I remember this from the school library computers. That and even back then the school had some kind of broadband, it blew my mind that to get online all we had to do was open IE. I was used to that part but always had whatever dial up service we had at the time to open up and connect first. Just clicking IE and going was crazy to me.
I remember trying to play Mind Maze and knowing absolutely nothing.
Not a word, but the phrase "going online". As in not being constantly connected at all times. We had to actually "get" online to look at stuff.
Remember cyberspace?
I remember before I had the internet wondering why companies had ads for "http://" and others were on "www" and having no clue if I needed to buy a special internet to access each.
Umm, excuse me, but I believe you're missing a "start" and/or "select." pushes glasses up nose
Sweet, I guess I’m going to have to get a PC at some point. I actually played Riven for iPadOS recently and it was still fun, but the point and click is pretty tedious.
I’m not sure a remake willl ever match the magic of when I originally played in 1998, though. My laptop was so junky I played most of the game under a blanket because the screen was so dark, haha.
Im pretty sure I missed a lot in the first playthrough due to a dark screen haha
But agreed that it will be hard to recreate that magic - Riven really was ahead of its time and is still my favorite of the series
The bundle of myst games was on humble bundle a week or two ago. I've been waiting for the right time to immerse myself in myst VR and be just as confounded as I was as a kid. Then I get to see if Riven is still completely impossible for me.
I still laugh thinking back to 8th grade when my buddy, Tyler, got his first pair of JNCOs. To paint a picture, Tyler couldn't have been more than 90 pounds soaking wet and had a bowl cut (being it the 90s). He had a big goofy grin on his face and goes "check it out - I can fit a whole 2 liter of Mountain Dew in my pocket!" And sure enough, he pulled a full 2 liter of Mountain Dew out of his front pocket.
I loved my discman, but remember trying to pretend like it wasn't skipping with every bodily movement? That's the advantage the walkman had that we didn't want to admit at the time
The later models had quite a large buffer and you'd have to shake it pretty long for it to skip.
By the time I could get one that wasn't a problem.
As in technology. Translucent gadgets were all the rage. Not quite one word, I was going to go with translucent, but found it actually had a name.
You remember that future phones would be all transparent slabs of glass? Funny how things have changed and also not changed!
Like the translucent (still corded, so not that hi-tech) phone with the bright colors for all the components? I had one of those! I think the outer part of my cord was actually clear, too.
Ooh, and that dope clear pager was hella rad!
On that note, remember payphones?? (getting paged by my mom and having to find a payphone to call the family 800# and check in...)
Wait, family 800 #? I don't remember that. We skipped pagers though, so I remember them being a thing, but I only saw them on TV, don't think I ever saw one in person besides on doctors at a hospital.
That's how you know technology was inside them. I vaguely remember we had an eMac which had a combined CRT and computer inside it. Do not remember liking it
Your first sentence made me literally laugh audibly. At work.
Our computer lab when I was in high school was all those eMacs. I hated them and their single mouse button.
I definitely deleted the system drive from half of them at one point or another. It wasn’t hard, either, it was on the desktop.
Sure it didn’t actually delete anything on the drive, but it did force an intensive repair (they reformatted all of them, idk if there was another fix) :)
My mate had a transparent ps1 controller. I wanted it so bad.
i've got a clear ps4 controller. it's pretty cool.
I got into pogs at the exact money moment (stupid fucking autocorrect) it died, because everyone gave me their pogs. So I had a ton of pogs, and no one that gave a fuck about it.
80's, early 90's. I think from '92 or so onwards, CD-ROM drives became standard equipment for home computers, but until the late 90's they still came equipped with a floppy drive, if only to boot into recovery mode after a crash.
Because CDs weren't commonly writeable until almost a decade later.
Mostly 80s and early 90s (I think the nodelist peaked in size in about 1991 or 1992 or thereabouts, at about 30,000 nodes - I could be wrong). It's still going by the way.
I remember the info campaign of my country's change of currency when it got pegged to the Deutschmark after it did a Venezimbabwe. It was by a popular children's/teen tv show host.
I was about 2 or 3 but the only thing I remember is the news anchors repeating the word "Chechen" all the time. I understood nothing but it sounded funny.
We had a stereo with an inbuilt vinyl record player, as well as cassette tape player.
I played NES games on Terminator-2. Post-soviet collapse flooded the market with knockoffs which were decent for the price.
I remember watching Bill Clinton's scandal on the news though I had little idea what happened, nor what impeachment meant.
That's more than 1 word.
You mean titles are meant to be read? Whoops!
Terminator-2.
Pager
As Navi: "Hey listen"
Jorts
I guess that means you either lived through the 90s or are a current fan of Kevin Smith
Waaazzzaaaap
That ad campaign started in 99, its really more of a 2000’s thing.
Ya, but it proves I lived through the 90's 😆
The 90s were from 1995 to 2005. That's just my opinion. I know it sounds dumb. Many things from 1990 to 1994 feel like the 80's.
Outside of America, this is interpreted as a reference to Scary Movie instead of the budweiser ad.
Here in the Netherlands I never heard of it!
Here you go!
Rad! Thanks :)
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Watskeburt?
Waaaatsgebeuuurrrd!
Hahaha that’s the first thing that popped in my mind! 😂
Winamp.
…it really whips the llamas ass!
Baaaahhh!!!
I still use Winamp regularly.
Encarta
I remember this from the school library computers. That and even back then the school had some kind of broadband, it blew my mind that to get online all we had to do was open IE. I was used to that part but always had whatever dial up service we had at the time to open up and connect first. Just clicking IE and going was crazy to me.
I remember trying to play Mind Maze and knowing absolutely nothing.
Y2K.
I survived idiocy of managers asking for Y2K compliant padlocks. As in, physical padlocks.
Hope you charged them double.
"We gotta get the Locksmith to come out and replace the microchips. Yeah, it's going to be expensive but worth it"
Please tell us they did this.. 😂
Pogs
Remember Alf? He's back! In pog form!
Came here to say this! My collection is MIA and it still makes me sad thinking about it.
Your parents threw it away
Netscape
Linux and Mac users can hold on to a little piece of that history with the wonderful xscreensaver suite (its author, jwz, was a Netscape dude).
Even better just use Firefox it descended from Netscape Navigator.
Add to that, flying toasters
Tamagotchi
Just bought my first Tamagatchi in 2023 lol
NOT!
Bobwehadababyitsaboy
I remember it as "eeetsaboy"
This one pops into my head way too often
This was my first thought lol
Dialup
Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcchdingdingding
Welcome, you've got mail, goodbye...
Psych!
You know that’s right!
Not a word, but the phrase "going online". As in not being constantly connected at all times. We had to actually "get" online to look at stuff.
Remember cyberspace?
I remember before I had the internet wondering why companies had ads for "http://" and others were on "www" and having no clue if I needed to buy a special internet to access each.
Umm, excuse me, but I believe you're missing a "start" and/or "select." pushes glasses up nose
That's 80s.
Start
Select Start*
Wasn't it "...B A B A Select Start", too?
Select Start for two players. Just Start for solo.
Myst
Ad Riven. I read all the novels, too!
Riven remake is underway!
This. Wait for the remake, the original plays like shit on modern Windows versions.
Sweet, I guess I’m going to have to get a PC at some point. I actually played Riven for iPadOS recently and it was still fun, but the point and click is pretty tedious.
I’m not sure a remake willl ever match the magic of when I originally played in 1998, though. My laptop was so junky I played most of the game under a blanket because the screen was so dark, haha.
Im pretty sure I missed a lot in the first playthrough due to a dark screen haha
But agreed that it will be hard to recreate that magic - Riven really was ahead of its time and is still my favorite of the series
The bundle of myst games was on humble bundle a week or two ago. I've been waiting for the right time to immerse myself in myst VR and be just as confounded as I was as a kid. Then I get to see if Riven is still completely impossible for me.
Pogs
JNCO's
I still laugh thinking back to 8th grade when my buddy, Tyler, got his first pair of JNCOs. To paint a picture, Tyler couldn't have been more than 90 pounds soaking wet and had a bowl cut (being it the 90s). He had a big goofy grin on his face and goes "check it out - I can fit a whole 2 liter of Mountain Dew in my pocket!" And sure enough, he pulled a full 2 liter of Mountain Dew out of his front pocket.
Tyler was definitely a product of the times
JNCO
Kikwear, too.
D.A.R.E
Ooo what about "Double-Dare"??
Physical challenge.
Discman - so much better than the Walkman. =)
I loved my discman, but remember trying to pretend like it wasn't skipping with every bodily movement? That's the advantage the walkman had that we didn't want to admit at the time
The later models had quite a large buffer and you'd have to shake it pretty long for it to skip.
By the time I could get one that wasn't a problem.
minidisc
That was a cool fad. I had one that you could connect to the internet! Was rad.
Hitclips. Listen to the chorus of your favorite song for only $5 a pop.
Napster
Baud. Maybe kilobauds.. That and "da bomb" are very memorable to me from then...
For a age of pre internet (for the masses) we sure had a lot of unique words :)
Be kind, REWIND.
Kkrrrsshhhbiiieieiekkkkrrrrriieiekkkrrsshshshbriiieie
And then someone picked up the phone and you had to start all over again
Why did I hear this comment !?! 😂
Not
This is probably the best answer. Well done. It's giving Chandler.
Tubthumping
"Information superhighway"
Two words, I know.
Ah yes, the world wide webiverse. The net. Dialed in. Where you've got mail!
⚡Cyberspace!⚡
BRRRRphhhhttttttbrrrrrraaaaaapppppingtingtingBOINGBaTingBatingtingphhhhhhhhttttt.....
The sounds of the internet, volume one.
There was only one volume on my modem, deafening
Followed by brrrrrrBRRRRRRRaaaaAAaAAaAKRrrrRKrrrKRrrkrKRrKrrKrRkrrrrrrrrrrr, in my experience.
Floppy disks (or "diskettes").
Also, Y2K.
Or just "floppies".
Clear craze.
As in technology. Translucent gadgets were all the rage. Not quite one word, I was going to go with translucent, but found it actually had a name.
You remember that future phones would be all transparent slabs of glass? Funny how things have changed and also not changed!
Like the translucent (still corded, so not that hi-tech) phone with the bright colors for all the components? I had one of those! I think the outer part of my cord was actually clear, too.
Ooh, and that dope clear pager was hella rad!
On that note, remember payphones?? (getting paged by my mom and having to find a payphone to call the family 800# and check in...)
Wait, family 800 #? I don't remember that. We skipped pagers though, so I remember them being a thing, but I only saw them on TV, don't think I ever saw one in person besides on doctors at a hospital.
You should take a look at the Nothing Phone if you still dig that aesthetic.
We need to bring this back. I love clear stuff.
That's how you know technology was inside them. I vaguely remember we had an eMac which had a combined CRT and computer inside it. Do not remember liking it
Your first sentence made me literally laugh audibly. At work.
Our computer lab when I was in high school was all those eMacs. I hated them and their single mouse button.
I definitely deleted the system drive from half of them at one point or another. It wasn’t hard, either, it was on the desktop.
Sure it didn’t actually delete anything on the drive, but it did force an intensive repair (they reformatted all of them, idk if there was another fix) :)
My mate had a transparent ps1 controller. I wanted it so bad.
i've got a clear ps4 controller. it's pretty cool.
NoFear
Alien Workshop
Cowabunga
Slime/goop
The 90s had an obsession with slime/goop. Toys, mascots, etc.
Gak.
Macarena
IRC and ICQ
ASL?
uh-oh!
Both were widely used in 2000s too in some part of the world.
Phat
autoexec.batTamagotchi
Wazzzzuuuuuuuup!
with entirely to much tongue.
watchin the game...
Cowabunga
Hypercolor
Those were so awesome! How come they don't make hyoercolor shirts anymore?? I'd buy them.
Dialup
SKREEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEE-KERBONG-KERBONG-KERBONG-kshkshkshkshkshksh
MiniDisc
Hackysack
Im not good at many things, but I can sure hack.
Pogs
I was going to go one better with 'slammer' but ya beat me to it.
I got into pogs at the exact
moneymoment (stupid fucking autocorrect) it died, because everyone gave me their pogs. So I had a ton of pogs, and no one that gave a fuck about it.Emoticon
Still say it, will never give in. Still use em too.
¯\(ツ)/¯ they're just better.
Emoji sounds dumb af, like the person saying it is a fucking weeb
Cowabunga!
Scatman.
I didn't need this earworm today.
Gameboy
Bobwehadababyitsaboy
Grunge
tight.
Whatever.
Or as my sister used to say: whateverrr
Dial-up
DEEDEEDEEDEE doodoodoodoo DEdoo DEdrrr AA DIIP hhhhhhhhhhhh
Psyche!
BeOS
Hypercolor
Quake
Mmm-Bop
I hate you....
Radical
Whatever.
It’s MY UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER!!! 🤘🎸
Game Genie
Netscape Infoseek Lycos Geocities
C:\DOOM\DOOM.EXE Edit: Fixed wrong slashes because crappy Android keyboard was missing it. Swapped keyboard.
Wrong slashes.
Gnarly
How much is the fish?
Oh, forgotten memory unlocked. I listened to that one a lot in high school
Oeh, guilty pleasure here! I still have it in my playlist and listen to it quite often :)
IRC
ICQ
Xtreme
Tubular
Worst Super Mario World level
Watching how speed runners complete it is a mockery of my childhood self. It's also amazing.
config.sysWoahhhhhhhiiiiiiiimstillaliveyeayayeahiaiiiiimmmmmohhhhimstilalive
Sleeeeeeeeepinnnnananotherpillowowmadeaadaconcerte oh yeah
PLUR
(The) bomb.
Animaniacs
Walkman
Was the floppy disc typically 90’s?
80's, early 90's. I think from '92 or so onwards, CD-ROM drives became standard equipment for home computers, but until the late 90's they still came equipped with a floppy drive, if only to boot into recovery mode after a crash.
Because CDs weren't commonly writeable until almost a decade later.
Bosnia
Oof…
"Radical" (as in meaning "super cool")
Rad dude!!!!
Hampsterdance!
Uh-oh..
ICQ?
Willennium
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Cowabunga!!
1-800-collect
FidoNet
Mostly 80s and early 90s (I think the nodelist peaked in size in about 1991 or 1992 or thereabouts, at about 30,000 nodes - I could be wrong). It's still going by the way.
Payphone
"Heyimatthemallcomegetmebythefoodcourt" is my one word. It's what you would use as your name when using 1-800-collect.
Boutros boutros ghali. I guess that's three words.
Nice rack!
Hethethethethe pethethethethe
56k Flex Modem
Rad.
BILL BILL BILL BILL (It's one word, I just wrote it four times)
Science rules!
Inertia is a property of matter.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
Rave
EXTREME!!!
Rad
Windbreakers
Zetus Lapetus
I just found outnis two words.
“Lady’s and gentleman, this is a computer and we might see it a lot more in the future.” - a news report back then. :)
You've Got Mail
Rollerblades
Just for Italian people: Cioè
Farfegnugen.
Fahrvergnügen?
If you're going to translate it into German (•_•)
1-800-CALL-ATT
Bob WeAdaBabyItsABoy
Pager
Meh
Yo! Pick up the phone!
Wassssuuuuuuuuppppp?!
Pogs
Heeey, macarena!
Shazbot!
Such a good game for the day.
WWW.
Yo'unbelievabo
OOOOOH!!!!!
Minidisc
WIN98
"You've got mail!"
IRC
No. The "just say no" push was something I can't forget.
Oddly enough, my word was "Eccies"
DARE?
Surge!
Radical/Rad!
Quakenet! (Its still up but.. a lot fewer users these days)
Floam.
Wazzup
Whatever.
Gak
ISA slot
Wolf3d
Wicked
I remember the info campaign of my country's change of currency when it got pegged to the Deutschmark after it did a Venezimbabwe. It was by a popular children's/teen tv show host.
I was about 2 or 3 but the only thing I remember is the news anchors repeating the word "Chechen" all the time. I understood nothing but it sounded funny.
We had a stereo with an inbuilt vinyl record player, as well as cassette tape player.
I played NES games on Terminator-2. Post-soviet collapse flooded the market with knockoffs which were decent for the price.
I remember watching Bill Clinton's scandal on the news though I had little idea what happened, nor what impeachment meant.
That's more than 1 word.
You mean titles are meant to be read? Whoops!
Terminator-2.
Pager
As Navi: "Hey listen"
Jorts
I guess that means you either lived through the 90s or are a current fan of Kevin Smith
I am both of those things.
Emule
eMule was first released in 2002, as an open source alternative client to the official eDonkey2000 client.
Napster would have technically been a 90's term, since it released mid 1999, but p2p wasn't really a mainstream thing until the early 2000's.
!!! I lost so much time to Emule! Sadly it is more a 00’s thing. (Which sounds like a fun tread!)
Zubaz.
Furby 👁️👄👁️👌
C:\con\con
Tamagotchi!
The flashbacks to rushing home and feeding it are 🥰
Mondo
drivebys
MORPH
Yeltzin
YO LISTEN UP HERES A STORY
ABOUT A LITTLE GUY THAT LIVES IN A BLUE WORLD
AND ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT AND EVERYTHING HE SEES IS JUST BLUE LIKE HIM
INSIDE AND OUTSIDE
I remember my sphere was obsessed with the turn of the millenium
Millennium
Newmannium
JNCO
Hella
Amiga
Whoa!
It doesn't necessarily work online though cuz you can't hear that I'm saying it in the voice of Joey Lawrence from Blossom
Coolaroonie
rawr :3
It's Patrick, he took out life insurance!
Plastics? No, wait...
Mojo
Fax