Stuff we DON'T Miss from the 90s.

[gideonkain]

POGs....I mean, what were they anyway? Did anyone actually "play" what-ever-the-fuck you were supposed to do with them?

Corporation: Here collect these plastic discs?
Me: Why?
Corporation: Gotta collect 'em all!
Me: That's stupid, who would ever go for that?...ohh...

 

[AgedGrunt]

AO-hell
Those stupid Tamagachi pet things
Needing a magazine/game genie/gameshark for insanely hard games; game magazines in general.
Needing a turbo controller
Game rental discs in bad condition & the early slow/laggy FMV
Rabbit ears and TVs without a remote control

Music:
Smooth
Mambo #5
Smashmouth&Creed&Sugar Ray---etc.
Any FOTM crapsack alternative rock/annoying song (ok nothing has changed here)
Screw it---too many artists to list!

 

[frizzlebyte]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates 90's music. You get so many kids these days gushing about 90's music, and then using bands that were really obscure at the time to justify it. Give me Lady GaGa over Brittany Spears any day. Hell, I'll take Ke$ha if the alternative is The Backstreet Boys.

OT: That, and the primitive internet. Try imagining a world before youtube. It's not pretty.

Yeah, the 90's had crap music for the most part. Most of the really popular groups should have died as one-hit wonders.

rap music was awesome during the 90's

i cant say that for everything else

Not a big fan of rap, but Tupac was good. Thing is, it's taken me growing up to be able to look back at the 90s and find the diamonds in the rough, music-wise. Then again, I'm far more into pop culture now than I was in the 90s, so some of it simply went by me or I didn't like it at the time.

Here's my stance: As a whole, the cartoons and tv shows (I love me some Kenan and Kel) of the 90s were better than the music. Nickelodeon never was the same after Hey Arnold! got cancelled and the Rugrats turned into bratty teenagers.

 

[2HF]

I don't miss VHS tapes as a storage medium for movies and TV shows because DVDs are superior in every way possible.

Get back to me the next time you encounter a government or piracy warning that you can't skip or fast forward through.

I miss everything about being 4-14 years old. Everything was the shit cause I had no responsibilities. Sweetness.

Oh wait! All Dogs Go To Heaven and The Secret Garden! My little sister would play those things on a goddamn loop.

 

[Vault101]

And then there's this:

Apparently Scott Summers' secret superpower is his skin's involuntary ability to repel clothing. Why else would he need straps and buckles tightened around every single article of clothing he has on him? I'm sure he's not the worst, but he is the most memorable since I was chiefly an X-Men fan back in the days when comics had a reasonable cost/page ratio.

is that....a liefeld peice of art?

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Stargate. Awful show and lowered the bar for all television sci-fi which followed it.

 

[elvor0]

Being born in 91, I missed Nirvana and was constantly exposed to the spice girls, Steps, S Club 7, S Club 8, S club junion, fucking S fucking club fucking something, etc etc. I flat out stated that I didn't like music until I was about 12, being unaware of the existence of Rock N Roll until then.

I was born in '95, and I went through the exact same thing.

What am I doing in this thread, then?

Well, my village, at least technology-wise, was caught in a bit of a stasis field in that time.

I do remember dial up, and old websites. I remember the pop up ad control was so bad my mum was letting me on the pokemon website (which constantly froze, and took a solid minute to load another page) and porn started popping up.

My sisters would bombard me musically with Britney Spears, and such like.

In consolation, the 90's were a very good time for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Indeed it was, there was a load of good stuff all through the 90s, it's just it never got much exposure, and like yourself I was stuck in a techno stasis field village in the middle of nowhere, so I never even had "that guy" that introduced me to new music. The first time I heard new music was Rammstein, System of a Down and Slipknot which just happened to have been on a bootleg Spider Man DVD (ahh the sweet sweet superhero cartoons of the 90s) I picked up at car boot sale. Being stuck with shit like Britney Spears, my little child mind was blown away.

Ironically enough, the amount of music me and my mother share enjoyment with is a good 50% of my music collection now, so had I actually listened to what she was playing when I was growing up, I may have got in to it a whole lot sooner. I'm going to blame "my parents are listening to it so it must suck!" mentality

 

[Korskarn]

A lot of you people do not sound like you are talking about the nineties, tiedye? only 4 channels? That sounds like the 60's.

Anyways I dont miss Public Service Ads like this

Not everyone lives in the same area as you. Or even the same country.

And the late 90's was a huge resurgence in 60s and 70s fashion, including tiedye and flares.

 

[Remus]

Dial-up internet and the tones it made starting up, a sound that will be ringing in my head until the day I die. Although it was immortalized in Terminator Rise of the Machines with the terminatrix using the tone to transmit a virus.

School. There were some good parts - my science teacher that was an off-duty army ranger - was actually called back in one year. But the rest? If I could pay money to retain the knowledge but block out the memories I'd do it in a heartbeat.

 

[JopieHaargel]

And Gabber. If you're from the Netherlands you'll know what that means. I was in high school during that shit; Fucking shaved heads and tracksuits everywhere.

Oh god YES! So pathetic, it made being white trash cool somehow.

Also, Tamagotchi. That was just sad.

 

[Spade Lead]

I must have been the first hipster because I had a pocket pet (ironically) just for the sheer joy of beating it to death, or over-feeding it so it ran away. What is really funny is that all of my friends thought it was just the most awesome thing in the world that my mom bought me one just because I said I would do that.

 

[crusador90]

This is probably why we don't miss Liefeld art being mainstream.

I also don't miss 90s FMV games. Why did the entire game industry think that low budget animation/film dressed entirely with QuickTime Events would be a good idea?
Then again, without then, we would have funny videos making fun of them!

 

[RufusMcLaser]

I just looked through five pages and discovered that I was the only person to mention Fred Durst.

... D-did everyone forget what a shapeless, talentless, grotesque pile of ape-meat he was? It's like the only manifestation of 90's PTSD that I have.

Several of us have already griped about Limp Bizkit, but I'll be happy to join in excoriating Fred Durst specifically.
That reminds me of another dumb 90s moment- both of the 90s Woodstocks. Hopefully they won't try it again in 2019; in a way we're fortunate that MTV has declined in actual musical influence, when it seemed liked the center of the goddamn musical world in the early 90s.

 

[chinangel]

the gawdawful embarrassing fashions. Srsly, it was like someone was trying to breathe life back into the 80's. >.> and a large portion of the music is gone and can damn well stay gone.

 

[bluepilot]

I kinda miss the 90s though, okay so, there were only three flavours of icecream, 4 channels, computers games were on a floppy disc, you had to listen to the radio to get a recording of the song that you wanted on cassette, VHSs would sometimes rebel and unwind themselves, rewinding sucked (but fast-forwarding was great) and the only decent shows were on a Saturday morning.

But these were simpler times. Things were more special because you could not take them for granted.

I see 10 year olds today walking around with their ipads, iphones e.t.c....when I was 10, I had pokemon cards

 

[IamQ]

I see 10 year olds today walking around with their ipads, iphones e.t.c....when I was 10, I had pokemon cards

Can you even see me from that high pedestal of yours?

Seriously, can you people stop acting like you were so much more pure and good than other kids when you were there age. Had iphones and all that junk existed when you were a kid, you too would have those. And how are those worse than pokemon cards? How do you even compare them? They're not simular exactly.

I remember when I was 10. I wasn't playing pokemon cards. Me and my friends would be on the school computers and play runescape when the day was over until we had to go home to eat.

 

[bluepilot]

I see 10 year olds today walking around with their ipads, iphones e.t.c....when I was 10, I had pokemon cards

Can you even see me from that high pedestal of yours?

Seriously, can you people stop acting like you were so much more pure and good than other kids when you were there age. Had iphones and all that junk existed when you were a kid, you too would have those. And how are those worse than pokemon cards? How do you even compare them? They're not simular exactly.

I remember when I was 10. I wasn't playing pokemon cards. Me and my friends would be on the school computers and play runescape when the day was over until we had to go home to eat.

I am not taking a high pedestal, I am just trying to illustrate that compared to when I was 10, kids who are 10 these days have things much more complicated. I have an iphone now and even though having it is awesome, there is also a level of stress to having such an expensive piece of equipment. If my iphone were to get lost or damaged, I think that I would melt in a corner and cry. I do not think that the 10 year old me could have coped with that kind of stress...it was stressful enough lusting after those holographic rare cards.