1994 was 20 years ago

SharpshooterTom · 02-01-2014 4:01pm #1

Following the new year, 1994 is officially now 20 years old. People born in 1994 will be entering their 20s this year. What are your memories if you have any of it?

I was only 8, and it was kind of a breakthrough year for me in terms of maturity. It was the year I became old enough to first start following news events, music (first watching totp) and sport. However I don't remember either of the deaths of Kurt Cobain or Ayrton Senna.

I was born in England and still living there at the time, so obviously some of my memories will be a bit different to yours, and thus I can't relate to growth of celtic tiger Ireland for example, but I do remember the world cup that year and obviously following Ireland. The house erupting and us going crazy when Ray Houghton scored. :pac:

I think that was the year of Riverdance wasn't it? My mum bought it on tape and played it endlessley.

What are your memories, if you have any, from 1994?

MadsL · 02-01-2014 4:04pm

Here's the soundtrack for 1994...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RF1-8PrKAk

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Gongoozler · 02-01-2014 4:05pm

It was the year I got my tonsils out. I was ten and spent a week in hospital. I remember crying cause I was by myself in a weird place. And probably scared I'd be killed.

MadsL · 02-01-2014 4:06pm

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

I was only 8,

Fuck. I'm old aren't I?

wilkie2006 · 02-01-2014 4:06pm

The year Definitely Maybe was released. Incredible album.

Nemeses · 02-01-2014 4:06pm

MadsL wrote: »

Fuck. I'm old aren't I?

Mind your language for the minors here :P

They've just turned 20 something!

RoboRat · 02-01-2014 4:06pm

I did my leaving cert in '94 :eek:

whiskeyman · 02-01-2014 4:07pm

My first taste of a goodfellas pizza, the 'Cheese Supreme'.
We were watching Ireland play Mexico I think, and my mates Ma brought it out to us.
Never had anything like it before... can still taste it now...

Mena · 02-01-2014 4:08pm

20 years ago?

I was in my second year in the military back then. God I'm old.

SharpshooterTom · 02-01-2014 4:09pm

MadsL wrote: »

Fuck. I'm old aren't I?

You sure are, I turn 28 this year. :pac:

Two and half years from turning 30. :eek:

blacklilly · 02-01-2014 4:09pm

RoboRat wrote: »

I did my leaving cert in '94 :eek:

Now that's old

demanufactured · 02-01-2014 4:09pm

Puberty.....nirvana.....junior cert.....

Karl Stein · 02-01-2014 4:10pm

Rubbish. It was only about 7 or 8 years ago.

xzanti · 02-01-2014 4:10pm

Everyone was wearing these..

Ush1 · 02-01-2014 4:10pm

World Cup....'Mericuh....Ray Houghton volley.

Sums it up.

Larbre34 · 02-01-2014 4:10pm

Leaving Cert. Don't remind. Thanks.

yourdeadwright · 02-01-2014 4:10pm

I was 11 and that summer i meet my now missus for the very first time, we didnt get together till 15 years later,

gomer_pile · 02-01-2014 4:11pm

usa 1994 is the only thing that sticks out

RikkFlair · 02-01-2014 4:11pm

My abiding memory is of Steve Staunton melting into a puddle on the pitch at the World Cup. That Orlando heat was a killer for us fair skinned Paddies in fairness.

02-01-2014 4:12pm

Friends started in 1994 (20 years ago) and ended in 2004 (10 years ago). I'm now the age that the main characters were when it started so an on-again-off-again relationship with Jennifer Aniston should be starting anytime now.

Chefrio · 02-01-2014 4:12pm

I was 9, spent the summer on the green playing football.

old hippy · 02-01-2014 4:12pm

I can't remember a lot about '94. Was working in local radio and enjoying life, iirc...

GLaDOS · 02-01-2014 4:12pm

I was four.

Mmmm, youth.

Ush1 · 02-01-2014 4:12pm

RikkFlair wrote: »

My abiding memory is of Steve Staunton melting into a puddle on the pitch at the World Cup. That Orlando heat was a killer for us fair skinned Paddies in fairness.

Don't forget Aldridge goin' mental at the fourth official on the sideline.

whiskeyman · 02-01-2014 4:13pm

xzanti wrote: »

Everyone was wearing these..

more likely these:
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/VTG-Ireland-World-Cup-1994-T-Shirt-Ole-Ole-USA-Soccer-Football-Mens-Size-2XL-XXL-/00/s/MTEyM1gxNDQ0/z/jGgAAMXQLoZR2e23/$(KGrHqJ,!qgFHJY60(7)BR2e23dQ5Q~~60_35.JPG

The only time I didnt mind being dragged to Penneys as a kid!

whiskeyman · 02-01-2014 4:14pm

gomer_pile wrote: »

usa 1994 is the only thing that sticks out

For any blokes well into puberty back then, something else stuck out.

alot

MadsL · 02-01-2014 4:14pm

old hippy wrote: »

I can't remember a lot about '94.

Doing it right then...got any veras?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqhBqIOIt3A

B.A._Baracus · 02-01-2014 4:14pm

1994, hey?

I remember Sky One coming back after being off the air for a year or so. Was something to do with then Cablelink and a dispute (seriously what was the deal?)

Gone was Dj Kat and there was a whole new roster in WWE WWF. But also remember watching the Survivor Series live that same year.

freedominacup · 02-01-2014 4:17pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Friends started in 1994 (20 years ago) and ended in 2004 (10 years ago). I'm now the age that the main characters were when it started so an on-again-off-again relationship with Jennifer Aniston should be starting anytime now.

I was the same age as the main characters were when it started, we went through a lot of it with them. The end was a wrench, really made me feel if not old that youth was behind me. Eveyone was having babies, buying houses, getting married in no particular order when friends ended, it bookended that part of our lives.

The_Kew_Tour · 02-01-2014 4:17pm

Ireland beating England in rugby.

Usa 94 especially beating Italy.

I was in 3rd class.

branie · 02-01-2014 4:18pm

I was 15 then

road_high · 02-01-2014 4:18pm

Twenty years ago..mad.

It was a kind of a water-shed era/year I think as Ireland changed utterly into the country it is today. It was around then the economy took off, the internet was just about on the horizon, mobile phones were beginning to appear.

SharpshooterTom · 02-01-2014 4:19pm

As I say I was living in England at the time, but apparantly Riverdance was at number 1 in Ireland for 18 weeks that year?? :eek:

MadsL · 02-01-2014 4:19pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Friends started in 1994 (20 years ago) and ended in 2004 (10 years ago). I'm now the age that the main characters were when it started so an on-again-off-again relationship with Jennifer Aniston should be starting anytime now.

Word of advice. Don't have 'a break'.

freedominacup · 02-01-2014 4:20pm

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

As I say I was living in England at the time, but apparantly Riverdance was at number 1 in Ireland for 18 weeks that year?? :eek:

It made a nice change from "me arse is low".

vitani · 02-01-2014 4:20pm

Gongoozler wrote: »

It was the year I got my tonsils out. I was ten and spent a week in hospital. I remember crying cause I was by myself in a weird place. And probably scared I'd be killed.

I got my tonsils out in 94 as well. I was nine, but I loved all the attention (and the icecream).

antodeco · 02-01-2014 4:20pm

xzanti wrote: »

Everyone was wearing these..

I had the USA 94 game on the GameBoy Colour!

danniemcq · 02-01-2014 4:21pm

Fun fact

The year that that 70s show came out compared to the year it was set if applied to the current day would be called That 90's show and be set in 1992

wiz569 · 02-01-2014 4:21pm

Mena wrote: »

20 years ago?

I was in my second year in the military back then. God I'm old.

I was 6 years married :eek:

branie · 02-01-2014 4:22pm

It was the year Zig and Zag defected to Channel 4

burnhardlanger · 02-01-2014 4:23pm

1994. I was 13.

Senna and Ratzenberger killed at the San Marino GP.

melekalikimaka · 02-01-2014 4:23pm

DannieHasAFanny wrote: »

Fun fact

The year that that 70s show came out compared to the year it was set if applied to the current day would be called That 90's show and be set in 1992

for a moment i thought it would be a great show idea... then i remembered saved by the bell, hang time and pugwall

pass

Miss Lockhart · 02-01-2014 4:24pm

I was 11/12. Nothing really stands out.

MadsL · 02-01-2014 4:25pm

Ush1 wrote: »

Don't forget Aldridge goin' mental at the fourth official on the sideline.

Wait. They had fourth officials in 94?

I am old. Wasn't that introduced like five years ago?

Mushy · 02-01-2014 4:25pm

Was 5, I remember my grandad dying, watching some WC matches (didnt a crossbar snap in one match?), and moving house that year.

danniemcq · 02-01-2014 4:26pm

burnhardlanger wrote: »

1994. I was 13.

Senna and Ratzenberger killed at the San Marino GP.

jeez yeah i had forgotten about that for a minute there, that was an horrific weekend

iDave · 02-01-2014 4:27pm

Was 9, again World Cup was main memory, that and being in Croke Park witnessing Meath lose by a point to the Dubs :mad:

Eoin247 · 02-01-2014 4:28pm

Was born that year. Can i start complaining about today's youth now?

Ush1 · 02-01-2014 4:29pm

MadsL wrote: »

Wait. They had fourth officials in 94?

I am old. Wasn't that introduced like five years ago?

Yep, you're perhaps thinking of the fifth official, better known as the behind the goal guys that do nothing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_0ZEh6LPnA

StephenHendry · 02-01-2014 4:30pm

DannieHasAFanny wrote: »

jeez yeah i had forgotten about that for a minute there, that was an horrific weekend

remember senna and ratzenburger being killed , and kurt cobains death, riverdance and ireland beating italy in the wc , 94 was to be the beginning of the celtic tiger

youtheman · 02-01-2014 4:32pm

Ush1 wrote: »

Don't forget Aldridge goin' mental at the fourth official on the sideline.

Was that the year that Maradona stuck his face in the camera like a rabid dog (he was off his head on Coke). 'twas hardly 1998 was it?.

1994 was 20 years ago

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