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I am 42 and I could literally overdose on nostalgia. The 90's was the last decade where there was still an innocence to life. They had the best movies, tv, and music. I sometimes sit and just close my eyes and go back to this time on my mind...just immersing myself in all the memories. I cry a lot just yearning for those days that I can never get back. The world is such a 💩show today and I just wish I could be a kid again. Just wanting to relive all those precious times 😢. I thank God for TH-cam...one of the only online platforms I really look at. . Long live the 90's !!!! 👍👍👍💜💜💜
I hate to say it but, the internet has a lot to do with how everything is going on in the world. It does have its pros but in my opinion the cons outweigh the pros.
I feel the same way. I am homesick for the 90's. We really didn't know how well we had it! I'm 41 as well and the amount of sadness is crazy! Music, movies and pictures are great time machines
As a fellow kid raised in the 90’s (born in ‘85), this list is a trip down memory lane. Mixtapes, paper fortune tellers, teen magazines, (I got 17 magazine for the stories and the freebies, I even won a few of them), having pen pals, libraries, bikes with handle bar streamers, CDs, AIM, dial up internet, the commercials, VHS tapes, PlayStation, blockbuster video, drive in theaters, going to the movies for repeat viewing, disposable cameras, malls, Mapquest, etc. I wasn’t that deep into tamagotchi though. I also never forgotten where I was and what I was doing when I learned of what happened to Lady Di and watched her funeral with my mom. The 90’s were a time, man.
Coming home from school and watching MTV..... Because they played music back then. Early 90's MTV was the best. GNR, BOYS II MEN, VANILLA ICE, MC HAMMER, METALLICA, AEROSMITH and Sooooo much GANGSTA RAP. I miss it 😢
Before Amazon if we ever wanted to get something really cool for a birthday or Christmas we'd have to look through the Sears catalog and put our initials next to something that we liked in the kids section. That was what we all look forward to was getting the Sears catalog and saying go crazy.
I still remember phone numbers from when I was a kid. And I even think them in my head in that rhythm that you talked about. Also, my son is 13, and he calls commercials “ads” and says he can’t stand them. The impatience drives me crazy! I wish he had learned to wait in his lifetime.
50s here. Our grammar school had no fences. At recess I went to my friends house to see her new baby brother. None of this constant control. There was a patch of woods past the school grounds. Loved to go there playing pirates, Tom Sawyer, Louis and Clark. Endless joy! We could hear the bell and the hoard of kids, sweaty and dirty, would pour out of the "forest". One Saturday we combat crawled through a field of watermelon when the farmer spotted us and fired his shotgun at us! What an adventure! We didn't have sidewalks, just ditches for water runoff. We'd build boats and run following them down through the culverts of each house. It was GREAT! Life for kids today is so boring being locked in their house all the time. Kid bullies you at school? Beat the hell out of him, her. No supervision. You were on your own and wouldn't be a problem to anyone or everyone would defend you. Supervisors just interrupt the normal cause and affect of kids at play.
his is so cool! As a Gen Z kid, I hope to live a life as adventurous and free as yours. If you don’t mind sharing, could you give the name of the town you grew up in. I’m sure it has changed from the 50s, but it sounds like a good town and I wanted to know. Thank you!
@cyirvine6300 yeah I used to walk home from school--in kindergarten. Just me and the key around my neck for 2 and a half miles. No biggie, everyone did it!! Nowadays I wouldn't DREAM of letting my girls walk home; not even from a bus stop. No fkn way.
I was born in 1978, so I do consider myself as a ‘70s kid, although most of my growing up was in the ‘80s. I love both this video and the ‘80s video you’ve done. I was 2 years old when Mt. St. Hellens blew in 1980.
I was born in the '70s but I just consider myself Generation X. It covers the era and not the decade. X was also the generation that all generations since secretly wish they were a part of.
I feel like we get to use two decades as our “kids” time since you’re 18 before you are considered an adult. Born in the early 80’s, graduating high school in the early 00’s.. I remember a lot of late 80’s and all of the 90’s. Then the 00’s were my early adult years (was a college Freshman on 9/11). This list was dead on from age 7 to 17 for me. Though I did try to give my own kids parts of this - large fenced property with wooded area, and two neighbors with the same set up and children.. we opened our fences to each other’s properties so the kids played outside all day, rode bikes, made forts, and had epic hide and seek games… and we didn’t have the need to “helicopter parent” them. Waiting anxiously to see movies on opening weekend with popcorn and drinks. Oh! Putting playing cards in the bicycle spokes so the bikes sounded like “motorcycles”, roller skating and going bowling! - But there are some parts you just can’t recreate.. the area we live in didn’t offer landline telephone services before they were old enough to remember they existed. They never have to ask to speak to a friend through their parents - or super cute older brother - or losing all nerve and hanging up. (Or listening in from the next room so you could tease or threaten to tell mom on your sister for what she and her boyfriend said.) They don’t know a world where they can’t instantly reach their friends, no matter where. Or even “call back after 9 when its free!” cell calls. Or the awful mistake of picking up the phone as a fax was coming through or when your dad was on the dial up internet - knocking him off. Eeek. We watched a movie the week of Halloween and the noise they used to set the spooky scene was the dial up internet screech. My husband and I laughed a lot about that one. My kids are in high school and my daughter found my old tamagotchi a few weeks ago. Add a battery and it still works. I “babysit” when she is at school. 😂 (Though I hated Titanic. Twister is the best 90’s movie).
That makes you an 80s kid. Guess brains were in low supply back then. Derp I'm a 70s kid I was 2 when it was over and I was a kid in the 80s derp derp guess that makes me 70s kid derp. It's not what decade you were born in. Duh.
I had the battery powered handheld games before the Gameboy, karnov was the one I still remember. Or books on tape, or sleeping for road trips. Much nostalgia on this video, thank you.
I was born in the early 70’s before computers ever existed. I grew up with a black & white tv until around 1980. We didn’t even have tapes until the 80’s. There wasn’t even the ability to record songs off the radio back then. We just listened to hear what we wanted. We had Wiffle Ball bats to entertain ourselves and major movies didn’t exist until 1977 with Star Wars which blew our minds back then. We had cool stuff like Electronic Football just blinking lights on a screen. Can you even imagine we rode our bikes around the neighborhood but not much else. Went to the neighborhood park. There was no mall.
I turned 35 in '95. I had two kids by then. They did play outside a lot! But I always knew where they were. I think being born in the 60's and growing up through the 70's, made me a more cautious parent. I love that you shared the innovation of kids in the 90's. Those WERE my kids. A lot of what you described has been passed down from the previous generations of kids. What people don't grasp is, it wasn't as innocent as we want to remember. There were a lot of very bad people then, too. As kids, we navigated quite a bit of rough environments. There were no child protective services, and we got our ass kicked. Adults didn't believe you when you spoke to bad things happening; we were being "dramatic". I got hit by a car, and never told my parents. They just would have said, "Weren't you watching where you were going?" I feel we strive to be better and present parents to our 90's kids. Some of us went too far to protect, shelter, placate these kids, and we're dealing with that now. I loved being a kid when I could go anywhere, basically alone. I loved being a mom. Parenting is not for the faint of heart. It does take a village because it is a high-wire balancing act, with hardly a net, if any. I can romanticize some of that time, but not all of it. I did enjoy your video. It obviously struck something in me, that needed to be said, I guess. 😂
I wish I could go back to that time something i would change growing up again and something I wouldn't change but I would still have fun not worrying about everything
The 90s is a decade that I'll truly miss. Always had a lot of freedom riding bikes. The Playstation was a very awesome revolutionary system. It introduced my brothers and I to the Resident Evil series.
Choose your own adventure books. Loved em. I also liked the the noise when hooking up to dial up internet. Just the excitement of finding someone to chat to, and explore.
Such, such nostalgia! This list IS my childhood...and man I really, really wish things could still be this way. People, put down your phones, computers, tablets, etc...trust your neighborhood and your children (the more you trust the more others will trust too), remember to have and spread happiness and remember your childhood and how much fun y'all had...and even anyone who has had any trauma back then there were still so many good times other than those down times. Plus it helps kids stay healthier (more active and even eat less due to being out having fun all day)! Remember and repeat those times with your children....PLEASE!!!
Especially trust your neighborhood. There are FAR more pedos accessing children online than they ever did by approaching them on playgrounds or streets.
Ah yes, recording songs from the radio... while the DJ talked over the beginning and/or end of the song! 😅 Also, i actually saw some tamagotchis being sold in a local shop here so they may be making a small comeback! Remember how at Christmas time, before amazon wishlists, (in the UK) we used an Argos catalogue and a highlighter? 😂
I actually rode in the truck with my cousin and one of my classmates to sneak in to a drive in, saw freaky Friday at the drive in at Dearborn Michigan, in my uncle's 1990 Cadillac Brougham aka the mob boss car 😂 I would have been 14 time.
as a child of the 1970s, I enjoyed my of these pleasures. I find the internet has tampered my enthusiasm for these activities. It is just not the same...Perhaps I am just old.
I'm 45, was at work tonight with my 18 yr old coworker. He asked what time it was. I said quarter past 11pm. He said, I don't know what that means lol They don't teach kids how to use a clock anymore since everything is digital. Smiled + said 11:15, my friend lol Loved growing up in the 80's + 90's!
Oh those wonderful days of spending the whole day outside. I remember leaving right after breakfast coming home around lunch to watch where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego and Wishbone on PBS Kids and then back out on my bike until the street lights came on. My sister's and I rode around what today would probably be considered a very bad neighborhood but to us was no big deal when do all the rules don't accept candy from strangers don't go into people's houses don't get into people's cars if something happens come right home it was a simpler time
I use to play outside all the time as a kid, using my imagination n having fun. Now I think “outside” and shudder. Also it is kinda weird that if a kid plays with a toy or does hide n seek everyone thinks it’s fine but if an adult does it with same type of toy or hide n seek with other adults ppl think it’s weird. Fun is fun. Though now it’s mostly pc or…..if you don’t have a soul, console games. I do miss exploring the neighborhood n going on long walks and discovering new things though. As a kid it was fun n fascinating, now it feels like a chore if I have to walk or go anywhere more than I absolutely have to.
I am a 60's kid (Adult, now)...and remember nearly all of these things. My Tamaguchi lasted about three days...overfed it, it died...never got another one.
SOOOOO TRUE, miss those days. I work at an elementary school, and the kids still go outside. Kindergartners have I PADS CRAZY CRAZY.Darrin North Dakota Former MARINE
@2:20 I'm a 90s baby... And my mom wouldn't have no idea where we were every day she would go out on the porch though when it was time for dinner and she would holler at the top of her lungs kid dinner
I still love the sound of dial ups and miss that sound and the sounds phones used to make when I was younger. The weirdest thing is people who use a ringtone that's a old US, rather than UK phone. Every single time I hear it, I hear The Rockford Files answer phone. 😁
Still friends with my pen pal from Scotland. Started on 6th grade. Was in her wedding as her maid of pen pal😁. She is a wonderful person. Yes, we still write actual letters to each other. The art of writing is gone. So 😔. Good old days😘
@@jennifermosley1243 We didn't even have a TV until the late 50's. Even though we lived in a good sized city, we spent a lot of time playing on the train tracks and on the wharves. Putting pennies on the tracks was a definite highlight.
My mom wanted to get on the internet sooooo bad, she had my sister’s old pc that still had a portioned hard drive between DOS and windows And it just wasn’t working - the manual dial up was especially problematic - she always got a busy signal because when it prompted her to enter her number, she entered her home phone number instead of the isp’s. I will never go to hell because I didn’t laugh when she showed me. so we decided to replace her cpu and hard drive and surprised her one Saturday and set things up so instead of 6 or 7 steps to connect to the internet she only had to push one button. I’ll never forget her reaction ‘ok mom, you are on the internet!’ ‘This is it? This is the internet ?!?’ This was when Clinton was banging on about the super information highway, she expected it to look more like Tron 🤣😄👏👏👏
Before the internet there was always television, even for a sixties kid like me. 📺❤️ I was never allowed out on my own, but then I had a back garden to play in, two brothers and local parks my late father, would take us to. Tape mixes started in the eighties, I remember doing it, to play at college. I still use my local library, but you get out books with a barcoded card. There are still books out there to read. One I got out recently, has inspired me to buy the entire set that it is from, when I can. In the UK blockbuster films always came out in time for school holidays, that's July to September, Easter and Christmas. Magazines of all kinds for all ages in the UK still have freebies, I love fashion magazines for the free perfume samples. I envy today's kids, they get to buy magazines with loads of free toys. I always took photos from art college in the eighties onwards, so my pad is full of them. I have ended up with an instant picture camera, my SLR from college, my late father's Box Brownie, a keyring camera which was lousy and an instamatic that stopped working. I really want a digital SLR, better than my pad's camera. I know my landline number, but can never remember my mobile number. 😁
I was born in February 1979 so I was a teenager in the 1990s. I went to a bording school and I loved it. A couple of my friends and I had Gameboys. If we had 2 player game, we had to link the 2 Gameboys up with a cable. There was no such thing as WiFi.
I was born in 81, so I was an 80's kid and 90's teen. My teen years were full of Bill Blass jeans, No Fear shirts, Big Johnson shirts, wearing flannel shirts (thanks to the grunge era), hanging out at the mall on Friday nights, the skating rink or bowling alley on Saturday nights, and begging my parents for my own phone line, and the OJ Simpson trial messing up my after school shows...lol
I'm a sixties kid, and I remember everything in this bit. I'm proud to state that I waited 9 hrs for the Empire Strikes Back to be released, After I saw it I saw it again for 11 Times! I saw Jaws 4 and the Blues Brothers 9 times...In the theater!!!
I was fortunate enough to experience about 80% of these things on this list (being born in ‘94) I’ve experienced being around the landline 📞, the Movie Galleries/ Blockbusters, RadioShacks, not to mention going outside until sunset, God it was a simpler time back in the glory days‼️
I'm so glad how lucky I was being born in 1979 I got to grow up as a kid through the 80's and 90's. I really wish my kid could enjoy the chance to get home finish up homework super quick jump on the bike and disappear until the sun was going down and had to go back home for dinner. The world was so laid back and care free and not as scary as these days appear to be anymore
When I was a kid some reason I didn't go to school and it happen to be the day Charles and Diana were married, I was upset cause wasn't anything on tv all day lol.
Hi Mike! My first job out of college was in a custom photo lab. This was in the early 80s, and there were several 1 hour places around, but we weren't one of those. We catered to the professional photographers, but we also had a lot of everyday customers. One thing that surprised me was the fact that the pictures you took got seen by the employees of the lab. I had always thought that the film was fed into a machine which did all of the work, packaged it and all the workers did was file it. This view was apparently shared by many others. Whenever you found a really good picture, you would pass it around or even make extra prints to show our friends. Some of the most straight-laced looking folk had some triple X rated stuff. I mean, some of these were extremely graphic, even perverted! It was hard to keep a straight face sometimes when they came to pick up their order.
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I was born in 1970’s . I have seen everything.
No kids cared about princess di dieing. Maybe you were just one of the dorks from da 90s
My space didn't come out till 2003
Everything on this list is just things girls did most of the stuff you listed off is not stuff boys ever did
@@GTSN38yeah pretty much everything on this list is more aligned to what the girls did not the boys end of the kids care about princess die
I am 42 and I could literally overdose on nostalgia. The 90's was the last decade where there was still an innocence to life. They had the best movies, tv, and music. I sometimes sit and just close my eyes and go back to this time on my mind...just immersing myself in all the memories. I cry a lot just yearning for those days that I can never get back. The world is such a 💩show today and I just wish I could be a kid again. Just wanting to relive all those precious times 😢. I thank God for TH-cam...one of the only online platforms I really look at. . Long live the 90's !!!! 👍👍👍💜💜💜
I hate to say it but, the internet has a lot to do with how everything is going on in the world. It does have its pros but in my opinion the cons outweigh the pros.
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Exactly. My mother and I were just saying the exact same thing the other day 😛
I feel the same way. I am homesick for the 90's. We really didn't know how well we had it! I'm 41 as well and the amount of sadness is crazy! Music, movies and pictures are great time machines
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I thank God for TH-cam. I can live in my little 90's bubble anytime I want. Which just so happens to be A LOT lol ☺️
So say we all 🤙🏻
I was a 70s kid and I found that a lot of the things you mentioned were true of my generation.
Because we got raised by 70s and 80s kids
@@donaldpump3072maybe you, my parents were boomers
No one ever brings up photo albums, my family still has almost a100 of them full of photographs all the way back before the 1900's
As a fellow kid raised in the 90’s (born in ‘85), this list is a trip down memory lane. Mixtapes, paper fortune tellers, teen magazines, (I got 17 magazine for the stories and the freebies, I even won a few of them), having pen pals, libraries, bikes with handle bar streamers, CDs, AIM, dial up internet, the commercials, VHS tapes, PlayStation, blockbuster video, drive in theaters, going to the movies for repeat viewing, disposable cameras, malls, Mapquest, etc. I wasn’t that deep into tamagotchi though. I also never forgotten where I was and what I was doing when I learned of what happened to Lady Di and watched her funeral with my mom. The 90’s were a time, man.
My 8 year old grandson spends most of his free time outside and that makes me happy! And there are plenty of kids out there to play with.
I was 10-19 in the 90s…I don’t feel like it was over 20 years ago…I feel so old but I love these videos…❤
I was that age in the 80s. No one kept tabs on us. We are also responsible for the government being more lax in cannabis legislation
I was 11-20 in the 90s and I feel the same way.
Lol I was 2-11 😂😂😂
I was 9 to 18. Same ☺️💜👍
I was 6-16 and just turned 40 last month. Someone says 10 years ago I still think 1990s before it hits me. Time flies
Coming home from school and watching MTV..... Because they played music back then. Early 90's MTV was the best. GNR, BOYS II MEN, VANILLA ICE, MC HAMMER, METALLICA, AEROSMITH and Sooooo much GANGSTA RAP. I miss it 😢
I miss the drive in movie theater so much, it was such a fantastic experience.
Before Amazon if we ever wanted to get something really cool for a birthday or Christmas we'd have to look through the Sears catalog and put our initials next to something that we liked in the kids section. That was what we all look forward to was getting the Sears catalog and saying go crazy.
Kids growing up in the 80s had the Atari 2600. The one that practically started the video game craze.
God. I'd love to go back to those days.
_"If it's not working, switch off, take out the cartridge, blow in it, put it back, and switch it back on. Magic!"_
I got to play it in the late 80s
My sister-in-law has an old Atari 2600...and still gets it out now & then...even has the gun attachment for the shooting arcade games on it.
I still remember phone numbers from when I was a kid. And I even think them in my head in that rhythm that you talked about. Also, my son is 13, and he calls commercials “ads” and says he can’t stand them. The impatience drives me crazy! I wish he had learned to wait in his lifetime.
50s here. Our grammar school had no fences. At recess I went to my friends house to see her new baby brother. None of this constant control. There was a patch of woods past the school grounds. Loved to go there playing pirates, Tom Sawyer, Louis and Clark. Endless joy! We could hear the bell and the hoard of kids, sweaty and dirty, would pour out of the "forest". One Saturday we combat crawled through a field of watermelon when the farmer spotted us and fired his shotgun at us! What an adventure! We didn't have sidewalks, just ditches for water runoff. We'd build boats and run following them down through the culverts of each house. It was GREAT! Life for kids today is so boring being locked in their house all the time. Kid bullies you at school? Beat the hell out of him, her. No supervision. You were on your own and wouldn't be a problem to anyone or everyone would defend you. Supervisors just interrupt the normal cause and affect of kids at play.
his is so cool! As a Gen Z kid, I hope to live a life as adventurous and free as yours. If you don’t mind sharing, could you give the name of the town you grew up in. I’m sure it has changed from the 50s, but it sounds like a good town and I wanted to know. Thank you!
@cyirvine6300 yeah I used to walk home from school--in kindergarten. Just me and the key around my neck for 2 and a half miles. No biggie, everyone did it!!
Nowadays I wouldn't DREAM of letting my girls walk home; not even from a bus stop. No fkn way.
I was a 60s kid, ive got to experience all the great things from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s etc. Each era has its highs and lows. Enjoy your life.
That's awesome you saw a ton of crap.
Me too
I grew up between the 70s & 80s. So Had a lot Grand stuff
I was born in 1978, so I do consider myself as a ‘70s kid, although most of my growing up was in the ‘80s. I love both this video and the ‘80s video you’ve done. I was 2 years old when Mt. St. Hellens blew in 1980.
i was born in 78 as well i know exactly what you mean
I was born in the '70s but I just consider myself Generation X. It covers the era and not the decade. X was also the generation that all generations since secretly wish they were a part of.
I feel like we get to use two decades as our “kids” time since you’re 18 before you are considered an adult.
Born in the early 80’s, graduating high school in the early 00’s.. I remember a lot of late 80’s and all of the 90’s. Then the 00’s were my early adult years (was a college Freshman on 9/11).
This list was dead on from age 7 to 17 for me. Though I did try to give my own kids parts of this - large fenced property with wooded area, and two neighbors with the same set up and children.. we opened our fences to each other’s properties so the kids played outside all day, rode bikes, made forts, and had epic hide and seek games… and we didn’t have the need to “helicopter parent” them. Waiting anxiously to see movies on opening weekend with popcorn and drinks. Oh! Putting playing cards in the bicycle spokes so the bikes sounded like “motorcycles”, roller skating and going bowling! - But there are some parts you just can’t recreate.. the area we live in didn’t offer landline telephone services before they were old enough to remember they existed. They never have to ask to speak to a friend through their parents - or super cute older brother - or losing all nerve and hanging up. (Or listening in from the next room so you could tease or threaten to tell mom on your sister for what she and her boyfriend said.) They don’t know a world where they can’t instantly reach their friends, no matter where. Or even “call back after 9 when its free!” cell calls. Or the awful mistake of picking up the phone as a fax was coming through or when your dad was on the dial up internet - knocking him off. Eeek. We watched a movie the week of Halloween and the noise they used to set the spooky scene was the dial up internet screech. My husband and I laughed a lot about that one.
My kids are in high school and my daughter found my old tamagotchi a few weeks ago. Add a battery and it still works. I “babysit” when she is at school. 😂
(Though I hated Titanic. Twister is the best 90’s movie).
That makes you an 80s kid. Guess brains were in low supply back then.
Derp I'm a 70s kid I was 2 when it was over and I was a kid in the 80s derp derp guess that makes me 70s kid derp.
It's not what decade you were born in. Duh.
mt st hellens blew on my dads bday and less then a month later it blew for the 3rd time while i was being born
Looking through photo albums from decades ago feel a lot different than going digital files....
I had the battery powered handheld games before the Gameboy, karnov was the one I still remember. Or books on tape, or sleeping for road trips. Much nostalgia on this video, thank you.
Kids today don't get out and play, ride bikes, get put in the sun, make up games. They don't do as anything physical, they're glued to their phones.
I was born in the early 70’s before computers ever existed. I grew up with a black & white tv until around 1980. We didn’t even have tapes until the 80’s. There wasn’t even the ability to record songs off the radio back then. We just listened to hear what we wanted.
We had Wiffle Ball bats to entertain ourselves and major movies didn’t exist until 1977 with Star Wars which blew our minds back then. We had cool stuff like Electronic Football just blinking lights on a screen.
Can you even imagine we rode our bikes around the neighborhood but not much else. Went to the neighborhood park. There was no mall.
ok then this vidio is not for you
@@willr.9903 whatever
Computers were around in the 70s.... Major movies have existed since the 40s your embellishing...
You where poor
Computers were around, but they weren't common. Star Wars was an epic in comparison to many earlier movies.
I turned 35 in '95. I had two kids by then. They did play outside a lot! But I always knew where they were. I think being born in the 60's and growing up through the 70's, made me a more cautious parent. I love that you shared the innovation of kids in the 90's. Those WERE my kids. A lot of what you described has been passed down from the previous generations of kids. What people don't grasp is, it wasn't as innocent as we want to remember. There were a lot of very bad people then, too. As kids, we navigated quite a bit of rough environments. There were no child protective services, and we got our ass kicked. Adults didn't believe you when you spoke to bad things happening; we were being "dramatic". I got hit by a car, and never told my parents. They just would have said, "Weren't you watching where you were going?" I feel we strive to be better and present parents to our 90's kids. Some of us went too far to protect, shelter, placate these kids, and we're dealing with that now. I loved being a kid when I could go anywhere, basically alone. I loved being a mom. Parenting is not for the faint of heart. It does take a village because it is a high-wire balancing act, with hardly a net, if any.
I can romanticize some of that time, but not all of it.
I did enjoy your video. It obviously struck something in me, that needed to be said, I guess. 😂
I wish I could go back to that time something i would change growing up again and something I wouldn't change but I would still have fun not worrying about everything
The 90s is a decade that I'll truly miss. Always had a lot of freedom riding bikes. The Playstation was a very awesome revolutionary system. It introduced my brothers and I to the Resident Evil series.
One thing every 90's kids learned was patience, everything ran on dial up speed
Choose your own adventure books. Loved em. I also liked the the noise when hooking up to dial up internet. Just the excitement of finding someone to chat to, and explore.
Such, such nostalgia! This list IS my childhood...and man I really, really wish things could still be this way.
People, put down your phones, computers, tablets, etc...trust your neighborhood and your children (the more you trust the more others will trust too), remember to have and spread happiness and remember your childhood and how much fun y'all had...and even anyone who has had any trauma back then there were still so many good times other than those down times. Plus it helps kids stay healthier (more active and even eat less due to being out having fun all day)! Remember and repeat those times with your children....PLEASE!!!
Especially trust your neighborhood. There are FAR more pedos accessing children online than they ever did by approaching them on playgrounds or streets.
Take away smart phones and today's kids would literally not know what to do. I'm so grateful to be an '80s-'90s kid!
Take away kids phones and let them go play outside where the streets are no longer safe 😂
Ah yes, recording songs from the radio... while the DJ talked over the beginning and/or end of the song! 😅
Also, i actually saw some tamagotchis being sold in a local shop here so they may be making a small comeback!
Remember how at Christmas time, before amazon wishlists, (in the UK) we used an Argos catalogue and a highlighter? 😂
When I went outside I had to stay in yelling range if my Mom yelled I better get my ass home.
I love being a '90s/early '00s kid. ❤❤
Remember going to the drive-in in my pajamas when I was a kid. Had a cool playground to play on till the movie started. Loved the concession stand!
Now everyone wears their PJ bottoms EVERYWHERE 🤢🤢🤮
I actually rode in the truck with my cousin and one of my classmates to sneak in to a drive in, saw freaky Friday at the drive in at Dearborn Michigan, in my uncle's 1990 Cadillac Brougham aka the mob boss car 😂 I would have been 14 time.
as a child of the 1970s, I enjoyed my of these pleasures. I find the internet has tampered my enthusiasm for these activities. It is just not the same...Perhaps I am just old.
My small town still has a drive-in theater and we still go on the weekend to watch the newest movie blockbuster and would not want it any other way
I still use paper maps. There are still a few areas where phones don't work.
My 90s years were from 3 years old to 13 years old. The Best years of my life.
I'm 45, was at work tonight with my 18 yr old coworker. He asked what time it was. I said quarter past 11pm. He said, I don't know what that means lol They don't teach kids how to use a clock anymore since everything is digital. Smiled + said 11:15, my friend lol Loved growing up in the 80's + 90's!
I am to a 90s kid and loved it! TheSe really brought me back! Love it!
I was a kid in the 80's and 90s. Both great decades
Oh those wonderful days of spending the whole day outside. I remember leaving right after breakfast coming home around lunch to watch where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego and Wishbone on PBS Kids and then back out on my bike until the street lights came on. My sister's and I rode around what today would probably be considered a very bad neighborhood but to us was no big deal when do all the rules don't accept candy from strangers don't go into people's houses don't get into people's cars if something happens come right home it was a simpler time
Yes ! Having GPS makes traveling by cars 🚗 much better today 👌. Take care of yourselves.
Man I miss the 90’s I was born 1995 I wish I can back be a kid again
I am the master of the paper map. Loved reading them!
Camping in the back yard, drinking from the hose and playing kickball in the streets.
I use to play outside all the time as a kid, using my imagination n having fun. Now I think “outside” and shudder. Also it is kinda weird that if a kid plays with a toy or does hide n seek everyone thinks it’s fine but if an adult does it with same type of toy or hide n seek with other adults ppl think it’s weird. Fun is fun.
Though now it’s mostly pc or…..if you don’t have a soul, console games.
I do miss exploring the neighborhood n going on long walks and discovering new things though. As a kid it was fun n fascinating, now it feels like a chore if I have to walk or go anywhere more than I absolutely have to.
When you hit your 60's, you get to do "kids stuff" and, although some people give you strange looks, most just chalk it up to "crazy old lady" 😂😂
I am a 60's kid (Adult, now)...and remember nearly all of these things. My Tamaguchi lasted about three days...overfed it, it died...never got another one.
I have a Nintendo 64 and the golden eye game. Still play it and love it and I'm 45 lol
Minor correction, summer blockbusters began w Jaws.
I’m 35
80s Baby
90s Kid
20s Adult!!
Nostalgia bloodline!!
SOOOOO TRUE, miss those days. I work at an elementary school, and the kids still go outside. Kindergartners have I PADS CRAZY CRAZY.Darrin North Dakota Former MARINE
@2:20 I'm a 90s baby... And my mom wouldn't have no idea where we were every day she would go out on the porch though when it was time for dinner and she would holler at the top of her lungs kid dinner
Goldeneye! LOVED that game!
We still enjoy the drive ins. Two movies for the price of one. Love it
Golden eye 64 on n64 was awesome me and cousins and sis had a blast spending hours playing it good times
I wish they had it on switch or heck even Xbox1 and such so alot not people can enjoy it also
90s kids were the last generation to want to go play outside, want to go to the library and last to be taught handwriting
Cap
We used clocks, Roman numerals
Actually that isn’t quite true…………….children playing outside actually declined in the 90’s because of paranoia about child kidnapping.
I still love the sound of dial ups and miss that sound and the sounds phones used to make when I was younger. The weirdest thing is people who use a ringtone that's a old US, rather than UK phone. Every single time I hear it, I hear The Rockford Files answer phone. 😁
Still friends with my pen pal from Scotland. Started on 6th grade. Was in her wedding as her maid of pen pal😁. She is a wonderful person. Yes, we still write actual letters to each other. The art of writing is gone. So 😔. Good old days😘
Just imagine what it was like for us 1950's kids😂
I bet it was awesome
@@jennifermosley1243 We didn't even have a TV until the late 50's. Even though we lived in a good sized city, we spent a lot of time playing on the train tracks and on the wharves. Putting pennies on the tracks was a definite highlight.
@merrileeheard3889 that sounds cool.
Spare a thought for us 1850s kids
What are you talking about yesterday for? Some of us grew up in the 1950s/60s, and we're still here.
Im 34 and I still have all my Nintendo games and my N64 game and the systems I played as a kid
I knew you were gonna say toothpaste for cds😂😂😂
I recently saw a statistic that today's kids spend less recreational time outdoors than is required to be given to prisoners.
Love this as a 90s kid amazing thank u
Boybands! Gotta LOVE boybands!
We had those,"cootie catchers", in the 70s & 80s. We didn't call them cooties catchers though.
I remember we used to play hide n seek and you could hide anywhere in town so yeah it took ages but it was fun searching for miles
So exact! I love this!! I grew up in this Era, this exact way, love golden eye for 64❤💪💯
My mom wanted to get on the internet sooooo bad, she had my sister’s old pc that still had a portioned hard drive between DOS and windows
And it just wasn’t working - the manual dial up was especially problematic - she always got a busy signal because when it prompted her to enter her number, she entered her home phone number instead of the isp’s. I will never go to hell because I didn’t laugh when she showed me.
so we decided to replace her cpu and hard drive and surprised her one Saturday and set things up so instead of 6 or 7 steps to connect to the internet she only had to push one button.
I’ll never forget her reaction ‘ok mom, you are on the internet!’ ‘This is it? This is the internet ?!?’
This was when Clinton was banging on about the super information highway, she expected it to look more like Tron 🤣😄👏👏👏
Remember putting a playing card on the fender to the spokes to make ours a motorbike? Pen-palls were fun too! (But my teen days were in the 1960s.)
I used to put soda cans on the back tire to mimic the dirtbike effect
Man, I love growing up in the nineties. And,yes, you were cool, Mike 👈
Ppl forget a lot of scary things happened in the 90’s serial killers but the 90’s was great
My tamagotchi was xalled zippy too 😊 and I'm actually now married to my old penpal. I loved growing in in the 90s
It really is sad that all of these things have fallen to the wayside
Before the internet there was always television, even for a sixties kid like me. 📺❤️
I was never allowed out on my own, but then I had a back garden to play in, two brothers and local parks my late father, would take us to.
Tape mixes started in the eighties, I remember doing it, to play at college.
I still use my local library, but you get out books with a barcoded card. There are still books out there to read. One I got out recently, has inspired me to buy the entire set that it is from, when I can.
In the UK blockbuster films always came out in time for school holidays, that's July to September, Easter and Christmas.
Magazines of all kinds for all ages in the UK still have freebies, I love fashion magazines for the free perfume samples. I envy today's kids, they get to buy magazines with loads of free toys.
I always took photos from art college in the eighties onwards, so my pad is full of them. I have ended up with an instant picture camera, my SLR from college, my late father's Box Brownie, a keyring camera which was lousy and an instamatic that stopped working. I really want a digital SLR, better than my pad's camera.
I know my landline number, but can never remember my mobile number. 😁
Lawn Darts, drinking from the hose.
I needed this.. But now.. I feel SO old. XD I remember ALL of this, oh my god.
I was born in February 1979 so I was a teenager in the 1990s. I went to a bording school and I loved it. A couple of my friends and I had Gameboys. If we had 2 player game, we had to link the 2 Gameboys up with a cable. There was no such thing as WiFi.
Oh those were the days. ❤❤❤
I was born in 81, so I was an 80's kid and 90's teen. My teen years were full of Bill Blass jeans, No Fear shirts, Big Johnson shirts, wearing flannel shirts (thanks to the grunge era), hanging out at the mall on Friday nights, the skating rink or bowling alley on Saturday nights, and begging my parents for my own phone line, and the OJ Simpson trial messing up my after school shows...lol
I remember everything from the accident to the funeral. I was 12 and I actually cried!😢
Isn’t it still under investigation??
Exploring outside is actually making a major comeback. They just record themselves now
JNCO jeans!! The bigger the leg opening the "cooler" you were in your crew 🤣😁
Manual crank windows in the car. I also remember chat rooms, and stranger danger online.
I'm a sixties kid, and I remember everything in this bit. I'm proud to state that I waited 9 hrs for the Empire Strikes Back to be released, After I saw it I saw it again for 11 Times! I saw Jaws 4 and the Blues Brothers 9 times...In the theater!!!
I was fortunate enough to experience about 80% of these things on this list (being born in ‘94) I’ve experienced being around the landline 📞, the Movie Galleries/ Blockbusters, RadioShacks, not to mention going outside until sunset, God it was a simpler time back in the glory days‼️
I’m a ‘94 kid too!
I'm so glad how lucky I was being born in 1979 I got to grow up as a kid through the 80's and 90's. I really wish my kid could enjoy the chance to get home finish up homework super quick jump on the bike and disappear until the sun was going down and had to go back home for dinner. The world was so laid back and care free and not as scary as these days appear to be anymore
I was obsessed with Titanic in 1997.
I miss my JNCOs! They were great
Being born in 1991, I got to grow up in both the '90s and '00s.
I was born in 1994
Born in 83 got to see the late 80s and 90s.
Aww man . My childhood 😂. I had a Magic Diary when I was a kid.
I just realized this video is 5 months old. But its the best rewind nostalgia video ive seen. 90's were the best
When I was a kid some reason I didn't go to school and it happen to be the day Charles and Diana were married, I was upset cause wasn't anything on tv all day lol.
Born in 63... We had these things too.
Cool bruh.
My childhood was much the same.. And I grew up in the 60's and 70's and did the same things as the ones noted here... I was 18 in 1973.
Man I loved MySpace!
Hi Mike! My first job out of college was in a custom photo lab. This was in the early 80s, and there were several 1 hour places around, but we weren't one of those. We catered to the professional photographers, but we also had a lot of everyday customers. One thing that surprised me was the fact that the pictures you took got seen by the employees of the lab. I had always thought that the film was fed into a machine which did all of the work, packaged it and all the workers did was file it. This view was apparently shared by many others. Whenever you found a really good picture, you would pass it around or even make extra prints to show our friends. Some of the most straight-laced looking folk had some triple X rated stuff. I mean, some of these were extremely graphic, even perverted! It was hard to keep a straight face sometimes when they came to pick up their order.
You would really make prints to take home?! Wow LoL
Pogs ! Making dialup noises ! PLAY OUTSIDE, bounce up down when the bus hit bumps.
Yes long live us the 90s generation
Such a awesome time to be young
So much nostalgia. Loved it man. Keep it all up lists
I was born in 65 so I was a kid of the 70s.and our main childhood pass time when playing outdoors all day was trying to stay alive.