What’s something that was popular in the 90s that you don’t really see now?
What’s something that was popular in the 90s that you don’t really see now?
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Pagers
Floppy disks
Snapple
Pay phones
Disposable cameras
Tamagotchi
Collect calls
CDs, Napster
Auto seat belts on compact cars
Using the tones from the number pad to emulate theme songs. For example, 224562 on the old phones sounded like the “go go power rangers” part of the power ranger theme song from that time.
JNCO
Novel drinks like Orbitz with random shit floating around it made of gellan gum.
pop up headlights
Pogs
Walkmans
Windows 95
After school specials
Beanie Babies. They were supposed to pay for my college!
See through technology. Like the purple translucent Gameboy. Hits different.
Clubs with dance battles. I don’t know, I was in elementary and middle school in the 90s but I thought my future would have a lot more dance battles in the club.
SURGE!
Butterfinger BB’s. When the hell did they dissappear?
AOL
Puka shell necklaces
Sega Saturn
Girls Gone Wild
Slap bracelets…koosh balls
Blockbuster
Gateway Computers delivered in a cow box.
AOL chat rooms
3 words
“In Living Color” if you remeber this show man was it funny with most iconc shenane XD
STAR 69 ~ *69
Super Soakers
those spray painted white t-shirts with like, tweety bird wearing grills and chains.
Grunge music
The really big satellite dishes, my uncle had one that looked like it should be able to flag missiles from his yard.
Live Action kids (preschool) TV shows, especially ones that feature puppets. There were SO MANY in the 90s when I was growing up, and I loved them. The only one I can think of that is still running is Sesame Street.
It honestly seems like 99% of current shows made for preschoolers are computer animated.
Waterbeds
I miss these T.V. shows:
Biker mice from Mars.
Street Sharks.
Eureka’s Castle.
Captain Planet.
David the gnome.
Mall culture. I was such a mall rat.
Encyclopedia Britannica and Encarta
Video rental stores. Something about browsing for a movie by just looking at the box, was way more fun than browsing netflix. Sometimes a bizzare random movie you never heard of would catch your eye from across the room which just doesn’t happen with streaming.
Optimism.