I read a post once that decribed 90's kids as the generation of nostalgia, because so much technological advancement happened in such a rapid timeframe, when we were growing up, that we can clearly remember having technologies that are now obsolete.  Going from a corded huge ass phone to a small computer in your pocket, just within our formative years, is a major thing and it sparks a nostalgia for our seemly 'simpler' childhoods because so much rapid development makes it seem like it was a lot longer ago than it actually was.

Just add onto that, our childhood wasn't even technology based.  We grew up knowing of chalk, skateboards, jump rope, street hockey, playgrounds, butterfly collecting, etc.  Slowly technology took over our lives and now there are hardly kids playing outside in the summer.  We can clearly remember our childhood as it was and now we can see the clear line between it.  We were the generation right smack in the middle of it all.  Our parents were of non-tech and our children/young siblings will be all tech.

Not to mention, ours was the last generation that grew up with all those bright promises of "work hard, go to college, and you'll have a successful life," only to have those hopes abruptly dashed when the housing bubble burst.  Millennials have grown up expecting that disappointment, because for them, the problem has been there since Day One.

So 90's kids aren't just nostalgic... we're bitter.  And we ache for those days when we could still think that the world was boundless and full of the opportunities we were promised since the first day of kindergarten.