Who was a teenager in the nineties: The 1990's appreciation thread

[ElektroPunk Mindwarp Jelly]

The noughties are almost up, officially the nineties will be retro after the end of this year, and any child of the 90's may become an old nostalgic, looking back at the time when they grew up and all of the good/ crapo stuff of our era.

Remember ten years ago, the world was in a state of near panic as the Y2K Millennium Bug was set to crash everything from cheap Casio wristwatches to aeroplanes

1997 was the year that the world was in shock, as the People's Princess took that fateful last chauffeur- driven ride through the streets of Paris. Also the year of the end of the Conservative government, and Blair's Things Can Only Get Better victory parade.

Kids were set to move into the digital age, which marked the demise of magnetic storage media, some of you will still have such stuff piled away in dusty boxes.

Here are some general things of the nineties, not all will relate to all people (e.g. I never owned a mobile phone)

Still using VHS tapes (No DVD)
Still using Audio cassette (No MP3)
Still using 3.5" floppy drives (no USB memory sticks)
No mobile phones (use a payphone)
No internet connection at home (perhaps at school/college if available)
Computers at home were still mostly Commodore Amiga
If you did upgrade to a PC, the best at the time was something like Pentium 133MHz
Vanilla Ice versus M.C. Hammer
Grunge, Nirvana
Gulf War 1.0
Flourescent fanny packs and t-shirts
Ending of the cold war/ Soviet Union
Acid ravers
Various highprofile bombings plus Columbine
Plastic puffa jackets
End of Timmy Malletts Wacaday


Who was a child of the 1990's and what were the memorable moments for you

[ElektroPunk Mindwarp Jelly]

[ShyDoll]

I was born in 1987 but i dont remember the 80s at all and feel more like a child of the 90s - am i allowed in the very cool club?!

[RattyLady]

I turned 10 in 1990, and all of those I remember very well. I still have a big box of old cassette tapes at my parents' house! Including the mix tapes I used to make, hehe. I had an Amiga - and a Spectrum ZX before that! You forgot those silly Global Hypercolour t shirts that changed colour according to your body temperature!

[IRIS]

I used to go clubbing as a teenager in the 90's, clubs shut at 2am

[brian_maiden]

Originally Posted by RattyLady

You forgot those silly Global Hypercolour t shirts that changed colour according to your body temperature!

I had one of those!

I was born 1984, so I was only just a teenager during the 90's.

Also, I think you should be shot for using the term "fanny pack" It's a bum bag in this country I think you will find!

[Grogoch]

Originally Posted by RattyLady

You forgot those silly Global Hypercolour t shirts that changed colour according to your body temperature!

And scratch n sniff t-shirts! they were odd.

I had a muticoloured bomber jacket. And a purple shellsuit.
I've still got some cassettes. Used to spend ages recording songs off the radio.

[brian_maiden]

A lot of my t-shirts are scratch and sniff :rolleyes:

[Medea]

I became a teenager in 1994... can't say I enjoyed it much.

[Peasie]

Originally Posted by ®@***947;***1638;***1638;***1638;

and knowing exactly when to press stop before the DJ speaks.

Unfortunately nowadays the dj's know exactly how many seconds it is into a song before the vocals start so they talk over those seconds. Although - who needs to record off the radio anymore anyway. I keep on saying to myself that I'll need to get all my vinyl onto MP3 before it can no longer be played. Still have hundreds of cassettes from when I was in the Britannia Music Club. I remember there was a culture of sending in a blank cassette and a stamped addressed envelope to a band. They would record their stuff from a master cassette onto it and post it back. Free music. They would advertise their bands in the NME or Sounds. Maybe late seventies early eighties though. What I used to do was put sellotape over the stamp (pretending it was part of securing the envelope) and when the envelope arrived back with me I'd wipe the post mark off of it and re-use the stamp on another envelope.

[Munkeh]

I like how you list Columbine and the cancellation of Wackaday right next to each other

I had some good times in the 90's, some of my best times so far in fact. It's easy to look back with rose tinted specs, the music of the 90's wasn't that great, the TV was decent and the fashion was bloody awful.

I still remember getting a step haircut, thinking I was the dogs b'locks with my stupid curtains and pudding bowl cut. The fluorescent shell suits also, what on earth were we thinking? The first mobile phone any of my friends had, you couldn't get a signal on it most the time, only seemed to work in certain places, and it really was the size of a breeze block.

Seems odd that the 90's was nearly 10 years ago, doesn't feel that long. Mainly because I've spent a whole bunch of the 'noughties' (I really don't like that name) coping with anxiety and panic attacks.

Oh and Oasis vs Blur? Blur every time no question!

[Peasie]

Originally Posted by Munkeh

Seems odd that the 90's was nearly 10 years ago, doesn't feel that long.

That's because in real terms the noughties has only been 7½ years. Labour stole 2½ years from us. I know Maggie Thatcher was hated by a lot of people north of the border and was accused of stealing many things (like milk for instance) - but she never stole 2½ years.

[png]

Originally Posted by Municipal waste

Remember ten years ago, the world was in a state of near panic as the Y2K Millennium Bug was set to crash everything from cheap Casio wristwatches to aeroplanes

Heh, yes. At work we all had to do a "Y2K Audit" on anything and everything that had a date function. We would huddle around various instruments, set the clock to 1 minute before Armageddon and watch through our fingers to see whether it exploded or, more usually, quietly ticked over to 00:00:01 01/01/00

[Tailgate]

Originally Posted by Munkeh

Oh and Oasis vs Blur? Blur every time no question!

Pull the other one mate, everyone knows it was Oasis .

I remember rushing home on a Friday night to watch Reeves & Mortimer. I was glad I had a SNES & not a megadrive. I was a bit dubious of CD's, I prefered tapes over CD's. Still do to a certain extent. The joys of aimlessly wandering around the local leisure centre with my mates then going back to their house to listen to Nirvana and Guns & Roses.

I remember getting excited when we had cable television installed & I was able to watch Beavis & Buthead. I also loved watching Rocko's Modern Life and Ren & Stimpy. Happy days

[Reddix3]

Originally Posted by Tailgate

I remember getting excited when we had cable television installed & I was able to watch Beavis & Buthead. I also loved watching Rocko's Modern Life and Ren & Stimpy. Happy days

Rocko's modern life was amazing I loved watching that, and hey arnold!

Twas 13 in 98 so not much teenage life during the 90's!

[Tailgate]

Originally Posted by Reddix3

Rocko's modern life was amazing I loved watching that, and hey arnold!

I never did get into Hey Arnold.

Twas 13 in 98 so not much teenage life during the 90's!

For a split second that comment made me feel old; I turned 13 in '92.

[Reddix3]

Originally Posted by Tailgate

I never did get into Hey Arnold.
For a split second that comment made me feel old; I turned 13 in '92.

Ah your my sister age then...I used to get home from school and her from college and both be sat watching hey Arnold! at 4pm twas good. Rockos modern life was better though!

What about rugrats? or Keenan and Kel (I was a nickelodeon addict) - Diff channel but Samurai Pizza Cats Loved that too

Random fact for you, the episode about the stoop kid - The stoop kid was voiced by the ginger kid in Terminator 2 (Eddie Furlongs mate at the arcade)

[Tailgate]

her from college

I had a good laugh when I went to college, it was little more than two years of arsing around, cadging money for fags, getting tipsy down the local and attempting have a bit of hanky panky with the girls on the equine courses. Never did get any action with them but did end up knocking around with some lass on the small animal course.

Yep, loved watching Rugrats too though I've never seen Keenan and kel. I enjoyed watching Sliders though only saw 1st three series at the time. Just recently started watching series 4.

[Medea]

Originally Posted by Cynic

How do you go about converting cassettes and VHS to digital media format?

Not sure about VHS but here's how I copied my families xmases over from tape to digital:

1. get one of these:


and one of these:



and this:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

2. Connect one end of the lead to the headphone socket on your tape player. Connect the other end to the mic socket of your PC.

3. Press play on the tape player and the record button on audacity at the same time.

4. Let the tape play through while recording.

5. Convert the saved recording to mp3

[Spectrelight]

The music in the 90's was much better than it is now. Nirvana, AIC, Smashing Pumpkins, GnR. The Manics were a great band until 1995.

I sometimes wish I was a bit older so I would have been old enough to go to gigs in the early 90's so I could have seen all those bands. The only one I got to see was the Smashing Pumkins - their last show over here before they 'split up'

I still have boxes full of CD's and I wasted loads of time playing Street fighter 2, Mario Kart and 4-Player Goldeneye

[Power Pingu]

Originally Posted by Mikey33

I vaguely remember the likes of Def II (youth oriented tv shows on BBC2 hosted by Janet Street Porter) which included Dance Energy! and Liquid Television. Also watched/listened to 'The Mary Whitehouse Experience' on BBC2/Radio1.

You might also remember at the end of the 1990's, we had Chris Evans on T.F.I Friday, The 11 O'Clock Show (it helped launch the careers of Ricky Jervais and Sacha Baron Cohen).

Lee and Herring's This Morning with Richard Not Judy, with the Curious Orange and others.

It is inevitable that the 90's will make a comeback next decade
Get set for flourescent t-shirts and bumbags all over again

[ShyDoll]

The things I remember from the 90s:

Pixie sticks,
bum bags!,
cassette tapes,
Sega Megadrive,
Clarissa,
Sabrina,
Multi coloured everything,
Side ponytails,
Spice Girls ,
Pogs,
Little Mermaid,
Nickelodeon,
Space Jam,
Good Burger,
Slush Puppies.

Any of the above may be 80s or 00 things but to me theyre 90s.

[brian_maiden]

Originally Posted by Power Pingu

Lee and Herring's This Morning with Richard Not Judy, with the Curious Orange and others.

F**K YEAH!

[indiegirl1980]

At the end of the 1990's (1998-1999) I was at uni and remember being well impressed when my friend showed me how to set up an email address and send email.

Also these new-fangled things called web pages and web forums, which were very primitive. Even having pictures on them was a bit of a novelty.

[Reddix3]

Originally Posted by ShyDoll

The things I remember from the 90s:

Pixie sticks,
bum bags!,
cassette tapes,
Sega Megadrive,
Clarissa,
Sabrina,
Multi coloured everything,
Side ponytails,
Spice Girls ,
Pogs,
Little Mermaid,
Nickelodeon,
Space Jam,
Good Burger,
Slush Puppies.

Any of the above may be 80s or 00 things but to me theyre 90s.

Wow so many memories!

Pogs - Everyone at my school had these. I remember when kids used to grab other kids tubes of pogs and chuck them in the air and shout 'SCRAMBLE'. Tis why I never used to carry many with me!

I used to love Clarissa and Sabrina Mainly for Melissa mmm

I saw Space Jam 3 times in 5 day accidentally! 1 was a childish date and 2 times with different groups of friends.

Id have to change your little mermaid for Aladdin and Lionking though

[oXPureSilenceXo]

The 90's hair style! oh god.. it was like the 80'd but with extra hair spray haha!
The toys, and video games of the 90's
When consoles where just going 3D..
=o

[RattyLady]

Originally Posted by indiegirl1980

At the end of the 1990's (1998-1999) I was at uni and remember being well impressed when my friend showed me how to set up an email address and send email.

Also these new-fangled things called web pages and web forums, which were very primitive. Even having pictures on them was a bit of a novelty.

Yeah same goes for me, I remember sitting in the uni library until late at night, looking up all sorts of stuff but not really knowing what I was doing!

I miss Select magazine from the 90s. I met my first proper boyfriend through its penpal section! When rummaging in my parents' attic recently I found a stack of pristine copies from 1996/7, was so weird but fun looking through them.

And learning the facts of life and how to kiss boys from Just Seventeen magazine

[Medea]

Originally Posted by Cynic

^Am I right in assuming that is an 80's-90's walkman or is there another name for it?

I sound like a right duh by asking this.

That's the model I bought from argos for £10

(here is the link) they call it a radio cassette player.

[Andrew]

I was born in 1983 so I guess I fall into this category... it was a time of great music (most of my favourite albums are from this period), fun times with computing (getting on the internet in 1997 was pretty mind-blowing!) and I have quite a lot of good memories during certain periods of the decade... other periods, not so good :-s

[W!llow]

I was for the first four years. Another fan of Rugrats.