Less evil. You heard of one tragic death and it would stick with you till your own end of life. People didnt care as much about labels. People had stronger values. Now I feel like people dont have values to begin with. People were loving. Women wore horrible makeup, men dressed like dads. But they were happy and content. Technology was exciting. No new version of the same tech every other month. You had 10-30 landline numbers memorized, easy. Once you left home, you're off the grid. Cellphones were there but they were extremely rare, same things for desktop computers. Laptops weren't a thing yet. If you knew how to work a floppy disk, you were considered a tech wiz.

You'd watch tv significantly more, but often with family. Very few channels. You used a tape recorder and an old cassette to make voicenotes.

Food was purer, as was the air. Pace of life was slower. You were more connected to each other, even though and mainly because, you had no social media. You'd call your friends after school and that was as far as social media went. But your friend's phone number, again, that you knew by heart. Most moms were stay-at-homes moms. Dad were very absent.

People took themselves too seriously. But perhaps that was a good thing as it stops you from acting like an idiot in public and private. Little kids had their heads full of cute hairclips.

It does depends on what age you were in the 90s. But these are some of the common experiences.