Grunge was good in the 90's, the fashion was good, flannelette shirts are good anyway of the week. What I don't miss is dial up Internet, I remember trying to get porn on a 56kbps modem :/ looking back VHS tapes were awful.
Stuff we DON'T Miss from the 90s.
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Non resumable non error checking downloads. Having your download get interrupted at around 90% and having to start all over again. Or realizing you were going to have to spend another day or two downloading new files because somehow they got corrupted sucked too, especially if you were a teenager that had to pay for his/her phone line.
I don't hate 90s music, I'm just shitting on the pop stuff.Vault101 said:
There's tons of 90s music I like: it's all grunge and metal.
Dial up, floppy disks and Windows 9x. I remember waiting half an hour to watch some crappy Shockwave videos on websites that were crap even by MS FrontPage standards. I remember it took several hours to install Shockwave off the net in the first place using a 28.8k modem.
You know what I don't miss? DOS. I had a bunch of games on a computer my father gave me, and I forgot how to call up a directory for DOS, so I could only ever access like two games, because I couldn't remember the file paths to get to the others.
Also, Windows 95.
I would say the Blue Screen of Death, but I had just as many of those on Vista as I did on 95 or 2000.
The only thing I really miss from the '90's, not counting my huge collection of classic rap CDs, is online multiplayer combat flight simulators like X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. I also had a membership to an online WWII flying game at one point that was lots of fun, but overall, we have moved on, and everything is way better now.
It seems crazy to be talking about the 1990s as if they were a long time ago, until I realize that I am nearer to 30 than even 25, and that it was over 12 years ago that we entered "The New Millenium," having survived Y2K, both terms I will never ever miss from that era.
Also, Windows 95.
I would say the Blue Screen of Death, but I had just as many of those on Vista as I did on 95 or 2000.
The only thing I really miss from the '90's, not counting my huge collection of classic rap CDs, is online multiplayer combat flight simulators like X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. I also had a membership to an online WWII flying game at one point that was lots of fun, but overall, we have moved on, and everything is way better now.
It seems crazy to be talking about the 1990s as if they were a long time ago, until I realize that I am nearer to 30 than even 25, and that it was over 12 years ago that we entered "The New Millenium," having survived Y2K, both terms I will never ever miss from that era.
Gay bashing: Hey however terrible it is today it was much MUCH worse in the 90s.
Gangster Rap: Yes its still here, but its become passé.
Car Styles: Seriously the nasty boxy car style had to go.
Internetless: We seem to forget just how shitty the internet was even in 1999. I remember it taking me an hour just to download 200mbs and torrents were in there infancy. You had to rely on p2p programs like KaZaA and your search engine of choice was alta vista or yahoo.
Along with this I'm also adding the Dial Up tone and AOL... I still get night terrors.
Overalls: How the fuck did overalls ever become cool
That needed to die...
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What the hell was so bad about the Zip disks? They held 300mbs and didn't corrupt like floppies, but no one ever seemed to use them.
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You know the one thing I do miss about all this old technology. It was by fair had the cheapest fixes. Most of the time all you had to do was just hit it and it would start working again. Now you hit something you void the warranty and it fries instantaneously.
Gangster Rap: Yes its still here, but its become passé.
Car Styles: Seriously the nasty boxy car style had to go.
Internetless: We seem to forget just how shitty the internet was even in 1999. I remember it taking me an hour just to download 200mbs and torrents were in there infancy. You had to rely on p2p programs like KaZaA and your search engine of choice was alta vista or yahoo.
Along with this I'm also adding the Dial Up tone and AOL... I still get night terrors.
Overalls: How the fuck did overalls ever become cool
That needed to die...
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Actually until the LED monitors came out no other visual device could match a CRTs contrast quality. Absolute blacks with CRTs...teqrevisited said:
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They were terrible. You know it wasn't the fact that they didn't even have enough memory to hold a single decent quality mp3, it was the fact that if you let the floppy sit too long the memory would fragment to the point where it was no longer recoverable.SpAc3man said:
What the hell was so bad about the Zip disks? They held 300mbs and didn't corrupt like floppies, but no one ever seemed to use them.
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You know the one thing I do miss about all this old technology. It was by fair had the cheapest fixes. Most of the time all you had to do was just hit it and it would start working again. Now you hit something you void the warranty and it fries instantaneously.
At least early 90's British Shoegazing, and 90's Trip-Hop/Drum and Bass was incredible.AgentNein said:
So many classic albums...
Grunge isn't too bad, at least the more obscure stuff like Mudhoney, fuck Nirvana. Most of the Britpop was also shite with the exception of a few bands.
I was only born in 93, so I remember very little from the 90s. I do, however, remember the music being god awful, and computers being useless. MS-DOS and dial up internet... ah, I do not miss you at all. The sound of dial up internet still haunts me sometimes...
Yeah, although I didn't notice it at the time (born 1991), looking back, the colour palette of the early nineties makes me be sick in my mouth just a little bit.
Honestly, Nirvana only became overrated AFTER Kurt died, before that Nirvana were a perfectly good band that were nothing special and no one treated them as suchXiado said:
Yes my brother. Let us praise the great saviour together. ALL HAIL DEADPOOL CHAMPION OF THE MASSES!TheRussian said:This nonsense right here:
The Nineties Anti-Hero. Thankfully Deadpool saved us from them. Praise Deadpool.
Also Furby. That was the 90's right? I try not to think about it too much...
Friends (The tv-series), large phones, skateboarding, the music (with some, although few, exceptions), ps1/N64 graphics, having to wait to rewind VHS tapes.
So many post nostalgia images around the 90s, condemning anything modern, and while not everything was bad, a lot of it wasn't good.
EDIT: I forgot the websites. Oh god the websites. Have any of you seen the website for the Looney Toons movie with michael jordan from 1997? It still exists, and is unchanged. Google that shit and watch in terror.
So many post nostalgia images around the 90s, condemning anything modern, and while not everything was bad, a lot of it wasn't good.
EDIT: I forgot the websites. Oh god the websites. Have any of you seen the website for the Looney Toons movie with michael jordan from 1997? It still exists, and is unchanged. Google that shit and watch in terror.
I think as a general rule it's people who were kids in the 90s that hated them. You hate the decade you were a child in, love the decade you were a teenager in and are relatively indifferent about the rest. The 80's I found kind of grim, loved the 90's and have generally been "meh" about the rest.Woodsey said:
