- The thing that tripped me out is that all these people,
they're so old now.
- The way that movies portray the '90s is actually pretty accurate.
- ♪ (rock intro) ♪
- (FBE) So, a ways back, a video went viral
where someone, when they were a teenager in the early '90s,
actually filmed a day in their life and put it out and you get
a small taste of what it was like to be around your age,
but in 1990.
- I saw this! I was like "Dang,
life is so much different!"
- It's gonna make me sad, because I'm gonna be like,
"I missed out." (laughs)
- I was only there for two years of it.
I didn't grow up in the '90s. I grew up in the 2000s.
- There was technology back then? Let's see what life was like
in the '90s.
- ♪ (Madonna music) ♪ (loud beeping)
- Oh my God, the music is so old.
- Oh, this is Madonna!
- This is VHS, I think. Yeah, I remember VHS tapes.
- The coke. I saw that and I was like,
"Everything is different."
- (newscaster) A deadly outbreak of measles is spreading...
- Measles?
- (newscaster) Plaguing 22 states from Illinois...
- That's terrible.
- (newscaster) The largest outbreak is in Southern California,
where 24 people, mostly youngsters, have died.
- That's so weird, 'cause it's like,
measles aren't even a thought for people my age.
- (newscaster) April the sixth, 1990.
- This seems very historical, but it was--
I was gonna say only 27 years ago, but that's a long time ago.
- (announcer) With Bryant Gumbel and Deborah Norville.
- Yeah, I don't know these hosts. These aren't my Today Show hosts.
- Nice Buick. Classic.
- Entering the whip. Probably didn't call
it whip back then.
- I love the style of the cars, they're just so boxy.
- (cameraman) Where's the volume, huh?
- Ew, all you listen to is the radio?
Is that what '90s kids do?
- (radio voice) Our nation's unemployment in March
down one tenth of a percent.
- That's weird picking up on all the little politics
of the '90s and stuff. Like unemployment
and things like that.
- (cameraman) What? Yeah. - Is that his high school?
- (cameraman) Smile. - People get all awkward
when they see the camera.
- Those people are so unused to cameras.
- Oh hey, hey, that's him.
- Is he wearing a trench coat?
- Ah, look at that old camera. It's awesome.
- Dang, that's crazy. You had to see it
through an eyepiece, huh?
- Dang, it's just like a normal school
with just different clothes.
- I can see the difference in fashion, but a lot of it's
coming back.
- Oh my God, time has gone by.
- The thing that tripped me out is that all these people,
they're so old now.
- A blackboard! That's weird.
I've nev-- (laughs)
- They're writing on chalkboards. We don't got chalkboards.
We got whiteboards now.
- Oh my God, look at the TVs. They're so boxed.
- Wow, are they rewinding tapes or fast forwarding?
- Isn't that when you have to reverse the whole tape
or whatever?
- (cameraman) Don't you think it's going a little fast?
- (laugh)
- The do-rag. I can't.
- Yeah, the hair is slightly different.
The clothes are kind of different.
- Dang, look at that hair!
- Yes, that hair.
- Oh, people are coming out of the '80s hair.
- (girl) Quit filming me, asshole.
- It's like the ancient vlogging. (laughs)
- The earrings and the hair.
- (girl) It will 'cause it came from my mouth.
- (boy) How much did that cost? - (cameraman) 750 bucks.
- 750 for his camera!?
- Back in the day, $750, it's a lot more.
- Dang, everything's different. It's crazy.
- That still exists. When you got cliques.
- (cameraman) A whole table full of beautiful girls right here.
- Aw, smooth.
- They get all shy when they see the camera.
- Why does everyone look so bored?
Do it for the vlog!
- (boy) Josh, we could break that thing, you know.
- (laughs)
- Oh, now you got the delinquent kids.
- Oh God. (boy) There's eight of us
and one of you. - (other boy) Let's jump him
and take it! Get after him.
- The guys have the longest hair ever.
- (cameraman) It is off. - Oh, shoot, okay.
They don't want to be recorded.
- The way that movies portray the '90s is actually pretty accurate.
- Man, school in the '90s seemed much more stereotypical
movie-style high school. There was actual cliques,
it still seemed like.
- (car honking) - Ah, the cars.
- (laughs)
- This still happens. This happened at my high school.
Everyone always frickin' honks in the parking lot
and I'm like, "Shut up!"
- Kids these days, or those days.
- That was weird seeing the school and seeing everyone
just walk and talk. No one was like this.
- People weren't really on their phones and stuff,
'cause if you walk around the halls now,
you're definitely gonna see at least ten, twenty people
on their phones.
- In present time, you never really think that where
you're living is that important until you look back on it.
So, he probably woke up one morning and was
kinda just like, "Oh, I'm gonna record my day,
'cause this will be cool to look back on."
And he did that and it came out really cool.
- (FBE) So, first of all, being a teen in 2017,
what are some of the first similarities, differences
you noticed as you watched this. - I feel like the way
the kids were hanging out is kind of the same
of how kids hang out today. Obviously, the style's
a lot different. The clothing, the hair, cars.
- There were fashion trends that I noticed
that we still use now. How they acted
around with their friends, I thought it was different.
I thought it was more conservative, I guess.
- The main thing that I noticed was how cliquey high school
seemed just back in the '90s.
I didn't think it was actually like that.
- People actually talk to one another.
I feel like nowadays, everybody's not talking through here,
but they talk in here and I feel like you're missing
so much in life.
- Recording is such a nonchalant thing nowadays.
In the '90s, though, people were kind of
getting mad at him for recording them.
Technology's really different, 'cause nowadays, you can
record just straight off of your phone.
Your phone does everything. You can get on the internet,
access social media, you can take photos and videos.
'90s, you had to have four different devices for that.
- (FBE) So, we showed you one video of a typical day
in the life of a '90s teenager, but there are many more
online and some of them are getting a lot of views.
- And that would probably be good for in the future, or now,
historians to use.
- (FBE) It seems that as of late that nostalgia's becoming
a big thing in entertainment, with shows like
the '80s based Stranger Things becoming the biggest thing on TV
and toys like '90s Tamagotchis coming back again.
Why do you think people seem to enjoy nostalgia so much?
- I feel like it's 'cause people are kinda just used to
how things are now and they kind of look back
at how simple things were back then, and it's like, when they watch it,
they kind of get joy in it.
- People are realizing that the '90s and the '80s were just better.
Back then, you didn't have the technology where people
usually just sit at home now, but you actually could go out
and talk to people. It's all about communication.
- It's a shock to realize how time has passed
and how we can look back and I think that's why
we should record, 'cause then we can look back.
- Even when you have kids' shows like that, your parents
can relate to it and be like, "Oh yeah, that's what we
used to do back in the day, when we were kids."
And it's just kind of cool to see my parents--
when I watch an older show, my parents will be like,
"Oh, I watched this while growing up."
- We almost got overwhelmed, because we had every iPhone
coming out every year. There's always a new laptop
coming out, always new equipment coming out, and I feel like
people got so overwhelmed that it's let's go back
to the simpler type of things.
- We are not getting the same fulfillment people were
ten years ago, so seeing "Oh, years ago,
this is what it was like." It's kind of cool to see.
I love being able to see on TV "Oh, this is what it was like."
and it's almost like I wish I had that.
- It's weird for me 'cause growing up, looking back
at the '70s and '60s, or periods of time where
my parents or uncles or grandparents grew up, you have--
it's like they already have this idea of that time period,
what they tell you about that time period,
but when it comes to the '80s and '90s, those still
aren't too far in the past for us, so it's like we're
still setting the tone of what we're gonna say
about those periods of time.
- (FBE) Think about it like this is 2017, we're looking back
at 1990, going the same jump the other direction,
what do you think that people are gonna look back on
the future and say "Whoa, they were doing that
in 2017?" - I feel like, 'cause right now
we think we're so advanced, but I think they're gonna
look back and they're like, "Wow, look at that iPhone.
It's so old."
- People are gonna look back at all our iPhones, maybe
hipster culture. We're probably gonna see
a lot of meme costumes.
- YouTube is gonna be a huge thing of like a "What the hell?"
We are shoving cinnamon down our throats at some point.
We're eating the world's hottest peppers.
We are making fools out of ourselves
for other people's entertainment and approval.
- Fine Bros, they're documenting all this and we're all growing,
and that's so cool. What the heck?
And everyone at Fine Bros wears totally different stuff
and has totally different personalities
and changes over time and I think that that's
a great way to document people of nowadays.
- (FBE) Finally, after talking about this a little bit more today,
do you enjoy the fact that you are a teenager today,
or would you prefer to be a teenager in the '90s.
- In some ways, both, but I think it'd be
a lot better living in the '90s.
- I'd wanna stay in the present. It's cool seeing how they
lived back then, but I'm really comfortable
in the way how things are right now.
- Yes, nostalgia's really cool. '80s and '90s had some great music,
but I really like being a teen in the 2010s just 'cause--
God, there's so much-- I really just appreciate
technology nowadays, 'cause I don't ever
take for granted how much information we can have
access to and stuff. Things are so much easier.
- I love this era, just because we have technology.
We can record at home and do a dance video at home
and send it to the world and that's one of
my favorite things about it is we can connect to people
from across the world.
- I'm glad to be a teenager now, because I feel like
the things that are happening with my generation,
we are gonna be a generation that is remembered for
being very progressive and being very open minded.
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