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Every era has its own unique charm, but the '90s are especially loved by many. It was a time of Tamagotchis, boy bands, and, most importantly, a sense of carefree innocence and optimism that permeated everyday life.
So whether you want to relive the decade or are too young to remember it and want to learn more about those days, the subreddit r/90s is a great place to start. Its members regularly share nostalgic posts that instantly transport you back!
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#1
Kids These Days Will Never Know The Struggle
google slave 1 year ago
We also knew when someone was online because you could call & call & call & it would be busy the entire time. You had a choice. Online, or phone access.
Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago
This was mine, 1 year 199 days (posted on my fb in 2016) 14054936_1...76f10e.jpg 
iBlank 1 year ago
watching images load from the top down, 1 pixel at a time. Around 25% the guessing game began
WindySwede 1 year ago
then it crached! And then I started using a download assistant, that could resume mid download.
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Hiram's Friend 1 year ago
And someone else picking up an extension and trying to call out. Go to beginning and start over.
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#2
Yeah Mon
Valek Fermiga 1 year ago
" I see PRIDE I see POWER I see a bad as* mother who DON'T take NO cra* off NOBODY.... "
Beansie-never-visited-me-once 1 year ago
I rented this movie SO many times. This and Ace Ventura, Pet Detective.
CheaderMan 1 year ago
The first Ace aged so poorly. If it wasn't for the "twist" ending I would still recommend it today.
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Rebecca A. Corvello 1 year ago
Wow I had completely forgotten about this movie until I saw this pic. Instant movie recognition and I think I only ever saw the movie once!
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago
Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up! It's bobsled time!!! COOL RUNNINGS!!!!
A big reason why the '90s continue being so popular could be the fact that the 21st century we live in has been quite mad.
Jacob Juhl, a nostalgia researcher at the University of Southampton in England, says "People become nostalgic in response to adversity or psychologically negative states,” because “Nostalgia helps restore people to a psychological equilibrium."
#3
Does Anyone Else Remember These From School?
David 1 year ago
16mm projectors, not that modern VHS stuff. lol Also before that, those absolutely ancient slide strips where they would play a record and each time the 'ding' sounded they would push it over to the next slide.
Bec 1 year ago
Ah the hope of being chosen to push the button for the slides
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Widdershins66 1 year ago
Overhead projector! Trundling from a classroom a mile away. There was always some sort problem with them 🤔🤗
Yes, I'm serious 1 year ago
LOL......these go back to the 70s. How do I know? I remember these from elementary school.
#4
Can I Get A Whoa Bundy?
Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago
The Bundy's in the cinema. Kelly: daddy, beat him up. Al: of course pumpkin (beats Kelly's ex-bf)
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Suede 1 year ago
Truth. And his life was great. Atomic family, home owner, hor*y wife, classic car with 1,000K mi on it...or nore? Square neighbors, steady job...
Mr.Li 1 year ago
Dont forget the most important part. He scored 4 touchdowns in one game!
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iseefractals 1 year ago
He always, always, always was the better father figure. Married with children and Roseanne offered up more realistic (ish) representations of a much larger segment of the american population. Roseanne, showcased the "new" normal for the lower to middleclass family, who loved each other and found some modicum of happiness despite struggle. Husband and wife, working together, and suffering together to provide for their family. Married with children showed the dying vestiges of the 1950's "ideal" in a modern world. Dad sacrifices absolutely everything to provide for a family who's not only ungrateful, but resentful of him. He gets no credit, no thanks, no joy and no break while his family always demands more and more, while contributing almost nothing, and despite this, he keeps trudging along, and despite voicing his reasonable displeasure, he always defends and supports them. It was one of the most honest takes on that family dynamic, even 35 years later.
86 1 year ago
I don't remember the guy on the bottom right, must have been a show I didn't watch. As a kid I love married with children but didn't get half the stuff in there, now I can definitely relate to the Bundy's. 😆
laura lee 1 year ago
Tbf neither did Cosby they were grown women, grown women he d**g induced incapacitated and THEN gave his puddin pop to without consent...
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Cary Prust 1 year ago
Yep! Al Bundy, having a father to son talk saying come on bud what's wrong with you son, you don't lie to your parents, you lie to girls! Good talk son! Lol! Back in the mid 90s on friday night, me and my buddies would drive down to Westwood(west hollywood)to studio city, get as baked as humanly possible and wait in line in hopes of seeing the filming of "Married With Children", episodes, I actually talked to Ted McKinney the guy who played the next door neighbor Marcy Darcys 2nd husband on the show, super nice guy, what a great time we had back then me and my friends!
#5
Teal The Unofficial Color Of The 90s
WindySwede 1 year ago
And a recall silver-colour on things as well? 🤷♂️🤔
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Ivan Milić 1 year ago
ah yes, who didn't have a Charlotte Hornets jersey, tracksuit, or their basketball? 🩵
Dragon mama 1 year ago
And don't forget it's loyal sidekick: purple! Still my favorite color 💜
David 1 year ago
I like teal shirts. It goes well with my eyes and I almost always get compliments. But I was SICK of the 80s teal / pink combos. And there is a range of teal. A lot of what is pictured here leans more towards the blue. I prefer the darker / more green of what I consider a true teal. But like I said - there is a range of shades / tints considered 'teal'.
Juhl notes that scientists have induced nostalgia in the lab by prompting people to contemplate the vast and random universe as well as by simply pumping up the air conditioning and making them feel uncomfortably cold.
Researchers have also proved that nostalgia comforts us by making us feel connected to one another and to a shared past.
Since the '90s were the last moment before the internet splintered mass culture, the decade might be particularly good nostalgia fodder even for those who haven't experienced it.
#6
I Would Give Anything To Go Back
ZGutr 1 year ago
Sometimes even rented a portable VCR to watch with friends at the clubhouse. Of course, the VCR got cold in the car, moist condensated on the head when you took it in and so you spend lots of time waiting and/or blowing with an hair drier for it to regain room temperature and dried. (VCR's have a moisture detector. A little moist would cause the VCR tape to stick to the fast-spinning head ruining the tape and possibly the heads )
Pink Taco Eater 1 year ago
I remember when we rented a Beta player. :( I’m old lol
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
We didn't have a big chain or anything near us, only a small rental store run by a polish guy. My dad would rent movies and PS1 games there while my sister and me always got the best lollipops ever you only could find in Poland back then.
laura lee 1 year ago
Where you had to get buzzed in lol where they kept the real video nasties lol
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Colleen Glim 1 year ago
The husband and I, being broke af, would go to blockbuster/rogers and rent a video game to keep us amused for a few days
actaeon cross 1 year ago
I always got an animated version of The King and I because we didn't own the movie. One time, my mom told me I had to get a movie I'd never seen before, then proceeded to get mad at me for taking too long when I couldn't find something else.
Cary Prust 1 year ago
Loved Blockbuster Video, anybody remember Music+, or Record Outlet from back in the 90s
#7
These Books Helped Me Learn About How To Take Of My Hamster When I Was 9
Rebecca A. Corvello 1 year ago
I had the entire set. We bought them off this college kid who came to the house and sold us the first in the series. I had like 100 of them.
Anaïs Grobin 1 year ago
These are still in publication too. My daughter has a bunch, like Caves, nocturnal animals, the Egypt one, etc. there are updated, but still the same
#8
Does It?
Anaïs Grobin 1 year ago
Me too! I alternated between the castle and the palm tree
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Gen X Feral 1 year ago (edited)
My back, my front and everything in-between frickin hurts! And the creepy castle on the hill of course
#9
Nobody Knew
Suck it Trebek 1 year ago
At some point you parents picked you up and eventually put you and never picked you up again.
Bananaramamama 1 year ago
Someone once told me this "there will come a day where you pick up your kids for the last time" and although it's inevitable, I still try to snuggle or pick them up every chance I get. But I still recall that quote when I put them down.
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Cass Malone 1 year ago
I saw this movie in theaters with my mom while my sister was at a bday party at a skating rink in VA. Life was good
Gracie Mae 1 year ago
my kids' generation...i feel for my grandkids not being able to have this kind of freedom
Cary Prust 1 year ago
Sandlot, Awesome movie! Squints! Squints! Wendy Peffercorn!!!! Ohhhhhhhhhh! Or The Great Bambino!!! Yeah! Ah! Who is she? OMG!!! Lmaoooooo!!!!
Ambry Petersen 1 year ago
The last sleepover and nobody knew it, the last bike ride, the last swimming trip. Many sweet memories.
This might seem a little counterintuitive. After all, psychologists have traditionally thought of nostalgia as being based on a person’s recollections of their own experiences.
But more recently, some, including philosopher Prof Felipe De Brigard at Duke University, have been suggesting that nostalgia is broader and includes our yearnings.
#10
Bobby Budnik Was The Real Hero The Resistance Needed
WindySwede 1 year ago
Me "isn't that T1000?", then realising you where talking about the movie. 🤦♂️🙃
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DeShotz 1 year ago
The character’s name in the movie was Tim. The actor played Bobby Budnik in Salute Your Shorts.
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rehabisforquitters 1 year ago
I don't recall his name being mentioned in the movie. Maybe the credits? Got to love the mullet. Business in the front and party in the back.
#11
12/31/99
kissmychakram 1 year ago
It wasn't a joke, it is just that every computer programmer worth their salt had already started to fix the problem a good decade before.
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Laura Deckers 1 year ago
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me Witch. I was there when it was written.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
I was the Corporate Controller and spent my Christmas week off (paid) transferring all the data from our DOS based accounting program to the new Windows version, as well as configuring the new server. Inventory and the GL balanced to the penny. The (new, ugly divorce) owner came to me around the 1st of February and said she didn't want me using the new software yet. WTF? We went live Januray 1st - AND - we didn't have a choice as the old software would reset to 1900 and f*ck up EVERYTHING. Oh, and BTW? You sent me to classes for 5 full days, what did you think the CPA meant when she said "Update the accounting software?" I literally got fired. This 5th grade teacher thought she could do my job. No such luck, honey. She wouldn't know a P&L if it sat in her lap and started to wiggle. Whatever. I got a nice severance package and full unemployment benefits. I made almost as much as when I was working. Bye, Felicia.
MacintoshID 1 year ago
I was at the office at midnight, because the office managers decided they needed on of the IT techs to "take care of failed equipment". I watched the NYE celebrations on the TV in the breakroom and then left at 12:05am to beat the traffic home. This was Las Vegas, so traffic was bad even at midnight NYE or not.
Sara C 1 year ago
My Dad got a job installing the Y2K patches. More interestingly, it turned out that burglar alarms also needed a patch, as when I walked through town at 12.30am on 1/1/00, they were all going off. I think the realisation that it was going to be a problem and the timely response saved a lot of hassle, and probably quite a few lives too, given the amount of electronics in hospitals.
Ashlie Dearest 1 year ago
I still have the Y2K Milo plush with night shirt. Found it in a box at my parents place recently.
Ma Phương Thùy 1 year ago
The whole world is hysterical of Y2K. Vietnam be like: Hey, chill, it's the 2nd millennia, why are you guys so hyperactive?
#12
What Was The Obsession With Making Every Plastic Electronic Transparent
Ka Se 1 year ago
I literally feel the sandals. If one little stone went in there it was there to stay forever!
iseefractals 1 year ago
Feel? I can smell those nasty things from 30 years away.
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Terri Martin 1 year ago
I still remember my first pair of jellies! I was 8 and so excited to get them. They were clear pink with glitter and boy were they uncomfortable 🤣But they were sooo cool you just suffered through the pain. Not to mention, growing in Houston Tx, the sweat and humidity made losing a shoe while running a daily thing lol.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Crocs may be ugly, but they don't hurt like jellies did.
Load More Replies... Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Go to US federal prison. All the electronics inmates are allowed to buy are see-through.
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Jessica Rabbit 1 year ago
My daughters have an almost identical pair of those silver/clear jellies. They are my 3 year old's favorite shoes to wear. I do warn my oldest about wearing them if she's going to be active, as she has already experienced the heel blister from them.
Mary Ann Burgess 1 year ago
I still have a see-through phone, because, well, you just never know.........
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago (edited)
I had every single one of these! I called the phone my "gut phone", because I could see its guts! 😂😂😂😂
#13
Why Did Everybody Have These Speakers Back In The Day?
De Brigard was inspired by research on memory that's shown it’s a creative process — when you recollect memories, it's not like you're looking up an archive of recordings of what happened, it's more like your brain creates a simulation of those past events.
#14
Might Be An Unpopular Opinion. I Always Thought Daria Was Better Than Beavis & Butthead
unfilteredCigarette73 1 year ago
The cool thing about this show was, at least when I was in high school, it felt like we all knew these characters in real life...everyone knew people from school who were basically comparable to Daria or Kevin the jock or whoever
StrangeOne 1 year ago (edited)
I have the complete series on DVD but they don't have much of the licensed music that was included. It's still a kickass show. My daughter loves it, too. Beavis and Butthead are alright. I like the movie but the show was sorta good when nothing else was on, and the entertaining part was watching your folk's reactions. I guess you could say it's the Orbitz of TV.
#15
Who Remembers
Petra Schaap 1 year ago
my BF had it on his computer when i moved in in 2005. He worked evening shifts back then and I got insanely good at this game!
I_am_Allan 1 year ago
I know the guy who wrote Pinball. (Well, not personally, but I've talked to him on Twitter and FB) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx_jI5pfMb0
Gwynne Greene 1 year ago
I used to spend hours on this.... one point I scare the living s**t oit of my brother as I was gaming in the dark lol 😆!!
#16
Why Is This So Accurate?
Tommy Mclaughlin 1 year ago
Dusty Rhodes was a P.E. teacher? I'll take him over that is on the left.
R. W. 1 year ago
Too bad the pic.on the right is likely a mug shot for "inappropriate behavior".
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago (edited)
That's a woman on the right? (I don't mean to rude. Just asking)
Cary Prust 1 year ago
Hold on now! The photo on the left is a woman, the photo on the right is former WWF wrestler Dusty Rhoads from back in the 80s or 90s.
#17
90s Wallet
Ivan Milić 1 year ago
Still have one of those (Dickie's)! I'm 36, and I think they're the most functional and useful type of wallet.
Me. Just Me. 1 year ago
Man or woman, this was the easiest to use and the most flexible wallet you could get.
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Cary Prust 1 year ago
OMG!!! I can still remember the sound of that velcrow coming apart, I remember buying several different colors through out the 90s as well, anybody remember good Ole "Miller's Outpost"?
In this way, De Brigard argues that nostalgia can be based on memories – simulations of pleasant past experiences – but doesn’t have to be. Given the role of imagination in memory, he believes it's not a huge leap to propose that nostalgia can also be based on imagined positive past experiences.
#18
These Leather Phone Cases
Loreley-Eleonore Brandt 1 year ago
With a 3310 you could bang nails in the wall, open bottles, basically destroy everything in existence (except a 3310) and then still do the three things it was designed to do. Call people, wrote SMS and play snake. Thing was harder than diamond
Froyn Laven 1 year ago
It's kind of sad that you know the difference between a 3310 and a 3210 after all this time
Laughing Orc 1 year ago
It's fairly easy. The button arrangement was different. It's not like trying to tell the difference between iPhone models.
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Carl Roberts 1 year ago
I'm embarrassed to admit I did not realize Nokia was a Swedish company until a few years ago. Always though they were a Japanese or Korean company.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
I didn't have one until the 2000s. But my gosh... They were so sturdy! I must've dropped mine a thousand times when I had one and it still worked! Unlike the first smartphone I bought that had a temperamental fit if you even breathed on it! 😄
#19
Pound Puppies
google slave 1 year ago
Oh man. Pound puppies. Hate to admit it but I had one back in the 80's.
rullyman 1 year ago
I had the one with puppies too! I called her Sally. Had a regular sized one called Abigail
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I got my first Pound Puppy in 1985. I ended up collecting about 30 in total, newborns, yappies, mum and pups, grandpaw etc. I still have them and all the original certificates of ownership that you got with the too.
Maggie Magpie 1 year ago
I got mine when I was a very young child in the mid-80s. The one on the far left, bottom row. I still have him and I still love him, he's in shockingly good condition.
#20
My Wife Found This Picture Of Me In High School That Screams 90s
Kurtz Frausun 1 year ago
Damn, I miss rollerblades. I was a terrible skateboarder, but hella good on blades.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I miss my roller blades. But with this crickety body I think I'd be more scared to roll around again. I need this body to work at my job, and even that is breaking me.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Omg rollerblades! Tried my friends ones once... Crashed into a wall... Got hurt... And decided to stick to rollerskates 😄
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I was decent on rolller skates. Never tried roller blades. Afraid I would fall.
#21
Remember When Pizza Huts Used To Be Sit-Down Restaurants? And Many Had An Arcade Section. I Used To Play Pac-Man In A Table-Style Arcade Console There. And I So Remember Those Red Cups! Now Most Pizza Huts Are Just A Take-Out Counter
R.C. 1 year ago
Is it just me or does Pizza Hut not taste like it used to. Every now and then I try it again but I just don't like it anymore. I used to love it.
Gen X Feral 1 year ago
I worked at a delivery one in late 90s and the pan pizza and bread stick dough was delivered frozen to the store instead of made daily 🤮 They've made the pizza and bread stick sauce so frickin sweet I can't stand it anymore
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rckblykitn 1 year ago
Omg I loved the table style arcade game at Pizza Hut!! Always made sure when we went to pick up my free personal pan pizza from Book-It that I had a couple quarters to play while we waited.
Jeff Ballard 1 year ago
Every retail place had an arcade. Those were the days...pants were sagging bc you had $20 worth of quarters in your pockets
Mass culture in the 21st century feels more like a grab bag of random events than a coherent narrative, notes Nick Gatewood, an Ohio-based rapper who goes by the name Vice Souletric and has toured the US with his nostalgia event, the Nu '90s Experience.
According to him, everything moves too fast now. By the time you’ve heard about something, there’s already a backlash. Because of this, no one is going to have a deep, personal connection to Pizza Rat, the hawk tuah girl, or other instant icons that disappear into oblivion in the blink of an eye.
But the '90s, with its slower pace and more enduring cultural trends, did offer a sense of shared experience and continuity that today's fragmented reality can no longer provide.
#22
Who Loved It? Who Hated It?
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
it may not be historically accurate at all but its such a great film i still love it.
SandraG_lak 1 year ago
Such a good movie, it's on this list twice. (#4 at the time of this writing)
#23
Recognize These?
Spannidandoolar 1 year ago
Now I'm going to have to head to Home Bargains this weekend
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Crystal Brady 1 year ago
I recently bought some of these in Gulf Shores, Alabama. My son and I played with them on the beach for 2 days before the velcro came off.
David Beaulieu 1 year ago
Kkkkksssssssssshhhhhhhhhkkkkkkk.... thunk..... Kkkkkkssssshhhhhhhhkkkkk
Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
saw someone buying a set of these very recently. took me right back to the caravan park when everyone would get together on the playground or open areas, and these were a favourite game
#24
This Is Deep
Floeckchen 1 year ago
if you would go to a blockbuster nowadays you'd propably feel a slither of nostaglia the first few times. After that it might become an inconvenience. You miss the blissful days of beeing a kid - unrelated if it was before or after 9/11. Adults of tomorrow will have the same sappy feelings for long discord sessions with their mates playing Fortnite of building settlements in Minecraft together.
Gen X Feral 1 year ago (edited)
Inconvenient? Wtv! I can never find the movie I want even with 4 different streaming services. I just bought a dvd player and am scooping up 5 dollar movies left n right. So much cheaper than buying the digital copies
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I liked Blockbuster until they required a credit card to rent out movies. Couldn't buy them with cash or anything but a credit card. Me and my friend were 2 sad girls walking back to her place, empty handed.
Jason 1 year ago
I used to love the video game hunt. Sure you could read mags to figure out some of the new games but there wasn't nearly as much information around on new games so it was a cool surprise every time to see what was there and the thrill of finding that game you were waiting for back in stock
MacintoshID 1 year ago
I have been to the Bend OR store, but it was closed. It was closed because it was 6am and we were trying to get back home before the heat settled into the area. Drive home is 6 hours.
#25
Dads In The 90s
Robert T 1 year ago
The lap belt. The years I spent wearing one of those because I liked to sit in the middle to see where I was going. Horribly dangerous things in a crash.
Lara Verne 1 year ago (edited)
I hated it, it was very uncomfortable . I had two brothers and my father decided I will sit in the middle. My brother wanted to sit in the middle, but my father always said no, because if we crashed, he would end up injured.
Load More Replies... google slave 1 year ago
Try mom in the 80's! We had a station wagon with the back facing seat. My mom could change the station, smoke a cigarette, drive & whoop us from 3 rows away without even swerving. They were torture machines. You always had 2nd degree burns from the seats. No a/c, and both parents smoking. Sitting in the very back you didn't even get any wind from the windows. Kids today are spoiled.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
How about growing up in the 60 when no or very few seat belts yet. In the 70's had seats but wasn't a law to wear them yet. That was optional at the time.
Load More Replies... Gen X Feral 1 year ago
My millennial husband still has a cow when I turn the overhead light on and I'm like dude chill out
🦄 Unicorn Princess 1 year ago
So very true! Still to this day you have a light on in a vehicle if my father is driving.
#26
Kids Visiting The Library Be Like
ZGutr 1 year ago
Not just books ... Also records. Flipping through all the records, selecting new stuff to try just based on the album cover/artist name/album name. Cycling home full excitement to listen it it's any good. Found some c**p but also discovered a few good ones that way. I still have those I bought when they went out of their collection. Usually 5..10% of new price. Some where on loan only once ...that was me.
Mr Basics 1 year ago (edited)
Late 90s, not school, but CDs had arrived in the district libraries. Library card + Philips CDR 870 machine = nigh-on 1000 albums, which I'm surprised still play all this time later. Well they made the blank discs better back then. I could even use the PC blanks in the hifi recorder too, which were cheaper as they had no copyright surcharge.
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My elementary school didn't have a library, and our town library was a single room in a meeting house from the 1600's. My kids, however, have a massive school library with tons of tech, and the library in the town we currently live in is well-funded and massive!
StrangeOne 1 year ago (edited)
This was a happy place. I could just zone out in my world. Play a game on the computer, or go hide from the other kids in the geography section. But then they would still find me and ask what I'm doing looking at educational books. Or any books for that matter, that wasn't Fear Street or Goosebumps.
Emma London 1 year ago
You only had 30 minutes and people breathing down your neck. If you run overtime, you just laid low and hoped no-one would come and kick you out. Stressfull times!
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
My idea of heaven is a combination enormous library and beer bar with zillions of offerings on tap.
laura lee 1 year ago
Just the library for me can replace the beer with tea
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Subtle Signs All The Fun Ended After The '90s
Mila Sliacka 1 year ago
I had penfriends. Girls from all over the country that I met through adds on tv and never met in person. I was on a lookout for a postman every day :).
bas moelard 1 year ago
That was fun, wasn't it? Penpals were fun to write with
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Take a balloon, put a little piece of paper with your name and address in it & let it go. In about 6 months someone would be your new penpal.
Gen X Feral 1 year ago
Oh right just kill some sea animal when it swallows that bloody balloon 🤬
Load More Replies... Mr. Jones 1 year ago
Once again, 90s kids don't know who much s**t actually started in the 80s.
AnkleByter 1 year ago
Once again, just because something was done in other decades as well, doesn't mean it was less of "a thing" in the 90s. What a weird thing to gatekeep, lmao.
Load More Replies... Gen X Feral 1 year ago (edited)
Ug!!!!! I am so sick to fluckin death of texting, messaging and everything else! What should be a 30 second conversation takes forfreakingever!!!
Jeff Ballard 1 year ago
It was always a nervous giddy moment unlocking your locker to see if a note would be in it.
#28
Power Up!!
Tristan Gragg 1 year ago
OOOH! What about the 9v trick?! I STILL sometimes test a 9v battery with my tongue.
#29
My Neighborhood Bus Stop Gang
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Yeah, that is a refreshing and rare sight to see a group of kids actually happy and getting along with each other from that era. I don't know what was up with the kids back then. I could just be out and come across some fellow kids. Didn't matter if I had seen them before or not, but at least one of them would start at me just cause.
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Josette Niece 1 year ago
This is so awesome, I absolutely love this picture. Has to be a first day of school pic, every ones got new clothes and shoes pose 😁
#30
The Lone Rangers
HangryHangryHippo 1 year ago
Can't believe those are Adam Sandler, Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi!!! 🤯
#31
90’s Cartoons Were The Best
Nina 1 year ago
Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, Dexter's laboratory, The Powerpuff girls, Johnny Quest, Dragonball Z are missing
Brian Droste 1 year ago
No. I think the 70's cartoons were the best. I am a boomer. If you disagree with me. Just don't downvote me. We all have our own opinions.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
There's good cartoons in every era. But in the last 15 years, there's been a wane on the quantity of good cartoons. I personally think the 80s and early 90s were at the peak of kid friendly television slots on most channels.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 1 year ago
I didn't watch all of them, but I recognize Doug Funny and Patty Mayonnaise, Tommy Pickles and Chucky. The characters from Wild Thornberries. Ren and Stimpy, Rocko, Catdog, Arnold and his friend (can't remember his name), the kid in Fairly Odd Parents (that was more my daughter's era.)
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Just thought about "Doug" this morning, anybody remember Pepper Ann?
Outgraygeous 1 year ago
Those were my two favs! Thanks for reminding me of Pepper Ann :)
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Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
Real Monsters, Ren and Stimpy and Rockos Modern Life were probably my favourites
#32
You Could See Whoever Wrote On It Before You
Jclimer6288 1 year ago (edited)
Twin Falls Born, and Raised. I went to school in Jerome, but my sister went to O'Leary, as did all of my cousins. Ryan Hawkins was my of my cousins best friends
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 1 year ago (edited)
This is how someone forged my name in a Robinson Crusoe book, and I didn't know it until the librarian called me out in front of the whole class because someone took it out and didn't bring it back. I couldn't dispute that wasn't my signature, but I was damn insistent I didn't take it out. Most of the class was laughing at me. I ended up having to replace the book with one of my books at home. If you're one of those people here, YOU SUCK.
Yvette Williamson 1 year ago
BTW, Irvington Tech, Irvington NJ almost class of 86
Load More Replies... Jeff Ballard 1 year ago
Every year from K-12 . I also remember lugging a Forrest of books in my Jansport home everyday. My kids had nothing in their jansports except a folder w stuff for me to sign.
#33
From The 1991 Sears Fall Catalog
V 1 year ago
I really wanted H style, but we got hand me down G style ones so I had to wear those...
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
I had a pair of h style that my aunt in the US gave me. My Mam made me wear them and was tormented by other kids! These were not popular at all in rural Ireland in the 90s!!!
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ILoveMySon 1 year ago
Me too.. My cousin told me the bra section was his first porn.😂
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The Year Was 1997 And I Was 17 And Thought I Was Gonna Be A Rapper
Michael None 1 year ago
Kids nowadays think the same thing only they put up their crappy work on tiktok and tie all their self esteem to it's success.
#35
I Miss The Inside Of Wendy’s
Igor914624 1 year ago
Here in Texas, the atrium was a furnace in summer. Nobody wanted to sit there.
google slave 1 year ago
I remember my parents choosing the "smoking section" at the restaurant we went to as kids. Smoking walking through the grocery store. To this day when I think of the 80's I literally think of smoke. Watch a movie from then & it's always smoky.
#36
Anyone Else Have These?
Lizzie R 1 year ago
I had these. They still make them in an updated version, so I bought them for my kid.
#37
The Upstairs Of My Local Amc Theatre Is Trapped In 1997
#38
Anyone Else Used To Watch This?
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I'm a boomer so this was after I got older. Did watch 2 or 3 episodes of this show though.
Bec 1 year ago
Xer who was too old for this show but when you only have 4 channels you'll watch anything and how can you go wrong with adorable pupper acting out classic works?
Load More Replies... Ambry Petersen 1 year ago (edited)
Yeeesssssss!!!!! I even had the wishbone stuffy for awhile.
#39
Who Remembers Beakman’s World? (1992)
Rana Sol 1 year ago
Yes! No one ever remembers this! My 7th grade science teacher preferred Beakman to Bill Nye.
Load More Replies... Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago
Oh God this was one of my favorite shows!! Spent WAY too much time trying to figure out if his hair was real, and what "Lester" might look like without the costume! 😂 Alanna Uback, who plays the assistant pictured here ("Josie"), was also in Sister Act 2!
StrangeOne 1 year ago (edited)
I had just stumbled upon this show today looking at 90s shows on IMBd. Totally forgot about it until now, but all the memories of loving this show are flooding back. I enjoyed this more than Bill Nye The Science Guy, the school forced us to watch in Science class.
#40
90s Fashion Just Hit So Differently
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I loved looking at the ad pages in Seventeen, Sassy and Teen magazine. My favourite ads were Steve Madden. 142d5aee64...9e727d.jpg 
Kris Wu Yifan 1 year ago
This is horrifying in 2024 but I'm lowkey into it??? It's creepy in a cool way
Load More Replies... iBlank 1 year ago
I still have a pair of my super baggy jeans from the 90s. They have sweet red/white stripes down the sides, and still have the right amount of frayed edges on the bottom
Load More Replies... Anaïs Grobin 1 year ago
Delia*s was so cool back in the 90s. It was made for cool kids with money to burn. It's still around, but it no longer makes unique clothing for it girls. It makes generic clothes for younger girls now.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I thought Delia's catalogue was made up for Pond Life.
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ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
I loved Delia's! I actually still have some clothes I bought from there and it's in great condition.
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago
I had a shirt EXACTLY like this, except it was black with I think a green, red, and white stripe!
#41
We Didn't Even Have A Dog
Not_Today_Batman 1 year ago
I didn't even read what it said before I could picture the inside of the football because it was always missing a portion.
Cary Prust 1 year ago
Ah! Yes, the ever enigmatic, NERF Football, yes! Usually with a bug chunk missing from it mostly from being thrown and hitting something sharp or the family pet taking it out for a spin, CHOMP!!!!
David Martin 1 year ago
If most kids were like the ones I knew, it's because someone eventually said "I dare you to see what it tastes like"
KittyGaming 1 year ago
We had these at the school I went to for middle school (last year) and these were always beat up, it's bc kids don't know how to take care of things especially things they don't outright own
#42
Who Remembers This ? 1990’s Cable Black Box
Deirdre Segraves 1 year ago
One day when I was 12-13 I was watching something and it changed to Spanish. No noticeable difference other than it went from English to Spanish and I sat there absolutely amazed and confused for a solid 5 mins, waiting for it to switch back. Until I realized the cat wiggled and changed the channel to the affiliate Spanish station just as I blinked. That's where the cats sat in the 90s and it never occurred to me that Ms Chonky changed the channel.
Mr Basics 1 year ago (edited)
A while ago, in the last years of analogue, when I'd originally gone digital for a basic package, I had a 'chipped' box. Nice, I could watch all the pay channels still broadcast in analogue, free. Didn't last long before the analogue switchoff but I'd had fun. Didn't want a chipped digibox though, as system scans from the cable company would have snagged that up, soon as their their software was wise to the new black market hacks. Great days!
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Hoi-Polloi 1 year ago
Back in the day my friends and I would try to watch the "spicy" channels even though they were scrambled. We'd sit there in grim concentration for a few minutes, then somebody would blurt out, "Was that a butt? I saw a butt!"
Louis Duarte 1 year ago
AH, scrambled porn. Easier than going out to look for old porn in the woods, but still an exercise of patience. Young folk today don't know what that's like.
Load More Replies... Jeff Ballard 1 year ago
I remember when you had a box with a row of buttons and a 3 way selector switch attached by a 30ft cable to the TV.
HoRace 1 year ago
Also manufactured by Jerrold. That was our first cable box.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 1 year ago
I never realized that was the cable box XD. I thought it was just the remote or TV channel changer box. I don't know XD
Me. Just Me. 1 year ago
Back in the analog days, there was no box. You just plugged the coax cable into the tv. The cable company would "encrypt" channels that you were not paying for, but basically it just weakened the signal. Beauty of analog is sometimes it was still strong enough to be picked up anyway. Our entire household would rearrange our plans because HBO was coming in that night!
Ma Phương Thùy 1 year ago
If the Viets of modern times have this they'll be like: "Hey, this is better than my Viettel cable box!"
google slave 1 year ago
Couldn't afford cable. We weren't really allowed to watch TV. We went outside.
#43
I Can Smell This Pic
Deeelite 1 year ago
Would totally own one even now. I had a dark maroon one in 1999.miss that big ugly boat.
Detroit Citizen 1 year ago
Hey Deeelite, I have 99 Grand Marquis GS. Only 76k original. I dont have the plush tho
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#44
Thought You Guys Would Like This — My Local Laundromat Is Stuck In The 90’s!
StrangeOne 1 year ago
This is every laundromat. Back in the 2000s I would go to the laundromat every week. Peanuts from the candy dispensers always hit differently with the smell of laundry soap and dryer sheets.
Gwynne Greene 1 year ago
I play a game on my switch where you run a laundry mat/arcade .... it looks suspiciously like this!! Lol 😆
Detroit Citizen 1 year ago
I learned how to drive on that game lol. And a red game that was a stunt track. Slammin that 4 speed like a boss lol, I wonder how much money I spent at the arcade (kids, we had to go to a building to play video games with a hundred others all wanting to play, crowding around the one person who was going for the high score. Man I miss the Summit Place Mall)
#45
The Boys Killing It On Summer Vacation Before High School, Circa 1996. We All Still Keep In Touch Regularly
ucp 1 year ago
Put some glasses on the lad on the left, and you have me circa ‘92. Same build, same hair, same dress sense
David Beaulieu 1 year ago
This was when I graduated college. I think this was the exact year that casual clothes and business attire were the farthest from each other.
ucp 1 year ago
I graduated in 97, and can confirm your assertion. The culture shock of having to wear a suit and tie after being in whatever I wanted. Ouch
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#46
No Packed Lunch For School Was Complete Without These
LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
Gah! Thank you! Nobody remembers these! I was starting to wonder if I imagined them!
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Gen X Feral 1 year ago (edited)
Is it me or do gummy fruit snacks really suck now? I absolutely loved them, but not anymore
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Gushers are still alright. I think our taste has just changed since being a kid.
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#47
These Were The 90's Kid's First Glimpse Into The Single Adult Life
google slave 1 year ago
Could never get them to be an even temp. Either some cold spots, or put it back in and burnt some spots.
Tristan Gragg 1 year ago
I remember when these had the program where your parents would send in part of the boxes to redeem them for branded prizes. I has the Kid Cuisine basketball for YEARS, and I think that I only got rid of it a few years ago because I was moving.
#48
McDonald's Batman Forever Drink Glass Set
Hassel Davidhoff 1 year ago
We had one of these when I was a kid, the Riddler one, if I recall correctly. Completely forgot about it until I saw this!
Detroit Citizen 1 year ago
Who else had those plastic Disney cups and garfield coffee mugs from McDonalds? I have one remaining garfield mug that was my moms. RIP mom, that mug will be around forever
#49
Who Can Still Feel The Burning Sensation In Their Throat After Drinking These At School Parties And Family Picnics?
google slave 1 year ago
Yeah. I always wondered about that. Never stopped me from drinking them though. In the 80's we didn't complain much or our parents would "give us something to complain about."
Me. Just Me. 1 year ago
My throat actually felt like I was getting strep throat after drinking these, and honestly I look back now and they tasted like Mr. Clean. Why did we love these???
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John Mosley 1 year ago
I swear these were just thawed Otter Pops. I don't know how they got that much sugar dissolved in the liquid.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
So the ingredients I could find are only what's currently in them, so I'd guess any of the numerous artificial sweeteners, preservatives, and food colourings.
MacintoshID 1 year ago
I remember having a drink out of a red one and barely able to swallow the liquid. It was horrible!
#50
Guys, Remember, Salute Your Shorts?
unfilteredCigarette73 1 year ago
Early 90s nickelodeon was crazy good..who remembers Pete and Pete lol
google slave 1 year ago
Don't forget about "You can't do that on television." Nickelodeon was the shiznit.
Ava 1 year ago
Camp Anawanna! We hold you in our hearts! And when we think about you, IT MAKES WANNA FART!
#51
What We Used To Watch In The 90’s To Stay Updated With “Viral Videos” At The Time
google slave 1 year ago
I still remember "News of Rock" on MTV when it was actually about music.
#52
Deserted McDonald's On Distant Alaskan Island Actually Has The Menu Up With Bobby's World And Jurassic Park Promotions
#53
The Good Stuff
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I think the first time I went to Wendy's was shortly after I started feeling better when I had chicken pox. I still had the spots, but I guess I was past the contagious part? My folks brought me there anyways to cheer me up.
#54
I Think This Is One Of The Most Underrated Can Designs From The 1990s. Also, Cherry Coke Just Hits Different
#55
Found At A Park In Oklahoma
Riani Kivela 1 year ago
Ugh, this thing! My mom made me climb up in that when I was ten to get my brother out when he refused to leave. That's where I found out I'm a little claustrophobic.
#56
Been With Me Since 1996
the Kat who says ni 1 year ago
Aaaahhhh! Love it! Mine was called amber. Should go find her in that box on the attick...
#57
Any Fans Of The Movie Richie Rich? Always Wanted My Own McDonald's After Seeing The Movie 😂
J J 1 year ago (edited)
And the Mcdonald's would still f*** up your order and serve 5 people out of order before you somehow.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
This movie had every kid's fantasy. I wanted to try the kid-a-pult so bad.
#58
Our Sense Of Time Is Probably Collectively The Same Here
google slave 1 year ago
Still think "Ocarina of Time" on 64 was the best one next to the original NES one.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
I've "played" a few video games, I'm quite terrible, but when my roommate set me up with Zelda: Ocarina of Time on 64, I was hooked for days! First game I could actually play.
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#59
When You Forgot Where Something Was
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago
Nanny nanny boo boo, stick your head in door door! Or...was that from the 80s? 🤷♀️😂
#60
Premiered 29 Years Ago Today
Laughing Orc 1 year ago
Nowadays if a show had a cast as diverse as this it'd be called.out for being too 'woke' 🙄 yet as a kid, did any of us even care? They were all cool, didn't matter what skin colour they had.
Kara 1 year ago (edited)
Exactly, none of that mattered to us. We just saw an entertaining show. My friends and I watched it everyday after school, then tried to re-enact the episode the next day at recess the next day. Failed miserably of course but we were only 7, and it was fun.
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AJ 1 year ago
Thats because it wasnt the FOCUS of the show. Its not diversity that people hate. Its when their race, gender identity and sexuality become their defining trait, vs being interesting. No one cared Trini was Asian. No cared that Zac was black. We cared that they were awesome people. THATS the difference.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Why does it feel longer than that? I was OBSESSED. I wanted to be a power ranger. Me and my friends discovered the ink tubes in markers reminded us of the ranger cones used in the morphing time. So we'd take them out of the markers and bring them out to recess. There was always a fight between the girls of who was going to be the pink or yellow ranger.
MandyMolaFizzyCola 1 year ago
The guy in the middle (original Red Ranger) was my first kiss in sixth grade in Roswell, NM. Forget the aliens in my hometown - this is my personal claim to fame. :D
Mr.Li 1 year ago
Yeah the power rangers XD the black dude is the black ranger, while the chinese girl is the yellow ranger.
Michael None 1 year ago
Why is the black ranger black and the yellow ranger Asian? The answer is racism.
#61
At A Toys R Us, 1991
Mr Basics 1 year ago
Britain too. I was always retro, still wanting the Atari VCS at the time. I had favorite games I'd played through the 80s, the old stock games were cheaper by then, so I could have extra, not to mention I could always take a turn on my little brother's Super Nintendo before he got home. (Then I would be turfed out of his room. Cos 'I' wanted the Atari, so he said I had to live with it!! He didn't see I had the best of both worlds.)
#62
Me In The Late 90’s
BewilderedBanana 1 year ago
To be fair, monitors didn't have proper built-in stands back then, so the only way you could have it at eye level, was to have it raised on some sort of shelf. The one in the pic would be way too high for me though :)
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Who Remembers Those Simulator Rides That Used To Be At Malls In The 1990s-Early 2000s?
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I'm trying to think if I've ever tried one. I recall there was a hurricane simulator that sucked balls.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
I remember these, but I remember a really cheapy one too that was a rollercoaster, and it didn't have those doors, it was much smaller, and the doors were curtains on a rail, and they'd hang down on tilts. it was hilarious.
#64
I Met Pete And Pete Over The Weekend. They Were Awesome!
#65
Who Remembers This Guy?
#66
High School In The 90s Was Pretty Awesome
Moë 1 year ago
Definitely it was before the shooting c**p kids today have to deal with, sure bullying happened but I never felt unsafe in school. I feel so bad for kids nowadays having to put up with that.
StrangeOne 1 year ago (edited)
Not every kid in the world went to school in the United States. I never felt super safe in school, because if it's not a shooting, it's a vicious beating, stabbing, or luring to an unsafe area and have an "accident". Teens were a******s in the 90s.
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Wanna Meet At The Green Box? 🤣
StrangeOne 1 year ago
This scared the school staff to death. We were always shooed away off of them.
Paulo Guimaraes (Paulo Guimaraes) 1 year ago
Hahahahaha, I sit on them when my dog is sniffing for a pee spot.
#68
Circuit City
the sixthgirl 1 year ago
Bought a laptop there *while it was going out of business* and the sales guy got really made at me because I refused to purchase the extended warranty. From them.
#69
A/S/L? Lol
BewilderedBanana 1 year ago
Or message guys PRETENDING we were hot chicks, set them up for a "date" then turn up and have a good laugh. Wasn't AOL on this side of the planet though :)
#70
It's Still My Dream Bedroom
#71
This Was Your Rich Friends House On Movie Night
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Nothing beats setting up a fort and camping on the floor on top of blankets and pillows, as close to the TV as we could get away with, with a big bowl of popcorn
Terri Martin 1 year ago
I didn't have a rich friend 😭 Movie night for us for watching a movie with no sound at the drive in. Sitting on the hill to see the screen without entering and paying lol.
#72
Who Remembers These From Back In The Day?
🦄 Unicorn Princess 1 year ago
I collected pencils in the 90s. It didn't matter what they had on them just as long as they were different from others.
#73
"Hack The Planet!"
Irish Lassie 1 year ago
I think the blonde guy's name is Johnny something and was Angelina's first husband
#74
Page Me Later
#75
Is This Sticker From The 90's? Probably Not. Is The Memory Of Staring At It While Being Driven Everywhere From The 90's? Absolutely
Detroit Citizen 1 year ago
My car is a 99 and has these. It has airbags yet not the visor decal for them
#76
I'm Not Crying, You're Crying!
#77
Can We Go Back, Or No?
Hassel Davidhoff 1 year ago
So is the idea here that the person she's talking to has somehow traveled back in time after a good nap? I wouldn't mind doing that myself, now I think of it.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Maybe everything that's happened from then to now has been a wild ride of a dream.
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Le Sigh. Rip Porkchop
#79
Wegmans "Video Rental Store" In The 90's. This Was A Store Within A Store At Wegmans Supermarkets
google slave 1 year ago
I remember when Mario 3 came out. The video store called & I rode my bike 100mph to the store, jumped off and let it ghost ride into a wall. Got to have an "all-nighter" with my best friend and played all night long.
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Laughing Orc 1 year ago
These are good, but yeah, a bit heavy on the usa-specific stuff for a lot of us to get.
Dubnaught 1 year ago (edited)
That's how things work; they don't magically disappear with the next decade. I think "most" is a little extreme though. A lot of these related to TV shows and clothing styles
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Laughing Orc 1 year ago
These are good, but yeah, a bit heavy on the usa-specific stuff for a lot of us to get.
Dubnaught 1 year ago (edited)
That's how things work; they don't magically disappear with the next decade. I think "most" is a little extreme though. A lot of these related to TV shows and clothing styles
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