Stuff we DON'T Miss from the 90s.

[Remus]

Dial-up internet and the tones it made starting up, a sound that will be ringing in my head until the day I die. Although it was immortalized in Terminator Rise of the Machines with the terminatrix using the tone to transmit a virus.

School. There were some good parts - my science teacher that was an off-duty army ranger - was actually called back in one year. But the rest? If I could pay money to retain the knowledge but block out the memories I'd do it in a heartbeat.

 

[JopieHaargel]

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.

Oh god YES! So pathetic, it made being white trash cool somehow.

Also, Tamagotchi. That was just sad.

 

[Spade Lead]

I must have been the first hipster because I had a pocket pet (ironically) just for the sheer joy of beating it to death, or over-feeding it so it ran away. What is really funny is that all of my friends thought it was just the most awesome thing in the world that my mom bought me one just because I said I would do that.

 

[crusador90]

This is probably why we don't miss Liefeld art being mainstream.

I also don't miss 90s FMV games. Why did the entire game industry think that low budget animation/film dressed entirely with QuickTime Events would be a good idea?
Then again, without then, we would have funny videos making fun of them!

 

[RufusMcLaser]

I just looked through five pages and discovered that I was the only person to mention Fred Durst.

... D-did everyone forget what a shapeless, talentless, grotesque pile of ape-meat he was? It's like the only manifestation of 90's PTSD that I have.

Several of us have already griped about Limp Bizkit, but I'll be happy to join in excoriating Fred Durst specifically.
That reminds me of another dumb 90s moment- both of the 90s Woodstocks. Hopefully they won't try it again in 2019; in a way we're fortunate that MTV has declined in actual musical influence, when it seemed liked the center of the goddamn musical world in the early 90s.

 

[chinangel]

the gawdawful embarrassing fashions. Srsly, it was like someone was trying to breathe life back into the 80's. >.> and a large portion of the music is gone and can damn well stay gone.

 

[bluepilot]

I kinda miss the 90s though, okay so, there were only three flavours of icecream, 4 channels, computers games were on a floppy disc, you had to listen to the radio to get a recording of the song that you wanted on cassette, VHSs would sometimes rebel and unwind themselves, rewinding sucked (but fast-forwarding was great) and the only decent shows were on a Saturday morning.

But these were simpler times. Things were more special because you could not take them for granted.

I see 10 year olds today walking around with their ipads, iphones e.t.c....when I was 10, I had pokemon cards

 

[IamQ]

I see 10 year olds today walking around with their ipads, iphones e.t.c....when I was 10, I had pokemon cards

Can you even see me from that high pedestal of yours?

Seriously, can you people stop acting like you were so much more pure and good than other kids when you were there age. Had iphones and all that junk existed when you were a kid, you too would have those. And how are those worse than pokemon cards? How do you even compare them? They're not simular exactly.

I remember when I was 10. I wasn't playing pokemon cards. Me and my friends would be on the school computers and play runescape when the day was over until we had to go home to eat.

 

[bluepilot]

I see 10 year olds today walking around with their ipads, iphones e.t.c....when I was 10, I had pokemon cards

Can you even see me from that high pedestal of yours?

Seriously, can you people stop acting like you were so much more pure and good than other kids when you were there age. Had iphones and all that junk existed when you were a kid, you too would have those. And how are those worse than pokemon cards? How do you even compare them? They're not simular exactly.

I remember when I was 10. I wasn't playing pokemon cards. Me and my friends would be on the school computers and play runescape when the day was over until we had to go home to eat.

I am not taking a high pedestal, I am just trying to illustrate that compared to when I was 10, kids who are 10 these days have things much more complicated. I have an iphone now and even though having it is awesome, there is also a level of stress to having such an expensive piece of equipment. If my iphone were to get lost or damaged, I think that I would melt in a corner and cry. I do not think that the 10 year old me could have coped with that kind of stress...it was stressful enough lusting after those holographic rare cards.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I see 10 year olds today walking around with their ipads, iphones e.t.c....when I was 10, I had pokemon cards

Can you even see me from that high pedestal of yours?

Seriously, can you people stop acting like you were so much more pure and good than other kids when you were there age. Had iphones and all that junk existed when you were a kid, you too would have those. And how are those worse than pokemon cards? How do you even compare them? They're not simular exactly.

I remember when I was 10. I wasn't playing pokemon cards. Me and my friends would be on the school computers and play runescape when the day was over until we had to go home to eat.

I am not taking a high pedestal, I am just trying to illustrate that compared to when I was 10, kids who are 10 these days have things much more complicated. I have an iphone now and even though having it is awesome, there is also a level of stress to having such an expensive piece of equipment. If my iphone were to get lost or damaged, I think that I would melt in a corner and cry. I do not think that the 10 year old me could have coped with that kind of stress...it was stressful enough lusting after those holographic rare cards.

Did you have a gameboy as a kid? Because an iPod touch isn't all that much more valuable than those things were, all things considered. I for one would have /killed/ for a modern smart phone as a kid.

Edit: Also, you can get Android phones that are actually cheaper in raw dollar amount, let alone inflation adjusted, than a gameboy was back in the day. I'm looking at one right now that costs $80, but is powerful enough to easily emulate anything up to the PS1, and with a bit more difficulty do the N64, too -- and that difficulty is probably caused more by the rough state that N64 emulation is in than the actual power of the processor[footnote]in the early days of N64 emulation, the devs focused on hacks to get big games working instead of accurate emulation to get everything working. Unfortunately, nobody ever went back and made a truly accurate one, and it's left N64 emulation annoyingly buggy. PS1 emulation, like most other forms of emulation, is focused on near 100% accurate emulation of the system, with game compatibility arising from the accurate emulation, rather than tweaks for specific games.[/footnote]. For comparison, the Gameboy Color was $150 retail by the time I got it, and that was after Pokemon Gold and Silver came out, so the price may have already dropped a bit by then.

 

[bluepilot]

I see 10 year olds today walking around with their ipads, iphones e.t.c....when I was 10, I had pokemon cards

Can you even see me from that high pedestal of yours?

Seriously, can you people stop acting like you were so much more pure and good than other kids when you were there age. Had iphones and all that junk existed when you were a kid, you too would have those. And how are those worse than pokemon cards? How do you even compare them? They're not simular exactly.

I remember when I was 10. I wasn't playing pokemon cards. Me and my friends would be on the school computers and play runescape when the day was over until we had to go home to eat.

I am not taking a high pedestal, I am just trying to illustrate that compared to when I was 10, kids who are 10 these days have things much more complicated. I have an iphone now and even though having it is awesome, there is also a level of stress to having such an expensive piece of equipment. If my iphone were to get lost or damaged, I think that I would melt in a corner and cry. I do not think that the 10 year old me could have coped with that kind of stress...it was stressful enough lusting after those holographic rare cards.

Did you have a gameboy as a kid? Because an iPod touch isn't all that much more valuable than those things were, all things considered. I for one would have /killed/ for a modern smart phone as a kid.

I did have a gameboy, one of the old gray ones. So, now I am actually curious as to whether or not a gameboy would have been the same price as an ipod allowing for inflation e.t.c.

The first gameboy was released in 1990 and cost about 120 dollars (i think), I used this website http://www.dollartimes.com/calculators/inflation.htm and it tells me that the value today would have been about 214 dollars, which is about the same price as an ipod touch. Also it is the same price as one of the lower memory iphone 5s (without considering the monthy cost of the network e.t.c.).

I have had my gameboy for 16 years and it still works. I have also had the same ipod for 4 years and it still works. I do not know how long both with last though so this is an unfair comparison

Though you do need a computer and a internet connection to use an ipod. Therefore, even if the cost is the same, there are extra special dimensions to the technology that the simple gameboy never had.

Also, the gameboy is more a peripheral of your life, as opposed to the central keystone that holds together all your contacts, important dates and link to the outside world.

Also, you can hit your little brother with the gameboy and it never breaks. My iphone did not survive the toilet.

EDIT; After looking at another post, I have logically concluded that the 10 year old me who have only wanted a smart phone if it were shaped like a tricoder from TNG (inner child runs around excitedly)

 

[MammothBlade]

Pop music - e.g. Spice Girls, Britney Spears, boy bands *shudder* A lot of the music was terrible.
Rob Liefield comics


But damn, so much nostalgia for everything else.

 

[Atmos Duality]

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.

This is a shot in the dark I admit, but I'm guessing the colored bands and straps were to keep the character from looking...I dunno, "over-saturated" because apart from the "accessories" that is "UNIFORM. POPULATION: BLUE."

Still, there's no excuse for overblown musculature, especially anything Liefeld-ian (I'm convinced he based his entire style off of overblown 80s action figures).

 

[Queen Michael]

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.

This is a shot in the dark I admit, but I'm guessing the colored bands and straps were to keep the character from looking...I dunno, "over-saturated" because apart from the "accessories" that is "UNIFORM. POPULATION: BLUE."

Still, there's no excuse for overblown musculature, especially anything Liefeld-ian (I'm convinced he based his entire style off of overblown 80s action figures).

I like this suit. To me, it's an example of that kind of suit done right.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I like this suit. To me, it's an example of that kind of suit done right.

Agreed.
There really isn't anything wrong with the uniform in question. I'm just commenting on the distribution of colors and why I think the accessories are where they are.

It's a good team uniform: Not overly individualized*, looks adjustable but not overblown, while still keeping the character recognizable.

The polar opposite of what I remember about Liefeld-ian teams, sans possibly the recognition-factor.
(*which kind of contradicts the purpose of a team who regularly works and trains together)

 

[Pharsalus]

Wth is with all the music hate? Pop was no worse then than now, rock was a heck of a lot better not all "heavyish", and rap had some originality to it.

That being said I don't miss DOS based gaming, sound card setup, dial-up internet, 3D shooters with ugly sprite graphics, not enough anime on TV (not that I like most of the new stuff but at least it's there), almost every console game being a platformer.

 

[Vault101]

I kinda miss the 90s though, okay so, there were only three flavours of icecream, 4 channels, computers games were on a floppy disc, you had to listen to the radio to get a recording of the song that you wanted on cassette, VHSs would sometimes rebel and unwind themselves, rewinding sucked (but fast-forwarding was great) and the only decent shows were on a Saturday morning.

But these were simpler times. Things were more special because you could not take them for granted.

I see 10 year olds today walking around with their ipads, iphones e.t.c....when I was 10, I had pokemon cards

did it ever occur to you mabye things were simpler....because you were a kid? when your a kid life is pretty simple also

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[/spoiler]

This is probably why we don't miss Liefeld art being mainstream.

its like....his pecks have twisted around to face us 0_0

 

[crusador90]

The whole reason why I made this topic in the first place is shatter the "rose-tinted" view of the past. Whenever we recall the past, we always seem to forget crucial or negative details and end up with this skewed, overly positive "everything was better in my day" mentality, and I want to help people remember that not everything was better during those days. Mission Accomplished! As there are people older than me who have a better recollection of those days, as I was a 9 year old by the end of it all. Doesn't mean I don't remember any of that, because I do.

However, this doesn't mean I don't miss the decade, because I do. There are things I do not miss from the decade, hence was this topic was made, to talk about stuff we do not miss from the 1990s.
I don't miss the pop bands and music either, even though it will never truly die, just be replaced by some other singer to continue distributing music to dull-witted tweens with no taste in music. (Can't believe I'm saying that, I'm really getting old)

Things that I DO miss, despite being very young at the time:

When Sega was still relevant and not a whipping boy that made bad Sonic games. (Their shitty management made their fall inevitable)
Being coddled and having little responsibilities to owe up to, because I was "just a kid" and can't be expected to do much.
Having the childlike mindset that made trying things out for the first time feel AMAZING. (Like playing Super Mario 64 in 1996...something like that)
The innocence of childhood. Nuff' said.


But I DO NOT MISS:

Being young, stupid, and socially awkward. That kid I was knew nothing of how to interact or fit in with the other kids, or anyone for that matter.
Having little freedom to make important decisions during childhood goes in hand with being young, dumb, and impressionable.
Having no income outside of my pitiable allowance, because I was a kid. (Again)
Shitty English Dubs of anime. I was young and not really that knowledgeable, but even I knew that many voice actors that sign on for doing dubs of anime at the time were friggin' terrible.

 

[SeeIn2D]

The thing I hate most of all is that weird hair style that was like an awkward overgrown bowl cut that always moved and just looked off.

 

[emeraldrafael]

the later half of the bush administration. seriously, fuck you sir. fuck you and your bullshit lies.

also brittany spears. paving the way for miley cirus and whats shes doing to music.

... and VHS was annoying back then. especially when you had to use the pencil trick.