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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years ago

What’s one word to prove you lived trough the 90’s?

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What’s one word to prove you lived trough the 90’s?

@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years ago
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  • @[email protected]
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    179•2 years ago

    Waaazzzaaaap

    • @[email protected]
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      17•2 years ago

      That ad campaign started in 99, its really more of a 2000’s thing.

      • @[email protected]
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        14•2 years ago

        Ya, but it proves I lived through the 90’s 😆

      • JackbyDev
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        6•2 years ago

        The 90s were from 1995 to 2005. That’s just my opinion. I know it sounds dumb. Many things from 1990 to 1994 feel like the 80’s.

        • Gadg8eer
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          3•2 years ago

          That’s the Y2K “lost decade” speaking to you; 1990-1996 was the early 90s, Y2K from 1997 to 2003, and the McBling 00s from 2004 to 2008. I have reason to believe cultural decades started as decades, yet were upended by 1945-65 being The 50s but 1965-69 being the 60s and never been quite on schedule since.

          Since the 60s were barely 5 years, there was - apparently - a subtle difference between the early and late 70s, a noticeable difference between the early and late 1980s, and a pronounced difference between 1990, 1994 and 1999. By 2004 a fashion lasted 5 years at best, and 2008 has hardly been a similar year to 2013 or 2019 or 2023.

    • @[email protected]
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      14•2 years ago

      Outside of America, this is interpreted as a reference to Scary Movie instead of the budweiser ad.

      • @[email protected]
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        1•2 years ago

        As a European, that’s indeed how I interpreted this.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      5•2 years ago

      Here in the Netherlands I never heard of it!

      • Scroll Responsibly
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        14•2 years ago

        Here you go!

        • @[email protected]OP
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          5•2 years ago

          Rad! Thanks :)

        • @[email protected]B
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          3•2 years ago

          Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=JJmqCKtJnxM

          Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

          I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

      • @[email protected]
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        3•2 years ago

        Watskeburt?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          3•2 years ago

          Waaaatsgebeuuurrrd!

    • @[email protected]
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      4•2 years ago

      Hahaha that’s the first thing that popped in my mind! 😂

  • edric
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    140•2 years ago

    Winamp.

    • @[email protected]
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      65•2 years ago

      …it really whips the llamas ass!

      • @[email protected]OP
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        11•2 years ago

        Baaaahhh!!!

    • @[email protected]
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      2•2 years ago

      I still use Winamp regularly.

    • bigboopballs [he/him]
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      1•2 years ago

      still using it as my PC media player

    • @[email protected]
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      1•2 years ago

      Skins for winamp!

  • GreyShuck
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    97•2 years ago

    Y2K.

    • richieadler 🇦🇷
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      46•2 years ago

      I survived idiocy of managers asking for Y2K compliant padlocks. As in, physical padlocks.

      • @[email protected]
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        23•2 years ago

        Hope you charged them double.

        • @[email protected]
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          15•2 years ago

          “We gotta get the Locksmith to come out and replace the microchips. Yeah, it’s going to be expensive but worth it”

          • @[email protected]OP
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            6•2 years ago

            Please tell us they did this… 😂

        • richieadler 🇦🇷
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          2•2 years ago

          I mean, I wasn’t in charge of getting them, but learning about it was painful enough. I was young, and faith in humanity hadn’t been burned out of me yet.

  • @[email protected]
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    96•2 years ago

    Encarta

    • @[email protected]
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      9•2 years ago

      I remember this from the school library computers. That and even back then the school had some kind of broadband, it blew my mind that to get online all we had to do was open IE. I was used to that part but always had whatever dial up service we had at the time to open up and connect first. Just clicking IE and going was crazy to me.

    • @[email protected]
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      5•2 years ago

      I remember trying to play Mind Maze and knowing absolutely nothing.

    • @[email protected]
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      2•2 years ago

      I loved the video it has about nuclear fission reactions.

  • @[email protected]
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    82•2 years ago

    Pogs

    • @[email protected]
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      26•2 years ago

      Remember Alf? He’s back! In pog form!

    • @[email protected]
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      8•2 years ago

      Came here to say this! My collection is MIA and it still makes me sad thinking about it.

      • @[email protected]
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        7•2 years ago

        Your parents threw it away

        • @[email protected]
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          1•2 years ago

          Along with my pokemon cards

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      1•2 years ago

      Hey can I come over and slam ur pogs?

  • @[email protected]
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    79•2 years ago

    Netscape

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      4•2 years ago

      Linux and Mac users can hold on to a little piece of that history with the wonderful xscreensaver suite (its author, jwz, was a Netscape dude).

      • @[email protected]
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        Add to that, flying toasters

      • @[email protected]
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        Even better just use Firefox it descended from Netscape Navigator.

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        Jwz! He was like nerd Jesus to us 90s computer geeks

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    Tamagotchi

    • @[email protected]
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      Just bought my first Tamagatchi in 2023 lol

    • @[email protected]
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      2•2 years ago

      Had the yellow one and a game boy one.

      And a couple different brand ones. Or maybe just one other one? I forget now.

  • @[email protected]
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    53•2 years ago

    NOT!

  • @[email protected]
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    Bobwehadababyitsaboy

    • @[email protected]
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      6•2 years ago

      I remember it as “eeetsaboy”

    • @[email protected]
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      4•2 years ago

      This one pops into my head way too often

    • @[email protected]
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      3•2 years ago

      This was my first thought lol

  • @[email protected]
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    46•2 years ago

    Dialup

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      22•2 years ago

      Pshhhkkkkkkrrrr​kakingkakingkakingtsh​chchchchchchchcch​dingdingding

      • @[email protected]
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        yep. that’s the correct spelling for that sound

    • toiletobserver
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      6•2 years ago

      Welcome, you’ve got mail, goodbye…

    • Ataraxia
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      Lol lol at you with internet. We didn’t get access until 1999.

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  • @[email protected]
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    44•2 years ago

    Psych!

    • @[email protected]
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      4•2 years ago

      You know that’s right!

  • @[email protected]
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    38•2 years ago

    Not a word, but the phrase “going online”. As in not being constantly connected at all times. We had to actually “get” online to look at stuff.

  • @[email protected]
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    36•2 years ago

    Pogs

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    36•2 years ago

    I can do it with no words

  • @[email protected]
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    36•2 years ago

    Myst

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