The 90's

kneemos · 19-09-2015 9:32am #1

Was there anything remarkable about the 90's?
Seems like the invention of the Playstation and the internet resulted in the most nondescript decade ever.

I heart TV · 19-09-2015 9:35am

kneemos wrote: »

Was there anything remarkable about the 90's?
Seems like the invention of the Playstation and the internet resulted in the most nondescript decade ever.

The internet was invented in the 60s not the 90s

Ignatius in bloom · 19-09-2015 9:35am

kneemos wrote: »

Was there anything remarkable about the 90's?
Seems like the invention of the Playstation and the internet resulted in the most nondescript decade ever.

An amazing decade for music and film. Plus you could have a grope and a smoke while at the bar.

Menas · 19-09-2015 9:37am

Ireland was a bit of a backwater in 1990. It was not so bad by the time 1999 came around!

Badly Drunk Boy · 19-09-2015 9:57am

I got my first e-mail account in 1991.
Mad Cow Disease was really big.
Michelle Smith became the most adored person in Irish history after winning 3 gold medals at the 1996 Olympics.
Laibach released their album NATO.
I started eating Indian food.
Stargate SG-1 started.
The Soviet Union collapsed.
The Spice Girls!

meeeeh · 19-09-2015 10:08am

The rise and fall of Nirvana. The grunge movement. The demise of action hero in the movies and the whole film industry was better for it.

The Backwards Man · 19-09-2015 10:11am

Menas wrote: »

Ireland was a bit of a backwater in 1990. It was not so bad by the time 1999 came around!

This.

The decade that Ireland finally threw off the post independence shackles and began to come of age.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 19-09-2015 10:11am

I barely remember the 90s.
Scrunchies
Tamogatchis
Those weird alien things that were supposed to open their eyes at the millennium.
Hairbands
Spice girls
Rugrats

That pretty much sums up my memories

Links234 · 19-09-2015 10:11am

Everything was better in the 90's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pa6SGYWADU

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 19-09-2015 10:13am

I heart TV wrote: »

The internet was invented in the 60s not the 90s

It became ubiquitous in the 90's, like mobile phones, like smartphone in the 00's, and tbf that's what really matters on a social level, and is what the op is actually trying to allude to.

RobertKK · 19-09-2015 10:18am

Everyone was sniff banging, it was new, fresh from the states.

Badly Drunk Boy · 19-09-2015 10:20am

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

It became ubiquitous in the 90's, like mobile phones, like smartphone in the 00's, and tbf that's what really matters on a social level, and is what the op is actually trying to allude to.

Or rather the World Wide Web, which was transferred through the internet, became available to the public.

Badly Drunk Boy · 19-09-2015 10:21am

RobertKK wrote: »

Everyone was sniff banging, it was new, fresh from the states.

You could get a sniff-bang for 50p (once you got your deposit back).

smokie72 · 19-09-2015 10:23am

Father ted and Italia 90

meeeeh · 19-09-2015 10:24am

I remember our it teacher in high school telling us if this amazing web which enables communication among scientists. She also said some businesses use it for advertising which it really isn't what it was intended for and it will have to be regulated. Couple of months later it was riddled with porn and the rest is history.

19-09-2015 10:25am

1990's was generally a very unique decade in world history.

It was after end of the Cold War and before 9/11 and all the upheaval that followed. Generally seemed to have the feeling that we had solved most of the first world's problems and had reached "end of history" status as the quote went.

It wasn't without problems (former Yugoslavia/Rwanda), but was a world without the euro currency (and the volatility/instability that went with it), and Islamic terrorism was non-existent in Europe and was mostly restricted to incidents in Israel/Palestine.

Growing up in the 1990's it seemed the world could only get better with time, but increasingly the gains achieved to that back are being rolled back: increasing censorship by PC elites, undemocratic EU, wars/violence/terrorism.

For me the thing that sums up the 90's is the TV show Friends. Nice, warm, gentle, cosy, prosperous.

dark crystal · 19-09-2015 10:28am

We dominated the 90's when it came to shite pop bands and the Eurovision.

One eyed Jack · 19-09-2015 10:30am

The Backwards Man wrote: »

This.

The decade that Ireland finally threw off the post independence shackles and began to come of age.

We no more came of age... more like the Celtic Tiger cubs pulled off their dirty nappies and waved them about the place all throughout the 90's, making shìt of the place! :pac:

Every generation thinks it's the one that came of age. Look at how the recent referendum was passed - "We're now a modern country in 2015..."

We were always a modern country, right down to when we swapped boiling cloth diapers for disposable nappies. It's come full circle again now with more and more people boiling reusable diapers instead of trying to dispose of environmentally unfriendly disposable nappies that aren't so disposable!

Jaysis that's an awful lot of shyte talk :pac:

90's, like any other decade, was whatever the person themselves made of it.

Fluffy Cat 88 · 19-09-2015 10:42am

It was a decade of hope. After the miserable 80's, teenagers could actually choose to stay here rather than emigrate like our older siblings did.

Cars improved, more shops opened, we had more "stuff" I suppose.

For me, the boom began in the 90's. There were jobs if you wanted one. Going out every Saturday night was the norm. I enjoyed the 90's.

As for the Millennium Bug.... much ado about nothing!

nullzero · 19-09-2015 10:47am

Great music, action movies where every character was a wise cracking comedian. There was still a reasonable amount of originality in popular culture generally speaking not the situation of today where everything is a reboot or a retread of something else.
And what showing on with the shirts? Loudly coloured shirts with awful ties were everywhere, looking back they make the much maligned fashion of the 80's look normal.
To say the 90's was a nondescript decade is daft, since the turn of the century everything has felt kind of samey and much more nondescript than the previous decades which all seemed to have quite distinctive qualities.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 19-09-2015 10:54am

T'was all about the yokes.

DanielODonnell · 19-09-2015 11:06am

It depends what age you were, if you were a young fellow or just born in the decade it seems like it was a very fashionable time with want of a better word, I was born in 92 but to someone my parents age who were in their 30's at the time it was just a decade filled with work and raising children. I am sure someone who was born in early 2000's would think the 2000's were great because they were children at the time and had no worries.

For people who say the music was better, that depends what music you like as metal music is better now than it ever was, in terms of films, it was just the Disney movies that were better, hollywood films are actually better now.

donegaLroad · 19-09-2015 11:09am

I remember pricing a mobile phone in London in 1991

£600 including connection to the network, but your talk time was extra.

kneemos · 19-09-2015 11:11am

nullzero wrote: »

Great music, action movies where every character was a wise cracking comedian. There was still a reasonable amount of originality in popular culture generally speaking not the situation of today where everything is a reboot or a retread of something else.
And what showing on with the shirts? Loudly coloured shirts with awful ties were everywhere, looking back they make the much maligned fashion of the 80's look normal.
To say the 90's was a nondescript decade is daft, since the turn of the century everything has felt kind of samey and much more nondescript than the previous decades which all seemed to have quite distinctive qualities.

Compared to the originality of the 60's and 70's the 90's were dull as dishwater.
Don't remember any decent films or music from the 90's.Likewise popular movements.

Pink Lemons · 19-09-2015 11:11am

donegaLroad wrote: »

I remember pricing a mobile phone in London in 1991

£600 including connection to the network, but your talk time was extra.

So an iPhone then

Links234 · 19-09-2015 11:12am

DanielODonnell wrote: »

metal music is better now than it ever was

:pac:

The amount of metal fans who'd pop a gasket over that statement!

DanielODonnell · 19-09-2015 11:12am

Deleted User wrote: »

1990's was generally a very unique decade in world history.

It was after end of the Cold War and before 9/11 and all the upheaval that followed. Generally seemed to have the feeling that we had solved most of the first world's problems and had reached "end of history" status as the quote went.

It wasn't without problems (former Yugoslavia/Rwanda), but was a world without the euro currency (and the volatility/instability that went with it), and Islamic terrorism was non-existent in Europe and was mostly restricted to incidents in Israel/Palestine.

Growing up in the 1990's it seemed the world could only get better with time, but increasingly the gains achieved to that back are being rolled back: increasing censorship by PC elites, undemocratic EU, wars/violence/terrorism.

For me the thing that sums up the 90's is the TV show Friends. Nice, warm, gentle, cosy, prosperous.

In modern world history you mean, it is not like the 1390's or 1690s had massive media coverage, you could argue that the 590's were a "unique decade in world history" when the paddies invaded western britain to form scotland. Important things happen in every decade and every century.

Plus something I often state is that 44% of the Friends episodes were aired in the 2000's

RayM · 19-09-2015 11:13am

It was a good decade. I always feel that everything (and I mean everything) started going wrong after the '90s. Although I'm not sure how much of that is just me being nostalgic.

Herb Powell · 19-09-2015 11:16am

lol @ this entire thread

BMJD · 19-09-2015 11:20am

Links234 wrote: »

:pac:

The amount of metal fans who'd pop a gasket over that statement!

I literally popped a gasket and an now shaking my fist in anger.

DanielODonnell · 19-09-2015 11:20am

The Backwards Man wrote: »

This.

The decade that Ireland finally threw off the post independence shackles and began to come of age.

that depends where abouts you are talking about, I wouldn't call the chapel in Ballybrolly getting oil heating as coming of age.

(i had made than townland up though it seems it exists in co. armagh)

The 90's

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