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What Do You Remember About The 90's
Posted by faithsju243 • 1/23/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: 90's, random
I'm back with a random Friday question, what do you remember about the 90's good or bad?
What do want to bring back?
Personally I remember Melrose Place and 90210. I remember wearing Hi-top Reeboks in white or black (only acceptable colors). I remember guys in super baggy pants hip hop or grunge. The 90s was total goths vs jocks!
Thoughts?
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When I think of the 90's, one of the first things that comes to my mind is grunge music.
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I agree with that!
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@Kellybax....I hear you everyone I knew was either in the grunge or hip hop camp by 95.
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The proliferation of the Internet, which I can now not do without!
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This guy was everywhere.
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Ah, my era.
The Spice Girls, B*Witched, all the hordes of boybands, (Backstreet Boys were my favourite) Sabrina the Teenage With when it was good, those trainers that lit up when you hit them against the ground, those neon coloured plastic bangles, the Fresh Prince and Teen Angel.
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Who could forget the boy band craze, personally I was a n-sync girl myself.
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tupac,long nails (junk nails), SWV, Belly movie, Will Smith fresh prince of belair (spelled it wrong), Rugrats actually have more to write but Im in class and we are about to go so I'll hit back in about an hour
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Aaw the Rugrats, I never liked it but it was always on at my house.
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OK, I got some more. My idol in the 90s was Janet Jackson watched all her music videos and knew the dances.
Since I was born in 1987 most of the important parts of my life were spent in the 90s...so I remember the good ole days growing up.
Biggie Smalls, Hair shows started getting extremely popular, Lil Kim (loved her), Puffy Daddy, the tragedy that was Mase, and orange space suits, MC Hammer trying to be relevant then turning into a pastor, The Tic and The Jit (you know that dance dont act like you dont ) another dance...the shuffle. the rapper Nelly, MTV, MTV 2 System of a Down, No Doubt.
Low rider bikes, gin and juice, 40 ounces, Belle Isle (for those in Detroit), CLUELESS my favorite movie from the 90s.
Cartoon Network: Dexter's Laboratory, Power Puff Girls
Nickelodeon: Rocket Power, I already said Rugrats, CatDog, The show where a girls parents do nature film and the girl talks to animals.
Sunday morning cartoons/shows: Recess, Hercules, Hillary Duff show (I think that was the 90s)
other artist: Brandy, Britney Spears, NSYNC, Madonna's various comebacks, Nas, Jay-Z, oh god theres too many to name
The Jamie Fox Show
oh and Grand Theft Auto, Pokemon, Grand Turismo, and Crazy Taxi
My head hurts now, but I loved the 90s I couldn't help it -
Hey! Youre an old school hiphop head.Now THAT's a turn on for me. -
good to know that I figured out how to turn you on, cause I could have swore you were playing hard to get
Seriously, hiphop is just one of my things, I almost know everything...almost
oh and by the way, I hated Ren and Stimpy, that was the most unnecessary cartoon I have ever seen in my damn life
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My childhood, my early (and better) school years, sitcoms, good music videos (and when MTV used to show them), some funny dances, all those animated series that pretty everyone from my generation watched (well, in this country). Too much stuff to mention.
I miss the '90s.-
@Friday, do you remember before MTV Jams it used to be called the Box and you had to pay for the videos you wanted to see?
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Nope, I honestly don't. I hadn't heard of MTV Jams until just now.
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I remember the BOX...DAYAM THROW BACK!!! I always wondered who the hell was paying to see the videos.
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Corrupt CEO's, companies that tried to hijack New Age ideas to make them their service philosophies, no stability for anyone without a degree, The Davidian Inferno, the Y2K and Millennial craze, Adventists setting new dates for the end of the world. For me, it was also the end of my marriage and stirrings of my true identity.-
Ah, yes. Who can forget the Y2K thing?
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Hahahah LOL!
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90's remains me of TV movie "21 Jump street" in my local tv. Also Guns n Roses, Stryper, Mr. Big, Van Halen and other great guitarist like Yngwie Malmsteen.
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hate to admit it, but i dont remember much of the 90's at all.-
@AmyOops, really that must mean you had an totally awesome time.
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oh more than you know. I grew up at daytona beach, and the 90's where when mtv took over the beach for spring break
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@Amyoops, if only I could have been you for like a night....that was back when the MTV host were actually hot and cool who remembers Simon Rex.....I heart Simon Rex!
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I remember grunge music, I remember that where I lived, there was a strange shift from 80's fashion, a quick hop into the early 90's fashion (Zcavarichis, Hammer pants, and those big hip hop icon shirts) and then zip right back into the 70's, complete with bell bottoms and platform shoes until about - oh, '95/'96.
At which point grunge, and gothic styles really took hold along with the "big pants" craze, wallet chains and skate shoes. Man, the bigger the pants, the cooler you were!
I remember that I shifted in musical tastes from Madonna and Micheal Jackson (80's) to hip hop and rap (Ice T, Ice Cube, and yes, Vanilla Ice, SWV, Janet Jackson, And a few others that were around in the 80's) and then right into classic rock and punk and ska.
I remember that cigars and martinis made a big comeback.
Oh, and what was that car that everyone wanted? Z something....-
Z28 Camero....Anok we share a similar existance.
My dad crashed his before I got my license, he's a tool. -
I distinctly remember outrunning a crazy person with serious road rage while on a double date in one of those
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My high school bf had a Z28, and an RX7...man makin out in the back seat of a two seater...not easy.
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The music of the 90s is the least memorable of probably almost any era. I have a 90s music blog, but it is tough filling it with music I liked. The 80s era music is light years ahead of the 90s. We must have collided with another universe to produce all the hits of the 80s. Something happened back then.
Bush and Ricki Martin stand out as far as music goes for the 90s.-
What about Britpop? Oasis, Blur, Pulp, they were definite highlights of the era.
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@Mikeny07, don't act like you didn't have a Spice Girl and Backstreet Boy posters littering your room??? Come on admit it.
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Oh Oasis! I loved them.
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clearly you weren't getting out much in those days. It was the birth of House music, raves for 20thousand plus people, the rebirth of Glastonbury....I had a fantastic time in the 90's.......
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Sorry folks the best movie ever came out during the 90's
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I totally agree, I didn't watch the film when it came out as I was so young but I remember watching the TV series, that was brilliant. The film itself definitely sums up the 90s, with their outfits and slang and the such.
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I still have that.
On VHS.
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VHS? What's that?
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yep, I think I watched that movie about a hundred time now...kind of sad if you think about it...
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Clueless was like my high school bible. A group of friends and I cringes as she admit this used to rush home from school and watch the movie, at that time on VHS every day like clockwork.
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The Panasonic REAL 3DO... What you don;t remember? They are trying to forget...
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Started high school in 93, finished in 98. Horrid boybands, although I did love Justin in N-Sync. Some excellent brit pop. Helly Hansen jackets, adidas trackies.-
@crpitt, you know you were the President of the I love Backstreet/N-sync fan club!
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I certainly bloody wasn't.
I was president of cheap cider and wagging it
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I also remember ... the video games. We got our SNES in 1994, I think, and played the heck out of every game we had. Then, everyone was talking about the Nintendo 64 (I never liked it) and PlayStation and Dreamcast.
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What about the Sega? Or was that earlier? I remember playing Sonic on the Sega a lot. Never heard of the SNES.
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ewww...you actually got a Dreamcast
You didn't mention sega genesis, that was also big
SNES = Super Nintendo Entertainment System
oh crap now I just remember that I used to beat the crap out of people while playing Mario Smash Bros. -
@sisterofmercy: Oh, yes. My brother sold our SNES (that bastard!) and bought a Sega MegaDrive (or Genesis). We still have it, but no Sonic games in it
I remember that my cousin had a Game Gear with several games. Every time we went to New Jersey, we'd play all those video games he had. His Game Gear must've broken, because I got one, brand new, for my 13th or 14th birthday, along with some of the old games he had.
@sensico: I didn't, actually. We only heard of it a lot (and I remember the commercials). The only time I got to play it was with one my brother borrowed. The only thing I played was Sonic from a demo CD. Very impressive and ahead of its time and everything.
But the SNES ... wow, that was huge. There was this guy in our building who had several stacks of NES/SNES/Game Boy games.
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I Love the 90's! I remember pretty much everything. As others have said grunge for sure, the shows, the gaming systems, the cartoons, the toys -
I entered treatment and stopped doing heroin, then became an honors college student, and fully-funded doctoral student. The 90's were very enlightening!-
@Mtyler77, WOW I'm super impressed and bow under your feet I was just learning how to sneak out of school properly somehow I feel pale in comparison to you.
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LOL, I have a few years on you faithsju243. The 80's almost killed me!
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u go girl!!!
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Boris Yeltsin, The Clinton Administration
The thrilling feeling of the end of the First Gulf War (because I never had to hear the song 'Proud to be an American' again -- ever!)
Jesus Jones, the B52s, Nirvana, Pearl Jam
Seinfeld & ER on TV
Meeting and marrying my husband (what a way to end a century!)
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How could I forget Alanis Morrissette, ah the 90's!
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I'm a b%&ch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother
I'm a sinner, I'm a saint I do not feel ashamed
I'm your hell, I'm your dream
I'm nothing in between
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@Sensico, you truly are a child of the 90's. My personal favorite is Perfect
Be a good girl
You've gotta try a little harder
That simply wasn't good enough
To make us proud
I'll live through you
I'll make you what I never was
If you're the best, then maybe so am I
Compared to him compared to her
I'm doing this for your own damn good
You'll make up for what I blew
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sensico, that song was by Meredith Brooks!
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you're right, but I only know the song because Alanis Morrissette sang it...so there
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She did? You'll have to prove it
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@Friday & Sensico come on children of the 90's play nice.
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Hmmm ... Children of the '90s?
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DAMNIT, you out smart me again you little F&&#K&@Z*#&$ >:(
OK, sorry K...you just couldn't let me get away with that one could you LOL
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They do sound very much alike. But I like Alanis better. She's fun (www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91sqAs-_-g)
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@Sensico....don't back down tell Friday to google the lyrics, she did sing that song. Her song was called I'm a B***H!
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LOL Friday but I was right...
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Ken Leeeeee ...
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I swear I didn't!
(I'm just singing Ken Lee)
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The 90s were:
The first time I ever watched MTV.
The first time I ever saw a cell phone.
The first time I ever visited a website (I think I did a search to see if 2pac was still aiive since I was trying to prove it back then)
The first time I ever kissed a girl, and everything after.
I also remember:
Robocop
The Terminator
Coolio's Gangster Paradise.-
@Arnous81, we share a similar existence I had a lot of firsts and never gonna happen again in the 90's. Overall it was a good time.
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I had a toy cell phone back in the early '90s ... those things were anything but portable.
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Those were the days I was blind..
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yeah, I remember that tupac rumor, someone tried to convince me he was hiding out in Jamaica
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sensico: a cousin of mine kept saying the same thing. That he was alive and in Puerto Rico or one of them places.
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Now that Terminator's been mentioned ... I remember we were sitting in front of the living room TV, late at night, waiting for the Terminator 2 premier on HBO. After a long wait, we got ... the wrong movie! Geesh!
Turns out the premiere was the following night. I wasn't feeling well and had to go to sleep before the movie ended. They were nice enough to record the movie for me, so I watched it in the morning. -
Mike Tyson
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Ah, I remember Tyson's fight with Peter McNeeley in '95. What a short fight that was.
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Fanny pack wristlets in neon colors (that was like 1992), Skip-It, Totally Hair Barbie, Keith Sweat, Ghost Buster movies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 702, scrunchies, high tops with the pump up in the tongue....
Gummy Bears, the Reading Rainbow, Just For Me perms, white tights with tiny red hears on them, buck shoes (member those??), The Little Mermaid...-
Buffy the F'n Vampire Slayer-movie and series. Lotusb I knew I could count on you for the good stuff. I am not remembering buck shoes though give a little hint, who made them popular. Where those the shoes Carlton wore on the Fresh Prince?
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Skips It's were a re-introduction. I had one in the 60's.
Love Buffy!
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OMG, I can't even find them on google image...it might just be that I wore them and no one else did. I was kind of a weird dresser when I was little, but they were in all the stores... BOO HOOOOOO.....
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@Lotusb, no worries my friend I thought I wanted to be T-boz long hair flaps and all.
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Woa...lol. That's a look for the photo albums!
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Tell me about it
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LMAO!!! Oh man I miss TLC.
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Barbie aint got no ass...-
Yep, that's Assless Barbie.
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Yea, but shes got a great personality.
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hah, you pwned barbie. For shame!
Seriously, the biggest part of the 90s for me was Marilyn Manson.
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LMAO
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Really brings back the memories...huh
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I was just fixing to put in"Don't go chase n' waterfalls. Then I scrolled up and saw that pic.
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This thread is making me sad. I so wished I would have enjoyed life more
in the 90's as teenager. Don't u wish u could rewind. I do.-
Holly you truly haven't lived until you've experienced the 90's baked or half baked whichever it's your choice really.
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I experienced the 90's half baked. That's for sure. I was just so freakin
stupid. I could have been anything I wanted to be because I know I'm smart enough. Just things happen in life and sometimes I wish I could go back and change them. That's all. -
I guess because I'm almost 30 I'm having a pre-mature mid life crisis.
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Holly--PUH-LEASE girl, you aren't even 30 and you are having a midlife crisis? LOL. I refuse to have one and I am 44!
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I'm just saying being a teenager is supposed to be one of the best times of
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I can tell you that the best is yet to come, esp. if you have not even hit 30. Just because you think you missed out, it is not too late. I learned that in my 30's. -
Thx fearless
I so needed to hear that. I promise I am not trying to throw myself a pity party. Hindsight is 20/20 and the way I veiw things now versus the way a stupid stupid teenager thinks. I swear I could've been the next prez. I am not just saying that either. If I had the attitude then that I have now then the sky would've been the limit.
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u definately can't for get mtv springbreak
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I forgot The Real World. U know the real one. the ones with
pedro,dom,puk, the real real world-
@Holly yes the real world was way real back then. Although the first season probably was the most real season ever and the San Francisco cast were all such do gooders minus Puck of course.
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Those first 2 seasons of real world really were "real world".
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Oh early 90's can't forget spandex. That was just about the ugliest thing on the planet. Don't forget those mc hammer pants too. Oh and tight rolled jeans. The tighter you got them, the cooler you were. What in the hell were we thinking.
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how could any of you freaks remember the most influential song and dance that brought people of all races and background together.
THE MACARENA
new.music.yahoo.com/videos/--2161711
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omg, taco bell dog and I remember seeing the stupid taco bell dog bobble head in the back or front window of everyones stupid car
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wrong spot!
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OMG so over the night I remembered two of my favorite shows during the 90s more like the late 90's but they still started in the 90's.....drumroll please
Ally McBeal and Felicity.
Who remembers the dancing baby?
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I remember that creepy ass baby. For some reason I was the only one amongst my friends who did not find that amusing or funny
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I think I have the screensaver of that somewhere, it really used to freak me out.
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that baby is so mesmerizing! he's like a lava lamp to me! haaha
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I remember that baby! We were big Ally McBeal fans back then.
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Faith we just gotta bring ally mcbeal back!!!
OH yeaaa I almost forgot about my so called life.
Man I could melt in Jared Letto's Green EYES.
oooh I need a cold shower now.dang it! lol
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90's... There were missed years for me. When people just LIVED, I was busy making money. I love more 2000's because I met my husband in 2000's -
I got married in the '90's and divorced in 2001...end of an era
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Oh my god. Im a 90s kid!
Lets see.
beanie babies.power rangers.polly pocket. barney. reading rainbow.lots of stuff. the 90s were sweet.
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grunge, NIRVANA, Guns and Roses, Janet Jackson, Swing Out Sister, Basia, Matt Bianco, matte lipsticks... -
90s? Things were not as expensive before, what a big difference now. -
Pagers (or beepers). They were everywhere! And that's because cell phones were huge.
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I'm helping Holly out she posted in the wrong place but what she meant to say to you Friday was pagers were sooooo coool in the early 90's until they were taken down by the smaller cooler cell phone.
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Cheers, Faith.
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The term chicas beeper (beeper girls) was a popular one here in the '90s. It was used to refer to young women (college students, usually) who performed, ahem ... favors, and used pagers to communicate (they'd get the address or phone numbers of their clients through it). Double life!
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The amount of times I'd pass through the college dorm TV area and hear MilliVanilli's "Blame it on the Rain."
I was ready to blame SOMEONE, after a while.
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Oh yea! blame it on the rain that was fallin fallin. Those were the days.
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'Cause the rain don't mind, and the rain don't care.
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@ faith
Now u got me confused. I was trying to reply to the milli vanilli comment.
but I do remeber those pagers. My mama got me one for x-mas. I just thought I was the shisznit. -
Holly- it just was up one section, instead of underneath the MilliVanilli comment where it was meant to be. It's in the right place now. I moved my comment down, too, so we're all good.
When you hit reply to a post, your post should be indented underneath the posts you're replying to. -
Yea I figured it out. I think. lol
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@Holly, LOL what TSR said. Before you wrong spotted your comment I typed a message for you under Friday's comment.
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Whoa, I completely forgot about that.
While we're talking about rain, we can't forget about Guns N Roses' November Rain - a true 90's classic!
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Who loves orange soda?
Kel loves orange soda..
Is it true?
I do I do I do-oo
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goodness me the 90's, I think I better keep it secret what I remember most ;-)
Though the mid and late 90's was when I left Australia to travel the USA for 3 months...now we are in 2009 and I have still not returned home (I hear my dad right now scream "bloody right you have not returned")
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definitely the Seattle Grunge scene; Nirvana,Pearljam,Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains! All the good ones! Oh yeah, and the one girl that twisted my heart like a sponge!
THat's allright I met my current " soul mate " in 96' a few years later! -
i got married.........i got divorced...........i got married........my daughter was born
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The 90's reminds me the 8 bit music of the Videogames specially from Nintendo and his primitive graphics. -
I bought a house w/my ex. Biiiiiiiiiig mistake in retrospect. -
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We had more snow days in the decade of the 90s -
do you guys remember celebrity death match on MTV?
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I hated that show
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I remember the 1990's as being economically great and a time of relative peace and prosperity in our country. My how quickly things can change!
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Janet Jackson -
does anyone remember that show on Nickelodeon called Double Dare...that used to be my shiz-niz
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U2-Joshua Tree
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That came out in the 80's, although it was still quite popular on the radio in the 90's!
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Don't forget!!! So I Creep.(TLC)and Aliya- Those two groups started the whole fad of girls wearing wife beaters,baggy jeans,and who can forget the
DOC MARTINS!!!!
If you put a flannel on over that you were ready for the mosh pit. OH yea I loved it all. Those were the days. (she says wiping a tear from her eye).-
Salt and Peppa!
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Kurt Cobain, the Gulf War, and writing a research paper with the internet rather than having to go to the library in person and search through thousands of chronicles hoping to find one about my topic. -
I remember the glory days of Bad Boy, playing Mary J's first CD over and over again, buying my first house and spending my weekends shopping at Ann Taylor. -
barrettes made with these colorful shoe laces and neon tights. oh how i miss them!
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lol, i miss Baywatch (or alert a Malibu, where i'm from), lol!
last week i saw the boy i had a crush on, on the tyra show n i couldn't believe how much of a loser (sorry) he turned out to be.
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Yeeesh, the 90's represent the decade from when I was 9 all the way until 19... my entire teenage years!
What do I remember?
A LOT!
But the most memorable?
Vanilla Ice/MC Hammer
Madonna's Vogue
Grunge music: Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden
Lollapalooza/Woodstock 94
Doc Marten boots, big baggy jeans, flannel shirts, oversized concert shirts, purple hair, goatees and long hair (on guys)
NIN and Marilyn Manson and that whole scene
Britpop! Who could forget Blur, Oasis, and those bands?
Epic movies (and their soundtracks) like Forrest Gump, the Crying Game, the Bodyguard, Jurrasic Park, The Titanic.
U2's Achtung Baby, Zooropa and Pop - the whole Zoo TV tour!
The emergence of the Counting Crows, Alanis Morisette, Collective Soul, Shania Twain...
The Canadian music scene here in Canada (Edgefest, Our Lady Peace, Moist, Econoline Crush, the Tea Party, Matthew Good Band, etc).
The popularization of the internet (IRC chat channels, BBS's via Telnet, Unix shell e-mail accounts, Usenet groups)
Disney's Aladdin, the Lion King, and Beauty and the Beast
The deaths of Kurt Cobain, Michael Hutchence, Princess Diana
Then a lot of first for me, such as becoming a teenager, going to high school, graduating from high school, being the legal drinking age (in Canada), going clubbing for the first time, etc.
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I remember Dr. Alban's "No coke" and "Hello Africa"
But i hated it after a while, they kept playing it everywhere.
Chicago Bulls and M.Jordan are my favorites from 90s. -
Subversion, Cyberpunk and the early Internet. "Indie" bands and flicks became mainstream. Mosh pits with manners, Raves... man the party ended with the year 2000. -
I was in the army, and our dear King Olav died.
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I remember wishing it was still the 80's. -
War in Bosnia 1992.-1995. -
90's... I only remember that was the golden era of English songs.. -
The 90's. . . Economic prosperity. -
TGIF when it was good...Boy Meets World! -
The shows Mad About You and Kung-Fu: The Legend Returns. God, I loved 'em -
Dot com parties!
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When kid's shows were meant for kids.
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It was better than the 80's--way better music and (for eight of the ten years) a better president. -
I remember my friends who are no more in contact :-( -
Tear-aways, Tamagochis, my first sighting of capris (I cringed a little inside)-
My goodness ... I remember, back in 5th grade. Everyone, and I do mean everyone had a Tamagotchi or any similar virtual pet. This one time, the teacher took them away from the whole class (except for me, I kept mine in my pocket).
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College at the beginning of the 90's. Crystal Pepsi. Nevermind, Achtung Baby and Jagged Little Pill. Chicago Bulls World Champions (x6). My first PC compatible computer. ZIP disks. Making my first audio CD at work on a SCSI 1x burner. Downsizing. Dealing with Y2K at work. The Blair Witch Project. Marriage and fatherhood at the end of the 90's. -
Well that was before I got married, so I'd say............My Money!!
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