Stuff that was great about the 90s: * Media: music and, in particular, movies were absolutely booming and innovating * Technology: every year you could do s

Stuff that was great about the 90s: * Media: music and, in particular, movies were absolutely booming and innovating * Technology: every year you could do something completely new with your PC. AOL one year. Then ICQ over the Internet the next. * Consumerism: flat screen TVs?! Amazing new products every year. Stuff that sucked about the 90s: * In Oregon, we had a small but noticable neo-Nazi movement. A local kid got stabbed for dressing wrong (pardon the phrase, but it exemplifies the time, "wigger"). * Race relations were terrible in many places, but the general population was blissfully ignorant. Take the Rodney King backlash, for example. * AIDs, as mentioned by many here. The reality is that it wouldn't really affect reasonably responsible heterosexuals, but it was drilled into us in school to the point that it traumatized a generation around sex. It may even be contributing to some of the anti-abortion sentiment we're currently seeing. * Life for many out-groups. A local lesbian couple had a firebomb thrown through their window. If you watch old political speeches, everyone was stoking fears of illegal immigration ("they took our jobs" as opposed to the Trump era "rapists and vermin" rhetoric). So, the objectively good part, I would say, is media and peace. Everything else boils down to blissful ignorance and largely depends on race, class, and geography.