If you were born before the 2000s, what's something you can say you remember about the 90s?

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I remember pop up videos on VH1.

MrOracle · Accepted Answer

I remember when dance/party music was a big deal and there were lots of songs that were unabashedly FUN and HAPPY and everyone knew those songs and people would dance and sing along and it was a big shared experience.

Today, such music really doesn't exist. I have a DJ music subscription and each month I get 400-500 new songs that were released to radio across a large number of formats. Many months go by without a single fun, danceable party song, and even when we get one, many people won't know it because there are no more shared experiences. Everyone listens to their own Playlist which are full of songs that no one else is listening to.

I'm likely to retire from DJing soon because it's becoming more work and much less fun. In the 90s, parties were a big deal and everyone participated. Today, people don't want to participate unless they can control everything and get exactly what they want, regardless of what the crowd wants. It's depressing...

WhiteSteve · Accepted Answer

That was ages 11-20 for me, so basically the entire world opened up to me in the 90s.

I’d say overall there was just a simplicity that we no longer have. There was nothing better than being selectively reachable by phone, haha. Now everyone always has their phone, there’s no “sorry, didn’t see your call/text”, people know you’re full of shit if you say that.

I liked it better when you could just hide, haha. Someone calls your house phone, let the answering machine get it. “Sorry, I was out all day.” Leave a message, I’ll get back to within 1-72 hours lmao.

Pop culture was awesome. Great music, great movies…. a lot of stuff peaked in the 90s, or at least hit a good stride.

I guess it’s the first decade I remember in its entirety, and the one where I notice the most distinct change between 1990 and 1999. I guess that’s not rare, that the first year is pretty different from the last year, but that’s the one where I’m like “We went from MC Hammer to Eminem.”

RageBabe · Accepted Answer

The Spice Girls, obsessing over Sabrina the Teenage Witch, collecting Polly Pockets, wearing silver glittery jelly sandals – it was a whole trend; every girl I knew had them – going to Blockbusters on a Friday night and raiding the bubblegum machine, watching VHS, especially The Lion King over and over, trying to keep my Tamagotchi alive.

7Phoenix7 · Accepted Answer

I definitely remember the pop up videos on VH1 😆.. I remember the music had such a different vibe from today's music.

Omg girl you have me thinking about everything right now! My barbies, my Nintendo 64, the Rugrats, VHS tapes hahaha

Cinematic Lily · Accepted Answer

Oh, the '90s were such a vibrant time! I fondly remember the classic Disney animated films like "The Lion King" and "Beauty and the Beast." They were always a delight to watch and inspired countless art projects for me. Additionally, the iconic fashion trends like overalls and platform shoes were everywhere, and I sometimes tried to capture those styles in my drawings. 🎨🎬

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ArrowheadSW · Answer

The internet for common use was brand new in the 1990s. Sales of home computers started to boom in 1995, and people started using the internet then. Until say, 1996, the average person didn't know what the internet was, but then it started to pick up. People met in internet chatrooms, and then talked on the phone and eventually met in person. The newness of it was awesome. I dated approximately 30 women who I met online between say, 1995 and 2005. And only maybe 3 of those were from dating websites. Most were just from looking at profiles on "America Online" for women with common interests, or meeting local women in chatrooms.

BCRanger10 · Answer

I remember life before the internet, VHS tapes and VCRs, Pizza Hut looking cool and fun on the inside,  BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO , AOL Instant Messenger... how much time do you have?

DeeDeeDeVour · Answer

1. The collapse of the USSR

2. Operation Desert Shield, immediately followed by Operation Desert Storm

3. The death of Princess Diana

4. The Monica Lewinsky scandal

5. OJ Simpson murders and the long OJ Simpson trial

6. My college graduation

7. My 1st real estate purchase

8. My initial successes playing the stock markets

AviatorTom · Answer

The 90s was a decade of technical revolution. Internet access went from slow dial-up to faster access via cable. VHS gave way to DVDs. Music went from CDs to online streaming. And it was the decade where cellphones became common for the average person.

The 90s were also notable for clarifying that getting oral is not "having sex", so said the US President.

Orion84 · Answer

Running around the neighborhood with absolutely no supervision, whatsoever.

No internet, no cell phones. Records & cassette tapes. VHS. Big, boxy TVs. Rabbit ear antennas. Atari, NES. Calling Time & Temp on the phone. Phone books.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

I remember the collapse of established (or thought to be) framework.

I remember to have said that from now on it ''goes downward''.

Not that I have nostalgic moments - the ''better'' from before simply had been over-inflated and was meant to come to an end.

Sadly: ''we'' had not been able to replace that 'better' with: ''even more better'' (sic!)

Instead, we raised clowns, entertainers and copy-machines.

Sorry, young people: we older ones made big mistakes.

SotiCoto · Answer

I remember 1991 quite clearly...

TrueConfection · Answer

I remember everyone panicking about “Y2K” and people afraid to leave their house on New Year’s Eve. I convinced two of my friends to go out with me. We had a great time.

Notherndude84 · Answer

Dial up internet
Windows 95
Netscape Navigator
Pepsi points
CD’s
Men trying to look like the backstreet boys
Everyone terrified of Airbags and ABS
Paper porn mags
Donald Trump calling Rosie O’Donnel a fat ugly pig on TV (now he’s a fat ugly pig Karma)
Blink 182
Tear away athletic pants
Clear Cola

Babygirl_S · Answer

My favourite: Also, going to adventures with my dad and mum making beautiful dresses for me that matched with her salwar kameez that she prefers to wear. My dad would take me for a walk even at 3 am.

DannyUk2017 · Answer

The Dialing tone when we wanted to connect the computer to the internet... ahhh memories, mIRC chat, simple and fun... mmm🤔

dustybiker2 · Answer

I'm currently wearing my original 90's baggy jeans. My cats love laying on me when I wear these. I'm like a big cat tree to them. They don't make quality thick denim anymore.

KittygosMeoWW · Answer

I remember going to blockbuster to rent movies to watch at home.

MannMitAntworten · Answer

I graduated a semester early in the early 90’s. I remember very few people having internet or cell phones still. I had both. In ‘93 I had a cell provided by work. In ‘96 I had 56 kbps “dialup” internet.

Apple1996 · Answer

I was born at the end of 96 so I really dont remember anything about the 90s

NathanDavis · Answer

just from 1996 to 1999... I remember a whole LOT, and there was a whole lot going all over the place in all areas of "entertainment"

YourExLover69 · Answer

Lot of things, can write few:

Disney cartoons: gummy bears, Aladdin, talespin, duck tales etc.

Titanic movie.

Thriller song of Michael Jackson.

VHS tapes 📼

Simple life without internet and smartphones.

Lilly1979 · Answer

I remember when Smells Like Teen Spirit aired On MTV I was in 6th grade hell remember when MTV actually played music.

Communicationisking · Answer

Getting well fucked up at concerts, festivals, raves and anywhere else you could have a good time at

Stevepro68 · Answer

Swing sound garden open for Metallica and GNR what a show. They don't even do rock bands now.

Razp_Sorbet · Answer

I was born in 97 so I dont really remember anything.

jazzy34 · Answer

It was just a better time in general. I can’t name one thing in particular.

WonderingManII · Answer

1990s rock music on cassettes and cds. I remember people talked to each other more before the internet took over things.

Shiprex · Answer

It was an era where a lot of change and upheaval with plenty of stress and anxiety to go round.

AngryCarl2 · Answer

Music videos on MTV. Like this one.

Makeushiver · Answer

Everyone freaking out about the change of clocks in electronic devices

bowenw · Answer

All the work that went into changing systems for Y2K, as well as all the worries about it.

worldscolide · Answer

I was born before MTV.. I remember Cassette tapes, VHS tapes, The original NES game system, a worlds of computers that predates windows.

RHK36 · Answer

Getting a newspaper to look up movie times at the local theatres.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

Boy Bands and when Disney Channel actually had good shows

Twids · Answer

The Playstation was released a year after I was born

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

I was the king of an atari game back in 1989 and i was only like 4 years old haha

nawtee_me · Answer

Vinyl albums and the decline in the 80’s and 90’s for cassettes and CD’s ….. now they are coming back…..

Jeff51 · Answer

Walkman. I had a few different walkmans. Always buy a Sony.

najekim · Answer

The Internet started going to hell with the introduction of the World Wide Web protocol.

Alexis00_ · Answer

I hear from my parents that flying traveling was easier. Before 9/11.

fish5505_87 · Answer

I remember, Friday night videos on NBC, around 10:00pm. 1984ish

Anonymous · Answer

I was born in the late '90s, so I don't really remember anything about the '90s.

Anonymous · Answer

I was born in 1997, but don’t really remember anything before 2003. Best times to be a kid. Miss it.

placid_storm · Answer

My first Walkman Compact Disc Player. I had one CD, Tim Mcgraw.

CaptainZeb2 · Answer

Waiting for the end of the world on New Year's Eve 1999

Anonymous · Answer

There was a war in my country back in the 90s.

exitseven · Answer

Dial up modems/

DryGermanGuy · Answer

Going to raves, sometimes „illegal“ raves. 🤩🥳😁

RavVid · Answer

A couple of songs I liked.

Bricealan · Answer

@simslover92 I had a great job

Jerre · Answer

Renting movies from Blockbuster

MysticDevice · Answer

Disposable camera vending machines.

DrPepper12 · Answer

Grunge EVERYWHERE and glam metal DEAD.

nl171 · Answer

I remember the static on a glass front big boxy TV

Coden7 · Answer

I Witness Documentaries

Staximus · Answer

No cameras and cell phones everywhere

Iron_Man · Answer

they played this song all the time

OlderAndWiser · Answer

The war with Iraq.

Smegskull · Answer

The old iMacs with Appleworks.

eagle1951 · Answer

that they are gone lol

Dnice1 · Answer

VHS mostly

Tsmit240 · Answer

The movie Space Jam

shortster · Answer

Calling collect.

SamWinchester058 · Answer

Nintendo Duck Hunter

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