I paid to get a diploma in journalism, but have never had a paying job in the media. Newspaper and magazine editors are willing to take the article for free, but not pay you. So after borrowing the money to study for the diploma, I got a job as an orderly in a hospital.
Manuel Salas Do you also remember having to order your pay per view movie on the phone then rushing to turn the tv to the right channel at the right time to watch it?
Ami is Creepypasta & -Squirrels wow, i had forgotten about doing that. I think we did it a couple times but it was much more fun to stop in BB. You pop in about the same time every week as did other people. A friend group would sometimes form so you knew when they returned movies. You could ask for their rating, check it out because it was just checked back in. You met other families and sometimes several families would start a combined movie night. Fri or Sat night would be either you bringing a covered dish to their viewing or you hosting. Sometimes, it was a bbq with after dark projection screens-- family friendly entertainment with new and old friends. BB in our neighborhood was a very social place. Man, I miss them.
I have a question. How do so many people miss the 90s? I was born on January 10, 1980, and so I grew up in the 90s, and I always thought the 90s sucked. I think today's world is a lot better. There was no social media in the 90s, there was no Netflix and streaming services in the 90s, internet worked like crap in the 90s, there was no smart phones in the 90s, not many people had cell phones in the 90s, there was not many good movies in the 90s, and video games are a lot better today than they were in the 90s. Music today is also a lot better than it was in the 90s. I think today's world is a lot better than it was in the 1990s. I think the 1990s is very overrated.
drinkbleach the 90’s where better. The world has gone crazy today. I graduated high school in 97, no smartphones, no social, you actually had to talk to people. You knew your neighbors and they looked out for you. My street we would parties that started at one house and ended at another. I would give up all this technology and do it all over again.
@@gjmarin2004 dont get me wrong the 80s was fun too, very colorful and lots of hair, big hair lol I think 90's was better only because of the technology boom. We had tapes, CDs, slimmer TVs, Nintendo and gaming consoles and the internet. The 80s was fun but the 90s is where we got all our technology from. I was born in the 80s so I can't really say I lived through the 80s as a adult so I may be biased just a little lol
Pluto will always be a planet I don’t care about anything else we might have a 10th planet or something like that but Pluto will always be the ninth planet
@@man_made_marsupial There's an argument going on between the planetary scientists and the astrophysicists who dominate the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and decide this stuff. Actually, a tiny minority of the IAU membership rammed this flawed definition through at the 2006 IAU conference in Prague, at the last minute, after most participants had gone home, in violation of the organization's own by-laws, and the organization doesn't want to revisit it, but that makes no difference to the planetary scientists, especially after the New Horizons probe flew past Pluto a few years ago and the world got a good look at it. They tend to use the geophysical definition. They don't know what else to call Pluto except a planet. The science media sometimes acknowledges that the astronomers aren't unanimous on this but they usually parrot the IAU line.
Ceres is a planet, too, according to the geophysical definition of planet, and orbiting next beyond Mars it's Planet 5, so Pluto is really Planet 10, but it's a planet.
#11 phones did keep getting progressively smaller....until 2005 when we realized we could use them for streaming porn than they started getting bigger and bigger again.
+Matt Moore Right on. The best way was to have the 90's end just slightly after you become an adult; this way you could look back at your child years while still in the same decade, and still be old enough to go into the new millennium being able to drive (with a few years experience) and other adult-only things.
Me too! It was the greatest pilgrimage of the week. You got to hit the section you wanted and pick your favorite flicks. Remember putting the tape over the little black socket to tape over movies
Your consumer computer from 1992 probably had a 286 or 386 32bit cpu witih at least 1-2mb of ram and a phoenix BIOS with an updated CMOS. It wasn't a mainframe running 8biit or 16bit architecture from the 70s that needed to save memory so they dropped 16bits from the date so they could fit more into memory.
I know little about computers for companies from that time. I'll give you that. I always assumed that if my trash computer was decent enough to survive the technological apocalypses, then so were theirs. That being said... given the P.O.S. that I work on today... I'm not entirely sure why I've upheld that belief all these years. Never thought about it, I guess.
Agree, especially in government in embedded software. The task for many companies was also to fix several other problematic dates which I'm surprise people are unaware of. I guess the work that was done was a great success. I would like to be pointed to unsuccess fixes.
They do. Only a fool would use one. Here in the UK, all cellphones come with a leaflet explaining the health risks. We are told to use a cellphone only for short periods, and that children should not use it at all. We live in a world of fools who ignore these serious risks.
Shawn Ravenfire There's still a chance they do. Also, l cringe when i see women hide them in their blouse's. Could cause breast cancer. No one knows for certain.
A lot of people do. Don't get me wrong, it is a good advantage to have and does increase your chances. But way to many people get it in their head if they have a degree 75,000 a year will just land into your lap, but if not... poverty and minimum wage for the rest of your life. Don't think that is good for kids to go into the adult world thinking.
+XxDuB STePxX Of course not. However since I was small Pluto being a planet is what I was taught. In fact I was really surprised to hear it wasn't one when I was around 13. It's basically something I 'want' to believe. It's something I still believe.
+Scoin0 Things change, wether you like it or not. We advance and learned that Pluto isn't a planet. You can still believe it is, but you'll make yourself look like fool just because it's what you were taught.
+XxDuB STePxX why are you an ass? Hateful little shit. Of course things change. I acknowledged that. People still believe things they were taught long after they've been disproven. Even now with that new common core, I get super confused when I read my nieces homework and trying to help them. But it's the way they were taught it's supposed to be "easier". It's like nostalgia, it's something I remember and like.
Hi. I'm generation X. That started back when I was in 2nd grade. President Reagan pushed halloween back to November first that year in 1982 I'm 44 now and diabetic, so the sugar is what I have to worry about, not razor blades, poison, or '* gasps* cracked glass! It got so bad that news stations were urging everyone to bring kids' bags of candy to hospital X-ray rooms to get surveyed.
The best reason for nostalgia that i found so far was that "people become nostalgic in response to life adversities" Meaning: people become nostalgic in attempt to feel good about themselves and the world again
I loved going to my local movie rental place when I was a kid. It was part of the bowling alley actually. Every Friday my dad, brother, and I would rent five or six movies for the weekend...on VHS tapes even!! LOL It was great!! I give the experience two thumbs up 👍👍
D Lynn, I don’t think most of us thought much about the future back then. I graduated high school in 97, I really didn’t think about where I would be in 5 to 10 years, never would of thought about over 20 years. Looking back I wish I had.
Oh we thought about the future we u Just knew the world Disorder would be around when. We were older , our Grandfather's and father's would raise us for Warfare, mine was WW2 Army Air Corps Drill Seargent Sherriff and dad was us Navy ECM Reconaisance Vietnam 3 tours in Country 65 to 68... Damn I'm glad I can pick up any tool or Armaments and use with Expert proficiency...
I remember in middle school my teacher telling me that in college we wouldn't be allowed to use calculators. First day of math class in college and the teacher has the type of calculator she wants us to have written on the board.
@@saintsfan2210 Is that the one they did the documentary on ? On Netflix I think or one of streaming sites. In Oregon ? It’s really cool how the community & devoted family kept it in business.
I posted this on another comment about cursive writing. I agree with the cursive. How are going to sign legal documents? More importantly, if you can't WRITE in cursive, how can anyone expect you to READ cursive. There are a lot of historical documents written in cursive, if you can't read it for yourself you will just have to take the word of older generations of what it says. We can tell you anything. With all the Gen Z's being offended by all the "ugly, hateful" history everything is being sugar coated. 'If we do not know history (the good and the bad), we are doomed to repeat it.'
LOL..the calculator bit. totally. But uh..I don't know anyone who believed the halloween candy thing after the 80s. And pluto will ALWAYS be a planet :p
So true.. To me The end of the 90s was the end of the age of innocence... I never thought that the 90s would end, it was the best of times. I mean it had its share of setbacks but I can never again be that young girl, the youth of growing up, Grandeous times... The 90s weren't supposed to end.. But they did... 😢😢
Doctors who cut off the foreskins of babies? They do it all the time. There's fucking thousands of nerves in there! Haven't you seen how much children scream during the ooperation?
Actually, Apple was on the brink of going out of business in the early 2000's until Bill Gates gave Steve Jobs money to develop the IPod...the rest is History.
This was pretty awkward, borderline bad. Number one, Pluto is a planet, is not what people used to believe in the '90s, Pluto was defined as a planet. The definition of a planet would be redefined in 2006 by astrophysicists, and consequently Pluto no longer fit the definition.
No it didn't, there are talks about giving it planet status again due to it's atmosphere making it bigger than previously though. Nobody with any authority, NASA, have yet to give it's planet status back.
Pluto is a big rock, and stays that way whatever you call it. It like calling your car an automobile, a vehicle, a motor or Sandra, it's still the same car!
Maciej Chromiński Because it's scientists and science committees and boards that decide stuff like this, not random idiots who know fuck all on the internet.
Cell Phones were not Rare.... I started working for Cellular One in 1991 and I can tell you we were installing phones in cars as fast as we could!! It started out mostly Businesses (Yes your phone was installed in your car lol)
While all of these points are accurate, I still miss the 90s SO MUCH!!! The 80s made me and the 90s raised me and I wouldn’t change that for ANYTHING!!! P.S. I really miss this channel! 😩😢
Mandie Taylor Cursive was already dying out in the 80s and 90s during my youth. We learned it, but very few kids wrote in cursive on a regular basis. The older generation, kids of the 40s and 50s, still use it on a regular basis.
I heard that from teachers constantly (You won’t walk around with a calculator in your pocket) No I’m gonna walk around with a whole computer in my pocket💯😂
Those ideas didn't spring forth from the mud on a rainy day, sir. They were cultivated in universities well through the 90's and allowed for the progressive boom we see today. The sociology courses being taught today are being led by the students of those ideas from the 90's. I mean, do you think this is the only generation that has mocked overly sensitive feminists in college? Shit man, the 90's created that stereotype.
Cute. You have to remember, though, everything is relative, especially time. To you guys, the 90's are "old school", to me it is the 50's. No one can see the future, so things you believe now will be made fun of in twenty years, just like you're doing here. However, the one thing that will never change, no matter which generation (including mine), people between, oh..18 to 30, think they know everything there is to know about anything. The older you get, the more you look back and realize you were an idiot. LOL
The New Years 1999, my foster mom was so afraid of what could happen (even just crazies acting stupid and intentionally hurting people) She held a New Years party for us and our friends. I told her son "wouldn't it be funny to turn off the breaker at midnight?" He snuck away when everyone else started counting down, just as everyone said "one" the lights went out. His mom says "Well, it has started" (not even thinking about time zone or countries that were an entire DAY ahead of us. My best friends sister looked out the window and says "Funny the Christmas lights down at the trailer are still ON!" Dang it, forgot to close the curtains!
True, but I miss the optimism that we had in the 90s. We really had so little to worry about back then. We had no idea, at the time, just how good we had it. Here in the 2010s, there was zero optimism. We're at the end of the decade now, & things just keep getting darker & darker.
I grew up in the late 60s and early 70s, the world is a much better place. Also, they need to still teach cursive writing in school. It's quicker and easier on the hand than printing.
I agree with 60s music being amazing, but people absolutely did NOT mostly get along. That was kind of the point of the 60s and the hippie era. Civil rights, women's rights, anti-war and violence, etc. was rampant in the 60s; and was probably the most beautiful part of that decade. Needless to say, none of that "got along" with the status-quo.
When I bought a minidisk player you couldn't fit all of your music onto an mp3 player, so I reasoned it was a better option to buy an md player and a bunch of minidisks. It was stolen, so I can't say if it was a good idea at the time.
I think that's what they are going for...? It's a brilliant strategy, because if it's funny, cool.. and if it isn't, that's fine too, because they were going for cringe.Pretty sneaky, Tris.
Rexbox doesn't have much of a selection. What was good about Blockbuster and especially Mom & Pop stores was that they would often have really obscure titles, or you could ask them to get a specific title, and the owners would comply if you were a regular customer.
+Mechadude32 they were investing into video streaming at that time and Blockbuster knew it and thought it wouldn't take off due to internet plans at the time and how much the streaming demanded in comparison from what I'm told.
yes netflix was defeating blockbuster before streaming. blockbuster then started doing mail deliveries aswell. you could get a movie from the store or through the mail. you could return the movie through the mail or return the mailed movie to the store and get a movie on the spot. i thought it was pretty good since they had a mailing system and a store but netflix still won lol. i know because blockbuster was my first job. worked there in 05-06
Being born in 76 I feel like more of an eighties kid but coming of age in the nineties was awesome. Everyone was in a band and had a gig in someone’s backyard on the weekend.
Recent studies suggest Pluto has an atmosphere closer to that of a planet than that of a dwarf planet. Not only that, but its surface behaves and looks like a rock planet. So deal with it.
True, but the issue about Pluto's planethood is the fact that it's tidally locked with it's moon, and the two bodies are in a binary rotation around a gravitational sync in space, rather than the moon orbiting Pluto
It's a dwarf planet, not a rock planet. It's never gonna get a promotion in the type of planet it is. Atmospheric composition isn't a factor in the determination of size. Checkmate, fool who thinks that a dwarf planet is not a planet.
I was a kid in the 90s, but my parents never went to Blockbuster, we just went to a local rental video place... that had a pinball machine and an arcade machine! Fun times xD
@@leeannasloan2292 Yeah, the only time I went to Blockbuster was to get a job there, but you had to be over 18 to even work there. So, it was a bummer for me since I was 17 at the time.
My only worry about Y2k was that some drunk idiot would hit a power pole somewhere, knock of power to a mid sized town and the people in the town would lose their shit and start rioting and freaking out and that would cause a lot of trouble. Other than that I wasn't worried. :)
I figured Y2K was a load of crap invented by software companies to make money. I did nothing at all to take any precautions, turned on my computer on January 1st, 2000 to see what I expected - nothing.
astrophonix No doubt that it was all hype. I was just worried with so many people on edge that any little thing was going to set them off. You have to remember there were actually people stocking up on supplies and expecting the end of the world. So yeah, some drunk accidentally knocking off the power in a town and I could see that town going nuts.
I think I was among the last to learn cursive in school, also because of this my print handwriting never progressed past 5th grade level. I rarely write in print anyway...
+Tristan@List25 The Video Guy : How about the 25 most cringing moments in RUclips history? And perhaps turing it into a collaboration another RUclips channel?
The first thing I always have to wonder about these kinds of videos is if the people making them are even old enoufh to truly remember the time periods they're talking about. My guess is no.
Fun fact, Y2K would have actually caused a massive issue, maybe not as big as the hype and soothsaying, but was it not for people all over working overtime, working long hours hopped up on caffeine, cigarettes, and the weight of the world resting on them to get things fixed, the "Y2K bug" wouldn't have gone as smoothly as it did.
+Boxing Resistance - No, they weren't. Just as one example...from the VERY BEGINNING, Ask Jeeves was mocked. IT was always a TINY bit player in the search market way behind Yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos. Many of the others are things that only IDIOTS believe...like that babies didn't need anesthesia or that IT meant job for life. (Only idiots believed ANY skillset meant a job for life by the 90s.)
Yeah, I was a kid/teen in the 90s and some of these are true - but not all of them. Not even MOST of them. I could probably name some that were more accurate ... the gov't is suppressing the hydrogen engine, for instance, or the black helicopters or the worldwide permanent banking collapses. Lots and lots of stuff they didn't mention.
daffers234 Nobody believed any of tha crap either. A few wackos who believe in EVERY conspiracy (conspiracy wackos never stop at just one) does not really make something a belief. Just something that people tell themselves so they can avoid accepting the reality that their life failures are their own fault
It's not difficult, nice try at taking a juvenile shot at America. Some people don't like cursive, just like anywhere else. Always somebody trying to take a shot at us, until they need us to save their ass
@@kingofcrows8829 Russia saved everyone's ass in WW2 just by sheer numbers so don't take the high horse on this one pal and you were only interested in saving your own, that's why you waited so long to join in the war (AND had us pay for every bullet, uniform and tin of spam). You didn't save anyone except yourselves. selfish cunts!
Kit Bear um, this is wrong on almost every level, without a Western Front Germany could have fought on and on and the UK and Free France couldn’t have created a western front without the US. Also, without the US Japan would’ve likely created an eastern front against Russia cutting off its oil. The US also sent millions worth of materiel to Russia under lend lease.
Who else misses meeting interesting people in Blockbuster? I met some great people who knew so much about the different genres! Online is not the same at all!
"That a college degree will land you an good job"
That hurts....but it's true! :(
I paid to get a diploma in journalism, but have never had a paying job in the media. Newspaper and magazine editors are willing to take the article for free, but not pay you. So after borrowing the money to study for the diploma, I got a job as an orderly in a hospital.
That was back before you could get a useless degrees in things like Gender Studies and Ancient Mesopotamian Languages.
@Genieve Taylor what they meant was that going to college makes other people rich.
@@michaelsharp2272 I remember 2 year degrees then netted you a job of $30k a year
30 k I have no degrees and make 70k a year in the bounce house industries.
Idk if it's just me, but I miss going to Blockbuster to rent a movie or a game. 😔 good old days.
Manuel Salas Do you also remember having to order your pay per view movie on the phone then rushing to turn the tv to the right channel at the right time to watch it?
Manuel Salas being so excited to get home to use it I remember those days
good place to meet people on a busy night with a good movie being released
Ami is Creepypasta & -Squirrels wow, i had forgotten about doing that. I think we did it a couple times but it was much more fun to stop in BB. You pop in about the same time every week as did other people. A friend group would sometimes form so you knew when they returned movies. You could ask for their rating, check it out because it was just checked back in. You met other families and sometimes several families would start a combined movie night. Fri or Sat night would be either you bringing a covered dish to their viewing or you hosting. Sometimes, it was a bbq with after dark projection screens-- family friendly entertainment with new and old friends. BB in our neighborhood was a very social place. Man, I miss them.
Manny S---Blockbuster Online. I had that. Rates were reasonable and you did not have to pay to return the DVD.
Fuck Netflix. There was nothing like wasting an hour in a video store trying to find something good.
New Wave Psychopath wasting an hour on a comfortable chair/couch trying to find something good?
Its not the same thing
There's always the library. And they have more options than Netflix!
And that smell. OOH THAT SMELLLL
Amen
The 90s was a great time to be a teenager!
80s was a great time to be a kid.
Agree
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I have a question. How do so many people miss the 90s?
I was born on January 10, 1980, and so I grew up in the 90s, and I always thought the 90s sucked. I think today's world is a lot better. There was no social media in the 90s, there was no Netflix and streaming services in the 90s, internet worked like crap in the 90s, there was no smart phones in the 90s, not many people had cell phones in the 90s, there was not many good movies in the 90s, and video games are a lot better today than they were in the 90s. Music today is also a lot better than it was in the 90s.
I think today's world is a lot better than it was in the 1990s. I think the 1990s is very overrated.
Thats exactly how it was for me.
I loved growing up in the 80s and 90s. The world sucks today
Blaze Star I like the 80s and 90s too, but my mom and dad said that the 80s and 90s sucked, it's an age thing.
Susie H I agree so much better.
Susie H yeah they were good but now is alright too, it’s just cause you were young
drinkbleach the 90’s where better. The world has gone crazy today. I graduated high school in 97, no smartphones, no social, you actually had to talk to people.
You knew your neighbors and they looked out for you. My street we would parties that started at one house and ended at another. I would give up all this technology and do it all over again.
Joe Moffa well it’s your generation that created technology, not us. So the blame is on you older people that fucked it up for us.
The 90s was the best time to grow up in!
80s where better
@@gjmarin2004 dont get me wrong the 80s was fun too, very colorful and lots of hair, big hair lol I think 90's was better only because of the technology boom. We had tapes, CDs, slimmer TVs, Nintendo and gaming consoles and the internet. The 80s was fun but the 90s is where we got all our technology from.
I was born in the 80s so I can't really say I lived through the 80s as a adult so I may be biased just a little lol
Yup 80s all the way.
I agree
Gloria i was born in 82 and am happy to have gotten to enjoy it both the 80s and 90s❤Idk which was best lol I love your name btw👍@GloriaM
Pluto will always be a planet I don’t care about anything else we might have a 10th planet or something like that but Pluto will always be the ninth planet
No Pluto is not a planet it is a dog Disney would of told you that lol
I think it’s a wayward moon of Neptune. Got knocked out of it’s orbit a long time ago.
Science geeks are really picky about their words.
@@man_made_marsupial There's an argument going on between the planetary scientists and the astrophysicists who dominate the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and decide this stuff. Actually, a tiny minority of the IAU membership rammed this flawed definition through at the 2006 IAU conference in Prague, at the last minute, after most participants had gone home, in violation of the organization's own by-laws, and the organization doesn't want to revisit it, but that makes no difference to the planetary scientists, especially after the New Horizons probe flew past Pluto a few years ago and the world got a good look at it. They tend to use the geophysical definition. They don't know what else to call Pluto except a planet. The science media sometimes acknowledges that the astronomers aren't unanimous on this but they usually parrot the IAU line.
Ceres is a planet, too, according to the geophysical definition of planet, and orbiting next beyond Mars it's Planet 5, so Pluto is really Planet 10, but it's a planet.
As a guy who born in 90s I miss going to Blockbuster and actually going outside instead of parents worried about where we were mostly.
#11 phones did keep getting progressively smaller....until 2005 when we realized we could use them for streaming porn than they started getting bigger and bigger again.
yet stupidly thin and fragile, what a shit generation, need priorities.
Lol! This a most keen observation! +1
Also designed to break/ smash better than they did before.... greed learns... lol...
Ha! Ain't that the truth!
Lol, so trur.
I miss the 90's. It was by far the best decade of my life!!!
Gunslinger454, me too!! The best moments & memories of my life happened in the 90s!
Same here , a much more simpler time
You are a true 90s kid if you were born in the 80s!
Matt Moore exactly
People born in 1990 or 1991/2 are the best 90 kids bc they are the only 90s kids actually born in the 90s. We are a lucky breed.
...and you can recite the lyrics to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme in your sleep.
+Matt Moore Right on. The best way was to have the 90's end just slightly after you become an adult; this way you could look back at your child years while still in the same decade, and still be old enough to go into the new millennium being able to drive (with a few years experience) and other adult-only things.
or the late 70's, i was born in 79.
Man o man I miss the good old days of actually going to the video store hauling ass after school on Friday in the early 90's lol good times
Me too! It was the greatest pilgrimage of the week. You got to hit the section you wanted and pick your favorite flicks. Remember putting the tape over the little black socket to tape over movies
Y2K was a legitimate concern. The problem was solved. The media sensationalized the the whole thing about 3 years after it was already been worked on.
My computer from 1992 had a calendar that went to 2092. That's why I knew it was bullshit.
Your consumer computer from 1992 probably had a 286 or 386 32bit cpu witih at least 1-2mb of ram and a phoenix BIOS with an updated CMOS. It wasn't a mainframe running 8biit or 16bit architecture from the 70s that needed to save memory so they dropped 16bits from the date so they could fit more into memory.
I know little about computers for companies from that time. I'll give you that.
I always assumed that if my trash computer was decent enough to survive the technological apocalypses, then so were theirs.
That being said... given the P.O.S. that I work on today... I'm not entirely sure why I've upheld that belief all these years. Never thought about it, I guess.
Agree, especially in government in embedded software. The task for many companies was also to fix several other problematic dates which I'm surprise people are unaware of. I guess the work that was done was a great success. I would like to be pointed to unsuccess fixes.
Interesting.
That Pogs where cool. Seriously remember that? Useless circles of cardboard everywhere.
Josh of the Zombies I never understood the point of POGS.
Yeah and tazzos
LOVED Pogs!
Them and crazy bones were dope
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I remember when they used to say that cell phones gave you brain tumors.
Some people still think that. www.scientificamerican.com/article/major-cell-phone-radiation-study-reignites-cancer-questions/
They do. Only a fool would use one. Here in the UK, all cellphones come with a leaflet explaining the health risks. We are told to use a cellphone only for short periods, and that children should not use it at all. We live in a world of fools who ignore these serious risks.
Shawn Ravenfire There's still a chance they do. Also, l cringe when i see women hide them in their blouse's. Could cause breast cancer. No one knows for certain.
Lee Bee who tells us to only use them for short periods and children not to use them-the nhs? I've never heard this before
***** What? You're going to have to speak up. :-)
I fell for the "A degree will get you a good job" lie too. Also, Pluto is a planet again in 2019.
A lot of people do. Don't get me wrong, it is a good advantage to have and does increase your chances. But way to many people get it in their head if they have a degree 75,000 a year will just land into your lap, but if not... poverty and minimum wage for the rest of your life. Don't think that is good for kids to go into the adult world thinking.
Jokes on you guys. I couldn’t get a co-signer for my student loans. I was devastated but, in retrospect, it was a blessing.
C'mon, we all know the 90s didn't REALLY end until like 2004 :p
I'd say 90's culture ended after 9/11 somewhere around 2002.
Haha true.
That goes for every decade, it always ends 3 years +/- a year later, for example 1980s didn't need until '92 for some and '94 for others.
For some, the decades never end, they live in perpetual decade decay.
"like" 2004!? WTF does that even mean?!
"...that cell phones would blow up gas stations." In the case of the Samsung Galaxy, you didn't even need the gas station.
9oldmen just airports
#FAH funny as hell
Reading this on a Samsung Galaxy... Fantastic phablet, never so much as a puff of smoke. 😁
Doesn't matter what anyone says. Pluto is a planet to me
What else you think the world is flat too?
+XxDuB STePxX Of course not. However since I was small Pluto being a planet is what I was taught. In fact I was really surprised to hear it wasn't one when I was around 13.
It's basically something I 'want' to believe. It's something I still believe.
+Scoin0
Things change, wether you like it or not. We advance and learned that Pluto isn't a planet. You can still believe it is, but you'll make yourself look like fool just because it's what you were taught.
+XxDuB STePxX why are you an ass? Hateful little shit. Of course things change. I acknowledged that. People still believe things they were taught long after they've been disproven. Even now with that new common core, I get super confused when I read my nieces homework and trying to help them. But it's the way they were taught it's supposed to be "easier". It's like nostalgia, it's something I remember and like.
Pluto is currently considered a dwarf plant but thanks for trying.
“Parents have to check their kids halloween candy for poison”
Now it’s just drugs 😂
Hi. I'm generation X. That started back when I was in 2nd grade. President Reagan pushed halloween back to November first that year in 1982 I'm 44 now and diabetic, so the sugar is what I have to worry about, not razor blades, poison, or '* gasps* cracked glass! It got so bad that news stations were urging everyone to bring kids' bags of candy to hospital X-ray rooms to get surveyed.
No drugs are GIVEN out
I like how you guys actually reply to fans. Shows more dedication than a lot of youtubers.
Thank you! We really do enjoy interacting with the fans because you guys are awesome! - Juan
keep making great vid!
One the reasons I love list 25
That's because they get like 70k views per video!
+Tristan@List25 The Video Guy Hey Tristan! You and Mike play off of each other so well!!! You two should do more videos together!!!
Pluto's a planet again!! Yeah for Pluto!!
I still got my blockbuster card.
So does my husband.
there is a gold member card also
There's a Blockbuster about three and a half hours away from me. Not worth it.
The best reason for nostalgia that i found so far was that "people become nostalgic in response to life adversities"
Meaning: people become nostalgic in attempt to feel good about themselves and the world again
Absolutely. The 90s was great. I was turning 12 in 1990. Got to live as a child, a teen, and an adult. Amazing
I loved going to my local movie rental place when I was a kid. It was part of the bowling alley actually. Every Friday my dad, brother, and I would rent five or six movies for the weekend...on VHS tapes even!! LOL It was great!! I give the experience two thumbs up 👍👍
That whirring sound of having to rewind the VHS tapes
No real member of generation x felt the future was bright.
D Lynn, I don’t think most of us thought much about the future back then. I graduated high school in 97, I really didn’t think about where I would be in 5 to 10 years, never would of thought about over 20 years. Looking back I wish I had.
@@Jmmoffa dont, atleast you were living in the present.
Right
Oh we thought about the future we u
Just knew the world Disorder would be around when. We were older , our Grandfather's and father's would raise us for Warfare, mine was WW2 Army Air Corps Drill Seargent Sherriff and dad was us Navy ECM Reconaisance Vietnam 3 tours in Country 65 to 68... Damn I'm glad I can pick up any tool or Armaments and use with Expert proficiency...
It is just incredible how badly things fell apart after Gen X went underground.
I grew up in the 50's, 60's and 70's and in my eyes Pluto will always be a planet..and you all are so so young
Doesn't matter when you grew up. Pluto is a planet according to the geophysical definition that astronomers who study planets use.
To us 90s kids, Pluto will always be a planet.
I remember in middle school my teacher telling me that in college we wouldn't be allowed to use calculators. First day of math class in college and the teacher has the type of calculator she wants us to have written on the board.
Most likely a Texas Instrumental Scientific Calc.
Is there a college math instructor that *doesn't* allow calculators?
i was a baby when the 90s ended and pluto is a planet
harambe is planet too
So is Nibiru
+ibiskool ibrahim yes. I named a planet after Harambe on No Man's Sky.
They keep going back and forth on that, it's pretty much useless to try and categorize a specific phenomenon.
Yes it is.
R.I.P. Blockbuster 😭
I know, right? :(
We have the last blockbuster where I live
@@saintsfan2210 Is that the one they did the documentary on ? On Netflix I think or one of streaming sites.
In Oregon ? It’s really cool how the community & devoted family kept it in business.
Pluto has been reinstated as a planet
Cursive writing is what all our original documents were written in, ie: Constitution,Declaration Of Independence.....
Neat.
I've never thought of that. Great point!
I posted this on another comment about cursive writing.
I agree with the cursive. How are going to sign legal documents?
More importantly, if you can't WRITE in cursive, how can anyone expect you to READ cursive. There are a lot of historical documents written in cursive, if you can't read it for yourself you will just have to take the word of older generations of what it says. We can tell you anything. With all the Gen Z's being offended by all the "ugly, hateful" history everything is being sugar coated. 'If we do not know history (the good and the bad), we are doomed to repeat it.'
There’s a Star Trek episode about that from 1968
LOL..the calculator bit. totally. But uh..I don't know anyone who believed the halloween candy thing after the 80s. And pluto will ALWAYS be a planet :p
So true.. To me The end of the 90s was the end of the age of innocence... I never thought that the 90s would end, it was the best of times. I mean it had its share of setbacks but I can never again be that young girl, the youth of growing up, Grandeous times... The 90s weren't supposed to end.. But they did... 😢😢
Who in the hell was performing surgery on infants without anesthesia?
Doctors who cut off the foreskins of babies? They do it all the time. There's fucking thousands of nerves in there! Haven't you seen how much children scream during the ooperation?
Love the video :) hi again Mike
+Tristan@List25 The Video Guy hello Tristan 😂
+Tristan@List25 The Video Guy damn it Tristan! Jk hi lol I didn't know anyone else reads the comment
Hi Tristan. I got your back. lol
+Tristan@List25 The Video Guy hello Tristan
+Tristan@List25 The Video Guy lol sorry 😭 you were just 3 when 90s end
You forgot that now the world will end due to a lack of bees.
Actually, Apple was on the brink of going out of business in the early 2000's until Bill Gates gave Steve Jobs money to develop the IPod...the rest is History.
This was pretty awkward, borderline bad. Number one, Pluto is a planet, is not what people used to believe in the '90s, Pluto was defined as a planet. The definition of a planet would be redefined in 2006 by astrophysicists, and consequently Pluto no longer fit the definition.
Pluto is a planet. Always will be.
No it didn't, there are talks about giving it planet status again due to it's atmosphere making it bigger than previously though. Nobody with any authority, NASA, have yet to give it's planet status back.
Pluto is a big rock, and stays that way whatever you call it. It like calling your car an automobile, a vehicle, a motor or Sandra, it's still the same car!
Found the VILE Plutonian.
AFTER HIM
NASA is not the center of the universe, why would we need to wait for them? It is not like they own Pluto.
Maciej Chromiński Because it's scientists and science committees and boards that decide stuff like this, not random idiots who know fuck all on the internet.
If you grew up in the ninteys then cell phones were rare.
Cell Phones were not Rare.... I started working for Cellular One in 1991 and I can tell you we were installing phones in cars as fast as we could!! It started out mostly Businesses (Yes your phone was installed in your car lol)
no, cell phones have been around 17 years (in 1990), and 26 years (in 1999)
+Mark L so your saying that every one and there mom had cell phones in the ninteys? I remember in about 98 thay pagers were the cool thing to have.
and in 1990 there was already 5 million sold, and in 1999 there was 86 million
so they were not rare in the 1990's
+mai72 oh yeah :P
While all of these points are accurate, I still miss the 90s SO MUCH!!! The 80s made me and the 90s raised me and I wouldn’t change that for ANYTHING!!! P.S. I really miss this channel! 😩😢
I still write in cursive, mostly exclusively. It's a dying art.
Mandie Taylor Cursive was already dying out in the 80s and 90s during my youth. We learned it, but very few kids wrote in cursive on a regular basis. The older generation, kids of the 40s and 50s, still use it on a regular basis.
Mandaprie
Write me a letter.
Mandaprie same here
My kids still have to learn cursive in school and have to write in it. I like the schools here in Wyoming.
My handwriting went to shit. :\
I remember having anxiety over the bees. Thanks Monsanto! (now I have anxiety over the bees dying. Thanks Monsanto!)
I heard that from teachers constantly (You won’t walk around with a calculator in your pocket) No I’m gonna walk around with a whole computer in my pocket💯😂
SJW's and feminism and regressives were not a huge problem in the 90's like it is in 2016
There weren't as many ignorant trolls either.
Those ideas didn't spring forth from the mud on a rainy day, sir. They were cultivated in universities well through the 90's and allowed for the progressive boom we see today. The sociology courses being taught today are being led by the students of those ideas from the 90's.
I mean, do you think this is the only generation that has mocked overly sensitive feminists in college? Shit man, the 90's created that stereotype.
+scarletfluerr Found the feminist
anyone who ISN'T a feminist will get to go in a bunker and we will nuke the whole planet :)
+Aleski Kortelainen feminists will just whine about having to do their own work
Cute. You have to remember, though, everything is relative, especially time. To you guys, the 90's are "old school", to me it is the 50's. No one can see the future, so things you believe now will be made fun of in twenty years, just like you're doing here. However, the one thing that will never change, no matter which generation (including mine), people between, oh..18 to 30, think they know everything there is to know about anything. The older you get, the more you look back and realize you were an idiot. LOL
Lol, yes, true! I'm 35, so I've already been there & done that!
True
Sad but true!
You never know how things will work out.
Why I own the entire boxed set of Miami Vice!
I knew birds were dinosaurs and everyone thought I was crazy, take that scientists!!!
Kids nowadays don't know what thrill was waiting for your parents to take you to Blockbuster on Fridays
Damn right bout that lol
Good ol days
I'm so glad I grew up in the 80's. Although, I have to say that, by and large, the 90's had better movies. A LOT of 80's movies were just plain GOOFY.
Marilyn Manson had some of his ribs removed so he could give himself mouth hugs.
Blowjobs
Phones did disappear... it turned into a preinstalled app and it's hardly used compared to other functions available on your mobile.
The New Years 1999, my foster mom was so afraid of what could happen (even just crazies acting stupid and intentionally hurting people) She held a New Years party for us and our friends. I told her son "wouldn't it be funny to turn off the breaker at midnight?"
He snuck away when everyone else started counting down, just as everyone said "one" the lights went out. His mom says "Well, it has started" (not even thinking about time zone or countries that were an entire DAY ahead of us. My best friends sister looked out the window and says "Funny the Christmas lights down at the trailer are still ON!"
Dang it, forgot to close the curtains!
Shout out to Mike and Tristan for the Psych reference at the end.
You know that's right. ~Mike
Cmon son
i'm glad i grew up in the 90s! I miss blockbuster too..i used to rent games every weekend
I loved the 90’s!! ❤️
During the Y2K era. A lot of churches were flooded across every city in every state.
Then again in 2012
90s was an awesome decade to grow up in. We had good tunes and good movies. Happy Days!
That stuff about the "optimism of the 90s" is sheer baloney. That optimism has existed in pretty much every decade since the end of WWII
True, but I miss the optimism that we had in the 90s. We really had so little to worry about back then. We had no idea, at the time, just how good we had it. Here in the 2010s, there was zero optimism. We're at the end of the decade now, & things just keep getting darker & darker.
I grew up in the late 60s and early 70s, the world is a much better place. Also, they need to still teach cursive writing in school. It's quicker and easier on the hand than printing.
David Griffin I was born in 1958. I’ve had the best of it all.😘❤️
The 90's was the best era to grow up in
Poison Halloween candy and college have been thought to be true long before the '90's.
The razor blades and such in the candy.
Pluto is a dog! not a planet
Pluto was indeed a god in Disney cartoons those days.
+The Legend pluto is also a god for the romans and a dwarf planet
+ShadowHunter I'm a little person and I take offense to this
+BURRITO MAN i don't mean offence I'm saying pluto is a small planet its a fact
+BURRITO MAN and besides im small
I grew up in the ‘60’s and there is no other era that can compare with this time. People mostly got along and music was the best.
Any decade beats this one.
I agree with 60s music being amazing, but people absolutely did NOT mostly get along. That was kind of the point of the 60s and the hippie era. Civil rights, women's rights, anti-war and violence, etc. was rampant in the 60s; and was probably the most beautiful part of that decade. Needless to say, none of that "got along" with the status-quo.
When I bought a minidisk player you couldn't fit all of your music onto an mp3 player, so I reasoned it was a better option to buy an md player and a bunch of minidisks. It was stolen, so I can't say if it was a good idea at the time.
i liked the idea that they didn't skip or as easily
The 90s a lovely blur :)
Woah, hold up... Tristan is only like 19???
lucky you weren't born Feb 29th!
+Tristan@List25 The Video Guy Mike's comment in the beginning threw me off haha. You're exactly a month older than me then
+Tristan@List25 The Video Guy I was born exactly 10 years earlier. To the day😁 didn't expect you to be that young 😆
How'd he get the job so young?
u are easier on the eyes then mike :) , no offence to mike lol
I DON"T CARE WHAT SOME EGG-HEADED KNOW-IT-ALL SAYS, PLUTO IS A PLANET!!!!!!!!!! (mic drops)
It's not a planet. You're an idiot.
encycl07pedia I don't agree with either statement. and name calling makes you look stupid sport.
daniel boyd cooper calm down jerry lol
daniel boyd cooper Pluto is not a planet.
Pluto is a dwarf planet because it orbits differently... Idc what idiots say, I know my facts.
I think we can be happy today too.
We just have to work on becoming better as beings.
Do your best people.
Dont wait for the world to become better.
Your chemistry and banter together is really awkward and cringey
^^ amazing. Almost like dad humor.
I think that's what they are going for...? It's a brilliant strategy, because if it's funny, cool.. and if it isn't, that's fine too, because they were going for cringe.Pretty sneaky, Tris.
I feel like they are actually quiet guys but they are trying to look outgoing and talkative.
Agreed
I miss Blockbuster so damn much lol
yeah, now i got to freeze my butt off outside in the cold waiting for the people in front of me at the red box to hurry theair ass up.
Redbox: like Netflix for people who can't even afford $8 a month. +spac lee Do you have shoes or do you just walk barefoot all the time?
encycl07pedia wtf you talking about bitch?😂
Rexbox doesn't have much of a selection. What was good about Blockbuster and especially Mom & Pop stores was that they would often have really obscure titles, or you could ask them to get a specific title, and the owners would comply if you were a regular customer.
Volkswagen MK6 GTI im there with u
Great episode, but blockbuster sucked because of the late fees.
...or they didn't buy out Netflix for a few million when offered to in its early days.
Except for the fact that, at the time, Netflix only did DVD mail delivery and not video streaming.
+Mechadude32 they were investing into video streaming at that time and Blockbuster knew it and thought it wouldn't take off due to internet plans at the time and how much the streaming demanded in comparison from what I'm told.
yes netflix was defeating blockbuster before streaming. blockbuster then started doing mail deliveries aswell. you could get a movie from the store or through the mail. you could return the movie through the mail or return the mailed movie to the store and get a movie on the spot. i thought it was pretty good since they had a mailing system and a store but netflix still won lol. i know because blockbuster was my first job. worked there in 05-06
Or... keep them because BBs disappearing in the 2010's.
Their was such an uproar about Pluto not being a planet anymore that they made it a planet again.
we're living in the past. 90's - 2012 was the future.
Being born in 76 I feel like more of an eighties kid but coming of age in the nineties was awesome. Everyone was in a band and had a gig in someone’s backyard on the weekend.
I was born in 77 but for some reason I feel like I grew up in the 90’s
Recent studies suggest Pluto has an atmosphere closer to that of a planet than that of a dwarf planet. Not only that, but its surface behaves and looks like a rock planet. So deal with it.
True, but the issue about Pluto's planethood is the fact that it's tidally locked with it's moon, and the two bodies are in a binary rotation around a gravitational sync in space, rather than the moon orbiting Pluto
Joshua Ryan earth and it’s moon are tidally locked and the rotation is in space, not around earth. So... no.
It's a dwarf planet, not a rock planet. It's never gonna get a promotion in the type of planet it is. Atmospheric composition isn't a factor in the determination of size. Checkmate, fool who thinks that a dwarf planet is not a planet.
I was a kid in the 90s, but my parents never went to Blockbuster, we just went to a local rental video place... that had a pinball machine and an arcade machine! Fun times xD
But then I went to the library where checking out vhs and dvds was free which was much better when I was young xD
Blockbuster was really expensive too. I always went to video stores ran by local people and not big businesses. They were cheaper.
@@leeannasloan2292 Yeah, the only time I went to Blockbuster was to get a job there, but you had to be over 18 to even work there. So, it was a bummer for me since I was 17 at the time.
Damn this video makes me feel old as hell. lol
My only worry about Y2k was that some drunk idiot would hit a power pole somewhere, knock of power to a mid sized town and the people in the town would lose their shit and start rioting and freaking out and that would cause a lot of trouble. Other than that I wasn't worried. :)
Yeah that and if some hackers decided to mess with people by cutting off the power at midnight, that woulda been messed up
T Shuart Yeah, I was much more worried about stuff like that than anything actually happening. :)
I figured Y2K was a load of crap invented by software companies to make money. I did nothing at all to take any precautions, turned on my computer on January 1st, 2000 to see what I expected - nothing.
astrophonix No doubt that it was all hype. I was just worried with so many people on edge that any little thing was going to set them off.
You have to remember there were actually people stocking up on supplies and expecting the end of the world. So yeah, some drunk accidentally knocking off the power in a town and I could see that town going nuts.
@astrophonix - reason nothing happened is because years before companies fixed their software. i was doing that in '96
I think I was among the last to learn cursive in school, also because of this my print handwriting never progressed past 5th grade level. I rarely write in print anyway...
I was robbed for my Steelers Starter jacket by a kid with a flare gun, and he stolen my waterproof Sony Walkman too, with my Public Enemy tape 😅😂🤣
Top 25 cringiest moments!
+Tristan@List25 The Video Guy : How about the 25 most cringing moments in RUclips history? And perhaps turing it into a collaboration another RUclips channel?
None, if you use Mike's puns.
+Tristan@List25 The Video Guy There are cringy moments and cringy cringy moments
cringiest moments of what? everything??? jesus dude thatd be a lot
That's just a recap of list25 videos
The first thing I always have to wonder about these kinds of videos is if the people making them are even old enoufh to truly remember the time periods they're talking about. My guess is no.
There will be some -stalker- fan who wants to smell like Mike.
Hey now... Ummm...Hey Tristan, did you know Mike smells the same when he's asleep... ???
***** Quite possibly :D
Fun fact, Y2K would have actually caused a massive issue, maybe not as big as the hype and soothsaying, but was it not for people all over working overtime, working long hours hopped up on caffeine, cigarettes, and the weight of the world resting on them to get things fixed, the "Y2K bug" wouldn't have gone as smoothly as it did.
So these are just 25 things you just made up?
These were common beliefs at the time.
+Boxing Resistance - No, they weren't. Just as one example...from the VERY BEGINNING, Ask Jeeves was mocked. IT was always a TINY bit player in the search market way behind Yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos. Many of the others are things that only IDIOTS believe...like that babies didn't need anesthesia or that IT meant job for life. (Only idiots believed ANY skillset meant a job for life by the 90s.)
Yeah, I was a kid/teen in the 90s and some of these are true - but not all of them. Not even MOST of them. I could probably name some that were more accurate ... the gov't is suppressing the hydrogen engine, for instance, or the black helicopters or the worldwide permanent banking collapses. Lots and lots of stuff they didn't mention.
daffers234 Nobody believed any of tha crap either. A few wackos who believe in EVERY conspiracy (conspiracy wackos never stop at just one) does not really make something a belief. Just something that people tell themselves so they can avoid accepting the reality that their life failures are their own fault
True.
You still need to learn cursive. Without it you can't read old documents or letters from older family members.
I don't think they teach cursive in school anymore, except in a calligraphy class or something.
It does not matter they do not read anyway!
I'm from the UK and find it really weird how Americans act like cursive is super difficult.
It's not difficult, nice try at taking a juvenile shot at America. Some people don't like cursive, just like anywhere else. Always somebody trying to take a shot at us, until they need us to save their ass
@@kingofcrows8829 Russia saved everyone's ass in WW2 just by sheer numbers so don't take the high horse on this one pal and you were only interested in saving your own, that's why you waited so long to join in the war (AND had us pay for every bullet, uniform and tin of spam).
You didn't save anyone except yourselves. selfish cunts!
this started with a comment about cursive.
Kit Bear um, this is wrong on almost every level, without a Western Front Germany could have fought on and on and the UK and Free France couldn’t have created a western front without the US. Also, without the US Japan would’ve likely created an eastern front against Russia cutting off its oil. The US also sent millions worth of materiel to Russia under lend lease.
It wasn't difficult for my generation! We completely owned cursive writing!
I love Tristan's little doggie! Its so cute 😍
26: "Captain America would become Miss America."
Sorry, Mike, but Tristan is right: Google all the way!
That's what a lie sounds like. ~Mike
Bing rules google drools!
duck duck go
duck duck go.
In the 90's, everyone stopped with drug use. *super laughable*
The 90s where so great to grow up in!!! I was born in 84, so I got the full 90s experience as a kid and I loved it!!!!
Who else misses meeting interesting people in Blockbuster? I met some great people who knew so much about the different genres! Online is not the same at all!
last time I went to blockbuster was in 2006.
Last time I went to Blockbuster was in 2017 finding a small one in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Last time I went was in 2012, it was right across the street from my house. Sucks cause that blockbuster opened in 2009 or 2010 so it barely lasted.
I went last year before it closed down, it was the last in my area.
2008 for me
90s had the best music
Danny Hoyt idk about that. I was born in 80. 90s music was depressing. There was some good shit tho
Danny Hoyt you mean 80s* 😂
Just no
Danny Hoyt 70s and 80s
Vector Vent yes the 80s. 😀
That kid needs to control his eyebrows =P
I hate that young guy.
For real. Wtf is up with them
They both are cool you guys are just dicks
We need to return blockbuster (video rentals) to the world.
People need a reason to go out.
Now everyone stays indoors.