watch the old sitcoms like step by step(SF/NYC) and roseanne/married with children(flyover country) and you'll get a rough idea. entertainment industry was marginally better, games were just starting to break out (16-bit/32-bit eras), there were counter-cultures such as goth and scenes. everything was cheaper, you could get a tank of gas on $20 and a pack of gum for... idunno, 50 cents i guess. weed was something you could only smoke if you were cool enough to know a guy who knows a guy or had a 'medical condition' and lived in california.
imo; social media ruined everything. now we just have an ugly gelatinous brown slurry of shit and piss and politics and mental illnesses....