I find it rather interesting that the very early 90's felt like a continuation of the 80's. Although, for me, it didn't wear off till about 94 I feel. In much the same way the very early 2000's felt like a continuation of the 90's. It seems that rather then a fresh start--beginning with the first digit of a new decade--a change is felt almost halfway through. Anyone else notice this?
The Nineties were very much a continuation of the Eighties until
Clueless dropped into theaters -- almost every expert and historian agrees that was when the 1990's found their unique voice; and many 90's kids will tell you that the times before and after
Clueless felt almost entirely different.
Clueless was almost solely responsible for 1990's pop culture as a whole, and despite being a film very much of its era, it's still relevant to today's culture.
Another good movie that documents the early to mid nineties was
Reality Bites, although it's nowhere near as lighthearted; a lot of people who graduated High School at the end of the 80's or early 90's will attest to the characters' struggles to make something of themselves in a rapidly changing world.
And in the 90's, change was the order of the day, happened constantly, and took effect rapidly.
I've often said that if I could rewrite my personal history, I'd move my birthday to 1975. I'd grow up and enjoy the awesome kid culture of the 80's (seriously, the 80's were a great time to be a kid and being born in '89, I missed all of it by
that. much.), go to school through the 1990's (avoiding a lot of the strife that faced young adults during that era) and enter the working class JUST AFTER the dotcom bubble exploded.
As it is, the world is much harder for me to get into no matter how many times I get my foot in the door. I feel like if I started life earlier, it might be... not easier but more practical to do.