We were the last group to grow up without the internet. My buddies and I rode our bikes everywhere, we played whiffle ball, got into mini adventures throughout the week. We just had to be home when the evening lights came on. Class of 1998 here, myself. Forever grateful to have grown up in the 90s !
Buying the video camera that shot this video was one of the best purchases I've ever made. I worked my butt off packing trailers at UPS after school for months to buy this then $2000 Canon camera. It was brand new at this time and I was a little hesitant to allow friends to run around with it but this video turned out great I think.
I am in complete awe by how genuine the interactions appear. Everything from the facial expressions to the mood. There’s pure joy in these people. This is coming from someone born after the 2000s, society has changed a lot.
There were two Americas. One before 2001 and the one after, although I always considered the 1990s to be a rather cynical time compared to the 70s and 80s.
There is a ton of high school videos like this posted on TH-cam. All of them were made before the year 2001 (9/11 to be the exact zeitgeist time marker) - viewers today yearning for the better days, I dub these videos to be a genre called "when America didn't suck".
Back when communication in school was face to face!!! When paper was paper!! No facebook friends , no twitter, no youtube , no virtual classes, no social distancing , no pandemic. It was you, your friends and a crush on her , books to return at end of year, heavy books, old and new faces each new year, it was Nintendo vs Sega . Going to the arcades to play Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. A not so distant era yet seems so different. Those that lived it know it was like that, we cannot stop technology and all its benefits having all the info in our hands, yet you see this vhs videos and of course you notice how happy young people were then! It was like that! This time machine called youtube is the window so we can see how simple life was.
This. This is what childhood is supposed to look like. Acting dumb, carefree, truly happy, silly, REAL-and nobody judged you. Noone cares about being cool, make up, what brand you're wearing, clothes, shoes what phone you have etc etc. Lucky to have grown up in the 90s. Best. Decade. EVER.
Wish I could have been at your school. All that you just said was a thing at my school. The “cliques” ran hard! Still remember the “popular” kids shunning the handicapped “friend” they had for four years on the last day of school. Class of 98
@@chicofromph33nix64 Of course not man. In those days even bullying was an integral part of growing up-barring of course a few extreme instances.If you look around today I'd say we need some bullying back lmao. Most of us had hand me downs and no-one really cared. Today its all Jordans and iPhones.
Angilberto9720 it will be nostalgic.. Although everything u do is recorded now.. Back then we didnt like being recoreded ...clearly kids got dumbed down as the years played out
Aww I was only 8 years old in the going into the 4th grade.. wow the fashion the hairstyle, the pre social media days.. man what a great time to be alive
Graduating this year- class of '23. COVID changes really screwed up a lot of our highschool experience. Half of freshman year was normal, with the second have being a complete mess and completely online. Sophomore year was 100% online. Junior year was mostly in-person, but with masks and minimal extracurricular activities. Two months of Junior year went back to online schooling. Senior year is my first full year of highschool, and I can't help but feel like I missed out. The following is my personal experience, going to school in the New England area of the US. I'd be curious to see if anybody else my age has had a similar or contrasting experience in HS. Even without the COVID difficulties, highschool is nothing like this anymore. At least at my school, there is no time between classes. We get 3 minutes to commute to the next room or we get marked as late. They don't even assign us lockers anymore, because we wouldn't have time to use them anyway. Hundreds of wasted blue metal boxes line the hallways for no purpose other than to make it look like a school. If I tried to film people like this to make a mini-documentary, it would not go over well. Forget meeting new people. Yes, there are clubs afterschool (all of them have extremely low participant numbers) but otherwise people basically just go through the motions and go home. There is no socializing with new people at lunch (20 minutes total to get to the cafeteria, wait in line, eat and get back to class) or before/after school on the outside campus. It'd be seen as weird if you went to sit with a group of people you don't know to try and get to know them in-person. Whenever people aren't actively talking to their existing friends or in class, they are glued to their phones. Its difficult to interact with people if you don't want to communicate through snapchat or text 90% of the time. I used to think that adults where idiots for suggesting that phones/technology was going to ruin us, but you where completely right. We do not have homeroom. We used to in middle school, but I guess they decided that it isn't needed anymore. I do miss it, and I think it was a great way to have some people who you saw daily and had no choice but to bond with. Also, all activity (grades, attendance, etc.) is online and updated live for our parents to see. Every single assignment is logged online in real-time so there is no chance of hiding a poor test grade from mom and dad. The internet makes it pretty easy to cheat on most assignments, so it just feels like all that matters is the little number that pops up on the computer screen next to the assignment name versus whether or not I'm actually learning something/having a good experience. The energy at sporting events is the only time that you get a glimpse of anything resembling school spirit/pride. The student section in the stands of football/basketball games does dress in school colors, chant, etc. Otherwise, there isn't really any sense of comradery in day-to-day interactions. I will say that the teachers are very nice, and will joke around/humor you much like those in this video. I've come to appreciate more and more of what they do for us. Half of the jokes made in this video would not fly outside out 'closed doors' (i.e, out of earshot of other people other than your friends). People take things much more personally, and feel obligated to report any little thing that makes them feel uncomfortable, even if it doesn't remotely include them. I have this odd feeling of nostalgia from watching this video, even though I didn't experience what these people did. I can't help but feel like I missed out on what highschool is supposed to be.
Very well written account of your unique experience! I graduated high school in 2015 and feel like during those 4 years was when this shift from old school to the era we see today was a lot more noticable. I remember making a twitter account my Freshman year (previously only used facebook for mostly family members), snapchat came out I think around my Sophomore year, at least that's when i remember getting into it with all of my friends (daily snap streaks used to be a big deal lol).. I got instagram my senior year of highscool, with vine also being popular briefly around this time. Overall I'm grateful in the sense that I feel I got somewhat of a balance between the old school way of the 90s/00s with some of the nuisances of technology and social media. I didn't feel my experience was entirely tainted by all of the technology, though i could see the early signs that bring us to what kids today are experiencing in their high schools. It was fun for us to have some of this new stuff that kids today probably take for granted, like GROUP TEXTS with your friends. I mean cmon, that was a game changer! I just checked to confirm , and it was 2013 when imessage first came out with group texts (my Sophomore year of HS). Then of course some not so fun memories like the general anxiety and paranoia about school shootings was something I vividly remember thinking about often through my years in high school. Comparing some of my experiences to yours just a few years later, I agree completely about how the extremely short transition period between classes was horrible. I still remember how often my friends scrambled to meet up and talk inbetween classes but it was so crowded in the hallways since all the classes let out at the same exact time, it led to MAJOR traffic issues for students moving 1 class to another. just imagine these big groups of friends all stopping in the middle of very crowded hallways to talk for maybe 2 minutes before the next class. If we had more time to chat we probably wouldn't have needed to be stopping and talking right there in the hallway outside of the classrooms. Same goes for Lunch, I think we had 40 minutes for lunch, which by my senior year of highschool meant that I would drive off-campus to pickup food with my friends. Even something fast like chipotle was nearly impossible to get without being late to your next class. 5 mins to find ur friends and head out to the parking lot, 10min drive to chipotle, 15min to wait in line (busy lines cuz multiple high schools in the area made lunch rush hectic) literally SHOVEL the food down my throat as fast as possible, 10min to drive back.... I was either late or dangerously speeding with multiple friends in the car to not be late, every single time. not proud of that ^ just the way it was. Another you mentioned was people taking things more personally today and reporting stuff thats not even relevant to them , which 100% happened while I was in school as well. We had an anonymous number you could text to report suspicious behavior to, and the amount of times that system was abused by students was insane. People falsely reporting others simply because they didnt like them, or because they thought it would be funny to see 10 cops and a K-9 show up and start searching someones car, stuff like that. I remember my school had a dodgeball event for charity with each class of students fielding 1 team of players. My team (the seniors) were brought into the main front office after our match, where the administrators and a few cops forced me and all of my friends to blow into breathalyzers to make sure we hadn't been drinking that evening, which none of us had. They claimed they "received an anonymous tip from a parent at the event" giving them probable enough cause to breathalyze all of us.. I was NOT thrilled about this experience. Anywho, Covid -19 really messed up my college graduation though, I graduated with my bachelor's in cinema studies in May of 2020 and it was wild how one week that March it went from normal classes to completely online in a matter of a single day. It was so abrupt that it was hard to adjust with only 2 months left until graduation. I never got to walk at graduation or any ceremony like that, though of course I'm just grateful to even have completed my degree and can walk away proud and fulfilled from that alone. also, bit of a side note, but another thing I found interesting from my time in film school was that my class of kids were the last ones to ever be taught the old school filmmaking methods of shooting on 8mm, 16mm , splicing and developing my own REAL film strips, bringing film to digital formats and vice versa. I feel this education I received was so unique considering all future students to this day are on a purely digital-based curriculum. They use iphones and DSLR cameras for all of their projects. Professors would tell me we are a dying breed and that its not useless knowledge, but that it will be considered outdated in a few years with the advent of all the technology. But hey, who knows, 50 years from now the world may call upon me as the last human alive who knows how to operate a steenbeck flatbed editor 😆
It's really difficult because you most likely didn't develop the social skills needed to make it in the real world. You have to work on developing those skills, learning to speak, learning to relate to others, etc. It's up to your generation to make the changes needed to save your own mental health. A new report from the CDC is showing that girls mental health is suffering (more than boys but both are suffering). You need to get out and interact with like minded people. IMO social media should be banned and smart phones should be illegal for anyone under 18. We need to act now before things are completely ruined. You did miss out a bit but in the bigger scope of things 4yrs of highschool is nothing. To me 4 yrs goes by in a blink of an eye. When I look back to the 4yrs of highschool it seems like those 4yrs took forever. I know it's hard to understand but will make sense when you get older. Don't waste too much times in video games like I did in my 20's. Build the foundation for a good life for yourself. And make sure to go out and enjoy life, when you get into your 30's like me you start to show signs of wear and tear, cracks in the knee, shoulder issues when benching...enjoy your 20's the best you can!
Thanks for sharing this. I graduated in 2000 and your account helps me understand that I’m not just some 40yo “grouch” that is claiming that things were better, but that something was actually lost along the way.
I was born in 82, graduated in 2000. I had the best childhood and teen years. All interactions were in person. Cell phones were blocky things for the rich only. The internet wasn't created until I was in high school, and then it was very primitive. Back then, we got home from school and rode our bikes to our friends house and hung out all afternoon. I pity kids in school today. It looks miserable. My generation, while we still hated school, we had an absolute blast. The 80s and 90s were the last great American decades. Its been down hill since 2000
I graduated in 1998 also but something a lot of people don't think about. In 1998 the internet was in it's infancy basically and there was a window of opportunity to make a lot of money online. The window was from about 98'-00' but you had to be aware of it not to mention all the other opportunities Gold was around $288 an ounce and silver was roughly $5 an ounce! Also some other things came up worth paying attention to such as $85 a share google stock in 04' ect. By the time you were in your 30's like today you could have been set as far as finances...if we had only known!
It's so nice to look at old videos. Although 1998 does bring back alot of bad memories for me and being a teenager wasn't so easy but time does heal and it's nice to see that other people were having a great time in 1998. I am happy It's in the past and 23 years later I an whole different person.
Barna, terrific! And notice everyone knew you! I never went to this school but you captured every emotion in this video. Of course at the time you couldn't have known its impact 20 years later. A true time capsule. Bravo!
I was born in 82, graduated 2000. I genuinely believe my generation was the last to live in the moment. Todays kids are so obsessed with recording everything and documenting everything on social media that they fail to appreciate the moment. For example, kids are so obsessed with taking pictures of a sunset that they dont just sit back, touch the grass and enjoy said sunset. My generation was the last to truly live.
I started grade 9 at this high school a few months later, in fall 98. Saw some old teachers and some familiar faces here. Thanks for posting this! The 90s ruled.
@@bane3991 Exactly. My family was lower middle-class and my Baby Boomer Dad didn't buy a family computer until November 2001 after Windows XP was released. The internet was more advanced by the turn of the Century.
Special moments, but a special time to be free for once in a school way of things, and especially to live the after school life of a great culture during the late 90s like south park, jerry springer, the monday night wars WWF vs WCW
You weren’t in my school and I don’t know you but thank you for this video! It is amazing, brings back so many memories of the best years. I hope you have achieved greatly in life!
This was the year I graduated! I remember rolling out of bed in the morning, throwing on whatever clothing was cleanest and baggiest, and heading out the door. Lmao.
All i wanted when I was young was to be older. I wish I knew how carefree life is when your younger. If I could go back, I would just worry less and LOVE more
Narcissism wasn't so rampant. People had normal social skills and didn't act like a jerk when you talk to them. Women were way less snobby. Men acted alive and full of personality, not cold and douchy, like they're too good to talk to you. Seems like after 2010, people started taking a turn for the worse.
I was born 8 years after this. That’s crazy. I wish I never grew up in a society that had cell phones and all of this new modern crap. I would’ve loved to have been a 90’s teen, bringing in a few people that I know from this time period.
@@ronhargrove1176 A lot of people had cellphones in the early 2000s. but they where not smart phones you could only use it to call and text and play snake .later on some had a very pixelated camera and internet access that didn't even work.
There is a ton of high school videos like this posted on TH-cam. All of them were made before the year 2001 (9/11 to be the exact zeitgeist time marker when the new dystopian era commenced) - viewers today yearning for the better days, I dub these videos to be a genre called "when America didn't suck".
ooh i remember the optimism when we entered the 2000's, the soviet gone, commies gone, the music is great, the movie is great, viva freedom, democracy, and such, then come george bush...
That's cool though, I'm european and school here is miserable at this time, even after covid, we always look up to American high schools because of the behavior of students and their personality, in America everyone is just more close and fond of eachother
lol it’s Jan 6 2021 and the school looks almost the exact same. We got a little bit of repaint in some classrooms, and the lockers got painted. New bleachers too! Coach Boyd (guy in the tartan shorts) is still here coaching football! We won the Senior and Junior Football Champs in 2019, the last season played since COVID hit! GO SAINTS!
Awwwwseme Retro Video Man 💯 As I wrote this it's coming on your 25th Anniversary of when this was shot & looks like you guys st Richview H.S. had a Alotta Fuuuun & No Phones taking srlgie after Selfie & Laptops everywhere, just everybody looking at each other & Laughing/Joking & just plain Interacting with each other. Where is Richview Located?.?.?. Alotta Great Looking Girls in that school & they all seemed really Cool & Down to Earth. Class of 1984 Pt. Loma Grad Here, San Diego Cali. 🌊⛱️🐬😎✌️
I graduated high school last year and I’ve always said I wanted to be a 90’s kid, I feel like I would’ve fit in perfectly within that time period, everyone is so narcissistic now and no one is wrong. When I was In high school it was so shit compared to this. Kids fought over stupid shit, relationships were shit, and I feel like no one really cared ab anything meaningful. Just a bunch of kids being hoes and f boys. One other thing I have to comment. I feel like ppl actually communicated back then. If someone felt a certain way ab someone, they would’ve let the other person know. Nowadays ppl try to hide their feelings for ppl and try to hint at shit.
Wow I was 6 years old when this was filmed. I didn’t even turn 7 til that November. So I was in Kindergarten when this was filmed. My brother was in 9th grade when this was filmed. So these kids are almost 40.
I graduated in 1998 at Scecina Memorial High School. It was a fun, but interesting time. My final two years kind of suck, because I was diagnosed with kidney disease. I was on peritoneal dialysis those two years.
@mysticstrider Scecina Memorial High School is on the eastside of Indianapolis, Indiana. I feel better now. I received a kidney transplant on December 23, 1998. I am going 24 years with my transplant.
Some of My fave one liners (can’t catch ‘em all bro lol) Tries to enter classroom: Uh oh, no electronic devices in here?” Some kid: “I got a pacemaker!” “On the count of 3, pull my finger..” “Please remove your hats, The Banana Peel is coming down..” everyone obliges 😅 “Don’t film me right now Barna, PLEASE” classic frantic drama teacher
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" Romans 3:23-24
An obviously outgoing and seemingly popular kid makes a video meeting and greeting other sociable kids, all of which either know his name or he knows theirs. This video isn't representative of what HS was like in the 90's for everyone, not by a long shot. Yes smartphones and social apps have changed things but I wouldn't say for the absolute worse like everyone else seems to think.
It def represented my highschool experience. I was neither popular nor a played a sport. I knew almost all the students I graduated with almost 900 students. I didn’t hang out with them all but knew there names and who they were. What a great time to be alive
We were the last group to grow up without the internet. My buddies and I rode our bikes everywhere, we played whiffle ball, got into mini adventures throughout the week. We just had to be home when the evening lights came on. Class of 1998 here, myself. Forever grateful to have grown up in the 90s !
Amen, Class of 96" here. The 90's were the perfect time to be a teenager.
i wish i went to high school in the 19's im going to be class of 2027
The interent was around in 1995.
Class of 98 too, and you described how it was word for word, such a magical time, miss it for sure........................................
Born 97 and childhood was exactly the same
Buying the video camera that shot this video was one of the best purchases I've ever made. I worked my butt off packing trailers at UPS after school for months to buy this then $2000 Canon camera. It was brand new at this time and I was a little hesitant to allow friends to run around with it but this video turned out great I think.
Now your old
Barna an abreviation of Barcelona, Spain.
Awesome dude
Bail out it’s bitch we all get old u dummy
How much did the camera cost?
And I wouldn’t have trusted others with it either
I am in complete awe by how genuine the interactions appear. Everything from the facial expressions to the mood. There’s pure joy in these people.
This is coming from someone born after the 2000s, society has changed a lot.
Nice vague gesturing.
There were two Americas. One before 2001 and the one after, although I always considered the 1990s to be a rather cynical time compared to the 70s and 80s.
@@garbandgulyberdimuhamedow4604 ?
There is a ton of high school videos like this posted on TH-cam. All of them were made before the year 2001 (9/11 to be the exact zeitgeist time marker) - viewers today yearning for the better days, I dub these videos to be a genre called "when America didn't suck".
I graduated in 2000. There was definitely more of a togetherness back in those days with your classmates then there is now.
Back when communication in school was face to face!!! When paper was paper!! No facebook friends , no twitter, no youtube , no virtual classes, no social distancing , no pandemic. It was you, your friends and a crush on her , books to return at end of year, heavy books, old and new faces each new year, it was Nintendo vs Sega . Going to the arcades to play Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. A not so distant era
yet seems so different. Those that lived it know it was like that, we cannot stop technology and all its benefits having all the info in our hands, yet you see this vhs videos and of course you notice how happy young people were then! It was like that! This time machine called youtube is the window so we can see how simple life was.
This. This is what childhood is supposed to look like. Acting dumb, carefree, truly happy, silly, REAL-and nobody judged you. Noone cares about being cool, make up, what brand you're wearing, clothes, shoes what phone you have etc etc. Lucky to have grown up in the 90s. Best. Decade. EVER.
Wish I could have been at your school. All that you just said was a thing at my school. The “cliques” ran hard! Still remember the “popular” kids shunning the handicapped “friend” they had for four years on the last day of school. Class of 98
I got bullied in 95 because my mom bought my clothes from Kmart... it wasn't all peaches and cream
@@chicofromph33nix64 Of course not man. In those days even bullying was an integral part of growing up-barring of course a few extreme instances.If you look around today I'd say we need some bullying back lmao. Most of us had hand me downs and no-one really cared. Today its all Jordans and iPhones.
Maybe I should record something this year while I'm 20 years old and then upload it in 2038 🤔
Angilberto9720 it will be nostalgic.. Although everything u do is recorded now.. Back then we didnt like being recoreded ...clearly kids got dumbed down as the years played out
Yeah we wont have that ill be 33 on 2031
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That's a good idea
I'd love to see it
What a great time travel back to the jaunty days! I really miss the 90s sometimes. Thank you so much for the upload!
Man, I wish I went to high school during the 90's. Seems like an awesome time
Or the 80's
Everyone looked a lot more natural
Aww I was only 8 years old in the going into the 4th grade.. wow the fashion the hairstyle, the pre social media days.. man what a great time to be alive
I was turning 8 that year! High school for me wasn't too different from this.
@@rocketdawg3000 same here, graduated in 08 from a butthole town in New Mexico. So the school and the kids looked outdated 😂
I was 10 years old going Into the 6th grade
Graduating this year- class of '23. COVID changes really screwed up a lot of our highschool experience. Half of freshman year was normal, with the second have being a complete mess and completely online. Sophomore year was 100% online. Junior year was mostly in-person, but with masks and minimal extracurricular activities. Two months of Junior year went back to online schooling. Senior year is my first full year of highschool, and I can't help but feel like I missed out.
The following is my personal experience, going to school in the New England area of the US. I'd be curious to see if anybody else my age has had a similar or contrasting experience in HS.
Even without the COVID difficulties, highschool is nothing like this anymore. At least at my school, there is no time between classes. We get 3 minutes to commute to the next room or we get marked as late. They don't even assign us lockers anymore, because we wouldn't have time to use them anyway. Hundreds of wasted blue metal boxes line the hallways for no purpose other than to make it look like a school.
If I tried to film people like this to make a mini-documentary, it would not go over well.
Forget meeting new people. Yes, there are clubs afterschool (all of them have extremely low participant numbers) but otherwise people basically just go through the motions and go home. There is no socializing with new people at lunch (20 minutes total to get to the cafeteria, wait in line, eat and get back to class) or before/after school on the outside campus. It'd be seen as weird if you went to sit with a group of people you don't know to try and get to know them in-person.
Whenever people aren't actively talking to their existing friends or in class, they are glued to their phones. Its difficult to interact with people if you don't want to communicate through snapchat or text 90% of the time. I used to think that adults where idiots for suggesting that phones/technology was going to ruin us, but you where completely right.
We do not have homeroom. We used to in middle school, but I guess they decided that it isn't needed anymore. I do miss it, and I think it was a great way to have some people who you saw daily and had no choice but to bond with.
Also, all activity (grades, attendance, etc.) is online and updated live for our parents to see. Every single assignment is logged online in real-time so there is no chance of hiding a poor test grade from mom and dad. The internet makes it pretty easy to cheat on most assignments, so it just feels like all that matters is the little number that pops up on the computer screen next to the assignment name versus whether or not I'm actually learning something/having a good experience.
The energy at sporting events is the only time that you get a glimpse of anything resembling school spirit/pride. The student section in the stands of football/basketball games does dress in school colors, chant, etc. Otherwise, there isn't really any sense of comradery in day-to-day interactions.
I will say that the teachers are very nice, and will joke around/humor you much like those in this video. I've come to appreciate more and more of what they do for us.
Half of the jokes made in this video would not fly outside out 'closed doors' (i.e, out of earshot of other people other than your friends). People take things much more personally, and feel obligated to report any little thing that makes them feel uncomfortable, even if it doesn't remotely include them.
I have this odd feeling of nostalgia from watching this video, even though I didn't experience what these people did. I can't help but feel like I missed out on what highschool is supposed to be.
Very well written account of your unique experience!
I graduated high school in 2015 and feel like during those 4 years was when this shift from old school to the era we see today was a lot more noticable. I remember making a twitter account my Freshman year (previously only used facebook for mostly family members), snapchat came out I think around my Sophomore year, at least that's when i remember getting into it with all of my friends (daily snap streaks used to be a big deal lol).. I got instagram my senior year of highscool, with vine also being popular briefly around this time.
Overall I'm grateful in the sense that I feel I got somewhat of a balance between the old school way of the 90s/00s with some of the nuisances of technology and social media. I didn't feel my experience was entirely tainted by all of the technology, though i could see the early signs that bring us to what kids today are experiencing in their high schools. It was fun for us to have some of this new stuff that kids today probably take for granted, like GROUP TEXTS with your friends. I mean cmon, that was a game changer! I just checked to confirm , and it was 2013 when imessage first came out with group texts (my Sophomore year of HS). Then of course some not so fun memories like the general anxiety and paranoia about school shootings was something I vividly remember thinking about often through my years in high school.
Comparing some of my experiences to yours just a few years later, I agree completely about how the extremely short transition period between classes was horrible. I still remember how often my friends scrambled to meet up and talk inbetween classes but it was so crowded in the hallways since all the classes let out at the same exact time, it led to MAJOR traffic issues for students moving 1 class to another. just imagine these big groups of friends all stopping in the middle of very crowded hallways to talk for maybe 2 minutes before the next class. If we had more time to chat we probably wouldn't have needed to be stopping and talking right there in the hallway outside of the classrooms. Same goes for Lunch, I think we had 40 minutes for lunch, which by my senior year of highschool meant that I would drive off-campus to pickup food with my friends.
Even something fast like chipotle was nearly impossible to get without being late to your next class. 5 mins to find ur friends and head out to the parking lot, 10min drive to chipotle, 15min to wait in line (busy lines cuz multiple high schools in the area made lunch rush hectic) literally SHOVEL the food down my throat as fast as possible, 10min to drive back.... I was either late or dangerously speeding with multiple friends in the car to not be late, every single time. not proud of that ^ just the way it was. Another you mentioned was people taking things more personally today and reporting stuff thats not even relevant to them , which 100% happened while I was in school as well.
We had an anonymous number you could text to report suspicious behavior to, and the amount of times that system was abused by students was insane. People falsely reporting others simply because they didnt like them, or because they thought it would be funny to see 10 cops and a K-9 show up and start searching someones car, stuff like that. I remember my school had a dodgeball event for charity with each class of students fielding 1 team of players. My team (the seniors) were brought into the main front office after our match, where the administrators and a few cops forced me and all of my friends to blow into breathalyzers to make sure we hadn't been drinking that evening, which none of us had. They claimed they "received an anonymous tip from a parent at the event" giving them probable enough cause to breathalyze all of us.. I was NOT thrilled about this experience.
Anywho, Covid -19 really messed up my college graduation though, I graduated with my bachelor's in cinema studies in May of 2020 and it was wild how one week that March it went from normal classes to completely online in a matter of a single day. It was so abrupt that it was hard to adjust with only 2 months left until graduation. I never got to walk at graduation or any ceremony like that, though of course I'm just grateful to even have completed my degree and can walk away proud and fulfilled from that alone. also, bit of a side note, but another thing I found interesting from my time in film school was that my class of kids were the last ones to ever be taught the old school filmmaking methods of shooting on 8mm, 16mm , splicing and developing my own REAL film strips, bringing film to digital formats and vice versa. I feel this education I received was so unique considering all future students to this day are on a purely digital-based curriculum. They use iphones and DSLR cameras for all of their projects. Professors would tell me we are a dying breed and that its not useless knowledge, but that it will be considered outdated in a few years with the advent of all the technology. But hey, who knows, 50 years from now the world may call upon me as the last human alive who knows how to operate a steenbeck flatbed editor 😆
It's really difficult because you most likely didn't develop the social skills needed to make it in the real world. You have to work on developing those skills, learning to speak, learning to relate to others, etc. It's up to your generation to make the changes needed to save your own mental health. A new report from the CDC is showing that girls mental health is suffering (more than boys but both are suffering). You need to get out and interact with like minded people. IMO social media should be banned and smart phones should be illegal for anyone under 18. We need to act now before things are completely ruined. You did miss out a bit but in the bigger scope of things 4yrs of highschool is nothing. To me 4 yrs goes by in a blink of an eye. When I look back to the 4yrs of highschool it seems like those 4yrs took forever. I know it's hard to understand but will make sense when you get older. Don't waste too much times in video games like I did in my 20's. Build the foundation for a good life for yourself. And make sure to go out and enjoy life, when you get into your 30's like me you start to show signs of wear and tear, cracks in the knee, shoulder issues when benching...enjoy your 20's the best you can!
Thanks for sharing this. I graduated in 2000 and your account helps me understand that I’m not just some 40yo “grouch” that is claiming that things were better, but that something was actually lost along the way.
I was born in 82, graduated in 2000. I had the best childhood and teen years. All interactions were in person. Cell phones were blocky things for the rich only. The internet wasn't created until I was in high school, and then it was very primitive.
Back then, we got home from school and rode our bikes to our friends house and hung out all afternoon.
I pity kids in school today. It looks miserable. My generation, while we still hated school, we had an absolute blast. The 80s and 90s were the last great American decades. Its been down hill since 2000
This text really describes how it looks nowadays. It makes me really sad. No communication face to face, everyone being on their phones every where
Ah the good old days when teenagers actually looked like teenagers.
Coolguy 387 teenagers are not supposed to look 30
who's saying teenagers don't look like them now? haha
I know right
Y’all looked like grown ass people back then
@ThatsWild that's mainly white teenagers 🤣🤣🤣
I graduated in 1998 also but something a lot of people don't think about. In 1998 the internet was in it's infancy basically and there was a window of opportunity to make a lot of money online. The window was from about 98'-00' but you had to be aware of it not to mention all the other opportunities Gold was around $288 an ounce and silver was roughly $5 an ounce! Also some other things came up worth paying attention to such as $85 a share google stock in 04' ect. By the time you were in your 30's like today you could have been set as far as finances...if we had only known!
I too graduated in the 90's (97) and your spot on about the internet, essentially it was a bunch of chat rooms and forums..
Nicely wrote sir
Don't be sad! We're going to die some day anyway!!!!🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲💔
It's so nice to look at old videos. Although 1998 does bring back alot of bad memories for me and being a teenager wasn't so easy but time does heal and it's nice to see that other people were having a great time in 1998. I am happy It's in the past and 23 years later I an whole different person.
Barna, terrific! And notice everyone knew you! I never went to this school but you captured every emotion in this video. Of course at the time you couldn't have known its impact 20 years later. A true time capsule. Bravo!
I was born in 82, graduated 2000. I genuinely believe my generation was the last to live in the moment. Todays kids are so obsessed with recording everything and documenting everything on social media that they fail to appreciate the moment.
For example, kids are so obsessed with taking pictures of a sunset that they dont just sit back, touch the grass and enjoy said sunset. My generation was the last to truly live.
I started grade 9 at this high school a few months later, in fall 98. Saw some old teachers and some familiar faces here. Thanks for posting this! The 90s ruled.
98 was a good year. Way before smartphone but we had our family desktop computers
@Enguarde yep, and 1999 ushered in Columbine. life before mass school shootings. maaaaaan
During this time I would say less than half the people even owned a desktop computer. I didn't get my 1st one until 2000.
@@bane3991 Exactly. My family was lower middle-class and my Baby Boomer Dad didn't buy a family computer until November 2001 after Windows XP was released. The internet was more advanced by the turn of the Century.
Special moments, but a special time to be free for once in a school way of things, and especially to live the after school life of a great culture during the late 90s like south park, jerry springer, the monday night wars WWF vs WCW
You weren’t in my school and I don’t know you but thank you for this video! It is amazing, brings back so many memories of the best years. I hope you have achieved greatly in life!
This was the year I graduated! I remember rolling out of bed in the morning, throwing on whatever clothing was cleanest and baggiest, and heading out the door. Lmao.
All i wanted when I was young was to be older. I wish I knew how carefree life is when your younger. If I could go back, I would just worry less and LOVE more
they say youth is wasted upon the young, to which i must also agree!
This is the year i was born. Awesome video
I loved the late 90s! 1998 is the year I started middle school.
I was 7 years old when this was made. Cant believe its been 20 years. Crazy.
Matthew Jay Evans I wasn’t even a thing when this was made and I wouldn’t be for another 4-5 years
Same here. I was 6 going on 7.
@@cordeliachase601 I was 5
How old does that make you?
I was just a little kid in the 90s, but damn they were the best days.
Narcissism wasn't so rampant. People had normal social skills and didn't act like a jerk when you talk to them. Women were way less snobby. Men acted alive and full of personality, not cold and douchy, like they're too good to talk to you. Seems like after 2010, people started taking a turn for the worse.
Glad I was born in 96
@@user-mm4kk9kv6s how is he being an incel only lames trying desperately to be cool use that term
@R You're going to make a fool of yourself. Stick with the topic or beat it!
@R projecting?
Wrong People are still like this
Coach Boyd is still here!
Hard to believe I was a toddler during this time and I don't even remember any time of my life when life looked like this
Best time to be a teenager. It was a completely different era, i wish i could go back 😢
I love the Coca Cola machine in the cafe. So many people all interacting with each other - no phones
I bet sometimes, some tears stream down your face when you watch this
Graduated in 2000 before safe spaces and facebook
Boy, you must have been the popular kid in high school.
He had quite the reputation with teachers though lolol
I was 11 months old June of 1998. Thanks for sharing :)
I wish that I was a teenager in the 90’s
I was a 2-year old toddler in June 1998 👶, proudly Canadian 💖🍁, i red this was in Toronto
Oh man I miss Mr Burnet! He was my all time favourite teacher!
I was born 8 years after this. That’s crazy. I wish I never grew up in a society that had cell phones and all of this new modern crap. I would’ve loved to have been a 90’s teen, bringing in a few people that I know from this time period.
If you were born in the late 90s like me cellphones weren’t used that frequently until like 2010s
people are tired of these woke types. "times" didn't change just people got stupider
@@ronhargrove1176 A lot of people had cellphones in the early 2000s. but they where not smart phones you could only use it to call and text and play snake .later on some had a very pixelated camera and internet access that didn't even work.
Way better and more ideal for fashion, makeup, hair, music, cars, and technology. Sigh.
The rest are debatable, but technology? Are you high?
Enguarde lmfao why did you copy and paste you’re unnecessary replies 💀
There is a ton of high school videos like this posted on TH-cam. All of them were made before the year 2001 (9/11 to be the exact zeitgeist time marker when the new dystopian era commenced) - viewers today yearning for the better days, I dub these videos to be a genre called "when America didn't suck".
ooh i remember the optimism when we entered the 2000's, the soviet gone, commies gone, the music is great, the movie is great, viva freedom, democracy, and such, then come george bush...
man i go to this school rn 💀 fckn wild seeing it in a time before i was even alive
Does it still kinda look the same ?
@@mpatientkitty I mean it’s quite literally identical
@@mpatientkitty even the computers are the same💀
That's cool though, I'm european and school here is miserable at this time, even after covid, we always look up to American high schools because of the behavior of students and their personality, in America everyone is just more close and fond of eachother
No phones was amazing. Kids / adults these days are robots staring at their screen. Pre-2009 it was all real life and interaction.
ok boomer you wrong
Yep, and nowadays a lot of kids are medicated and back then boys were boys and girls were girls
That sounds something what a player in fortnite would call someone in a game of fortnite lol..
lol it’s Jan 6 2021 and the school looks almost the exact same. We got a little bit of repaint in some classrooms, and the lockers got painted. New bleachers too! Coach Boyd (guy in the tartan shorts) is still here coaching football! We won the Senior and Junior Football Champs in 2019, the last season played since COVID hit!
GO SAINTS!
I graduated ‘98 fun times
@Enguarde I graduated in 98 and totally agree. I would even say 1992-1998.
late 90s to early 00s were the best time to be in this city for anybody
Omggg the Sarah Mclachlan “I will remember you” song that we all had at our graduations! 😄
Ours in 2000 was that Vitamin C Graduation song. God damn that song played a hundred times a day on local radio that spring.
Does anyone else wonder where they are now?
Probably on FB if you look them up. I tend to think the same things when I watch these. I was only 6 when this was filmed.
Cordelia Chase now u old
@@cordeliachase601 Bro only old people use facebook lol..
I love the comment about the planes! Man we woulda been best friends had I gone to school with you!
Awwwwseme Retro Video Man 💯 As I wrote this it's coming on your 25th Anniversary of when this was shot & looks like you guys st Richview H.S. had a Alotta Fuuuun & No Phones taking srlgie after Selfie & Laptops everywhere, just everybody looking at each other & Laughing/Joking & just plain Interacting with each other. Where is Richview Located?.?.?. Alotta Great Looking Girls in that school & they all seemed really Cool & Down to Earth. Class of 1984 Pt. Loma Grad Here, San Diego Cali. 🌊⛱️🐬😎✌️
can you believe video quality was like this until like 2008?
The fashion totally screams Late 90's. :)
yes!! Especially the chains! 😄
The PE Teacher randomly sporting a Scotland Away Jersey!! Class!!
I have 6 years old at that time, this times are gold, no smartphone and much more human contact.
All the students are not fat.... Teachers seem to be enjoying their jobs... What kind of world is this?
This old VHS school tapes so awesome. Better than new videos)))
Are you russian because of that )))
@@liqiz1755 nope. I'm estonian. But in my Ida-Virumaa mostly living the former russians
great video. watched it until the end.
Esse computador com Windows 98 chegou nas casas brasileiras mais humildes em 2000. Foi meu primeiro computador igualzinho rsrs saudades 😊😢
7:01 That’s me!!
I graduated high school last year and I’ve always said I wanted to be a 90’s kid, I feel like I would’ve fit in perfectly within that time period, everyone is so narcissistic now and no one is wrong. When I was In high school it was so shit compared to this. Kids fought over stupid shit, relationships were shit, and I feel like no one really cared ab anything meaningful. Just a bunch of kids being hoes and f boys. One other thing I have to comment. I feel like ppl actually communicated back then. If someone felt a certain way ab someone, they would’ve let the other person know. Nowadays ppl try to hide their feelings for ppl and try to hint at shit.
@@SDS-ee9js Kids/teens had "lack of freedom" in previous generations? What do you mean by that?
Wow I was 6 years old when this was filmed. I didn’t even turn 7 til that November. So I was in Kindergarten when this was filmed. My brother was in 9th grade when this was filmed. So these kids are almost 40.
An u your 30s
im currently in gr.11 and it was so much different back then
and that teacher mr. daniels died of a heart attack not to long after this video was taken
Oakville Center He was a great art teacher and a really cool guy. RIP Mr Daniels
😢
oh amn the stepehen king guy?? Thats awful!
Everybody seemed like such a good person
I would want to go to school in the mid 2000's.
Mid 2000s?? Really? I graduated in 07 so this is surprising to me
I dunno, after Columbine in 1999 and then 9/11 just a couple of years later, things got very weird and paranoid in high schools.
I was at the end of my freshman year in high school at the time in 1998.
Yeah it says that it in the title bud.
I graduated in 1998 at Scecina Memorial High School. It was a fun, but interesting time. My final two years kind of suck, because I was diagnosed with kidney disease. I was on peritoneal dialysis those two years.
@mysticstrider Scecina Memorial High School is on the eastside of Indianapolis, Indiana. I feel better now. I received a kidney transplant on December 23, 1998. I am going 24 years with my transplant.
@@kidney122398Glad that you are doing well 😊.
These people are the same age as me! Love this!
Thanks so much for sharing !!
Some of My fave one liners (can’t catch ‘em all bro lol)
Tries to enter classroom: Uh oh, no electronic devices in here?” Some kid: “I got a pacemaker!”
“On the count of 3, pull my finger..”
“Please remove your hats, The Banana Peel is coming down..” everyone obliges 😅
“Don’t film me right now Barna, PLEASE” classic frantic drama teacher
Lol my fave is “mainline coke”. Lol creepy teacher 😂
I was 28 years old at that time
First Responder1985 what were you doing
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus"
Romans 3:23-24
When i was 3 months old😭😭😭😭😭😻
An obviously outgoing and seemingly popular kid makes a video meeting and greeting other sociable kids, all of which either know his name or he knows theirs. This video isn't representative of what HS was like in the 90's for everyone, not by a long shot. Yes smartphones and social apps have changed things but I wouldn't say for the absolute worse like everyone else seems to think.
It def represented my highschool experience. I was neither popular nor a played a sport. I knew almost all the students I graduated with almost 900 students. I didn’t hang out with them all but knew there names and who they were. What a great time to be alive
talk to yourself. i went to HS in early 2000's and i knew everyone even if it was just their names. people were more socialized back then.
Exactly how it was for me
36:50 my man rolling weed
POV: it’s 2021 and we can now do this with a phone
Crazy.. the kids were prob around 17 or 18 if graduating ..now theyre like 42 yrs old wtf
Crazy to see videos of the year I was born
Damn that's the year I was born
TAZY i could be papi.
Steve Knight you're very welcome oh kind sir
Same
LOL
Same here june 1998
45:48 omg she is stunning
Barna you must find these people and filming again as a comparison.
I started 5th grade a few months after this.
Great era 90's they release many great games for PlayStation1 at that time 1998 😉👍
I was about 2 months old at the time.
you know its toronto when First Base - Love is Paradise is playing 14:30
Greg went home and cried
Is barna Sheldon Cooper....they both like trains and Startrek
graduated from here last year
At the time of this video no one was leading a second shameful life on their smartphone.
I finished ✅ my freshman year of high school 🏫 in the spring of 1998.
Me too!
cool is this in ontario
Oakville Center yuh, Toronto Ontario
These days kids sit and scroll through Instashit on their mobiles back then kids sit and read their books
oh how i hate my generation so much... i wish i was born back then
🤣🤣🤣
Aah..the days of good teachers!
I had no idea what high school life was like in 1998. I was just a toddler in pre-school.
Wait Richview had a duck pond? I go there now and there's no trace of the pond nor the ducks.
Wow, June 98, Mick Foley was getting ready to be thrown off the cell.
I had been 8 years old, back then.
-10 for me
that’s cool
52:28 oh snap its a real life Leon Kennedy from Resident evil 2, which took place in 1998.
omg, yeah just ad 30lbs of solid muscle and yup