What is something/things you DON'T miss from the 1990s?

[ManOnFire]

A question for those of us born before the 2000s. Boomers and Gen Xers are also welcome.

For me it would be Hollywood's obsession with making death row/execution movies (The Chamber, Dead Man Walking, Just Cause, etc. although Green Mile was good). I definitely don't miss VHS or cassettes even if they are nostalgic, they were so easy to get messed up. And I'm glad the trend of girls wearing baggy jeans and big belts didn't last, although it's still a thing with the Korean girls right now, not sure if that's a Kpop thing though.

What about you guys?

[PeachyPie93]

I miss so many things from the 90s and early 2000s like going to blockbuster on Fridays with my dad to pick out movies.. I did really like the baggy clothes look, and the dumb hairdos boys had back then. I miss the cartoons they had since they actually had storylines, growth and morals to the show, but now cartoons for kids are just dumb brain rot crap. I miss when anime was niche and no one cool or famous really liked it. I miss my Walkman and listening to cds lol.. I miss the games from back then and playing them with my friends and the old websites too. I also miss how so many retards didn't have access to the Internet to spread misinformation and just pure retardism like people do now.

Things I dont miss I guess big lunky phones, slow Internet/dialup, the old car my mom had lol, old shitty computers, smoking indoors everywhere, ugly couches, thick ass tvs lol..

[ManOnFire]

This is a bombshell💣

[sage2021]

@SummerSunsets_x

Maybe you can tell by my age (72) and being raised in San Francisco, California in the heart of the original hippie days, that I am an original hippie myself.
I absolutely loved hanging around the Haight and Ashbury district where all of the action was.
I know what you mean about wearing bell bottom jeans and pants. The tops were pretty cool 😎 too! ✌🏼☮️🌷🌺🪻

Here's a video of those days back in San Francisco for you.

https://youtu. be/PQHb4z0prjo? is=tKv4V1Xw4zTpOlvF


Enjoy! 🌸

[sage2021]

Getting my hair in a permanent every every month. The big hair continued into the early 90's.

My 2nd husband! 😂😂

[SummerSunsets_x]

That is so cool!!, thank you for sharing this with me that is amazing. I really wish I lived in that time. I feel like things were a lot better then.

[sage2021]

@SummerSunsets_x

Here... try this one to see the video 👇🏼

https://youtu.be/PQHb4z0prjo?is=D0g9voUAh5A1-0tD

[SummerSunsets_x]

Yes, the perms, those are still around and very time consuming, I only know this because I was in cosmetology school and we were taught how to do perms and stuff like that. I'm so sorry about that, I am glad you found your hubby though, hopefully he treats you well!

[sage2021]

SummerSunsets_x

I don't miss my husband. I was glad to get away from him.😅
I watched the video I sent you here. It really brings back some great memories for me. I really hope you watched it. The first link didn't work but the 2nd one I sent you did work.🙂

Thank you for the follow! 👍🏼

[sage2021]

Thank you for the MHO 🙂🧡

[OneViewpoint]

• The music scene sort of turned to shit in the 90's.
• High end audio as a hobby pretty much died in the 90's.
• The US auto market was full of shit cars as Detroit still struggled to make a decent car and Japan was still growing in automotive dominance.
• Desktop and laptop computers, operating systems, and business software like Lotus and MS Office were still struggling to become something useful and relevant for the masses.
• The internet didn't exist yet. That had good and bad connotations.
• Video games were still primitive and struggling to make something fun on hardware and software that just wasn't ready to support the concept yet.
• The Conservative assault on and trashing of the US middle class that started with Reagan in the 80's kept rolling and growing throughout the 90's. And people were clueless about it.

[ManOnFire]

Damn. Can't argue with this, especially the video games. We had SEGA and Playstation and those early games weren't very good.

[fish5505_87]

Pagers

[ManOnFire]

God, those were always so weird to me even as a kid.

[fish5505_87]

I was older, but they were all the rage!

[fish5505_87]

Thanks

[WhiteSteve]

Not having Caller ID, and every time you picked up the phone was a gamble on who was on the other end, haha

[ManOnFire]

Lmfao. Once caller ID came my mom got that quick as shit🤣

[WhiteSteve]

Came out JUST as I got old enough to be ducking bill collectors for that stupid Discover card I got from an on-campus kiosk and immediately maxed out on sneakers and PlayStation🤣

[Anonymous]

Bad tv shows. I remember watching tv. We had only 4 channels at the time in the uk so you were forced to watch either bad soaps or bad commedy shows repeated endlessly like roseanne. I read a lot of books in the 90s and played a lot of computer games.

Roseanne was so bad.

[ManOnFire]

Yes it was one of the worst shows. So was Friends, Frazier, and Seinfeld. Lot of great shows lined up for TGIF though.

[Opinion Owner]

Rosanne was really bad.

[Opinion Owner]

Yiur American so you had about 50 tv stations in the 90s. We had 4. 2 of those were the BBC

[ManOnFire]

Yeah true, we had about a dozen main network stations but hundreds of cable channels. And most of those were either duplicates of the others or foreign channels.

[RFC1872]

Cell phone plans that severely limited calling minutes.

Ex. You had 1000 minutes during peak (0800-1900 m-f) and X number of texts.

Then 'anytime minutes' (nights and weekends).

If you went over some plans charged you.50 to 1.00 per minute in overage fees.

And you ALWAYS went over. When you're a young guy about town doing what young guys do (women) that can hang you quick.

[ManOnFire]

Hell yeah, I remember that shit lol

[AviatorTom]

Dial-up Internet.

It was okay, the only access we had, but high speed Internet that we have today is so much better, whether it's wireless or not.

Best speed I ever got was 9600 bps, now I regularly get 100 Mbps athome. Even Starlink gives me 4 Mbps when I'm at sea, on a cruise

[SummerSunsets_x]

The one thing I don't miss is Definity the slow internet. Everything else like the movies the cassettes I miss so much, like can we please bring back the cool, peace vibe. The nostalgia music, the bell bottoms etc. Sorry I am such a hippie at heart.

[ManOnFire]

What? You're 21 lol. Unless that's not your real age😆

[SummerSunsets_x]

Yes I'm 21 born in 2004, I have always been very mature for my age. I had to grow up very fast due to my x military father (not going to get too much into it) but he was the cause of a lot of things. I am adopted and grew up with older parents who are a lot older and I grew up with a lot of the oldies such as the 90's and 70's. I have always enjoyed the older years, the cars, the music.

[ManOnFire]

@SummerSunsets_x So you're an old soul at heart. I like that.

[SummerSunsets_x]

Yup, that is the best way to explain it. Thank you by the way : )

[Staximus]

You were not even alive yet

[Emily_griffin]

Probably dial-up internet, bulky cell phones, and having to wait for your favorite song to come on the radio 😂. And honestly, some of those 90s fashion choices… we can leave them right there. 😏

[ManOnFire]

"having to wait for your favorite song to come on the radio"
Yeah that shit was always so frustrating lol

[Telekinetic-Potato]

I'm glad the trend of buying ridiculously oversized SUV's went away. And I do not miss how judgmental people were about what kind of music others listen to.

[ManOnFire]

Yeah those SUVs were obesity in a neighborhood.

[Shiprex]

I don't miss the challenges of finding a music track I like on a CD that is somewhere in the drawer. I can listen to it with a few word commands

[blueonblack22]

CDs skipping from road bumps on the road or being scratched.

[blueonblack22]

One thing I can say about the 90s is it was the last decades of authenticity in movies / music. Sure some movies were crap but others were classics. Arnold Schwarzenegger was in his heyday in the late 80s early 90s. Watched T2 again a few weeks ago. It’d STILL GOOD. The t1000 still was scary af.

[ManOnFire]

Yessir, that is why us Millenials look back on the movies from then and the 80s as being much better quality than today. In just filming and storytelling overall.

[Lesbologist]

Oh shit... they used to charge me for not rewinding the movie before I returned it. Meh... it was a step up from the 80's... nobody wants to bring back the old me that was rocking MC Hammer pants with my big orange Sunglasses.

[NathanDavis]

limited trends...

back in the day there was much more limitation and exposure, there was actually ONE, MAIN, STREAM, and that was it... lol

everything else was... more of a scavenger hunt, underground stuff and very niche corners here and there

it's not perfect at all nowadays but I do like that there's so much more and many ways to find out about different things too...

[dragoblack]

The pastel colors with squiggle & triangles fashion and the mullet hairstyle =_=... shiz was ugly AF. Now the grunge fashion on the other hand, was peak.

[ManOnFire]

Hated mullets too. But did love those pastels and shapes lol.

[Staximus]

That was the 80s not the 90s

[dragoblack]

It was also the 90s. I was born in 1992. It may have started in the late 80s but it went through most of the 90s, until 1998 when the y2k stuff became popular.

[Staximus]

I don’t know where you’re from but that shit was over with here by the early 90’s

[rgb008]

Seeing more cigarette smokers on average. I’m glad that has gone down

[ManOnFire]

Oooooh yeah, I remember a lot of that. Glad that's largely gone too. Although vaping is the new bad habit.

[Jackblue]

I don't miss shopping malls and my mother spending all day at them and forcing me to come with her.

[ManOnFire]

Lol. I loved malls as a kid, but I feel you on that.

[blackeagle007]

Movies ran on film. I worked with that and can be a disaster. So much easier how it’s digital. It all comes in a hard drive

[DryGermanGuy]

Cars and motorbikes without catalytic converters. 😷

[ManOnFire]

Ooooh yeah. Don't miss that at all.

[SeekerOfTruth007]

The only semi-realistic fight in Karate Kid series history.

The rest of the franchise was garbage.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z7AV3Mh7gn0

[Xdressertiff]

High heels everyone wore them on a night out

[andreasderjuengere]

My ex Mother-in-Law. She was nice enough, but totally boring as a person

[MrChinaski]

14.4kb dial up

[ManOnFire]

90s internet was definitely ass. Especially AOL.

[FunkyMonkee]

A great deal of the music. T. V., mostly because I never watched any. Our last bass player. My ex-fiance. My brother-in-law. My brother (or, at least the attitude he developed after my BIL died).

[AMS700CX4u2]

It is all transition. A Frog on a log doesn't notice the rapid flow of the river if his log is flowing with it.

[MikeMetal79]

To use the internet, you needed AOL and a second phone, or you'd get disconnected.

[Kingofkings1992]

The way people dressed and styled their hair. Not really a fan of it lol

[Anonymous]

The less advance medical care.

[ManOnFire]

True that.

[Opinion Owner]

Yes.

[queenofcardio]

Terrible internet connection lol

[abc3643]

The Republicans.

[lightbulb27]

being screwed over at work. and the devil

[Tooredpilledtohandle]

Dialup internet

[Likes2drive]

Slow internet

[Staximus]

The cars and the stupid boy bands

[exitseven]

The music was crap.

[ManOnFire]

Whaaaaa?

[exitseven]

I was working in a K-12 school district and I really tried to like the contemporary music. the only act I really like was Ben Folds Five.

[ManOnFire]

I remember them!

[236color]

The HORRIBLE music

[Premium2002]

Definitely the grunge style.

[DonaldDarko]

The music.