I suspect we're around the same age, and similarly I wasn't really old enough to participate "culturally" in the 90s, but... It was clearly a very important time, for a number of reasons.

So much of the values we're still fighting over today, the cypherpunk ideals, both "cypher" and "punk" parts, were sort of crystallized in that time period. There was just something in the air.

I'm starting to think the rough period around ~2012-2015 was sort of similar. The Ron Paul rLOVEution, Cody Wilson, the slow atrophy of neoconservatism all contributed to a resurgence of a kind of cypherpunk ethos, albeit more culturally centered on the Right than the 90s wave was.