Personally, my favorite is the cyberpunk of the 90’s (I got news for you Tumblr kids. I was in college in the 90’s, I’ve been around for the entire cyberpunk movement). The photo above was taken in the 90’s and is pretty representative of the look of cyberpunk of that time.
To me, the 90’s were something like the 60’s to my parents’ generation. It was a time of a lot of social change. We knew it too. Where as the our parents were trying to silence self expression and imposing morals on the youth (which they’re still doing) they young people rebelled. The 90’s were ALL about anti establishment. Cyberpunk became more post apocalyptic but with technology rather than without.
Plus the explosion of computers into mainstream life mixing with the gritty grungy world… it was a cocktail of the now classic phrase, high tech low life. Cyberpunk was still about life on the fringes, but more dirty and rough… with computers! (And hackers)
And still, there was some mix from the 80’s that really did help hasten in the cyberpunk of the 90’s. Anyone who’s old enough will remember Max Headroom. Iconic of the 80’s, forgotten now :( Max Headroom was really a good precursor to the cyberpunk of the 90’s in a low res sort of way.
One of my favorites, and yes I will admit to it, is Tek Wars (The actual series) as the whole thing was so very cyberpunk, if a little cheesy, as was the movie hackers.
Those mentioned above took the gritty world that was influenced by grunge and married it with computers. Much like the original cyberpunk but the style was less polished, and the theme… fighting against the establishment (a very restrictive government that tried to control every aspect of our life). The fashion took tattered, torn, and brightly colored and combined it with gadgets! The point was to look like you’d scavenged your wardrobe from hand me downs and discarded (machinery and clothes).
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