Things growing up in the 90's that the current generation doesnt understand

[1987_Lakers]

I'll start



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLApAmSQQ5U

[SATAN]

Internet wasn't the corporate manipulative ad infested tracking instrument that it is now. Not close to the same extent anyway. As the saying goes, we used to "surf the web".

[jstern]

How old is RRR3?

[SATAN]

How old is RRR3?

I'm in my 30s.

[SouBeachTalents]

1. The Blockbuster experience. Going out of your house, driving to the video store, picking out a movie to watch on VHS, rewinding it when you were done, then driving back to return it a week later.

2. Having to buy the whole CD for an album you might only like 2-3 songs on, then when going on a trip, having to bring a dozen different CD's with you so you could switch them in and out of your discman, having to use a pair of clunky ass, not particularly comfortable headphones.

3. Needing to set aside time for when one of your favorite shows would come on during the week. No DVR, no streaming, if you weren't there for when your show was on, you straight up missed the episode, and wouldn't have the opportunity to watch it for a long time.

4. Sportscenter actually being an important source for news. In the primitive era of the internet, that was legitimately the only way to know what happened in the world of sports that night, and the only opportunity to see the highlights.

5. Having to actually call your friends landline phone and speak with their parents or sibling to see if they were home.

[iamgine]

Recording songs off the radio

[1987_Lakers]

Who watched this as a teen?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwIV5lo7xQ

[diamenz]

pagers.

[Patrick Chewing]

When show theme songs were just as good if not better than the actual show.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9aDMuBjR7Q

[fsvr54]

1. The Blockbuster experience. Going out of your house, driving to the video store, picking out a movie to watch on VHS, rewinding it when you were done, then driving back to return it a week later.

2. Having to buy the whole CD for an album you might only like 2-3 songs on, then when going on a trip, having to bring a dozen different CD's with you so you could switch them in and out of your discman, having to use a pair of clunky ass, not particularly comfortable headphones.

3. Needing to set aside time for when one of your favorite shows would come on during the week. No DVR, no streaming, if you weren't there for when your show was on, you straight up missed the episode, and wouldn't have the opportunity to watch it for a long time.

4. Sportscenter actually being an important source for news. In the primitive era of the internet, that was legitimately the only way to know what happened in the world of sports that night, and the only opportunity to see the highlights.

5. Having to actually call your friends landline phone and speak with their parents or sibling to see if they were home.

All of these

[Overdrive]

1. The Blockbuster experience. Going out of your house, driving to the video store, picking out a movie to watch on VHS, rewinding it when you were done, then driving back to return it a week later.

2. Having to buy the whole CD for an album you might only like 2-3 songs on, then when going on a trip, having to bring a dozen different CD's with you so you could switch them in and out of your discman, having to use a pair of clunky ass, not particularly comfortable headphones.

3. Needing to set aside time for when one of your favorite shows would come on during the week. No DVR, no streaming, if you weren't there for when your show was on, you straight up missed the episode, and wouldn't have the opportunity to watch it for a long time.

4. Sportscenter actually being an important source for news. In the primitive era of the internet, that was legitimately the only way to know what happened in the world of sports that night, and the only opportunity to see the highlights.

5. Having to actually call your friends landline phone and speak with their parents or sibling to see if they were home.

Ad 5.

An appointment was binding. Not appearing meant that person would wait 15 or 30mins and leave.
During summer we just went to the blacktop and our friends would appear one after another. We knew good weather meant basketball.

[John8204]

1. You used to have options when going to the movies. You could see a major comedy almost every other week.

2. Nudity in movies was in an almost caste system...where you had legitimate sexy movies that were released in theaters, cable soft core porn, actual porn that you had go to a store and buy, and basic cable sex. Nowadays you can find whatever you want online...but notthing in mainstream films.

3. Commercials didn't have big name stars or popular current music. When celebrities started selling stuff on commercials people made fun of them (Elizabeth Taylor, White Diamonds).

4. You didn't carry bottled water/big dumb cups around with you. Maybe you would have mints or gum but if you wanted something to drink you went to a fountain.

5. We were very comfortable when it came to clothing. Flannel's, big starter jackets, baggie jeans, sweaters you didn't see men's thighs, arms, and nipples out...women would only wear skin tight clothing to the gym and you would never see thongs at the beach.

6. It was a huge deal when a star left a team...Barkley to Phoenix, Shaq to LA, Ken Griffy Jr to Cincinnati Joe Montana to Kansas City, Gretzky to New York

[SATAN]

Overrating the current basketball players.

We Done Wit Da 90s!!

[Axe]

Cars in that era mostly had crappy 4-speed automatics back then and didn't have huge infotainment screens yet. At least we get to see them now with 6 to 10 gears and head-units that have smartphone capability.

[Wally450]

Having to get off the internet because my parents needed to use the phone.

[tpols]

Pirating movies and music off lime wire. :lol

And having it tak e 4 hours to download on dial up aol.

[Hey Yo]

1-900 numbers

[diamenz]

dad inviting his weird friends over to play games that i didn't like.

[Patrick Chewing]

dad inviting his weird friends over to play games that i didn't like.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0f/04/37/0f04377fd5dab138e5c4b68456126da7.gif

[Norcaliblunt]

90’s were wack as shit especially the late 90’s.

Anyone who was old enough to actually grow up in the 90’s knows this.

[Axe]

Traffic bt was good too compared to today.

[L.Kizzle]

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned. Saturday Morning Cartoons or just Cartoons in general after school. Fox Kids or WB kids. I'm not even sure if Cartoons even come on the night 4 networks of NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox.
Even shows geared towards kids/teens like Saved By The Bell and even NBA Inside Stuff was geared towards the younger crowd.

[jstern]

Cars in that era mostly had crappy 4-speed automatics back then and didn't have huge infotainment screens yet. At least we get to see them now with 6 to 10 gears and head-units that have smartphone capability.


Traffic bt was good too compared to today.

In an attempt to reach his goal and get 100,000 post as fast as humanly possible, Axe has resorted to inserting himself into this thread to post about life in the 90s, when he wasn't even alive yet.

[Patrick Chewing]

In an attempt to reach his goal and get 100,000 post as fast as humanly possible, Axe has resorted to inserting himself into this thread to post about life in the 90s, when he wasn't even alive yet.

I was thinking the same thing. No way that fat hot pocket-eating jobless jabroni was alive in the 90's. :oldlol:

[Patrick Chewing]

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned. Saturday Morning Cartoons or just Cartoons in general after school. Fox Kids or WB kids. I'm not even sure if Cartoons even come on the night 4 networks of NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox.
Even shows geared towards kids/teens like Saved By The Bell and even NBA Inside Stuff was geared towards the younger crowd.

Yeah Saturday mornings for me was Reading Rainbow, X-Men, Saved By the Bell, and NBA Inside Stuff.

[Overdrive]

Pirating movies and music off lime wire. :lol

And having it tak e 4 hours to download on dial up aol.

I doubt you downloaded movies on a 56k modem on a platform that didn't even exist in the 90s. You're mixing up 90s and early 2000s. In the 90s you pirated off of newsgroups and movie pirating would've cost a fortune during most of the 90s.

[John8204]

I doubt you downloaded movies on a 56k modem on a platform that didn't even exist in the 90s. You're mixing up 90s and early 2000s. In the 90s you pirated off of newsgroups and movie pirating would've cost a fortune during most of the 90s.

Yeah you could only get music in the 90's and it took forever you would use up all your free AOL hours discs.

[Axe]

:blah
So freaking autistic he has to show everyone else in several threads that i have truly established a free real estate inside his incel pea brain. What a sore loser. :yaohappy: :facepalm

[Axe]

:mad:
As usual, whiny ass poopsie has to bring up food yet again so the others can see that the number of people weighing significantly less than him is higher now than when he joined this board way back in 2010. :hammerhead:

[warriorfan]

I doubt you downloaded movies on a 56k modem on a platform that didn't even exist in the 90s. You're mixing up 90s and early 2000s. In the 90s you pirated off of newsgroups and movie pirating would've cost a fortune during most of the 90s.

In the 90’s you could copy VHS if you had it set up and then there was the ability to burn CDs.

I think you are right though napster then kazaa and lime wire were at the tail end of 90’s/early 2000’s. It’s close enough where I can see the slight bleed through between the two eras though

[jstern]

I was thinking the same thing. No way that fat hot pocket-eating jobless jabroni was alive in the 90's. :oldlol:

I have this image in my head (http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?514478-Do-you-want-Patrick-Chewing-to-come-back&p=14841929&viewfull=1#post14841929) of Axe and RRR3 growing up in the 90s, best friends, living in the same neighborhood, with Axe coming over to RRR3's house to play PlayStation 1, getting served Hot Pockets by RRR3's mom. And the image popped into my head the day before this thread was created. I was thinking of it as something that could have been true if only Axe was born some 14 years earlier, and lived in the same neighborhood as RRR3.

Then again, Axe could also be one of RRR3's alts.

[Axe]

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS2NaNU6a3C5w4FwGArh0EOxp0oehpqS YH3TpLfMtdw-57Tbdd56jiarkWx&s=10
Get this psychotic incel some help ffs.

[Baller234]

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/male-female.jpg

[1987_Lakers]

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/male-female.jpg

:oldlol:

[TheMan]

Young people listened to rock music.

[Phoenix]

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/male-female.jpg

:roll:

[Phoenix]

https://media.tenor.com/m1FAtliDMkMAAAAM/blowme-blow.gif

[1987_Lakers]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC9d7ozsOwI

[Phoenix]

That PS1 intro sound was, is, and forever will be epic as fukk. That's one thing missing from modern consoles, a sense of 'personality' from those start-up jingles.

[tpols]

Ps1 was my first console. Crash Bandicoot 1st game, this was epic. Might have to buy the remastered version.

[rawimpact]

The importance of in-person social interactions

Loving your neighbors

And of course the following image. I was fortunate enough to grow up in socal during the early to mid 90s around kids my age all around my house. What a time that was... wouldn't trade it in for anything.

https://i.redd.it/0fxnzw3pareb1.jpg

[Patrick Chewing]

https://media.tenor.com/m1FAtliDMkMAAAAM/blowme-blow.gif

Think this qualifies for 80's actually.

[Phoenix]

Think this qualifies for 80's actually.

Qualifies for both, NES games were still being produced in the 90s plus you had SNES, Genesis and N64 cartridges.

[Patrick Chewing]

Qualifies for both, NES games were still being produced in the 90s plus you had SNES, Genesis and N64 cartridges.

That's true. I had a Genesis for many years after I quit playing the original NES and then from SEGA I went to the PS1. I missed out on the SNES and N64. Never had any trouble with my Sega console or games. Still have it to this day and I beat that console up with NCAA football games and NBA Jam.

[Phoenix]

That's true. I had a Genesis for many years after I quit playing the original NES and then from SEGA I went to the PS1. I missed out on the SNES and N64. Never had any trouble with my Sega console or games. Still have it to this day and I beat that console up with NCAA football games and NBA Jam.

Oh man, you really missed out. Have you tried emulating it?

[Patrick Chewing]

Oh man, you really missed out. Have you tried emulating it?

I actually am in the process of collecting all Sega games, OG Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One games. My collection grows every day actually. I'm in thrift stores and flea markets all the time trying to add to my collection. Only reason I don't attempt to collect SNES or N64 stuff is the high cost of these games. I can find disc games for a few bucks all over the place, but cartridge games are a different story.

[Hey Yo]

the impact of The Simpsons.

[Phoenix]

I actually am in the process of collecting all Sega games, OG Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One games. My collection grows every day actually. I'm in thrift stores and flea markets all the time trying to add to my collection. Only reason I don't attempt to collect SNES or N64 stuff is the high cost of these games. I can find disc games for a few bucks all over the place, but cartridge games are a different story.

I was heavy collecting about 10 years ago but when the prices skyrocketed I said fukk all that. I got a Steam Deck with the entire NES/SNES/Genesis libraries on it. Come to think of it I should track down some old Neo Geo stuff to put on there too.

[Airupthere]

Sick alley oop passes, double clutch layups, solid blocks in this game

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uD2wX5BC7co/hqdefault.jpg

[Phoenix]

Sick alley oop passes, double clutch layups, solid blocks in this game

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uD2wX5BC7co/hqdefault.jpg

NBA Give n Go SNES I think? Remember renting that back in the day....

[jstern]

NBA Give n Go SNES I think? Remember renting that back in the day....

I used to have this game for the Panasonic 3DO.