Old enough to remember...

[Rasha]

Good ole 90’s boy bands! Anyone still a fan of the Backstreet Boys (and Nsync)? I still love and listen to them and check their news, BSB are still active singing and performing after 30+ years! They are amazing tbh and if you haven’t listened to them try to check them out! Wish I could see them live

 

[Corrie]

A world without the internet. I know the internet was obviously around for us 90s babies but it was usually dialup or parents wouldn't allow their kids to go online due to talking with strangers, popup ads, etc. I remember being allowed to play CD-ROM games as a young kid but never allowed to "click the blue E". I did once just to see, but the page loaded so slow that I just gave up and went back to playing my CD-ROMS. I adore the way the internet has expanded for online shopping but there's something nice and calm about how simple it was back then. I'd never want to go back though lol. The pros outweight the cons in this one.

I remember also playing the preloaded computer games like 3D Pinball, Chip's Challenge, and the card games. I played Hearts a lot. I never knew how to actually play but I loved clicking on the cards randomly and watch what happened. The CPU players had human names so I was fully convinced I was facing real people lol.

 

[Alolan_Apples]

Since the window has now been extended by three years, here are the new stuff I remember from the early 2010s:

- While there was Angry Birds (speaking of which, I remember when it first came out), most mobile games back then were simpler and were rarely mentioned online. Although some are still on the App Store today, they were mostly forgotten.
- The 3DS before ACNL came out. When I first got one, there were hardly any games for it, so I mostly did StreetPass mini-games and AR games until the eShop opened up for the first time. It only started waking up after ACNL and Pokémon X/Y came out.
- Continuing the discussion of smartphones, home backgrounds were mostly black, you had to slide to open (and there was a home button), the theme was more traditional instead of minimalist (thanks iOS 7), and there used to be a built-in YouTube app until Apple’s and Google’s license expired.
- Facebook (which emerged in popularity in 2010) has ways been a hotbed of controversies, even before the privacy invasion and fake news controversies. There were a few events that got the site in trouble (i.e. it got banned in Pakistan).
- While I already mentioned Windows 98, I also remember Windows XP. I can’t say Windows 7 yet since it was still receiving support up till 2020, but Windows XP was no longer supported.

I know all of this wouldn’t surprise most of us since we’re like 25 years or older, which means this stuff wasn’t too long ago. What’s surprising is how long ago was this, and that would be 10 years or more.

 

[-Raven-]

Remember when iOS didn’t even let you use custom photos for your background?

 

[demoness]

creepshow and tales from the darkside and your friend the cryptkeeper and the most incredible movie in the universe mars attacks and ashley went to medieval times but only fought skeletons and i was unhappy

you know, important definitely child appropriate material for a pastel goth lady's formative years

sugar ray started with metal sound

 

[Nunnafinga]

I remember my first experience with the internet.I bought a Sega Saturn in 1997 and soon afterwards bought the Sega Net Link which allowed you to surf the internet using your Saturn console.The Net Link had a dial-up connection and came with a web browser disc that had to run for the thing to work.It was slower than a pigeon-toed sloth but the thing was actually okay.

 

[VernalLapin]

When Netflix was an online service that would send you actual physical DVDs in the mail in red envelopes.

Also, sorry I didn’t read the first post. I was born in 2002 ^^;

 

[Alolan_Apples]

When Netflix was an online service that would send you actual physical DVDs in the mail in red envelopes.

Also, sorry I didn’t read the first post. I was born in 2002 ^^;

The rule restricting posters to “20th-century born users only” doesn’t matter anymore. It’s an old thread, and it was meant to bring back experiences that were long-forgotten.

50 years from now, if I were still alive by then, I would tell kids many things from history that I lived through, like “I remember 9/11”, “I remember when we had our first black president”, or “I remember COVID-19”.

 

[Dwayne Johnson]

remember zellers? the restaurant they had was awesome, loved their curly fries. i miss video stores too

building on the whole "20th century only" thing, i learned recently that 2000 was actually the last year of the 20th century and not 1999, weird but cool i guess

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

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Oh man I was out walking earlier today, listening to music with my cheap wireless headphones and my iPhone, and it made me think back to when I was like 11; I would walk around with big wired headphones that were connected to my portable CD player. I wish I could show young me how far the technology has come.

 

[oath2order]

remember zellers? the restaurant they had was awesome, loved their curly fries. i miss video stores too

building on the whole "20th century only" thing, i learned recently that 2000 was actually the last year of the 20th century and not 1999, weird but cool i guess

Oh, I know about Zellers! I was a Target employee at the time here in the States, and I remember Zellers and the Target Canada fiasco.

 

[Alolan_Apples]

If you’re under 30, you might have not seen this Disney logo a home video copy.

That flat white and blue Disney castle logo, you can still see it on an older Disney movie. It’s even on a few iTunes purchases of mine.

 

[Belle T]

As a matter of personal curiosity, I'm wondering if anyone here is old enough to have attended a school that used an actual, physical bell, instead of the digital tone played over the intercom that I assume has largely replaced them? The interminable ringing in my ears* is a nostalgic reminder of my childhood, but I wonder if that's been lost to time, or if there are some schools that still use them?

* My ears are fine; I'm just being dramatic.

 

[Beanz]

im not as old as some of the other users on this thread but the only thing i can remember on the top of my head is this:

this is a leapster which was released in 2003, it was a gaming system that could play educational games so you only probably only owned one if you were a small child from 2003-2012. i obviously got it later in it's life span (2010) but this was THE **** when i was 5 years old, i had a ni-hoa kai-lan game on it and i vaguely remember a hello kitty game.