i was born in 1992 and in my early days i remember playing on my sega then i remember getting a Super Nintendo and getting a big gray game boy then by 1998 1999 i remember getting my ps1 and also getting a game boi colour god how much i miss these times
Born in 1993 and can't agree more with you MrPanCake. Hopefully people would start finding how stupid it is to go on Instagram and Facebook everyday and start putting away phones and devices more often to enjoy life as it should.
These comments are like a time capsule, because here we are 7 years after your comment, 2016 was a tough year, remember? We've now lived through a pandemic and are kind of super-reliant on tech gadgets and zoom-meetings... Who will comment on this in another 7 years? Where will we be then? Do we even want to know? 🙈
I was born in 1987 in the UK, and I'm proud to be a 90s kid. THERE WERE fewer TV channels, 4th/5th generation gaming consoles, and limited internet access, but it was enjoyable. I'll always miss the 90s throughout my life.
I've been having this conversation with many recently , many are quick to respond that every generation gets nostalgic about their own specific era of childhood but I say there is western world society pre 9/11 and post 9/11 And condensed down even more , within that pre 9/11 world the 90's was briefly in a time of optimism reflected in the upbeat positube music and a balance of technology . 90's kids had it best
@@dorkbrandon4422 Can vouch for this. Even as an introverted kid I was half of the time out on the streets playing with others in the 90s and other half of time indoors playing games or writing on the computer. And reading regularly. The world also felt more cosy and political stances not as hardened. Now I find myself glued to the pc for hours every day unless I force myself to go outside. Even more so with all my work/admi being on the screen too. And it's probably even harder for kids tearing away from digital life while growing up with a tablet into their tiny hands. Going for walks in green areas, reading a book or hanging out with friends sadly feels more unreal than it used to
@@dorkbrandon4422 i dont see why you think 11/9 make much difference. a handful of people died. so what? 18 thousand people die every day from air pollution. only 2996 died on 11th sept 2001. an insignificant number.
Proud is not a correct word. More like "feel privileged" or "grateful". 1990s was indeed the nicest decade. Many good films, good songs, computer innovations also started to take place, job stability, etc.
I was born in 1984 and now nearly 40. Looking back at the 90s it was an amazing time to grow up and now I'm hurtling towards middle age, I now understand why my parents looked back at the 60s and 70s in the same way. Glad I was part of 'Cool Britannia' 🙂
Same. I just turned 39 and it feels really strange watching re-runs of the big breakfast and remembering where I was during the eras of the different presenters. Glad we were out playing with our mates before iPads and streaming took over. Our age group arguably got the best of both worlds.
You don't listen much to 70s music do you ? Both lyrics and music had more content. You actually had to be a musician to make music. Think Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, ELO, David Bowie... I do get what you're saying tho.. the 90s had awesome, musical subculture. Portishead, Tricky, Massive Attack and so much more. But musically the 70s and even some of the eighties were stronger imo.
The UK was a very different place back in the 90s. We had some tech but not so much it dominated our lives. I think we had more freedom too. Good times.
do you think a 90s nuclear scientist didn't have a life 'dominated' by tech? more freedom? lol. are you aware that the right to protest has been seriously curtailed by the tory governments morons keep voting for? read a book. learn some history, then come back and make massive sweeping statements.
1997, I’m 10 years old, I open my Christmas presents… it’s a PlayStation with Alien Trilogy, FIFA 96 EA classic case, Warhawk, Shockwave Assault, Die Trilogy, Alien Trilogy. I am a happy 10 year old.
do you really think the 90s are responsible for that? i think that if your father raped you every night, or if you worried about bombs destroying your house it wouldn't be the decade that was responsible. just external factors.
I feel blessed to have grown up in the 90s (born in 1984) Music was fantastic, the lack of TV channels was a GOOD thing (too much choice nowadays dilutes quality programming), and simple tech that didn't interfere with modern life (because be honest, wherever you go now people are too busy looking at their phones to interact with other people) We had proper Summers that gave us a couple of months of uninterrupted sunshine, and proper winters that brought snowfall with it. The attitude of the era was electric- Programmes like TFI Friday perfectly summed up 90s Britain for me, we was such a cool nation!! Anything post 2000 doesn't compare. You can take your iPhones, your video games with life like graphics, watered down pop on the radio and rubbish reality TV shows- Take me back to the 1990s any day.
Oh, and I miss the days of proper kids television, where we'd get magazine shows like Live and Kicking or SM:TV with cartoons, pop music and games for 3 hours every Saturday. The junk we get now (cookery shows and news) is a sad substitution.
Great post. I am a little more older than you, and I'm glad I came across this video because the day to day wear and tear of living through modern society really is disheartening. The change and ever change is far too fast. Technology has evolved and excelled whereby people do not know even how to say Hello. There's far too much tensions in our communities and individuals have grown to be more selfish than thoughtful. Living in a world of austerity means more tensions within our communities. Sorry, projecting negatively, but this is why I often feel nostalgic. This really was a great discovery.
thaichubby101 My comment might be slightly misconstrued. There’s a LOT to be thankful for in 2020 in terms of technology, healthcare and scientific breakthroughs, but for me the ‘vibe’ of the 90s was unmatched. Maybe I’m looking at it through rose tinted glasses, but we managed just fine without the internet and without being connected 24/7 to screens and devices. Feel that people lived life in the present a lot more - no social media, so no need to try and impress strangers or share your life online with others. Great music, great television, Super Nintendo/Sega Megadrive. Have nothing but fond memories of the 1990s.
LIVERNIL753 Only just seen your comment, two years on! If you read this, hope all is well and you’re holding up well despite everything that’s happening in the world right now.
The boy was not allowed to play with dad’s new gaming system but has to help them figure out how to run the damn thing that’s really screwed up. I think they should let him play it since he’s the one that actually had to teach them how to use it.
YESH! My generation lol. I remember when I had one of those desk tops with the box screen. And me and my sister shared it but it was soo slow XD People think the 2000s were bad but in all honesty, up to about 08 things were like the 90s. We got our first flatscreen in 08. But before that we had a big box TV in the family room and the kitchen. AGHHHH I miss that. Before selfies exsisted. Before teenagers dressed all skanky. Before Acacia Brinley went big on the internet. Before you had to have a twitter. We all had msn. But since I am still a kid I like the 2010s too. Even though most of my friends from back then are mean and literal skanks. People think we kids spend our lives in front of the computer. But that is mainly teenagers. And then the teenagers blame us kids. When we go outside all day!! Especially in the summer. lol. Sorry I got carried away XD
***** I was born 92 so I'm not really ''proper 90s'' but I remember the basic mainstream. I would count either 2005-8 or the early 2000s as the core 2000s and 2009 being the start of the 2010s because where I live that's where most people got FB and twitter and that's when years pretty much all started looking the same to me. I did use Bebo a lot in 2008, but I much prefered it to Facebook. I honestly never understood the appeal of Facebook although like everyone I can't escape it's vice-like grasp because of everyone else being on there! I hate all the media tittery of people nowadays, all thinking the same, all obsessed with opinions and inventing bizarre insults on the internet. I want to live without a computer one day, but I'm living somewhere with internet only and no TV which makes having a break difficult.
The golden age of the interwebz! When dial-up was a thing of the past and social media apps on phones had yet to come and ruin everything. When the interwebz was fun, free and you were allowed to say whatever the hell you wanted. Not the mind controlled, corporate bullshit it is today that DICTATES what we are supposed to THINK and DO!
I love it when he says "This isn't just a games console its a PS one" . I remember when I thought the PS one and internet without RUclips and always being slow dial up was brilliant!
@jayburke8225 the DAT (Digital Audio Tape (DAT or R-DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987.[1] In appearance it is similar to a Compact Cassette, using 3.81 mm / 0.15" (commonly referred to as 4 mm) magnetic tape enclosed in a protective shell, but is roughly half the size at 73 mm × 54 mm × 10.5 mm. The recording is digital rather than analog. DAT can record at sampling rates equal to, as well as higher and lower than a CD (44.1, 48, or 32 kHz sampling rate respectively) at 16 bits quantization. If a comparable digital source is copied without returning to the analogue domain, then the DAT will produce an exact clone, unlike other digital media such as Digital Compact Cassette or non-Hi-MD MiniDisc, both of which use a lossy data-reduction system.)was invented in 1987 so fuck knows why you feel the need to live in 90s to experience it.
2:00 Back to Life - Soul II Soul 3:06 Let Me Entertain You - Robbie Williams 4:29 Step Back in Time - Kylie Minogue 6:06 It Only Takes a Miracle - Take That 8:26 Freedom ‘90 - George Michael 9:22 All Together Now - The Farm 10:14 Killer - ATB 11:23 Step On - Happy Mondays 13:35 Connected by Stereo MC’s 15:24 People Everyday - Arrested Development 16:12 Woo Hah! Got You All in Check - Busta Rhymes 16:50 It's my life - Dr. Alban 18:02 Things That Make You Go Hmm - C+C Music Factory 20:35 Safe from Harm - Massive Attack 26:47 Girls and Boys - Blur 27:20 He’s on the Phone - Saint Etienne 31:20 Step by Step - New Kids on the Block 33:04 Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve 42:10 Children - Robert Miles 51:45 Fatboy Slim - Right Here, Right Now 53:02 Porcelain - Moby
Ahh man it was brilliant I was 14 in 1999 and 1995 to 2007 was the best time off my life. My brother is 12 years younger than me and even he agrees when I show him programmes from that era and stories from that time that it was better than his own childhood... everything was brilliant back then
@@mag9604 well on phones was the same lol. On computers we used MSN messenger which allowed your o add people and chat online bit like WhatsApp tbh. Those were fun times technology was new and exciting but at the same time it didnr take over our lives. I could happily leave my phone at home and go out. These days I wouldn't dare leave my phone at home lol
@@billcaan4192 I hate how dependent we are to social media, today. When I decided not to open Instagram just for a day, many informations got lost/too late day later (for example: job vacancy info). Everything is too fast, rushed. And we become FOMO.
My friend's husband had a pager. When we were on holiday once he walked about with it clipped to his belt all the time. No-one ever paged him but it made him feel important. He had a car phone too. When the car broke down once when my friend was driving, she did not know how to use it.
Hey these were the years I lived out my childhood, cool! I loved watching this program, I wouldn't have seen it otherwise if it wasn't on RUclips. Thank you for posting it for others to watch and enjoy!
I was a child of the 90s and we never had any technology in the house growing up, we didn't even have a telephone. We used a telephone box just up the road from the house. We still had a black and white television up until 93/94. The only computers I ever experienced were at school until the early 00's when we got one at home but even then we wouldn't get our first internet connection until 2009.
Yeah well I didn't really notice I was missing out because we didn't have those things to start with. We got a colour tv just as I was old enough to watch tv. We played a lot outside as children so we didn't really mind.
For me the 90s were basically the 80s. When I was a young teen I got to experience all of the 80s goodies. Walkman, vhs player, cds but I preferred scouring the second hand stores for 50c vinyl records and cassettes.... guitars, books, painting and writing and I was the house cook while my mom Girl Bossed. My grandfather had text only internet for awhile and it was amazing. Things to read, recipes and guitar tablature... Good times.
Okay- So I'm going to build a time machine and jump back to the 1990s- Who's with me?? Truthfully speaking though, I'm going to do my damned hardest to relive my youth by purchasing things of the era- TV boxsets, toys (POGs, Tamagotchis, Boglins etc) and comics like the Beano and Dandy. I'm 33 years old now, and genuinely feel sad that the 90s is a time in my life that felt so perfect that everything subsequent to it doesn't match up. The saddest thing is that last Christmas (2016) my whole family was doing something different- My mother was sat most of the day on her laptop (Facebook, the most anti-social of sites), my dad was pottering around and I was sat in my dads study watching whatever nonsense was on TV (remember when Christmas TV on the BBC & ITV used to be memorable? Miss Christmas Day Top of the Pops to find out who was Christmas number one- Couldn't care less nowadays) Technology advancing really isn't a good thing in my opinion...
I miss the 90s I'm so down I wish we can actually go back it was such a great time of my life I wish we can just go back then talk about it. Ppl that was born in the 00s wouldn't ever understand the feeling and the way things were back then. I would wish life to stay in the 70s, 80s 90s forver
@@KennyGBeBopTV I think it happens to a lot of people who think the era they group up in was the best , but I could happily watch clips from the 70s/80s, before I was even born (I was born in 1984), and still think to myself that things looked better back then..
Yeah and look how your generation turned out: Whining, self-entitled TRUST FUND BABIES who couldn't even score in a whorehouse unless an app gave you instructions on how to do so... IF IT WAS COOL ON SOCIAL MEDIA!
23:15 The original arcade version of Mortal Kombat had blood. The Super Nintendo version had no blood full stop due to Nintendo's content rules, the Mega Drive version did have the blood but it was behind a parental code. The sequels on both Nintendo and Sega platforms completely restored the blood.
In the show, the tech team does not give them the technology based on when it was released, they give it to them when it became widely available and affordable
i really liked this but, being american, some of this was way different than my experience. only 4 channels in 1990 is insane. mtv, nickelodeon, disney, etc were such a big part of my childhood in the 80's. i remember even the cheapest most basic cable having 36 channels with even our lame cable provider, no satellite dish necessary. also most of my friends had a playstation by christmas 1996 and we were all middle to lower-middle class and definitely not adults so i don't understand the point of it being only for the dad. there's another cool uk series called "the supersizers" i would recommend to people who like this, except instead of technology they eat the foods from a certain time period. i didn't completely relate to everything because of some differences between the 2 countries, but it's still interesting.
I'm American and we didn't get cable until 1995-1996. That means only 4-5 channels like on this show. I mainly used a TV to play SNES games. Playstation was considered the first console that adults were buying en masse, hence the Dad playing on it. Doesn't mean that only people in their 20's or 30s owned one in the 90s.
in the UK there was sky called BSB [British sky broadcasting] in 86 and that had 400 channels- I remember when sky man was installing it while I was on my Nintendo NES lol
The way I remember it in 90s we had cable TV with loads of channels. But for someone like me who grew up in the 80s, I was used to the terrestrial 4 channels anyway.
One issue I spotted (which is just from me being a geek), Windows 3.1, which their using on the computer at about ten minutes in, wasn't released until 1992.
I've the 80s and 90s suff and tvs, furniture, radios, CD, players, dech systems, good music, good movies, good stuff, and old cars, everything was great then. Todays stuff us too much for every one, even for children.
The '80s was better than the '90s imo. Yes, a few of my workmates and friends had cell phones in the '90s, but I never felt the need for one. Still had my answering machine hooked up to my landline and we didn't get the internet at work until about '98 or '99, anyway. Also, I worked for two companies that already had email (emc2 a fischer product) in the 80s (Canada Trust and FedEx).
Born in 1980, first gaming computer we had was a C64, loading games from a casette tape :) ahhh memories. Then i got a loaner Amiga500 then internet at 15 with a pentium 75.. it was dail up and we had 1 to 2 hours each depending if my parents needed to make a phonecall and we had to log it / pay for it ourselfs. Great times with unfiltered smut, games to download and all the vitusses a pc could handle.
I was born in '91 and had a great childhood. I am however grateful for not being a year older because I would have died of cancer as the therapy I received in 2016 wasn't available a very, very few years before...
I remember playing this game on a computer in the early - mid 90’s, you had to click the bubbles that were flying in the air to get more points, it’s really out of date now and is probably not a thing but I still remember it to this day, it was my favourite activity
Everything about the 90s was the best: the fashion technology music everyone knows everyone, of u we’re meeting ur mate and they didn’t turn up you’d wait for 5 mins and if they still weren’t there you’d go home and wait for school the next day to ask em what happend. Those were the days mate
Remember being a bit lonely mid nighties. We were not allowed out cos it was dangerous apparently, but also wanted to be social. Towards the late 90s became better when we could contact friends etc
"Gia thinks it's time for the Sullivan-Barnes family to get connected, so she heads to CERN in Geneva, the world famous research centre for physics." We all had to take that trip in the 90s for internet. It was heavy to bring back too.
Simply untrue. In fact, the US was quite a bit behind the UK in several arenas. Because of the console market bust in the US in 1983, the backlash meant that US families never really bought into the home computer boom. The country then gravitated towards the crap 8-bit Japanese consoles while in Europe the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST (ironically both US machines) were where the action was, and they were vastly superior. It wasn't until the early 90s that the average US household caught up.
When I found out my school friends mum had a machintosh .... I was so excited and asked to go to his house to use it..... he turned it on brought the browser up... I then tried to access a website and when the dial tone started making that noise I was so happy and waiting for something to happen... long story short it took around 3 minutes for one page to load.... that waiting time put me of from the computer... and I just got up and went home 😂
I like how they pass Mortal Kombat on the Snes apparently oblivious to the fact that on other formats you could decapitate your opponent and tear out their hearts.
I think the thing I only like about the 90s was the music ! Lol Technology does make me waste my time just watched this from 4am to 5am in the morning haha time to go to sleep
realgroovy24 tech prety much the same as for australia 15 odd channels with freeview. I dont know how mch on foxtel i think its less than 100 channels though lol
Motorola was the earliest mobile used by the army. You might like to look at this history of the mobile buttonsonabrick.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/an-introduction/
2020: Cutting my own hair, gone back to the old "Safety" razor instead of modern plastic-fantastics, doing my own laundry with a plunger thing and hanging to dry, stockpiling books especially the classics for when the internet winks out (we may have power outages here in California this summer) have multiple non-electric ways to cook, basically I'm preparing for things to get a lot worse.
Why is a 1997-- a 1998 American release date even, as this is a British film and they were a English band-- song Bitter Sweet Symphony being played as the introduction to the 1995 era @ 33:07? As an 80's born American, this is still fun to watch none the less. While a lot of this technology was never made available to my family until much later, it is still fun to see it as it was released and the impact it had on homes and family's over the years.
Far as I can remember, my family went from over-the-air, to DirectTV, back to OTA, then got Dish, then went back to OTA and then finally stuck with Dish.
In my house we had 28 channels since 1986, but I stopped watching TV in 1993 'cause it's nothing but propaganda, brainwashing and fear mongering. I could probably still live with no channels.
Love the way it is straight in with a new car. One of those goddam awful people carriers that too many people owned that were ugly even then. They did miss the “flat” wide screen TV that featured in most houses, although when this was aired I’m not sure if those had become a thing of the past yet. But this whole program is more about the homes of the upper-middle class than what most people experienced. Fax Machines in homes in 1990, maybe by 1996 you’d see them but there was no need to have them and they were expensive. I haven’t watched the rest yet, but mobile phones were a rarity, I had my first one in 1993 and barely anyone had one, they were very expensive to make calls and for people to call. It was only the pay-as-you go revolution that saw them boom by about 1994 possibly as late as 1996, and the kids weren’t getting one at that time because of, well reasons I guess. Love the way the decor is so middle class at the very least. Where I come from it was all half and half wallpaper often stripes or floral with a bit of wall paper border in the middle. I don’t recall houses looking the way they did in this until we got to the late 90’s or even early 2000’s. I honestly think the decor person is a decade ahead of themselves because the 80’s decor in the previous one was 90’s. I’m guessing the decor is aiming to be the late end of each decor but the problem with that is e.g. home designs for 1989 kind of set the scene for home decor all the the way to 1998 as a lot of people didn’t redecorate so often so for most of the 90’s it was still most common to see the decor used on their 80’s program and you’d only start seeing homes where I come from change to the kind of decor on here by the 2000’s, which is probably more typical of most people will have experienced. But most people who work in TV and doing these sorts of jobs don’t tend to hail from working class/middle class backgrounds, they’re usually upper-middle class, so their experience of house decor will be very different to the average person who couldn’t afford to have their house decorated every year with the brand new trends. 8:14 “what’s the millennium” I want to answer this for anyone under the age of 16 in 1999. It was when people first started letting off fireworks on NYE in the UK. Before then fireworks only really could be heard in November (and obvs weeks before and after the 5th). 29:00 Tbf I got my first mobile in 93/94 and a friend had a brick like that. We weren’t execs and it was expensive so only one person in a household would have one. Mine in 1993 wasn’t a brick but it a Motorola flip phone, which looked pretty damn cool at the time. I have very fond memories of it, although my phone bill was huge and only a few people could afford to call me on it. So it wasn’t just executives by then, but it is accurate in the fact they were still very rare to see and only 1 person in the house was likely to have one. 37:30 I think at this point it becomes hard to explain the absolute world changing speed of technology and quality. The PlayStation now is so dated, but it was the first console where the difference was night and day of what went before it. This was more like the realism you wanted, FIFA was so realistic compared to anything that went before it, it even had commentary!! Then came the internet and everyone had phones, text messages became common place, then phones had cameras (the latter 2 seemed strange additions to phones but today make perfect sense). It laid the foundations for what we have today in 2023, except now we are entering a new internet life changing moment when we will look back at how primitive AI was and in years to come, Ai will make sense to people who are struggling to understand the wider everyday usage it will have on everything we do. Just like we thought the internet was cool and had a lot of uses, but wasn’t thinking it would be the life blood of everything we do. So remember 2023 if you weren’t there for the mid/late 90’s because this will be your own internet moment of how something new completely changed our lives forever. 48:08 SMS wasn’t a free bonus feature it cost something like 12p per message (maybe 2p but I’m pretty sure it was 12p). But it was like an odd bonus feature that when I first saw this text message thing I was like “wtf, why?” when I first saw it but used it anyway.
realgroovy24 tech yea got to love the 80's and 90's , must say I was annoyed they didn't give the kids Nintendo[NES] and a Amiga computer in the 80's episode , I knew a'lot of people that had them
This was filmed 15 years ago… that means 2009 is further away now than when the 90’s were to them! 🤣 I’d love to see a new version of this program remade now!
i think the 90s where awesome. Just enough tech to have some fun but not so much it consumed peoples lives.
people need to stop asking for upgraded phones with all that junk on it, putting diamond studds, it's just a phone.
i was born in 1992 and in my early days i remember playing on my sega then i remember getting a Super Nintendo and getting a big gray game boy then by 1998 1999 i remember getting my ps1 and also getting a game boi colour god how much i miss these times
Born in 1993 and can't agree more with you MrPanCake. Hopefully people would start finding how stupid it is to go on Instagram and Facebook everyday and start putting away phones and devices more often to enjoy life as it should.
born in 86 - I think being 8 or 9 in 1993 was where it was at
Frank Yu .... yeah and possibly stop writing shit on RUclips hey !!!
The joke is that this docu was made in 2009, and all the family's then current stuff shown in the intro looks almost as dated now.
Did they set a PC up with windows 95 especially for it then?
These comments are like a time capsule, because here we are 7 years after your comment, 2016 was a tough year, remember? We've now lived through a pandemic and are kind of super-reliant on tech gadgets and zoom-meetings... Who will comment on this in another 7 years? Where will we be then? Do we even want to know? 🙈
@@PaceFineArts yeah i feel so fucking weird when i accidently see a comment i left somewhere on youtube over 10 years ago.
@@nriab23 agreed!
@@PaceFineArtsSpot on comment! It’s freaky even thinking about it especially after reading similar comments posted 5 years after it aired!😮🙈
I was born in 1987 in the UK, and I'm proud to be a 90s kid. THERE WERE fewer TV channels, 4th/5th generation gaming consoles, and limited internet access, but it was enjoyable. I'll always miss the 90s throughout my life.
Do you think you might just miss being young?
@@themadplotter I miss almost everything about being young.
I've been having this conversation with many recently , many are quick to respond that every generation gets nostalgic about their own specific era of childhood but I say there is western world society pre 9/11 and post 9/11
And condensed down even more , within that pre 9/11 world the 90's was briefly in a time of optimism reflected in the upbeat positube music and a balance of technology .
90's kids had it best
@@dorkbrandon4422 Can vouch for this. Even as an introverted kid I was half of the time out on the streets playing with others in the 90s and other half of time indoors playing games or writing on the computer. And reading regularly. The world also felt more cosy and political stances not as hardened.
Now I find myself glued to the pc for hours every day unless I force myself to go outside. Even more so with all my work/admi being on the screen too. And it's probably even harder for kids tearing away from digital life while growing up with a tablet into their tiny hands. Going for walks in green areas, reading a book or hanging out with friends sadly feels more unreal than it used to
@@dorkbrandon4422 i dont see why you think 11/9 make much difference. a handful of people died. so what? 18 thousand people die every day from air pollution. only 2996 died on 11th sept 2001. an insignificant number.
7:45 "We could all work from home."
*2020* 'You need to work from home.'
*2022* 'Why are all of you working from home?'
Proud to be a 90s kid!!! And I enjoyed this documentary.
Vance Kauffman - Proud?? Being a nineties child isn’t a skill! It’s just a coincidence!!
Proud is not a correct word. More like "feel privileged" or "grateful". 1990s was indeed the nicest decade. Many good films, good songs, computer innovations also started to take place, job stability, etc.
I was born in 1984 and now nearly 40. Looking back at the 90s it was an amazing time to grow up and now I'm hurtling towards middle age, I now understand why my parents looked back at the 60s and 70s in the same way. Glad I was part of 'Cool Britannia' 🙂
I turned 40 this year. It's scary how fast it creeps up on you. I had a great childhood, I just wish I could go back 😂
Same.
I just turned 39 and it feels really strange watching re-runs of the big breakfast and remembering where I was during the eras of the different presenters.
Glad we were out playing with our mates before iPads and streaming took over. Our age group arguably got the best of both worlds.
Best music came from the 90´s!
Some of the best with the Indie stuff and the techno scene .A lot of dogmuck too.. Girl power/ boyband shite etc...
You don't listen much to 70s music do you ? Both lyrics and music had more content. You actually had to be a musician to make music. Think Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, ELO, David Bowie... I do get what you're saying tho.. the 90s had awesome, musical subculture. Portishead, Tricky, Massive Attack and so much more. But musically the 70s and even some of the eighties were stronger imo.
Definitely
The only good music form the 90s was 2pac and biggie smalls
I like 90’s music but I like music from the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s even more. In my opinion, music was in it’s prime during those decades.
The UK was a very different place back in the 90s. We had some tech but not so much it dominated our lives. I think we had more freedom too. Good times.
do you think a 90s nuclear scientist didn't have a life 'dominated' by tech? more freedom? lol. are you aware that the right to protest has been seriously curtailed by the tory governments morons keep voting for? read a book. learn some history, then come back and make massive sweeping statements.
I miss the 90s
MrPanCake only thing I don't miss about the 90s is the music....90s music sucked so bad.
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90s and early 2000s music were the best
+MrPanCake Not in any way... 80s to the middle of the 90s... in the end of the 90s they were already so commercial, it hurted.
Re: BigBacon- 90s music was fantastic!!
Bigbacon What? There was loads of great 90’s music.
The 90s were my 20s. Thank goodness. We were still free.
Born in the late 80's, i'd give anything to go back to the 90's.
1997, I’m 10 years old, I open my Christmas presents… it’s a PlayStation with Alien Trilogy, FIFA 96 EA classic case, Warhawk, Shockwave Assault, Die Trilogy, Alien Trilogy. I am a happy 10 year old.
The 90's were the best!!! I was born in 1987 and I had an enjoyable childhood!
do you really think the 90s are responsible for that? i think that if your father raped you every night, or if you worried about bombs destroying your house it wouldn't be the decade that was responsible. just external factors.
Whatever zoomer
I feel blessed to have grown up in the 90s (born in 1984) Music was fantastic, the lack of TV channels was a GOOD thing (too much choice nowadays dilutes quality programming), and simple tech that didn't interfere with modern life (because be honest, wherever you go now people are too busy looking at their phones to interact with other people)
We had proper Summers that gave us a couple of months of uninterrupted sunshine, and proper winters that brought snowfall with it.
The attitude of the era was electric- Programmes like TFI Friday perfectly summed up 90s Britain for me, we was such a cool nation!!
Anything post 2000 doesn't compare. You can take your iPhones, your video games with life like graphics, watered down pop on the radio and rubbish reality TV shows- Take me back to the 1990s any day.
Oh, and I miss the days of proper kids television, where we'd get magazine shows like Live and Kicking or SM:TV with cartoons, pop music and games for 3 hours every Saturday. The junk we get now (cookery shows and news) is a sad substitution.
tvs alot better now than the 90s mate.
Great post. I am a little more older than you, and I'm glad I came across this video because the day to day wear and tear of living through modern society really is disheartening. The change and ever change is far too fast. Technology has evolved and excelled whereby people do not know even how to say Hello. There's far too much tensions in our communities and individuals have grown to be more selfish than thoughtful. Living in a world of austerity means more tensions within our communities. Sorry, projecting negatively, but this is why I often feel nostalgic. This really was a great discovery.
thaichubby101 My comment might be slightly misconstrued. There’s a LOT to be thankful for in 2020 in terms of technology, healthcare and scientific breakthroughs, but for me the ‘vibe’ of the 90s was unmatched. Maybe I’m looking at it through rose tinted glasses, but we managed just fine without the internet and without being connected 24/7 to screens and devices.
Feel that people lived life in the present a lot more - no social media, so no need to try and impress strangers or share your life online with others. Great music, great television, Super Nintendo/Sega Megadrive. Have nothing but fond memories of the 1990s.
LIVERNIL753 Only just seen your comment, two years on! If you read this, hope all is well and you’re holding up well despite everything that’s happening in the world right now.
they should do an updated version later in the 2020s for the 2000s and 2010s!
It might be early to say but I miss the 2010s already
@@unicorntomboy9736Me too🙈🤣💯
The boy was not allowed to play with dad’s new gaming system but has to help them figure out how to run the damn thing that’s really screwed up. I think they should let him play it since he’s the one that actually had to teach them how to use it.
ahhh the 90s. the good old days
Do a new one, but have it be 2000-2010!!! Lots of very very fast changes in technology in that 10 years!!
YESH!
My generation lol.
I remember when I had one of those desk tops with the box screen. And me and my sister shared it but it was soo slow XD
People think the 2000s were bad but in all honesty, up to about 08 things were like the 90s. We got our first flatscreen in 08. But before that we had a big box TV in the family room and the kitchen.
AGHHHH I miss that. Before selfies exsisted. Before teenagers dressed all skanky. Before Acacia Brinley went big on the internet. Before you had to have a twitter. We all had msn.
But since I am still a kid I like the 2010s too. Even though most of my friends from back then are mean and literal skanks.
People think we kids spend our lives in front of the computer. But that is mainly teenagers. And then the teenagers blame us kids. When we go outside all day!! Especially in the summer. lol.
Sorry I got carried away XD
***** I was born 92 so I'm not really ''proper 90s'' but I remember the basic mainstream. I would count either 2005-8 or the early 2000s as the core 2000s and 2009 being the start of the 2010s because where I live that's where most people got FB and twitter and that's when years pretty much all started looking the same to me. I did use Bebo a lot in 2008, but I much prefered it to Facebook. I honestly never understood the appeal of Facebook although like everyone I can't escape it's vice-like grasp because of everyone else being on there! I hate all the media tittery of people nowadays, all thinking the same, all obsessed with opinions and inventing bizarre insults on the internet. I want to live without a computer one day, but I'm living somewhere with internet only and no TV which makes having a break difficult.
The golden age of the interwebz!
When dial-up was a thing of the past and social media apps on phones had yet to come and ruin everything.
When the interwebz was fun, free and you were allowed to say whatever the hell you wanted.
Not the mind controlled, corporate bullshit it is today that DICTATES what we are supposed to THINK and DO!
I love it when he says "This isn't just a games console its a PS one" . I remember when I thought the PS one and internet without RUclips and always being slow dial up was brilliant!
I was born in 1993 and a lot of the things shown in this programme were still very familiar to me when I was 5
me too
Also, the 90s continued until around 2003/04
id pay money to live like this in the 1990s again
Same
Same
@jayburke8225 the DAT (Digital Audio Tape (DAT or R-DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987.[1] In appearance it is similar to a Compact Cassette, using 3.81 mm / 0.15" (commonly referred to as 4 mm) magnetic tape enclosed in a protective shell, but is roughly half the size at 73 mm × 54 mm × 10.5 mm. The recording is digital rather than analog. DAT can record at sampling rates equal to, as well as higher and lower than a CD (44.1, 48, or 32 kHz sampling rate respectively) at 16 bits quantization. If a comparable digital source is copied without returning to the analogue domain, then the DAT will produce an exact clone, unlike other digital media such as Digital Compact Cassette or non-Hi-MD MiniDisc, both of which use a lossy data-reduction system.)was invented in 1987 so fuck knows why you feel the need to live in 90s to experience it.
I would do that as well.
This really was a fantastic series.
I wish there could be a 2010s episode like it
this series was awesome, thanks for uploading it!
80's were the best. We had a bit of tech but we still went out to see our friends. Best of both worlds.
I loved the 90s they were epic in britain
2:00 Back to Life - Soul II Soul
3:06 Let Me Entertain You - Robbie Williams
4:29 Step Back in Time - Kylie Minogue
6:06 It Only Takes a Miracle - Take That
8:26 Freedom ‘90 - George Michael
9:22 All Together Now - The Farm
10:14 Killer - ATB
11:23 Step On - Happy Mondays
13:35 Connected by Stereo MC’s
15:24 People Everyday - Arrested Development
16:12 Woo Hah! Got You All in Check - Busta Rhymes
16:50 It's my life - Dr. Alban
18:02 Things That Make You Go Hmm - C+C Music Factory
20:35 Safe from Harm - Massive Attack
26:47 Girls and Boys - Blur
27:20 He’s on the Phone - Saint Etienne
31:20 Step by Step - New Kids on the Block
33:04 Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
42:10 Children - Robert Miles
51:45 Fatboy Slim - Right Here, Right Now
53:02 Porcelain - Moby
10:14 ATB - Killer
BratzSamuel2005 Merci beaucoup (Thank you very much) :-)
42:10 Robert Miles - Children
51:45 Fatboy slim - right here, right now
Hannah Matthau Very Funny...
I've had a Sega MegaDrive for at least the last 10 years now, and it was a great console to play on.
it's been more than 10 years since this was made, i'd love another 2000's decade from the sullivan-barnes family
Do have a Video for the 2000s and 2010s Electric History?
Great retrospective, really well done and worth watching.
love all the trance and other 90s music
also 90's early hardcore and gabber? Happy Hardcore?
I'm class of 1999. I have great memories of being a teen during this time. Great music, fun movies, awesome decade. Any other 90's teens here?
Ahh man it was brilliant I was 14 in 1999 and 1995 to 2007 was the best time off my life. My brother is 12 years younger than me and even he agrees when I show him programmes from that era and stories from that time that it was better than his own childhood... everything was brilliant back then
@@billcaan4192What was it like talking to people on computers and phones back in the late 90's.
@@mag9604 well on phones was the same lol. On computers we used MSN messenger which allowed your o add people and chat online bit like WhatsApp tbh. Those were fun times technology was new and exciting but at the same time it didnr take over our lives. I could happily leave my phone at home and go out. These days I wouldn't dare leave my phone at home lol
@@billcaan4192 oh fair enough I’m always interested in the 90’s as that’s when things really took off
@@billcaan4192 I hate how dependent we are to social media, today.
When I decided not to open Instagram just for a day, many informations got lost/too late day later (for example: job vacancy info). Everything is too fast, rushed. And we become FOMO.
My friend's husband had a pager. When we were on holiday once he walked about with it clipped to his belt all the time. No-one ever paged him but it made him feel important. He had a car phone too. When the car broke down once when my friend was driving, she did not know how to use it.
Still waiting on a episode about the 2000s
My Mum likes going to a retro shop, stuff from the 70s, and some look like they are from our neighbors, the Swansons LOL
2009 when this first aired seems incredibly antique now that with got Netflick, Amazon Prime and AI in our lives.
Hey these were the years I lived out my childhood, cool! I loved watching this program, I wouldn't have seen it otherwise if it wasn't on RUclips. Thank you for posting it for others to watch and enjoy!
I was a child of the 90s and we never had any technology in the house growing up, we didn't even have a telephone. We used a telephone box just up the road from the house. We still had a black and white television up until 93/94.
The only computers I ever experienced were at school until the early 00's when we got one at home but even then we wouldn't get our first internet connection until 2009.
not in the usa
1991 i had internet in my room
+busterkeatonsbriefs Than you are the one percent of non technological families ;)
Wow and i thought i was behind back in the 90s, at least i had two color tvs, a phone and a apple computer.
Yeah well I didn't really notice I was missing out because we didn't have those things to start with. We got a colour tv just as I was old enough to watch tv. We played a lot outside as children so we didn't really mind.
For me the 90s were basically the 80s. When I was a young teen I got to experience all of the 80s goodies. Walkman, vhs player, cds but I preferred scouring the second hand stores for 50c vinyl records and cassettes.... guitars, books, painting and writing and I was the house cook while my mom Girl Bossed. My grandfather had text only internet for awhile and it was amazing. Things to read, recipes and guitar tablature...
Good times.
I really wish there was an update about this family today (2023) or at least somewhat more recently
now do a video about the 2000's, they are also in the past
Okay- So I'm going to build a time machine and jump back to the 1990s- Who's with me??
Truthfully speaking though, I'm going to do my damned hardest to relive my youth by purchasing things of the era- TV boxsets, toys (POGs, Tamagotchis, Boglins etc) and comics like the Beano and Dandy.
I'm 33 years old now, and genuinely feel sad that the 90s is a time in my life that felt so perfect that everything subsequent to it doesn't match up.
The saddest thing is that last Christmas (2016) my whole family was doing something different- My mother was sat most of the day on her laptop (Facebook, the most anti-social of sites), my dad was pottering around and I was sat in my dads study watching whatever nonsense was on TV (remember when Christmas TV on the BBC & ITV used to be memorable? Miss Christmas Day Top of the Pops to find out who was Christmas number one- Couldn't care less nowadays) Technology advancing really isn't a good thing in my opinion...
I will come!
Go back to 1990 and remember to remind me to buy stocks in google when we get to 1998.
Bro u don't even remember the 90s LOL - imposter 😆
I miss the 90s I'm so down I wish we can actually go back it was such a great time of my life I wish we can just go back then talk about it. Ppl that was born in the 00s wouldn't ever understand the feeling and the way things were back then. I would wish life to stay in the 70s, 80s 90s forver
@@JoeyChrome sad little troll. You're pathetic..
@@KennyGBeBopTV I think it happens to a lot of people who think the era they group up in was the best , but I could happily watch clips from the 70s/80s, before I was even born (I was born in 1984), and still think to myself that things looked better back then..
I was born in this decade...! 1990s RULE!
+Daniel Davies 1982 here.... :-) I prefer 70s - 80s living personally.
chris burrows you’re more of a 2000s kid but still a 90s baby
Yeah and look how your generation turned out: Whining, self-entitled TRUST FUND BABIES who couldn't even score in a whorehouse unless an app gave you instructions on how to do so... IF IT WAS COOL ON SOCIAL MEDIA!
23:15 The original arcade version of Mortal Kombat had blood. The Super Nintendo version had no blood full stop due to Nintendo's content rules, the Mega Drive version did have the blood but it was behind a parental code. The sequels on both Nintendo and Sega platforms completely restored the blood.
Wow i really Like this show thanks
I have a monitor that looks like that. Plus a Lil "flat screen" in a stand...and a "remote" keyboard and mouse...but small screen. I'm grateful!!
i remember the pager phase in the 90's when we all had one and all the codes we used on them to communicate lol
In the show, the tech team does not give them the technology based on when it was released, they give it to them when it became widely available and affordable
i really liked this but, being american, some of this was way different than my experience. only 4 channels in 1990 is insane. mtv, nickelodeon, disney, etc were such a big part of my childhood in the 80's. i remember even the cheapest most basic cable having 36 channels with even our lame cable provider, no satellite dish necessary.
also most of my friends had a playstation by christmas 1996 and we were all middle to lower-middle class and definitely not adults so i don't understand the point of it being only for the dad.
there's another cool uk series called "the supersizers" i would recommend to people who like this, except instead of technology they eat the foods from a certain time period. i didn't completely relate to everything because of some differences between the 2 countries, but it's still interesting.
I'm American and we didn't get cable until 1995-1996. That means only 4-5 channels like on this show. I mainly used a TV to play SNES games.
Playstation was considered the first console that adults were buying en masse, hence the Dad playing on it. Doesn't mean that only people in their 20's or 30s owned one in the 90s.
in the UK there was sky called BSB [British sky broadcasting] in 86 and that had 400 channels- I remember when sky man was installing it while I was on my Nintendo NES lol
The way I remember it in 90s we had cable TV with loads of channels. But for someone like me who grew up in the 80s, I was used to the terrestrial 4 channels anyway.
peloquin1979 I grew up in the 80's as well, yes we had 4 channels yes but also sky dishes in 86
@@mikekaraoke yep sky in the late 80s was how I watched tmnt on the DJ kat show , and different strokes after school
The internet did not come into being until later on in 1993 onward. Telly`s in rooms are useful. and I quite like the DVD tech.
You could kill somebody with those mobile phones in the 1990s🤣
One issue I spotted (which is just from me being a geek),
Windows 3.1, which their using on the computer at about ten minutes in, wasn't released until 1992.
yep, March 1992 at that!
I've the 80s and 90s suff and tvs, furniture, radios, CD, players, dech systems, good music, good movies, good stuff, and old cars, everything was great then. Todays stuff us too much for every one, even for children.
The '80s was better than the '90s imo. Yes, a few of my workmates and friends had cell phones in the '90s, but I never felt the need for one. Still had my answering machine hooked up to my landline and we didn't get the internet at work until about '98 or '99, anyway. Also, I worked for two companies that already had email (emc2 a fischer product) in the 80s (Canada Trust and FedEx).
Watched this countless times :)
Born in 87 , loved being a 90's kid
Me in 83 :-)
I remember the 90s
Born in 1980, first gaming computer we had was a C64, loading games from a casette tape :) ahhh memories. Then i got a loaner Amiga500 then internet at 15 with a pentium 75.. it was dail up and we had 1 to 2 hours each depending if my parents needed to make a phonecall and we had to log it / pay for it ourselfs. Great times with unfiltered smut, games to download and all the vitusses a pc could handle.
Wow did not realise this programme is over 9 years old and I seen this episodes loads wonder what these ppl are up to now
Gosh..I remember the supposed Millennium bug. If only we knew what was in store!
But agreed- 90s..best time ever.
I was born in '91 and had a great childhood. I am however grateful for not being a year older because I would have died of cancer as the therapy I received in 2016 wasn't available a very, very few years before...
I remember playing this game on a computer in the early - mid 90’s, you had to click the bubbles that were flying in the air to get more points, it’s really out of date now and is probably not a thing but I still remember it to this day, it was my favourite activity
Everything about the 90s was the best: the fashion technology music everyone knows everyone, of u we’re meeting ur mate and they didn’t turn up you’d wait for 5 mins and if they still weren’t there you’d go home and wait for school the next day to ask em what happend. Those were the days mate
The parents wonder why they don't spend enough time with the kids then it turns out the kids arent allowed in the living room?! Smh
Ikr? How can they not see the idiocy in that logic?
Remember being a bit lonely mid nighties. We were not allowed out cos it was dangerous apparently, but also wanted to be social. Towards the late 90s became better when we could contact friends etc
I remember being generally really happy in 1989-1990. 1997-1999 were the golden years for gaming for me
Too bad you never spent them living in real life 'cause now it's too late
@@fuqupal Dick comment!
@@fuqupal you realise we can see you’ve been uploading video games for the last 9 years right?
"Gia thinks it's time for the Sullivan-Barnes family to get connected, so she heads to CERN in Geneva, the world famous research centre for physics." We all had to take that trip in the 90s for internet. It was heavy to bring back too.
Wait a minute, we just passed the 80's AND 90's and NO Commodore Amigas?! Disgraceful!
Simply untrue. In fact, the US was quite a bit behind the UK in several arenas. Because of the console market bust in the US in 1983, the backlash meant that US families never really bought into the home computer boom. The country then gravitated towards the crap 8-bit Japanese consoles while in Europe the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST (ironically both US machines) were where the action was, and they were vastly superior. It wasn't until the early 90s that the average US household caught up.
windows 3.1 wasn't out until 1992
yep, March 1992 at that
I think the 90s was good cant remember a lot of it , its all merge into one long session
When I found out my school friends mum had a machintosh .... I was so excited and asked to go to his house to use it..... he turned it on brought the browser up... I then tried to access a website and when the dial tone started making that noise I was so happy and waiting for something to happen... long story short it took around 3 minutes for one page to load.... that waiting time put me of from the computer... and I just got up and went home 😂
Dad won’t even let the kids in the living room? Wonder how these kids turned out, feel so bad for them
I remember i had a playstation 1 back in the day.
I like how they pass Mortal Kombat on the Snes apparently oblivious to the fact that on other formats you could decapitate your opponent and tear out their hearts.
Or they could use the cheat code....
Lol I still live in the 1990s most of my house is 90s. I recognized all of their technology
Kid`s You must learn to wait! technology does not progress that fast!
It is funny how everybody was freaking out over Y2K and nothing even happened.
I think the thing I only like about the 90s was the music ! Lol
Technology does make me waste my time just watched this from 4am to 5am in the morning haha time to go to sleep
Seems like the dad hates being around his children
Wow! you got 600 TV channels in the UK? in new zealand we only got 14 with freeview (digital) currently and we had i think 6 channels with analog tv
We actually have more we have like 50 on free view and 900 on sky tv I think well he have something like that
we have something like 100 on our sky tv
realgroovy24 tech prety much the same as for australia 15 odd channels with freeview. I dont know how mch on foxtel i think its less than 100 channels though lol
The 90's were awesome because we had tech without social media
I remember my Dad had a mobile phone in the early 80`s in Canada. They were nearly the size and shape of a cereal box, LOL.
Motorola was the earliest mobile used by the army. You might like to look at this history of the mobile
buttonsonabrick.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/an-introduction/
Sup old comment
2020: Cutting my own hair, gone back to the old "Safety" razor instead of modern plastic-fantastics, doing my own laundry with a plunger thing and hanging to dry, stockpiling books especially the classics for when the internet winks out (we may have power outages here in California this summer) have multiple non-electric ways to cook, basically I'm preparing for things to get a lot worse.
Why is a 1997-- a 1998 American release date even, as this is a British film and they were a English band-- song Bitter Sweet Symphony being played as the introduction to the 1995 era @ 33:07? As an 80's born American, this is still fun to watch none the less. While a lot of this technology was never made available to my family until much later, it is still fun to see it as it was released and the impact it had on homes and family's over the years.
In my house we only had 5 TV channels until 2007! I could probably still live with only 5 channels.
Far as I can remember, my family went from over-the-air, to DirectTV, back to OTA, then got Dish, then went back to OTA and then finally stuck with Dish.
In my house we had 28 channels since 1986, but I stopped watching TV in 1993 'cause it's nothing but propaganda, brainwashing and fear mongering.
I could probably still live with no channels.
The upload date of this video was 5 May 2012, which was almost 4 years ago
You mean almost six years ago
welll when he made the the comment it was 4 years mate have gander
robloxguy251 What are you talking about?? This program was made way back in 2009 so we’re talking more than 10 years ago! So THIS is out of date!
Love the way it is straight in with a new car. One of those goddam awful people carriers that too many people owned that were ugly even then. They did miss the “flat” wide screen TV that featured in most houses, although when this was aired I’m not sure if those had become a thing of the past yet.
But this whole program is more about the homes of the upper-middle class than what most people experienced. Fax Machines in homes in 1990, maybe by 1996 you’d see them but there was no need to have them and they were expensive. I haven’t watched the rest yet, but mobile phones were a rarity, I had my first one in 1993 and barely anyone had one, they were very expensive to make calls and for people to call. It was only the pay-as-you go revolution that saw them boom by about 1994 possibly as late as 1996, and the kids weren’t getting one at that time because of, well reasons I guess.
Love the way the decor is so middle class at the very least. Where I come from it was all half and half wallpaper often stripes or floral with a bit of wall paper border in the middle. I don’t recall houses looking the way they did in this until we got to the late 90’s or even early 2000’s.
I honestly think the decor person is a decade ahead of themselves because the 80’s decor in the previous one was 90’s. I’m guessing the decor is aiming to be the late end of each decor but the problem with that is e.g. home designs for 1989 kind of set the scene for home decor all the the way to 1998 as a lot of people didn’t redecorate so often so for most of the 90’s it was still most common to see the decor used on their 80’s program and you’d only start seeing homes where I come from change to the kind of decor on here by the 2000’s, which is probably more typical of most people will have experienced. But most people who work in TV and doing these sorts of jobs don’t tend to hail from working class/middle class backgrounds, they’re usually upper-middle class, so their experience of house decor will be very different to the average person who couldn’t afford to have their house decorated every year with the brand new trends.
8:14 “what’s the millennium” I want to answer this for anyone under the age of 16 in 1999. It was when people first started letting off fireworks on NYE in the UK. Before then fireworks only really could be heard in November (and obvs weeks before and after the 5th).
29:00 Tbf I got my first mobile in 93/94 and a friend had a brick like that. We weren’t execs and it was expensive so only one person in a household would have one. Mine in 1993 wasn’t a brick but it a Motorola flip phone, which looked pretty damn cool at the time. I have very fond memories of it, although my phone bill was huge and only a few people could afford to call me on it. So it wasn’t just executives by then, but it is accurate in the fact they were still very rare to see and only 1 person in the house was likely to have one.
37:30 I think at this point it becomes hard to explain the absolute world changing speed of technology and quality. The PlayStation now is so dated, but it was the first console where the difference was night and day of what went before it. This was more like the realism you wanted, FIFA was so realistic compared to anything that went before it, it even had commentary!! Then came the internet and everyone had phones, text messages became common place, then phones had cameras (the latter 2 seemed strange additions to phones but today make perfect sense). It laid the foundations for what we have today in 2023, except now we are entering a new internet life changing moment when we will look back at how primitive AI was and in years to come, Ai will make sense to people who are struggling to understand the wider everyday usage it will have on everything we do. Just like we thought the internet was cool and had a lot of uses, but wasn’t thinking it would be the life blood of everything we do. So remember 2023 if you weren’t there for the mid/late 90’s because this will be your own internet moment of how something new completely changed our lives forever.
48:08 SMS wasn’t a free bonus feature it cost something like 12p per message (maybe 2p but I’m pretty sure it was 12p). But it was like an odd bonus feature that when I first saw this text message thing I was like “wtf, why?” when I first saw it but used it anyway.
I wish I grew up in the 90s, why did I have to be born in 2001 :(
i was born in 2000 but i do remember using windows 95 computers and 98 etc... and tape recorders
Im 13 and also I wish I was in the 90s I love the nineties tech
the 80's tech also came so cheap then too and tv shows were a lot better
realgroovy24 tech sorry I responded with my other channel
realgroovy24 tech yea got to love the 80's and 90's , must say I was annoyed they didn't give the kids Nintendo[NES] and a Amiga computer in the 80's episode , I knew a'lot of people that had them
It wasn’t for another 30 years until everyone worked from home
Motorola makes awesomely solid phones. I adored my Backflip and still own it...
i thought it gonna be a real documentary from 90s, good show tough.
wow, techonology has changed way a lot over 6000 years, IT'S VERY UNBELIEVALBLE
Yeah, I want to see more from this Hamish. He is very enthusiastic with technology.
IT'S AN ELECTRIC DREAMS OF THE EIGHTIES!!!
Shhh, quiet😴
Like a huge library at your fingers. Just amazing... sad I didn't realise forums existed at that time :(
This was filmed 15 years ago… that means 2009 is further away now than when the 90’s were to them! 🤣 I’d love to see a new version of this program remade now!
3:42 "Tom Rigglesworth" LOL such a british name and british looking dude.
Song during the Geneva moment? I love that song, but I haven't heard it for a long time.
+Nightwalker973 Children by Robert Miles
so glad they had back to life in the beginning
how much did this cost the BBC>.< that was a classic gameboy, mint in box he just opened without a second thought. thats a collectors item!