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That's the number 10 East.co. There's this Russian saying about nostalgia that I thought was so brilliantly put the saying is the past is more unpredictable

than the future the past is more unpredictable than the future. Wild idea, but stick with me because I think there are so many modern examples of this.

On Instagram, I subscribe to a couple feeds that are devoted to nostalgia for the 1990s.

Now, I was a kid in the 1990s.

That was my era that I grew up in.

So these nostalgic posts that show 1990s commercials and sporting events and fashion trends. I love them. It just takes me right back to being a child in the 90s and I love them.

And it's so interesting when you read the comments section. back to being a child in the 90s and I love him.

And it's so interesting when you read the comments section

of these posts, because there's a lot of people who

also grew up in the 90s that comment on these posts,

and you see the same comment time and time again. The comment is, the late 1990s and the early 2000s were the best time to be alive.

And they say things like, oh, well, we had the internet, but we weren't

rotted by social media yet, and the world was so calm, and the economy was great, and everyone

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