Stuff we DON'T Miss from the 90s.

[Serinanth]

Non resumable non error checking downloads. Having your download get interrupted at around 90% and having to start all over again. Or realizing you were going to have to spend another day or two downloading new files because somehow they got corrupted sucked too, especially if you were a teenager that had to pay for his/her phone line.

 

[MorganL4]

I actually like the comics. Okay, so Wolverine fighting hundreds of cyberninjas isn't exactly the pinnacle of sequential art, but OMG OMG it's Wolverine and he's fighting cyberninjas! Sure, there was a lot of trash around, but sometimes I just want to see a bunch of people use ginormous guns and swords to kill each other.

What I don't miss is the music. Almost all of it was the owrst of any decade in my opinion. At least the music nowadays isn't as bad. Not what I'd call good, but not as bad.

The 90's had Nirvana, today we have Nickelback..... Sry 90's win.

But for me it would have to be as the OP said, dial up internet, yet sadly most of the US (in regards to square mileage, not population still runs on dial up.)

 

[sextus the crazy]

why the heck do people hate 90's music so much?

I don't hate 90s music, I'm just shitting on the pop stuff.

There's tons of 90s music I like: it's all grunge and metal.

 

[Padwolf]

I do not miss VHS tapes. God those things were awful, lost so many Disney movies because the VHS couldn't handle it! I also do not miss AOL internet. Gods that was awful back then.

 

[SpAc3man]

Dial up, floppy disks and Windows 9x. I remember waiting half an hour to watch some crappy Shockwave videos on websites that were crap even by MS FrontPage standards. I remember it took several hours to install Shockwave off the net in the first place using a 28.8k modem.

 

[Spade Lead]

You know what I don't miss? DOS. I had a bunch of games on a computer my father gave me, and I forgot how to call up a directory for DOS, so I could only ever access like two games, because I couldn't remember the file paths to get to the others.

Also, Windows 95.

I would say the Blue Screen of Death, but I had just as many of those on Vista as I did on 95 or 2000.

The only thing I really miss from the '90's, not counting my huge collection of classic rap CDs, is online multiplayer combat flight simulators like X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. I also had a membership to an online WWII flying game at one point that was lots of fun, but overall, we have moved on, and everything is way better now.

It seems crazy to be talking about the 1990s as if they were a long time ago, until I realize that I am nearer to 30 than even 25, and that it was over 12 years ago that we entered "The New Millenium," having survived Y2K, both terms I will never ever miss from that era.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Gay bashing: Hey however terrible it is today it was much MUCH worse in the 90s.

Gangster Rap: Yes its still here, but its become passé.

Car Styles: Seriously the nasty boxy car style had to go.

Internetless: We seem to forget just how shitty the internet was even in 1999. I remember it taking me an hour just to download 200mbs and torrents were in there infancy. You had to rely on p2p programs like KaZaA and your search engine of choice was alta vista or yahoo.
Along with this I'm also adding the Dial Up tone and AOL... I still get night terrors.

Overalls: How the fuck did overalls ever become cool

That needed to die...

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CRT monitors

Actually until the LED monitors came out no other visual device could match a CRTs contrast quality. Absolute blacks with CRTs...

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floppy disks

They were terrible. You know it wasn't the fact that they didn't even have enough memory to hold a single decent quality mp3, it was the fact that if you let the floppy sit too long the memory would fragment to the point where it was no longer recoverable.

What the hell was so bad about the Zip disks? They held 300mbs and didn't corrupt like floppies, but no one ever seemed to use them.

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You know the one thing I do miss about all this old technology. It was by fair had the cheapest fixes. Most of the time all you had to do was just hit it and it would start working again. Now you hit something you void the warranty and it fries instantaneously.

 

[Jazoni89]

The music, minus some hip hop absolutely blew. BLEW. Au revoir grunge, adios mid to late 90's radio punk, Ciao shitty nu/rap metal.

At least early 90's British Shoegazing, and 90's Trip-Hop/Drum and Bass was incredible.

So many classic albums...

Grunge isn't too bad, at least the more obscure stuff like Mudhoney, fuck Nirvana. Most of the Britpop was also shite with the exception of a few bands.

 

[mgirl]

I was only born in 93, so I remember very little from the 90s. I do, however, remember the music being god awful, and computers being useless. MS-DOS and dial up internet... ah, I do not miss you at all. The sound of dial up internet still haunts me sometimes...

 

[Pink Gregory]

Yeah, although I didn't notice it at the time (born 1991), looking back, the colour palette of the early nineties makes me be sick in my mouth just a little bit.

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

Nirvana. Good riddance to you and your pretentious, overrated teen angst.

Honestly, Nirvana only became overrated AFTER Kurt died, before that Nirvana were a perfectly good band that were nothing special and no one treated them as such

 

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

This nonsense right here:

Spoiler: Spoilered for your sanity

The Nineties Anti-Hero. Thankfully Deadpool saved us from them. Praise Deadpool.

Yes my brother. Let us praise the great saviour together. ALL HAIL DEADPOOL CHAMPION OF THE MASSES!

Also Furby. That was the 90's right? I try not to think about it too much...

 

[IamQ]

Friends (The tv-series), large phones, skateboarding, the music (with some, although few, exceptions), ps1/N64 graphics, having to wait to rewind VHS tapes.

So many post nostalgia images around the 90s, condemning anything modern, and while not everything was bad, a lot of it wasn't good.

EDIT: I forgot the websites. Oh god the websites. Have any of you seen the website for the Looney Toons movie with michael jordan from 1997? It still exists, and is unchanged. Google that shit and watch in terror.

 

[Woodsey]

Most of it, I thought that what characterised the 90s was that no one loved them.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Most of it, I thought that what characterised the 90s was that no one loved them.

I think as a general rule it's people who were kids in the 90s that hated them. You hate the decade you were a child in, love the decade you were a teenager in and are relatively indifferent about the rest. The 80's I found kind of grim, loved the 90's and have generally been "meh" about the rest.

 

[Gardenia]

I didn't have any problem with VHS.

Uhmm... things i don't miss about the 90s... uhhhhHhHhHhHhhh... Oh! I hated how my walkman would run out of batteries so quickly.

Yup.

I will compile a longer list for later, but for now, just let me say: Discman, without shock protection.

 

[xplosive59]

The 90's had both the best and worst music, but the only people who say 90's music was completely shit has no taste! Go listen to Soundtracks For The Blind or Hvis Lyset Tar Oss again FFS!

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

*snipped image (Furby)*
the bad thing about it is that it is just a matter of time until someone transforms this turd into a angry bird toy.

Also Furby. That was the 90's right? I try not to think about it too much...

Well guess what's coming back for 2012 Christmas, in stores now for £59.99?


[sub][sub]Excuse the enthusiastic video, was the best I could find.[/sub][/sub]

No matter how you try to kill it, it just won't stay dead.

Personally I threw mine off a ferry to France into the Channel roughly 10 years ago (I forget exactly when) and I still dread the thought of waking up and seeing it in my room.

 

[Yopaz]

bad internet and even worse music. Oh god boy bands were everywhere.

Also, Geocities. That shit looked like... well, shit.

Pretty much this. The music back in the 90's was mostly terrible. So much bad pop, so many boy bands. I really don't miss that.

Now the internet was possibly even worse, it took half an hour to enter a website and the design was usually terrible, trying to find something specific was pretty hard and you'd usually end up finding things you weren't looking for. At least I can mention something good about it though, there were less porn showing up when looking for something else.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Anime... on VHS!!! I still look back with some nostalgia, but thank fuck for DVDs and subtitles.

And Gabber. If you're from the Netherlands you'll know what that means. I was in high school during that shit; Fucking shaved heads and tracksuits everywhere.

Also Limp Bizkit. That fucking band was audio cancer.