STYLECASTER
Most people have a healthy appreciation for nostalgia, but children of the ’90s seem to get all the attention. We’re always bringing back the ’90s and making lists like “80 Things You Only Remember If You Grew Up in the ’90s.” This probably has a lot to do with the fact that we?speaking as a product of the early ’90s myself?came of age with the fledgling internet (and dial-up modems) at our fingertips, so it’s only natural for us to all hop online and reminisce about “Doug” and Crazy Bones and the good, clean days before Mary-Kate and Ashley’s Fun Club ceased to be.
Recently I came across a piece in the New York Post titled “?90s culture was awful?and all the nostalgia is nonsense.” That’s a, uh, strong point of view. But what’s valid is the fact that for every period of time, there are a handful of things one might want to think twice about before ushering in a revival. A brief rundown of 20th century happenings we may not wish to relive, by decade:
1900s: Typhoid Mary
1910s: The sinking of the Titanic
1920s: Stock market crash
1930s: The Great Depression
1940s: World War II
1950s: Laika dies in space???
1960s: The Vietnam War
1970s: The Jonestown Massacre
1980s: Chernobyl
1990s: Body sprays

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