>Man! What a bunch of buttoned-down worker bees.
>Yeah; who needs that suit-and-tie crap? I write software in my underpants, and they still buy it, for $600K a pop.
Wtf Any Forums, was life really this easy for Gen-X'ers in the late-90's? You just wrote a little bit of software for a company and became an instant millionaire? How is it even possible to be poor if you grew up in the west and are at least 45 or so?
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Oh fuck I haven't thought about Mission Hill in years.
Simpsons died when Bill and Josh left
>Are you G-O-P, An-dy? The Repubs are cool, man! Let me tell you my philosophy vis-a-vis our conser-va-tive friends. I follow Marilyn Manson, but I obey... RUSH LIMBAUGH
Did Gen-X'ers really...?
This episode gave me an anxiety attack when it first came out knowing I couldn't approach such a life by the time they were my age. No middle class money to get me started in a timely manner. Then it turned out to be much worse then I imaged when I left high school in 2009.
The way the show portrayed it, a lot of Gen-X'ers were hitting it big in terms of their careers by their early/mid-20's:
No. Most developers were paid fairly regular salaries. Also savant devs that get a gorrillion for their startup or as contractors exist in even greater numbers today.
This meat is Kafkaesque.
>I need some condoms so I can make love to my lover. And don't smirk - they're for GAY SEX.
How did they get away with this on a CHILDREN'S cartoon, Any Forums?
Yes. That's the part that freaked me out. Just suddenly having something that people would want in my 20s.
>jewish protagonist gets the job because his friend fired two goyim
Ugh. You got me the EXPANSION PACK
I never knew any "conservative" goth, but some would probably be "nazis" by today's standards. In the 90s it was still acceptable to be anti-gay or slightly racist without any repercussions.
That’s what the .Com bubble was...
>CHILDREN'S cartoon,
It was an adult animated comedy
Did Gen-X'ers actually own electric organs back in the late-90's? Because those things look like a lot of fun.
The only time I saw these in person was in the mall and at churches.
I'm not an X but my grandmother had one of those electric organs, it was fun as shit when I was little, I would fuck with it for hours.
Yes. The dot.com bubble was insane. The boomers had no idea how the internet and computers worked so they bought up or threw a shitload of money at anyone who knew how to make even the most basic websites or programs on the off chance it became the next big thing. Then investors realized that these sites were basically never going to make profit and were just run like big ponzi schemes so the crash happened. Something similar is happening the media websites right now.
Was it on fox first? I think it went to adult swim right away so they could air this type of stuff
No, it was never that easy unless you already had the line in via nepotism in some way. Yea, there were a lot of tech illiterate people who just threw money at dot com bubbles, but the shit had already popped hard by the time this cartoon was around and was already more of a real estate bubble in focus.
Cartoons and tv shows in general, especially in the late 90's and early 2000's, played on the aspect of taking real life things but exaggerating the shit out of it for the plot for some reason, and generally, most people knew this and never took it seriously.
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