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.
I loved the video it has about nuclear fission reactions.
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.
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.
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.
Mine has a 10 second buffer so it never skipped, except on the RW-CD that has been re written to 10x
minidisc
That was a cool fad. I had one that you could connect to the internet! Was rad.
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...)
You should take a look at the Nothing Phone if you still dig that aesthetic.
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 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.
Watching how speed runners complete it is a mockery of my childhood self. It's also amazing.
(The) bomb.
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.
"Heyimatthemallcomegetmebythefoodcourt" is my one word. It's what you would use as your name when using 1-800-collect.
Reminds me when you got charged by the minute on early cellphones and basically conducted all business in 50 seconds or less cause you got the first minute free.
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.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
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.
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.
Hahaha that’s the first thing that popped in my mind! 😂
Here in the Netherlands I never heard of it!
Here you go!
Rad! Thanks :)
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Watskeburt?
Waaaatsgebeuuurrrd!
Winamp.
…it really whips the llamas ass!
Baaaahhh!!!
I still use Winamp regularly.
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.. 😂
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.
I loved the video it has about nuclear fission reactions.
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).
Add to that, flying toasters
Even better just use Firefox it descended from Netscape Navigator.
Tamagotchi
Just bought my first Tamagatchi in 2023 lol
Had the yellow one and a game boy one.
And a couple different brand ones. Or maybe just one other one? I forget now.
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
Start
Select Start*
Wasn't it "...B A B A Select Start", too?
Select Start for two players. Just Start for solo.
That's 80s.
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.
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.
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
Pogs
JNCO
Kikwear, too.
D.A.R.E
Ooo what about "Double-Dare"??
Physical challenge.
I only wear mine when getting really high
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 :)
Napster
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.
Mine has a 10 second buffer so it never skipped, except on the RW-CD that has been re written to 10x
minidisc
That was a cool fad. I had one that you could connect to the internet! Was rad.
Not
This is probably the best answer. Well done. It's giving Chandler.
Kkrrrsshhhbiiieieiekkkkrrrrriieiekkkrrsshshshbriiieie
And then someone picked up the phone and you had to start all over again
Why did I hear this comment !?! 😂
Anyone remember upgrading their modem and getting excited because it made new noises? I can’t be the only one.
Be kind, REWIND.
"Information superhighway"
Two words, I know.
⚡Cyberspace!⚡
Ah yes, the world wide webiverse. The net. Dialed in. Where you've got mail!
Tubthumping
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".
Slime/goop
The 90s had an obsession with slime/goop. Toys, mascots, etc.
Gak.
You can't do that on television
Edit: looked it back up, didn't realize that ended in 90. It probably set that stage for slime use in Double Dare and the like
Cowabunga
NoFear
Tricky Rickey Stern pulls a Kobe
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...)
You should take a look at the Nothing Phone if you still dig that aesthetic.
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.
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.
Macarena
IRC and ICQ
ASL?
uh-oh!
Both were widely used in 2000s too in some part of the world.
Phat
Tamagotchi
autoexec.batWazzzzuuuuuuuup!
with entirely to much tongue.
watchin the game...
Cowabunga
That was 80's man
Dialup
SKREEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEE-KERBONG-KERBONG-KERBONG-kshkshkshkshkshksh
Hypercolor
Those were so awesome! How come they don't make hyoercolor shirts anymore?? I'd buy them.
Hackysack
Im not good at many things, but I can sure hack.
MiniDisc
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.
Emoji sounds dumb af, like the person saying it is a fucking weeb
¯\(ツ)/¯ they're just better.
Bobwehadababyitsaboy
Cowabunga!
Scatman.
Grunge
Gameboy
Whatever.
Dial-up
DEEDEEDEEDEE doodoodoodoo DEdoo DEdrrr AA DIIP hhhhhhhhhhhh
tight.
BeOS
Mmm-Bop
I hate you....
Radical
Whatever.
It’s MY UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER!!! 🤘🎸
Psyche!
No matter how much that sucked (sheyah; right! And monkeys might fly out of my butt) it's worlds better than 'based' . Cowabunga.
Hypercolor
Quake
Game Genie
C:\DOOM\DOOM.EXE Edit: Fixed wrong slashes because crappy Android keyboard was missing it. Swapped keyboard.
Wrong slashes.
Netscape Infoseek Lycos Geocities
Gnarly
IRC
ICQ
Xtreme
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 :)
config.sysWoahhhhhhhiiiiiiiimstillaliveyeayayeahiaiiiiimmmmmohhhhimstilalive
Sleeeeeeeeepinnnnananotherpillowowmadeaadaconcerte oh yeah
PLUR
Tubular
Worst Super Mario World level
Watching how speed runners complete it is a mockery of my childhood self. It's also amazing.
(The) bomb.
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.
Animaniacs
Willennium
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Uh-oh..
ICQ?
"Radical" (as in meaning "super cool")
Rad dude!!!!
Hampsterdance!
Bosnia
Oof…
1-800-collect
"Heyimatthemallcomegetmebythefoodcourt" is my one word. It's what you would use as your name when using 1-800-collect.
Reminds me when you got charged by the minute on early cellphones and basically conducted all business in 50 seconds or less cause you got the first minute free.
Payphone
BILL BILL BILL BILL (It's one word, I just wrote it four times)
Science rules!
Inertia is a property of matter.
Cowabunga!!
Boutros boutros ghali. I guess that's three words.
Hethethethethe pethethethethe
Rad.
56k Flex Modem
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.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
Rad
Windbreakers
Rave
EXTREME!!!
Farfegnugen.
Fahrvergnügen?
Rollerblades
You've Got Mail
Just for Italian people: Cioè
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. :)
1-800-CALL-ATT
Bob WeAdaBabyItsABoy
Pager
Meh
Yo! Pick up the phone!
Wassssuuuuuuuuppppp?!
Shazbot!
Such a good game for the day.
WWW.
Pogs
Heeey, macarena!
Floam.
Radical/Rad!
Quakenet! (Its still up but.. a lot fewer users these days)
Wazzup
IRC
Yo'unbelievabo
OOOOOH!!!!!
No. The "just say no" push was something I can't forget.
Surge!
Whatever.
WIN98
"You've got mail!"
Minidisc
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!)
Pager
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.
As Navi: "Hey listen"
C:\con\con
Furby 👁️👄👁️👌
Zubaz.
ISA slot
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.
Gak
Wicked
Wolf3d
MORPH
Yeltzin
Coolaroonie
Millennium
Newmannium
Amiga
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
Hella
I remember my sphere was obsessed with the turn of the millenium
Tamagotchi!
drivebys
JNCO
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
Mondo
Wasn't too upset this disappeared. Sqeez-it bottles had the cool faces, and Mondo bottles were too stiff to squeeze easily.
Phat
Sham-wow
Sham-wow didn't come out until 2006.
Mojo
245032701*
can still remember my ICQ number, but constantly forget my own birthday xD
Word, Dope, Fresh.... nvm that's pre-90s.
Bobdolio