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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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#1
Cassette Inserts
Ladies and Gentlemen 6 years ago
Coming from a non-English background, these really helped understand the lyrics.
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#2
Playing Outside
#3
Computer Games
#4
Pocket Cameras
#5
Before Smartphones
#6
Life Before Google
#7
Kids Now vs. Then
Ladies and Gentlemen 6 years ago
Those were the days of comfort and these days are of show-off.
#8
The Struggles Of 90s
#9
Personal CDs
#10
Movie Time
#11
Old School Texting
#12
Affordable Housing
#13
Actual Music On Mtv
#15
Wordart
#16
Music On Cassettes
Ladies and Gentlemen 6 years ago
And the pain of tape coming out, and then you have to put the reel in through clocking in via pen or pencil.
#17
Old Playgrounds
#18
Pencil Pieces
#19
Blocking Calls
#20
Then vs. Now
#21
Sticky Candy
#22
Blockbuster
Nick Colderwood 6 years ago
The Puppet Master for my brothers 13th birthday (I was 12)
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Emily Johnston 6 years ago
This was the place one would run into an ex and they were with their new gf/bf on a rent a video date and you all alone in your velour/polyester tracksuit looking like a bum. It was inevitable and unavoidable. Some sort of cruel Bermuda Triangle for sad dumped people not over their ex's.
Kevin Braid 6 years ago
Blockbuster was too pricey, we dont need a film for 3 days, a game sure, awesome but not a film. if i recall it was 3 bucks for 3 days
rhyan lumilay 6 years ago
especially when it's going to be a long weekend or school will be suspended due to upcoming heavy storm.
Melody Nani Diessner 6 years ago
The last Blockbuster open is in Bend, Oregon. Alaska had 2 that just closed. Rock on Bend.
Timea Talitha Kumi 6 years ago
That was lovely, drive to the shop and choose togheter a movie, later going togheter to a store and get some food and then get happy home and just chill after done it all successfully 😁
Gemma Lees 6 years ago
Until you realised that all 25 copies of The Matrix had already been borrowed!
Haley Sterne 6 years ago
I remember when I worked in a video store, right before they closed down actually...good times.
Doris Stones Edwards 6 years ago
I totally miss Blockbuster! Friday nights were fulfilled when my kids and I went there for movies and treats. It was a really sad day when they closed.
Caroline Driver 6 years ago
I remember renting Howard the Duck and it had a Thomas the Tank Engine tape inside, so I never did see Howard the Duck. Probably divine providence
Andrew Blair 6 years ago
I miss doing this. My wife and I would treat ourselves to a couple of movies and a video game or two, go get some take-out and chill out. Great way to end the week!
Stacy McKeehan 6 years ago
I rented American History X. And I still have it 😱 The Blockbuster closed down before my movie was due back. So I have a VHS Blockbuster case with that movie in it to this day. Oh the memories 🙂
Tara Trainor 6 years ago
So many hours spent here wandering and reading the backs of the movies...I can't believe it is all gone forever...
Asuna Midna 6 years ago
Oh my god blockbuster was my freaking jam as a kid, so many cartoons and video games rented from this place. I miss it so much!
Jessica Gunn 6 years ago
Used to rent VHS tapes on a spinning rack from the local circle K....
Dian Ella Lillie 6 years ago
And when they switched from VCR to DVD it was like being given a light sabre...
Daria B 6 years ago
It was 2008, or something like that, and it was a different video library (not Blockbuster), but I think the last my friend and I rented was Tekkonkinkreet. ♥
#23
Sticker Collection
#24
Old Computer Games
Ladies and Gentlemen 6 years ago
I still play this game as on my office machines we cannot install any other gaming stuff.
#25
Ball Mouse
Lenora Hefley Rice 6 years ago
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.
#26
Wide Leg Jeans
#27
Tamagotchi Pets
GlassOfWater 6 years ago
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.
#28
Phone Time
#29
Phone Cords
Rakshya A Bhujel 6 years ago
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
#30
Printed Photos
#32
Solitaire
#33
Taping Music
Ladies and Gentlemen 6 years ago
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 ?
#34
Poster-Clad Walls
Cactuar Jon 6 years ago
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
#35
Everything Was Scary
#36
Multiplayer
#37
Retail Experience
#38
Butterfly Clips
Ladies and Gentlemen 6 years ago
Ouch! stepped up, stepped on another, Ouch again. Every Damn time. Ouch Ouch Ouch.
#39
Pillow Fort
#40
Scratched CDs
#41
Funniest Videos
Ladies and Gentlemen 6 years ago
I tried to search this "original" show on YT, but couldn't find it, Anyone ?
#42
Hairbands
#43
When Was It Again?
#45
Windows Maze
#46
Craft Set
Rakshya A Bhujel 6 years ago
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..
#47
Dance Moves
#48
Nostalgic Things
#49
Things We Used To Know
Hamlets twin 6 years ago
I work at an IT company and there are still some people who use pagers. They get mad if you try their cell first...
#50
Boybands
Ladies and Gentlemen 6 years ago
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.
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Lilian Della Rose 6 years ago
I’m fourteen and I know most of this stuff/ what is is and what it does. :/
Virginia Gould 6 years ago
I'm officially older than dirt. Kids from the 90's have started "Well, back in MY day...."
Magic567 5 years ago
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!
maswartz 6 years ago
Every time I see a thing like this I can't help but read some of them in a grumpy old man voice.
Shounteal Steward 6 years ago
When you got the pen with the 4+ colors in them, and you tried to push them all out at once.
Lina S. 6 years ago
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
Ego 6 years ago
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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A Little Light Arson 6 years ago
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
Mark Kelly 5 months ago
yup. we had all that here in Canada too. Don't forget Super Soakers and Flash Traxx rolelr blades
Uli Schmidt 4 years ago
man it was great growing up in the early 2000s and having the same childhood as someone who was born in 1998
Johanna Kidd 6 years ago
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)
Biana Weatherford 6 years ago
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...
Swetzie 6 years ago
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.
Paulette Guillory-Gardner 6 years ago
Ah yes, thanks for the trip down memory lane. Now I fell old as
Makettas Nery 6 years ago
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...😅
CbusResident 6 years ago
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.
Jerry Mathers 6 years ago
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.
Biljana Malesevic 6 years ago
I am 80's child and not even from USA, but I still recognise most of these!
Catherine Thompson 6 years ago
Did anyone else who grew up in the 00's relate to some of these?
Matthew Smith 6 years ago
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..
Ego 6 years ago
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.
Ego 6 years ago
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... Zori the degu 6 years ago
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!
Blue Cicada 6 years ago
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.
Notsoswift 6 years ago
90's......................death of Hair Metal bands.............................good
Full Name 6 years ago
"...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.
Tedus 6 years ago
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.
Bob 2.0 6 years ago
Now that you've said it, the iPhone 11 is probably gonna have that capability.
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Lilian Della Rose 6 years ago
I’m fourteen and I know most of this stuff/ what is is and what it does. :/
Virginia Gould 6 years ago
I'm officially older than dirt. Kids from the 90's have started "Well, back in MY day...."
Magic567 5 years ago
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!
maswartz 6 years ago
Every time I see a thing like this I can't help but read some of them in a grumpy old man voice.
Shounteal Steward 6 years ago
When you got the pen with the 4+ colors in them, and you tried to push them all out at once.
Lina S. 6 years ago
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
Ego 6 years ago
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... A Little Light Arson 6 years ago
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
Mark Kelly 5 months ago
yup. we had all that here in Canada too. Don't forget Super Soakers and Flash Traxx rolelr blades
Uli Schmidt 4 years ago
man it was great growing up in the early 2000s and having the same childhood as someone who was born in 1998
Johanna Kidd 6 years ago
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)
Biana Weatherford 6 years ago
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...
Swetzie 6 years ago
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.
Paulette Guillory-Gardner 6 years ago
Ah yes, thanks for the trip down memory lane. Now I fell old as
Makettas Nery 6 years ago
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...😅
CbusResident 6 years ago
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.
Jerry Mathers 6 years ago
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.
Biljana Malesevic 6 years ago
I am 80's child and not even from USA, but I still recognise most of these!
Catherine Thompson 6 years ago
Did anyone else who grew up in the 00's relate to some of these?
Matthew Smith 6 years ago
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..
Ego 6 years ago
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.
Ego 6 years ago
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... Zori the degu 6 years ago
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!
Blue Cicada 6 years ago
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.
Notsoswift 6 years ago
90's......................death of Hair Metal bands.............................good
Full Name 6 years ago
"...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.
Tedus 6 years ago
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.
Bob 2.0 6 years ago
Now that you've said it, the iPhone 11 is probably gonna have that capability.
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