Was probably the best decade because the economy was changing. Nowadays people care more about when the next iphone, blackberry, or droid is coming out than improving the economy. This was back when video games added lots of new, creative and original things to them. Now all people want is the next Call of Duty and Halo. This was the time when network's like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network actually lived up to there names. Now there's all this teeny bopper crap on there.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)