Waaazzzaaaap
That ad campaign started in 99, its really more of a 2000’s thing.
Ya, but it proves I lived through the 90’s 😆
The 90s were from 1995 to 2005. That’s just my opinion. I know it sounds dumb. Many things from 1990 to 1994 feel like the 80’s.
That’s the Y2K “lost decade” speaking to you; 1990-1996 was the early 90s, Y2K from 1997 to 2003, and the McBling 00s from 2004 to 2008. I have reason to believe cultural decades started as decades, yet were upended by 1945-65 being The 50s but 1965-69 being the 60s and never been quite on schedule since.
Since the 60s were barely 5 years, there was - apparently - a subtle difference between the early and late 70s, a noticeable difference between the early and late 1980s, and a pronounced difference between 1990, 1994 and 1999. By 2004 a fashion lasted 5 years at best, and 2008 has hardly been a similar year to 2013 or 2019 or 2023.
Outside of America, this is interpreted as a reference to Scary Movie instead of the budweiser ad.
Hahaha that’s the first thing that popped in my mind! 😂
Here in the Netherlands I never heard of it!
Rad! Thanks :)
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Watskeburt?
Waaaatsgebeuuurrrd!
Winamp.
…it really whips the llamas ass!
Baaaahhh!!!
I still use Winamp regularly.
still using it as my PC media player
Y2K.
I survived idiocy of managers asking for Y2K compliant padlocks. As in, physical padlocks.
Hope you charged them double.
“We gotta get the Locksmith to come out and replace the microchips. Yeah, it’s going to be expensive but worth it”
Please tell us they did this… 😂
I mean, I wasn’t in charge of getting them, but learning about it was painful enough. I was young, and faith in humanity hadn’t been burned out of me yet.
Encarta
I remember this from the school library computers. That and even back then the school had some kind of broadband, it blew my mind that to get online all we had to do was open IE. I was used to that part but always had whatever dial up service we had at the time to open up and connect first. Just clicking IE and going was crazy to me.
I remember trying to play Mind Maze and knowing absolutely nothing.
I loved the video it has about nuclear fission reactions.
Netscape
Linux and Mac users can hold on to a little piece of that history with the wonderful xscreensaver suite (its author, jwz, was a Netscape dude).
Add to that, flying toasters
Even better just use Firefox it descended from Netscape Navigator.
Jwz! He was like nerd Jesus to us 90s computer geeks
Pogs
Remember Alf? He’s back! In pog form!
Came here to say this! My collection is MIA and it still makes me sad thinking about it.
Your parents threw it away
Along with my pokemon cards
Hey can I come over and slam ur pogs?
Tamagotchi
Just bought my first Tamagatchi in 2023 lol
Had the yellow one and a game boy one.
And a couple different brand ones. Or maybe just one other one? I forget now.
Bobwehadababyitsaboy
I remember it as “eeetsaboy”
This one pops into my head way too often
This was my first thought lol
NOT!
Dialup
Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcchdingdingding
yep. that’s the correct spelling for that sound
Welcome, you’ve got mail, goodbye…
Not a word, but the phrase “going online”. As in not being constantly connected at all times. We had to actually “get” online to look at stuff.
Remember cyberspace?
I remember before I had the internet wondering why companies had ads for “http://” and others were on “www” and having no clue if I needed to buy a special internet to access each.
Umm, excuse me, but I believe you’re missing a “start” and/or “select.” pushes glasses up nose
This is how you know they didn’t have friends. Select & Start was the end combo for two player cheat.
Technically they weren’t part of the cheat, just needed to start the game. A lot of games at the time also copied the Konami sequence but handled the ending differently.
Oh. Well then, I stand corrected.
Psych!
You know that’s right!
JNCO’s
I still laugh thinking back to 8th grade when my buddy, Tyler, got his first pair of JNCOs. To paint a picture, Tyler couldn’t have been more than 90 pounds soaking wet and had a bowl cut (being it the 90s). He had a big goofy grin on his face and goes “check it out - I can fit a while 2 liter of Mountain Dew in my pocket!” And sure enough, he pulled a full 2 liter of Mountain Dew out of his front pocket.
Tyler was definitely a product of the times
Pogs
