Stuff we DON'T Miss from the 90s.

[Thaluikhain]

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.

IIRC, that was bad timing. They were much better than the alternative, which was get a whole stack of 1.4mbs floppy disks, but USB memory devices came out not long after that, and were even better.

Someone develops a much improved system which gets overlooked because the next big improvement comes before they get going...sad, really.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

This nonsense right here:

Spoiler: Spoilered for your sanity

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

Keep in mind that Deadpool was born in the 90's...created by Liefeld himself! Not the personality but the original character design.

I'm having trouble of thinking of 90's things that I'm glad we got rid of honestly. I guess some of the fashion trends is one thing. I also remember things having random, neon-colored shapes...like pink triangles and red squiggly lines...glad we got out of that.

 

[Daniel Ferguson]

Fluoro. And pastel colours. Oprah.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

While I got into comic books in the late 90's/early 2000's, I admit the "Dark Age" of comic books always baffles me...

 

[sextus the crazy]

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

also 90s English anime dubs. There were only 3 types: "bad by modern standards", "bad by any standards", and "so bad, it's hilarious".

Also Limp Bizkit. That fucking band was audio cancer.

*shudders*

 

[Fappy]

I'll put in another vote for the Clone Saga and also raise you Rob Liefeld.

 

[SodaDew]

Cars, the 90's had practically no good cars. I also don't miss Bill Clinton.

 

[370999]

I was nine by the end of the 90s so it isn't very easy for me to remember. I guess, I don't miss my county's capital town being as small as it used to be, I like that it has expanded. I also don't miss my family being poor, though things are getting tighter every year.

 

[II2]

- Pervasive california surfer slang.
- Undercuts and baggy pants with a chain.
- Pagers
- Nu Metal / Rap Rock
- Pop Punk
- Popular Music of the era.
- Dial up bulletin board systems. (some good games, mind)
- Win 3.1
- "Non smoking" areas in public spaces being tiny and exclusive.

 

[Casual Shinji]

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

also 90s English anime dubs. There were only 3 types: "bad by modern standards", "bad by any standards", and "so bad, it's hilarious".

Well, Dragon Half was very good dubbed.

The only anime on VHS I could find that was subbed, was more obscure stuff like Urusei Yatsura and Kimagure Orange Road.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

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

also 90s English anime dubs. There were only 3 types: "bad by modern standards", "bad by any standards", and "so bad, it's hilarious".

Well, Dragon Half was very good dubbed.

The only anime on VHS I could find that was subbed, was more obscure stuff like Urusei Yatsura and Kimagure Orange Road.

So was Ranma 1/2, and (was this done in the 90's?) Lupin III. Not to mention the streamline dub of Akira, which was technically '89, but what the heck, let's count it. I honestly prefer the dubs from the 90's to the early 2000's, because there was more variety in the voice actors. The market has shrunk so much in recent years that it seems like there's five male actors and five female actors in the entire industry, and they all have one voice a piece.

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

Hair and clothes, no question.

Fuck you mama jeans

 

[Casual Shinji]

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

also 90s English anime dubs. There were only 3 types: "bad by modern standards", "bad by any standards", and "so bad, it's hilarious".

Well, Dragon Half was very good dubbed.

The only anime on VHS I could find that was subbed, was more obscure stuff like Urusei Yatsura and Kimagure Orange Road.

So was Ranma 1/2, and (was this done in the 90's?) Lupin III. Not to mention the streamline dub of Akira, which was technically '89, but what the heck, let's count it. I honestly prefer the dubs from the 90's to the early 2000's, because there was more variety in the voice actors. The market has shrunk so much in recent years that it seems like there's five male actors and five female actors in the entire industry, and they all have one voice a piece.

I only ever saw 5 minutes of the original Akira dub, and that was enough for me to run away screaming like a little girl. I think the exact moment was when I heard Masaru talk like a midget. Though oddly, in hindsight I actually enjoy the dub of Ghost in the Shell ('95) more than the original Japanese version, which is almost completely devoid of emotional delivery. A lot of 90's dubs had the annoying habbit of excessive swearing though.

As for the recent years, it might be because anime dubbers have become quite the celebrities so that the same voices are being used constantly. They've become fan favourites. I'm not familiar with many if any dub voices, but if you've seen any of those anime reviews by JesuOtaku, you'll notice that she spends roughly half the review talking about the voice acting. Meaning that these famous dub voices are apparently a big deal to the fans.

 

[johnnyLupine]

Nostalgia is a powerful emotion, bringing to us rose-tinted views of a time long passed and invoking a return to those good times.

However, it ALWAYS makes us forget that not everything was better or necessarily more innocent during those times.

So... Hey 90s kids, you ever recall anything that you DON'T miss from those times.

I'll start with what I remember. I don't miss VHS tapes, the "Dark Age of Comics", crappy English dubs of foreign shows, and dial-up Internet for one

Exactly how many people had dail up back then? The only place I remember occasionally using the internet in the was at school and if I remember correctly didn't actually get any kind of internet connection until the mid 2000's.

Im really struggling to find anything terrible about that decade..

I suppose that at a stretch I could complain about how superstarwars would only run for around half an hour or so before turning itself off. As far as I was aware there was no save feature, unless it came after a set number of levels which I never got to see. I rarely got to the inside of the sandcrawler and of the few times I got to the end suffered repetedly at the hands of some...whatever the hell it was at the end. In short I never got to use a lightsaber in a game until episode I was released for the playstation.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Pretty much these-
56k modern
90's era PC (Window 95)
Some fashions
Cassete tapes
PSA on certain cartoon shows
Nerds being shunned from society

 

[sextus the crazy]

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

also 90s English anime dubs. There were only 3 types: "bad by modern standards", "bad by any standards", and "so bad, it's hilarious".

Well, Dragon Half was very good dubbed.

The only anime on VHS I could find that was subbed, was more obscure stuff like Urusei Yatsura and Kimagure Orange Road.

So was Ranma 1/2, and (was this done in the 90's?) Lupin III. Not to mention the streamline dub of Akira, which was technically '89, but what the heck, let's count it. I honestly prefer the dubs from the 90's to the early 2000's, because there was more variety in the voice actors. The market has shrunk so much in recent years that it seems like there's five male actors and five female actors in the entire industry, and they all have one voice a piece.

I only ever saw 5 minutes of the original Akira dub, and that was enough for me to run away screaming like a little girl. I think the exact moment was when I heard Masaru talk like a midget. Though oddly, in hindsight I actually enjoy the dub of Ghost in the Shell ('95) more than the original Japanese version, which is almost completely devoid of emotional delivery. A lot of 90's dubs had the annoying habbit of excessive swearing though.

As for the recent years, it might be because anime dubbers have become quite the celebrities so that the same voices are being used constantly. They've become fan favourites. I'm not familiar with many if any dub voices, but if you've seen any of those anime reviews by JesuOtaku, you'll notice that she spends roughly half the review talking about the voice acting. Meaning that these famous dub voices are apparently a big deal to the fans.

They are. I watch the Dub version of most of the shows I watch, so I know a variety of English VAs and none of the Japanese ones. We've got lots of famous VAs and some people will watch shows based on who's VAing it. (I'm a big chris patton fan myself because he tends to get roles for either humorously insane characters or deadpan snarkers).

Granted, I don't tend to watch stuff based on who's VAing in it, but rather on show itself.

 

[renegade7]

The 'cool kids' with the backwards hats and skateboards that schools and TV shows always talked about. Because they were totally common and interesting people.

And dial up. Fuck dial up. WRRR BOOPBOOPBOOPBEEP KRZZ KRZZ. Still better than most dubstep though.

 

[RufusMcLaser]

Dialup.
Crystal Pepsi.
The agonizing death of Saturday morning cartoons.
Adam Sandler.
The futile U.N. interventions.
Floppy disks of every description.
Life before Google.
Every comic by Malibu.
Dave Sim's descent into dementia.
Movies based on old TV shows.
The increasing obviousness of the fact that the writers of X-Files really didn't have a plan for where it was all going.
Newspapers without The Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, or Bloom County.
Seconded: The Phantom Menace, Rob Liefeld, Limp Bizkit, anime on VHS. Anything at all on magnetic tape, actually.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Funny I thought some of the 80s and most of the 2000s were far worse comic wise than the 90s.


Dial up was horrible ><

 

[elvor0]

I can't really remember 90s specific stuff from my own experiences due to being dirt poor and never being allowed to go the outside world.

I mean, this was and still is super cool, right?

See, while that's bad, it's still actually better looking than some of the head wear these days. Like those bizarre faux cone gnome hats that gangstas wear. (Speaking of which, a most hillarious moment in my life was when my mother came up to visit me in my new flat, walked past a "gangsta" trying to look all hard with one of them on, queue being heckled by my mother. Queue red face and removal of said hat) Or the baseball caps that make your head look like it's mutated to bulge at the top, ironically enough given the intelligence of people who wear said hats.

OT: The music. Dear god the music. Being born in 91, I missed Nirvana and was constantly exposed to the spice girls, Steps, S Club 7, S Club 8, S club junion, fucking S fucking club fucking something, etc etc. I flat out stated that I didn't like music until I was about 12, being unaware of the existence of Rock N Roll until then.