Stuff we DON'T Miss from the 90s.

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Only having 5 channels, needing to buy a magazine to know whats on that day or using bloody ceefax and waiting for that slow arse number to cycle all the way through just so it can tell me "Yep, it's shit up next too!"
 
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While a lot of people mention dial-up internet, it's still infinitely preferable to the 80's alternative - no internet.

Anything that we absolutely had to pass through to get where we are today (dial-up, brick phones, VHS etc.) gets an automatic free pass from me.

Anything we didn't have to pass through, and yet inflicted on ourselves anyway...
 
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Carsus Tyrell said:
Only having 5 channels, needing to buy a magazine to know whats on that day or using bloody ceefax and waiting for that slow arse number to cycle all the way through just so it can tell me "Yep, it's shit up next too!"
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I've seen a lot of people mentioning the five channel thing, and it really confuses me -- I always thought of only having five channels as more of a 70's and earlier thing, 80's at the latest. I had (with basic cable, and using the tuner on the VCR/TV) about 70 channels throughout the 90's, upgraded to "a crapton, but very few of them have anything worth watching" somewhere in the mid 2000's. Did cable take a while to penetrate markets outside the US or something?
 
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Owyn_Merrilin said:
Carsus Tyrell said:
Only having 5 channels, needing to buy a magazine to know whats on that day or using bloody ceefax and waiting for that slow arse number to cycle all the way through just so it can tell me "Yep, it's shit up next too!"
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I've seen a lot of people mentioning the five channel thing, and it really confuses me -- I always thought of only having five channels as more of a 70's and earlier thing, 80's at the latest. I had (with basic cable, and using the tuner on the VCR/TV) about 70 channels throughout the 90's, upgraded to "a crapton, but very few of them have anything worth watching" somewhere in the mid 2000's. Did cable take a while to penetrate markets outside the US or something?
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Cable did not hit the uk until the mid to late 90's, satellite was around 88/89 but was a massive bust until they had some content around 92, and even then it was too much money just for a game football a few time a week and the simpsons. I can barely remember having only 3 channels that stopped all programming at midnight.
 
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I suppose it could partially be the rose tinted glasses of memories from my childhood, but I have few complaints about the 90's. I do not remember anything really bothering me back then and little that does even in retrospect. Sure I do not miss the less sophisticated and user friendly technologies but that is something that every decade has when looked back upon from the present.
 
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UltraPic said:
Owyn_Merrilin said:
Carsus Tyrell said:
Only having 5 channels, needing to buy a magazine to know whats on that day or using bloody ceefax and waiting for that slow arse number to cycle all the way through just so it can tell me "Yep, it's shit up next too!"
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I've seen a lot of people mentioning the five channel thing, and it really confuses me -- I always thought of only having five channels as more of a 70's and earlier thing, 80's at the latest. I had (with basic cable, and using the tuner on the VCR/TV) about 70 channels throughout the 90's, upgraded to "a crapton, but very few of them have anything worth watching" somewhere in the mid 2000's. Did cable take a while to penetrate markets outside the US or something?
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Cable did not hit the uk until the mid to late 90's, satellite was around 88/89 but was a massive bust until they had some content around 92, and even then it was too much money just for a game football a few time a week and the simpsons. I can barely remember having only 3 channels that stopped all programming at midnight.
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Huh, never knew that. Thanks for the clarification!
 
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IamQ said:
Friends (The tv-series), large phones, skateboarding, the music (with some, although few, exceptions), ps1/N64 graphics, having to wait to rewind VHS tapes.
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This! And only this.

Well, not only this obviously, but out of all the blights the 90s cursed us with, I hate this the most.
 
Murais

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Absolutely nothing. My life will never be as xtreme to the max as it was during the decade.

... Fred Durst.
 
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Dial-up, shitty comics, and people on TV looking like they were vomited out of a closet that got sick from eating tie-dye.

I do miss good TV shows like A Different World and Living Single, though.
 
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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.
 
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Anyone remember Hypercolor shirts?

Anyone?

No?

GOOD.

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.
 
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