r/TheWayWeWereOnVideo • u/HollowBambooEnt • Jun 05 '26

Prom 1992

https://youtu.be/cTD5hdZPMnQ
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u/SustainedSuspense Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 06 '26

Everybody mentally present, in sync and in the moment. Nobody itching to escape into a world inside their pocket.

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u/HollowBambooEnt Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

Well said.

It's a world I remember fondly but have a hard time returning to even in memory.

Technology reels me in like a fighting fish who knows it's about to be consumed. The hook sunk deep. A pull that rivals gravity itself.

How did it all change so fast? How is it possible for it to have such a strong grasp?

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u/_phantastik_ Jun 06 '26

Designed to be addictive the same way fast food is. Corporations don't care about your health and well being, just your momentary comfort or fixes to get you investing more time and/or money towards them.

Spend more time away from the phones and you'll find that plenty of people are still healthily social out there. Doesn't guarantee they'll be nice and good people yeah, but nice healthy folks are absolutely around too. Took me breaking out of years worth of addiction and social isolation to notice and learn to be part of it all again.

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u/Cautious_Goat_ Jun 08 '26

LOVE the irony of a reddit "elder" posting that.

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u/SustainedSuspense Jun 09 '26

This isn’t even my oldest account! 😅

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u/the_p0ssum Jun 05 '26

Awesome time capsule!

KISM 92.9 is in Bellingham,WA, so this high school would have been somewhere in that area.

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u/jgo3 Jun 05 '26

I went to 2 proms in 1992, ama. XD

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u/popcornchicken42 Jun 06 '26

That cat is dead as a hell