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
Whoa CHILL... 'Me' I appreciate your expression of opinion but it is really not an untrue fact that many people of the young generation are on their phones a lot but it is also not untrue that many older people are always on their phone (to state my opinion). I see almost nobody not on their phones in the train but I can't say that it is a problem. People need phones for work and leisure (which is good once in a while). I think it is alright for everyone, (including the young generation) to adapt to the recent times and take advantage of the technology available. Thanks for reading my opinion! 😁
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Oh please, if you were born after 1920 you had way, way, way more technology than any previous generation had. We were condemned for playing Nintendo and Sega Genesis and watching 80s/90s kids shows. How quickly everyone forgets and suddenly acts like they grew up in the 1880s.
It wasn't 24/7 then, it was when you'd finished your chores maybe. I'm an adult now and will admit I'm addicted to my cellphone. I long for simpler times when I counted myself fortunate to have a 20' long phone cord so I could walk around my room freely with my landline telephone. Ha.
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Pretty sure plenty "kids these days" also still play outside. And plenty of 80's and 90's kids probably stayed in doors playing video games or carrying around old school portable game systems. Just because you found a photo matching your ideals doesn't make it true.
My aunt has a pretty young kid and even though she's fairly "spoiled" with the amounts of things she gets in my opinion, high-tech and otherwise, she still likes to just... play outside with friends a lot.
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Yeah yeah yeah... because seven/eight year olds and 14/15 year olds have a lot in common, right? I grew up doing both of those things pictured, just at different times.
I'm a kid now and I do both? I play outside with friends a lot and still have fun online as well
What?? NO WAY! It's not possible, it must be one or the other! ;) LOL Signed....a Mom who is also sick and tired of this stereotype.
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I'm sorry, how is my generation supposed to move on and NOT be addicted to tech, if EVERYONE AND THEIR DOG KEEPS ACTING LIKE WE ARE? I'm sorry, am I not allowed to use my phone to talk with friends? Sorry. I'm just a little tired of this stereotype.
It is a boring stereotype but save your anger for the next generation, and their new fangled I-Chip that plugs directly into their brians, "hey, back In my day we used phones"
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I think it's a bit boring that we now in this era still can't get over comparing to kids in the past and present. Human behaviour evolve , things change :) That simple
i hate these things. everyone uses what they had available/were allowed. we weren't allowed outside to do those things cause we lived in a crappy neighborhood and it was dangerous so i ended up reading a lot because that's what i *could* do. i've seen lots of parents today not allow their kids outside without supervision (which is mostly absent as most homes are 2 parent working households). of course they're going to connect with what they have access to.
This is a myth, kids still love creeks and beaches and making up games in the park. My kid (11) and her friends also love hanging out with each other online, playing games, when they're each in their own homes. The other post I often see - the "when I was a kid I played in the road until the streelights came on, we never wore seatbelts, blah, blah, blah, and we're just fine" - really annoys me. The ones who weren't fine are no longer here to post that kind of rubbish. Think about it.
I find the ones who always boast about being out until the streetlights came on are the ones who are always screaming "But where were the parents?!" when something bad happens. They just like to think they're better than everyone else ;)
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Things were different back then! Things change, we know this! People use what is available for entertainment. Kids today hang out with their friends ALL THE TIME! A lot of people have a skewed idea of what we do with our friends. PLENTY of us are not on our phones the whole time. We don't plan out an event together just to stare at our phones
THIS IS SO UNTRUE i am part of the young generation and I LOVE GOING TO THE CREEK and barely ever go on my iPad etc and when i do it is to use them for research and yes maybe a bit of entertainment but still COME ON!
Let us all hear this kid,,,, and yet, up vote the meme anyway as we feel estranged and cannot possibly believe less human interaction, and using fewer senses a human has, could by any standards turn out to be healthy
Load More Replies... Kids still love to do the first too. The opportunities are less though as we find ourselves living in more and more built up environments. Where is the nearest river you can play in? If it's far, then it's probably only weekends you can get there when parents are free to take you.
It's weird because I'm a millennial but phones were not in until I was in about 6th grade so I grew up playing and being crazy with my 5 other siblings, building forts, digging holes during the summer then filling them with water and calling them pools! We were crazy and we were never on the internet plus even now in 2018 none of us are allowed to have social media and none of us have phones, I have an iPad and it's because I'm a straight A student and I'm not on it 24/7. I don't even have social media. Therefore, we are always playing sports like boxing, cheerleading, football, track, and soccer, and actually talking to each other lol.
my niece and nephew (twins) came to visit me last week - they barely looked up from their tablets and phones to even grunt a "hello" - its just disappointing
That's not an issue with the times, it's with their parents. My daughter is a bit of a screen addict, but we never take one visiting or to a restaurant, etc and she manages just fine.
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This is more like 80s kids to 93 at least. Kids born after 93 are guilty of this too.
Absolutely an up-vote from me! I love the memories of playing with the kids from my neighborhood, no matter what age, gender, social status. In the streets of our neighborhoods, we were all best friends. Until the whistles, from the parents, calling everyone home began at dark. And then we’d start all over the next evening 💗💗
I was born in the 2002. I've always wanted to grow up in the 90s. Much more fun and more people to relate to. I'd rather play in the mud whole day than having anything to d with technology. I don't even own a smartphone, I rejected my father's offer to buy me one.
My friend, being born in '84, I can tell you that we spent enormous amounts of time in the 90s watching kids cartoons, playing video games, watching VHS tapes, Nickolodeon shows of that time, and TGIF shows...and on and on it went w/ our 90s childrens media. Yes, we also played in the mud sometimes, rode bikes and ran around forests and went swimming, and skinned knees on the playground, and on and on our outdoor adventures went. My little nieces and nephews still do both things now too. I would advise people to encourage kids to do more outdoor stuff, but having babysat little kids I can also tell you sometimes they need a break in front of the boob tube.
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When my son was around 10, we bought a house, and we were very excited to be moving from where we were. All my son wanted to do was play outside. Most of the other boys, when outside, would do only prescribed play, like playing basketball, no just riding around on the bike, or playing down by the pond, etc. Very scary was the fact I almost NEVER saw the girl in the neighborhood play outside. As a girl, I was outside all summer long, kickball, softball, TV tag, playing in the woods, swinging, running races, etc. My son was just pissed from age 10 - 19. He couldn't stand sitting around inside in the summer. Only ever found one friend to play with outside in that neighborhood, but only for a short time before the friend succumbed to video games. (It's impossible to spell "neighborhood" without spellcheck.)
^ never saw the GIRLS....there was more than one girl!
Load More Replies... As a member of the young generation, I see this all the time. Of course, it isn't always like this, but it is the majority of the time.
I'm sick of this stereotype. Just because kids use their phones sometimes doesn't mean nobody plays anymore.
I missed the days when children are so noisy outside on the streets playing in the morning and afternoon up until 7 to 8pm, nowadays children are all inside their houses being quiet.
I had horses and my friends had horses. Always outside. And on Friday nights we had picin' and grinnin' music in the barn. Good times.
It is sad to see this. I am turning 19 this year and I am sad to see kids on their phones instead of playing outside. Once I was reading a book and while waiting on the bus, and 9 years old kids told me that it's not cool/embarrassing to reed books these days. It's sad that they don't know what it's like to read a good book
True very true - though they are probably talking to one another. Can't complain about them being too loud
Because kids have well paying jobs that allow them to buy anything they want. Also if you grew up in the 90s you could easily have been playing on your gameboys, gamegear etc.
Parents shove electronics in their kids' faces when they're 2 to get them to shut up, don't let them outside without adult supervision when they're 7-13, but somehow this is the kids' fault. stfu this is a result of bad parents, not lazy kids. So sick of people s******g on kids these days for stuff like this.
I haven't been growing up doing either. Not allowed to go outside and no phone.
Children take interest in everything. Yeah, they will play with their cell phone, but also read books or play in the garden if you give them the chance. I played outside, with Lego, with action figures, but I also watched a lot of Cartoon and Anime, played old games on my slow computer and listened to music from audiocassettes. People always blame new things, but it's not that new. You just think it is.
Ugh. Gimmie a break. the kids on the left are like ...8. The girls on the right are like 14. I stopped playing in the mud when I was a teen, too.
Still do it. And tbh, I still get most of the memes on here, even though I'm a 2000's kid. We don't have our eyes glued to the screens all the time, so I'm a bit annoyed when people post things like this :P
I can't imagine anyone would prefer the right hand photo. We need to think about what we are teaching our children.
So glad to see and talk to your friends face to face and just hang out
Not every kid does this, you know. It's up to the parents to not give their kids phones before their at least a freshman.
If you grew up like the kids on the left, you're not a 1990s kid. You're a 1960-1970s kid. Kids growing up in the 1990s had a shitload of tech toys, from hand-held video games, to video-games played on the TV, to personal computers. They also had a large number of online chat groups throughout the 1990s. They also had TV programs all day long, TVs and phones in their rooms. Moreover, their Gen-X helicopter parents never let them go outside without three chaperones, because crime was growing, and fear of crime was growing 100 times faster than the crime rate itself. Even younger Gen-Xers, those born after 1975, did not grow up outside, but stayed indoors playing their own tech games and watching TV. There were some small towns and isolated suburbs in which kids did play outside, put those were a rarity. Otherwise, the last generation that grew up playing outdoors were kids growing up in the mid 1970s. Millenials, you're a great generation, but stop feeding this delusion.
So what?No you post it on the internet and younger generations are doing the same.Stop whining about how your childhood was awesome and nowadays it is not
Each generation has merit- the same kids splashing in mud, had their counterparts on books and on tv- it is all a matter of perspective. It is easy to romanticize and make nostalgia- especially when it is to criticize. I call bs. I grew up in the "mud" generation- thank god I didn't have to experience that nonsense and instead was able to stay inside and read or watch tv as I wished. To me that would not have been a blessing but a curse. Yuck- mud, bugs, skeeter bites- dirt!! Not thank you!
It's not the kids fault, and it is not the fault of these amazing new devices. We simply don't have many creeks, puddles woodlots, and kid places anymore. I blame the christians for this. Thanks to that mindset, I am afraid to live in my own country.
Oh, I LOVED playing with kids of the neighborhood outside ;) Looked forward to the w-end all the time.
I always feel that I was born in the wrong decade, I've never had the opportunity to "have fun" like back then. Sigh
or affordable housing cause you guys ruined that market
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So happy most of my youth and into my 20s, phones did nothing more than, well - call people! No cameras that connected to WIFI; if a "selfie" was taken, then you had to wait for it to be developed. And that none of my antics were captured and set free on the internet. No photos, no proof it ever happened! LOL!
i didnt get a mobile til i was 35 - and it didnt do pictures
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Also the way we dressed back then compared to now. The kids (especially girls) dress too mature. I saw a video the other day on instagram of a 6 year old doing a contour video. I was disgusted. A 6 year old should be playing with dolls.
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
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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