Time is a strange beast. One moment you think it’s still 1999/2004/2012, the next you realize you’re sitting in 2021. Confused, with no idea where the years went, there you are, busily counting how old you are on your fingers. Time doesn’t just fly by: it soars, does loop-de-loops, backtracks and fast-forwards, drips like a leaky faucet, rushes like a raging river, and delights in making you feel old and still young all at once.
Well, our team over here at Bored Panda wants time to be on our side, so we’re about to make you feel old and pine for the '90s and 2000s. Did we say ‘feel old?’ Sorry! We meant ‘feel nostalgic.’ Whoops. You’ll definitely get these memes and jokes if you remember the '90s and 2000s well, so scroll on down for a trip down memory lane, and remember to upvote the pics that you liked the most. We’d also love to hear from you what trends, technologies, and events you liked the most from that era. So be sure to leave us a comment below.
Bored Panda wanted to learn more about our nostalgia for earlier decades, so we reached out to Kemi Omijeh, a child and adolescent therapist who is based in London and is also a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Read on for her insights, dear Pandas!
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The Days Of Poor Graphics And Endless Hours Spent On These Games
I never figured out how to play minesweeper back then, and still vaguely understands it now.
That's if you had the Win95 "Entertainment Pack" which not everyone had. Ski Free was my favorite.
Load More Replies...And yes, the exclusive releases. Imagine the release trailer for MS paint. "Make a shape. Fill it with colour. That's it."
Can't look at a picture of 3D Pinball Space Cadet without hearing the startup and ball ready sound sound, you probably heard it aswell. bwwwwwwwwwWWWOOO dindindin tonk drink clurnk
The refuelling noise too? Swip swip swip swoop swooh (I'm not good at writing down the sound in my head lol sry)
Load More Replies...Born in 2003 but those games were literally my childhood... Such good memories though I never knew what I was doing :)
Also, Dos games. You had to restart your computer every time you wanted to play one so that, instead of typing "win" and pressing enter, you would type in the file name of the game. Did a lot of ssf2 ♡
Load More Replies...Anyone Else Get Mesmerized By The Windows 95 Screensavers As A Kid?
Got this set right now as my screensaver on my pc! omg this thread is just making me so happy
I Also LOVE Windows 95 The Same Amount As 98 And Also Wish They'd Bring This Back As Well Because Am Unable To Play Certain Games OnThe Garbage We Have Today !!!
OMG!! I literally just posted a comment in the other picture about this before i reached this!!!
Goals
I was so concerned when they said that, I tried so hard to learn my times tables by rote but had a mental block. Recorded myself saying them on my wee ghetto blaster and played it at night, didn't work. Thought omg I will fail life X( ......then I got to high school and discovered calculators were mandatory. Thanks teachers smh
I believed that lie too! But I still suck at doing math in my head
Load More Replies...Hahahahaha, yes! One of my math teachers would say, "If you were stuck on a desert island, what would you do?" It was a trig class, and I pointed out that if we weren't carrying a calculator, the odds would be even slimmer that we'd be carrying a slide rule. LOL
If I was stuck on a desert island I would worry more about starting a fire than calculate how many coconuts the palm tree can carry without falling over.
Load More Replies...According to therapist Omijeh, our memories of the past can contribute to our sense of self and well-being. "The period of time we tend to be nostalgic over are significant moments that stood out. Perhaps it was a time when we felt happiest or safest, or perhaps it’s a period where things changed for us."
She explained that the age we were at during the era doesn't matter as much as what exactly the time period represents to us. "Our memories of the past can change over time depending on how often we revisit and also depending on what is going on for us in the present."
Latchkey Kids Unite!
Yes, when did this change? I was capable of having a snack and not dying when home alone at age 7.
I used to peel, cut and fry potatoes and sunny side up or scrambled eggs by then. My mom worked all day until late at night so I was pretty much alone all the time if I wasn't at school or outside with friends.
Load More Replies...And you don't see this as child neglect? Your parents wanting nothing to do with you day in and out?
Load More Replies...I remember the front door being opened, that was the sign to leave and don't come back until you're covered in s**t you've and grazed your elbows and knees
And nobody could just call you on your phone. I disappeared into the woods for 6 hours and nobody freaked out. "Eh, she'll be back when she gets hungry. Just forgot the time while jumping from tree to tree."
Load More Replies...When we had no school, me and other kids on the street would head into the woods right after breakfast and come home in time for dinner. No one checked on us.
True but let’s be real, child abduction was statistically more common back in the 70s and 80s
Load More Replies...I was left home for hours and even full days when both my parents worked Saturdays but what has changed is the realisation that adults have been molesting children and taking advantage of these opportunities to do so..
This has been an issue then too. Hence the only two weeks when I had to stay close while there were rumors about a shady person being around and supposedly kidnapping.
Load More Replies...I was even left home alone when I was 10 and had the flu. It was the first time I was sick during school time, before that I always got sick during vacations. Played so many computer games on that first sick day and it was great! :D Came home all alone when I was 8 and those moments alone were great! Grandma was worried that I'll burn the house down with the microwave oven though. After a couple of years it was me, my sister and 2 neighbour girls and we had our after school shenanigans. We tried out all the spices we found in each house, cooked bacon in the microwave oven, watched cartoons, played games, came up with new play pretend things.. Good times! And then the adults would come home and we'd get yelled at.
I learned to cook while my mom was at work...so that’s that. Good luck 00’s kids.
The Last Time
I thought I was the only one, I'm glad to see the old ways are still out there XD
Load More Replies...Substit "burning a CD" with making a mix tap for the crush. Oooh the innocence.
And trying to get the song recording stopped just before the dj starts talking again! *finger hovers over 'stop□'*
Load More Replies...I always use an oven , a frying pan or a campfire to burn mine ... AND They Actually Worked ... They had singe marks all over them ... TOTALLY TORCHED !!! Yeah Those Were And Are Great Days Because I Still Burn Mine !!!!
I still do. Burned a dvd a few wks back & copied a cd of mine for my sister over the summer
Windows 98
Also the space screensaver, the one with just stars on a black background moving forward. ♡
Load More Replies...I loved the tube screensaver. I just thought that was awesome for some reason. No drugs, just curious which way it would bend. Like that game snake but easier because you didn't have to do anything. I can only conclude i was a weird kid.
I LOVE WINDOWS 98 And I Wish They'd Bring It Back Because I Have Computer Games That Refuse To Work On These Pieces Of Total S**t We Have Today !!! I Also Love Floppy Disks !!!!
Omijeh joked that "of course, the '90s was better! But then again, I may be being very biased here." The therapist pointed out that who we were during each decade will influence our impressions of it.
"Generally speaking, the better decade is associated with youth and freedom. Nostalgia also often gives us rose-tinted glasses from which to reflect from. How we reflect on the past decades can play a part in how we engage with the current decade." If you're living in the UK and would like to speak to a therapist, you can find a counseling professional through the BACP right here.
Movie Time In School
oh man, and the high pitched sound it would make when you turned it on!
Load More Replies...I say if it ain't broke don't fix it, in that it's good it's not just at a landfill :) I hope it works properly tho!
Load More Replies...Oldie here from school in the 1960's. We had real film projected on the pull down white screen above the real blackboard with a bulky movie projector set up in the back of the classroom. Had to have the lights off and the window blinds closed. It was fun!
Yup. I'm that old. And in 6th grade I was trained as a specialist with the 16mm film projector. The teacher would occasionally send me to fetch the projector and get the movie ready so she could keep lecturing. I felt so special but the other kids thought I was a nerd.
Load More Replies...We got 16MM films. When we did get TVs they were either hooked up to a CCTV system in the school or there was actually a B&W Reel To Reel Video Tape Deck. It took 7" reels of 1/2 tape. Usually a Sony or Panasonic! I remember learning how to thread one up. Sony-60421...8870d9.jpg
When I was a kid it was the old reel to reel movies where the sound always had that shaky vibration to it reel-to-re...fae5c7.jpg
That Was Fun !!! I Really Enjoyed Watching Movies On tv In School And Totally Miss It !!! Those Were Some Great Movies Back Then Not Like To Day Where Kids Today Can Watch What THEY Want During Class !!!
I remember watching the news on that thing... the Challenger explosion during elementary school...
This happened to me until middle school. I was born after the 90s
I Member...
I am this old!! When I saw this pic, I literally heard the thunk of the ball hitting the pad, and the rip of taking it off to throw again.. Aah, good times 😄🤣
i honestly HATED the sound of the rip
Load More Replies...Seeing this picture makes me want to buy it again too!
Load More Replies...I'm Lawn Dart old. Like "Stand with the ring at your feet while your friend throws" old.
I play with these, I am still a kid, so why would be good times, it is the same now.
Ok,so here's the thing I hink I am that old at the same time I don't I have played with thee and taking off the ball is hard af.
Ceilings In The 90s
I have them on my ceiling now! I love them so much! And to be extra I put them on my walls too so I feel like I'm in the middle of a galaxy :)
Load More Replies...My ceiling has them now, plus I have moons too. Although they were already here when we moved in but I still get mesmerised by them lol. Funny thing is that I never had these when I was a kid and were all the rage.
We have them on the ceiling in the basement, lol. They're stickers instead of the plastic ones though. Lots of glow in the dark stuff on the walls, a lava lamp, a neon sign, aaaaaand one LED color changing moon to bring it together 😂 ... we're all over thirty...
Load More Replies...Maybe I'm just an old millennial, but is anyone else tired of the whole "nobody, absolutely nobody" thing" Just me? oh ok..
No, not only you. It’s okay when it makes sense, but... it doesn’t here.
Load More Replies...Did it for my son when he got hid own bedroom last year ;)
Load More Replies...Mine still has them and my kids in fact for Valentine's a few years ago I did a full on constellation thing from the night me and my husband met lol
Bored Panda previously spoke about nostalgia with therapist Omijeh in more depth. "Many psychologists, myself included, believe our childhood is the foundation to who we are as adults. It explains why we frequently revisit our childhood as it influences our present," Omijeh told Bored Panda.
According to Omijeh, the kind of childhoods that we had directly correlates to how we remember our childhood experiences. To put it simply: we’re nostalgic for the times that we felt loved and nurtured.
“If we’ve had a difficult childhood, it can be hard to feel nostalgic, instead it will feel like something we need to get over in order to move on," the therapist said.
Pretty Much
That would be pretty advanced for the 90's. The tigers in the original Tomb Raider were just a black and orange pixelated smudge in the shape of a dog.
It's kind of sad that we are rarely excited by the graphics now...the expectations are already high I think, when back then we were happy with much simpler things
I'm still happy with simpler things no worries. The most updated gaming I have is a PS3 and I'm 23 lol
Load More Replies...I played the first Gran Turismo a few months ago again. How the hell did I think that Honda actually looked like the real car and was so good???????
Too bad they can't change their squares otherwise it wouldn't be Minecraft anymore
Load More Replies...Gather Round, Children, While I Tell You Of Bath Beads
And don't dip ur head under, these wee things had some serious oil in them! I know it seems obvious bit I was a kid Lol, mum was so grumpy "why didn't u wash ur hair last night and why is it so oily?!" Me: "but I did!". Still remember the emergency hair sink wash so I wouldn't be late for school and I didn't do that again!
Load More Replies...I knew these as bath pearls, you had to use them up quite quickly or make sure no moisture got into the packet.
I was just going to say the same thing - bath pearls - I used to try to pop them before they melted!
Load More Replies...Trying not to break your ass after your sister used the bath oil ones and didn't rinse out the tub...
Burning The Sickest Cds In The Neighborhood
YUS!! And a 1...2...3...4!🎵A little bit of Monica in my life, A little bit Erica by my side, A little bit of Rita is all I need, A little bit Tina is what I see...🎵
Load More Replies...My favourite episode of Brooklyn Nine Nine! https://youtu.be/ffyKY3Dj5ZE
Load More Replies..."Nostalgia can also be a good coping strategy for times of low mood and challenges," she detailed. However, she warned that nostalgia is only useful to a certain extent. The moment it starts interfering with our ability to be present in our everyday lives is the moment that we should start to be worried.
“If we end up comparing it to our experiences today and feeling like nothing is as good as it was, then this will inevitably affect our mood and our ability to do what we need to do," Omijeh said. “We can become stuck in our nostalgia; in which case it might be best to seek help from a counseling professional to help you process your past in order to enjoy your present,” the therapist explained. In short, it’s fine if you feel nostalgic for the 90s and 2000s, but remember to enjoy 2021, too!
Good Ol' Days
Didn't the plastik chokers of girl magazines have a comeback 2 years ago?
Load More Replies...And glitter! Glitter in everything. Lipgloss, eye shadow, bodyspray, lotion, even my glitter had glitter. Those were the days :D
I had the glittery impule body spray it was like getting sandblasted!
Load More Replies...And WAY over-plucked eyebrows. Thin line brows were the thing, and now we're all stuck with patchy ones that we have to fill in.
Sure Grandma
You kids! I used to have one of those fake cassettes with a headphone wire... to play my Sony Discman...
Pfffff! I used put actual cassettes in the cassette player! When the Discman came along, that was hooked up to my parent's old record deck as my only sound system in the house!
Load More Replies...Even had the discman velcroed to the dash so I could take off after driving so nobody would steal my sweet system.
For the tech upgrade before this one, the adapters were shaped like 8 track tape covers, and were intended to play the smaller cassette tapes in 8 track players.
Joke's on you. I had a real cassette player. It played a song about... a snail... being... on train tracks... Yeah, i don't get what that was all about either.
I have a fake cassette to use my 1Gb ipod shuffle with the same songs on it from 10 years ago
Fridays At Blockbuster
Remember driving around to all the video shops in town to find the movie you wanted to watch?
There was a blockbuster in my old town, but it left, so i only went there once or trice, stupid O'Reilly's...
Load More Replies...Who remembers sitting by the front desk waiting for somebody to turn in a movie you wanted ?
I remember it taking my kid 2 hours to pick a freaking movie! Now he does it at the grocery store, and he's 28! 😐😂
You could sometimes get three for the price of two if they were really pathetic old ones that no-one wanted to watch. Happy days! Sigh!
When it's 1980, and the only video store was a local mom and pop shop that had one copy of each movie (maybe two if they still carried Betamax), and you had to actually rent a player with it because owning a VCR was too expensive. When Blockbuster and Hollywood Video started stocking hundreds of copies of a single popular title, it was mind-blowing.
Oh, and there was always that "back room" that your parents told you not to go into.
Load More Replies...Be kind, rewind. When rentals had to be back by midnight or you get charged an extra night. $2 per rental. Redbox killed Blockbuster, and next year it will be more expensive.
In the eighties when average wage was around £4 an hour & it cost £5 to rent a video for a night then take it home & play it on your remote control VCR which had a 3 foot lead to the handset!!.....& after all that the tracking would be out sou you would have to fine tune it for 10 minutes!!
All the newest N64 titles in one spot! And they even have week long rentals!
Earlier, Bored Panda also spoke about the changes in technologies and trends over the past few decades with Ramona Pringle, who is the Director of the Creative Innovation Studio and Associate Professor at the RTA School of Media at Ryerson University.
According to her, even if we know what trends occurred in the past, we can’t say for certain what the future will hold. “We don’t know what the future holds, and anyone who says that they do is selling snake oil. But, there are certain things we can count on: we love stories, and we love to be part of something biggest than ourselves. Be it oral storytelling, books, blogs, movies, or video games, we’ve never lost our love of narrative.”
Entertainment and connectivity, then, will continue being a vital part of our history as human beings as we move boldly (or trembling slightly from excitement and anxiety) into the future. “Equally true, even when we can’t go into a concert hall or colosseum, we look for ways to be together, connected, and part of a communal experience. The tech might change, but these will continue to be the drivers of our entertainment experiences,” Pringle said.
Before The Days Of Internet
To be fair, AFTER the internet any douche can post something and MILLIONS will believe it. Give me "middle school kids any day. 😎
Now with the internet this will really happen and it will become a challenge
Now, some dude on the internet will tell you the world is run by cannibal pedophiles and you will just go around believing it for the next 20 years.
I believed that Sandy Duncan had a glass eye right up until last week.
OMG! I was today years old when I learned this wasn't true.
Load More Replies...And Marilyn Manson had a rib removed to suck his own d**k.
Can you do that ? Sounds like it would be cheaper than marriage... has anyone double checked :D ?
Load More Replies...Lol
I still divide the sections in my head into discs when playing them on Steam. Which one was or is your favourite? (Or favourites)
Load More Replies...You forgot, the film was actually recorded from TV. Might contain ad breaks.
Load More Replies...Yes! And then waiting for the next level to load after you change discs. I was always so worried about scratching one and never being able to finish the game. I got it on Steam a little while ago and still imagine the disc divisions in my head. Having separate discs for each area also ended up being a helpful clue.
Load More Replies...I distinctly remember one of the LotR movies being released on a specially made VHS cassette that could hold more tape so they wouldn't have to split it in half.
YES Because Back Then People Were To Lazy To Put It All On 1 VHS Cassette Tape !!!
What? Titanic was too long for one tape. Or i have been whooshed lol
Load More Replies...Remember when you recorded die hard ou the prince of bell Air on top of your parents marriage, baptism or first times house or other historic moment ? And the futebol you saw on top of your 1 year old anniversary.
I still have a DVD of Stargate that I have to flip over half way through. It was free with my first DVD player. I should check to see if it even works in any of my current players.
"I believe you'll get your headlines Mr. Ismay" then put in tape 2
It Really Was
And do you think I can remember how to fold them like that? I used to start all my letters with Hey Chicky or Hey Chicka dee and end with Catch ya round like a fruit loop.
I wish I could go back to the '90's and start using catch ya round like a fruit loop. I swear I'm going to say this to my 13 year old before he gets on the bus in a few minutes!!
Load More Replies...Yes! And making you read it aloud for everyone to hear :D
Load More Replies...I still know how to fold notes like this! I can't remember really IMPORTANT things but by golly I can fold a note like I'm back in the 9th grade! :)
After a teacher read our letter me and my best friend actually invented our own alphabet at the age of 10. It worked, and the teacher was so pissed. I find this totally amazing now I am 31 :D
Yooooo this happened to me once! The teacher read out loud my note to another girl while I wasn’t in class and we made sure to put really mean things about the teachers on all our notes so they’d never read them out loud again! Hahaha. I’m 35.
Load More Replies...Pringle explained to Bored Panda that over the next decade, entertainment tech will change and improve, focusing even more on immersion and interactivity.
“For the last decade, we’ve leaned into virtual reality because of how it enables both of these. We can step inside a world and have influence over it, and the story or experience that unfolds,” she said. “I think one of the things we can expect moving forward is, in a sense, the opposite of virtual reality. Instead, more of an enhanced reality or fictional reality, wherein the entertainment isn’t in a headset, but instead, all around us.”
They Were The Best
We're the Planateers, and you can be one too, 'cos saving our planet it the thing to do! The power is YOURS.
Load More Replies...We had mostly (but not exclusively) Japanese cartoons on Italian TV. Still remember the lyrics to all those songs by Cristina D'Avena (love her, btw ♡)
I used to listen to her songs before. I even remember some of the few and sometimes sing it.
Load More Replies...Saturday mornings in the 60's... The Archies, Wacky Races, Scooby Doo, The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Hour, Groovie Goolies...
Räuber, Diebe gehn' auf Ganoventour, doch zwei ganz liebe sind schon auf Ihrer Spur, ist der Fall auch schwer, der Weg auch weit, sie sind steht's für dich bereit. Chip Chip Chip und Chap - Ritter des Rechts
Load More Replies...Gonna help him pull asunder bad guys who like to loot and plunder! Voiceover: you'll pay for this captain planet! I adored both the fire ring guy and the bad last with the blonde hair half on her face to cover her scar, I would spend ages making my hair like that for fun and prancing about
How Many Of Us 90s Kids Destroyed Our Family Computer With Viruses For Free Music?
Your youth is showing. Many of us will never forget the original. RIP Napster
See you, and I'll raise you. MP3.com -- where you had to hope the bands you liked would put their demoes up before they made it big -- then you'd download the album on napster on a 56k modem, one track at a time, and you'd better not forget to plug the phone back in!
Load More Replies...Yep, and waiting for the right song to come on the radio with my finger on the Record button so you won't miss too much of the intro!
Load More Replies...Kazaa was a gamble sometimes, NO I DON'T WANT THE KORN DISCOGRAPHY IN EXE FORMAT, also downloading jpgs was a massive gamble, I saw some nasty stuff from mislabelled jpgs.
It's how I leant to fix computers and get rid of viruses. Now I do it for a living.
Torrents didnt really get big until early 2000's. And was seemingly only because all the sharing sites, like this, Napster, & Kazaa, were all shut down. Their also still pretty big too. I use torrent sites daily between games, movies, tv, & music. I thank got for pirate bay every day! Lol!
Load More Replies...90s vs. 2019
The changes to tech have been massive, but we’ve absorbed them so well (some of us, anyway) that we sometimes don’t even notice them anymore.
“A decade ago, we didn’t talk to robots. Today, many of us do,” Pringle detailed. “Siri and Alexa are some of the more common bots, but we already interface with non-human characters regularly. As technology advances, including augmented reality and mixed reality, I think we can expect that entertainment will be something we can engage with off of the screen, but out in the world, with characters and stories we can engage with throughout the day, or throughout our houses.”
Feeling Old
It means that you're valuable. Sell yourself to a museum. Become famous. Get a funky little plaque explaining what you are and everything.
Yeay! I'll join in the museum party. Anybody coming along?
Load More Replies...Uggs, Juicy Couture, goouchos, fake hair scrunchies, zig zag parters, flares.....VINTAGE!
Who Remembers These?
It did, it used heaps I think that might have been why they stopped selling them? Not sure
Load More Replies...Rejoice! You can still re-live this experience with a nine volt and your tongue
I remember wanting those so much! They were too expensive for what they were still my father never bought them. I understand now and would not buy it either but when I was a kid, I found the idea to have a level meter for batteries so genius they I really wanted one.
Not as bad as some games that wouldn't just let you hold a button down.
Lmfao
lol, when i saw the picture, i thought he was a thuper thenior!(super senior, if you dont get it,)
Load More Replies...Exactly. From what I've heard Patrick Stewart started losing his hair in his twenties.
Load More Replies...I had a guy at my HS who was starting to get a male pattern bald patch by senior year. Not that far, but still unfortunate.
Yeah, my cousin started losing his hair at 18, as did his father.
Load More Replies...Male boldness is a real thing when you are 16 and should not be laughed at!!
True, had one of those in my class. Not that "How do you do, fellow kids?" isn´t hilarious though ...
Load More Replies...I have a couple friends that were balding in high school, so it is possible
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch is from 1996 till 2003, which makes her 20 till 27 in that show
Load More Replies...The rise of e-sports is one clue that the ways that people engage one another change in unexpected and often surprising ways. “Whoever would have thought that people would pay money to watch other people play games? Media that engages us and gives us something to gather around, be it together, or virtually, is something that will always appeal to us.”
The Late 1900s
It's entirely possible that I will survive to live in three centuries. 1900, 2000, and 2100 :)
Not surprising that the entire 20th Century is now being called “the 1900s”. We’ve also always called the entire 19th Century “the 1800s”
The Early 2000s
*eye roll Still a thing to do. But more importantly, it's called a bandana.
Yooo I had so many of those! I completely forgot. AND the fray top hem jeans Mariah Carey was famous for.
Pink Medicine
And having to keep it in the fridge... It tasted better than any cough syrup!
I absolutely loved the smell and taste of this medicine. Whenever I had it they had these little cardboard things with bugs that you pop out with every dose you take and when all the bugs are gone that means you have finished the medicine.
with me it were ghosts. purple for being very sick and white when healed. . . . i swear if i find a bottle like this ever again, thats going to be a party for the tastebuds. unbelievable, nothing, not one taste looks like this. they should make gummies out of it
Load More Replies...I remember amoxicillin being yellow not pink o.O and it tasted like really sweet/sugary banana. xP
I had something like this because i was allergic to penicillin... so not amoxicillin. But either way it was a strange banana mixed with paracetamol taste and it made me shudder and gag every time i took it... i can taste it now at least 25 years later :(
Load More Replies...as a kid i didnt, but a few years back, got peniciline proscribed and got into a very severe allergy attack. yes. you are not the only one
Load More Replies...This was ambrosia compared to the straight penicillin suspended in a white foul-tasting suspension that they pumped down you in the fifties. It tasted as if it had just been scraped off the mouldy cheese! It was so foul that kids didn't dare let on that they were terminally ill for fear they would have to swallow some!
I actually liked the taste! LOL. Had to have a tooth pulled and dentist gave me this for a week before. This was about 5 months ago. I'm 62!
Pringle made some more predictions about the near future: “I think we can expect to see the ebb and flow of experiences that bring people together offline and then on screen, or online, as well. In the last few years, we’ve seen the rise of interactive and immersive venues like the museum of ice cream or the Dr. Seuss experience,”
Crickey!
TV Guides
My Nanna still gets the TV guide from the Sunday newspaper and goes through it marking all the shows she wants to watch or record.
... I actually miss doing this. That makes her pretty awesome. I guess I miss the... knowledge that it's still that dependable. That it'll definitely be there.
Load More Replies...Or that tv guide channel. I would miss what I wanted to see and have to watch that channel til it came back around again. My so called life and the X-Files? Anyone?
When I was a kid I’d take the TV Guide and pretend I was Penny from Inspector Gadget and that it was that digital pad thing she had. And we really have them now! iPads / tablets.
TV guide was for fancy people. We had to look in the newspaper (a newspaper is like the internet printed out - you'd get one in the morning and one in the afternoon, except on Sundays when you would get one really big one in the morning. Some little kid (me) would come around and throw it at your house.)
I still get a physical newspaper delivered to my house 👍 I love walking out to the driveway to pick it up
Load More Replies...Yeah, we got ours in the newspaper and would actually go day by day and circle what we wanted to watch!
Intense Gaming
He died of dysentery as they were playing Oregon Trail.
Load More Replies...Imagine going back in time and showing those same 90s kids what Mortal Kombat looks like on a PS5 and a 4k TV
She continued: “These are places we can go, with friends and family, and have a shared experience. It feeds back into our online experiences because we can share photos or memories and these environments are designed to foster that. Certainly, as we find ourselves in a time of social distancing, we’re seeing new creative ways of “being together” even when we’re apart. So I think we can expect to see entertainment that helps us connect, be it online or off, and immerses us in an experience, story, or community.”
Proud Millennial Heritage
Yeah or the skinny jeans or whatever, buzzfeed is trying to start s**t and it's annoying
Load More Replies...I wanted nothing worse in the world than this haircut in the 90s, but my hair just wouldn't do it. Now I'm 37 and it's magically the only hairstyle I can do. So outdated. I still rock it sometimes, but it's just not the same.
I wear all sorts of parts and I wouldn’t care what little kids thought about it!
We had middle parts , we wore bootcut and mom jeans ... we realized it looked like s**t , so we stopped doing those things
Four Square Anyone?
Even so, I haven't seen them since elementary school. I'm glad they are still around though because those were such a good part of childhood.
Load More Replies...look i may not be from the early 2000s even though i was born 2008 but four square was INTENSE
Wow it blows my mind you can even talk lol. 2008 was like yesterday.
Load More Replies...is it just me or can anyone else hear this ball bouncing off your head?
Getting Blisters
glad my mom never bought me these even after several times asking, or I'd too experience the blisters
I had the flats. I loved them. I'd still wear them - jellies were some of the most comfy shoes I've ever owned.
Load More Replies...I had a pair of jelly shoes but they were flats, hot pink and glittery.
In my country people (usually old people and kids) used such shoes for swimming and not to get stung by a sea urchin, nobody used them as regular shoes. We cool young people swam barefoot and got injured, but we wouldn't put those on if it could save our lives :D
Load More Replies...I got a pair of these from a flea market, if I remember correctly. They were sparkly and very uncomfortable, but I felt so cool :D
I wore a pair of jelly flats to Six Flags one time in middle school, because (a) they went with my outfit and (b) I was an idiot.
All I remember about jelly shoes was the incredible stink from wearing them.
The Memories
I really miss this, got more free pizza from Bookit buttons, and their salad/pizza bars were great
All the green around the salad bar? Kale. No one ate it, it was for visuals only.
That persisted into the 2000s. I was in college and met a foreign student who was super confused as to why nobody was eating it (in 2006 or 2007).
Load More Replies...Omg , with those like neon red plasticy "bacon bits" from the salad bar
Morocco, my husbands country, has Pizza Hut and they’re actually a decent restaurant. They have these pepperoni rolls that’s are absolutely amazing. I don’t know why America had to kill all the taste of things with all their preservatives
Load More Replies...Putting Bike Beads On Your Bike
Beads? We used to a strip of plastic and wedge it so that it would hit the spokes as it turned. In our minds it sounded like a motorbike. In reality it just went thwap-thwap-thwap really quickly. LOL
For us it was grabbing a card out of the deck and a clothespin.
Load More Replies...YESSSSS! Thank you, I couldn't remember their name!
Load More Replies...They were cool as a kid but as an adult they are annoying as f**k.
Before that, we took those multicolored straws, cut them in sections, slit them up one side, and wrap them around the spokes.
A Late 90s Classroom
And I'm so ancient over here, we just had pencils and paper. Hey, remember pencil sharpeners? Those were great. Ah.. the good ole days
I'm so old that we had to take typewriting classes in school. Yes, typewriting. On typewriters. (I'm 40)
I hear ya! We had typewriting classes too. On non electrical typewriters mind you. Got really strong muscles in my tiny fingers if nothing else..
Load More Replies...First computer I used would fill that room. Ahh the year of '79. Sorry I'm dribbling in my porridge again ;o)
We did have a computer lab, but that was years before the iMac. The computers were grey on the outside, the screen black and white, no pictures, just text... old and slooooooowwwwwww.
Wow - you already had black/white screen? My first ones were black/green :-L
Load More Replies...Where’s The Remote?
Never grew out of that - still search the house for AA's for my xbox controller because I'm to old school to get 'play and charge' kits... No TV remote batteries are safe in this house.
haha! you still rock a 360? (if so, I wish Black Ops 2 banned all the hackers....)
Load More Replies...Yes my parents were so happy when they started doing battery packs for them
I Was 50% Cool In 96
Hey, RATM is still great. Evil Empire remains a great album to this day!
Maybe an American kid in 96, no-one over here looked like that in 96, it was baggy rave clothes for the cool kids and the rest was metal, goth and grunge kids.
I had plenty classmates wearing the skate-cool-chique.
Load More Replies...The Beginning
I'd no carry it today...cull the clothes, but NEVER pitch shows or bags!
Load More Replies...I loved my butterfly clips. I look back now and think 'why did i want agitated butterflies on my head?' But all i know is i loved them :)
I'm So Glad...
I bet that is common but I can’t relate, I think social media is a weird thing to have all just agreed on.
So glad there aren't msn messenger back catalogues or we might all be ruined! All the teen angst and whatnot through those little teal half people things
Low Rise Jeans
I love low and mediul rise jeans and hate the high waisted ones ! I am that old! :))))
I think it depends on your body shape what rise works for you
Load More Replies...I have been struggling to find low rise jeans, i feel so uncomfortable when they zip at my belly button instead of my hips, it feels like a medieval form of restraint and torture 🥺 plus high wasted jeans make my ass flat!
And the make your ass look long and weird. I hate those high waisted jeans and denim shorts too.
Load More Replies...Low rise jeans are awesome!!! I hate the return of high -waisted. No one looks good in them.... no one.
High rise jeans look horrendous. Like a grandpa who pulls his trousers up to his armpits.
Yes! That's what we used to call them in Australia, not low rise. Been trying to think of that for ages lol
Load More Replies...I hated low rise, because like any teenager I was growing. At the start they would be loose, then fit right, then so tight you develop a muffin top. When I saw mid-rise jeans for the first time, I snapped them up and haven't looked back.
Skinny jeans are also one of the few types of jeans that look good on me :< they're not flattering on everyone, but the same applies to baggy jeans... I love a flare but it makes me look heavier and short
If Gen Z wants to make their mark by being different, find us a trend that is comfy AND flattering. Anyone who rebels for the sake of rebelling always winds up looking silly later. You don't need to define yourself solely by who you're not.
That along with the short shirts so we HAD to see the stomaches fall out all over the place. That was bad, gross, nasty - It really bothered me.
This Was The Life
I'm currently enjoying day long Judge Judy episodes during our 3rd lockdown. CBS reality in the UK😀
I still watch good ole Judge Judy! I LOVE her attitude n how she reacts to people! Lol
Just for the humor part, I renamed her to Judge Bitch..................
Load More Replies...Take Me Back!
My dad says how he used to stay up all night, doughnuts, and mt dew, with his friend, trying to beat Resident Evil, along with screwing around on GTA.
Load More Replies...Crystal Pepsi ? What about Jolt soda ?! Lol , we used to act like we were so "jacked up" when we drank one
Crystal Pepsi! Somebody threw away the iconic (empty) bottle I was keeping as a souvenir!
I found my Nintendo 64 in a closet recently while cleaning for a move. Been playing Goldeneye for weeks now!
Crackin' Open A New Laser Pointer With All Those Attachments
I would still play with this...and use it to drive my cats insane lol.
Load More Replies...I used to live in a poor neighboorhood in a poor city near of Sao Paulo, Brazil. When these bad boys first came me and my brother got one, we spend lots of nights making people scary thinking it was a gun's laser pointer. Whenever I see one of those I miss my childhood
Bad things, and for the love of dogs, DON'T EVER USE THEM TO PLAY WITH DOGS, it can send them crazy.
Disappointed
In my country, a couple of years ago, an idiot sued Red Bull because the ad showed people who drank a Red Bull and suddenly a pair of wings appeared in their back. You know: "Red Bull gives you wings". He said it was misleading because you don't actually get wings when you drink it... The company now only uses animal cartoons in their ads.
Lol we’d always tell each other as kids that whoever was eating, their head DID turn into a fruit, and when the other kids told you you’d feel your head and be all “but it doesn’t feel like a strawberry!”
Vintage Taco Bell
yeah, I wish they kept it like this, i think the 70's/80's vibe was awesome!
Load More Replies...NO. NO. IF YOU ZOOM IN ON THE BOTTOM LEFT THATS ONE OF THE LIMINAL SPACE PICTURES THAT CREEPS YOU OUT. MY LIFE IS A LIE.
That construction is identical to McDonalds and Hardees of the same vintage, just a different color palate.
If You Were Raise In The 90s
I liked listening to the computers "talking" during dial up: if the noises weren't the usual exact pattern it meant you were gna have to try again, once the computer let you know
lol I played the Dial-up tone and explained early internet to my 9 year old niece the other day, and the horrified look she gave was priceless.
When my cousin's daughter was younger, she didn't believe it when her mum told her that the internet had not always been around.
Load More Replies...Aw man you’re missing out. It was a series of CDs that featured songs you can work out to, and remixes of stuff with sports things in them - like cheers and the “LETS GET READY TO RUMBBBBBBBBBLLLLLLLLLE” thing. Every single sports banquet I’ve ever been to featured a Jock Jams CD.
Load More Replies...Ima be a Karen here hhehehe THERE ARE KIDS ON THIS APP jk I dont care I'm not a karen
When Someone Asks You
If anything started a pandemic it was Limewire. Covid19 has nothing on the viruses you got from that.
Makes me think of Iliza Schlesinger's bit about the 'gather round the Snapchat children, let me tell you the tale... of the landline' lol.
It's how we downloaded songs. Illegally, although I think that might've been a bit of a grey area, I don't think there were laws against it back then. And then you ran the risk of downloading a virus. Of course, that's if you were able to download the song at all... at dial up speeds it could take all night to download one song. And woe be the parent who picked up the phone before it was done lol.
Load More Replies...Take Your Vitamins
PIZZARIAAAAAASSSSSS!!!! Omg I miss them!!! My mom would never get me Clearly Canadian, I think this is probably why I always let my daughter get pack of La Croix LOL
Is It Haunted?
I was always wondering, where the hell are the spirits from the recently deceased ? How come, no ghost ever moans :"What's the wi-fi pass ?" :D
Maybe they have to practice to get really good like the 1800s ghosts
Load More Replies...I can imagine a 2000's ghost screaming 'IT'S BRITNEY BITCH' XD
Me: Is this house haunted? Ghost: Yep! Me: Cool, your part of the rent is $500 and due on the 1st of the month. Ghost: Sonofa$%#^@
my babies fav TV show is pampers Commercials...... We went to the store and I got a diaper brand and I said no to pampers and SHE SCREAMED SO HARD I was so embarrassed but I got them.. they work well DONT JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
Don't know about everywhere... but in my parts, people weren't using the word "random" like that in the early 2000s
Flavor Flav Prize
Fresh Prince Basketball Court 1990 vs. Now
I don't get this one... there is no difference between the two photos? And if it's still the same why should it be on this list?
It's just to prove that parts of the USA never moved on.
Load More Replies...Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down🎶🎶
'90s Music Video Starter Pack
In The '90s, Sliding Into Dms Was A Bit Different...
I'm squealing and remebering all the weird chats back then
Load More Replies...My brother once wrote 8008135 into a calculator and got into trouble lol
Miss Those 90s Cereal Commercials
that's creepy but honeycomb cereal is so good! it's still in stores
Miss The Kids Club At Bk
Does anyone remember those giant Disney cups that changed colour. Those were awesome.
When people start with "I am this old" and shows you something so new you never heard of it... o.O (Also a lot of these are kind of country/US specific...)
I am from Eastern Europe and I am not familiar with only two things 🧐
Load More Replies...How to feel SUPER old. Look on Bored Panda to discover your kids' age group are feeling old and reminiscing about 'the old days' I feel as old as dirt..
Yeah. My oldest godkid was told by my youngest godkid recently, "Wow, you were born in the 1990s! You're really old!"... I think revenge is already planned.
Load More Replies...This is great but could you also do one for people who grew up in the 1980s please?😊
same! Especially the school computers one, we still have pencils and paper T.T do people think we don't?
Load More Replies...Born in 1967, in a communist country, my teen-age was in the '80's: '90's, for me, were years of transition - a rough one! - years seeing everything becoming commercial. Was a vinyl fan, but instead of Lynyrd Skynyrd or Stevie Ray Vaughan we got Lambada and instead of Weather Report we got euro-techno-disco... That's why I try to forget the '90's...
At one point, I had a rotary phone at home. There was the phone book and yellow pages. My first mobile phone, as it was called before, is bulky and heavy enough to be used as a projectile weapon that would split skulls open. Oh and it can be converted into 2 projectile weapons when you remove the battery.
When those huge mobile phones came out, I remember thinking who on earth would want their phone on them all the time?
Load More Replies...Born in 87 so full on 90's kid. Things i missed on this list: anything Gameboy related,battery chargers where essential for any kid. free cd roms that came with magazines with stupid but awesome stuf. NBA jam. Video arcades were still around (time trial anyone?) but losing popularity. The rise of the console wars (nintendo vs sega and eventually playstation). those horrible colourful track suits. Nirvana. The end of phone booths. Y2K. Power rangers. Superhero tv cartoons(spiderman in particular comes to mind). Steve Urkel and all those other family shows. Britney/Christina/spice girls obsessions. I don't know, i am sure there's a whole lot I am forgetting. Final conclusion: the 90's where awesome!
Me too I am so happy in this thread it feels like comfort and childhood :)
Load More Replies...I was 5 during this stuff so it’s vaguely familiar (2008)
When people start with "I am this old" and shows you something so new you never heard of it... o.O (Also a lot of these are kind of country/US specific...)
I am from Eastern Europe and I am not familiar with only two things 🧐
Load More Replies...How to feel SUPER old. Look on Bored Panda to discover your kids' age group are feeling old and reminiscing about 'the old days' I feel as old as dirt..
Yeah. My oldest godkid was told by my youngest godkid recently, "Wow, you were born in the 1990s! You're really old!"... I think revenge is already planned.
Load More Replies...This is great but could you also do one for people who grew up in the 1980s please?😊
same! Especially the school computers one, we still have pencils and paper T.T do people think we don't?
Load More Replies...Born in 1967, in a communist country, my teen-age was in the '80's: '90's, for me, were years of transition - a rough one! - years seeing everything becoming commercial. Was a vinyl fan, but instead of Lynyrd Skynyrd or Stevie Ray Vaughan we got Lambada and instead of Weather Report we got euro-techno-disco... That's why I try to forget the '90's...
At one point, I had a rotary phone at home. There was the phone book and yellow pages. My first mobile phone, as it was called before, is bulky and heavy enough to be used as a projectile weapon that would split skulls open. Oh and it can be converted into 2 projectile weapons when you remove the battery.
When those huge mobile phones came out, I remember thinking who on earth would want their phone on them all the time?
Load More Replies...Born in 87 so full on 90's kid. Things i missed on this list: anything Gameboy related,battery chargers where essential for any kid. free cd roms that came with magazines with stupid but awesome stuf. NBA jam. Video arcades were still around (time trial anyone?) but losing popularity. The rise of the console wars (nintendo vs sega and eventually playstation). those horrible colourful track suits. Nirvana. The end of phone booths. Y2K. Power rangers. Superhero tv cartoons(spiderman in particular comes to mind). Steve Urkel and all those other family shows. Britney/Christina/spice girls obsessions. I don't know, i am sure there's a whole lot I am forgetting. Final conclusion: the 90's where awesome!
Me too I am so happy in this thread it feels like comfort and childhood :)
Load More Replies...I was 5 during this stuff so it’s vaguely familiar (2008)
