/int/ - International

It was just funny. Before the internet, you wouldn't meet people who believe such nonsense unironically.

>>6522 America had conquered the world. Only plausible threats remaining were beyond the world or from within.

Because the Cold War ended, probably.

I think NWO conspiracies were entering mainstream (to a degree) at that time + Twin Peaks made hurrdurr themes cool

Aliens were always popular even before the 90s

>>6524 True. I remember that believing that something out there was normal, and every third person believed in some government conspiracy. I guess that the social and collective ridicule on the internet made people stop believing this shit?

>>6522 Because technology for spreading information got cheaper, but most factual access was still hidden and too difficult for the average user. I was on IRC in 1994, and using the internet in terms of website was hella difficult. There were no search engines to speak of, I'd ask on IRC where to go and what to look at, and it was all just hidden behind walls of text and on ephemeral IRC logs, etc. The internet itself was quite mystical to many people, because you just didn't know how it worked and who was "on the other side" I think it was a self-reinforcing thing. People were bored with their office jobs in the 90's, at the same time, grunge and counter culture became interesting, because everything else "on the surface" was just boring

>>6550 This. Even in the 50s and 60s. Lots of Sci-Fi stuff.

>>6667 In the 50s and 60s they thought they were going to find something in Mars on Venus. It must have been very kino and hopeful. "Just around the corner, please fund this space program with your tax, goy"

There weren't so many real conspiracies back then.

Scully was so fckn hot

I think it's because X Files got so big, it was the main late night TV thing people watched.

>>7111 Same's I literally had dreams where Scully was my gf in the past (and she was trying to save me from my involvement with a neo nazi italian girl)

>>7111 >>7227 Gillian Anderson is my waifu. >She had her nose pierced in the early 1980s and dyed her hair various colors. At that time, her favorite bands were Dead Kennedys and Skinny Puppy. Her high school classmates voted her as "Most Bizarre," "Class Clown," "Most Likely to go Bald" and "Most Likely to be Arrested." Fulfilling the last of these predictions, she was caught trying to jam the high school doors by filling their locks with glue on the eve of her graduation, for which she was arrested. She also sexually experimented with girls, but still preferred men. She considered herself somewhat promiscuous.

>>7236 You could probably impress her with your expertise on underground bands

>>6522 Back then it was fun. Now people kill you over stupid bullshit. The people are retarded, as Osho said.

>>7227 Scully's researching.

Wasn't it in the 90s that much glownigger shit came to light? Echelon, experimenting on their own citizens, etc?

>>7457 Echelon was only revealed in the early 2000s I believe As for the X-files: It was the same recept they use everytime. Make show about nerd shit. Put hot woman in show. Nerd love show cause they love woman. Examples: Myth busters Star Trek Stargate Y'all dun goofed

>>7459 >Myth busters Wasn't that just two dudes?

>>7460 And obviously the hot nerdy girl. dont hit on me guys

>>7459 It was leaked over and over again since the 70s, but was only confirmed in the 2000s, culminating with Snowden's leaks.

>>7457 When I was a kid in the 90s, one morning I turned the TV and non stop they there was a news about an alien visitor that entered in contact with the US. On the newspaper there was a photo of a general greeting an alien underneath a spaceship. Everyone was talking about this the whole day, but then when I went to sleep and woke the nest none remembered. I could draw the photo I saw of the general on the newspaper.

>>7459 A bit earlier, 'round '98.

>>7238 Sadly, she listens to fucking Coldplay and Kings of Leon now. Ugh...