Appropriate for our age group!

10 Things 90s Kids Will Have To Explain To Their Children.

I got a really good kick out of this. And also started to realize how my kids will look at me if they ever find out about Tamagotchis. =(

Enjoy!

Ha ha ha! When I think of growing up I think of:

20p for the phone box or reverse charges to phone home.

Shell suits

Knitted flowery hideous patterned jumpers and ski pants (Yes the dark haired one is me!!)

I so just posted that on my FB. Here's the accompanying dialogue: I was right on the cusp of some of those. I did watch 1 though I have more memory of its older sibling predecessor, too old for 2, never got into 3, haha 4, 5 is a truism that speaks to the ages, loved 6, wasn't into 7 *at all*, I do understand 8 though it falls into the same category as 7, oh 9, and LOL to 10.

But yeah, though I watch Boy Meets World, I remember watching the Wonder Years way more. I loved Clarissa Explains It All, stupid Ferguson. And Fern Gully was one of the great animated films and even though it's not, it gets lumped in with the awesome Don Bluth movies of its time.

The VHS tapes behind you say a lot!

BloodyDanceToes wrote:

The VHS tapes behind you say a lot!

heh, most kids nowdays don't even know what VHS tapes were...


And I LOVED Boy Meets World...I wanna watch it now. haha

I had a whole keychain of tamagotchi's that I lost on the playground once in elementary school. I never got them back and someone obviously stole them...*cries*.

I also remember watching Boy Meets World on TV and my Dad saying..."Where's TwoPenguins?"..."Daaaaaad, it's not TwoPenguins it's Topanga!". Got a rise out of me every time!

Who remembers watching TGIF on Friday nights? Boy Meets World, Clueless, Sabrina the Teenaged Witch, etc...best television line up!

I recently said to a friend on Facebook: "Oh, you must go to Asda on Monday because "Screwed" is coming out on video then and they'll have it cheap!"

I'm 23, she's 24, all her friends are about the same age. I still got made fun of for being ever so old-fashioned in calling it a "video" and not a DVD. I tried pointing out that stuff was still coming out "on video" when we were in our teens, but to no avail.

I guess our generation's children will laugh at the mere suggestion of having things on a strange box-shaped tape!

^^ I TOTALLY would watch TGIF on Fridays!!!
I just had a girls' day on this past friday where we did our now-annual Boy Meets World marathon lol!!!
Only now accompanied by a couple nice adult drinks.

I was sooo sad when TGIF was no longer.....
I was a freshman in high school when we exited the "90's"

It is kind of weird though to see hairstyles and clothing styles that really weren't *that* long ago that I used to love, and now.. well...now.. they're just . woah.

Tamagotchis came out when I was 11. I always thought they were kind of a dumb fad, but secretly I did want one. Only for like a week, and then all the kids got them and they were wicked annoying.
the end
Now I"ll actually read that list!

Loved TGIF. does anyone else also remember Snick? and that orange couch?

I read the list and was surprised to find that I didn't recognize anything on it-- not because I'm too young, but because I'm too old! The '90's spanned middle school, high school, and college for me; so I thought at least some of the items on the list would be familiar. I usually recognize everything on an '80's-specific list though, so I guess I haven't spent my entire life living under a rock (just the last 20 years!). By the way-- '80's clothing and hairstyles are far more appalling than '90's!

I do remember TGIF, but what I recall is the very original line-up: Perfect Strangers, Full House, Mr. Belvedere, Just the 10 of Us. (Wikipedia has just confirmed that my memory is correct). I didn't realize that the line-up continued for so long, albeit with different programs.

Mendel wrote:

I read the list and was surprised to find that I didn't recognize anything on it-- not because I'm too young, but because I'm too old! The '90's spanned middle school, high school, and college for me; so I thought at least some of the items on the list would be familiar. I usually recognize everything on an '80's-specific list though, so I guess I haven't spent my entire life living under a rock (just the last 20 years!). By the way-- '80's clothing and hairstyles are far more appalling than '90's!

This - some of thees things will need to be explained to previous generations, too! For me, the 90s was highschool and University.

2 (I had a silver tamagotchi, and made it evil. Yes indeedy.), 4 and 8 make sense to me, but the rest? No clue.

I know all of those things, more because of my little sisters than because I was in on them myself. I graduated high school in 97, so I'm not the target of this article, but I've got sisters that are now 26 and 24, so in 1999 they were 15 and 13, so they're the prime audience for all of this stuff.

I'll never forget...

Write to me. Stick Stickly. P O Box 963. New York City. New York State. 10108!

And then there was the Face on Nick Jr. that announced shows and whatnot back in the day.

So, I didn't even realize until I read that, that the black power ranger was black and the yellow was Asian. I just thought of them as their ranger colors (Green was my favorite because, hellooooo, hubba hubba!). I suppose I was just blind to race at that age.

Oh my, Power Rangers is on Netflix.

I know what I'm doing tonight...

I also remember when it was so awful to have bumps in your hair when you had a ponytail. It all had to be straight and slick and even. Then something happened where "sex hair" became popular, and girls were doing their hair with all kinds of bumps in it. Now they even have the BumpIt! No offense to anyone who puts bumps in their ponytails, but I think it looks so silly, like you have an egg shaped head. What a weird fashion trend.

^Bump its freakin' hurt! I got one, because my hair is long and heavy, so I can't tease it up because it just collapses under it's own weight, but the bump it's hurt so bad, I'll just have flat hair, thanks!

^ I agree with the big Snooki type bumps being awkward. Years ago for Christmas a friend gave me a set of bump-its, I thought it was so bizarre because I had never once voiced any sort of need for a large bump in my ponytail. I remember saying at the time "How are we going to explain this trend to future generations." I think the 90s version of this was the banana clip, what on earth were we thinking.

I remember all of these things on the list, but I can think of others that were way more important to me than Will Smith and Fern Gully. I get why they mentioned those other boy groups too, but really for those of us who were born in the 80s but did much of our growing up in the 90s, wasn't it REALLY all about New Kids on the Block? TGIF was great and so was Topanga, but I lived for Kelly, Zack, Slater, Jessie, Lisa and Screech every Saturday morning. I read Goosebumps books and played Oregon Trail in computer class at school. Yes I adored Lisa Frank and never thought it would go out of style, but no school bag was complete without a trapper keeper (except my mom always bought me one of the knock-offs). I went to school wearing multiple pairs of brightly colored socks and light up LA Gears, oh and a slap bracelet or two. When friends came over for sleep overs we didn't play complicated video games, we played Pretty Pretty Princess, Girl Talk, Mall Madness... oh and we called the radio station to request songs and we prank called our crushes.

Things were more simple then.

I just read this article a couple days ago, and this thread reminded me of it: ( language warning)

www.cracked.com . . .

I can't believe I already feel so old at 26

I lived EVERY SINGLE ONE of those. TRUE NINETIES CHILDREN FTW!

Not on the list:
pogs
slap bracelets
AIM (and warning percentages!)
hand games (like Slide and "down by the banks of the hanky-panky where the bullfrogs jump from bank-to-banky...")
...I'm sure I'll think of more...

Oh, and which Spice Girl was your favorite also said a lot about you. (Baby Spice <3)

Heart wrote:

I lived EVERY SINGLE ONE of those. TRUE NINETIES CHILDREN FTW!

Not on the list:
pogs
slap bracelets
AIM (and warning percentages!)
hand games (like Slide and "down by the banks of the hanky-panky where the bullfrogs jump from bank-to-banky...")
...I'm sure I'll think of more...

Oh, and which Spice Girl was your favorite also said a lot about you. (Baby Spice <3)

Oh my lord! Warning Percentages! How obnoxious and awesome at the same time.

Heart wrote:


hand games (like Slide and "down by the banks of the hanky-panky where the bullfrogs jump from bank-to-banky...")

Kids still do this, I saw a kid doing miss mary mack the other day... I don't know where they still learn it, from their parents maybe, but it is still rampant.

^I'm shocked. I can barely remember a lot of them. Most of my friends and I can't even keep the hand movements going any more. And I don't remember ANY of the jump rope songs.

Oh how I miss jump rope!

hooray4jj wrote:

Heart wrote:


hand games (like Slide and "down by the banks of the hanky-panky where the bullfrogs jump from bank-to-banky...")

Kids still do this, I saw a kid doing miss mary mack the other day... I don't know where they still learn it, from their parents maybe, but it is still rampant.

Dude, we were doing them in the early 80's, and others were doing them possibly earlier, too. "Miss Mary Mack" was always popular, and I do recall a "Strawberry Shortcake" one that had an odd rhythm.

I think this is one of those things kids pick up by osmosis ~ those games are so embedded into the culture of primary school, they've a part of the very foundations of the buildings and playgrounds, and each new lot of kids absorbs the knowledge without being aware of it.

That is the proof for globalisation..

I grew up in western germany (yes, when I was born it was still western germany, though not for long) and still get about 80% of the things you're talking about. The world's a village, really.

I used to live for TGIF! Best shows ever. That list brought back so many great memories.

What about Furby? hahaha