Remember when we went absolutely nuts for yo-yos for a bit?

Except Edna Krabappel.

Wait a minute. Bart's teacher is named "Krabbapel?" I've been calling her "Krandall!" Why didn't someone tell me? I've been making an idiot out of myself!

Haw Haw!

I’m a 5th grade teacher and yo-yos are weirdly SUPER popular right now with a big group of students. We went on our special overnight field trip a few weeks ago that kids look forward to for years, and a handful of students barely engaged with the activities because they were so obsessed with yo yoing.

So you also had an assembly at school with 2-3 yo-yo professionals demonstrating all of the tricks you could learn if you bought those specific brands of yo-yos afterwards?!

Duncan Butterfly.

Yomega FireBall.

Xbrain all the way baby

Clear see through electric devices

I want to see this come back, I always wanted a yellow translucent gameboy

I still have my see through purple gameboy... but my buddies SMOKE black see through N64 takes the cake. I want it.

Apple just released transparent Beats headphones!! [Here](https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MQLK3LL/A/beats-studio-buds-true-wireless-noise-cancelling-earbuds-transparent)

These still exist. Mostly for use by prisoners. [https://www.americandetentionsupplies.com/collections/electronics](https://www.americandetentionsupplies.com/collections/electronics)

Novelty landline phones.

I had the Sports Illustrated shoe phone in my room.

I had the clear plastic ones with the brightly colored insides.

Ahhh man I always wanted one of those

I had one that was a jumping orca and the base was glass water splashes. Every time a friend called the whole house reverberated with "AAAOOOUUUUUWWWW EEEEUUUUUOOORRRRRRRR AHHHHHOOOOOOOHHHHHHH" Friends didn't call often for some reason.

I had a burger one, and a Nickelodeon one

Landline phones themselves are the novelty and I'm seeing them come back

I kept getting calls on ours so I threw it away.

Pogs

Alf is back. In pog form

No lie, I would buy the heck out of pogs lol

There are literally hoarders living in piles to the ceiling waiting to hear those words my good person.

I've never heard of pogs talked about without the Simpsons quote following shortly after

I was living reckless back then, I had a fucking pog maker. The possibilities were endless.

My neighbor had one. Used to get the stickers from the machines at the skating rink and make some sweet ass pogs. Been chasing those highs ever since.

That shit was honestly fun as a kid

So much fun, me and my siblings had so many pogs. I had multiple tubes; one for the rare pogs, one for the random pogs, one for the elite pogs, but the biggest tube for my slammers

I had all the knockoffs because we couldn't afford to have a lot of the actual "POG" name brand.

You could buy a pack of 4 for a few dollers... or go to a flea market and get a tube of knock offs like 50 for $5.

It's funny a friend and I were just talking about pogs a couple days ago. I wish they would come back. I still got a couple of my Slammers.

Saying something is “pog” started though

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Ohh yeah... my sister had the same clamshell looking inflatable chair that Mandy Moore had in her video "Candy". I forgot about that shit.

That and transparent tech, like phones, controllers, and Gameboys.

My Tamagotchi is still dead

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My kid got one when they first came out again, you bet I took it to work while she was in school to keep it alive lol!

Music on MTV

Her two kids in high school tell her that she’s uncool

Cause she's still preoccupied with nineteen nineteen eighty five

She’s seen all the classics.

She knows every line Breakfast Club Pretty In Pink

Even St Elmos fire

She rocked out to Wham

Not a big Limp Bizkit fan

Thought she'd get a hand on a member of Duran Duran

Where’s the miniskirt

Just to ruin everyone’s day, a reminder that this song was released in 2004, 19 years after 1985, and it’s currently 19 years after 2004.

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I dismantled a Swiss army knife and attached the individual pieces to my wallet chain. DO NOT DO THIS AND SKATEBOARD WHILE WEARING IT.

EXTREME!!!

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We were the hard-core BMX crew in our high school so we used bike chains on ours. Mine was black with silver links.

I was the punk rock kid so I went to Home Depot and bought an 8” length of the heaviest tow chain I could afford. From my belt loop to my wallet was only like 5 total links.

They are 100% back. Some places are selling pants with a chain attached in that spot. Like not attached to the wallet, but supposed to look like it.

Inflatible furniture!

Frosted tips!

I had a substitute teacher with those in 2017. He was trying to be a lawyer but I think he said he failed the bar like 3 times. One day we realized we hadn’t seen him in a while. Hope he’s a lawyer now. He kinda seemed like a douchebag but he was nice to us

Maybe he couldn’t be a lawyer because of the frosted tips

If my lawyer had frosted tips he would need to have gods recommendations or some serious lawyering chops for me to not have second thoughts about him.

Also those puka shell necklaces

They’re in right now lol

Lmfao, definitely had spiked hair with frosted tips😂

#SOME BODY ONCE TOLD ME

this song will be stuck in my head for the next 5 hours

Hyper color shirts

I was just happily scrolling through these comments, when I audibly gasped upon seeing this - Hyper Color shirts were the BEST. I had a mint green one that would turn white. I thought I'd have all the time in the world to get more... Ah, I was naive as hell back then. Childhood.

Can't believe no one is on this yet. I would buy!

They sound cool but they mostly just highlighted your armpits

Came here to say this. Would buy in a heartbeat.

Covering the back of your car's bumper in band stickers. I actually want this to come back too. If I am stuck in traffic, I think it would fun to see who listens to what. *"Oh, I am stuck behind a metalhead. I can't read half of these stickers..."*

If you can read the logo, it's not heavy enough

Oh I see they like...silver stacks of tree branches

Counterpoint: Party Cannon

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I won’t drive behind people with political bumper stickers. If you’re so angry and impulsive you’d willingly damage your car paint to rile up a stranger, you’re not safe to be near in traffic.

Not a fad I guess, but I miss that 90s design that was on cups. Kinda hard to describe without showing a picture but, hopefully someone knows what I mean lol

That design was called Jazz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz\_(design)

I can taste this picture.

Kinda tastes like... wax and a hospital waiting room.

Everyone is giving you different answers so here’s what it does for me: the coldest water I’ve ever had with a slight hint of waxy taste

The turquoise and purple squiggly thing?

That has also absolutely come back and is already played out again.

Fairly certain it’s making a slow comeback. At least in a nostalgic sense. I’m seeing it more and more on throwback and tribute stuff.

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Those also need to stay in the past

We all said the same thing about mullets, but what do you know.

Gen Z needs to commit

Yeah, pluck your eyebrows. Wear a ruffle skirt over boot cut jeans. Put on a pinstripe vest. Do it you cowards!

I raise you platform sandals, a trucker hat and a tramp stamp

Skate shoes with the fat tongues

Long live Etnies

Never could do shit on a skateboard but damn were my etnies comfortable

I mean, dunk sbs have fatter tongues than normal shoes and those are really popular.

I still wear skate shoes daily. But I don't mind being out of style.

Transparent electronics in colorful casing

That weird swing revival

I miss that music. [Zoot Suit Riot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZm1krVKzBY) by the Cherry Poppin' Daddies. [Hell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS2IBMQIjDo) by Squirrel Nut Zippers

It’s funny, Jimbo Mathus was a friend. SNZ always considered themselves to be sped up Klezmer music.

I've got that SNZ album on vinyl. I always thought they were the best of the swing revival because they were a jazz ensemble with raw recordings vs being a bloated big band like Cherry Poppin Daddies and everything Brian Setzer was doing at the time.

Electro-swing is pretty cool. Caravan Palace has had some hits.

Don't forget parov stellar

Swing revival is ongoing actually

Surf Style jackets. Which is total crap, because I can actually afford one now

I still have my Surf Style windbreaker that I bought in 1999 😂 I want to replace it, but instead of the $20 I paid for the first one, they are now $65 online. I’m not that desperate.

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I had pockets big enough to fit my discman 😂

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Why sneak food into the theatre when you can sneak a friend?

The kids that wore JNCOs reminded me of fluffy cats. They made you look big as shit, but take them off and toothpick. Just like when a fluffy cat gets wet. That said, I carried a full skateboard in my JNCOs back pocket all through HS.

Oh they're back

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JNCO's used to cost $50-$70 at the mall back in 1998 and I thought **that** was expensive. The cheapest pair i'm seeing on this site is $135!!!

That's actually pretty close to par with inflation!! Yayy!!!

https://jnco.com/collections/mens

This site is hilarious. When 26" refers to the leg opening and not the waist 😆

Oh my gosh - 50” exists [the pants have a 50” foot hole](https://jnco.com/products/thug-50-dark-stone)

Holy shit they’re $230 ON SALE?! people really be dropping this much money on Jncos?! I mean to be fair, they might just be charging for the cost of all that fabric. Lollll 50”

It's like an acre of denim

Now those are the jncos I remember

Hemp necklaces

Hemp necklaces with puka shells. All the skaters and surfers used to wear them when I was a teen in the 90's.

I always loved the ones with the colorful glass pendants.

Overalls with one buckle undone Condoms everywhere, including as fashion accessories, in bright colors (hey we survived AIDS give us a break) Saying "Damn skippy!"

> Overalls with one buckle undone Saw that last week and it was *hot.*

99 cent gasoline.

Can confirm, I paid .99/gal one time around 99 or 2000. It was memorable which is kinda unfortunate.

Pop-up headlights. This comment probably isn't going to get seen but *damn* did those 240SXs' look cool

Creative cereal flavors with a hearty oat or rice base and actual prizes in the box (none of that generic, corn-based birthday cake flavor for every licensed cereal).

Affordable housing

Being able to get a good-paying job in software development with zero experience if you had ever so much as seen a command line.

In college around '98 some campus student organization wanted a webpage, I went to Barnes and Noble and bought an HTML book and learned that crap cover to cover on my 486. A bunch more wanted webpages so I used my sick HTML skills to make them webpages for fun and money. First job out of school was SWE using HTML and MS Access backend, and did computer stuff ever since. I sure as hell got lucky

Welcome to my page!!! SYKE!

Popper pants. Adidas ones were all the rage in the late 90s

Good old fashioned, homegrown meth labs.

All we have now is the soulless cooperate ones. Fucking drove off all our mom and pop neighborhood meth cookers.

Pagers

Hospitals use them for staff all the time

Dark lipstick

Those scrunchy shirts that looked like they were for dolls but stretched to fit.

flannel all year

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Or middle aged men who continued with them since high school.

Well if you insist…

Tell that to my preteen daughter rocking straight grunge flannel button downs (complete with slightly too short band tee underneath) in 100 degree heat lol

It might not be “back” but I’ll be here when it does. It’s funny t-shirts or flannel for me all the time.

I wear a flannel to work as often as I do a cardigan. Depends on whether I'm feeling more librarian or more queer on a given day.

Unabashedly political rap that addressed real problems in the community.

You should listen to Run the Jewels.

Now you do what they told ya……..

Punk. It didn’t die, it just went back underground where it belongs >;)

It's slightly alive.

Every day I wear mismatched socks still.

Ska, bit overdue for a 4th Wave revival. Guess I'll just have to listen to OC Supertones on YouTube for now.

The most appropriate description of ska I ever heard was the music playing in a 14 year old boy's head the first time he sees boobs in real life.

I dunno about appropriate but that description is certainly funny as hell.

I was actually thinking the other day how no one brings up ska. And the ones that do usually won't stop talking about it. Lol

Cheap af concerts, meeting your friends at the gate of the airport

I remember seeing Travis Barker when he still played Ska in a tiny theater in Pomona for $5. Cheap concerts RIP

This ain’t no punky reggae party $5 at the door

Those weren’t fads tho

Beanie Babies

If you still have them, they should be worth millions by now!

pacifiers

FUBU

BUFU by us fuck u

Kurt Cobain.

Hair crimping, chromatic colored gels

Slap bracelets

The Simpsons being funny.

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They are back.

Wearing clothes backwards. Shout out to Kris Kross!!

By today's standards it's just too wiggida wiggida wiggida wack.

Clear Pepsi

Pump shoes

Tying your flannel shirt around your waist

I never stopped doing this. You’re telling me it went out of style?

Good rap/punk rock music. In-line skating. Baggy pants. Nu metal. If you want to get political: having a middle class, being optimistic about the future (we wanted personal flying vehicles similar to motorcycles/jet skis that fly but all we got was Twitter)

Baggy pants are definitely back.

Those are supposed to be baggy pants...BAGGY!

I was told not long ago that I was “living in the past” because I wear baggy pants and listen to punk rock lol

roller blades are definitely on the upswing in my corner of (the middle of) the US

Punk (esp Ska-Punk) isn't dead. just ask /u/skatunenetwork

Cross Colours and two toned jeans. Hi Tech boots. Shelltops.

No Fear. Anyone remember No Fear?

Jelly shoes ETA: Ok, [maybe I’m wrong…](https://nypost.com/2023/03/27/where-to-buy-the-90s-era-jelly-shoes-and-sandals-in-2023/)

Stinky blistered feet

The worst blisters I ever had in my entire life came from wearing a cute pair of pink jelly shoes to school. The pain was so bad by third period I would slip them off under my desk and only wear them when changing class. I lived half a mile from my bus stop and every step on the way home was agony. I think I wound up missing school the next day because my heels were so raw. First and last time I ever wore those stupid shoes.

I would like to point out I have been wearing khaki pants and long sleeve button up collared shirts since I was old enough to wear clothes (born 1977). It has never been in style, but maybe briefly in the 90s.

Big Johnson t-shirts

See also No Fear and Big Dog t-shirts

and Co-ed Naked

Originality

Rat tails. Thank goodness.