90's Children Got The Best of Both Worlds

What’s it like to be a 90's kid now?

Well, for me being a 90's kid is basically being Hannah Montana; you get the best of both worlds: a world in which people are still getting to know technology, and a world where people’s lives revolve around technology. It’s getting to live in a world where gadgets are simply just a cool thing to have, not a necessity.

Imagine walking on a tightrope line where on one side, it’s a crowd of adults grasping the concept of technology, and on the other, it’s the side of millennials aka the kids born into technology– that’s what being a 90s kid is like. It’s being old, but not too old, and young but not too young. It’s knowing what the world was like before technology turned into an obsession and not just a cool topic.

It’s is being old enough to be able to say “When I was a child, we still played games outside with our neighbors until the sun went down” but it’s also being young enough to keep up with the trend, to know how a gadget works and what’s the latest slang words kids use these days.

It’s struggling to meet someone and having no means of contacting them, to simply just sending them a 3-letter text “wru?” Or from waking up early to watch your favorite TV program --- because admit it, our generation has the best TV shows --- to streaming series online.

It’s experiencing the struggle to learn all these new gadgets and eventually learning them like the back of your hand. From playing typing games to increase your speed in using the keyboard, to actually being able to type without looking on the keyboard.

It’s having to buy CDs so that you can listen to music on your Walkman to simply using iTunes or Spotify on your cellphones when you want to listen to music.

It’s blowing at cartridges of your Gameboy and playing Family Computer Video Games to simply downloading games and putting them on a memory card or downloading apps on your phone.

It’s watching the world change in an excruciatingly slow manner and being affected by its changes as well learning to adapt to it.

It’s simply growing up alongside technology --- from using discmans to iPods, from submitting floppy disks to emailing files or giving USBs to professors. We grew up with technology, learning how it works and using it to reach out to other people by voicing out opinions and expressions regarding social issues.

It’s contributing to change, whether it’s simply raising awareness of something more than that.

It’s being part of the change.

Being a 90's kid is cool for so many reasons. Sometimes it’s like being an outcast. You have the millennials who no longer play outside, instead of playing Barbie dolls or Transformers action figures they play games on their iPads. On the other side, you have the generation that only played outside or worked hard to go to school or some story that your parents told you a hundred times. You can say you’re young, but sadly you can also say that you’re old.

In one word, being a part of the 90s generation is… legendary.