What exactly were the 1990's like? - General

Global warming was but a glimmer in a hippy scientists eye.

I only actually remember the second half, having been born at the start. Yellow trousers. Yellow striped trousers. Even on a little girl they would have looked goofy. Only they didn't, because it was the 90s. Also my first console, the Sega Genesis. My babysitter gave me her son's old one or something with 2 games; American Football which I still don't understand and a lightgun shooter without the lightgun. Also the Asda Creche near me. None of that shit they have today (Not that they still have creches and stuff, with all the paranoia shit), including three SNESes. TV; Nickelodeon. Kenen and Kel and the usual cartoons.

i was born

They played a lot of B ball in western Philadelphia

No one spent more than an hour online because dial up tied up phone lines.

Yeah, we didn't have internet in the 90s. Or atleast internet [i]I[/i] was allowed to use.

[QUOTE=Master117;21762224]No one spent more than an hour online because dial up tied up phone lines.[/QUOTE] I don't think I actually used the internet for fun until 2002. Before that it was to spend 3 minutes looking up cheats for a game or something and then logging out. In the 90s the Internet to me was a big passworded icon with the glorious sound of: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svmYyeRY11o&feature=related[/media]

VCR Tapes

[QUOTE=slippp22;21762221]They played a lot of B ball in western Philadelphia[/QUOTE] Yeah, and guys usually in couples get up to no good and cause trouble in neighbourhoods.

56k Dial-up :smug: Fastest internet around.

Y2K (right at the end and a bit after) Pokemon

In the 90s my dad used to work irregular shifts including nights at BT, but he used to come home from work with cheats and occasionally a game someone had copied for him.

The 90's seemed a lot slower than nowadays. This could be due to us being so young or that technology wasn't as advanced. Computers and the Internet were still pretty new in the household so most children focused on outdoors activities or their toys. It's a shame to look at my little brother who grew up missing the 90's to basically come home from school and just get on the computer or xbox. When I was his age I went out BMX Riding or exploring our town with friends. He just wastes away in front of these devices. I don't have anything against it, but it's always good to do other things.

I remember playing DOS games and Croc 1 & 2.

It was a relatively boring decade as far as I see it. Music was cool but that's about the only part I actually feel nostalgic about. Sure there was the NES etc. but we didn't really play games that much, it was just something we did for a few hours sometimes before going back outside. Mine was usually untouched for weeks at a time and that's probably why I don't have any nostalgic attachment to old games. Computers were mostly office equipment, internet sucked and most of the time browsing the early internet was done by the use of index pages or finding the URL on a magazine or an ad. Sure there was Google but it was not commonly known at the time. I used to tease my sister by picking up the phone when she was done connecting, good times. I enjoyed the end of the decade mostly, with the coming of CDs and stuff. searching for a particular song on a C-cassette was annoying as hell and they (as well as VHSs) got static with use. It was mostly outdoors for me, and weird fads like kick scooters.

yo guys i was like 6 years old but I remember the 90s clear as day because obviously nickelodean was the only thing happening in the whole decade

[QUOTE=cheesedelux;21762271]I don't think I actually used the internet for fun until 2002. Before that it was to spend 3 minutes looking up cheats for a game or something and then logging out. In the 90s the Internet to me was a big passworded icon with the glorious sound of: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svmYyeRY11o&feature=related[/media][/QUOTE] This.

[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;21762317]I remember playing DOS games and Croc 1 & 2.[/QUOTE] [img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EHATMZX0L._SL500_AA280_.jpg[/img] I've still got this.

it was the 80's version 2.0

[QUOTE=Bredirish123;21762315]The 90's seemed a lot slower than nowadays. This could be due to us being so young or that technology wasn't as advanced. Computers and the Internet were still pretty new in the household so most children focused on outdoors activities or their toys. It's a shame to look at my little brother who grew up missing the 90's to basically come home from school and just get on the computer or xbox. When I was his age I went out BMX Riding or exploring our town with friends. He just wastes away in front of these devices. I don't have anything against it, but it's always good to do other things.[/QUOTE] My brother was born in 2001. He hasn't come off the computer since 2005. He just sits there on a couple of forums listening to awful music nobody he really knows likes. And talking to 40 year olds from eastern europe via webcam. At his age I was sneaking into the neighbor's garden with an incredibly small ginger kid and letting about 30 baby rabbits, then biking up and down the river just to ride down the hill again.

Collapse of the soviet block made Eastern-Europe a cold and poor place. Also everyone wore a track jacket and pants.

Nobody here remembers anything other than a few games and TV shows. Unless you were born in the early/mid 80s or late 70s, you really can't say shit from experience about the 90s as a whole. When you're 5 years old, you're not going to know the difference between 1992 and 2010.

[QUOTE=Plasticnoob;21762388]Nobody here remembers anything other than a few games and TV shows. Unless you were born in the early/mid 80s or late 70s, you really can't say shit from experience about the 90s as a whole. When you're 5 years old, you're not going to know the difference between 1992 and 2010.[/QUOTE] Most people recall things from being 5 years old. If you're born 1990 you will know what it was like. But you will remember more trivial matters as world news never reached you.

[img]http://www.lullabyebaby.com/images/sfd_30655-baby-mobile.jpg[/img] Mobiles were WAY more fun in the 90s

[QUOTE=Plasticnoob;21762388]Nobody here remembers anything other than a few games and TV shows. Unless you were born in the early/mid 80s or late 70s, you really can't say shit from experience about the 90s as a whole. When you're 5 years old, you're not going to know the difference between 1992 and 2010.[/QUOTE] I used to make forts in trees and have fights against other forts at a local park. Those were the times. didn't like loosing fights though, that hurt.

Well the cartoons of the 90's were awesome, computers were big and clunky, internet was incredibly slow and the music was pretty cool. That's all I can remember really. Most of us are too young to remember the 90's clearly, you'll have to get someone older.

You didn't miss anything. Life is better now than it was then, unless you look at it through nostalgic goggles. Ouh I mean BACK IN MY DAY!!

[QUOTE=cheesedelux;21762271]I don't think I actually used the internet for fun until 2002. Before that it was to spend 3 minutes looking up cheats for a game or something and then logging out. In the 90s the Internet to me was a big passworded icon with the glorious sound of: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svmYyeRY11o&feature=related[/media][/QUOTE] basically this..

90s were the worst decade for Russia ever.

[img]http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c290/trebor007/telephone.jpg[/img] Late 90's and beyond would be baffled... but that's not the best part! Get this, its a phone, that you can carry around!!! wow!! [img]http://www.stonerforums.com/lounge/attachments/general-discussion/13010d1256345048-memories-90s-first_mobile_phone1.jpg[/img]