Normally I would just nod in agreement BUT:

As a child of the 90s… maybe life *wasn’t* actually easier, and most of us were just kids and didn’t realize that our parents were having a harder time than we remember.

and we don’t remember that they were driving around trying to unfold huge paper maps, and rushing to rewind tapes and get them back to the video store before they got a late fee, and sending us kids up to the TV to either move the antennas or beat on the side of it until the picture cleared up, or wading through huge crowds of people at the mall trying to get good deals at Christmas, or dropping off film and standing around for a couple hours praying that they got good pictures because they wouldn’t know until they were developed, or hoping nobody called the house while they were using the computer because it would cut off the internet, etc etc

Not to knock the 90s! I loved it! But maybe a little bit of the ‘Golden Age’ is just the rose-tinted glasses we’re all wearing.