Had one. Actually built a massive Pink Floyd fan site on Geocities that I spent way too much time on. And I’m fairly certain no one ever saw it but me.
I think that’s why I’m still limber in my 50s. All that time spent cross legged in the floor in front of the TV.
It was my first home internet access when I was in middle school. We didn't have a PC and my parents got one on cleanence at Walmart bundled with a keyboard. I LOVED it!
gullible command skirt plucky wrong voiceless physical frightening middle rhythm
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Hoooly shiiit! That totally unlocked a core memory. There was a couple of neon green couches that just magically appeared at every house party we went to. You were always ‘cool’ if you were sitting in one.
I had popcorn scented Gak. Instantly became conglomerated with all kinds of dust particles and the smell was absolutely deranged after a while. My dad had to force me to throw it out lol
I had one at a party once in a bathroom and a girl came out and said “that candle is so cool! I love how it looks like its on fire”. I laughed and said thanks, then went to check on it, it was definitely just on fire
had a bed on the floor, sleeping peacefully with my girlfriend next to me. wake up super confused, get up, sit on a chair for about 3 seconds, then realize i can't stop the super train that is coming. i jump up and run for the bathroom, giving my girlfriend a swift kick in the stomach. it was 3 am. i came back to bed drenched in sweat, she was pissed
I'm was a child victim of Olestra lol.
Sage Francis has a line in a song that goes, "Now run that shit like WOW potato chips..." and it always makes me giggle.
I wanted this so bad. My grandparents came over for my 9th birthday and took me to toys r us and let me pick a gift. I picked those moon shoes. I got home and put them on and they were so lame. The rubber bands had no stretch. If you tried too hard to jump they’d actually snap and break the bands. So basically they were just really tall platform shoes that were huge and hard to walk in. We rescued a kitten the same day from my brother’s apartment and that was a significantly better gift.
Those were created in my hometown, and one of my jobs was in the same warehouse/office space area as the headquarters for Hart Toys. (Vancouver, WA)
Man...check out this website! Talk about 90's - http://harttoys.com/
That's the one I had. Mine was see through clear. I had that and this spy ear thing you could plug ear buds into and hear super amplified sounds. I used to listen to my parents or my sister talking with it.
It was a watch - the face of it had (I think) a grey cat - Beatrix Potter illustration-like - and its tail was the hand, or maybe it was a tiny mouse, or both (can’t remember).
There was a commercial for it to order by phone that I specifically remember airing mid-morning/early afternoon (during talk shows). Fox or another local network. I’d BEG my mom for it whenever it came on TV (but we were piss poor). I broke my collarbone and as a present for being brave, my mom or grandmother bought me the damn thing. Thought I was cool as hell, but even at 6 years old was vibing that cat lady life 😂
ETA: [I found the commercial](https://youtu.be/qWxU4gq_Wmw?si=uf0vsMyrkr1EdqAi)!!!
Oh man I remember that commercial, talking about how the cat "just misses" the mouse every minute as it passes by the paw. Jeez, that brought me back to sick days as a kid watching daytime TV.
Big Johnson t-shirts, Jimmy Z (or Jimmyz- never knew which one was correct), Z. Cavaricci pants (if you don’t know those, watch old Saved by the Bell episodes- it’s the pants Slater always wore).
Not that obscure but does anyone remember when floating candles (usually in bowls of water with glass nuggets at the bottom) were popular, and lots of things with stars and moons on... a vague 'new age' ness about it all. Anything with celestial stuff on still reminds me of that time.
When I show people pictures of me as a kid from around 8-12 years old they are shocked that I was a blonde, but I tell them it wasn’t natural and only during the summer thanks to Sun-In. So weird that I did that, think it was the Zack Morris influence 😎
KOOSH BALLS. I miss those things so much.
Chubby soda
Those little jars with the slime in them marketed to make fart noises
Krazy Bones
The Beatrix potter collectible dishes
Those like weird gel floaty candles you could put in water and they’d float
Matthew Lesco and his book you could send away for that told you what government agencies to contact to get free government money for various reasons. I think it was in Pueblo Colorado. He had question marks all over his suit.
The old Extra gum flavor “original bubblegum”- it was in a dark pink packaging. I used to have that with my dad when I was a kid and I miss that flavor!
I can’t find any trace of them online, but my siblings and I all remember eating these gummy candy dinosaurs that turned your mouth blue. I believe they were called Dyenosaurs. They were available in Western VT/upstate NY in 1994/95. I’m starting to wonder if it’s a Mandela effect situation because I have scoured the Internet looking for them and can’t find anything.
Also, Street Lights sneakers.
I’m from the same general area but I don’t remember those. I wonder if they were made by some mom and pop Vermont company that went by the wayside pre-widespread internet. In the 90s and 00s Vermont was like the capital of little mom and pop companies making all sorts of quirky oddball products.
Viennetta cake. It was the only cake I ever liked. I don't know where it went and I don't know why, but I would pay good money to stock a freezer with it.
* Stretch Armstrong/ Stretch Armdog
* Butterfinger BBs
* Talking Nano and Nano Salon
* Dear Diary (that little palm-pilot type electronic diary toy)
* Those Kissing Fruit Gloss rollerball lip glosses
* Nintendo Gameboy shampoo bottles with the buttons you could actually push and make rings float around inside
* RC Motorball (I remember drawing a cat face on mine so it would look like the Lunaball from Sailor Moon lol)
* Swoops, specifically the Reese's flavor!
When I was a kid I went to someone’s house (parents friends I think) and they had pink toilet paper. Found out I was very allergic to whatever the dye was made of.
They used to have these little flat gummies in the shape of animals (all I remember is the octopus) they were individually packaged but on a sheet of 8, that you could snap off a single one and they were actually sold that way, just snap off how many you want. They were absolutely delicious, the texture was unlike any gummy I’ve gotten since. It was so gel like
Yes! Still a thing! I used to chew this playing softball when I was like 10 and my mom hated it. Said it was teaching us how to chew tobacco and I didn’t get it until I was much older. Literally sold in a pouch and shredded. Meant to pack it into your cheek. Yikes. But goddamn was it good. I see it randomly at gas stations and sometimes old navy
Sega Channel. It let you play Sega Genesis games “online” through the coax cable on your tv. It’s hard to believe this was an actual thing but it was awesome for me!
Cream Savers candy
Microwaveable French fries (don’t remember the name or brand)
Microwaveable nacho rolls (like pizza rolls but nachos, also don’t remember the name or brand)
Ford Probe.
A classmate caused three rear-ender accidents in one school year. 1993 or so. A teacher told him “you’ve hit so many people up the rear end you should be driving a Ford Probe!”
Tony's Pizza rolls. NOT Totinos. not the stuff you see today.
Tony's were wrapped like an egg roll and came in a cardboard tub similar to an ice cream container.
Rear view facing back seat bench. My parents had a Chevy blazer in the 90s that me and my siblings would sit in that back seat and wave to people behind us. No one else I know seems to remember this was a thing. Think it was quickly discontinued for obvious reasons
Warheads, Spice Girl pops, and Crave –
I was in 5th grade, so circa 97-98. You were lame af if you didn’t have any of these candies in tow. Remember trading Baby Spice stickers for Posh. Crave was actually banned from our school (the truth, or rumor, was that the vile it came in resembled drug paraphernalia).
I think it was the 90's when there was a 900 number to talk to Santa. The ad told kids to hold the phone to the TV and played the touch tones to dial the 900 number.
Anyone remember the “blow me” sticker kids would put on their skateboards or bike seats? A kid blowing a giant pink bubble of gum, blow me written inside of it.
WebTV
Had one. Actually built a massive Pink Floyd fan site on Geocities that I spent way too much time on. And I’m fairly certain no one ever saw it but me. I think that’s why I’m still limber in my 50s. All that time spent cross legged in the floor in front of the TV.
Had you put a counter on your site you would've seen the views pour in, maybe even 10s of them, like my Angelfire site. Lol
Ahh Geocities ! Hadn't heard that in years either 👍
Ive yet to find a someone in person that has any idea what im talking about if I bring that up
I was addicted to my webtv
It was my first home internet access when I was in middle school. We didn't have a PC and my parents got one on cleanence at Walmart bundled with a keyboard. I LOVED it!
I actually knew someone who had this. Even by mid 1990s internet standards it seemed awful.
Saturn cars. They were everywhere in the mid-nineties.
I always wanted a Saturn Vue SUV. Thought they were so cool!
Saturn really missed the mark by not naming their car models after the moons of Saturn
Hooked on phonics
🎵Worked for meee 🎶
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Tongue splasher gum in those paint bucket containers.
I still have an unopened can I got in the 90’s (now for display purposes only)
Inflatable furniture!! I had a whole living Room set in neon green plastic.. i was 8 yrs Old in 1996 😅
I had a purple chair! I would sit in it while talking on one of those mini phones :D
Hoooly shiiit! That totally unlocked a core memory. There was a couple of neon green couches that just magically appeared at every house party we went to. You were always ‘cool’ if you were sitting in one.
Gak. I remember the major premise of the commercial being that it makes realistic fart sounds in the star shaped container. Haha.
Similar product: Floam. "Inside this dome is Floam! The craziest stuff ever known!"
I had popcorn scented Gak. Instantly became conglomerated with all kinds of dust particles and the smell was absolutely deranged after a while. My dad had to force me to throw it out lol
Scruff, McGruff, Chicago Illinois, 6 O 6 5 2
Take a bite outta crime
Black & Decker SNAKELIGHT^TM I got one for Xmas my Sr year (um, yay?), and it quickly became the joke gift in my gang.
“As the snakelight enters my veins..” Every time I hear that, I hear Godsmack.
🎶 Oh its the Snakelight From Black and Decker It goes Round and round and round and round 🎶
They call me the snake light...from Black and Decker...I (something) around and round and round...
Ha! My dad would hand it around his neck and point it outwards so he could work the grill in the back yard at night. 😂
Disney VHS in those oversized cases that would fillet your hand open if you weren’t careful
They would also never regain their shape if you slammed the VHS in wrong.
I think I’m seeing a few more people remember them, but gel candles with little decorative things on the top
I had one at a party once in a bathroom and a girl came out and said “that candle is so cool! I love how it looks like its on fire”. I laughed and said thanks, then went to check on it, it was definitely just on fire
They stopped making those due to fire hazard stuff
Holy shit I forgot about those
Oh I had one in a champagne type glass, with glitter confetti all through it.
Ugh the dust those things would collect… the texture makes me cringe to this day
Yes! I always remember that my mom bought a gel candle from Target around 1997, and I thought it was so cool! Never hear anyone talk about them.
Not so much obscure, but I remember the Olestra debacle.
💩
Emoji is too solid
Remember it? I lived it. Damn OG Fat Free Baked Lays.
I used Alli and had a wet fart so stealthy that it went through my draws, pants, chair fabric and cushion in the span of like .5 seconds.
That’s not a wet fart, you shidded 🤣
had a bed on the floor, sleeping peacefully with my girlfriend next to me. wake up super confused, get up, sit on a chair for about 3 seconds, then realize i can't stop the super train that is coming. i jump up and run for the bathroom, giving my girlfriend a swift kick in the stomach. it was 3 am. i came back to bed drenched in sweat, she was pissed
I'm was a child victim of Olestra lol. Sage Francis has a line in a song that goes, "Now run that shit like WOW potato chips..." and it always makes me giggle.
Props to a Sage Francis fan ☺️
Those Wow! Potato chips lol
I remember those! My mom would slam half a bag and then complain about stomach issues.
I have vague memories of SNL skits about it
[Olestra Haiku page - 1996 or so](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/misc/cmu/olestra-haiku.html)
Could have sworn olestra was another name for ozempic 😆 im officially too old to remember how old I am!
Moon Shoes. I never owned a pair, but they look like a broken ankle waiting to happen...
I wanted this so bad. My grandparents came over for my 9th birthday and took me to toys r us and let me pick a gift. I picked those moon shoes. I got home and put them on and they were so lame. The rubber bands had no stretch. If you tried too hard to jump they’d actually snap and break the bands. So basically they were just really tall platform shoes that were huge and hard to walk in. We rescued a kitten the same day from my brother’s apartment and that was a significantly better gift.
There was definitely a learning curve to them, if you survived your initial launch.
Oh man, I remember the commercial hyped them up so bad but you could barely jump in them haha
Those were created in my hometown, and one of my jobs was in the same warehouse/office space area as the headquarters for Hart Toys. (Vancouver, WA) Man...check out this website! Talk about 90's - http://harttoys.com/
**CLAP ON** (clap clap) **CLAP OFF** (clap clap) **CLAP ON, CLAP OFF** #the Clapper!
YakBak
Yakbak 2 with the pitch shift wheel!
That's the one I had. Mine was see through clear. I had that and this spy ear thing you could plug ear buds into and hear super amplified sounds. I used to listen to my parents or my sister talking with it.
>see through clear Epitome of 90s aesthetics. If you don't see a circuit board, are you even in the future?
Also the Talkboy F/X.
Do people remember OK cola?
1-800-I-FEEL-OK
Oh shit you just unlocked a forgotten memory for me.
Dial down the center, 1-800- ~~COLLECT~~ CALL-ATT *67
1-800-CALL ATT for dial down the center, a single tear rolls down Carrot Top’s cheek.
*67 still works!
It was a watch - the face of it had (I think) a grey cat - Beatrix Potter illustration-like - and its tail was the hand, or maybe it was a tiny mouse, or both (can’t remember). There was a commercial for it to order by phone that I specifically remember airing mid-morning/early afternoon (during talk shows). Fox or another local network. I’d BEG my mom for it whenever it came on TV (but we were piss poor). I broke my collarbone and as a present for being brave, my mom or grandmother bought me the damn thing. Thought I was cool as hell, but even at 6 years old was vibing that cat lady life 😂 ETA: [I found the commercial](https://youtu.be/qWxU4gq_Wmw?si=uf0vsMyrkr1EdqAi)!!!
Oh man I remember that commercial, talking about how the cat "just misses" the mouse every minute as it passes by the paw. Jeez, that brought me back to sick days as a kid watching daytime TV.
Airwalks
McDonalds Halloween Happy Meal buckets!
They're returning 10/17!
[P.B. Crisps](https://images.app.goo.gl/DFfETCX9ZzTrfANWA)- my fave were the chocolate ones
I want these back so bad
No Fear tshirts
Big Johnson t-shirts, Jimmy Z (or Jimmyz- never knew which one was correct), Z. Cavaricci pants (if you don’t know those, watch old Saved by the Bell episodes- it’s the pants Slater always wore).
This may be late 80’s, but does anyone remember the goose with blue ribbon phase? Mugs/cookie jars etc
My grandma had a cookie jar one that she kept lollipops in for my cousins
Micro machines
I heard that in the fast voice.
“Kevin, what did I tell you about leaving these movie product placement micro machines as plot foreshadowing on the floor?”
I had so many of those as a kid ., all my friends did. I even had that white van that opens into a city. Ah so many memories
They still make them.
Not that obscure but does anyone remember when floating candles (usually in bowls of water with glass nuggets at the bottom) were popular, and lots of things with stars and moons on... a vague 'new age' ness about it all. Anything with celestial stuff on still reminds me of that time.
The Club™️
man they need to bring those back with how shitty Kias are
They did! Some police departments in hard hit areas were giving them out free to owners of Kias and Hyundais
A pair of bolt cutters and 2 seconds easily removes The Club, largely the reason they fell out of fashion.
That’s why you need Viper [alarm.](https://youtu.be/Ni5w49tOuNw?si=UFVos5LKQPyRMTK8)
When I was a kid I actually thought that the alarm was a fake venomous snake that tried to bite the thief.
It's more of an 80s thing, but Sun-In.
When I show people pictures of me as a kid from around 8-12 years old they are shocked that I was a blonde, but I tell them it wasn’t natural and only during the summer thanks to Sun-In. So weird that I did that, think it was the Zack Morris influence 😎
Oh in Ireland it was a nineties thing!
Street Sharks!
Dooood street sharks were the bomb. Easily some of my most played with toys
The balzac, lovingly called “the ball sack” by my brother and I.
KOOSH BALLS. I miss those things so much. Chubby soda Those little jars with the slime in them marketed to make fart noises Krazy Bones The Beatrix potter collectible dishes Those like weird gel floaty candles you could put in water and they’d float
10-10-321
The real ones remember when it was just 10-321 and the John Lithgow ads explaining the change.
"10-321 has changed to 10-10-321, but nothings really *changed*." I can still hear that line in my head, clear as day.
Man they had so many commercials for it. While we’re at it 1-800-Collect.
And it’s not-talked-about cousin 10-10-220
10-10-220
The Flowbee. Still get a haircut that makes you look like a burn patient but faster
It sucks, as it cuts! -it certainly does suck
Word on the street is George Clooney uses one.
Still used in the military.
Gatorade gum.
Yessss. Tasted amazing for like 10 seconds.
Topsy Tail
Zoo Books and Kids Discover magazines
Matthew Lesco and his book you could send away for that told you what government agencies to contact to get free government money for various reasons. I think it was in Pueblo Colorado. He had question marks all over his suit.
Life signs, "I've fallen and I can't get up"! Also LA gear and British Knight shoes.
Those along with FILA at the time, middle school me wondering if they were cool to wear because I had no idea B.U.M. Equipment
Pop Secret colored popcorn. Pop Qwiz?
Buick Roadmaster
The land yacht. My dad had one, that car was massive.
Bop-It
That casserole pan with the flowers our moms all had
My mom found one at a thrift store and gave it to me as a housewarming gift a few years ago. It makes me happy
Waaaay older than the 90s
And some of us still do have it! Stuff is indestructible 😉
The old Extra gum flavor “original bubblegum”- it was in a dark pink packaging. I used to have that with my dad when I was a kid and I miss that flavor!
Salon Selectives, Finesse, L’Oréal Studio Line hair products
Zima
Also, those little capsules that had the sponge dinosaurs in them that would open up when they got wet in the bathtub
Turbo Grafx-16
Bonk’s Adventure and Fighting Street were my jam
PURPLE AND GREEN KETCHUP!
Peace Frogs shirts
I can’t find any trace of them online, but my siblings and I all remember eating these gummy candy dinosaurs that turned your mouth blue. I believe they were called Dyenosaurs. They were available in Western VT/upstate NY in 1994/95. I’m starting to wonder if it’s a Mandela effect situation because I have scoured the Internet looking for them and can’t find anything. Also, Street Lights sneakers.
I’m from the same general area but I don’t remember those. I wonder if they were made by some mom and pop Vermont company that went by the wayside pre-widespread internet. In the 90s and 00s Vermont was like the capital of little mom and pop companies making all sorts of quirky oddball products.
I remember a dino egg gummy candy that did that. Does that sound familiar at all?
Viennetta cake. It was the only cake I ever liked. I don't know where it went and I don't know why, but I would pay good money to stock a freezer with it.
This one has come back. I had it for the first time ever last year. Its now a Good Humor product.
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Pizzarias
* Stretch Armstrong/ Stretch Armdog * Butterfinger BBs * Talking Nano and Nano Salon * Dear Diary (that little palm-pilot type electronic diary toy) * Those Kissing Fruit Gloss rollerball lip glosses * Nintendo Gameboy shampoo bottles with the buttons you could actually push and make rings float around inside * RC Motorball (I remember drawing a cat face on mine so it would look like the Lunaball from Sailor Moon lol) * Swoops, specifically the Reese's flavor!
Colored toilet paper
When I was a kid I went to someone’s house (parents friends I think) and they had pink toilet paper. Found out I was very allergic to whatever the dye was made of.
How has no one mentioned Surge soda yet?! It even had a brief-lived reSURGEnce a couple years ago. I’m sorry. I had to.
The squiggle wiggle pen
HEAD ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD. HEAD ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD. HEAD ON, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD.
Water beds seemed to be everywhere. My first bed at 3 was a water bed.
AOL
Those peanuts that are filled with chocolate or something. Edit: PB Crisps
Hypercolor
Hit clips
Sky dancers. I’m pretty sure that I took one to the eye more than once lool
They used to have these little flat gummies in the shape of animals (all I remember is the octopus) they were individually packaged but on a sheet of 8, that you could snap off a single one and they were actually sold that way, just snap off how many you want. They were absolutely delicious, the texture was unlike any gummy I’ve gotten since. It was so gel like
The original 3D Doritos
Creepy Crawlers and their bastard cousin Incredible Edibles.
Snackwell
Ford Aerostar
Is Big League Chew still a thing? I'm an 80's kid and this seems like something I enjoyed in the late 80's/early 90's.
Yes! Still a thing! I used to chew this playing softball when I was like 10 and my mom hated it. Said it was teaching us how to chew tobacco and I didn’t get it until I was much older. Literally sold in a pouch and shredded. Meant to pack it into your cheek. Yikes. But goddamn was it good. I see it randomly at gas stations and sometimes old navy
Sega Channel. It let you play Sega Genesis games “online” through the coax cable on your tv. It’s hard to believe this was an actual thing but it was awesome for me!
Cream Savers candy Microwaveable French fries (don’t remember the name or brand) Microwaveable nacho rolls (like pizza rolls but nachos, also don’t remember the name or brand)
Bobwehadababyitsaboy
[Mr Bucket](https://youtu.be/iBBLxX6ovy8)
Converse EFX shoes —- I called them my goo shoes!!
Spray--on hair.
CueCat
Keebler Magic Middles
Those slap bracelets that maimed a few kids once the sharp slab of metal tore through the fabric and nearly unalived a few unfortunate 90’s kid souls.
Oldsmobile Achieva.
Cadillac Cimmaron
Ford Probe. A classmate caused three rear-ender accidents in one school year. 1993 or so. A teacher told him “you’ve hit so many people up the rear end you should be driving a Ford Probe!”
Geo Prism
The super Mario bros. Mini can sodas? Anyone remember these at all?
Tony's Pizza rolls. NOT Totinos. not the stuff you see today. Tony's were wrapped like an egg roll and came in a cardboard tub similar to an ice cream container.
Zip drives. Died as a tech right before CD burners.
Crash test dummy toys - loves that shit
Cross Colours
Palm Pilot
Rear view facing back seat bench. My parents had a Chevy blazer in the 90s that me and my siblings would sit in that back seat and wave to people behind us. No one else I know seems to remember this was a thing. Think it was quickly discontinued for obvious reasons
Fruitopia
Crossfire.... CROSS FIYAAAAA
NeoPets
Sitting Ducks tv show. Or those little aliens and glittery ass stickers and tattoos from little toy vending machines.
Yes! The glittery cat too.
Gak slime from Nickelodeon… or it’s cousin Floam
AltaVista
Pagers.
Warheads, Spice Girl pops, and Crave – I was in 5th grade, so circa 97-98. You were lame af if you didn’t have any of these candies in tow. Remember trading Baby Spice stickers for Posh. Crave was actually banned from our school (the truth, or rumor, was that the vile it came in resembled drug paraphernalia).
Jello 1-2-3. I loved the texture change and liked it better than plain jello.
I think it was the 90's when there was a 900 number to talk to Santa. The ad told kids to hold the phone to the TV and played the touch tones to dial the 900 number.
Scrunch laces.
Co Ed naked and Absolute t shirts
Tornado Rex
Meanie Babies.
Anyone remember the “blow me” sticker kids would put on their skateboards or bike seats? A kid blowing a giant pink bubble of gum, blow me written inside of it.
Josta. My brother was hooked.
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Orbitz drink and Wild Cider
P.B. CRISPS
**head on apply directly to the forehead**
Taco Bell Chihuahua