 6.7Billion & increasing. My take is the planet will sneeze at some point & most of us will end up on the tissue in the bin.
My take on time is that it is all happening now, look at it like a giant almost never ending tightly wound slinky. Material things can only travel along their set path, the mind for some & ethereal things can travel across from one winding to the next or slightly back or forward along the slinky. In time terms say slight is a few hundred years.
Work on that & whether you have coffee/tea/juice today has already been decided. As has when you die etc. (Bit Matrixy I know) but if the Minds ethereal can jump across/forward/backwards it would explain ghosts, Deja Vu & dreams that seem to come true. Possibly UFO’s too who I’ve always seen as time travellers rather than space travellers.
A bit out there I know
S"
I have absolutely no idea what you mean. |
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
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"I try not to dwell on the future. I suspect it's going to be dire but I'm utterly powerless to stop it.
I have a rad theory if you ant to hear it?
Bit long winded though.
S
Sure, why not.
My basic stance is that those who can change anything are too selfish and short sighted to even give a shit about their children or grandchildren let alone the rest of us. I can do the best I can, but when I think it was 70% of global carbon emissions are from six companies, me as one of however many billion peons can cause no noticeable impact. I do the best I can anyway.
I have no children, I would not inflict my sense of the future upon them, and if it all gets too much I'll take myself out.
We “Are” the issue with the climate, not what we leak out/produce. An estimated 1Billion on the planet in 1800, now 6.7Billion & increasing. My take is the planet will sneeze at some point & most of us will end up on the tissue in the bin.
My take on time is that it is all happening now, look at it like a giant almost never ending tightly wound slinky. Material things can only travel along their set path, the mind for some & ethereal things can travel across from one winding to the next or slightly back or forward along the slinky. In time terms say slight is a few hundred years.
Work on that & whether you have coffee/tea/juice today has already been decided. As has when you die etc. (Bit Matrixy I know) but if the Minds ethereal can jump across/forward/backwards it would explain ghosts, Deja Vu & dreams that seem to come true. Possibly UFO’s too who I’ve always seen as time travellers rather than space travellers.
A bit out there I know
S
I have absolutely no idea what you mean. "
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"Is 30 years ago. 2050 is 30 years away.
What were you doing in 1990? How’s the world changed? Are you worried about the future? "
1990
I was working for M and S
I also had a full time job
Mobiles were not invented
Nor PC
Rubiks cube
Madonna was top of the flops
The poll tax riots
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Not a worry in the world still in school was playing computer games via tape on C64 tho my school friends had an amiga 500.
Listening to the top 40 on radio one making a mixtape whilst discovering the prodigy and dance music for the first time.
I had a massive crush for Sharon Stone and Erika Eleniak ! |
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By *os19Man
over a year ago
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"Is 30 years ago. 2050 is 30 years away.
What were you doing in 1990? How’s the world changed? Are you worried about the future?
1990
I was working for M and S
I also had a full time job
Mobiles were not invented
Nor PC
Rubiks cube
Madonna was top of the flops
The poll tax riots
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. I couldn’t then and still can’t now complete a Rubik’s cube |
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By *JohnMan
over a year ago
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In 1990 I was taking a 'break' from university. Lots of time spent hanging out with friends. It was the start of what only hindsight could transform into a good decade. At the time I was miserable.
I'm stubborn enough to still be around in 2050. If the trajectory of the last 30 years can be relied on to continue, I will be insufferably chilled and at peace with everything. You've been warned. |
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