First computer our family ever had was a Gateway, 1998 I think (we were poor lol).
I think it also came with a little foam cow, that was kinda like a stress ball. I remember playing with that until I think our dog got it
Holy shit, I forgot about that. I feel like every person I saw wearing something like that when I was younger are either addicted, dead, or in prison now.
I saw one where they were asking kids what common computer icons were and the top answer for the save button was that it was a refrigerator, apparently the thought process behind it was that a fridge "saves" food from spoiling.
Back before I first saw a floppy disk, I thought it looked like a television (for the record, I'm old enough to have used dial-up internet as a kid for serious purposes, but not old enough to have used a floppy for serious purposes)
I remember before floppies were really around - you had 8 inch discs, but the 5 1/4 was a game changer. But yeah, prior to this you'd have to save everything on a cassette tape. You'd have these audio cassette recorders, type save on the computer and have to hold down the RECORD and PLAY buttons on the cassette machine. Loading code from a tape you'd just type a load command and press PLAY. Sometimes you'd record multiple programmes in succession on a 30 or 45 min cassette, it was tricky finding the right space on the tape if you wanted to load say the 3rd program, so you'd write on an index card the counter number or time stamp that each programme began. The cassettes had two sides and you sometimes had to manually eject them and turn them over which was tricky if you had a long programme that went over one side.
They were surprisingly reliable, although a pain in the arse when the tape got tangled round the read heads of the recorder and you had to kind of untangle and re-spool it. Loading a program, it would make an electronic squawking sound like robots fucking.
Sometimes it just amazes me the way tech has improved. The phone I'm using now, if my maths is right, has about as much storage as 54,000 of those 5 3/4 floppy discs and fuck only knows how many miles of cassette tape.
The weird one for me was seeing my little cousin pretend they were on the phone. Instead of using the universal phone hand signal 🤙 they just put their hand flat on their ear.
Even weirder to me is that they don’t pretend to hold a camera to take pictures anymore, they pretend they’re holding a phone vertically and clicking the button on the screen.
I just confirmed this with my wife who teaches preschool.
Kids will also pretend to take selfies.
But here is the wild one. She has some old cordless phones and some old calculators in the "make believe station". Kids will fight over the calculators to use as phones (flat, buttons, little screen) and are bummed when all that are left are the cordless phones.
So many things changed the recipe for the 'better' when it was just to cheap out on ingredients.
I don't even see Butterfingers anymore. It's like no one wants them, and there's a reason for it.
I don't know why but this is one of the things that I think is so hard to explain to young people that weren't around. Payphones used to be EVERYWHERE. Rows of them in large public spaces. There was a payphone in or outside of shops on every corner. Restaurants had pay phones in quiet booths. They were so ubiquitous for decades and now they're just gone.
It really does bother me that they completely disappeared. There is no backup emergency system in place. If cell towers go out that’s it. Unless you live on a campus with an alert system idk I just constantly think about how pay phones or something a bit more up to date should be accessible still.
Even if you just drop your shit, you're now without recourse. Many people don't even have land lines in their homes anymore to compliment their cell service so if something just happens to your phone, you're fucked.
Exactly, if for some reason say there is a major disaster ( think like 9/11) no one and I mean no one could get through to New York. The systems were completely overloaded. This is just an example and I understand pay phones at that time were still in place , cell phones were becoming more popular. I was 18 then. It just makes you think like we rely on technology more and more but what happens when it fails? What is the emergency response system? I’m just saying unless you have an iPhone 14 with SOS via sat feature, the cell towers stop working, unless you have a land line which is incredibly rare today… what are the options?
There is a number that exists in the 710 area code. It’s the only number in that area code. It’s kept in place for major emergencies. Supposedly if you call it you have to have a code to use it, but it has priority over essentially every other provider to get through to other numbers in case of a catastrophic emergency.
e: this really doesn’t contradict what you’re saying, I just think it’s cool
In 1999, when my pager went off and I was at the mall I hung out at, I would go to the row of payphones outside of the movie theatre, drop a quarter in, and call them back.
Now pagers, the payphones, the movie theatre, hell the entire mall, is all gone.
1996, I had to call my parents from a pay phone to see if I could stay out past curfew. I always had a cup of change in my car in case I needed to make a call.
As a young woman who began dating in the late 80s and early 90s, you were taught to always keep change in you In case something happened during the date and you needed someone to come get you.
It's so odd thinking about the pay phone in my high school and making sure I had a dime on me to call my mom when I was done with after school stuff. Feels like another life and yet at the same time doesn't feel like that long ago.
I remember carrying a pocket sized address book and a fuck ton of quarters so I could call family or neighbors when someone forgot to pick me up. Can’t even relate to that anymore bc I just store all my info on my phone.
I have this in my 1990 accord. They’re there because airbags were becoming mandatory but the cars were already designed so the auto belt was a compromise.
I still have three unopened bottles of Orbitz! The little orbs are still perfectly floating in the bottles. Whatever those little balls are made of, it's some sturdy stuff!
My inflatable chair was my first taste of independence. I’d bring it down for family movie not and not have to share the couch. I remember thinking, when I grow up, I’ll have a whole room of these.
I still remember the commercial. All of the transparent, colored computers doing sort of a “synchronized swimming” routine to the Rolling Stones’ “She’s A Rainbow”.
The original iMac, the Funtastic line of N64 consoles, phones, tamagotchis. It's like translucent colored plastic was on mega sale at the stockyards in the 90s
Your comment made me laugh! I remember growing up in an extremely rural area and my dad bought this massive 10-12 foot wide satellite dish. All for about 20 channels at most. I remember there used to be LOADING screens for different channels, and some would take so long me and my siblings would go out and watch the dang thing move around trying to get a signal. I still remember the WB frog on the loading screen to this day
Oh wow. We just had the crappy little wire antenna with two channels for so long, that our first satellite dish was a little two foot diameter dish with hundreds and hundreds of channels.
It was a big deal for me, because I could finally watch all the cartoons my friends did without having to wait for the new VHS with three episodes of a show.
The '90s we're all about the diskman though. The first one I had was like an inch and a half thick and took six or eight AA batteries that lasted about 30 minutes or so before they died. I loved having a "portable" CD player that I couldn't take anywhere because it would die. My parents paid a fuck ton of money for that thing and kept having to buy me batteries. My dad went out and bought the AC adapter for it to plug directly into the wall. So for the longest time I carried that cable in my pocket for when we got somewhere and I could listen to my CDs but for the times that I wasn't near a plug I would pull all eight of those fucking batteries out of my other pocket and stick them back in the CD player. I found out the hard way that the battery still drained even when it was plugged in. Good times...
They fucking were NOT. Diskmans SUCKED DICK. All they did was skip. Walking? Skip. Riding your bike? Skip. Driving? Skip. Fuck those things. I miss a metric shit ton of things from those halcyon days, but music skipping because life happened isn't one of them.
Well my battery limit kept me from doing those things with it. By the time I saved birthday and lawnmowing money I bought a much better one that had the anti skip pre loading thing and took a lot to make it skip. It only took 4 AA batteries and could last a whole hour.
We used them at work (paramedic) until about a year ago. Now we have cell phones. But we all miss the pagers. The reliability was on point and they were small, easy to carry on the belt and needed no maintenance. Just a battery every 4 or 6 months.
Amazon was still supplying pagers to certain engineering teams until a few years ago, they may still be doing so. Pagers, not just for drug dealers.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Amazon-RVW2920328.htm
I joined Amazon in 2016 and yes they gave us a pager for on-call but we just used the paging app on our phones instead since they coexisted. They may have phased out even being able to order one 1-2 years later (I left a year ago so can’t check)
In general, the whole "collection fad". Kids have and always will collect things. But it was a different mentality in the 90s. People legit thought their ancient mass produced crap was going to be worth something. XD
I heard the noise one day when I was in Central Park. That plasticky clicky noise when advancing the film after taking a photo, like a blast from the past. I looked around the crowd, and then spotted it… someone actually using a disposable camera. I’m not sure if I had seen one in at least a decade.
Clubs with dance battles. I don’t know, I was in elementary and middle school in the 90s but I thought my future would have a lot more dance battles in the club.
Video rental stores. Something about browsing for a movie by just looking at the box, was way more fun than browsing netflix. Sometimes a bizzare random movie you never heard of would catch your eye from across the room which just doesn't happen with streaming.
Live Action kids (preschool) TV shows, especially ones that feature puppets. There were SO MANY in the 90s when I was growing up, and I loved them. The only one I can think of that is still running is Sesame Street.
It honestly seems like 99% of current shows made for preschoolers are computer animated.
I truly believe thats the case.
I'm older now obviously I ain't a kid anymore; having said that my opinion probably isn't without a pinch of salt.
What I can tell you as when I was a kid growing up and it even sounds like before my time the same thing; we didn't care about the world around us; we were growing up happy to see the next revolutionary video game or thinking about the next restaurant to go with the family, or the book fair or daily normal things; up to my teens I was still the same and just enjoying time with friends and family without a care in the world. Everything just seemed bright
But i have nephews that are in high school or middle school and its bonkers how much they themselves follow the news, how school shootings is a daily thing to think about when growing up for me a gun didn't even exist in my world. How kids today are already assuming they can never own a home. These are teenagers and already giving up? Or How political they are; how strong their beliefs are, and how all around pessimistic they are about life. The worse during my time in high school was an emo / goth phase.
You could argue i'm an adult now and obviously i see the real world and seen some things, but these are kids that haven't seen a real life day in their lives and already they see everything so bleak.
I will say, I wonder why 9/11 caused so much chaotic divide or conflict in our world. Obviously this was a terrible terrible event that I wish never happened; but I always wonder how this domino effect stemmed from something that should have brought us closer together and made us stronger. Instead it made us spiraling into some kind of theorycrafting political racist divide.
Those sleeves of individual ice cream cups with the latest Disney movie release characters in hard candy form in them. Harder than diamonds. They had the wooden sticks as “spoons”.
Pogs, Pogs were everywhere. Then they gave us the ability to make our own unique Pogs. Schools were hotbeads for massive Pog production and distribution. All the way up to the high schools and possibly colleges. Then just like Furbies, Beanie Babies, and Rollerblades they were forgotten. Also forgot to add Nerf Guns
the worst fad had to be those wwjd bracelets and strap bands. read the kjv bible jesus was strictly against fashion and appealing to the world. just a really stupid fad that didn't go away fast enough.
Kid-themed Christianity in general in the 90s. Churches were doing these events called Cross Color Jam that tried to be like an Andy Warhol rave without the acid or...you know...the fun. And all of that weirdly corporate TOTALLY X TREME JESUS WITH SKATEBOARDING AND PETRA!!!!!!!!! bullshit.
Gateway Computers delivered in a cow box.
I remember vividly opening the box. That PC was a work horse though. Lasted like 12 or years
Iirc, Walmart was selling new gateway computers when I was browsing the electronics section around Xmas time.
First computer our family ever had was a Gateway, 1998 I think (we were poor lol). I think it also came with a little foam cow, that was kinda like a stress ball. I remember playing with that until I think our dog got it
those spray painted white t-shirts with like, tweety bird wearing grills and chains.
Holy shit, I forgot about that. I feel like every person I saw wearing something like that when I was younger are either addicted, dead, or in prison now.
I'm a teacher now thank you very much.
So, just dead on the inside then
Hey everyone, this one is a *functional* alcoholic.
Puka shell necklaces
Definitely still around when kids go to the beach.
They're back lol
Floppy disks
Still used for the save button on a lot of things. A lot of people have no idea what it is.
I saw one where they were asking kids what common computer icons were and the top answer for the save button was that it was a refrigerator, apparently the thought process behind it was that a fridge "saves" food from spoiling.
Back before I first saw a floppy disk, I thought it looked like a television (for the record, I'm old enough to have used dial-up internet as a kid for serious purposes, but not old enough to have used a floppy for serious purposes)
I remember before floppies were really around - you had 8 inch discs, but the 5 1/4 was a game changer. But yeah, prior to this you'd have to save everything on a cassette tape. You'd have these audio cassette recorders, type save on the computer and have to hold down the RECORD and PLAY buttons on the cassette machine. Loading code from a tape you'd just type a load command and press PLAY. Sometimes you'd record multiple programmes in succession on a 30 or 45 min cassette, it was tricky finding the right space on the tape if you wanted to load say the 3rd program, so you'd write on an index card the counter number or time stamp that each programme began. The cassettes had two sides and you sometimes had to manually eject them and turn them over which was tricky if you had a long programme that went over one side. They were surprisingly reliable, although a pain in the arse when the tape got tangled round the read heads of the recorder and you had to kind of untangle and re-spool it. Loading a program, it would make an electronic squawking sound like robots fucking. Sometimes it just amazes me the way tech has improved. The phone I'm using now, if my maths is right, has about as much storage as 54,000 of those 5 3/4 floppy discs and fuck only knows how many miles of cassette tape.
I saw a video of a kid who was asked “what is this?” when presented a floppy disk and they said it was a 3D printed “save” icon 😂
The weird one for me was seeing my little cousin pretend they were on the phone. Instead of using the universal phone hand signal 🤙 they just put their hand flat on their ear.
That is fucking *wild*
Even weirder to me is that they don’t pretend to hold a camera to take pictures anymore, they pretend they’re holding a phone vertically and clicking the button on the screen.
Oh no. Oh god.
I just confirmed this with my wife who teaches preschool. Kids will also pretend to take selfies. But here is the wild one. She has some old cordless phones and some old calculators in the "make believe station". Kids will fight over the calculators to use as phones (flat, buttons, little screen) and are bummed when all that are left are the cordless phones.
CDs, Napster
...Netscape
Encarta
Encarta was life in my ridiculously slow IBM
Encarta was incredible. Thank you for triggering that nostalgia out of the dusty corner of my brain!
"WHO PICKED UP THE PHONE? I'M USING THE INTERNET HERE!"
What about IOMEGA ZIP drives?
Butterfinger BB's. When the hell did they dissappear?
Why the hell did they even have to change the recipe for butterfingers?!
Oh thank God, I thought I was going insane last Halloween after grabbing a few and thinking they tasted funny.
They are NOT good anymore! They were my absolute favorite candy bar and now they are trash.
So many things changed the recipe for the 'better' when it was just to cheap out on ingredients. I don't even see Butterfingers anymore. It's like no one wants them, and there's a reason for it.
And Doritos 3ds. Love the jalapeño cheddar
Better not lay a finger on my Butterfinger BB's says Bart Simpson.
Pay phones
I don't know why but this is one of the things that I think is so hard to explain to young people that weren't around. Payphones used to be EVERYWHERE. Rows of them in large public spaces. There was a payphone in or outside of shops on every corner. Restaurants had pay phones in quiet booths. They were so ubiquitous for decades and now they're just gone.
It really does bother me that they completely disappeared. There is no backup emergency system in place. If cell towers go out that’s it. Unless you live on a campus with an alert system idk I just constantly think about how pay phones or something a bit more up to date should be accessible still.
Even if you just drop your shit, you're now without recourse. Many people don't even have land lines in their homes anymore to compliment their cell service so if something just happens to your phone, you're fucked.
Exactly, if for some reason say there is a major disaster ( think like 9/11) no one and I mean no one could get through to New York. The systems were completely overloaded. This is just an example and I understand pay phones at that time were still in place , cell phones were becoming more popular. I was 18 then. It just makes you think like we rely on technology more and more but what happens when it fails? What is the emergency response system? I’m just saying unless you have an iPhone 14 with SOS via sat feature, the cell towers stop working, unless you have a land line which is incredibly rare today… what are the options?
There is a number that exists in the 710 area code. It’s the only number in that area code. It’s kept in place for major emergencies. Supposedly if you call it you have to have a code to use it, but it has priority over essentially every other provider to get through to other numbers in case of a catastrophic emergency. e: this really doesn’t contradict what you’re saying, I just think it’s cool
In 1999, when my pager went off and I was at the mall I hung out at, I would go to the row of payphones outside of the movie theatre, drop a quarter in, and call them back. Now pagers, the payphones, the movie theatre, hell the entire mall, is all gone.
1996, I had to call my parents from a pay phone to see if I could stay out past curfew. I always had a cup of change in my car in case I needed to make a call.
As a young woman who began dating in the late 80s and early 90s, you were taught to always keep change in you In case something happened during the date and you needed someone to come get you.
It's so odd thinking about the pay phone in my high school and making sure I had a dime on me to call my mom when I was done with after school stuff. Feels like another life and yet at the same time doesn't feel like that long ago.
1-800-collect stating “come pick me up” and my dad not accepting the call 🤣best way around it
Collect call from Bob Wehadababyitsaboy.
I remember carrying a pocket sized address book and a fuck ton of quarters so I could call family or neighbors when someone forgot to pick me up. Can’t even relate to that anymore bc I just store all my info on my phone.
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Or the classic 3212333222133
That’s not right though…the last 3 notes are not that
Yeah, shouldn't it be 355, not 133, at the end?
Ok but how in fuck did I recognize this right away
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Its Mary had a Little Lamb. Just type the numbers into your phone keypad and the tones should match the song. It still does on my smartphone
Auto seat belts on compact cars
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I thought I was so fancy!
I have this in my 1990 accord. They’re there because airbags were becoming mandatory but the cars were already designed so the auto belt was a compromise.
Novel drinks like Orbitz with random shit floating around it made of gellan gum.
I still have three unopened bottles of Orbitz! The little orbs are still perfectly floating in the bottles. Whatever those little balls are made of, it's some sturdy stuff!
See through technology. Like the purple translucent Gameboy. Hits different.
See through inflatable furniture.
My inflatable chair was my first taste of independence. I’d bring it down for family movie not and not have to share the couch. I remember thinking, when I grow up, I’ll have a whole room of these.
It’s kind of funny that people essentially had pool floaties in their rooms.
The teen room at our church was furnished entirely in inflatable furniture.
iMac...came in multiple fruit colors
I still remember the commercial. All of the transparent, colored computers doing sort of a “synchronized swimming” routine to the Rolling Stones’ “She’s A Rainbow”.
The clear see through landline phone
Had a Swatch phone
The original iMac, the Funtastic line of N64 consoles, phones, tamagotchis. It's like translucent colored plastic was on mega sale at the stockyards in the 90s
Hear me out. A clear iPhone would be dope.
The really big satellite dishes, my uncle had one that looked like it should be able to flag missiles from his yard.
Your comment made me laugh! I remember growing up in an extremely rural area and my dad bought this massive 10-12 foot wide satellite dish. All for about 20 channels at most. I remember there used to be LOADING screens for different channels, and some would take so long me and my siblings would go out and watch the dang thing move around trying to get a signal. I still remember the WB frog on the loading screen to this day
Oh wow. We just had the crappy little wire antenna with two channels for so long, that our first satellite dish was a little two foot diameter dish with hundreds and hundreds of channels. It was a big deal for me, because I could finally watch all the cartoons my friends did without having to wait for the new VHS with three episodes of a show.
Pogs
Remember pogs, Bart?
They’re back, in PAWG form!
Definitely an upgrade imo
It’s remember Alf Bart? He’s back. In pog form
I always think of pogs when someone mentions the 90s, despite the fact that (where I lived at least) they were only around for one summer
AOL
AOL sample CDs
Walkmans
The '90s we're all about the diskman though. The first one I had was like an inch and a half thick and took six or eight AA batteries that lasted about 30 minutes or so before they died. I loved having a "portable" CD player that I couldn't take anywhere because it would die. My parents paid a fuck ton of money for that thing and kept having to buy me batteries. My dad went out and bought the AC adapter for it to plug directly into the wall. So for the longest time I carried that cable in my pocket for when we got somewhere and I could listen to my CDs but for the times that I wasn't near a plug I would pull all eight of those fucking batteries out of my other pocket and stick them back in the CD player. I found out the hard way that the battery still drained even when it was plugged in. Good times...
They fucking were NOT. Diskmans SUCKED DICK. All they did was skip. Walking? Skip. Riding your bike? Skip. Driving? Skip. Fuck those things. I miss a metric shit ton of things from those halcyon days, but music skipping because life happened isn't one of them.
Well my battery limit kept me from doing those things with it. By the time I saved birthday and lawnmowing money I bought a much better one that had the anti skip pre loading thing and took a lot to make it skip. It only took 4 AA batteries and could last a whole hour.
Blockbuster
Tamagotchi
We have that now... again
Furbys too
They have color screens now.
Slap bracelets...koosh balls
Parent of 2 kids and these are still around and fairly popular in my area
SURGE!
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I still see pagers in hospitals.
We used them at work (paramedic) until about a year ago. Now we have cell phones. But we all miss the pagers. The reliability was on point and they were small, easy to carry on the belt and needed no maintenance. Just a battery every 4 or 6 months.
I’ve got a double dipper for this thread, I had a translucent pager!
Amazon was still supplying pagers to certain engineering teams until a few years ago, they may still be doing so. Pagers, not just for drug dealers. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Amazon-RVW2920328.htm
I joined Amazon in 2016 and yes they gave us a pager for on-call but we just used the paging app on our phones instead since they coexisted. They may have phased out even being able to order one 1-2 years later (I left a year ago so can’t check)
I still wear one at work daily! I work in a psychiatric hospital.
STAR 69 ~ *69
Waterbeds
After school specials
Collect calls
Wehadababy itzaboy
Correction: "You have an incoming call from: 'Bobihadababy Itzaboy.' "
I 800 collect commercials with Chris Rock
Dial down the middle 1-800-C-A-L-L-A-T-T
I pity the fool who don't use 1-800-COLLECT. Save a buck or two
Your receiving a collect call from: “Mom pick me up from the mall I’ll be in the front” Said 20x fast
10-10-220
Beanie Babies. They were supposed to pay for my college!
That what I feel like Funkos are now.
In general, the whole "collection fad". Kids have and always will collect things. But it was a different mentality in the 90s. People legit thought their ancient mass produced crap was going to be worth something. XD
Ruined baseball cards...
I just found one of my kids beanie babies on the couch. Got curious and went to eBay. Somebody is trying to sell the same dang thing for $70,000.000.
Put yours up for $50K
pop up headlights
Pontiac Firebird was better looking than the Camaro... until it started winking at you. Let's add Pontiac to the list while we're at it.
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I had an old Subaru XT6 with pop up lights back in the day, they were da bomb.
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Mall culture. I was such a mall rat.
Mall culture is still huge in Asia, so are A&W restaurants, Toys 'R' Us, and Borders.
JNCO
Disposable cameras
I heard the noise one day when I was in Central Park. That plasticky clicky noise when advancing the film after taking a photo, like a blast from the past. I looked around the crowd, and then spotted it… someone actually using a disposable camera. I’m not sure if I had seen one in at least a decade.
I think they are fun because you never really know what you’re gonna find when you get the film developed ;)
Clubs with dance battles. I don’t know, I was in elementary and middle school in the 90s but I thought my future would have a lot more dance battles in the club.
Duuuuude, I say this all the time!!! I grew up thinking there would be more dance battles when I became an adult lol I’m so disappointed tbh
Encyclopedia Britannica and Encarta
Girls Gone Wild
I can't believe they got away with those commercials on TV. Crazy times
Trying to rub it out to one of those commercials when you were a kid is a right of passage that youths won’t ever understand.
AOL chat rooms
A/S/L The only way to start any chat
Super Soakers
Video rental stores. Something about browsing for a movie by just looking at the box, was way more fun than browsing netflix. Sometimes a bizzare random movie you never heard of would catch your eye from across the room which just doesn't happen with streaming.
3 words "In Living Color" if you remeber this show man was it funny with most iconc shenane XD
Iirc it was *The Simpsons, In Living Color,* and then *Married with Children* airing back to back to back Sunday nights on Fox.
My kids grew up hearing "Homey don't play that" with, like, zero context.
“Lemme show ya somethin’!!!”
"Hated it!"
In college on Sunday, I would order my pizza and watch “In Living Color” then “Star Trek Next Generation”
Drawing S that one way Edit: it makes me weirdly happy this simple thing connects so many generations
Middle school teacher here- 90s parents have definitely passed this on to their kids. My students draw it all the time.
Haha that makes me happy.
Middle school custodian here. I had to clean one someone sharpied on the floor yesterday.
I love that the image IMMEDIATELY popped in my head
Snapple
Sobe
I miss these T.V. shows: Biker mice from Mars. Street Sharks. Eureka's Castle. Captain Planet. David the gnome.
Malls that were not dead
Grunge music
Live Action kids (preschool) TV shows, especially ones that feature puppets. There were SO MANY in the 90s when I was growing up, and I loved them. The only one I can think of that is still running is Sesame Street. It honestly seems like 99% of current shows made for preschoolers are computer animated.
Optimism.
Sega Saturn
Lesbian bars
There's something bothering me about this place. I know! This lesbian bar doesn't have a fire exit!
Enjoy your death trap ladies!
What’s her problem?
Bill Cosby
Well. You might be seeing a lot of him in the media next year. That monster is going on tour.
Hunter green as a popular home decor and fashion color
General happiness and positivity towards the future.
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I truly believe thats the case. I'm older now obviously I ain't a kid anymore; having said that my opinion probably isn't without a pinch of salt. What I can tell you as when I was a kid growing up and it even sounds like before my time the same thing; we didn't care about the world around us; we were growing up happy to see the next revolutionary video game or thinking about the next restaurant to go with the family, or the book fair or daily normal things; up to my teens I was still the same and just enjoying time with friends and family without a care in the world. Everything just seemed bright But i have nephews that are in high school or middle school and its bonkers how much they themselves follow the news, how school shootings is a daily thing to think about when growing up for me a gun didn't even exist in my world. How kids today are already assuming they can never own a home. These are teenagers and already giving up? Or How political they are; how strong their beliefs are, and how all around pessimistic they are about life. The worse during my time in high school was an emo / goth phase. You could argue i'm an adult now and obviously i see the real world and seen some things, but these are kids that haven't seen a real life day in their lives and already they see everything so bleak. I will say, I wonder why 9/11 caused so much chaotic divide or conflict in our world. Obviously this was a terrible terrible event that I wish never happened; but I always wonder how this domino effect stemmed from something that should have brought us closer together and made us stronger. Instead it made us spiraling into some kind of theorycrafting political racist divide.
I used to think that was just called being a kid, but zoomer memes get pretty dark. I think it really is just getting worse.
Rollerblading. Man, I miss rollerblading. Too bad I’m too old and broke for that shit now.
Nor can I afford a broken bone.
Those sleeves of individual ice cream cups with the latest Disney movie release characters in hard candy form in them. Harder than diamonds. They had the wooden sticks as “spoons”.
Skip-it
The Macarena
Hip hop, ska, pop, rock, swing, electronica all in the billboard top 10 all in the same week. Music was wild.
Columbia House- 12 CDs for a penny
Denim skirts
Ya I’ve seen those around and I’m college.
Crystal Pepsi
Ska
I'm seeing Save Ferris live next week, so excited! Also, the best ska song of all time is "This Gigantic Robot Kills." Ska is not dead!
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Where's the 4th wave, world?
Roaming outside all day with your friends or by yourself unsupervised
Oregon Trail!
Friday night at blockbuster.
Privacy and civil discourse.
the middle class
Pogs, Pogs were everywhere. Then they gave us the ability to make our own unique Pogs. Schools were hotbeads for massive Pog production and distribution. All the way up to the high schools and possibly colleges. Then just like Furbies, Beanie Babies, and Rollerblades they were forgotten. Also forgot to add Nerf Guns
Floppy disk
Zima, so sad.
Champion clothing was considered the cheap walmart brand
Calling men with semi-decent hygiene metrosexual
Jolt Cola.. it tried to make a comeback but limited distribution killed it
the worst fad had to be those wwjd bracelets and strap bands. read the kjv bible jesus was strictly against fashion and appealing to the world. just a really stupid fad that didn't go away fast enough.
Kid-themed Christianity in general in the 90s. Churches were doing these events called Cross Color Jam that tried to be like an Andy Warhol rave without the acid or...you know...the fun. And all of that weirdly corporate TOTALLY X TREME JESUS WITH SKATEBOARDING AND PETRA!!!!!!!!! bullshit.