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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Kids These Days Will Never Know The Struggle
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."
Does Anyone Else Remember These From School?
Can I Get A Whoa Bundy?
Teal The Unofficial Color Of The 90s
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.
I Would Give Anything To Go Back
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 )
These Books Helped Me Learn About How To Take Of My Hamster When I Was 9
Does It?
Nobody Knew
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.
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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.
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Who Remembers
90s Wallet
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.
These Leather Phone Cases
Pound Puppies
Who Loved It? Who Hated It?
My Wife Found This Picture Of Me In High School That Screams 90s
Damn, I miss rollerblades. I was a terrible skateboarder, but hella good on blades.
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.
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
Recognize These?
This Is Deep
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.
Dads In The 90s
Kids Visiting The Library Be Like
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.
Subtle Signs All The Fun Ended After The '90s
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 :).
Power Up!!
The Lone Rangers
And Steve Buscemi looks so different. That was the movie Airheads, right?
My Neighborhood Bus Stop Gang
90’s Cartoons Were The Best
You Could See Whoever Wrote On It Before You
I Miss The Inside Of Wendy’s
From The 1991 Sears Fall Catalog
The Year Was 1997 And I Was 17 And Thought I Was Gonna Be A Rapper
Anyone Else Have These?
Anyone Else Used To Watch This?
Who Remembers Beakman’s World? (1992)
The Upstairs Of My Local Amc Theatre Is Trapped In 1997
We Didn't Even Have A Dog
I didn't even read what it said before I could picture the inside of the football because it was always missing a portion.
90s Fashion Just Hit So Differently
Who Remembers This ? 1990’s Cable Black Box
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.
I Can Smell This Pic
Thought You Guys Would Like This — My Local Laundromat Is Stuck In The 90’s!
No Packed Lunch For School Was Complete Without These
The Boys Killing It On Summer Vacation Before High School, Circa 1996. We All Still Keep In Touch Regularly
These Were The 90's Kid's First Glimpse Into The Single Adult Life
Could never get them to be an even temp. Either some cold spots, or put it back in and burnt some spots.
Who Can Still Feel The Burning Sensation In Their Throat After Drinking These At School Parties And Family Picnics?
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."
McDonald's Batman Forever Drink Glass Set
Guys, Remember, Salute Your Shorts?
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These are good, but yeah, a bit heavy on the usa-specific stuff for a lot of us to get.
These are good, but yeah, a bit heavy on the usa-specific stuff for a lot of us to get.
