What was the best thing about the 90s?

Beverly Hills, 90210

The Internet wasn't everywhere and people actually talked to each other.

And the Chicago Bulls.

Richard Simmons was still a hot, sexy male.

Pulp Fiction

McLaren F1

Motorola StarTAC

Dumb and Dumber

Everlong

1996 FL Gators football

Losing my virginity

AOL

mmmbop by hanson

The proliferation of cell phones and death of pagers

Tecmobowl, RBI baseball, Dr. Mario, and Contra for Nintendo

Goldeneye 007 and MarioKart for N64.

Baseball cards

sladabar wrote:

mmmbop by hanson

Wannabe > mmmbop

I turned 22 in 1990, so I spent almost my entire 20s in this decade. It seemed like there was two distinctive parts to it, much like several others. What I remember from the initial half is that it was the first time in my life I could play the radio and hear brand-new music; current music that I liked. The 80s were spent listening to bands who's heyday was in years past, such as Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, and so on. I and most of my friends completely rejected the music that was current during that decade (80s Springsteen, Madonna, hair bands, etc), so it was a novelty to be able to hear and see bands in their prime in the 90s as well as actually be waiting for their next album. All the musicians of the grunge era were around my age as well, and since I was in a working band at the time, this was also very exciting.

I remember 'paging' my weed dealer, and spending a year watching the O.J. trial on mu Sony Trinitron. I proudly wore a Casio G-Shock and cooked burgers on my George Foreman grill. My little brother was glued to his Game Boy.

The memories of the latter half of the decade for me was dominated by computers and cell phones becoming commonplace items, two technologies that changed the world more dramatically than anything in a very long time, and it all happened at once. My first cellphone was a Nokia 5110; the one with the switchable front plates of different colors. Then I got a StarTAC. All my friends had equally colorful iMac G3s. We all walked around with headphones on; attached to Discmans, which reminded me of the Walkman era from the early 80s. Newspaper boxes and payphones started disappearing from every street corner. I lost my girlfriend to the rave culture; she was 7 years younger than me and started going to them all the time and eventually ended up on crystal meth. I became a professional photographer and had a 2.7mp Nikon D1 that cost me thousands.

Simpsons, Seinfeld

hdhdhdjsbsbabs wrote:

A relatively peaceful era between the cold war and the war against terrorism.

This. But I for one didn't appreciate it. I'd take the godless Communists over the Muslim terrorists any day.

I was a kid/youth in the 90s:

TGIF shows

Sportcenter in it's prime and simpleist form

Napster

Airwalks

Jincos

AOL Discs

CD Burners

Laser Disc

Shaped skis

Kangol

Sega Game Gear

Lambo Diablo VTT

Bugatti EB110

Nike Jasari's

Ken Griffey Jr.

N64 - goldeneye, super mario 64, 1080, Tony Hawk

SUV takeover

Costco/Walmart/Sam's takeover

Brick Cell Phones

Early Cable/DSL/ISDN "high speed" internet

Star Wars Episode 1 (may it RIP)

Star Wars CCG

Pokemon for Game Boy

tnfmedia.com

Bad Wigins wrote:

Mondo Hondo wrote:

Nirvana and Cobain

Collective shame of Gen X to have let MTV spoon feed them halfass garage rock like it was a new thing. You might as well call Def Leopard the highlight of the 80's.

Ultimately Cobain blew his brains out because he was living a lie from which he couldn't escape.

edgy

Pauly Shore.

Bio Dome wrote:

Dial-up Internet!

Nothing like an image of a naked lady loading very slowly on your CRT monitor.

Yes, Napster

AIDS

The Chicago Bulls!

no millennials.

Wu Tang Clan

HOUSE MUSIC ALL NIGHT LONG