31 Pieces of 90s Nostalgia That Kids Today Won’t Understand (April 16, 2024)

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John Summers • Contributor
Apr 16, 2024 9:00 PM EDT

Let's take a nostalgic trip down memory lane to the early 90s. We might have grown up in a time when TVs were square and heavy, and the internet made a loud noise when you logged on. But we loved every minute of it.

Life had a very specific taste back then, like powdered drinks and store-bought jello. We were a generation that still went outside to play, drank from the garden hose when we were thirsty, and called our moms on the payphone to ask if we could stay the night at our friend's house. We played NES games into the night and had absolutely horrible taste in clothes and hairstyles.

Those were simpler times, and we remember them fondly. We may have grown up, but we'll never forget the magic of the late 80s and early 90s. Those were the days!

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    WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT 2024 IS AS FAR AWAY FROM 1990 AS 1956 WAS !!!
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    PEOPLE BORN IN THE 80S 10 40 HERE IT COMES
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    DARE TO RESIST DRUGS AND VIOLENCE I am ashamed of literally every single one of you
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    13.99 Time heals all wounds but these scars are a constant reminder CASH ADVANCE
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    WHO REMEMBERS SAYING "CALL ME BACK AFTER 9 WHEN MY PHONE IS FREE"
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    6:30 hip hues Lime Blueberry Watermelon Grape Caller ID ESP MEMOREX New! AM/FM CD clock radio. $49 each, sale V-TECH 900-MHz phone with Caller ID/Call Waiting" "Requires phone company service N An even bigger assortment in the 4 hippest hues around $15M PLAYSTATION New! Dual-impact controller by Interact. 5"TV Vivitar $25 VIVITAR New! CV-40 35mm cam- era kit. Auto flash and film advance, date imprinting, red-eye reduction. Includes film, batteries $12 AUDIOVOX 20-second anti-skip personal CD pla
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    In the 90s, you could say 'ex- squeeze me' instead of 'excuse me' and get a laugh. Things were wild.
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    *Puts down gently in fear of breaking the TV* *Puts down gently in fear of breaking the table and your fingers*
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    *murderer chasing me around the house* ME: "ALEXA PLAY THE SCOOBY DOO THEME SONG*
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    the urge to see their faces as a kid
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    There's nothing worse than having a Cranberries song stuck in your heeeeeeead, in your heeeeeead, in your head, in your head, in your hea, hea, hea, head....
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    Back when McDonald's had Nintendos 64 in em was the peak of humanity
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    30 years ago isn't the 70s... It's the 90s. The Mummy is 25 years old. Jurassic park is over 30.
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    WOODSBORO High School CLASS OF '96 Casey Becker Billy Loomis Sidney Prescott Stuart Macher Mr. Himbry We've Finally Made it At Hom Randy Meeks Tatum Riley Steven Orth Judy Hicks
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    SO I BLEACHED THE TIPS OF MY HAIR, WHICH WAS THE STYLE AT THE TIME.
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    This is where my trust issues started Popsicle nickelodeon SpongeB SQUAREPANTS Fruit Punch Cotton Candy GUNFALLS
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    mmm You guys always think you're SOOO much better that me. 111 Today's Music Global HD 80's 90's 70's music music music
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    Reject modernity Embrace tradition
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    Remember we use to do prank calls growing up & now those spam calls are karma getting us back. DE
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    How come literally all of us grew up with at least one person who had a couch with fabric like this? THROWBACKS
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    Real 90s babies know who lives in each of these houses CN KND
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    millennial.ca @millennial_ca Before Wikipedia, we had these bad boys ORLING KINDERSLEY EVENTINESS BOOKS DORLING KINDERSLEY EYEWITNESS BOOKS DORLING KINDERSLEY EYEWITNESS BOOKS DORLING KINDERSLEY EYEWITNESS BOO CRYSTAL & GEM De being world of cand 4144 ANCIENT SHARK SPACE EXPLORATION EGYPT handarbe Der the Nealy - READING CAROLE STOTT GEORGE HART KORLING KINDERSLEY EYEWITNESS BOOKS DORLING KINDERSLEY EYEWITNESS BOOKS DORLING KINDERSLEY EYEWITNESS BOOKS DORLING KINDERSLEY EYEWITNESS BOOKS VOLCANO&
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    Kids these days with their fancy Fortnite skins will never know the joy of seeing Mario inexplicably dressed like a freakin flying raccoon for the first time $ 2 4 0002400 0249 WORLD 1 0 THE DAD
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    Me and my friends in AOL chat rooms talking to "girls" circa 1999
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    Did anyone else's mom make you think it was illegal to turn this light on while driving??? Comedyslam
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    THIS MAN STARTED AND ENDED OUR WEEKENDS IN THE EARLY 90s. AMERICA'S FUN EST HOM DEOS
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    Y'all remember this? CAUTION BLOONIES TM NET WT 30 Grams BLOON BLOW COLORFUL PLASTIC
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    Some of y'all are too young to understand. My family pcww W LiNkiNg PaRk- nUmB.exe
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    An unbelievable thing that has changed in 30 years is that in 1995, this was supposed to be what 45 year-olds looked like.
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    To build character, I make my kids stare at this for five minutes before they can use the wifi. AMERICA Dialing... THE DAD
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    "when I grow up I will be an amazing and cool person" me at 30 years old:
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