The 90's

xoxyx · 13-12-2010 2:34am

The novelty of the internet! I remember sneaking downstairs at night for a browsing session (would usually end up in Teen Chat) and praying my parents wouldn't hear the computer starting up (creak, creak, creak, creak, BEEP, creak, creak).
Now I can use my iPhone in the bedroom, but the thrill is gone - and I definitely wouldn't be heading to Teen Chat anymore!:(

nyarlothothep · 13-12-2010 2:38am

Doom, wipeout, Mortal Kombat 1-3, sonic series, sim city, alien trilogy, avp, virtua cop, virtua fighter, virtua racing, sega rally, exhumed, magazines like CVG, Mega Machines, 2000 ad, films such as Timecop, Waynes World Under Siege, Fortress, Terminator 2, Stargate, Gross Point Blank, Pulp Fiction, music varying from Radiohead in their prime to Spaceman by Bablyon Zoo, good times, nay glorious times. The 90s were great because everyone was having fun, it was less ironic and hipster-ish. People brought back the 80s starting roughly from 2000, its 20 years now, we must bring back the 90s!!

Sl!mCharles · 13-12-2010 2:43am

Those old Final Fantasys.

OPENROAD · 13-12-2010 2:52am

Re: The Internet

Didn't get a computer until Christmas 1999, they had a couple of computers in my local gym and I had gone on this thing called the Internet a couple of times

Remember my mum driving me to the DHL warehouse to collect my Dell PC as they couldn't deliver it in time for Christmas.

Remember feeling really proud that I set everything up on Christmas day myself and connecting to the internet for the first time at home, first two sites I went on were the Official Gary Barlow website and a London radio station called Heart 106.2 FM, listened all evening

jennytightlips · 13-12-2010 3:38am

white doves in the harp niteclub on o connell bridge....
it was rough as a badgers arse but great memories!

Saila · 13-12-2010 4:18am

movies, the times before the rise of major CGI
good music
the absence of celebrity for celebrity sake, and the times before talentless people got music contracts because they looked pretty and had not talent.
Game on [funny funny show]

oh..and when MTV showed proper video's and had alternative nation and ray cokes

Irish Guitarist · 13-12-2010 5:57am

My youth. My father still being alive.

As for things from popular culture there's nothing I really miss.

scientific1982 · 13-12-2010 6:43am

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

My youth. My father still being alive.

As for things from popular culture there's nothing I really miss.

Music: Nirvana, cypress hill, ice cube, oasis, the prodigy, beck, supergrass, oasis, the verve, L7, nas, wu tang clan, alice in chains, pearl jam, chemical brothers, blur, ocean colour scene, soundgarden, pantera, dr dre, snoop dogg, outkast, nin, ect

Films: Pulp fiction, reservoir dogs, basketball diaries, leon, the matrix, trainspotting, the usual suspects, terminator 2, clerks, clockers, boogie nights, casino, goodfellas, dazed and confused, american history x, ect.

The 90s was ****in deadly for pop culture.

derfderf · 13-12-2010 9:22am

Jet from Gladiators.

blaze1 · 13-12-2010 11:14am

playing basketball all the time, whitelighting and knacker drinkin

jimthemental · 13-12-2010 11:23am

Loved the crappy chewing gum that had stickers of players in 94 world cup on the inside of the label. Fridge was painted with them that summer.

scottie pippen · 13-12-2010 11:54am

blaze1 wrote: »

playing basketball all the time, whitelighting and knacker drinkin

played plenty of ball too and did laods of knacker drinking.

used to love the watching the nba on sunday mornings at 11 on channel 4 & watching the finals live until small hours of the morning.

Bulls v Sonics
Bulls v Jazz
Bulls v Jazz.

also Miss watching MJ & Scottie Pippen & Rodman in action

dirtyghettokid · 13-12-2010 11:58am

scottie pippen wrote: »

also Miss watching MJ & Scottie Pippen & Rodman in action

definitely!
loved all the starter hats and jackets... they were big back then.

if you had a leather bulls hat or a pinwheel starter hat, a bulls pullover jacket and nike air max (classic or 90's) / reebok pumps you were the ****!

i loved double cassette players and taping awesome **** off the radio..

irishonline · 13-12-2010 12:03pm

the golden era of Nickelodeon (spelling?)

Klim · 13-12-2010 12:09pm

Radio Ireland becoming Today fm. Earth shattering stuff.

phill106 · 13-12-2010 12:11pm

When mtv still showed music videos...

scottie pippen · 13-12-2010 12:11pm

dirtyghettokid wrote: »

definitely!
loved all the starter hats and jackets... they were big back then.

if you had a leather bulls hat or a pinwheel starter hat, a bulls pullover jacket and nike air max (classic or 90's) / reebok pumps you were the ****!

i loved double cassette players and taping awesome **** off the radio..

starter gear was sweet! still have loads of it and its lasted well, still have a pair of shorts that I get a fair bit of use out of still.

and a starter basball style bulls top - good thing I haven't grown much since I was 15.

lol, yeah the double cassette recorders were brilliant! shame that there was feck all on the radio worth recording.

was mad into swoping mix tapes with mates

dirtyghettokid · 13-12-2010 12:13pm

scottie pippen wrote: »

starter gear was sweet! still have loads of it and its lasted well, still have a pair of shorts that I get a fair bit of use out of still.

and a starter basball style bulls top - good thing I haven't grown much since I was 15.

lol, yeah the double cassette recorders were brilliant! shame that there was feck all on the radio worth recording.

was mad into swoping mix tapes with mates

i still have loads of starter gear! even though i'm 30 it's like i'm permanently stuck in 1992. i still wear my bulls jacket, nike air max.. and i still have a tape player! it's not double cassette though

mix tapes were the best! i'd love to make them again. cd's or mp3 download playlists just aren't the same!

superelliptic · 13-12-2010 12:55pm

lcrcboy wrote: »

I was thinking back to my childhood days and thinking about all the things I used to love back then like Prince of Bel air and play station 1 is there anything you really miss from the 90's

Yeah, being a teenager and thinking that the leaving cert was the toughest exam I'd ever do. Guess I never figured on the ccna.

...and decent guinness ad's, nirvana, Bevis and Butthead, MTV before it got ****, Brass Eye, the 11 O'clock Show, lolo ferrari, Father Ted, and my first proper girlfriend:pac:

30txsbzmcu2k9w · 13-12-2010 1:07pm

I was thinking about this recently. Kids in the 90s wore baggy jeans and made
these the biggest band in the world.

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

Kids now wear skinny jeans and listen to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94RNp7veIJE

Gen X was were it was at.

nyarlothothep · 13-12-2010 2:33pm

irishonline wrote: »

the golden era of Nickelodeon (spelling?)

Ren and Stimpy, need I say more

Irishcrx · 13-12-2010 3:26pm

Football...when players cared more about being better than been better paid than their rivals.

Late night clubs/Off licences.

Lower taxes and better business opportunities.

Den TV/Power rangers/Bosco/pokemon/Gigantor

Mosney

Is mise le key · 13-12-2010 4:41pm

My 20's:(

sensibleken · 13-12-2010 5:34pm

Super channel
Rocker girls in baggy t shirts

GizAGoOfYerGee · 13-12-2010 6:09pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9bsAULCKfI

So fúckin tacky it's brilliant.

edit: This one is even better.

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

sallystar · 13-12-2010 9:27pm

Sir Henrys nightclub in Cork. Those were the days:cool:.

The KLF. Proper music.

I saw a homeless guy on Patricks bridge over the weekend wearing a NAFF jacket. Remember those?! I remember my brother wanted one for his 13th birthday but wasn't allowed:D

steelcityblues · 14-12-2010 2:40am

SEGA Game Gear

Searching for callcards in phone boxes

good sitcoms on television (for the most part)

my uncle

Popular music in early part of decade, before messrs Boyzone, Take That, Westlife, Spice Girls, Britney, Christina, Justin, etc. dominated and made it so gay!

The old MTV Europe

The Premier League stars that were Alan Shearer, Andy Cole, Robbie Fowler, Ian Wright, Gianfranco Zola, etc.

Listening to Chris Barry at night without my parents knowing

Talking about Chris Barry the following day with other pupils

Fizman · 14-12-2010 3:32am

derfderf wrote: »

Jet from Gladiators.

Gladiator.........readyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

derfderfs right hand............................readyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

watna · 14-12-2010 5:27am

Atlantic 252 on Long Wave. Any tape player you bought had to have long wave to you could get it.

I also made deadly mix tapes from that station - I listened to them so much that sometimes when I hear the songs from them now my brain thinks it's weird that the DJs voice doesn't appear like I remember it in the recordings.

also, the word "deadly" (see above)! Does anyone use that anymore?

Jimmy Garlic · 14-12-2010 5:40am

I remember 'discos' back then where you could latch on to a young wan that showed any sign of interest and suck her face for half the night, a week later she would be declaring her undying love. You can't latch onto random young wans in 'discos' anymore, in fact it is rare to see any lovin going on in 'discos' nowdays.

The 90's

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