What was life like in the 90s?

[thisistian]

I've heard people say how they're nostalgic for the 90's and how they "miss those years so much", so it must have been, in some way, better than the more recent years. I was born in 1999, so obviously I don't know what it was like back then... How does the 90's differ from mid-early 2000's?

 

[Zireael]

I was born in 1993 so I was only 7 when the 90s ended, I guess I have vague memories of what it was like, but it's mostly skewed towards the things I saw or did as a child. Like in school, I remember when we had "TV time" and everything was on VHS tapes. The picture on TV was always fuzzy with static at the bottom and I remember my mum manually rewinding the old Disney classics for me when I was tiny.

Also, gaudy colour schemes. Though I think that's something that mostly hung around from the 80s, but I feel like it got worse in the 90s. Like neon green and pink zebra stripes on the bottom of skateboards and things. Looking at similar patterns gives me a horrible nostalgic feeling, it's really weird. I can appreciate a lot of classic 80s cheese but something about the 90s makes me feel uneasy, it's so bizarre.

 

[seliph]

No one knew how to dress and it was beautiful

 

[Envy]

I don't think much of the 90s in the particular. Most of the decade I was too young to really be conscious. The last half or so of the decade I remember clearer. Even then, all I remember is growing really sick of the Nick cartoons as we didn't have Cartoon Network until maybe 1999/2000. I remember being obsessed with beanie babies. I remember getting obsessed with Pokemon, and getting addicted to Pokemon Red. I remember the original Gameboy and how clunky it was, and how I realized this so clearly even back before the better Gameboys were in my hands. I had to play Pokemon Red on that thing. It was so hard to see it unless you had a lot of light.

Things have come so far since the 90s. I'm so glad.

 

[himeki]

there was a lot of running

 

[Claude]

Nostalgia exists in every decade. I think every adult/young adult gets nostalgic about their happier times.

I was born in the late 80s and lived my childhood in the 90s. Life for me was really easy back then. The internet was just making its way into households, and without internet as we know it today, I watched a lot of tv (Nickelodeon was my life; I even subscribed to Nickelodeon magazine), played with dolls, ran around, did a lot of dancing and gymnastics... you know, kid stuff. I was often happy, had a big imagination... Life was good.

Now, I'm a grown up, and I work a lot, sit in front of a computer or stare at a phone a lot, drive a lot, have crippling anxiety and depression, etc. Not too much makes me happy nowadays.

90s stuff makes me think about happier times.

 

[Antonio]

Ah, the 90's, when rap had less then 3 curse words, actual meaning to the lyrics, and you can understand chat they're rapping about except for the mumble crap we got today.

 

[seliph]

Ah, the 90's, when rap had less then 3 curse words, actual meaning to the lyrics, and you can understand chat they're rapping about except for the mumble crap we got today.

You're 16

 

[Mariah]

I remember going to Blockbuster all the time because I lived behind it. It was great. So many movies.

 

[N a t]

I was born at the end of the 90's. 1997, but between the end of the 90's and the beginning of the 2000's were some of the best cartoons ever aired on television IMO.

 

[Red Cat]

Nintendo 64 graphics actually looked good in the 90's.

 

[tumut]

mmmm...yes the 90s they were so great

 

[demoness]

i was born in 1993, but i still consider myself more nostalgic for the like 2000-2009 era because i was ages 7 to 16 and now that i'm 24 i barely remember the 90s. and what i do remember is 90s by technicality (released in 1998, or 1999), reruns of mid-90s tv shows, or something with 90s origins that really peaked in the early 2000s, and the n64 and ps1.

as far as entertainment goes it's better now

 

[Cheren]

As I recall, life in the 90's was... um... bad. Although, in 1998, we were blessed with a corporeal form our demonic overlord, the Furby.

 

[Dim]

Pokemon took over. Nuff said.

 

[ams]

It was beautiful. All the music was so happy and children didn't have cell phones. Simpler times.

 

[Milena]

No one knew how to dress and it was beautiful

Basically this, yeah.

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

VHS, bad video game graphics, horrible fashion choices... I was pretty young in the 90's but I remember so much of it, so much of it is nostalgic to me. Lisa Frank everything was my jam.

 

[LinkToTheWorld]

I was around throughout the whole of the 90's but I don't think I feel massively nostalgic over it. I guess it's the same for every decade, some people will prefer it over others. Lots of new things came around in the 90's. Pokemon became a huge thing at school, I'll never forget the excitement of owning my first set of Pokemen figures. The internet took off properly when the World Wide Web was invented, I remember having our first computer at home connected to the internet by dial up.
I never owned my own mobile phone throughout most of that decade, there just wasn't anything to use them for other than calls.
It was also a pretty big time for pop groups. Loads of boy and girl bands were founded.

- - - Post Merge - - -

Oh and some of the best TV shows were around...saved by the bell anyone?

 

[Eudial]

I loved the music, the colorful way people dressed, the good video games and some movies that came out around then.