We’re now officially closer to 2050 than 2000, which goes to show how quickly a quarter of a century can go by.
Many of us are guilty of looking back at previous decades with rose-tinted glasses, but it’s hard to escape the feeling that life was generally better 20 or 30 years ago.
The 1990s, for example, are looked back on with great fondness - and for good reason.
This retro gallery captures those moments and other memorable occasions within Birmingham during the ‘90s, as well as showing what everyday life was like back then in the city.
Let us know your memories of the West Midlands in the ‘90s.
17. Coventry
A general view of the exterior and fans arriving at the game on the streets leading to Highfield Road, home of Coventry City Football Club before a Premier League match circa 1998 in Coventry | Hulton Archive
18. Hereford, 1996
While the British telephone company has decided to return to the traditional style of the old rounded telephone boxes, a local roadsweeper passes by the creation of sculptor David Mach 26 July | AFP via Getty Images