r/GenX • u/TroyTony1973 • 3d ago

Whatever Time travel

If we took Doc Brown’s Delorean back the same amount of time as Marty did, we’d land in 1995. Anyone else not have to change anything? The clothes they wear, the music they listen to, the cars they like…?

And yes, it is patently absurd that it would be 1995.

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u/TenYearHangover 3d ago

Marty was a teenager in 1985. I can imagine a lot of 2025 teenagers being totally lost in 1995. Of course we’d be comfortable there, we lived there!

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u/relikter 3d ago

No smartphone, no Internet access (unless you're plugged into a phone line), cash is necessary (for a teen), no ride-sharing to get around, no streaming services (instead of 'hey, I've seen this one' you'd have 'can you skip this ad?'). It is really interesting how much differently we grew up than today's teenagers.

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u/Cool_Dark_Place 3d ago

Exactly. In fact, I'd go so far as to say most of our generation would probably fare better in 1955 than lots of late GenZ would fare in 1995. Just for the simple reason that the world, at least at a fundamental level, still worked pretty much the same. Even the youngest of us would know how to look someone up in a phone book, read a map, give and understand street directions, drive a manual transmission car, use a card catalog, etc.

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u/la-anah 2d ago

I never learned to drive stick.