Nostalgia has a place in everyone's hearts, but no one floods the internet with their sentiments about the past as much as 90s kids. The 90s, after all, were a magical time when playing silly games outside all day met the development of modern technologies that have shaped and molded us into who we are now. And proud about it we are. However, since no age group spends online as much time as we do, cut us some slack, why don't you?
Many things made our childhood special — the CD player that wouldn't fit into any pocket, the legendary Tamagotchi, and hilarious 90s fashion that seem to have re-born nowadays quite seriously and not in the form of hilarious memes (much to our dismay). Most of these 90s nostalgia relicts are hardly available now, so we have to keep their memories alive. And what better way to do so than creating funny memes? Scroll down to check out the nostalgic selection of 90s trend that will instantly send every kid of the decade down the memory lane and upvote your favorites.
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Cassette Inserts
Coming from a non-English background, these really helped understand the lyrics.
Playing Outside
Computer Games
Pocket Cameras
Before Smartphones
Life Before Google
Kids Now vs. Then
Those were the days of comfort and these days are of show-off.
The Struggles Of 90s
Personal CDs
Movie Time
Old School Texting
Affordable Housing
Actual Music On Mtv
CD collection
Wordart
Music On Cassettes
And the pain of tape coming out, and then you have to put the reel in through clocking in via pen or pencil.
Old Playgrounds
The real issue was what little boys did at the top of the slide after dark. Also, how the hell are playground slides a "90's" thing?
Wait...what did little boys do at the top of the slide?????? Is there a joke I'm missing?
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....always stop sliding in the middle of the plastic one, had to butt-scoot the rest of the way down...
Worse if you went on the steel one on a hot day in shorts. We were so bad a*s we went on it anyway. Does anyone remember the Jungle gyms? Little metal bars arranged in stacked cubes that people could crawl inside of and get all tangled up in? I loved those!
That's pretty much what they already said by "burning you alive".
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Let's not forget the dozens of slivers you'd get from falling on all those wood chips at the bottom!
I once got horrific burns on my arms and legs going down a metal helter skelter....totally worth it
little boys watch their pee slide down from the top after dark :)
In my experience, no slide has more than 3 steps. Nothing like the monster 12ft mountain I got to ride in middle school!
Oh my god! Those slides, I swear to god, use to be the death of us as kids!
Sliding down on 'proper' greaseproof paper that bread came in to make it faster.
When I was younger I was really scared of the closed tube plastic slides, because they "shocked" me. I kinda forgot about it until I saw one recently and figured I'd try it. It was really underwhelming.
Or you had to choose between the itchy burp lap sacks to slide on or burning the tarnation out of your thighs
I legit just called my kids in to see this. " We has more fun than y'all do, but it hurt"
Pencil Pieces
Blocking Calls
Then vs. Now
Sticky Candy
Blockbuster
Sticker Collection
Old Computer Games
I still play this game as on my office machines we cannot install any other gaming stuff.
Ball Mouse
Gah! I used to open this and clean the inside all of the time. It drove me up a wall if the little rollers inside got caked with gunk and my cursor wouldn't move smoothly.
Wide Leg Jeans
Tamagotchi Pets
My sister had one and then some random kid stole it when we were at a caravan park. It was the end of the world for her.
Phone Time
Phone Cords
i used to get so damn irritated about this that i spent most of the time making it go one direction rather than concentrate on my phone calls.. XD
Printed Photos
Bubblegum Comics
Solitaire
Taping Music
When I grew up we didn't had such money to afford SONY. But there came another brand which copied sony and made these things accessible to many people - "AIWA". Does anyone else remember that brand ?
Poster-Clad Walls
Worse with the ones that fall really slowly. The start of it wakes you up, then you spend the following 10 mins frozen in bed, trying to distinguish what the sound was and if you were actually still asleep or not lol
Everything Was Scary
Multiplayer
Retail Experience
Butterfly Clips
Ouch! stepped up, stepped on another, Ouch again. Every Damn time. Ouch Ouch Ouch.
Pillow Fort
Scratched CDs
Funniest Videos
I tried to search this "original" show on YT, but couldn't find it, Anyone ?
Hairbands
When Was It Again?
Windows Maze
Craft Set
Well there was a time when i got a whole set of colors ( bear headed crayons, markers, water colors, pencil colors) and that was the happiest day of my life since that was my very first time I started my journey as an artist.. but one of my classmate stole it.. he freaking stole it.. -_- and this was back when I was in 1st grade and he didn't admit he stole it and i never saw my own art kit again..
Dance Moves
Nostalgic Things
Things We Used To Know
I work at an IT company and there are still some people who use pagers. They get mad if you try their cell first...
Boybands
Nsync, Back Street Boys, U2, Nirvana, Metallica, Guns n Roses, The Verve, Savage Garden, Santana and hundreds of such more awesome bands. Thousand times better then todays crappy EDM and other techno nonsense. Glad to be born in that era. And Sorry how can I forget BRYAN ADAMS.
I’m fourteen and I know most of this stuff/ what is is and what it does. :/
I'm officially older than dirt. Kids from the 90's have started "Well, back in MY day...."
please stop steropyping these modern day kids i was born in the 2000s and know about what all theses things are! i dont own a phone i do own a computer (beacuse we have to for school) but im not stuck on it im only on it 15 minuits perday! most of the time im playing out side or doing school work (sorry if i spelt this all wrong) btw everyone knows the macarina!
When you got the pen with the 4+ colors in them, and you tried to push them all out at once.
This isn't actually limited to 90's kids. I grew up in the 2000's and i know quite a lot of these. Most of the kids who don't play outside anymore are the ones that were born after 2008
Nope. Kids are still playing outside. People like to say all this doomsday nonsense about younger generations when it's just not the case. People in the past used to complain that books would do the same thing to children.
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I'm a bit too retro, so even though I was brought up in the 2000's, then I still know the struggle, thanks :D
man it was great growing up in the early 2000s and having the same childhood as someone who was born in 1998
Nostalgia from the past always makes me feel so very old...Reel to reel tape decks&record players were in vogue way back...(0.0)
80s kid here....these apply. The really long phone cord that you could drag into the next room and pretend to have privacy...then the cordless that you could never find...
I'm actually only 20 years old, but since I live in a country that is like 15 years behind the States, I recall most of these. I especially recall playing my PS1, renting VHS tapes from my local movie rental and playing it on my grandma's VHS player and getting a brick phone when passing my first grade. I actually relate to 90% of these things. Those were good times, to say at least.
Ah yes, thanks for the trip down memory lane. Now I fell old as
Lol, grew up in 00s and I know/used almost everything in here, even though I had access to new technologies and used them as well, I think that you shouldn't generalize people because of the time they grew up...😅
I am near certain that being born in early '84, I am older than at least some if not most of the people commenting on here about the 'much simpler time' that they grew up in that they long for. You and I are too young to make this complaint. I was there, and my family was semi-tech-phobic-late-adapting in the 80s and 90s. But it wasn't a simple time where most of America was agrarian and you walked to a one room school house on a dirt road to learn the three Rs by a slide rule. You, reading this, you were driven to malls where mom and dad bought you Frappucinos and you got to play your favorite pop songs on MP3s and had a computer and cable TV and video games. I know you did b/c I was there. You're not 90 years old so stop pretending you are.
I remember the nostalgia in the 90's. It was still kids need to play outside because video games were all they were playing. In the 80's, it was kids need to play outside because all they did was watch TV. Realistically, when you got thrown outside, you spent a fair bit of time trying to figure out what to do. And when you did, there was a 50% chance you were gonna get in trouble for doing it.
I am 80's child and not even from USA, but I still recognise most of these!
Did anyone else who grew up in the 00's relate to some of these?
I grew up in the 70's but this article really made me laugh, makes me feel old because many of the 90's stuff we had in the 70's..
Not only did a lot of these things exist in the 80s and 2000s, but also the country I'm from (a third world country) still has dial up and still used cassettes past the 2000s. "90s kid" nostalgia is beyond obnoxious.
There were a lot of bad things that happened in the 90s, but people gloss over it due to their nostalgia of it. That's just how humans are, though. When we reflect on our childhoods (if your childhood was an average childhood), the memories are usually positive. Every generation criticizes the next for being more advanced.
Load More Replies... I'm now pretty sure I was born in 2002 by mistake. How comes I can relate to all this? My mom's oldest computer I can remember was something like the shown examples. I played in mud, grass... I have the worst girl knees you'd ever encounter! My generation is boring, boring, boring and sucks!
The _point_ of this list is to provide examples of the differences between the experiences and behaviors of many children today in industrialized societies and what their parents experienced, in the '90's. Complaining about every entry that "was every decade before the 90's" or "still happens now" is petty and misses the point.
90's......................death of Hair Metal bands.............................good
"...only if you grew up in the 90's"?! This list is chock full of pre-90's stuff (plastic ended hair elastics, TV's with dials on them etc), and also talks about "Then vs now" yet has the wrong timeline. One talks about how in the 90's you had Chucky, but today's kids have Toy Story. Hey idiots: Child's Play came out in 1988, and Toy Story in 1995. The first one talks about no internet, yet I had internet access in 1994 (then #3 shows the internet startup screen. Which reality do you want?). Downvoted for so many of them NOT fitting the title.
Makes me think: What is the nowadays version of a mixtape you record and give to that special person? I can only think of s ending some files - which is kinda lame and takes away anything romantic about that.
Now that you've said it, the iPhone 11 is probably gonna have that capability.
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I’m fourteen and I know most of this stuff/ what is is and what it does. :/
I'm officially older than dirt. Kids from the 90's have started "Well, back in MY day...."
please stop steropyping these modern day kids i was born in the 2000s and know about what all theses things are! i dont own a phone i do own a computer (beacuse we have to for school) but im not stuck on it im only on it 15 minuits perday! most of the time im playing out side or doing school work (sorry if i spelt this all wrong) btw everyone knows the macarina!
When you got the pen with the 4+ colors in them, and you tried to push them all out at once.
This isn't actually limited to 90's kids. I grew up in the 2000's and i know quite a lot of these. Most of the kids who don't play outside anymore are the ones that were born after 2008
Nope. Kids are still playing outside. People like to say all this doomsday nonsense about younger generations when it's just not the case. People in the past used to complain that books would do the same thing to children.
Load More Replies... I'm a bit too retro, so even though I was brought up in the 2000's, then I still know the struggle, thanks :D
man it was great growing up in the early 2000s and having the same childhood as someone who was born in 1998
Nostalgia from the past always makes me feel so very old...Reel to reel tape decks&record players were in vogue way back...(0.0)
80s kid here....these apply. The really long phone cord that you could drag into the next room and pretend to have privacy...then the cordless that you could never find...
I'm actually only 20 years old, but since I live in a country that is like 15 years behind the States, I recall most of these. I especially recall playing my PS1, renting VHS tapes from my local movie rental and playing it on my grandma's VHS player and getting a brick phone when passing my first grade. I actually relate to 90% of these things. Those were good times, to say at least.
Ah yes, thanks for the trip down memory lane. Now I fell old as
Lol, grew up in 00s and I know/used almost everything in here, even though I had access to new technologies and used them as well, I think that you shouldn't generalize people because of the time they grew up...😅
I am near certain that being born in early '84, I am older than at least some if not most of the people commenting on here about the 'much simpler time' that they grew up in that they long for. You and I are too young to make this complaint. I was there, and my family was semi-tech-phobic-late-adapting in the 80s and 90s. But it wasn't a simple time where most of America was agrarian and you walked to a one room school house on a dirt road to learn the three Rs by a slide rule. You, reading this, you were driven to malls where mom and dad bought you Frappucinos and you got to play your favorite pop songs on MP3s and had a computer and cable TV and video games. I know you did b/c I was there. You're not 90 years old so stop pretending you are.
I remember the nostalgia in the 90's. It was still kids need to play outside because video games were all they were playing. In the 80's, it was kids need to play outside because all they did was watch TV. Realistically, when you got thrown outside, you spent a fair bit of time trying to figure out what to do. And when you did, there was a 50% chance you were gonna get in trouble for doing it.
I am 80's child and not even from USA, but I still recognise most of these!
Did anyone else who grew up in the 00's relate to some of these?
I grew up in the 70's but this article really made me laugh, makes me feel old because many of the 90's stuff we had in the 70's..
Not only did a lot of these things exist in the 80s and 2000s, but also the country I'm from (a third world country) still has dial up and still used cassettes past the 2000s. "90s kid" nostalgia is beyond obnoxious.
There were a lot of bad things that happened in the 90s, but people gloss over it due to their nostalgia of it. That's just how humans are, though. When we reflect on our childhoods (if your childhood was an average childhood), the memories are usually positive. Every generation criticizes the next for being more advanced.
Load More Replies... I'm now pretty sure I was born in 2002 by mistake. How comes I can relate to all this? My mom's oldest computer I can remember was something like the shown examples. I played in mud, grass... I have the worst girl knees you'd ever encounter! My generation is boring, boring, boring and sucks!
The _point_ of this list is to provide examples of the differences between the experiences and behaviors of many children today in industrialized societies and what their parents experienced, in the '90's. Complaining about every entry that "was every decade before the 90's" or "still happens now" is petty and misses the point.
90's......................death of Hair Metal bands.............................good
"...only if you grew up in the 90's"?! This list is chock full of pre-90's stuff (plastic ended hair elastics, TV's with dials on them etc), and also talks about "Then vs now" yet has the wrong timeline. One talks about how in the 90's you had Chucky, but today's kids have Toy Story. Hey idiots: Child's Play came out in 1988, and Toy Story in 1995. The first one talks about no internet, yet I had internet access in 1994 (then #3 shows the internet startup screen. Which reality do you want?). Downvoted for so many of them NOT fitting the title.
Makes me think: What is the nowadays version of a mixtape you record and give to that special person? I can only think of s ending some files - which is kinda lame and takes away anything romantic about that.
Now that you've said it, the iPhone 11 is probably gonna have that capability.
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