The 90's was great for 20-somehtings too. Image how great the 90's would have been without parental oversight? The education system was already pretty undermined by then, you guys got a bad deal there.
I was a 20-something thru most of the 90s. I have a lot of fond memories of this decade, but it wasn't really because of anything inherent in the 1990s-it was because during this decade, my friends and I took a 1000+ km roadtrip almost every year. Now with them mostly married, and with other responsibilities that I have, those days are long gone (the last big roadtrip that I took with a friend (it was actually about 3000km roundtrip) was in 2005) I still do a lot of driving, but they are mostly work trips, and I am either by myself or with employees
Being a kid in the 90s and a teen in the 00s was better.. you get the best of both worlds. The early 90s still had a lot of influence of the 80s and the early 00s saw the world shift to digital before it became the toxic wasteland that it has become. Over all.. Any decade where you didn't have the burden of bills would be the best.
I still feel the 90's were the last 'real' decade to grow up in. You could go outside and be a child without the pressure of 'social media', yet as we grew older the internet was there (albeit, in it's societal infancy). I think it was the perfect sweet spot.
I think that goes for the 2000s as well. I was born in 2000 so I grew up all throughout that decade and even though the internet was well developed and used by that point, I still went outside to play with friends and toys, and only went on the internet to play games and watch videos for a bit. It wasn’t till like 2008 where the internet became a lot more involved and I started using it pretty much all the time.
this is the comment i clicked on this video to find.. kids not going outside and being obsessed about social media is a fallacy, if a child is naturally unadventurous or doesn't like going outside they would've found something else to do in any other period of time. If they are naturally self-conscious and insecure about how they compare to other kids they would feel the same way at school or watching tv etc in any other time period. Too many people blame kids for all these things, when in reality it's millenial parents being too protective to let their kids explore on their own, too careless to allow them access to any social media, not strict enough to limit their time online, and too lazy to bring them up properly. I'm only 19 myself and grew up doing typical outdoor kid stuff but it's getting tiring hearing the same people who can't bring kids up properly in a modern world preach about how much better they had it
@@JALC-x you make a good point on parents failing to discipline their kids, and yes introverts will be introverts. But the real culprit is social media’s method of making us sick. It’s far deeper than most people realize. Just another addiction. Look at Twitter, used to be fun, now it’s become a toxic place for people to rage. Just toxicity everywhere. That’s why I said we as a society peaked between the 00’s and early 10’s.
Yep, we got one mailed all the time, long before we got a home computer (2004), when by that time cable co. modems had internet access, for which we connect today.
I had a Word Processor at one time and all those AOL Install Disks that would come in the mail ended up becoming disks for my word processor as those disks could be re-formatted.
Or it could get better than was before. The '80's started off awful. I thought the good times would never come back but most of the '90's put the earlier good times to shame.
@@robertd9850 What about the 80s didn't you like? Some people are divided about the decade because of things like hairstyles and clothing choices (yikes!) but it did kick off synthesizers gave us some of the best sci-fi movies still loved today. Still, a mixed pot of crazy.
@@DareToBeDeviant The early years were dreadful. High gas prices, hostages, threat of nuclear attack, dismal economy, heat waves and droughts where I lived. Really pretty awful. It got a little better middle decade and much better the last 3 years.
@@robertd9850 My condolences you had to ensure that. Over here on the Rust Belt nothing ever happens. The entire west half of the USA could be on fire and we wouldn't be notified for impending doom.
When I was a teenager in the 90s, I loved it. But I also remember being so optimistic about the future and how things would be better with more technology. Unfortunately it did not turn out that way and it just made society worse.
yeah.. really worse. when technologies came out. it was always exciting and powerful. each console came out was always powerful and new. now you have ps5.. likes ehh.. you have a 600 hp factory sport car is like ehhh. maybe we're just getting old
@@BlueRice it's not just that we're getting old, if you look at how children act vs the 90s and prior, the raising, the legal limits etc, the school, everything, it's not the same, and that's why over time, kids have quit moving out at as young of ages, don't learn the basics of life in school anymore, are always on the internet or doing something with a mobile app instead of being out in social, which causes a lot to not know how to talk to people especially in a bad situation. A lot more kids are shooting kids now then before and I believe that's part of why.
You know what else disappeared from grocery stores and drug stores in the 1990's? Comic book spinner racks. The last one I saw in a grocery store was in 2000.
In 1993I used to walk a couple of miles to buy comics from this convenience store spinner rack. And if they didn't have what I was looking for, I'd walk another mile to another store with different books. Those were the days!
The used-to-be-called-dollar-store has something close. I wouldn’t say they’d give you that “nostalgia feeling” or anything, but they do put little kid comics on them. Again though, expect nothing, but they do have something that resembles what you’re talking about… kind of. It’s the closest to them in modern times that I can think of is what I’m trying to say. I think of those same racks when I see them, that’s why I mentioned them. It’s not the same “nostalgia” type feeling, but they do remind me of those old turnstile type racks, if you know what I mean??? I guess you’d have to see them to understand. Hopefully that makes some sense.
I still keep some maps in my car… being lost in the middle of nowhere with a dead phone or no cell signal is just a bit _too_ realistic a fear to ignore 😅
👍😊👍 Yep!!! As convenient as modern tech is, ALWAYS have a back-up. I still have "real" maps in my car, I also have a "real" radio, and an Mp3 player. You cannot always have "signal" everywhere. I am a "tech" geek, but having "low tech" alternatives is vital. "a bit too realistic a fear" is the reason to have insurance after all!
It is a bit surreal seeing your childhood (I was born in '85) already being recollected. It also hits home when you see kids now having retro day at school and they're wearing clothes from the '90s. Now I know how my mom felt when I was looking for '60s and '70s clothes in the late '90s for my retro days.
We all didn’t know this was the best it would get. I wish I would’ve appreciated it way more than I did. I would gladly go back in a heartbeat if I could
that’s literally the whole point of Nostalgia. You don’t appreciate the present until its the past. The best version of the past are your teenage years and you only remember the good feelings not the bad. We all do it.
No it’s still here it’s on the news every day. I guess when you got to enjoy those pleasures and not have to deal with governmental US cartels tunneling drugs into your community and economic disparities; that same government actively creating and building situations to destroy the family for generations; while playing it off as help or assistance, I guess you would miss that huh 🤔
As a Swede, born 1985, we pretty much had the same thing with everything that was mentioned, and I miss those days. The 90's was probably the best time of my life. 😀
Not sure if you played video games but the 90s was a golden age for them growing up especially in the early days of LAN and early internet networking. Younger generations born in the later 90s-early 2000s or later will never know what the world was like before the internet.
@@mariamercy7317 I grew up in the '70s, there's some parallels between those decades that I don't' think (sadly) apply in the LAST 20 years. My NIECE "turned me on" to "Brewstewfilms" (RUclips channel) and, if you swap out the "pop culture", It's eerily remincent of my 1970s childhood. 🤷♂️
@@jamesslick4790 You are sooo right. Sadly last 20 years are exactly that "Sad" 😢 I lived through the mid 50s, 60s, 70s. Times have changed so much. Wish I could say "For better." I was raised in NYC where children could sit on the steps of their building till late at night, without supervision of parents without fear... I'm about to cry.
@@mariamercy7317 Some things have got better, But overall In my humble opinion is that "our world" (us who grew from the 50's-'90s -The Post World War 2 era) pretty much ended on 9/11/01 😞
This video forgot to mention the anticipation of watching your favorite shows on TV, rushing home just to get there in time. Nowadays the instantaneous access to the internet kind of killed of that feeling. Also, whoever heard of watching 5 min clips back then?
Good point. I can recall having "watch parties" with friends when new episodes of our favorite TV shows would air. With streaming, there's been a loss of the shared experience to some extent. It's also odd that streaming services tend to release the entirety of a season at once for the binge-watching crowd. There was something about having to wait until the following week for the next episode. It gave you something to look forward to.
I would record shows with my VCR, I would set the timer or sometimes TV Guides had a code for each show. I could put that code into the VCR and it knew what show to record.
The last fun decade......I was in my 20's (turned 20 in 1990) and had many great times. Interesting to read how many other people, besides myself, remember the 90's being the last amazing decade. Now everything is so serious and somber....the America I knew is no more.
Agreed. America today resembles 1970s-80s Soviet Eastern Bloc atmosphere with slightly better surface aesthetics. The underlying energy is the same. Truly sad.
I also turned 20 in 1990. It was a great decade, then the 2000’s came along. Everything we do is recorded and available for the world to view. The 90s was a time of personal and financial growth for our generation. It was the last time we actually had to wait and anticipate special things like Christmas. Now everything is available all the time. This century sure got off to a s**t start!
I was 20 in 1990 too but I think the 80s were the last real decade. I even remember feeling like we were losing what we had so great. Everything was starting to get so controversial like in the 70s. The positive is we didn’t have technology yet. Nobody really had computers or internet and definitely not social media. The only computer I used was for Lotus123 and Word Perfect in the student computer lab. But, it was then that I discovered that software and troubleshooting hardware came natural for me and still does. I remember graduating and my good friend gave me his email address. I had no idea what it was. 😅
Logging into AOL was always such a magical feeling. The early internet in general was like the wild west. It was much less centralized and content felt more personal.
Yup, and all the amateur geocities and altavista crappy internet sites people made. The internet was totally novel and amazing in the early days, and now it's just omnipresent and created significant societal problems.
yeah that time. there wasnt no youtube, no reddit, nothing major social platform. but it was exciting because you read up on random things. surf the web about game emulator, breakdance moves, reading romantic drama story telling, underground rap and so on. high quality picture was nice back then since it takes so long to load and view.
@@TheSimoc petium 1 cpu still can sruf the website today. Higher performance mean for better graphic and computing power. You can do more with better performance.
@@BlueRice Depends wholly on what website. Not many modern websites work with Pentium 1 and even less with a browser that can be run by such. Of course more performance allows you to do more, but unfortunately most of it isn't utilized for that nowadays, instead it is mostly wasted on unnecessary bloat. Even simple textual content and UI of many today's webpages is often more resource hogging than fancy interactive animated graphics of 90s and early 00s.
@Dani Hope internet/ smartphones have caused society to change to a primarily online society. There isn't so much to even do out in the real world anymore. Everyone has abandoned it. People just sit there and stare at their g-d phones all the time. Our civilization is in such tragic decay :( THIS crap is what we are stuck with now. I hate the internet. It ruined everything.
@@peterbelanger4094 If you were a nerd though, the internet was the ultimate playground in the 90s and especially the early 2000s. It only got ruined when it went mainstream and huge corporations monopolized it. I miss the digital Wild West. Back when the only "social media" were bulletin boards, chat rooms, and forums full of like minded geeks. Back when the most controversial discussions were Athlon XP versus Pentium 4, and everyone had relations with your mom. Before everything got curated and censored by algorithms and brain dead ideologs.
I remember waiting 20-25mins to get connected to the internet in the early 90’s! And then my family telling me to get off the computer, so they could make a phone call! They still jokingly talk about the OJ Simpson trial today, but back then, it was an incredibly big deal!
I remember taking upwards of 1 hour to connect...and the FRUSTRATION of being connected...and someone in your house picks up the phone...your computer freezes up but for a minute or so you don't realize you were kicked offline all because someone picked up the damn phone! lol
Me too! My Mom would sometimes kick me off the computer so she could talk to her friends. Getting online was pretty difficult sometimes with dial up. I remember watching the OJ verdict as it happened.
Even when I lived in the boonies in the US, it never took me longer than around 2 minutes to get online with dial-up. A dedicated line and a modem code to silence the connection sounds and I was good.
Well it is 2022 and it sometimes still takes up to 20 minutes for me to get connected to the internet with my cable modem, if I try to connect in the early evening when everyone else seems to be online. If I try in the middle of the night, it only takes a minute. (I turn off my computer and modem when I am not using them.)
On weekends, sometimes friends and I went to the video store and rented a movie (We went to the theatre sometimes, but some movies that we thought were decent we walked out on for immorality, cursing, violence, etc, and rented movies already were watched my friends some times, so they were a safer choice) Besides, we could rent a movie, order some pizzas and save tons of money!
Ah yes friday nights were the best. Blockbuster was popular on the weekends and it felt like more of an 'event' to watch a popular movie that just came out on rental. Now it seems cheap because there's such a vast amount of content you can watch anytime or anywhere you want.
I remember my returning from Miami. My ID was in my dirty laundry and I told the guy that all I had available was my Block Buster video card. He let me on the flight.
That is hilarious! I kept my Blockbuster and Hollywood Video cards for quite a while in my purse because I missed going into the stores! I think in life, we just deal with whatever technology we are given at the time. :)
@@deboraholsen2504 My sister still has a video from Blockbuster (Silence of the Lambs) it's like a trophy now lol. Still has the "Favorites" insert, too! We sometimes wonder how much the late fee would be now.
I absolutely loved the old AOL. During a bad time in my life I met a terrific friend with a shoulder to cry on and a ear that listened. So yea, I loved AOL.
wow, what memories! I had a pager, a vcr, drank zima, did the Macarena, watched those sitcoms, etc. I can't believe that it's been 30 years since these things were popular...time flies! Thanks for the memories!
Great video. Kinda sad watching it, considering how bad everything is now, compared to how things were back then. Really was the last great decade. So glad I had the opportunity of spending my teen years during that particular decade. Thanks for the walk back down memory lane, and the resurgence of memories from better times. Here's to the past. 🙋🍻
I still have my vhs player plugged in until I get them all converted...I have about 20 more to go. I hope it holds out. :) I like the famly programming way better in the 90's then the nonsense they have now.
I have an ex-girlfriend who insisted I get a VCR when we were living together, because she thought VHS was the only correct way of watching her favorite Disney movies.
I was still using 5.25” floppies in the early 90s. Especially at school. Playing Oregon trail. I miss the maps. I remember picking hotels using books which showed off amenities. I remember the Macarena. And I remember my parents dropping me off and walking me to the gate.
Keep in mind nobody will feel this way looking back on the 2020’s. Pandemics, mass shootings, political turmoil, etc. I was only born in 99’ but I feel like kids are going to have a really hard time feeling nostalgic of their youth in a couple decades.
Well people tend to overlook that bad and remember the good and Nostalgia, the 80s and 90s were not all happiness and roses, alot of messed up shit happened to. If it's part of your formidable years you tend to look at it in a positive way. It's like really all generations have done and will do.
@@RF-vg5kv I completely agree, but with the events that have happened (unique to the 21st century) I think adults in the future will think of these decades as a semi dark age.
VHS lived well into the 2000s, there are 3 years that can be pointed to as major in the decline of VHS, DVDs first outsold VHS in 2003 thus marking the true begining of their decline, most major movie companies gave up on the platform in 2006 and VHS officially died in 2008, but people still had tapes long after this and many still do today
@@charleso8826 I have about 15 VCRs & hundreds of tapes, including over 100 sealed blanks. (I can't fix them, so I got them when the transition was happening---$5 to $20 each.)
@@cdldriver2348 FUN FACT: The TI-99/4 (the TI-99/4A' s predecessor) was the first "consumer" PC with a 16 Bit microprocessor! Pretty heady tech in an innocent looking little box in 1979! 👍😊👍
Spent a lot of money at Blockbuster renting VHS tape in the 90's (Brenham, TX). Then the transition to DVD started in the early 2000's. And when streaming became mainstream it was over for Blockbuster. In the late 90's my internet connection was a dialup 54K modem. Most of the time the actual rate was between 28K and 44K. Never got to 54K. Then DSL was the thing. And when fibre optic came to town, dialup faded away. Got my first cell phone in 1996. It was as big as a walkie/talkie and most of the time it was on the more expensive "roaming" mode as network coverage was limited. And yea, 9/11 ruined a lot of things...including air travel. It used to be enjoyable...used to be.
My response to your mentioning that 9/11 has ruined a lot of things is this: I remember my elementary school principal talking to us students in an all-school assembly in our school auditorium. This was back in the 1950's. He told us that all it takes is ONE PERSON breaking the rules to ruin it for everyone else!!!!! That principle plays out each and every day to this day!!! All it took was ONE hijacker on 9-11 to ruin air travel forever for all of us. (Of course, there were several other hijackers on other planes as well). The wife and I used to enjoy air travel, but not anymore!!!
I remember having a second phone line while in college in order to use the internet. I didn’t want to tie up the primary phone line for the rest of my family.
I still have a bunch of my old VHS tapes and DVDs. They still work fine, so the last thing I'd want to do is see them end up in a landfill. Similarly, I kept most of the cassettes and CDs from my childhood (ZZ Top _Eliminator_ on cassette is the shit lol). I'm not getting rid of them.
Going to the airport used to be an adventure. One was treated like a valued guest. Now it's like entering a pen, the "flight attendants" are now the prison guards, and treat you as an inmate.
@@sarahsimpkins1311 ---From what I understand, the entire Patriot Act was a series of control measures, that they never had the votes to push through before 9/11. At most, those airline passengers probably expected to end up in Havana, or other such place. This will not happen today, because 100 other passengers would overcome a couple looneys with box cutters. (Israeli officials said that the entire post-9/11 is an effective way to annoy the public. I would like to know how they prevent such occurrences, given constant terrorist threats in that region).
"Please be kind, rewind" was LAW at the Hollywood video I worked at in HS. We even went so far as to ban some people from renting when they kept bringing back tapes that they hadn't rewound. Worked there for almost two years, my first year we burned out 3 rewinders because people wouldn't do it themselves before returning.
I was kid in the 90's, it was truly a great time to be alive. Kids went outside to ride bikes, play kickball and play in the mud. Now, kids are glued to tablets, phones and anything with a screen, and the parents aren't any better.
I still have a Dishnetwork cable box with a DIGITAL tape player built in. I hear it is quite collectable. It is not compatible with magnetic VCR tape. Digital blank tapes were 14 dollars each in the late 1990s which was considered very expensive. It was the last gasp of tape technology.
There was also that all but forgotten media between VHS and DVD that was the Laserdisc! Pretty much what could be put onto a DVD with special channels and extra features but the size of a large LP record and thick!
I remember those and a salesman telling me they were going to take over the market, the machines were very expensive, thankfully I never bought one. They were gone as fast as they appeared.
The technology of bouncing a laser off of the reflective surface of a disc to produce sound and video did survive though. It was refined into a much more compact, cost effective format and renamed the Compact Disc, then later, the DVD.
I was born in the 80s so of course I grew up with all of this. This triggers so many memories I completely forgot about. When you think back it was a completely different world. I hate that my kids will not get to experience many things like I did.
Trust me, cellphones weren’t popular until the early to mid 2000s. If you had a cellphone in the 90s you where rich. Even in the early 2000s a cellphone was a huge flex.
ehhh we mostly all had those Nokia candy bar phones when they got really mainstream, and then everyone had the Motorola Razr after that in the early 00s. But definitely late 90s was a little less common.
I got my first cellphone in 7th grade in 2003/2004 ... it was a flip phone 😭.. but ya everyone was always amazed by it at the time I don't remember any of my friends at the time having one 😂
Back before the cell phone was everywhere, if your car broke down on the road it was either a long walk to the nearest phone or hope that someone gave you a ride to an exit with a service station or pay phone.
I remember picking up some French girls when I was in Northern Ontario because their RV broke down. Poor kids-in that area there was no cell reception (this was around 2010) and I worried about them. We went all the way back to Sault Ste Marie (about 150km from where I was) but I had time and they got to a spot where they could rent another vehicle safely
I remember flying to California In the 90s. My aunt and mother took me to the airport. When I went through the checkpoint I was wearing a lot of punk jewelry and I had no trouble getting past security. However my aunt who had an artificial hip had an awful time
I had a lot of folks tease me about my mods (piercings) and how I would get through the airport security. I had zero problems and a lot of piercings. My family was worried about me in lightning storms too.
Thank you for acknowledging the efforts of IT Staff everywhere for heading off the potential disaster that Y2K could have been. Because it didn't happen, many folks have been questioning the alarm raised and the urgency to which we responded, not realizing it's those exact things that prevented the disaster.
Well, I appreciate the staff having prepared for it, certainly there has been less and more needs with critical systems. But, honestly, after all the convoluted alarmist fearmongering, it was just too "funny disappointment" to see how my offline home computer just booted up normally after all. The point of all its funniness was in that the systems that might have really suffered from the y2k problem, didn't anyhow touch average punters (as it was rather simple and affordable for maintainers of such systems to prepare for it and they were very technically concious of the applicable issues), yet all the the far-fetched worst-case-scenario fearmongering news were targeted for average punters, whose only touch with computers were the home computers, with main usage being gaming, word processing, and... just a status symbol. Minority even had an internet connection. Yet majority of home computer owners were not technically savvy, so they fell into fear of the y2k journalism with complicated technical explanations and far-fetched example scenarios, thinking it will make their offline home computers to explode due to RTC overflow. Well, it is what we call "click journalism" nowadays - then you just needed to pay for the paper.
@@TheSimoc True, there was a lot of overblown hype. I was one of the people fixing software etc to head off the problem, and it was annoying to have to waste time reassuring customers who'd been told by some "snake oil salesman" Y2K consultant that they were at risk when in reality they had nothing to worry about. Often they wouldn't believe us ...
interestingly plenty of people who were far from being alive in the 90s still do the Macarena today, it's aged really well as far as pop culture references go
I'll never forget the first time I watched a DVD movie. I asked my son "Where do I hit to rewind it?" He and his wife laughed so much. 😂 I was used to the VCR... Wow, I just remembered I had an 8 Track Tape Player/Recorder Sad about 9/11. I used to receive or say "Farewell" to friends and family right by the plane entrance 😔
My family started to buy VCR's in the early 80's. We would record classic movies and keep them in a collection. I think at one point, we had 100 classic movies in our collection. Of course they were recorded in lower quality Ep format.
@@fr2ncm9 Wow, 100 is a great collection. Hope you have them or at least some. They are like treasure. I still have some in a box, some movies I bought and some I recorded. Surely the quality wasn't all that good.
I wondered if you'd include the airline change due to 911. I still have photos of relatives and friends first getting off the plane and looking around to see anyone they knew. And when they do, and you make that connection, it's total bliss. Sad that had to end. Now you just go to baggage claim and wait. Definitely not the same experience.
I miss that too, and dread having to go through security every time I do fly. I have had a complete shoulder replacement of my right shoulder and therefore have a prosthetic shoulder made of metal and plastic. Also, I wear an implanted heart monitor. Both the shoulder hardware and heart monitor set off all the metal detectors and show up on the x-ray machines. I have to be pulled aside for further screening and have to show them cards issued to me by my surgeons to convince TSA agents what they are seeing.
@@okiebill1948 I am treated the same way because I have a colostomy well I was always singled out the last time the officer finally told me why they were literally poking my colostomy to see if anything solid was in there no joke, smugglers were putting fake colostomies on their mules to smuggle everything from small animals to drugs.
We are also being covered up with plastic. Our trash is piling up at such an alarming rate that we will soon be buried in it!!! We are running out of places to dispose of it. Our "throw-away" society and planned obsolescence are biting us in the butt!!
@@hewitc Boy I remember when a giant asteroid nuked the whole planet for the 6th time instantly and wiped out the giant lizards in my backyard, climate changes these days are trivial in comparison
@@MrOiram46 The changes, due to warming oceans, are starting to cause famines, migrations and politcal unrest. Things won't get better. In the short term insurers are dropping coverage in affected areas, like Florida.
Sadly 2020 is going to be remembered as an even bigger change than 2001. 194 countries just signed on to the WHO's one world government. Life was never perfect but the world today is steadily getting worse. With all that's going on today it feels like the 1990s were a hundred years ago.
The mid-late nighties are still the highest period of jobs created in US history, and seen as the most stable period internationally between the end of the cold war and into 2001. Ever since then it feels like the US has been on a seesaw of moving from one crisis to another.
My first computer was a Tandy 1000tx (Radio Shack). Windows didn't even exist yet. The computer came with 2 books as thick as an encyclopedia. The books taught me how to write DOS code and I made little programs like Lotto number pickers & Lotto number checkers. The computer didn't even have a hard drive! I had to buy a separate 5 1/4" floppy drive to run programs. Even the modem to get online was a separate piece of equipment.
I remember TGIF like it was yesterday, as soon as my 6th period class ended from high school I would wait for the bus or just walk home (didn’t live that far) and wait til 8:00 to watch the new episodes or reruns of Step by Step, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers and Full House then in the late 90’s the lineup was Full House, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Boy Meets World and Family Matters although by that time I think that show was gone by then I don’t know Those were my Fridays growing up
I remember Friday's were pizza night along with whatever the newest movie rental releases were at blockbuster if they weren't all rented out. Life just seemed a lot simpler back then.
I got caught up in the Furby craze, similar to the Beanie Baby phenomenum. I purchased somewhere around sixty of them. My trophy Furby, which I still have, is the so-called "Hi-C" Furby. Only 5,000 of these were made as prizes in a sweepstakes run by the company that made Hi-C drinks. Regarding my early on-line experience, I chose to go with a competitor of AOL called Prodigy.
I love your wonderful channel. All your videos are well made. I cant tell you how many have brought tears to my eyes as I walk down memory lane. I think we all miss the past or parts of it. Especially today with how horrible the world is. Thanks for all the time you put into these great videos.
I love your Channel. As a teacher, I often need to explain timelines of history or explain products that show up in books. Not many channels present the information in a slow, comprehensive way and with appropriate language.
With the dial-up, I remember one time my mom and I were online and my grandma tried to call us...a little bit later, we heard pounding on our door. My mom asked, “Who’s there?”, and the answer was, “You’re mother!” My grandma had driven a half hour with a friend because she got worried when she couldn’t get a hold of us. I also remember when McDonald’s raised the Happy Meal price from $2.00 to $2.60 due to the increased demand because of Beanie Babies.
4:30 good ol' Rand McNally. Back when one could afford to go on a road trip without having to pull out a second mortgage, that was THE WAY to plan the trip. Unfortunately it couldn't alert you to traffic conditions and speed traps.
I remember heading to AAA before going on a big trip to get TripTiks where the agent would mark road closures, construction, etc. They were handy, but man, do I appreciate getting directions on my phone!
I feel like I over obsess the past things change people grow up and now as an adult life is way more difficult. Thanks for the videos brings back great memories. I'll never forget
I was born in 1992, but I very clearly remember watching movies on VHS tapes as a kid, going to Blockbuster, using floppy disks for school work, listening to music on CD players, watching DVD’s before streaming became popular, logging into AOL….. My heart is heavy remembering these things compared to how things are now. I had the best of both worlds….just enough technology that was able to have a profound change on my life but not so much that I was glued to screens like today’s kids are. Back when kids used to enjoy going outside without the constant need for IG or TikTok.
I miss the 90s as much as I remember of course. I was born in '87 so I definitely remember some of these especially the 9/11 attacks and the Y2K fear. I still remember the old Windows 95 games I played and Sega Genesis original PlayStation games whenever I could. Time was definitely so much better back then. I miss it so much.
@@bigred3164 I know that feeling too well, I was born 1989 and so remember many of the 90s tech, how awesome the future would be for me when I got older (or so I thought) 🥵
Last great decade, before everything became complicated. I’m happy to have been a kid in the 80’s and teen in 90’s. It was the last great decade for being a kid.
I remember we used to have to rewind the VHS tapes before you return them to Blockbuster video. When DVDs came out I told my dad to make sure that he rewinds the DVD before he returns it. The joke only worked a couple times and then he caught on.
You know… I didn’t fly on a plane for the first time until 2012 as an adult… but as a kid… yeah, I do remember my mom and I walking with my cousin all the way to the gate and watching her fly out on her 747 jumbo jet before turning to head back home. You just made me remember that was actually a thing! Not to mention waiting for her at her suspected terminal to return, watching the plane land and park at the terminal to let my cousin off. We did that a few times actually! Wow… memory unlocked for sure!
I have so many vhs tapes that I love. I recorded lots of tv shows back in the day. I purchased a high end professional Sony VCR (used) years ago to make sure I could still watch them. I also have 4 or 5 backup VCRs in a closet. Sure I could convert stuff to DVD, but I like the nostalgia of watching the tapes.
My Sony camera is one of the first digital cameras and uses a floppy disk to store photos. It works great to this day. It has lasted me at least 25 years.
I have a love-hate relationship with the past. I am forever a slave to nostalgia, because I love looking back and thinking about the simplicity and (mostly) niceness of the long ago past. But it did have its issues. I love watching old videos of looking at old photos of the past. Especially of people who I don't know. Its fun to imagine stories about them and what was happening in the moment, and what their lives might have been like. It convinces me more every time I do it that people are more alike than we think. I was born at the very end of the 1960s, and I hit my prime 30 years ago, and I fondly recall all these things in this video and so many others on your channel. The problem for me is that I stopped 'aging' in my early 20s. I still look like my photos from back then. All my family and friends are older, and grayed up, and a bit heavier...and they all tease me about it. I never made any deals with the Devil, but I sometimes feel like Dorian Gray.
One of the things about the past that I am glad is gone, for all intents and purposes, is public smoking. I am forever grateful that most places these days are tobacco/smoke free. I remember well the 50's and 60's when smoking was allowed almost everywhere and all of us non-smokers had to tolerate all that second-hand smoke. I never smoked or used tobacco in any other form and never will!!!!!!!!
The strongest memories are typically formed in the teenage years and early adulthood before age 25 due to development of the brain and the strong dopamine release that comes with new and early life experiences. Nostalgia is likely an evolutionary development in our species as a way to improve group bonding and survival chances during difficult times. Think about it.
I was born in 1998. I remember some of these things still lingering around due to the high price of the new tech. I'm glad i got to experience what I could of it. Kids these days will never know lol
Being a kid in the 80’s and a teen in the 90’s were definitely the good ol’ days for me.
The 90's was great for 20-somehtings too. Image how great the 90's would have been without parental oversight?
The education system was already pretty undermined by then, you guys got a bad deal there.
@@peterbelanger4094 The 90's job market was great too. Recent college grads could get jobs without having years and years of experience.
I was a 20-something thru most of the 90s. I have a lot of fond memories of this decade, but it wasn't really because of anything inherent in the 1990s-it was because during this decade, my friends and I took a 1000+ km roadtrip almost every year. Now with them mostly married, and with other responsibilities that I have, those days are long gone (the last big roadtrip that I took with a friend (it was actually about 3000km roundtrip) was in 2005) I still do a lot of driving, but they are mostly work trips, and I am either by myself or with employees
@@SJHFoto you’ll get back out there, my dude. That spirit doesn’t fade away 🤙🏼
Being a kid in the 90s and a teen in the 00s was better.. you get the best of both worlds. The early 90s still had a lot of influence of the 80s and the early 00s saw the world shift to digital before it became the toxic wasteland that it has become. Over all.. Any decade where you didn't have the burden of bills would be the best.
I still feel the 90's were the last 'real' decade to grow up in. You could go outside and be a child without the pressure of 'social media', yet as we grew older the internet was there (albeit, in it's societal infancy). I think it was the perfect sweet spot.
It wasn't all consuming like it is now, it was still an amazing novelty in it's early days.
I think that goes for the 2000s as well. I was born in 2000 so I grew up all throughout that decade and even though the internet was well developed and used by that point, I still went outside to play with friends and toys, and only went on the internet to play games and watch videos for a bit. It wasn’t till like 2008 where the internet became a lot more involved and I started using it pretty much all the time.
what child has pressure of social media and cannot go outside lol?
this is the comment i clicked on this video to find.. kids not going outside and being obsessed about social media is a fallacy, if a child is naturally unadventurous or doesn't like going outside they would've found something else to do in any other period of time. If they are naturally self-conscious and insecure about how they compare to other kids they would feel the same way at school or watching tv etc in any other time period. Too many people blame kids for all these things, when in reality it's millenial parents being too protective to let their kids explore on their own, too careless to allow them access to any social media, not strict enough to limit their time online, and too lazy to bring them up properly. I'm only 19 myself and grew up doing typical outdoor kid stuff but it's getting tiring hearing the same people who can't bring kids up properly in a modern world preach about how much better they had it
@@JALC-x you make a good point on parents failing to discipline their kids, and yes introverts will be introverts. But the real culprit is social media’s method of making us sick. It’s far deeper than most people realize. Just another addiction. Look at Twitter, used to be fun, now it’s become a toxic place for people to rage. Just toxicity everywhere. That’s why I said we as a society peaked between the 00’s and early 10’s.
I remember getting an AOL install disk in the mail about every week. We started using them as coasters.
They were everywhere! They gave them out in grocery store checkout lines.
Yep, we got one mailed all the time, long before we got a home computer (2004), when by that time cable co. modems had internet access, for which we connect today.
I had a Word Processor at one time and all those AOL Install Disks that would come in the mail ended up becoming disks for my word processor as those disks could be re-formatted.
People used to make stuff out of those free AoL disks. Clothes, lamps, furniture... There was no shortage.
@@KaneshaAndrews That must of been when they were still mailing floppy disks. Most of the AOL disks I received were CD-ROMs and thus, not recordable.
While I love dabbling in nostalgia it sure is depressing to know we'll never have things like they were before.
Or it could get better than was before. The '80's started off awful. I thought the good times would never come back but most of the '90's put the earlier good times to shame.
@@robertd9850 What about the 80s didn't you like? Some people are divided about the decade because of things like hairstyles and clothing choices (yikes!) but it did kick off synthesizers gave us some of the best sci-fi movies still loved today. Still, a mixed pot of crazy.
@@DareToBeDeviant The early years were dreadful. High gas prices, hostages, threat of nuclear attack, dismal economy, heat waves and droughts where I lived. Really pretty awful. It got a little better middle decade and much better the last 3 years.
@@robertd9850 My condolences you had to ensure that. Over here on the Rust Belt nothing ever happens. The entire west half of the USA could be on fire and we wouldn't be notified for impending doom.
I wish we could rewind ⏪ to the 1990s
This makes me want to cry. I would do ANYTHING to go back
Me too! So much
Me three. Like ANYTHING!
Except that…
Well, maybe.
“ANYTHING to go back” billy, born in 2039
One day soon,they will invent time travel so WE WILL.
When I was a teenager in the 90s, I loved it. But I also remember being so optimistic about the future and how things would be better with more technology. Unfortunately it did not turn out that way and it just made society worse.
Gaming and the early internet were totally amazing. Now it's made everything easier but also harder to turn off to enjoy non-connected life.
yeah.. really worse. when technologies came out. it was always exciting and powerful. each console came out was always powerful and new. now you have ps5.. likes ehh.. you have a 600 hp factory sport car is like ehhh. maybe we're just getting old
now the fringe idiots can find each other and increase their numbers
I was the same way.
@@BlueRice it's not just that we're getting old, if you look at how children act vs the 90s and prior, the raising, the legal limits etc, the school, everything, it's not the same, and that's why over time, kids have quit moving out at as young of ages, don't learn the basics of life in school anymore, are always on the internet or doing something with a mobile app instead of being out in social, which causes a lot to not know how to talk to people especially in a bad situation. A lot more kids are shooting kids now then before and I believe that's part of why.
You know what else disappeared from grocery stores and drug stores in the 1990's? Comic book spinner racks. The last one I saw in a grocery store was in 2000.
I remember them as a kid (70s and 80s)
In 1993I used to walk a couple of miles to buy comics from this convenience store spinner rack. And if they didn't have what I was looking for, I'd walk another mile to another store with different books. Those were the days!
Comic book whats that some sort of bible ? You mean cartoons? Movies like marvel comics? Youre old, an old man.
Trolling babby ;)
The used-to-be-called-dollar-store has something close. I wouldn’t say they’d give you that “nostalgia feeling” or anything, but they do put little kid comics on them. Again though, expect nothing, but they do have something that resembles what you’re talking about… kind of. It’s the closest to them in modern times that I can think of is what I’m trying to say. I think of those same racks when I see them, that’s why I mentioned them. It’s not the same “nostalgia” type feeling, but they do remind me of those old turnstile type racks, if you know what I mean??? I guess you’d have to see them to understand. Hopefully that makes some sense.
Try at bookstores.
I still keep some maps in my car… being lost in the middle of nowhere with a dead phone or no cell signal is just a bit _too_ realistic a fear to ignore 😅
👍😊👍 Yep!!! As convenient as modern tech is, ALWAYS have a back-up. I still have "real" maps in my car, I also have a "real" radio, and an Mp3 player. You cannot always have "signal" everywhere. I am a "tech" geek, but having "low tech" alternatives is vital. "a bit too realistic a fear" is the reason to have insurance after all!
Me, too. I enjoy the paper maps. lol
Get a dedicated GPS, they use satellites not cell phone towers
Always had a motors carrier atlas, would still have it if I was out there today.
@@kurtrussell5228 Yes, true, but STILL have paper!
It's hard to believe the 90s are on Recollection Road, but after watching it I have to say that was a really different time.
It's technically 3 decades ago, '00s, '10s, now early '20's. 🤷
@@anthonycarlisle6184 Yes, it is. ... now here's a box of crayons.
It is a bit surreal seeing your childhood (I was born in '85) already being recollected. It also hits home when you see kids now having retro day at school and they're wearing clothes from the '90s. Now I know how my mom felt when I was looking for '60s and '70s clothes in the late '90s for my retro days.
@@strange4change_6 hopefully they aren't transitioning or invited to drag bars. Another 2 yrs of joey and US will be broken up by ....
@@stevestreet2825 🤣 sounds like another dramatic deplorable
As a 90s kid, this video makes me weep. I truly didn't know how good I had it back then.
We all didn’t know this was the best it would get. I wish I would’ve appreciated it way more than I did. I would gladly go back in a heartbeat if I could
that’s literally the whole point of Nostalgia. You don’t appreciate the present until its the past. The best version of the past are your teenage years and you only remember the good feelings not the bad. We all do it.
We never do.
Same here.
The last real decade of old America.
Agreed. After 1999, it all started going to sh*t.
So true
@@SMac-bq8sk I'd say 2008, but it was a slow progression.
Well said.
No it’s still here it’s on the news every day. I guess when you got to enjoy those pleasures and not have to deal with governmental US cartels tunneling drugs into your community and economic disparities; that same government actively creating and building situations to destroy the family for generations; while playing it off as help or assistance, I guess you would miss that huh 🤔
As a Swede, born 1985, we pretty much had the same thing with everything that was mentioned, and I miss those days. The 90's was probably the best time of my life. 😀
Not sure if you played video games but the 90s was a golden age for them growing up especially in the early days of LAN and early internet networking. Younger generations born in the later 90s-early 2000s or later will never know what the world was like before the internet.
BEST TIME OF MY LIFE!!!
I miss the 90s! Those were my “ Wonder Years.”
The 70s were the best years. Lol 😉
@@mariamercy7317 I grew up in the '70s, there's some parallels between those decades that I don't' think (sadly) apply in the LAST 20 years. My NIECE "turned me on" to "Brewstewfilms" (RUclips channel) and, if you swap out the "pop culture", It's eerily remincent of my 1970s childhood. 🤷♂️
best decade to be a 20-something. the music was awesome.
@@jamesslick4790 You are sooo right. Sadly last 20 years are exactly that "Sad" 😢 I lived through the mid 50s, 60s, 70s. Times have changed so much. Wish I could say "For better."
I was raised in NYC where children could sit on the steps of their building till late at night, without supervision of parents without fear... I'm about to cry.
@@mariamercy7317 Some things have got better, But overall In my humble opinion is that "our world" (us who grew from the 50's-'90s -The Post World War 2 era) pretty much ended on 9/11/01 😞
This video forgot to mention the anticipation of watching your favorite shows on TV, rushing home just to get there in time. Nowadays the instantaneous access to the internet kind of killed of that feeling. Also, whoever heard of watching 5 min clips back then?
Good point. I can recall having "watch parties" with friends when new episodes of our favorite TV shows would air. With streaming, there's been a loss of the shared experience to some extent. It's also odd that streaming services tend to release the entirety of a season at once for the binge-watching crowd. There was something about having to wait until the following week for the next episode. It gave you something to look forward to.
The 5 minute clips were music videos.
I agree with your sentiment, though.
I used to get the same feeling with music album. Now I barley care anymore
We used to program our VCR to record TV shows but preferred watching it when it actually aired.
I would record shows with my VCR, I would set the timer or sometimes TV Guides had a code for each show. I could put that code into the VCR and it knew what show to record.
The last fun decade......I was in my 20's (turned 20 in 1990) and had many great times. Interesting to read how many other people, besides myself, remember the 90's being the last amazing decade. Now everything is so serious and somber....the America I knew is no more.
Turned 28 in 1990. I know what you mean.
Agreed. America today resembles 1970s-80s Soviet Eastern Bloc atmosphere with slightly better surface aesthetics. The underlying energy is the same. Truly sad.
I also turned 20 in 1990. It was a great decade, then the 2000’s came along. Everything we do is recorded and available for the world to view. The 90s was a time of personal and financial growth for our generation. It was the last time we actually had to wait and anticipate special things like Christmas. Now everything is available all the time. This century sure got off to a s**t start!
Said every generation ever about about a new generation. (eyeroll).
I was 20 in 1990 too but I think the 80s were the last real decade. I even remember feeling like we were losing what we had so great. Everything was starting to get so controversial like in the 70s. The positive is we didn’t have technology yet. Nobody really had computers or internet and definitely not social media. The only computer I used was for Lotus123 and Word Perfect in the student computer lab. But, it was then that I discovered that software and troubleshooting hardware came natural for me and still does. I remember graduating and my good friend gave me his email address. I had no idea what it was. 😅
Logging into AOL was always such a magical feeling. The early internet in general was like the wild west. It was much less centralized and content felt more personal.
Yup, and all the amateur geocities and altavista crappy internet sites people made. The internet was totally novel and amazing in the early days, and now it's just omnipresent and created significant societal problems.
yeah that time. there wasnt no youtube, no reddit, nothing major social platform. but it was exciting because you read up on random things. surf the web about game emulator, breakdance moves, reading romantic drama story telling, underground rap and so on. high quality picture was nice back then since it takes so long to load and view.
Yep, and everything was even working and efficient. No need for gigabytes and gigahertzes to render simple websites like today.
@@TheSimoc petium 1 cpu still can sruf the website today. Higher performance mean for better graphic and computing power. You can do more with better performance.
@@BlueRice Depends wholly on what website. Not many modern websites work with Pentium 1 and even less with a browser that can be run by such.
Of course more performance allows you to do more, but unfortunately most of it isn't utilized for that nowadays, instead it is mostly wasted on unnecessary bloat. Even simple textual content and UI of many today's webpages is often more resource hogging than fancy interactive animated graphics of 90s and early 00s.
The 90s were the the last decade where you truly felt free and optimistic. After 2001 everything kinda went to 💩
That it did, in my opinion too, and not b/c of nostalgia. One big pile of 💩 after '01 indeed
@Dani Hope internet/ smartphones have caused society to change to a primarily online society. There isn't so much to even do out in the real world anymore. Everyone has abandoned it. People just sit there and stare at their g-d phones all the time.
Our civilization is in such tragic decay :(
THIS crap is what we are stuck with now.
I hate the internet. It ruined everything.
@@peterbelanger4094 If you were a nerd though, the internet was the ultimate playground in the 90s and especially the early 2000s. It only got ruined when it went mainstream and huge corporations monopolized it. I miss the digital Wild West. Back when the only "social media" were bulletin boards, chat rooms, and forums full of like minded geeks. Back when the most controversial discussions were Athlon XP versus Pentium 4, and everyone had relations with your mom. Before everything got curated and censored by algorithms and brain dead ideologs.
The day the music died was November 22nd, 1963 in Dallas.
Exactly. That’s how I feel too!
Crazy 80's and 90's don't seem that long ago Thanks for all the memories and all ya do Great video
I remember waiting 20-25mins to get connected to the internet in the early 90’s! And then my family telling me to get off the computer, so they could make a phone call! They still jokingly talk about the OJ Simpson trial today, but back then, it was an incredibly big deal!
I remember taking upwards of 1 hour to connect...and the FRUSTRATION of being connected...and someone in your house picks up the phone...your computer freezes up but for a minute or so you don't realize you were kicked offline all because someone picked up the damn phone! lol
Me too! My Mom would sometimes kick me off the computer so she could talk to her friends. Getting online was pretty difficult sometimes with dial up. I remember watching the OJ verdict as it happened.
Those discs that were always in the mail 📬 😂
Even when I lived in the boonies in the US, it never took me longer than around 2 minutes to get online with dial-up. A dedicated line and a modem code to silence the connection sounds and I was good.
Well it is 2022 and it sometimes still takes up to 20 minutes for me to get connected to the internet with my cable modem, if I try to connect in the early evening when everyone else seems to be online. If I try in the middle of the night, it only takes a minute. (I turn off my computer and modem when I am not using them.)
I will always cherish the memories of going to the video store Friday nights with my Dad
On weekends, sometimes friends and I went to the video store and rented a movie (We went to the theatre sometimes, but some movies that we thought were decent we walked out on for immorality, cursing, violence, etc, and rented movies already were watched my friends some times, so they were a safer choice) Besides, we could rent a movie, order some pizzas and save tons of money!
and now you have different accounts on Netflix.
Ah yes friday nights were the best. Blockbuster was popular on the weekends and it felt like more of an 'event' to watch a popular movie that just came out on rental. Now it seems cheap because there's such a vast amount of content you can watch anytime or anywhere you want.
I remember my returning from Miami. My ID was in my dirty laundry and I told the guy that all I had available was my Block Buster video card. He let me on the flight.
That is hilarious! I kept my Blockbuster and Hollywood Video cards for quite a while in my purse because I missed going into the stores!
I think in life, we just deal with whatever technology we are given at the time. :)
Bro what?! XD THATS CRAZYY HAHA
😂😂😂wow
That Blockbuster card saved your life lmao
@@deboraholsen2504 My sister still has a video from Blockbuster (Silence of the Lambs) it's like a trophy now lol. Still has the "Favorites" insert, too! We sometimes wonder how much the late fee would be now.
Yup, remember it all! Love the channel, thanks for the post, and thanks for the memories! God bless you and yours and thanks again for all you do!
I absolutely loved the old AOL. During a bad time in my life I met a terrific friend with a shoulder to cry on and a ear that listened. So yea, I loved AOL.
The 1990s were the great last decades. As soon as 2001 came everything went to crap.
9-11-2001 to be exact.
@@richierich3541 9+1+1= 11
wow, what memories! I had a pager, a vcr, drank zima, did the Macarena, watched those sitcoms, etc. I can't believe that it's been 30 years since these things were popular...time flies! Thanks for the memories!
In retrospect, the years 1990-2000 (my 30's) were the best of my adult life so far. Thanks for the memories!
Great video. Kinda sad watching it, considering how bad everything is now, compared to how things were back then. Really was the last great decade. So glad I had the opportunity of spending my teen years during that particular decade. Thanks for the walk back down memory lane, and the resurgence of memories from better times. Here's to the past. 🙋🍻
I still have my vhs player plugged in until I get them all converted...I have about 20 more to go. I hope it holds out. :) I like the famly programming way better in the 90's then the nonsense they have now.
I actually have two players and 300 plus vhs tapes! Everything works!!
All my tapes went into the trash about 10 years ago.
I have an ex-girlfriend who insisted I get a VCR when we were living together, because she thought VHS was the only correct way of watching her favorite Disney movies.
I really been missing the good old days of the 90's. Things just suck today as good as they are. I would love to go back to the 90's for sure.
You forgot one more thing that's gone forever, hopes and dreams. Those left in the 90s as well
Courtesy, thoughtfulness and kindness seem to have disappeared as well.
The internet has changed almost everything about how we live, similar to the way electricity affected the modern world.
Hopes and Dreams was reintroduced in 2015
@@39zack huh?
Well, also normalised omophobia and child abuse seems to be gone, so I wouldn't say it was all better.
Remember, be kind and rewind!
I was still using 5.25” floppies in the early 90s. Especially at school. Playing Oregon trail.
I miss the maps. I remember picking hotels using books which showed off amenities.
I remember the Macarena. And I remember my parents dropping me off and walking me to the gate.
Did you die of dysentery?
Keep in mind nobody will feel this way looking back on the 2020’s. Pandemics, mass shootings, political turmoil, etc. I was only born in 99’ but I feel like kids are going to have a really hard time feeling nostalgic of their youth in a couple decades.
If there’s one thing I have learned in my relatively short time on this Earth is that the future is full of uncertainty
💯🔥💯🔥
Well people tend to overlook that bad and remember the good and Nostalgia, the 80s and 90s were not all happiness and roses, alot of messed up shit happened to. If it's part of your formidable years you tend to look at it in a positive way. It's like really all generations have done and will do.
I feel terrible for kids these days. They shouldn't have to be so used to school shootings and the mass hysteria.
@@RF-vg5kv I completely agree, but with the events that have happened (unique to the 21st century) I think adults in the future will think of these decades as a semi dark age.
I was waiting for the connect sound of a modern. And "You got mail!"
VHS lived well into the 2000s, there are 3 years that can be pointed to as major in the decline of VHS, DVDs first outsold VHS in 2003 thus marking the true begining of their decline, most major movie companies gave up on the platform in 2006 and VHS officially died in 2008, but people still had tapes long after this and many still do today
We still have a VCR. It's wonky, though. But I used it to record figure skating about a year ago. We even have some unopened VCR tapes.
Funny you say that I just bought 2 of them about 45 minutes ago haha true
@@L.Spencer I have one too. The belts need changed.
I still have a bunch of VHS tapes! Just nothing to play them on!!
@@charleso8826 I have about 15 VCRs & hundreds of tapes, including over 100 sealed blanks. (I can't fix them, so I got them when the transition was happening---$5 to $20 each.)
Toy stores, video stores and music stores they really are gone forever :( I miss them
I still own a Commodore 64 that comes with data cassettes & a ton of 5 1/4" floppy disks, they still work. :)
We had a Vic 20, I remember playing space invaders on it as a kid.
I have one I need to fix. Somewhere there's a TI99/4A that still works floating around too. Oh... And an Atari 130XL.
@@misterhat5823 I had a TI 99 / 4A as well, Tombstone was my game!
@@cdldriver2348 I remember that. I spent most my time typing in BASIC programs.
@@cdldriver2348 FUN FACT: The TI-99/4 (the TI-99/4A' s predecessor) was the first "consumer" PC with a 16 Bit microprocessor! Pretty heady tech in an innocent looking little box in 1979! 👍😊👍
I'm glad I was raised in the 80s and 90s and I try to give my kids a 1990's childhood as much as I can.
Spent a lot of money at Blockbuster renting VHS tape in the 90's (Brenham, TX). Then the transition to DVD started in the early 2000's. And when streaming became mainstream it was over for Blockbuster.
In the late 90's my internet connection was a dialup 54K modem. Most of the time the actual rate was between 28K and 44K. Never got to 54K. Then DSL was the thing. And when fibre optic came to town, dialup faded away.
Got my first cell phone in 1996. It was as big as a walkie/talkie and most of the time it was on the more expensive "roaming" mode as network coverage was limited.
And yea, 9/11 ruined a lot of things...including air travel. It used to be enjoyable...used to be.
My response to your mentioning that 9/11 has ruined a lot of things is this: I remember my elementary school principal talking to us students in an all-school assembly in our school auditorium. This was back in the 1950's. He told us that all it takes is ONE PERSON breaking the rules to ruin it for everyone else!!!!! That principle plays out each and every day to this day!!! All it took was ONE hijacker on 9-11 to ruin air travel forever for all of us. (Of course, there were several other hijackers on other planes as well). The wife and I used to enjoy air travel, but not anymore!!!
I remember having a second phone line while in college in order to use the internet. I didn’t want to tie up the primary phone line for the rest of my family.
You guys must've have some money then! lol That was not cheap in those days!
I still have a bunch of my old VHS tapes and DVDs. They still work fine, so the last thing I'd want to do is see them end up in a landfill. Similarly, I kept most of the cassettes and CDs from my childhood (ZZ Top _Eliminator_ on cassette is the shit lol). I'm not getting rid of them.
Me too. I even have combination DVD/VCR so I can still use them if need be. ^_^
I know that’s right Cole 😂🔥🔥
I still have my parents old vinyl, compact cassettes, and 8- track cassettes! What can I say? We grew up with great music in the house 🎶🎸📻
I have some that are for "mature audiences only".😆
@@stephendacey8761 ahahaha!
Going to the airport used to be an adventure. One was treated like a valued guest. Now it's like entering a pen, the "flight attendants" are now the prison guards, and treat you as an inmate.
That's because you don't fly First Class:)
Yeah because of September 11
@@sarahsimpkins1311 ---From what I understand, the entire Patriot Act was a series of control measures, that they never had the votes to push through before 9/11. At most, those airline passengers probably expected to end up in Havana, or other such place. This will not happen today, because 100 other passengers would overcome a couple looneys with box cutters. (Israeli officials said that the entire post-9/11 is an effective way to annoy the public. I would like to know how they prevent such occurrences, given constant terrorist threats in that region).
@@elultimo102 yeah ok
Lol, what the hell kind of airline are you flying on??! 🤣🤣
"Please be kind, rewind" was LAW at the Hollywood video I worked at in HS. We even went so far as to ban some people from renting when they kept bringing back tapes that they hadn't rewound. Worked there for almost two years, my first year we burned out 3 rewinders because people wouldn't do it themselves before returning.
I was kid in the 90's, it was truly a great time to be alive. Kids went outside to ride bikes, play kickball and play in the mud. Now, kids are glued to tablets, phones and anything with a screen, and the parents aren't any better.
I was in the U.S. Army during most of the 90s. Those were good times. 🪖
My first DVD player was a VCR combo so I could still record tv. Bought it in 2002.
I still have a Dishnetwork cable box with a DIGITAL tape player built in. I hear it is quite collectable. It is not compatible with magnetic VCR tape. Digital blank tapes were 14 dollars each in the late 1990s which was considered very expensive. It was the last gasp of tape technology.
But what about the discontinuation of the Analogue TV format?
@@Perririri I remember that. People either had to get new TV sets or a set top box to convert the signal.
mine too
@@Perririri A VCR could still record TV today if the signal first ran through a converter box.
There was also that all but forgotten media between VHS and DVD that was the Laserdisc! Pretty much what could be put onto a DVD with special channels and extra features but the size of a large LP record and thick!
I remember those and a salesman telling me they were going to take over the market, the machines were very expensive, thankfully I never bought one. They were gone as fast as they appeared.
@@bearforce187 They actually survived quite some time in home theater and industrial applications.
I still have a Laserdisc machine and a small collection of movies.
The technology of bouncing a laser off of the reflective surface of a disc to produce sound and video did survive though. It was refined into a much more compact, cost effective format and renamed the Compact Disc, then later, the DVD.
Laser disc is from the 80s
This video brings back great memories that I wish I could go back to life was simple..
I was born in the 80s so of course I grew up with all of this. This triggers so many memories I completely forgot about. When you think back it was a completely different world. I hate that my kids will not get to experience many things like I did.
Trust me, cellphones weren’t popular until the early to mid 2000s. If you had a cellphone in the 90s you where rich. Even in the early 2000s a cellphone was a huge flex.
ehhh we mostly all had those Nokia candy bar phones when they got really mainstream, and then everyone had the Motorola Razr after that in the early 00s. But definitely late 90s was a little less common.
I got my first cellphone in 7th grade in 2003/2004 ... it was a flip phone 😭.. but ya everyone was always amazed by it at the time I don't remember any of my friends at the time having one 😂
Back before the cell phone was everywhere, if your car broke down on the road it was either a long walk to the nearest phone or hope that someone gave you a ride to an exit with a service station or pay phone.
I remember picking up some French girls when I was in Northern Ontario because their RV broke down. Poor kids-in that area there was no cell reception (this was around 2010) and I worried about them. We went all the way back to Sault Ste Marie (about 150km from where I was) but I had time and they got to a spot where they could rent another vehicle safely
I remember flying to California In the 90s. My aunt and mother took me to the airport. When I went through the checkpoint I was wearing a lot of punk jewelry and I had no trouble getting past security. However my aunt who had an artificial hip had an awful time
To be fair, however, your aunt's always been a problem.
I had a lot of folks tease me about my mods (piercings) and how I would get through the airport security. I had zero problems and a lot of piercings. My family was worried about me in lightning storms too.
i love the 1990s
Ahh yes, Blockbuster Video and Domino's Pizza on a Friday night at the friend's house...great times!
Now a days kids stream movies eat pizza and look at there iPads while they are all in the same room. Us 90’s we had it good. Best decade ever
Thank you for acknowledging the efforts of IT Staff everywhere for heading off the potential disaster that Y2K could have been. Because it didn't happen, many folks have been questioning the alarm raised and the urgency to which we responded, not realizing it's those exact things that prevented the disaster.
Well, I appreciate the staff having prepared for it, certainly there has been less and more needs with critical systems. But, honestly, after all the convoluted alarmist fearmongering, it was just too "funny disappointment" to see how my offline home computer just booted up normally after all.
The point of all its funniness was in that the systems that might have really suffered from the y2k problem, didn't anyhow touch average punters (as it was rather simple and affordable for maintainers of such systems to prepare for it and they were very technically concious of the applicable issues), yet all the the far-fetched worst-case-scenario fearmongering news were targeted for average punters, whose only touch with computers were the home computers, with main usage being gaming, word processing, and... just a status symbol. Minority even had an internet connection.
Yet majority of home computer owners were not technically savvy, so they fell into fear of the y2k journalism with complicated technical explanations and far-fetched example scenarios, thinking it will make their offline home computers to explode due to RTC overflow. Well, it is what we call "click journalism" nowadays - then you just needed to pay for the paper.
They way things are now they should have just let it crash
@@TheSimoc True, there was a lot of overblown hype. I was one of the people fixing software etc to head off the problem, and it was annoying to have to waste time reassuring customers who'd been told by some "snake oil salesman" Y2K consultant that they were at risk when in reality they had nothing to worry about. Often they wouldn't believe us ...
interestingly plenty of people who were far from being alive in the 90s still do the Macarena today, it's aged really well as far as pop culture references go
I'll never forget the first time I watched a DVD movie. I asked my son "Where do I hit to rewind it?" He and his wife laughed so much. 😂 I was used to the VCR... Wow, I just remembered I had an 8 Track Tape Player/Recorder
Sad about 9/11. I used to receive or say "Farewell" to friends and family right by the plane entrance 😔
My family started to buy VCR's in the early 80's. We would record classic movies and keep them in a collection. I think at one point, we had 100 classic movies in our collection. Of course they were recorded in lower quality Ep format.
@@fr2ncm9 Wow, 100 is a great collection. Hope you have them or at least some. They are like treasure. I still have some in a box, some movies I bought and some I recorded. Surely the quality wasn't all that good.
I wondered if you'd include the airline change due to 911. I still have photos of relatives and friends first getting off the plane and looking around to see anyone they knew. And when they do, and you make that connection, it's total bliss. Sad that had to end. Now you just go to baggage claim and wait. Definitely not the same experience.
I miss that too, and dread having to go through security every time I do fly. I have had a complete shoulder replacement of my right shoulder and therefore have a prosthetic shoulder made of metal and plastic. Also, I wear an implanted heart monitor. Both the shoulder hardware and heart monitor set off all the metal detectors and show up on the x-ray machines. I have to be pulled aside for further screening and have to show them cards issued to me by my surgeons to convince TSA agents what they are seeing.
@@okiebill1948 I am treated the same way because I have a colostomy well I was always singled out the last time the officer finally told me why they were literally poking my colostomy to see if anything solid was in there no joke, smugglers were putting fake colostomies on their mules to smuggle everything from small animals to drugs.
Our world is much worse today than ever, and sadly more to come
We are sinking into the ocean and hurricanes are worse than ever. I never thought climate change would come this soon.
It's the one issue that dramatically affects everyone on the planet!
We are also being covered up with plastic. Our trash is piling up at such an alarming rate that we will soon be buried in it!!! We are running out of places to dispose of it. Our "throw-away" society and planned obsolescence are biting us in the butt!!
@@hewitc Boy I remember when a giant asteroid nuked the whole planet for the 6th time instantly and wiped out the giant lizards in my backyard, climate changes these days are trivial in comparison
@@MrOiram46 The changes, due to warming oceans, are starting to cause famines, migrations and politcal unrest. Things won't get better. In the short term insurers are dropping coverage in affected areas, like Florida.
Miss the time 1990 ....day went by so fast
Sadly 2020 is going to be remembered as an even bigger change than 2001. 194 countries just signed on to the WHO's one world government. Life was never perfect but the world today is steadily getting worse. With all that's going on today it feels like the 1990s were a hundred years ago.
We have to go through this time… it sucks big time but in the end remember the NWO will not happen! God wins!
well . Since it's already 2022, you're 2 years too late
This was great! Brought back so many forgotten memories! Thank you!
#13 ~ A genuinely prosperous economy, instead of one that fluctuated from almost decent to horrendous, since the start of the 21st Century.
Yeah, back before they sold out our manufacturing capacity to other nations.
The mid-late nighties are still the highest period of jobs created in US history, and seen as the most stable period internationally between the end of the cold war and into 2001. Ever since then it feels like the US has been on a seesaw of moving from one crisis to another.
My first computer was a Tandy 1000tx (Radio Shack). Windows didn't even exist yet. The computer came with 2 books as thick as an encyclopedia. The books taught me how to write DOS code and I made little programs like Lotto number pickers & Lotto number checkers. The computer didn't even have a hard drive! I had to buy a separate 5 1/4" floppy drive to run programs. Even the modem to get online was a separate piece of equipment.
Can you imagine if computers still came with programming guides?? Dang, that would be so awesome and useful.
@@VettRose Yeah, like everything in life today, nothing is "User Friendly" anymore!
I miss the 90s
Graduating H.S.in '90, I can SO relate and feel actual homesick from this! Zima rocked when you tossed in a Jolly Rancher! Thanks :)
I remember TGIF like it was yesterday, as soon as my 6th period class ended from high school I would wait for the bus or just walk home (didn’t live that far) and wait til 8:00 to watch the new episodes or reruns of Step by Step, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers and Full House then in the late 90’s the lineup was Full House, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Boy Meets World and Family Matters although by that time I think that show was gone by then I don’t know
Those were my Fridays growing up
I remember Friday's were pizza night along with whatever the newest movie rental releases were at blockbuster if they weren't all rented out. Life just seemed a lot simpler back then.
ABC ruled Friday nights in the 90s. Every other day, well...
I liked Lori Loughlin on "Full House".
I got caught up in the Furby craze, similar to the Beanie Baby phenomenum. I purchased somewhere around sixty of them. My trophy Furby, which I still have, is the so-called "Hi-C" Furby. Only 5,000 of these were made as prizes in a sweepstakes run by the company that made Hi-C drinks. Regarding my early on-line experience, I chose to go with a competitor of AOL called Prodigy.
Mad. Maze.
Oh my, I had forgotten Prodigy!!
We also used prodigy
This is kinda of warmed-over leftovers of the 80s
I love your wonderful channel. All your videos are well made. I cant tell you how many have brought tears to my eyes as I walk down memory lane. I think we all miss the past or parts of it. Especially today with how horrible the world is. Thanks for all the time you put into these great videos.
I saw something today about "Ask Jeeves"...forgot all about that one from the 90s
The original Google
I love your Channel. As a teacher, I often need to explain timelines of history or explain products that show up in books. Not many channels present the information in a slow, comprehensive way and with appropriate language.
With the dial-up, I remember one time my mom and I were online and my grandma tried to call us...a little bit later, we heard pounding on our door. My mom asked, “Who’s there?”, and the answer was, “You’re mother!” My grandma had driven a half hour with a friend because she got worried when she couldn’t get a hold of us.
I also remember when McDonald’s raised the Happy Meal price from $2.00 to $2.60 due to the increased demand because of Beanie Babies.
Oh ya I remember AOL when I was a young teen. I remember all that. The 90s was the best decade.
4:30 good ol' Rand McNally. Back when one could afford to go on a road trip without having to pull out a second mortgage, that was THE WAY to plan the trip. Unfortunately it couldn't alert you to traffic conditions and speed traps.
Memory lane.. thank you for this!
I remember heading to AAA before going on a big trip to get TripTiks where the agent would mark road closures, construction, etc. They were handy, but man, do I appreciate getting directions on my phone!
same here I used them in 1994 for my drive down to Florida from Minnesota
I feel like I over obsess the past things change people grow up and now as an adult life is way more difficult.
Thanks for the videos brings back great memories. I'll never forget
R.I.P Netscape Navigator :(
I miss the 90s...
Yeeesssss!! More 90's videos please! 💕
I was born in 1992, but I very clearly remember watching movies on VHS tapes as a kid, going to Blockbuster, using floppy disks for school work, listening to music on CD players, watching DVD’s before streaming became popular, logging into AOL…..
My heart is heavy remembering these things compared to how things are now. I had the best of both worlds….just enough technology that was able to have a profound change on my life but not so much that I was glued to screens like today’s kids are. Back when kids used to enjoy going outside without the constant need for IG or TikTok.
I miss the 90s as much as I remember of course. I was born in '87 so I definitely remember some of these especially the 9/11 attacks and the Y2K fear. I still remember the old Windows 95 games I played and Sega Genesis original PlayStation games whenever I could. Time was definitely so much better back then. I miss it so much.
Yet, we spent so much of our childhood wishing we were grown-ups....
@@bigred3164 I know that feeling too well, I was born 1989 and so remember many of the 90s tech, how awesome the future would be for me when I got older (or so I thought) 🥵
Where are all my 90s babies at? 🙌🙌🙌
I think the 90s was the best decade because there was enough technology to make life comfortable but not too much where we are enslaved by it.
I miss the 90’s
Last great decade, before everything became complicated. I’m happy to have been a kid in the 80’s and teen in 90’s. It was the last great decade for being a kid.
Middle and highschool were my 90's. I miss this decade so much! The TV, food, toys, clothes, music. The best🧡🧡
I remember we used to have to rewind the VHS tapes before you return them to Blockbuster video. When DVDs came out I told my dad to make sure that he rewinds the DVD before he returns it. The joke only worked a couple times and then he caught on.
I remember the special tape rewinding machines. You used those so you could play another tape immediately while the one you just watched rewound.
@@incog99skd11 We still have our VHS rewinder.
I still have quite a few classic VHS movies & yes I still have a Working VHS Player..👍
You know… I didn’t fly on a plane for the first time until 2012 as an adult… but as a kid… yeah, I do remember my mom and I walking with my cousin all the way to the gate and watching her fly out on her 747 jumbo jet before turning to head back home. You just made me remember that was actually a thing! Not to mention waiting for her at her suspected terminal to return, watching the plane land and park at the terminal to let my cousin off. We did that a few times actually! Wow… memory unlocked for sure!
This comment goes out to all those 90s babies out there.
Some of us still have VCR's and videotapes. I still have one and about 550 videotapes.
I still have a combination VHS/DVD Player under my tv and paper maps in my truck.
I have so many vhs tapes that I love. I recorded lots of tv shows back in the day. I purchased a high end professional Sony VCR (used) years ago to make sure I could still watch them. I also have 4 or 5 backup VCRs in a closet. Sure I could convert stuff to DVD, but I like the nostalgia of watching the tapes.
My Sony camera is one of the first digital cameras and uses a floppy disk to store photos. It works great to this day. It has lasted me at least 25 years.
I was born 97 and my first cell phone was an Nextel Mobile Phone in 2003 and 2004
I have a love-hate relationship with the past. I am forever a slave to nostalgia, because I love looking back and thinking about the simplicity and (mostly) niceness of the long ago past. But it did have its issues. I love watching old videos of looking at old photos of the past. Especially of people who I don't know. Its fun to imagine stories about them and what was happening in the moment, and what their lives might have been like. It convinces me more every time I do it that people are more alike than we think. I was born at the very end of the 1960s, and I hit my prime 30 years ago, and I fondly recall all these things in this video and so many others on your channel. The problem for me is that I stopped 'aging' in my early 20s. I still look like my photos from back then. All my family and friends are older, and grayed up, and a bit heavier...and they all tease me about it. I never made any deals with the Devil, but I sometimes feel like Dorian Gray.
One of the things about the past that I am glad is gone, for all intents and purposes, is public smoking. I am forever grateful that most places these days are tobacco/smoke free. I remember well the 50's and 60's when smoking was allowed almost everywhere and all of us non-smokers had to tolerate all that second-hand smoke. I never smoked or used tobacco in any other form and never will!!!!!!!!
I also stopped "aging" in my early 20's, and am 74 years young now, but look and feel like a man in his 20's. LOL
The strongest memories are typically formed in the teenage years and early adulthood before age 25 due to development of the brain and the strong dopamine release that comes with new and early life experiences. Nostalgia is likely an evolutionary development in our species as a way to improve group bonding and survival chances during difficult times. Think about it.
lol @ Zima with Jolly Ranchers... that was in thing for a few years there at my high school parties... the girls loved it!
I was born in 1998. I remember some of these things still lingering around due to the high price of the new tech. I'm glad i got to experience what I could of it. Kids these days will never know lol
Same brother , I was Born in 1998 we are the last generation,who enjoyed their childhood before tech took hold of people's life's
I was born 1997 and experienced having an Chirp phone and having 90s Computer and be outside until 8:00PM from 2-8 seven hours of outside
The 80’s & 90’s were the best time..i had😊