If You Haven’t Lived Through The ‘90s, These 30 Memes Might Make No Sense To You (New Pics)
Some would argue that the ‘90s was the best decade ever. Indeed, it was a unique period in history when the internet was just developing, the phones were for the rich and famous, and the equivalent of social media was meeting up with your friends at the mall or the local theater. Perhaps many people long for this decade because people were free from all-consuming technology and an online networking society.
If you’re one of those who often feels nostalgic for the good old ‘90s, boy do we have a treat for you today. Below, you’ll find a list full of posts from the “I was born in the 1990s” Facebook page featuring many experiences and artifacts that only kids from that decade know all too well. Scroll down to embark on a nostalgia-filled journey, and don’t forget to upvote the ones that made your inner kid happy.
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Or escape is everywhere, and you just have to find it - we are fine. It's all about perspective.
Load More Replies...Ah, the good old days! Back when we needed a break from reality, we'd fire up the dial-up and dive into the wonders of the internet. Now? We're practically running away from our screens to hug a tree and feel human again. The irony is real! 😂🌳💻
Nope Trump just won the presidency we're all screwed, you can't even hide on internet now
Step 4, the closing lines are wrong. They are diagonal. It isn't an "s" and has nothing to do with Stussy. The truth is, nobody has any idea what its origins are. There is an entire documentary about it that is fascinating.
Actually no, as a 2000's kid we definitely know how to do this, actually when I first learned I couldn't stop drawing them
So true! If not for Looney Tunes I would've never got into Classical music or learn to play the piano.
So true. Cartoons can be so much more than brain-rotting drivel. Animation at the time was an under rated art form. Classic. Hand drawn/painted...orchestral music, talented writers/actors.
Love Bugs. At my former job this cute young black female semi driver had a layover of about 3 hours. I told her we have road runners here (she was TX based, I'm NM). So we spent some time watching Loony Tunes and giggled through all of it. Boss was ok with it too. FTR, I am female. Our train is the Rail Runner and when the doors close, they meep meep.
When you really think about it, the ‘90s seem to be never-ending. Largely because the decade’s trends are always finding a way to sneak into our current lives.
The plethora of articles naming what 1990s trends are already popular in 2024 and what will be all the rage in 2025 are just proof of that.
At work all the pens I keep in my lab coat pocket do this by themselves all the time
I want to do a video now in the style of those over complicated gun tear down videos on YouTube, but it's a nice ballpoint pen.
Should have shown how to reconfigure it into a spring loaded spear cannon.
I think Pinky was the genius and Brain was insane. I mean Pinky actually took over the world at least once
Load More Replies...Yes, but what if the monkeys don't want to wear pantyhose?
Load More Replies...I once derailed an entire grad school class because I mentioned Pinky & the Brain in my presentation and added that I'd found the entire series online. Instant chaos. Lol
For example, Sincerely Elise, an online community for women, foresees the comeback of the ‘90s grunge aesthetic next year.
“Oversized flannel shirts, band tees, and combat boots will once again be staples in wardrobes, effortlessly mixing comfort with rebellious flair,” it writes. “As sustainability gains traction, thrifted vintage pieces will play a pivotal role in the fashion scene, encouraging eco-friendly practices while embracing nostalgia. Layering will be key, pairing classic staples with contemporary pieces for a balance between edgy and refined.
Not me. He looks happy, why would I laugh at that?
Load More Replies...We had a 90s thing come to town. Seen a purple pair too small for my fat a*s. 100 bones. Going bolimic for next year's pass through.
Sounds like you like limp bizkit and korn but are to immature to admit it
Load More Replies...Or the anxiety of whether or not the home-recorded VHS tape is in fact what the label says...
And hasn't been recorded over when you reach the half way mark!
Load More Replies...Back in my day, a movie would be on TV ONCE, about two years after it came out in the theaters, and then likely disappeared into the ash heap of history. A handful of movies were such classics they were shown annually (the Sound of Music, and that background video for Pink Floyd), and there were a ton of super-old movies that were such bombs that they're copyrights weren't renewed, so they were shown on Saturday afternoon by independent stations, if you had any in your city. Mostly war movies and Japanese monster movies. A handful (Godzilla, It's A Wonderful Life) became legends.
Seriously why did we go to just straight black and white where did the fun colors go!!!
Yes, I got a gameboy last year, I specifically wanted clear purple, it's so satisfying being able to see all the electronics
So far the Nintendo 2DS XL hasn't been spotted by its elder peers, the mission can begin soon!
I was looking at that ...thinking that looked a lot like that weird version of the 2ds.....
Load More Replies...Only if you like that translucent stuff. It's coolness factor ran out quick.
Nope. It peaked with 1980's Heathkits. (Not to mention the absolute *World's Best* manuals.)
A Modern Guy’s lifestyle blog also urges anyone who believes that the 1990s were just a brief phase to rethink it. According to them, men’s fashion will be enriched with oversized clothing, colorful windbreakers, graphic tees, and bold jewelry.
I was real happy when mp3 player were released.. I was a real hard breather. ( But the short aera of mp4 player were weird, tiny vids on kinda big usb Stick)
It was magical to be able to listen to one song before the battery died when it was on anti-skip mode
Yeah, and now those kids are destroying their brains with EMF radiation from the Bluetooth, having that radiation as close to their brain as possible.
Mt sister has a permanent scar on her chin from this, she was in a sleeping bag, and racing to do it, I pulled the other end, she fell chin first into the edge of the cabinet.. she did shoot me in the thigh years later though..so we even I guess..
Then there is the times they walk out of the room with the remote, though at least back then you could usually change channel +- with the buttons on the tv, unlike now.
Some still do have them you just have to search to find them. The are real tiny.
Load More Replies...Straight-leg jeans, baguette bags, slip dresses and mules were the ‘90s trends that people embraced this year. Quite currently, Gen Z was seen wearing bras on top of their shirt—reviving the “risqué" trend of the ‘90s.
Still love them. Serj's voice is still amazing. They're from SoCal too, which is where I live, so I especially loved bands from SoCal when I was a kid/teen in the 90s.
Load More Replies...At least half of these are not from the 90s. The mp3 player isn't from the 90s either.
The first mass-produced MP3 player was SaeHan's MPMan, a solid-state music player that first shipped in 1998.
Load More Replies...I remember them! My mom asked about the hair and I told her "Have you seen where the pencil is!"
Yeah they were a 60s things that came back in the '90s. Awful lot of toys do that. They hit big, die away, and come back 20 to 30 years later. Yo-yos, scooters, scratch and sniff stickers, trolls, if we really wanted to we could probably make a list of 100 things... :)
Obviously OP is not Australian. There's no fairy bread. Are you even having a birthday party if there's no fairy bread?
they're clearly not British either, there's no cheese cubes on cocktail sticks.
Load More Replies...Things haven't changed much. Growing up in the '70s you'd have basically the same menu, except the cake would have come from a mix & the drinks would have been Hawaiian Punch in paper cups.
Nowadays you have to rent a venue. We usually go to the indoor playground. May be an amusement park this year.
Load More Replies...The year before that, it was cargo pants, flared jeans, biker shorts, and overalls. And the year before that, the emphasis was on the ‘90s leather, long socks and the grunge aesthetic. And the year before that... Alright, I think you get the gist. It's quite obvious that the '90s are constantly coming back and being recycled in new ways.
a cousin of my long haired daughter just tought that it would be funny to run the velcro trough her hair and do circle agressively... we had to use olive oil this night to get rid of that thing!!!!
We still have these at home... One can still buy in some shops in Europe😉
Fond memories! I got my kids one too, but this modern one wasn't as sturdy at all.
I have this game. It was fun to play and less dangerous than a real ball, so you can use it to train my child how to throw and catch at an early age.
And God forbid if you returned a video back to the rental store that you hadn't rewound
My dads first DVD player had him confused because he couldn't find the rewind button
No, apparently Snake, this is called the Mandela effect. /jk 🙃👍
Load More Replies...My father once didn’t get out at his trainstation-stop, intentionally(!), because he was getting a new high-score with Snake 😂
SNAAAKE!!! But which one did you prefer? The one on the 3310s or the 3330? 💜😄💜
"Every generation looks back at past trends," says Dr. Renée Middlemost, senior lecturer in Communication and Media. "I believe it has something to do with the way people are watching media these days. With platforms like Netflix around, people recommend shows to each other, and there are less people seeking out new things. Our tastes seem to have narrowed. And with the sharing of videos and content, the online world has made the pop culture loops come around much more quickly than before."
i remember stepping on these ;_;
Load More Replies...These are very much still around and what concerns me most is they're now worn by adults
Absolutely. We also sometimes said things like, “What’s up, homeslice?” and, “Rad!” Go ahead; tell us how cool we were.
The tweet in the photo asks, "Did people in the 90s really say 'all that and a bag of chips'?" And the answer is a resounding yes! We 90s kids had a whole snack-related vocabulary. 😆 It's like we were walking, talking snack commercials! Guess we were really "all that and a bag of chips"! 🥤🍟
Just wait, in 30 years the future generations will be asking why Millies and GenZers were so stupid with their sayings. Oh wait, Gen Alpha already does.
Potatoes are for boiling, mashing, putting in a stew. What's its purpose here?
Numb the earlobe with the ice. Hold the potato behind the earlobe to keep the earlobe in place/firm. Stab earlobe violently with needle. Home-pierced ears, if your parents wouldn't let you get them pierced professionally (...or at Claire's in the mall, which was def NOT "professionally".)
Load More Replies...Our neighbor pierced my sister's ears this way, and then used the method again some time later to (painfully, according to sis) re-open one that was starting to close up. The neighbor's tough-guy husband couldn't even watch, LOL.
When I was young lad I pierced my own left eyebrow and right nostril like this. I don't recommend it.
Marjorie Ingall and Mark Oppenheimer in their article Were the 90s the Best Decade Ever? The ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ Debate Continues even argues that we haven’t really evolved since the ‘90s. “Yes, there has been social and political progress since—or rather, there has been some, but we have lately slid backward in some obvious ways,” they write.
I never liked creme eggs, the filling somehow seems to taste sweeter that pure sugar. It's not that I don't like sweet things but in this case.... Yuck.
It is pure sugar with colouring but you are right it manages to be very sweet
Load More Replies...I still have AIM installed on my computer. It hasn't worked in decades, but I leave it installed (and the icon on my desktop) for nostalgia reasons.
Trillian took over resolving aim accounts so i still use it to chat with my gf
Load More Replies...I still remember my icq number, and chatting to random strangers just because.
Load More Replies...TV TODAY: Do not imitate what you're about to see! KIDS TODAY: Awwww, I'm about to blow up on Tik Tok!
Anyone hear played dress up with towels pretending you where a Namekian
This begs the question, “Are we stuck in the ‘90s?” just because it’s an era that is nice to think about, before smartphones took over the world. This will probably be answered by future generations who will be able to observe our behaviors in a wider context. But it’s still interesting to think about. So what are your thoughts on this, dear Pandas? Make sure to leave your insights in the comments below!
I had one, too! At about 14, as a little goth-in-training, I upcycled it into a haunted house by painting it all black an glueing moss on it and hid condoms, loveletters and cigarettes in it.
I think you were a lil more disturbed than being goth
Load More Replies...HOLY ████ DON'T ASK HOW OR WHY BUT I HAD THIS FOR A TIME although did not know it came with two kids actually take that back, it has a swingset for the porch if i recall correctly (i know this was the past and i am a boy, but even then ████ gender roles)
Doll houses man, I had a Dora the Explorer one, these were always so cool
I'm worried that I can see a double bed for the adults, cot for baby but nowhere for the other 2 children to sleep
You could spend a fortune on getting all the furniture and accessories for the dollhouse. I know, I bought them for my daughter!
Load More Replies...The only thing I liked when I had to go to afterschool care was they had this set.
Laser pen with batteries and different heads to change the shape of the laser to butterfly,star,spaceship etc
Load More Replies...I still play a video game where you are just little square that changes color depending on what screen you were on to save memory in having multiple colors
Same, that stuff is so much easier on my skin than regular foundation.
Load More Replies...Ohh, I remember those blusher beads, I always thought they were so cool, but when they were most in vogue I was a broke university student :-(
this is how I remember them. Mine had it's batteries taken out and still went all "wah wooh me waahh" in the middle of the night. I'm not even joking. s-l1200-67...e0788a.jpg
Same thing happened to my family! My mother moved it to the garage 'cause we were so freaked out! LOL
Load More Replies...Imagine a slasher movie about forgotten furbies. Like revenge of the furries
Did you ever notice they look like the Gremlins before midnight?
But those days were ended in fire and blood when the mighty Steam nation began its war of attrition.
We had that too. This was for residential and business numbers, the yellow pages was just for business.
Load More Replies...I will never forget the video of the little girl at Christmas who received one of these. First try and it ends up flying into the lit fireplace. I feel bad for her, but I still laughed at it.
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee CRISP
Load More Replies...These Sky Dancers were recalled and discontinued due to many injuries back in 2000.
These were powerful! Our first launch broke the ceiling fan light!! 😆we couldn't stop laughing, in spite of the mess and trouble! TKO!
i used to like to launch mine from the top of the stairs across the living room and annoy the hell out of my parents :D
Every machine I get on...still fighting to get back to windows 95 look. Leave me alone!! And let me compute 😎.... Open-shell still works, even on 11
Luckily, they can't rewrite all of Windows, so the old school diagnostic and maintenance tools are still there if you know how to find them
Load More Replies...Yeah not hairbands - actual o-rings worn as bracelets, and they came in different colors too!
I never heard them called that. We just called them bracelets, until I got to high school and some people called them f**k bands
Load More Replies...Polly Pocket. I got a few of these as Christmas and birthday presents until my family realized I wasn't a very girly girl and I didn't like things like that XD Though I always did love the miniaturized "houses" that were "hidden" inside the compacts/mirrors/etc. I loved that concept.
Did OP fall asleep right after the start of the movie or how did they miss this?
I would have been 7 when it came out in 1990, so I was 7 when I found it out BECAUSE IT WAS OBVIOUS AND HE EVEN TALKED ABOUT DOING THAT TO CASE HOUSES TO MARV.
these were mini ones sold in little tubs like that, I quite often had them in lunchbox during school
Load More Replies...Mmmm never seen em, but for me it was those yogurt tubs with the seperate compartment for sprinkles or chocolate biscuit bits.. Or those teeny red cheese wheels
I loved the tiny Babybel cheeses! And I LOVED the Handi-Snack breadsticks and cheese snack packs. Though I remember when I was an even-younger child we got little snack packs that were flat crackers and cheese spread and it even came with a small red rectangle of plastic you could smear the cheese on with XD
Load More Replies...I used one of these as an adult to legally obtain a recording of a local politician in a private meeting saying horrible things about the most vulnerable in our neighborhood. If the device is visible, you do not have to tell them you're recording. We all had to leave our phones at the door, I sat it on the table, and hit record before they came in. They looked right at it several times, and had no idea. I posted it online, and people were horrified. It didn't change the way people saw our neighborhood, and the next person was just as bad, but it was so worth it because she was god awful to us and so smug. She laughed when we talked about a hotline, to gather data, and said "they are all crack whores, let the cops just arrest them for walking down the street". She was talking about our neighbors.
So much mayhem was accomplished with that thing, it was a wonderful and chaotic time.
Yay 90‘s actors playing the role of a teenager…. (I know this picture was originally for the mobile phones but made me instantly think of this)
I recognise Andy peters and John barrowman but don't know the ladies name
Load More Replies...Got it spot on. Tracy Island, Lady Penelope's Pink Rolls Royce, Thunderbird 3- Mobile command centre, Thunderbird 3- Space rescue and resupply for Thunderbird 5 (Space Station), Thunderbird 2-Heavy transport most commonly carried Thunderbird 4 a submersible shaped like a little yellow Reliant Robin
Load More Replies...Completely agree- the Blue Peter home-made version was an absolute legendary build that blew the actual version out of the water, and became world-famous.
Load More Replies...*Old* Sky? This is Sky in its digital incarnation. I remember the analogue Sky!
I used to fit Sky in the late 80's. This was the menu. Also fitted motorised systems with D2Mac decoders
Load More Replies...I was so jealous of my rich cousins who had Sky. We were thrilled just to finally get the 4 BBC channels. Before that it was just RTE and Network 2, but that one only worked if it wasn't too windy.
I remember Sky a lot longer before it became digital like this. Sky used to have a button on the remote control to de-couple it from the sky-approved channels, allowing you to access hundreds of other channels from around the world.
I'm too old for this as when I was a kid there was only one version available of a crunchie
Same. I actually didn't know there was any other kind until I saw this pic.
Load More Replies...I've never seen any of these versions of crunchie, I guess we didn't get them in Australia. Violet crumble is still better anyway.
With nectar? (I've never seen them this price, but that because we brought in dollars and cents when I was about 2)
Cadbury Egg McFlurry. Was only around one easter in the 90s
Load More Replies...We have a great lolly shop (Pennyworth of lollies) about 25mins from where I live that still has a great range of boiled lollies. They charge more than I would like though. There is a lot of nostalgia for me, because it was around when I was a kid too, and there were so many 'old fashioned' lollies and we would stop there every time we went to stay at a holiday home. About 10 years later an Asian company bought it and mostly sold imported lollies, but 5-10 years later it was sold again to someone who restored it to the older style, though there are still a number of US imports, like Nerds etc.
My sister claiming the title of '90s kid' even though she only lived in the 90s for a few months, unlike my brother and I, who were born at the other end of the 90s!
Even 2010, I was born in the 2000's, some of this stuff was very familiar, remember DVD menu screens?
This only just makes it into the 90s, just like my sister (born in 99). She was more the age group to watch it than me and she liked it. She still complains because somehow her 'Bella' doll got lost/broken which devastated her.
F$%K THOSE THINGS! My daughter had one of those things in a happy meal... That exact same one! It kept playing over and over and over again and would not stop. She came to me with it one day and a hammer begging me to make it stop. No matter how much it beat the c**p out of it, it kept going. I believe to this day a digitally beeped and slightly distorted 'Just A Little' emanates from some long abandoned landfill where it has driven off the workers there. Liberty X were in the 2000's
Those are cheer shoes. I know no one that wore those unless they cheered. But that may just be me.
Yeah I recognize those from our high school cheerleaders wearing them. They put on the green and yellow arrows for our colors.
Load More Replies..."What aspect of the '90s do you miss the most?" Not having back pain all the time.
For me it's the knees. I didn't follow that advice of that Sunscreen Song and now....
Load More Replies...I recognized only a few but I grew up I the 60's and the 70's. These were way after my time.
we had an acient VCR... when you had to wind back a tape for longer than 10 seconds it would sound like an airplane tried to land in the garden. And when done the CLUNCK sound was so loud you'd think the tape was in the garden too!
My uncle had a machine that rewound the tapes, nothing else. It did it about 10 times faster than the VCR.
Load More Replies...Things on this list that are UK/English: Penguin biscuits, everything Cadbury's, Ballycastle, the Bournemouth phone book, Lucozade, Barratt Shrimps and Bananas, Sky TV, the toy prize that came from "Maccies", rhubarb & custard candies, Little Chef, Tweenies, Percy the Park Ranger. Things that as far as I know, weren't EXCLUSIVE to the US: mp3s, Nokia phones, Disney videos, VCRs, Windows Live Messenger, computers, ballpoint pens, laser pointers, hair clips shaped like butterflies, RCA cables, McDonalds, video games, Barbies, Sony CD players, Furbies, Power Rangers. That was 15 things that were English/British, btw, and 16 or so things that weren't US-exclusive. How is this "so US-centered"? Over 20% of the list is British.
Load More Replies...Our VCR rewound so aggressively it snapped the tapes if you let it rewind all the way. It used to scare the sh1te out of me.
Uh, it's not. Not even remotely. Ballycastle isn't available in the USA, and "Tweenies" and Percy the Park Keeper were British children's shows. Most of the Cadbury's products were UK-exclusive and not available in the USA either, and the Bournemouth phone book shown is from a town in England, not the USA.
Load More Replies..."What aspect of the '90s do you miss the most?" Not having back pain all the time.
For me it's the knees. I didn't follow that advice of that Sunscreen Song and now....
Load More Replies...I recognized only a few but I grew up I the 60's and the 70's. These were way after my time.
we had an acient VCR... when you had to wind back a tape for longer than 10 seconds it would sound like an airplane tried to land in the garden. And when done the CLUNCK sound was so loud you'd think the tape was in the garden too!
My uncle had a machine that rewound the tapes, nothing else. It did it about 10 times faster than the VCR.
Load More Replies...Things on this list that are UK/English: Penguin biscuits, everything Cadbury's, Ballycastle, the Bournemouth phone book, Lucozade, Barratt Shrimps and Bananas, Sky TV, the toy prize that came from "Maccies", rhubarb & custard candies, Little Chef, Tweenies, Percy the Park Ranger. Things that as far as I know, weren't EXCLUSIVE to the US: mp3s, Nokia phones, Disney videos, VCRs, Windows Live Messenger, computers, ballpoint pens, laser pointers, hair clips shaped like butterflies, RCA cables, McDonalds, video games, Barbies, Sony CD players, Furbies, Power Rangers. That was 15 things that were English/British, btw, and 16 or so things that weren't US-exclusive. How is this "so US-centered"? Over 20% of the list is British.
Load More Replies...Our VCR rewound so aggressively it snapped the tapes if you let it rewind all the way. It used to scare the sh1te out of me.
Uh, it's not. Not even remotely. Ballycastle isn't available in the USA, and "Tweenies" and Percy the Park Keeper were British children's shows. Most of the Cadbury's products were UK-exclusive and not available in the USA either, and the Bournemouth phone book shown is from a town in England, not the USA.
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