It’s almost impossible not to look back on the years you grew up as anything other than wonderful, and millennials who grew up in the 90s are going through that right now. If you’re one of them (or just love the 90s) then these 13+ people’s memories are probably going to spark more than a few of your own.
#15. When you got home
“I miss being safe from bullies when you got home. Like when I was in school I would get shit from someone, but once I got home that stopped. With the way we are all connected now through the internet and social media, I probably wouldn’t have escaped it like I used to be able to. I feel bad for kids that are bullied in school nowadays because they can’t escape the bullying by going home if they have any sort of presence on the internet.”
#14. The news wasn’t 24/7
“Stop watching the news. I stopped a couple of years ago and I’m happier. Most of it is irrelevant anyway. Think about it this way. What have you learned from the news in the past year that has directly affected your life? Of those things, what’s the likelyhood of you finding out about it through other means. If the answer is high, just stop watching.”
#13. I didn’t appreciate it enough
“I spent the 90s on college and grad school, mostly. I miss having a life where my job was just to think, learn and mature. I didn’t appreciate it enough.”
#12. Instant win
“Instant win contests.
You could buy a bottle of Coke, win another bottle of Coke and immediately turn around to get another one for free.
Now you have to go online, enter some code somewhere and it sucks.”
#11. Like I was at an Irish funeral
“When I would be sitting in my living room apartment and looking at my CD shelf and seeing my Pink Floyd Pulse disk blinking that beautiful red blink. I always wondered when the exact time and date it stopped was because I would have popped that disc in and proceed to drink like I was at an Irish funeral.”
#10. All you had to do
“All you had to do was just go outside. We always found something to do and had a blast. My kids never go outside unless they have a specific activity planned ahead.”
#9. Basic necessities
“Honestly, I miss life before the internet and cell phones/texting became basic necessities.”
#8. The highest virtue
“Vintage clothes were the epitome of cool. It’s still weird to me that now it’s cool to wear expensive clothes, much less ones with obvious labels.
Also related, the idea of “not selling out” as the highest virtue. The idea that the coolest people of the 2010s are influencers with sponsored posts couldn’t be more anti-90s.”
#7. Improvised WWF
“Improvised WWF (it was still the WWF back then) matches on my trampoline with buddies.
Also NOT having the internet for every little thing made stuff like Pokemon game glitches the stuff of legend.”
#6. Having all my hair
“The music. The sense the world was improving. Having all my hair.”
#5. A bit carried away
“Climbing trees, making dens in the woods, knocking on your friends door on a Saturday morning without phoning first, ‘are you playing out?’ Summer holidays spent in the half sunny alleys and fields behind the cul de sac. Asking my dad to record my tv shows onto vcr and him always getting the audio wrong from not turning the volume up on the cable box. Those little blue chocolate wafers my Nan had and the way she made toast. My parents watching Inspector Morse after I went to bed and how the radio was always on in the kitchen. The plum tree outside my bedroom window when it blossomed. School mornings getting colder and how my Mum got the car warmed up in the winter before we left. Our dog. My home. My self when I was young and the world was still magical.
Sorry I got a bit carried away.”
#4. Most of all
“8bit graphics, rainbow windbreakers, roller rinks still being cool, AOL, Nickelodeon. But most of all, just being a carefree kid.”
#3. A sense of innocence
“Amazing music, comfy clothes, cheap gasoline and a sense of innocence and optimism about the future.
Also being around my high school classmates seven hours a day, five days a week September through June could be a mixed blessing then, but I sure miss them now.”
#2. The good stuff
90s cartoons!
#1. Some sort of game
“Starting high school in 1990. Good music. Rap rock and even pop. Getting outside. Calling people on an actual house phone to set up the weekend. Meeting girls by actually meeting and talking to them in person. You actually had to have some sort of game to even get a number. We worked hard and played hard. People weren’t so sensitive.”
Let me know when they invent a time machine, okay?!
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