Stuff we DON'T Miss from the 90s.

[Souplex]

Rob Liefeld, Dial-Up, and the fact that the 90's ended.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Sleeveless hoodies. Few items of clothing have made such little sense since, most of them are also sleeveless.

Oh, and I forgot: So much shit metal came out in the 90's. Except Pantera. Pantera were ace.

I don't remember the sleeveless hoodies but they sound stupid.
As for the crap metal of the 90s, Sepultura's Roots makes up for all of it.

I for one am glad I haven't heard/seen the macarena in a long time and I hope it continues for the rest of my life.

 

[AgentNein]

Anyone say Buffy The Vampire Slayer yet?

No?

GOOD.

 

[UltraPic]

Fear mongering about the o-zone hole.

That was the 80's, and it was real. The good news is that we won .

 

[BarbaricGoose]

I don't miss how every rock band sounded like Creed. Or at least the singer from Creed. You know he's on Fox News now?

That was... annoying.

 

[Tyler Trahan]

Only having 5 channels, needing to buy a magazine to know whats on that day or using bloody ceefax and waiting for that slow arse number to cycle all the way through just so it can tell me "Yep, it's shit up next too!"

I've seen a lot of people mentioning the five channel thing, and it really confuses me -- I always thought of only having five channels as more of a 70's and earlier thing, 80's at the latest. I had (with basic cable, and using the tuner on the VCR/TV) about 70 channels throughout the 90's, upgraded to "a crapton, but very few of them have anything worth watching" somewhere in the mid 2000's. Did cable take a while to penetrate markets outside the US or something?

I didnt have anything more than 5-6 channels until I was 10 or so, and I was born in 1990. We had to pay for the cable company to come lay cable down our road because we lived in a rural area, so it certainly happened in the US like that as well

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Only having 5 channels, needing to buy a magazine to know whats on that day or using bloody ceefax and waiting for that slow arse number to cycle all the way through just so it can tell me "Yep, it's shit up next too!"

I've seen a lot of people mentioning the five channel thing, and it really confuses me -- I always thought of only having five channels as more of a 70's and earlier thing, 80's at the latest. I had (with basic cable, and using the tuner on the VCR/TV) about 70 channels throughout the 90's, upgraded to "a crapton, but very few of them have anything worth watching" somewhere in the mid 2000's. Did cable take a while to penetrate markets outside the US or something?

I didnt have anything more than 5-6 channels until I was 10 or so, and I was born in 1990. We had to pay for the cable company to come lay cable down our road because we lived in a rural area, so it certainly happened in the US like that as well

Maybe it's just because I'm in Florida. We seem to get every new technology standard before anyone else aside from New York and California. Although I guess it depends on how rural you are. There's parts of this overly well connected state that still don't have cable, unless it's come in in the last few years. There's also parts of the state that don't have broadband internet. And we're /really/ well connected here, there's just a few pockets of "middle of nowhere" left.

 

[redmoretrout]

A lot of you people do not sound like you are talking about the nineties, tiedye? only 4 channels? That sounds like the 60's.

Anyways I dont miss Public Service Ads like this

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[Atmos Duality]

-Celine Dion
-Pauly Shore

"Slacker" culture and dry corporate culture.

But mostly Celine Dion.

 

[Sack of Cheese]

My birth. I didn't miss it since I was there, right from the start.

 

[frizzlebyte]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates 90's music. You get so many kids these days gushing about 90's music, and then using bands that were really obscure at the time to justify it. Give me Lady GaGa over Brittany Spears any day. Hell, I'll take Ke$ha if the alternative is The Backstreet Boys.

OT: That, and the primitive internet. Try imagining a world before youtube. It's not pretty.

Yeah, the 90's had crap music for the most part. Most of the really popular groups should have died as one-hit wonders.

 

[crono738]

Captain Planet. Dear God that show was mind bogglingly awful. Dial-up, lack of cell phones, all those damned edutainment games.

 

[gideonkain]

POGs....I mean, what were they anyway? Did anyone actually "play" what-ever-the-fuck you were supposed to do with them?

Corporation: Here collect these plastic discs?
Me: Why?
Corporation: Gotta collect 'em all!
Me: That's stupid, who would ever go for that?...ohh...

 

[AgedGrunt]

AO-hell
Those stupid Tamagachi pet things
Needing a magazine/game genie/gameshark for insanely hard games; game magazines in general.
Needing a turbo controller
Game rental discs in bad condition & the early slow/laggy FMV
Rabbit ears and TVs without a remote control

Music:
Smooth
Mambo #5
Smashmouth&Creed&Sugar Ray---etc.
Any FOTM crapsack alternative rock/annoying song (ok nothing has changed here)
Screw it---too many artists to list!

 

[frizzlebyte]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates 90's music. You get so many kids these days gushing about 90's music, and then using bands that were really obscure at the time to justify it. Give me Lady GaGa over Brittany Spears any day. Hell, I'll take Ke$ha if the alternative is The Backstreet Boys.

OT: That, and the primitive internet. Try imagining a world before youtube. It's not pretty.

Yeah, the 90's had crap music for the most part. Most of the really popular groups should have died as one-hit wonders.

rap music was awesome during the 90's

i cant say that for everything else

Not a big fan of rap, but Tupac was good. Thing is, it's taken me growing up to be able to look back at the 90s and find the diamonds in the rough, music-wise. Then again, I'm far more into pop culture now than I was in the 90s, so some of it simply went by me or I didn't like it at the time.

Here's my stance: As a whole, the cartoons and tv shows (I love me some Kenan and Kel) of the 90s were better than the music. Nickelodeon never was the same after Hey Arnold! got cancelled and the Rugrats turned into bratty teenagers.

 

[2HF]

I don't miss VHS tapes as a storage medium for movies and TV shows because DVDs are superior in every way possible.

Get back to me the next time you encounter a government or piracy warning that you can't skip or fast forward through.

I miss everything about being 4-14 years old. Everything was the shit cause I had no responsibilities. Sweetness.

Oh wait! All Dogs Go To Heaven and The Secret Garden! My little sister would play those things on a goddamn loop.

 

[Vault101]

And then there's this:

Apparently Scott Summers' secret superpower is his skin's involuntary ability to repel clothing. Why else would he need straps and buckles tightened around every single article of clothing he has on him? I'm sure he's not the worst, but he is the most memorable since I was chiefly an X-Men fan back in the days when comics had a reasonable cost/page ratio.

is that....a liefeld peice of art?

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Stargate. Awful show and lowered the bar for all television sci-fi which followed it.

 

[elvor0]

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.

I was born in '95, and I went through the exact same thing.

What am I doing in this thread, then?

Well, my village, at least technology-wise, was caught in a bit of a stasis field in that time.

I do remember dial up, and old websites. I remember the pop up ad control was so bad my mum was letting me on the pokemon website (which constantly froze, and took a solid minute to load another page) and porn started popping up.

My sisters would bombard me musically with Britney Spears, and such like.

In consolation, the 90's were a very good time for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Indeed it was, there was a load of good stuff all through the 90s, it's just it never got much exposure, and like yourself I was stuck in a techno stasis field village in the middle of nowhere, so I never even had "that guy" that introduced me to new music. The first time I heard new music was Rammstein, System of a Down and Slipknot which just happened to have been on a bootleg Spider Man DVD (ahh the sweet sweet superhero cartoons of the 90s) I picked up at car boot sale. Being stuck with shit like Britney Spears, my little child mind was blown away.

Ironically enough, the amount of music me and my mother share enjoyment with is a good 50% of my music collection now, so had I actually listened to what she was playing when I was growing up, I may have got in to it a whole lot sooner. I'm going to blame "my parents are listening to it so it must suck!" mentality

 

[Korskarn]

A lot of you people do not sound like you are talking about the nineties, tiedye? only 4 channels? That sounds like the 60's.

Anyways I dont miss Public Service Ads like this

Not everyone lives in the same area as you. Or even the same country.

And the late 90's was a huge resurgence in 60s and 70s fashion, including tiedye and flares.