What do you miss the most about the 90s???

[ShenJingPoQi]

The creativity

 

[ProlificLurker]

The Knicks being good......

 

[Camammal]

Was the last era before the internet became mainstream and changed everything. Just think about that shyt...

-Actually going to to the library for research.
-Taking time to call and setup hangout with friends.
-Music was special because not everyone could do it. (I felt it was that way until about 2006 or so actually)
-TV was rememberable
-Social skills was at a all time high, you wanted a girl? You had to make a move IRL not on some stupid app.

Who would have thought being able to communicate instantaneously would have this much negative effects. Like we opened up Pandora's box or some shyt

 

[Wisdomkeyz]

i miss life before the internet and cell phones. we were the last generation to see life before a digital world. the 90s was really the last great decade. all this technology just allows people to hide more and be more fake. i was 8 in 1990 and graduated HS in 2000. i feel like i have a whole other understanding of the world that people who were born in the late 90s and 2000s will never understand. you young mfs would lose your mind if you ever lost your cell phone, or couldn’t check Facebook. or actually had to talk to people face to face.

and music now sucks. period. i don’t care what drugs you mfs are on, or what year it is......you’ll never experience the music and time of growing up and being in middle/high school while Pac and Biggie were alive and MJ playing on the Bulls. you lost!

nikkah shut yo old ass up "You yung mawfukkaz lost" y'all acting like its a crime to be born in a different time like damn we can't help we wasn't rocking uglass high top fades and goofy baggy clothing and biker shorts while singing "ITS MY PREROGATIVE" headass and now I see why the older generation dies off so the new one can live cuzz y'all nikkaz never want shyt to change

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Brick-and-mortar stores.
Actual human interaction.
Good alternative rock.

Going here on Friday and your parents letting you pick a game and a movie while they're a few stores down buying a pizza.
No real care in the world.
Optimism.

 

[timothy_strickland]

Hell, the early 2000s until 2006 had a lot of 90s vibes. To me everything changed when the twin towers of Youtube/ Facebook hit the scene. Myspace was child play compared to facebook, and later instagram/twitter.

I mean in 2003 and 2004 blockbuster was full like it was 1996, no social media, social skills were needed, internet was there but with social media it got way bigger imo. Back in the day in the early 2000s, internet was used for school work, emailing someone, etc. Only true anti-social nerd nikkas was on internet all day. I doubt the coli even existed back then.

 

[El Bajo Negro]

Food tasted better before they started taking sugar and salt out of everything

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

You lucky sumbish
I caught the tail end... 9 in 1999




I miss c.d. booklets and adventuring as a child.
We would hop on our bikes and ride out to the national mall, union station or h street and cut the fukk up... now kids watch YouTube vids about kids riding bikes

Nah you lucky sumbish, I was 7 in 1999

I can remember a decent amount of my childhood during the 90’s and I can remember things from that decade better than those born after ‘95, but if I can relive that whole decade at the age I am now, I’d do that shyt in a heartbeat

Also breh, I see you from Da City moe. I’ve been tryin to look for YouTube videos of general life in DC during the 90’s but mainly only come up with touristy shyt from the Mall, celebrations in Southeast following the Skins’ 1991 Super Bowl win, and that video of the shooting that took place during Georgia Ave Day in a big ass crowd around like 1997/1998 when I think Backyard was performing live.

I got some memories of the Southside and Southwest during the 90’s and a lotta memories of the close-in parts of PG, used to mostly lived around Forest Creek (Forestville), Silver Hill Rd, and City Line in Suitland with my moms and granny back then.

Junkyard and Rare Essence had the entire DMV on lockdown during almost that whole decade

Real live, first GoGo joint I was introduced to as a yungin was Overnight Scenario when it first dropped. Hell on the way to William Beanes Elementary, all the kids in my bus would be jamming to that shyt like an acapella and remember every single lyric to the song

I miss that whole GoGo culture we grew up on breh, even the Bounce Beat golden age of the mid-to-late 2000’s Most of these new nikkas don’t know shyt.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

i miss life before the internet and cell phones. we were the last generation to see life before a digital world. the 90s was really the last great decade. all this technology just allows people to hide more and be more fake. i was 8 in 1990 and graduated HS in 2000. i feel like i have a whole other understanding of the world that people who were born in the late 90s and 2000s will never understand. you young mfs would lose your mind if you ever lost your cell phone, or couldn’t check Facebook. or actually had to talk to people face to face.

and music now sucks. period. i don’t care what drugs you mfs are on, or what year it is......you’ll never experience the music and time of growing up and being in middle/high school while Pac and Biggie were alive and MJ playing on the Bulls. you lost!

This, especially your point about cell phones. I’m an early 90’s baby and it’s almost euphoric knowing that I can remember a time before the Digital Age and Internet 2.0 truly took over the world.

As a matter of fact, during my last week of study abroad in London last summer, my iPhone went kaput and I had no quick access to social media nor text messaging to communicate with my friends and family in the US nor my study group outside our apartments...Only way to communicate with anyone was from my laptop and mainly thru Facebook since the laptop version is an easier transition than say Twitter or Instagram.

TBH, I found not having a working phone anymore to be one of the greatest moments of my time in London. I mean it’s not like I didn’t appreciate the city but I could now take it all in many ways than I thought I would without a smartphone on me...Observing the people, the sounds of the city, the most minute details of life all around me without staring at a small phone screen. The only thing that sucked about it was whenever I had class, I had to rely on my roommate to wake me up or his phone alarm, he was a cool white dude tho...Oh, and not being able to listen to my music when I’m on the go or riding the public transit but other than that, my mind and spirit felt like I was reliving the pre-Digital Age world of the ‘90s or something. It was so beautiful brehs

 

[CoryMack]

The diversity of college football.

We talk about how the 90s was the golden era of rap, but I really feel bad for all y'all who missed seeing the golden era of college football.

Sure the spectacle surrounding the game is still as grand today as it was back then, but the game itself is very bland for the most part with everyone running basically the same offense and defense: the spread option and a 3/3/5 or a 4/2/5.

Back then you saw the traditional option out of the I from teams like notre dame and Nebraska, early versions of the spread from teams like Florida St., Florida and Wyoming, and just all different types of offenses. Rice used to run the wishbone. And defenses were just as diverse.

So back then in a major game you'd see tommy Frazier and that Nebraska power option attack going up against spurriers fun and gun where he was rotating qbs every play.

Now everyone runs basically the same shyt and just tries to out score the other team. Back in the day you had some truly nasty defensive units.

 

[Piffiztheanswer]

People interacting with each other

 

[Ineedmoney504]

I was born in 90. And I def feel like I’m not in the same world anymore. Yea I love the tech, but was it work losing part of our soul for it? Idk

 

[Mac Brown]

Trust me breh I know how lucky I am. I came up during the goat decade. We used to ride bikes all day long

My daughter goes out one her bike now and is back in in 15 minutes talking bout its hot

Dear lord, I will pray for your child!

THis was unheard of when we were kids.

 

[EndDomination]

Hacker culture in its later stages.
That's what I was fed when I was a child that got me interested in computers as a whole.
Honestly television and music were also a bit part of what made the 90s as they phased out so enjoyable for me, and make it so nostalgic.

 

[egsteel]

Aight, real spit. I honestly miss thee fukk out of Arcades, man. shyt were goat tier videogaming experiences back in the day. Hopefully if I ever hit Japan I'd get a whiff of that old-school feel.
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Top 5 greatest thing about the 90's. Mom would drop me off with $20 and I'd spend the rest of the night gettin my ass whooped by them grown ass men who'd in turn get schooled by the asians.​