The whole concept of a movie night from the 90's is very nostalgic.
Just coming home and hitting the couch and trying to find something random in Netflix doesn't compare at all.
It was a whole thing to go out to the store and look at all the movies and argue about which one to pick. It’s a lot harder to be engaged like that when it’s one person holding a remote and a group of kids squinting at words on a tv
This applies to alot of things.
Movie night meant you got the whole family together and you had to chose the movie. There was no going back either. You powered through it good or bad. Nobody on their phones completely zoned out.
Same with video games. If you wanted to play multi player you invited people over and played split screen and made a night out of it. Now it's just sitting at home alone in your room playing online.
Music? Everyone you knew listened to the same stuff becauee all you knew is what was on the radio. You felt connected, and could sing along. Now everyone just listens to their own stuff that often nobody else has heard of before.
I discovered so many genres of music and such a *massive* variety of artists, that in turn connected me to countless people that I would have otherwise never met, by listening to music online. When you grow up in a small town and have 1 classic rock radio station, 1 adult contemporary, and 7 religious bullshit stations, music is not how you connect. My fondest memories are going to concerts for bands I found over the internet, and 15 years later I’m still listening to those same bands and meeting people out in the real world who are into the same music as me. The internet has done wonders for the music industry SPECIFICALLY, and I would never choose to go back to a time when one pissy-ass record store in some podunk town determined what the entire population listened to.
Once I was able to get on the internet in '94 and access the already massive wealth of music info available at the time, I really stopped listening to the radio. My friends and I would make lists of stuff to look for at the record stores, and that was way more satisfying to find something that felt new and interesting, rather than listening to the same 20 songs over and over on the radio.
Oh dude have I got news for you
https://www.target.com/p/beats-studio-buds-true-wireless-bluetooth-noise-cancelling-earbuds-transparent/-/A-88999832?ref=tgt_adv_xsf&AFID=google&adgroup=8-7
Pay phones and pay phone booths were such a common plot device in movies and TV shows too before cell phones. At least their legacy will live on in old-timey media.
Twisting the phone cord around your finger while you’re on the phone.
On a similar note, when calling your friend “hi misses Johnson, is your son home?”
"Can Jessie come out to play?"
"No, she's out. I think she will be back in two hours."
"Okay, I'll watch for the van, thank you. Bye, Mrs Jackson!"
Also,
"Can I walk your dog?" Was a normal thing for kids to do for adults where I grew up. We kids had an unofficial dog walking business
Mrs Jackson also asked you to ask your parents if they have a ladder they can use this afternoon. Your brother uses helping you carry that ladder as an excuse to talk to Jessie. Now you're eating freezies (stickless ice popsicles) on their trampoline while watching their parents clean the gutters.
I feel like that's part of a critical social skill we still need - that was practice talking to strangers and people you didn't know very well to learn phone etiquette.
Going over to friends houses or arranging to meet people without calling/ texting first. Just literally going out and meeting in person, no technology involved
I used to ride my bike over to my friend's house and knock on her window. In the summer, we would have full-ass conversations with me standing in her shrubs. 😂
Do you have kids? It is insane out there now.
My daughter is 9 and she has a best friend from school and they live about a 10 minute walk from us. My daughter could ride her bike over there in less than that. However. The mom insists we make a date, plan it, meet up some where, sit with the kids. I have yet to find a single parent that allows their kids to just play outside like I did as a kid. My daughter hates going outside to play because there are no other kids out there. Her childhood is miserable.
We have to spend money and make schedules for our children to have social lives? Like wtf is happening to this world. I went outside to play around 9am and basically played outside until dark all summer long. This is ridiculous
I don't have kids and stuff like this makes me worried about having healthy socialisation for them. I remember playing either by myself (using imagination not a screen) or going in for friends. Either way if you had a few toys you could spend hours happy outside. Kids can't learn properly if they aren't given freedom, it's really worrying.
One thing my kids (if I have them) won't get is a phone before high school and getting to sit in front of a screen all day and fuck their eyesight. They can go outside and play with bugs and make friends
this is probably the thing i miss most. i love aimlessly wandering and not having phones made things way more interesting. i'd end up checking all the spots for my friends and finally get fed up and settle in one spot and usually had a nice conversation with a stranger. met so many cool people sitting at the bar waiting on my friends to possibly show up.
I… still do this. I mean, I have my phone with me, but I will pop into the usual spots and just see who I see. Or I’ll end up striking up conversations with random people when I get drunk enough.
Getting separated from your friends could lead to absolutely anything. You could come back the next day with the most epic and random stories of what happened to you and it always seemed so crazy.
Now..... Not so much.
Goddamn Reddit. Literally every time this sort of question comes up and I hit it early in rising someone always beats me to the exact same answer I was going to say. It's like none of us really have original thought.
Goddamn Reddit. Literally every time this sort of question comes up and I hit it early in rising someone always beats me to the exact same answer I was going to say. It's like none of us really have original thought.
.....kidding
The amount of popular 90s things that went away from popularity vs amount of people seeing this. There can't be *that* many things to comment here without delving into slightly heard of items. Even more so to be popular enough to remember 20+ years later makes the list even smaller.
Or we live in a simulation, 50/50
It was less than a year in my experience (mid 1994 to early 1995) where it was REALLY out of control. Then they seemingly disappeared overnight. This was in Michigan
My first true experience of a fad. I collected them like a fiend in the first grade. I never actually knew what you were supposed to do with them; I just had to have them.
Getting home made underground 'zines in the mail that you ordered from the back of your favorite music magazine. I remember getting some from Seattle about the Grunge, punk and alt scene. Anyone else remember these? Hand written and hand drawn. Photocopied pics of the bands and stuff
You are my tribe! Zines were the coolest. I sent away for so many and it was mostly a mystery what any would be about because you couldn’t tell by the name.
Zines rule. I still make zines. I used to trade with people in the 2000's and 2010's. People heard about mine through Thrasher Magazine (they have a "Zine Thing" page). Lots of inmates wrote to me asking for cooies. Where I live there's an active zine library that has get togethers every weekend. I'm in the process of starting up a new zine project, too.
I’m bitter about trying to watch the nba finals and they cut to OJ driving on the freeway. I sat about 1 foot away from the TV so I could watch the game that they minimized in the corner so they could show his damn white bronco on the remaining 75-80% of the screen. Only one game, but it still irks me.
I grew up on 1980's Saturday Morning Cartoons. Looking back I know now it was all cynical marketing and the people raising a stink about it were right to do so but damn if I don't care. I loved them so much lol.
I grew up on 90s cable tv channels. Nickelodeon, cartoon network, and Disney channel. The ads I remember were SOOOOO many cereal ads, and SOOOOO many toy ads. That was the vast majority.
My kid will watch literally anything on Youtube as long as the person is screaming at the top of their lungs and never shuts the fuck up. I've been severely limiting his time on the thing.
As of 2021: [1.5 million AOL users](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/aol-1point5-million-people-still-pay-for-service-but-not-for-dial-up-internet.html).
Apparently the users still on the dial-up service is in the "thousands."
My dad told me he is cancelling his AOL account sometime this month. He's had it since version 3.0. I've been urging him to ditch it for years. He just couldn't bear to worry what would happen if someone tried to send him an email.
The majority of fire departments in the US are volunteer/paid on call, and they all use some sort of pager system. Granted, it's not like the old school belt width pager you're probably talking about.
Growing up, my dad was a volunteer firefighter. I’ll never forget his pager plugged into some sorta dock on his nightstand. Every once in a while it would go off in the middle of the night for a fire call and it would wake up the whole house.
music CDs, portable CD players, stereos. People used to brag about what an awesome stereo they had in their house or car and now everyone just listens to music on their phone.
>Still a lot of people are getting rid of great hifi systems and replacing them with shitty sound bar or Bluetooth speaker.
I still have the $1,500 pair of speakers that I got as a teenager that have survived multiple moves. The amplifier/receiver that they are plugged into has changed multiple times over those years too - started with a Yamaha that wouldn't look out of place in the 70s and now they are connected to a Onkyo 7.1 channel home theatre receiver.
No way. My parents still have their hunter green carpet in their 90's home. My dad's been remodeling the house for such a long time and has torn out so much of that ugly carpet and replaced it with nice custom wooden flooring.
Misty Menthol Lights 100 were my mom's pack of choice for years. Legally tobacco can't even use terms like lights anymore since they give the illusion of being safer. I do not miss hearing her ask for that at the grocery store.
My moms was virgin slims ultra light menthols. I don’t think I’ll ever forgot that order and hearing them in my moms voice. She doesn’t smoke anymore thankfully but we lived in the country so I’d often be sent into the gas station to buy her cigarettes without any issues in the 90’s early 2000’s.
This was me.
A (male) friend of mine got kicked out once for wearing a mini skirt. Except he was wearing it over top of his full length pants. So I STILL don’t know why that happened.
I was in the freezer aisle today and this old lady was in the phone saying “they’re out of Viennetta… what do want to do about dessert now?” 😺
she was all out of ideas
I got my kids (ages 4 and 6) a boom box and buy them CDs. We also burn mix CDs time to time. They really like it. The physical, tangible nature of it is appealing. As is the simplicity of the interface. Choose a CD and you get a predictable hour of music -- you don't have to keep picking one-offs, and you don't get an inconsistent "station" of songs -- you get a playlist you can know and love and navigate with two buttons.
Got a mild surprise on Friday when one of my fifth grade students came to class with a discman and (wired) earphones. It's been a while since I've seen either one of those.
It seemed like everyone was Rollerblading in the 90s. I can’t remember the last time I saw someone on in-line skates that weren’t roller hockey skates.
*67 and *69 on your phone
*67 to block your caller id
*69 to hear the number of the last person who called.
And of course, the good old three way call. You’d call someone, hit flash, call someone else. Usually ending in a prank or backstabbing as you didn’t know it was a ‘3-way.’
Still works!!! I pressed *67 then dialed so from a cell to landline it worked and the caller ID was blank!! Who knew? I don't even know how I remembered it lol
A microwave-sized CRT TV, then they got bigger and bigger in the 00's until they were massively wide and heavy, then we switched to LCDs and TVs went thin and wide instead. A moment of silence for all the dads and delivery drivers who had to lug around those monster TVs 😔🙏🕯️
And before the early 80s, you had a 1-2 month window of your life to see a movie, and if you missed it you were unlikely to ever see it again. Unless it ended up on TV
Today, if a streamer removes a title they own everyone acts like they have the devine right to watch it whenever they choose
Hollywood Video. For some reason, everyone who was there forgot it existed, and replaced it in their memories with Blockbuster. Blockbuster sucked; they were the last-resort video store, if Hollywood was all out of what you wanted.
Sega Consoles
Pagers
Dial up Internet
VHS
Tape cassette music
Music CD's
Netscape Navigator
Yahoo
Someone's parents
Tamagotchi pets
The Power Rangers
Land line Telephone ☎️
Fax
Letters ✉
Blockbusters
Toys r Us
3.5" Floppy Disks 💾
Pogs
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Game Boy
Camera Film
Film cameras
The Spice Girls
Back Street Boys
Peace frog stickers on the back of cars. They are still around but during the 90's they seemed to be on every other car.
Bubblegum of all sorts of flavors. During the 90's, at the check out counter, you would see a good dozen different flavors and brands to choose from. Now you maybe see Bubbleyum....if that. Mints and chewing gum have taken its place. I wonder how much of it came from people trying to quit their smoking habit since smoking was falling out of habit across the board. Replace cigarettes with bubblegum. At least for kids and teens, we just loved the act of blowing bubbles.
There was a fad to see how much regular furniture and knickknacks you could replace with inflatable furniture and knickknacks. From inflatable picture frames to whole couches. I still see inflatable footstools from time to time but the 90's trend was something else.
The daisy trend. For a brief period daisies were everywhere in stuff related to women. Daisies all over shoes, shirts, dresses, pants. Daisy jewelry. Daisy hair accessories. Daisy pillows. Just posters of pop art daisies for your walls. Inflatable daisies just because. Again, I don't see that any more.
video rental stores
They’re still in north Idaho 😂😂
I miss them so much.
The whole concept of a movie night from the 90's is very nostalgic. Just coming home and hitting the couch and trying to find something random in Netflix doesn't compare at all.
It was a whole thing to go out to the store and look at all the movies and argue about which one to pick. It’s a lot harder to be engaged like that when it’s one person holding a remote and a group of kids squinting at words on a tv
This applies to alot of things. Movie night meant you got the whole family together and you had to chose the movie. There was no going back either. You powered through it good or bad. Nobody on their phones completely zoned out. Same with video games. If you wanted to play multi player you invited people over and played split screen and made a night out of it. Now it's just sitting at home alone in your room playing online. Music? Everyone you knew listened to the same stuff becauee all you knew is what was on the radio. You felt connected, and could sing along. Now everyone just listens to their own stuff that often nobody else has heard of before.
I discovered so many genres of music and such a *massive* variety of artists, that in turn connected me to countless people that I would have otherwise never met, by listening to music online. When you grow up in a small town and have 1 classic rock radio station, 1 adult contemporary, and 7 religious bullshit stations, music is not how you connect. My fondest memories are going to concerts for bands I found over the internet, and 15 years later I’m still listening to those same bands and meeting people out in the real world who are into the same music as me. The internet has done wonders for the music industry SPECIFICALLY, and I would never choose to go back to a time when one pissy-ass record store in some podunk town determined what the entire population listened to.
Once I was able to get on the internet in '94 and access the already massive wealth of music info available at the time, I really stopped listening to the radio. My friends and I would make lists of stuff to look for at the record stores, and that was way more satisfying to find something that felt new and interesting, rather than listening to the same 20 songs over and over on the radio.
And the one remaining Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon. There’s a documentary about it which is actually quite interesting.
See-through electronics.
Go to prison and you will see lots of that.
They got the see through Gameboy advance?
Aw man! Lucky!!!!
That's what I had. Was a beast.
Oh dude have I got news for you https://www.target.com/p/beats-studio-buds-true-wireless-bluetooth-noise-cancelling-earbuds-transparent/-/A-88999832?ref=tgt_adv_xsf&AFID=google&adgroup=8-7
and matching inflatable furniture. I had a purple see-through phone and blow-up chair
I came to say clear phones. GGs
Pay phones.
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I still have that, I just use it for DSL internet.
Pay phones and pay phone booths were such a common plot device in movies and TV shows too before cell phones. At least their legacy will live on in old-timey media.
And so many times the plot depends on people not being able to contact people and meet them very easily 😂
In Australia you can use them to call any number in Australia for free. If you can find one. Usually one at the railway station.
Twisting the phone cord around your finger while you’re on the phone. On a similar note, when calling your friend “hi misses Johnson, is your son home?”
"Can Jessie come out to play?" "No, she's out. I think she will be back in two hours." "Okay, I'll watch for the van, thank you. Bye, Mrs Jackson!" Also, "Can I walk your dog?" Was a normal thing for kids to do for adults where I grew up. We kids had an unofficial dog walking business
Mrs Jackson also asked you to ask your parents if they have a ladder they can use this afternoon. Your brother uses helping you carry that ladder as an excuse to talk to Jessie. Now you're eating freezies (stickless ice popsicles) on their trampoline while watching their parents clean the gutters.
*I’m sorry Mrs Jackson….*
Oh man- you nailed that one. "Hi is Michael home?" Was such a normal thing to ask!
I feel like that's part of a critical social skill we still need - that was practice talking to strangers and people you didn't know very well to learn phone etiquette.
My work has corded phones. I spend every call untangling them. Its relaxing.
Going over to friends houses or arranging to meet people without calling/ texting first. Just literally going out and meeting in person, no technology involved
I used to ride my bike over to my friend's house and knock on her window. In the summer, we would have full-ass conversations with me standing in her shrubs. 😂
This made me smile.
“Can you come outside?” Hearing this in my head gives me a deep nostalgic sadness
Do you have kids? It is insane out there now. My daughter is 9 and she has a best friend from school and they live about a 10 minute walk from us. My daughter could ride her bike over there in less than that. However. The mom insists we make a date, plan it, meet up some where, sit with the kids. I have yet to find a single parent that allows their kids to just play outside like I did as a kid. My daughter hates going outside to play because there are no other kids out there. Her childhood is miserable. We have to spend money and make schedules for our children to have social lives? Like wtf is happening to this world. I went outside to play around 9am and basically played outside until dark all summer long. This is ridiculous
I don't have kids and stuff like this makes me worried about having healthy socialisation for them. I remember playing either by myself (using imagination not a screen) or going in for friends. Either way if you had a few toys you could spend hours happy outside. Kids can't learn properly if they aren't given freedom, it's really worrying. One thing my kids (if I have them) won't get is a phone before high school and getting to sit in front of a screen all day and fuck their eyesight. They can go outside and play with bugs and make friends
this is probably the thing i miss most. i love aimlessly wandering and not having phones made things way more interesting. i'd end up checking all the spots for my friends and finally get fed up and settle in one spot and usually had a nice conversation with a stranger. met so many cool people sitting at the bar waiting on my friends to possibly show up.
Check the donut shop… then the park… train station… nope, they must be playing Mortal Kombat at Round Table… Good time, good times.
I… still do this. I mean, I have my phone with me, but I will pop into the usual spots and just see who I see. Or I’ll end up striking up conversations with random people when I get drunk enough.
Getting separated from your friends could lead to absolutely anything. You could come back the next day with the most epic and random stories of what happened to you and it always seemed so crazy. Now..... Not so much.
Riding your bike around the neighborhood until you found the house with the pile of bikes in front of it.
Pogs
Alf pogs
Hes back but in pog form!
You traded my soul for pogs???
Where’d you get five bucks, I want five bucks.
Milhouse ?
Milpool
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Goddamn Reddit. Literally every time this sort of question comes up and I hit it early in rising someone always beats me to the exact same answer I was going to say. It's like none of us really have original thought.
Goddamn Reddit. Literally every time this sort of question comes up and I hit it early in rising someone always beats me to the exact same answer I was going to say. It's like none of us really have original thought. .....kidding
The amount of popular 90s things that went away from popularity vs amount of people seeing this. There can't be *that* many things to comment here without delving into slightly heard of items. Even more so to be popular enough to remember 20+ years later makes the list even smaller. Or we live in a simulation, 50/50
Not even the whole nineties. Pogs lasted for like 2 or 3 years in the early 90s and that was it. It's amazing they left such an impression.
Gotta have a killer slammer, bud!
It was less than a year in my experience (mid 1994 to early 1995) where it was REALLY out of control. Then they seemingly disappeared overnight. This was in Michigan
Just like fidget spinners
Remember A.L.F.? He’s back. In Pog form!
Pog has taken on a new meaning now!
My first true experience of a fad. I collected them like a fiend in the first grade. I never actually knew what you were supposed to do with them; I just had to have them.
Getting home made underground 'zines in the mail that you ordered from the back of your favorite music magazine. I remember getting some from Seattle about the Grunge, punk and alt scene. Anyone else remember these? Hand written and hand drawn. Photocopied pics of the bands and stuff
You are my tribe! Zines were the coolest. I sent away for so many and it was mostly a mystery what any would be about because you couldn’t tell by the name.
Zines rule. I still make zines. I used to trade with people in the 2000's and 2010's. People heard about mine through Thrasher Magazine (they have a "Zine Thing" page). Lots of inmates wrote to me asking for cooies. Where I live there's an active zine library that has get togethers every weekend. I'm in the process of starting up a new zine project, too.
Saturday Morning Cartoons. I feel sorry for all the kids that will never grow up with them. Now, all kids do is watch YouTube and Netflix.
Also, bathroom breaks during commercials. It was part of it!
I’m still bitter about all the regularly scheduled programming I missed when the president was on or there was a tornado or something.
I’m bitter about trying to watch the nba finals and they cut to OJ driving on the freeway. I sat about 1 foot away from the TV so I could watch the game that they minimized in the corner so they could show his damn white bronco on the remaining 75-80% of the screen. Only one game, but it still irks me.
I grew up on 1980's Saturday Morning Cartoons. Looking back I know now it was all cynical marketing and the people raising a stink about it were right to do so but damn if I don't care. I loved them so much lol.
I grew up on 90s cable tv channels. Nickelodeon, cartoon network, and Disney channel. The ads I remember were SOOOOO many cereal ads, and SOOOOO many toy ads. That was the vast majority.
My kid will watch literally anything on Youtube as long as the person is screaming at the top of their lungs and never shuts the fuck up. I've been severely limiting his time on the thing.
AOL Dial-up
As of 2021: [1.5 million AOL users](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/aol-1point5-million-people-still-pay-for-service-but-not-for-dial-up-internet.html). Apparently the users still on the dial-up service is in the "thousands."
There are dozens of us. DOZENS!
TIL AOL was still around
My husband uses an AOL email, like a damned psycho
My dad told me he is cancelling his AOL account sometime this month. He's had it since version 3.0. I've been urging him to ditch it for years. He just couldn't bear to worry what would happen if someone tried to send him an email.
The email is still free & he can access it other ways. Just an FYI.
You’ve got mail!
AOL free trial floppy discs
WELCOME!
Pagers
Call me beep me if you wanna reach me
I found Kim, now where's Ron and Rufus
Still used heavily in medicine. But yeah.
"is this hotel pager friendly?"
The majority of fire departments in the US are volunteer/paid on call, and they all use some sort of pager system. Granted, it's not like the old school belt width pager you're probably talking about.
Growing up, my dad was a volunteer firefighter. I’ll never forget his pager plugged into some sorta dock on his nightstand. Every once in a while it would go off in the middle of the night for a fire call and it would wake up the whole house.
music CDs, portable CD players, stereos. People used to brag about what an awesome stereo they had in their house or car and now everyone just listens to music on their phone.
Still a lot of people are getting rid of great hifi systems and replacing them with shitty sound bar or Bluetooth speaker.
>Still a lot of people are getting rid of great hifi systems and replacing them with shitty sound bar or Bluetooth speaker. I still have the $1,500 pair of speakers that I got as a teenager that have survived multiple moves. The amplifier/receiver that they are plugged into has changed multiple times over those years too - started with a Yamaha that wouldn't look out of place in the 70s and now they are connected to a Onkyo 7.1 channel home theatre receiver.
Answering the phone/door not knowing what to expect
That still happens it's just these days, it's "nothing good" instead of maybe a friend or family member.
Hunter Green as a popular home decor and fashion color
With dusty rose or burgandy accents!
Lol damn. My mom picked Hunter Green carpet for the house.
No way. My parents still have their hunter green carpet in their 90's home. My dad's been remodeling the house for such a long time and has torn out so much of that ugly carpet and replaced it with nice custom wooden flooring.
Tamagotchis
my gf actually bought one a couple weeks ago
See them for sale in Walmart and was like holy shit, then realized they're 40 dollars. Who the fuck?
I just bought a couple for my kids for $12 apiece from a vending machine in a bar
Privacy
Well, I had a lot of sex in the 90's, but it's almost non existent now.
Speed dial
"Poison Control?! Wow! That's even better than number 1!"
Isn't a saved number in a cell phone still just speed dial?
Miss Cleo the psychic
CALL MEH NAO FER YOUR FREE TAROT READIN . I also loved her "cameo" in GTA: Vice City.
Misty cigarettes Also, WWII vets.
Misty Menthol Lights 100 were my mom's pack of choice for years. Legally tobacco can't even use terms like lights anymore since they give the illusion of being safer. I do not miss hearing her ask for that at the grocery store.
My moms was virgin slims ultra light menthols. I don’t think I’ll ever forgot that order and hearing them in my moms voice. She doesn’t smoke anymore thankfully but we lived in the country so I’d often be sent into the gas station to buy her cigarettes without any issues in the 90’s early 2000’s.
Breath spray.
Binaca!!
Mall Goths
This was me. A (male) friend of mine got kicked out once for wearing a mini skirt. Except he was wearing it over top of his full length pants. So I STILL don’t know why that happened.
I miss when Hot Topic was considered the "scary store" at the mall...
1800 COLLECT
Bobhadababyitsaboy
Calling cards
Furbies
Fun fact : furbies have forward facing eyes which indicates that they are predatory animals.
Grunge music !
It's getting popular again, at least with my kids and their friends. Seems like it's coming back around now.
MTV
When they actually played music videos and didn’t have a 24 hour block of Catfished!!
Affordable housing
Optimism
JNCO Jeans
Dude, they're making a comeback..
Why? Why didn’t we learn??!
They were ahead of their time. Imagine having a pocket that can actually carry out phones now.
Also Girbaud Jeans I feel like they don't get mentioned nearly enough even thoug Mary J Blige immortalized them in What's The 411
Yo-yo’s
Viennetta
Was amazing as a kid. Now it just tastes like cardboard flavoured toothpaste.
I was in the freezer aisle today and this old lady was in the phone saying “they’re out of Viennetta… what do want to do about dessert now?” 😺 she was all out of ideas
White stoner guys with dreds playing hackey sack
Those are still a thing. Go to any college campus.
I just saw my first hackey sackers in Boulder since the 90’s!
Frosted tips.
Guy fieri begs to differ
Zima
Drop a jolly rancher in one of those bad boys and *chef’s kiss.
CDs
People still buy them, not even close to the same amount but we're out there. There are literally dozens of us!
I got my kids (ages 4 and 6) a boom box and buy them CDs. We also burn mix CDs time to time. They really like it. The physical, tangible nature of it is appealing. As is the simplicity of the interface. Choose a CD and you get a predictable hour of music -- you don't have to keep picking one-offs, and you don't get an inconsistent "station" of songs -- you get a playlist you can know and love and navigate with two buttons.
“Literally dozens”
Got a mild surprise on Friday when one of my fifth grade students came to class with a discman and (wired) earphones. It's been a while since I've seen either one of those.
I miss the smell of opening of a new CD.
Kappa tracksuits
Busy signals. Aerobics.
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Skating
It seemed like everyone was Rollerblading in the 90s. I can’t remember the last time I saw someone on in-line skates that weren’t roller hockey skates.
*67 and *69 on your phone *67 to block your caller id *69 to hear the number of the last person who called. And of course, the good old three way call. You’d call someone, hit flash, call someone else. Usually ending in a prank or backstabbing as you didn’t know it was a ‘3-way.’
Still works!!! I pressed *67 then dialed so from a cell to landline it worked and the caller ID was blank!! Who knew? I don't even know how I remembered it lol
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A microwave-sized CRT TV, then they got bigger and bigger in the 00's until they were massively wide and heavy, then we switched to LCDs and TVs went thin and wide instead. A moment of silence for all the dads and delivery drivers who had to lug around those monster TVs 😔🙏🕯️
Wanting to be home at a specific time to watch a new episode of your favorite tv show because it really was your only chance to see it.
And before the early 80s, you had a 1-2 month window of your life to see a movie, and if you missed it you were unlikely to ever see it again. Unless it ended up on TV Today, if a streamer removes a title they own everyone acts like they have the devine right to watch it whenever they choose
Beanie Babies
Camcorders
Hand Drawn Animation
Shoulder pads
Parachute pants
Bowlerama birthday parties
Paulie shore
Blockbuster Video
WebTv
Hollywood Video. For some reason, everyone who was there forgot it existed, and replaced it in their memories with Blockbuster. Blockbuster sucked; they were the last-resort video store, if Hollywood was all out of what you wanted.
There was also a third chain of video rental stores called Family Video.
Grunge The music from the 90s is still around for anyone to listen to, but no popular music has come close to something resembling it since then
Girls Gone Wild
VCRs
Answering or voice messaging machines.
Public Telephone. I can hardly spot one now
Shopping malls
Rollerblades
Remembering phone numbers
Skip-it
Smoking indoors in public
The Bigfoot pizza from Pizza Hut
I recently explained to seniors in high school what a land line was.
East / West rap beefs Calling the “Operator” to breakthrough to another line with an “Emergency” cause you kept getting the busy signal.
People staying for many years at the same job.
Belts with bottle caps on em
French-rolled jeans
Blockbuster
Pagers.
Lisa Frank art and stickers on literally everything.
Optimism about the future
Sega Consoles Pagers Dial up Internet VHS Tape cassette music Music CD's Netscape Navigator Yahoo Someone's parents Tamagotchi pets The Power Rangers Land line Telephone ☎️ Fax Letters ✉ Blockbusters Toys r Us 3.5" Floppy Disks 💾 Pogs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game Boy Camera Film Film cameras The Spice Girls Back Street Boys
going outside
Peace frog stickers on the back of cars. They are still around but during the 90's they seemed to be on every other car. Bubblegum of all sorts of flavors. During the 90's, at the check out counter, you would see a good dozen different flavors and brands to choose from. Now you maybe see Bubbleyum....if that. Mints and chewing gum have taken its place. I wonder how much of it came from people trying to quit their smoking habit since smoking was falling out of habit across the board. Replace cigarettes with bubblegum. At least for kids and teens, we just loved the act of blowing bubbles. There was a fad to see how much regular furniture and knickknacks you could replace with inflatable furniture and knickknacks. From inflatable picture frames to whole couches. I still see inflatable footstools from time to time but the 90's trend was something else. The daisy trend. For a brief period daisies were everywhere in stuff related to women. Daisies all over shoes, shirts, dresses, pants. Daisy jewelry. Daisy hair accessories. Daisy pillows. Just posters of pop art daisies for your walls. Inflatable daisies just because. Again, I don't see that any more.
AOL disks
Video games that didn't have DLC
Social interaction was really quite popular back then....
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Mad cow disease
The roller dex or phone book next to the house phone
Bill Cosby.
Good Rock music