48 Things From The ’90s That People From That Decade Like To Gloat About

I had a friend with whom we send letters regularly. Then, the e-mails arrived, we wrote to each other from time to time, but less than letters. And with the arrival of Facebook, we stopped writing to each other

I used to do pen pals all the time as a teen. Now I'm pen pals with prisoners. It's a good thing to do.

I was a pretty active pen paller before I had kids. Would usually write 1-2 25+ paged letters each month. I also met a few of my pen pals. But then I had kids and my letter paper is just in boxes now and I think I'be writte 2 letters all in all whilr I'e had kids (my oldest is 6). I miss penpalling so much and I want to get back to it so so bad.

Pen pals!! I remember those too!!

My dad bought a video store in 1991. Then Blockbuster moved in two blocks away in '93 and we were gone by '94. Womp womp. It was still fun, though. UPDATE OH GOD I googled the store and found an ebay link to a 'vintage' pin from our store specifically and now I'm going to take out life insurance.

Blockbuster helped get me through some of college. I watched sooo many bad movies but also found some awesome anime

Ahhhhhh the nostalgia of a Friday night Blockbuster trip with the family to choose a movie and snacks. It was SUCH an exciting big deal. Reece's Pieces FTW!

Never happened for me. I was a 90s kid living in a bad neighborhood. It wasn't until I was middle school aged in the early to mid '00s I was given that independence.

We used to just be out there roaming around. It always shocks me when I see so many cars pulling up to a school. I understand why but it's soo much different now.

Just remember, it's the perception of safety that was different back then. There were almost as many bad things happening back then, they just weren't as widely known as things are today. Back then, you had the neighborhood gossip or found out what was going on from overhearing your parents talking to other parents. No one ever told the kids anything but today you have cell phones, texting, phone trees and the internet.

When I get burned out or severely depressed, I just tell people I talk to on the regular that I'm going MIA for a bit. So far, nobody's minded.

I know this makes me sound 100 years old, but I find it really sad that kids today will never grow up knowing the exhilaration of knowing your parents have no idea where you are, who you're with and have no way of contacting you to find out.

Right next to the comics, horoscope and crossword in the newspaper.

Really the only time I'd read the newspaper

Get off the phone so I can use the internet

“Brrrrrraaaa meeeep meeep….” “Hey, I just logged on!”

Not to mention when the announcer doesn't stop talking and you really wanna use this as your ringtone. lol

This hurts me. Today at work some team members went to different stands in a street food market for lunch and I got about 6 whatsapps along the lines of "I'm at x, where you at?". 30 years ago I organised whole romances by saying I'll meet you at x cinema in two weeks time.

This was more fun than you'd guess, and more annoying when it was you who got spied on. It was also the original "speaker phone" where you could have several people talking at once.

Yes. And in the 90s only the stoner and skater kids cut and frayed the bottoms of thier pants. Now you see Gen Z wearing them like, "I'm sooooo 90s." Not even close.

I used to love watching MTv but now it's all Ridiculousness, a few other shows and the occasional movie on Sunday. Last music video I watched was A Favor house Atlantic by Coheed and Cambria which was apparently about 20 years ago 😮‍💨 (I had to check the release date and feel a bit old now) edit: put wrong song at first

I miss reminiscing about the good ones and my friends and I poking fun at ourselves over the awkward pictures!!

When you find out your finger covers most of the photo

There's an app that does this! You take pictures and see them later! Later cam!

Film cameras I do not miss one bit. It was so expensive, I had pictures I took in college that I couldn’t afford to get back from the developer.

Secretly taking a picture of the dog's butt on my mom's camera 😂😂😂

Still have mine. Spent way too much money and hours downloading to toss them

I remember mercilessly ribbing one of our mates when someone broke into his car to steal the stereo, took the cd binder too only to discard every single CD as they escaped down the road- leaving a breadcrumb trail of terrible music choices cast into the street. It still makes me laugh today.

Still do.

I had two binders stolen from my car in like 2005, and it was over 300 CDs total 😭. In fairness, a LOT of them I got for super cheap because I ordered from Columbia House under multiple versions of my name lol

I still have favorites with which I will probably only part when I’m gone!!

Oh boy, were we wrong about that.

Last year I told my mother how I keep feeling like there's no hope for the future, why even bother, etc. Instead of replying with "OMG are you okay?" she just said "Yeah, that's how everyone feels now". Sign of the times. D:

A few years after 1990 when our leaders blundering into nuclear war was a reduced possibility. Before then it was like going through life handcuffed to a broomstick with a mad dog collared to the other end

God I miss arcades. It was sooo much fun going with a group of friends and playing games then seeing who could kick whose āss at air hockey; I did quite well. Never forget the knuckle pain though

I was explaining this to a friend just last week. Everyone's got a phone with endless games, that's why arcades died out I believe.

hell i miss just going to them alone sometimes just to clear my head

Theyre definitely making a comeback here in my city. A bunch of new ones popping up and the once dying mall is alive again with a reinstalled arcade

I miss those days!!

Yup! Emergency number magnets, too!

I have emergency contacts on a paper for anyone babysitting. It also states the doctors name and number and the correct dosage of medicine for each kid! It is regularly updated too!

When I was in college we had a white board in the living room where we would write where we were going, when we expected to return, and the phone number (landline only back then) of the person we were meeting up with. If we went missing, we wanted to be missed as soon as possible and have the roommates know where to start looking and who to talk to.

Doing this is still a good idea!

"Good evening Mr. Smith, is Lisa at home?" "It's Denny, I've got to talk to her about the chemistry homework" "No, just the homework".

Small town Missouri: no stores or doctors and every place that had services was long distance. Internet was dial up, shared with school and everyone in town. First month bill: $4,000.

My grandmother would get so freaked out whenever I made a call. "Is it long distance"?!! Must've been really expensive back in the day. I remember when off hours on the cell was 25 cents a minute. Man did that add up fast.

Good for teaching math.

How is this a 90s thing exactly? Not everywhere is cashless yet.

Watching the airplanes take off and land.

I worked at an airport barber shop in the mid 80's. Ppl would come to airport to watch planes, land & take off. Get a Cinnabon. It was cheaper than going to mall if you couldn't afford to shop.😊

Good times!