what are things from the 1990's you don't see anymore?
Things from the 1990's you just don't see anymore
by Anonymous | reply 272 | April 6, 2024 5:50 PM |
Innocent people dying from AIDS
by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 1, 2024 4:43 PM |
STOMP
by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 1, 2024 4:43 PM |
Bill Clinton
by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 1, 2024 4:43 PM |
I was going to say Riverdance, but STOMP is better r2.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 1, 2024 4:44 PM |
Correctly capitalized sentences from the OP of a DL thread.
Oh, dear.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 1, 2024 4:46 PM |
Products made in America
by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 1, 2024 4:47 PM |
People who don’t believe their ethnicity is a personality trait.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 1, 2024 4:52 PM |
Bag phones I had one with a bag much bigger than this.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 1, 2024 4:54 PM |
Clearly Canadian, Snackwells, beepers/pagers.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 1, 2024 5:15 PM |
Unnecessary apostrophes.
Oh wait.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 1, 2024 5:16 PM |
My youth
by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 1, 2024 6:15 PM |
Savion Glover
by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 1, 2024 6:30 PM |
Beepers
by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 1, 2024 6:36 PM |
Pay phones.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 1, 2024 6:51 PM |
Answering machines
by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 1, 2024 7:07 PM |
Manners.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 1, 2024 7:11 PM |
Ashtrays.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 1, 2024 7:12 PM |
Greg02116's supersecret recipe for ice cubes and prunes.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 1, 2024 7:12 PM |
Jolt Cola. OK Cola.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 1, 2024 7:13 PM |
Kids playing outside
by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 1, 2024 7:21 PM |
Commercials for trashy 900 numbers
by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 1, 2024 7:22 PM |
People pretending Travolta is straight. And, now, Diddy.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 1, 2024 7:22 PM |
Cathy Mitchell
by Anonymous | reply 25 | April 1, 2024 7:26 PM |
Mansonites
The "kinderwhore" look - baby doll dresses, ripped stockings, etc. Although I suppose someone will eventually try to revive it.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 1, 2024 7:27 PM |
The Rachel
by Anonymous | reply 28 | April 1, 2024 7:35 PM |
Retirement
by Anonymous | reply 29 | April 1, 2024 7:35 PM |
Pagers
Group showers
Safe sex
Poppers
Cock rings
Speedos
by Anonymous | reply 30 | April 1, 2024 7:36 PM |
Super Mario Brothers
by Anonymous | reply 31 | April 1, 2024 7:36 PM |
Palm pilots
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 1, 2024 7:40 PM |
Princess Diana, JFK Jr.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | April 1, 2024 7:42 PM |
Madonna’s real face.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 1, 2024 7:43 PM |
Britney Spears as an alleged virgin.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 1, 2024 7:43 PM |
Interesting pop stars.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | April 1, 2024 7:44 PM |
YMCA Indian Guides
by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 1, 2024 7:45 PM |
Rock being more popular than rap
by Anonymous | reply 38 | April 1, 2024 7:46 PM |
R6- By the 1990’s you were twenty years too late.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | April 1, 2024 7:46 PM |
Good looking guys with slim natural bodies- no tattoos, no piercings, no rings and no shaved 🪒 pubic hair.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | April 1, 2024 7:47 PM |
R18- Oh SHIT
Manners!
by Anonymous | reply 42 | April 1, 2024 7:49 PM |
Video rental stores.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | April 1, 2024 7:49 PM |
Mass market cars in colors other than black/white/silver/gray/red.
Matt Lauer
Jerry Speinger
Cigarette smoking in bars.
Snackwells Cookies
Every TV show and PSA screaming about condom use.
Barnes and Noble is an evil corporate overlord and must be stopped!
That horrible Caesar cut so many men had in 1996/97
by Anonymous | reply 44 | April 1, 2024 7:51 PM |
sand art bottles
by Anonymous | reply 45 | April 1, 2024 7:52 PM |
Decent movies with original storylines
by Anonymous | reply 46 | April 1, 2024 7:52 PM |
Forehead lines and crow's feet on celebrities.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | April 1, 2024 7:53 PM |
R44 I had forgotten all about Snackwell cookies. I wrongly used to think they were healthier snack because they were fat free, but they weren't healthier. They had high fructose corn syrup, emulsifiers, and highly processed seed oils.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | April 1, 2024 7:59 PM |
People answering their front door even if they're not expecting an Amazon delivery.
People answering their phone even if they don't recognize the number.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | April 1, 2024 8:03 PM |
Layaway
by Anonymous | reply 50 | April 1, 2024 8:03 PM |
Rather, *people answering their doorbell.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | April 1, 2024 8:05 PM |
Ha, these days, I don't answer my doorbell unless I expect a parcel or a visitor. R49
by Anonymous | reply 52 | April 1, 2024 8:06 PM |
Shame.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | April 1, 2024 8:07 PM |
People walking down the sidewalk with their eyes faced forward.
People reading books, magazines, and newspapers out in public.
People in photos actually looking like themselves.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | April 1, 2024 8:13 PM |
Memorized phone numbers
by Anonymous | reply 55 | April 1, 2024 8:14 PM |
Civility.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | April 1, 2024 8:16 PM |
The face of a guy in his 30s when I look into a mirror.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | April 1, 2024 8:17 PM |
Navigation skills
by Anonymous | reply 58 | April 1, 2024 8:18 PM |
R41 must have thought this was the "things you miss from the 1970s" thread. The '90s were precisely the time when alternative culture took hold and tattoos and piercings became commonplace.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | April 1, 2024 8:20 PM |
[quote]Cathy Mitchell
I miss her. I miss her stupid gadgets and her dump cakes.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | April 1, 2024 8:20 PM |
Roseanne pretending to be somewhat sane.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | April 1, 2024 8:21 PM |
Old brickish, black Motorola startac flip phones and holsters for such
Borders Books and Coffee! (and CDs!)
VHS Tapes (although those are coming back I hear)
Braun coffee bean grinders and French press coffee. Dark roast of course, because Seattle said so
Loud, obnoxious fragrances you couldn't miss (ckOne, Escape, Eternity for Men, Acqua di Gio, Fahrenheit, Joop! Curve)
Makeup that is all in shades of brown and more brown and makes people look dead
Really baggy clothes for very fit people on TV (Seinfeld, Mad About You, Friends)
by Anonymous | reply 62 | April 1, 2024 8:22 PM |
Pay phones.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | April 1, 2024 8:22 PM |
Rayon shirts for men, in the most godawful colors and patterns imaginable
by Anonymous | reply 64 | April 1, 2024 8:25 PM |
Porn stashes
by Anonymous | reply 65 | April 1, 2024 8:25 PM |
Christmas cards
Considering people with "unlisted numbers" weirdos
High school reunions being a big deal
by Anonymous | reply 66 | April 1, 2024 8:31 PM |
And yet I still get Christmas card, R66. I'm sorry that you don't.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | April 1, 2024 8:33 PM |
Neo-Deadheads in their brightly-colored tie-die shirts driving their beaters with dancing bear bumper stickers.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | April 1, 2024 8:33 PM |
If anyone stunk of patchouli it was Neo-Deadheads.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | April 1, 2024 8:34 PM |
Mullets. Even though they flourished in the late eighties, mullets crossed over into the 90s, especially in non-urban areas.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | April 1, 2024 8:36 PM |
Zima.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | April 1, 2024 8:36 PM |
Pete's Wicked Ale.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | April 1, 2024 8:37 PM |
Teenage girls being clueless about proper makeup application and skincare.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | April 1, 2024 8:38 PM |
Franklin Covey planners .
by Anonymous | reply 74 | April 1, 2024 8:44 PM |
Great music! Going to see a band that was more about the MUSIC, and not ridiculous dancing/lip syncing crap.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | April 1, 2024 8:50 PM |
The TV series Melrose Place and In Living Color. I especially miss Men On Film.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | April 1, 2024 8:57 PM |
Phone sex lines
by Anonymous | reply 77 | April 1, 2024 8:58 PM |
They’re still around r77, now they’re free.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | April 1, 2024 9:00 PM |
Printed maps and people who knew how to use them.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | April 1, 2024 9:00 PM |
Hookup lines , R79?
by Anonymous | reply 80 | April 1, 2024 9:00 PM |
Hookup lines , R78?
by Anonymous | reply 81 | April 1, 2024 9:01 PM |
Hookup lines, R80?
by Anonymous | reply 82 | April 1, 2024 9:17 PM |
Hookup lines, R81?
by Anonymous | reply 83 | April 1, 2024 9:17 PM |
Jean Claude VanDamme
by Anonymous | reply 84 | April 1, 2024 9:21 PM |
Gorgeous supermodels like Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, Karen Mulder, Heidi Klum, etc..
Today's models are Gigi Hadid, Cara Delevingne, and Kendall Jenner.
Hardly impressive.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | April 1, 2024 9:23 PM |
Anyone remember those Snackwell yogurts with the chocolate sauce?
by Anonymous | reply 86 | April 1, 2024 9:30 PM |
My mom got diagnosed with cancer in 1999. So my dad's house is a shrine to this era. She had impeccable taste, but there are wallpaper borders, faux finishes, a lot of forest green and burgundy, topiaries, those baskets of balls, Bombay Company and Ethan Allen furniture and in the kitchen a set of bottles from William Sonoma of pickled vegetables probably just rotting away like Mrs Havisham's wedding cake. My dad and I joked that one day they will burst and render the house uninhabitable, but they still look almost edible. I'm sure one day all this shit will be fashionable again.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | April 1, 2024 9:33 PM |
Analog watches. At least you don't see them as much.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | April 1, 2024 9:49 PM |
Bruce Jenner.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | April 1, 2024 9:51 PM |
R87 That sounds just like my mother's house. Also the sponge-painted walls and plastic ivy plants everywhere (although those are now hideously back on trend).
by Anonymous | reply 90 | April 1, 2024 10:01 PM |
Waterbeds
Giant satellite dishes on roofs
by Anonymous | reply 91 | April 1, 2024 10:08 PM |
Riverdance
by Anonymous | reply 92 | April 1, 2024 10:10 PM |
Outlet stores
by Anonymous | reply 93 | April 1, 2024 10:13 PM |
Blockbuster
Sam Goodey
by Anonymous | reply 94 | April 1, 2024 10:14 PM |
I remember Christianity actually being cool with teenagers for a hot minute in the late 90's. WWJD bracelets and youth groups and Christian rock bands like Jars of Clay became mainstream.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | April 1, 2024 10:16 PM |
Contraceptive sponges.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | April 1, 2024 10:20 PM |
Humility.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | April 1, 2024 10:22 PM |
Hacky Sacks
Rainsticks and didgeridoos
Adult Contemporary and New-Age as huge music markets
Cucumber melon scented everything
Malls
Tommy Hilfiger
Diaphragms
Tweety Birds and Tasmanian Devils on everything
The explosion of novelty candy
HUGE trends in kids toys (now all they care about are apps and videogames)
Chain letters
by Anonymous | reply 98 | April 1, 2024 10:31 PM |
AOL email addresses
by Anonymous | reply 99 | April 1, 2024 10:37 PM |
Catalogs. They were a pleasure to order from. Yo7 called the 800 number and got an American in the United States on the otter end of the phone. You could ask them questions about the product and they’d find the answer for you. They were polite and engaging.
You wouldn’t get your order delivered for 2 weeks, but that was fine. You didn’t expect companies to refuse bathroom breaks to truck drivers so you could get everything to you immediately.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | April 1, 2024 10:37 PM |
[looks askance and shuffles papers on a desk]
by Anonymous | reply 101 | April 1, 2024 10:39 PM |
Mike's Hard Lemonade- born between Zima and hard ciders, giving acid reflux to drinkers everywhere!
by Anonymous | reply 102 | April 1, 2024 10:43 PM |
Politics that were basically boring and didn't become people's entire identities.
Radio being a huge thing.
Finding your friends out in the wild because people actually had "hangout" spots.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | April 1, 2024 10:44 PM |
Kids hanging out and drinking Snapples on one of these bad boys.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | April 1, 2024 10:45 PM |
Affordable housing
by Anonymous | reply 106 | April 1, 2024 10:48 PM |
Kids riding around on bicycles
by Anonymous | reply 107 | April 1, 2024 10:50 PM |
Being unreachable
by Anonymous | reply 108 | April 1, 2024 10:52 PM |
Customer service
by Anonymous | reply 109 | April 1, 2024 10:54 PM |
My youth.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | April 1, 2024 10:55 PM |
Full service gas stations, where they'd pump, check your oil if asked, would recommend dry gas if the cold called for it. They seemed to die in the 00s.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | April 1, 2024 10:56 PM |
Coffee shop culture
by Anonymous | reply 112 | April 1, 2024 10:58 PM |
R110, meet R12.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | April 1, 2024 10:58 PM |
What's "dry gas"? Lived in Chicago for 15 years and never heard of it.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | April 1, 2024 10:58 PM |
The unspoken rule to never talk about politics or religion unless it was in the proper context. Now, every aspect of life has become politicized.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | April 1, 2024 11:01 PM |
Mix tapes/cd's as the ultimate romantic gesture
by Anonymous | reply 116 | April 1, 2024 11:03 PM |
My feet.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | April 1, 2024 11:03 PM |
Robert Downey Jr. sleeping it off in your infant's crib.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | April 1, 2024 11:04 PM |
Novelty outgoing voicemail greetings
by Anonymous | reply 119 | April 1, 2024 11:04 PM |
Jennifer Connelly sacked out on the sofa behind him.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | April 1, 2024 11:05 PM |
Nightclubs.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | April 1, 2024 11:05 PM |
Condoms!
(No, not really.)
by Anonymous | reply 122 | April 1, 2024 11:07 PM |
Video rental sections at grocery stores.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | April 1, 2024 11:09 PM |
Family-run video rental places with back rooms full of carefully-curated porn.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | April 1, 2024 11:15 PM |
R95 you must be talking about the "Jesus Is My Homeboy"/"Mary Is My Homegirl" T-shirts that all the celebs wore.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | April 1, 2024 11:17 PM |
Gas stations used to be places you could stop for directions all my life. In 1990s, all of a sudden nobody working at gas stations even knew where they were. They’d all just arrived from Turkey.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | April 1, 2024 11:19 PM |
TripTiks
And if you have to ask…
by Anonymous | reply 127 | April 1, 2024 11:24 PM |
Pop machines specifically for Fruitopia.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | April 1, 2024 11:32 PM |
Those automatic coupon machines attached to the shelf in the aisles of the grocery store.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | April 1, 2024 11:33 PM |
R114 It helped maintain viscosity in extremely cold temperatures, beyond that, NO clue what it was. The guy at the gas station would know if you needed it, which was valuable (probably as it relates to the quality of gas you put in).
by Anonymous | reply 130 | April 1, 2024 11:39 PM |
That lil whore.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | April 1, 2024 11:42 PM |
[quote] Coffee shop culture
Where the hell do you live where people don’t go to coffee shops any more?
by Anonymous | reply 132 | April 1, 2024 11:42 PM |
Rat tails on little boys
by Anonymous | reply 133 | April 1, 2024 11:44 PM |
Jerry Orbach
by Anonymous | reply 134 | April 1, 2024 11:55 PM |
Nicole Brown Simpson, Jon Benet Ramsey, JFK Jr.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | April 2, 2024 12:07 AM |
R115 Because it kind of become necessary. That’s how extreme our politics have become. We must have these discussions so things don’t go unchecked.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | April 2, 2024 12:09 AM |
Playgirl was still showing bush. Here's Glenn Brown, Nov 91 issue, also Colt Studio model Tom Harnett.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | April 2, 2024 12:14 AM |
100 different trashy talk shows
by Anonymous | reply 138 | April 2, 2024 12:44 AM |
Colorful Apple computers.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | April 2, 2024 12:46 AM |
More diverse music. The 90s offered tons of different music genres for all ages to enjoy. Now all music sounds the same shit.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | April 2, 2024 12:46 AM |
Floppy bucket hats, often crushed velvet or with a big fake flower or bow on it. Think Blossom, 4 Non Blondes, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | April 2, 2024 12:51 AM |
Women of color in the entertainment industry with flat asses.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | April 2, 2024 12:53 AM |
Warren Christopher
by Anonymous | reply 143 | April 2, 2024 1:00 AM |
[quote]People reading books, magazines, and newspapers out in public.
People still do this, just on their phones/tablets.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | April 2, 2024 1:13 AM |
Everybody and their brother shopping at the Gap and Banana Republic.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | April 2, 2024 1:22 AM |
R145 right. So quintessentially 90s though they were still vastly popular in the early aughts.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | April 2, 2024 1:23 AM |
Good crime thrillers.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | April 2, 2024 1:24 AM |
R144 Yes, but the fun thing about the former was you could see what people were reading and it made a great a conversation starter.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | April 2, 2024 1:24 AM |
John Grisham
by Anonymous | reply 149 | April 2, 2024 1:52 AM |
Confused by R1. As opposed to guilty people dying of AIDS? Or what?
by Anonymous | reply 150 | April 2, 2024 2:13 AM |
R150 What r1 said actually cuts both way. Is he being a douche and passing judgment on lifestyle or asserting that ALL the victims from that time period were innocent due to the failure of Reagan during the 80s.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | April 2, 2024 2:16 AM |
All AIDS victims were (mostly) innocent people who did not deserve the horrendous death they got.
I say mostly because I'm sure there was some sick fucks who had it and spread it anyway.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | April 2, 2024 2:39 AM |
Ace of Base
Hootie
Blowfish
by Anonymous | reply 153 | April 2, 2024 4:36 AM |
Eric Von Detton. Yes, that is the same person.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | April 2, 2024 5:29 AM |
Lick-em envelopes and postage stamps
Hearing "Smoking or nonsmoking" when you walk into a restaurant
Regular gasoline
Free air pumps at gas stations
Ivana Trump hairdos
Entertaining tabloid headlines at the grocery store
Refreshment coolers that only offered Evian if you wanted water
WWII vets marching in parades
The last of the European immigrant generation, and hearing their accents around town
Articles and prepositions
by Anonymous | reply 155 | April 2, 2024 5:44 AM |
Linda Fiorentino.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | April 2, 2024 5:57 AM |
Winter and Summer Olympics in the same year
Caesar haircuts
Kevin Bacon or Gary Busey in every other film
Busy gay bars
Drag bars without bachelorette parties
A newspaper worth reading
Vending machines that only take coins
Phone booths
A decent meal on a plane
Airports full of people who are properly dressed
Making several trips to Kinko's if you were planning any kind of event
Seeing an HRC sticker on a car and being one of the few who knew what it meant
Road cyclists who didn't fear for their lives because the road was full of people texting while driving
Alarm clocks
Answering machines
by Anonymous | reply 157 | April 2, 2024 5:57 AM |
Snapple
Penny loafers
Pleated khakis
Dial-up internet connections
AOL CDs in the mail twice a month
Phone books
Paper drives
Phone trees
Changing your own oil, looking under the hood to adjust a carburetor
Kids playing outside
Church bells on Sunday morning
Personal ads
Decent Sunday comics
"This Old House"
Women putting on lipstick and heels to run errands
Camping out for concert tickets
by Anonymous | reply 158 | April 2, 2024 6:07 AM |
Stationery stores
Bic pens
George Michael's ass in Levi's
Wall-mounted phones with stretched-out cords
Dialing the phone with a pencil
Above-ground pools
"Missing" notices on milk cartons
Tube TVs
Door handles with a thumb button
Separate keys for ignition and doors/trunk
Chicken breasts that weren't bigger than your hand
Roller blades
Rolodexes
by Anonymous | reply 159 | April 2, 2024 6:15 AM |
Scrunchies.
Capri-suns
Nose-rings
Tribal tattoos
by Anonymous | reply 160 | April 2, 2024 6:18 AM |
Phone-cards.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | April 2, 2024 6:20 AM |
R159 marry me.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | April 2, 2024 6:26 AM |
Oldies stations that played music from the 50s
Billboards for radio shows
Leather jackets
After-school specials
Saturday morning cartoons
$4.99 lunch specials
Blue plate specials
VCRs
Pocket knives
Fat wallets
Well-stocked bars with fewer than 60 bottles on the shelf
Dreaming of flying on the Concorde
Christmas cards
Paperback exchanges
Pescetarians
Slow news days
Waterbeds
by Anonymous | reply 163 | April 2, 2024 6:28 AM |
Napster P2P
CompUSA
Pogs
Encarta Encyclopedia
Zip drives
Tamagotchi
Game Boy
Wet Seal
by Anonymous | reply 164 | April 2, 2024 6:49 AM |
No-tell motels
Corner bars
Neon signs
Direct mail campaigns
Spaghetti dinner fundraisers
Corporal punishment
Gas station checkouts with Lucky Rabbits' Foot keychains
10-cent wing night
Wordperfect
"Surfing the internet"
Lillian Vernon catalogs
Muscle cars
Land's End jumpers and turtlenecks
School box-top drives
Box dots
Perestroika
Shaker furniture
Barn coats
Friends dropping by because they were in the neighborhood
Flower shops
Bakeries
Stick shifts
Midnight Rocky Horror at the old theater downtown
The Soviet Union
by Anonymous | reply 165 | April 2, 2024 6:49 AM |
[quote]Shaker furniture
Do you mean Craftsman furniture? That had a huge revival in the 90's.
by Anonymous | reply 166 | April 2, 2024 8:51 AM |
Who is the autistic person who keeps posting these inane lists? You don't see bakeries any more? Maybe you need to get out of the house once in awhile.
Bars, shady motels, neon signs, etc. all still exist, especially in more rural areas.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | April 2, 2024 10:08 AM |
Stick shifts don't exist anymore?
Of course they do.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | April 2, 2024 11:56 AM |
Chola brows
Hyper color T-shirts
Craisins in everything
by Anonymous | reply 169 | April 2, 2024 12:22 PM |
[quote] Chola brows
this can still be seen
by Anonymous | reply 170 | April 2, 2024 12:24 PM |
Stanley Kubrick alive
Whitney Houston alive
Aaliyah alive
Left Eye alive
R Kelly with a career
by Anonymous | reply 171 | April 2, 2024 12:25 PM |
Good Poppers
by Anonymous | reply 172 | April 2, 2024 12:31 PM |
Floppy disks
by Anonymous | reply 173 | April 2, 2024 12:46 PM |
[quote] Floppy disks
What about these floppy disks?
by Anonymous | reply 174 | April 2, 2024 12:47 PM |
The giant Sunday New York Times with he huge real estate section and wonderful metro section.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | April 2, 2024 12:48 PM |
Fax machines.
by Anonymous | reply 176 | April 2, 2024 12:49 PM |
Drakkar Noir, Joop, Fahrenheit
Z.Cavaricci Black Pants
White on White Kitchen Appliances
Juicer Appliances
Answering Machines
Dishwasher and Laundry detergents with phosphates
Viatical Settlement adds in Gay Publications
International Male Catalogs
Showing the waistband of your Calvin Klein briefs at the club.
Hummers
by Anonymous | reply 177 | April 2, 2024 12:50 PM |
Answering Machines
by Anonymous | reply 178 | April 2, 2024 12:59 PM |
The WB.
MTV Spring Break.
by Anonymous | reply 179 | April 2, 2024 1:03 PM |
Whitney Houston
by Anonymous | reply 180 | April 2, 2024 1:04 PM |
Jelly Swatch
by Anonymous | reply 181 | April 2, 2024 1:08 PM |
The Twin Towers
by Anonymous | reply 182 | April 2, 2024 1:09 PM |
Enya, Kenny G.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | April 2, 2024 1:09 PM |
[quote]Everybody and their brother shopping at the Gap and Banana Republic.
Ahem!
by Anonymous | reply 184 | April 2, 2024 1:14 PM |
GM’s attempts at Japanese cars: Saturn and Geo.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | April 2, 2024 1:27 PM |
Janet Reno
by Anonymous | reply 186 | April 2, 2024 1:30 PM |
The Geo line was a joint Toyota and Suzuki attempt with GM. Saturn was before it's time. I wish they were still around.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | April 2, 2024 1:30 PM |
Fubu
by Anonymous | reply 188 | April 2, 2024 1:33 PM |
Jams. I think they started in the 1980s but carried over into the 90s.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | April 2, 2024 1:33 PM |
United Colors of Benneton
by Anonymous | reply 190 | April 2, 2024 1:34 PM |
[quote]Showing the waistband of your Calvin Klein briefs at the club.
Nope. Calvin's name still shows up on everybutt.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | April 2, 2024 2:20 PM |
There is nothing because of some boring ass is stuck on all things 90s on the DL.
by Anonymous | reply 192 | April 2, 2024 2:28 PM |
^ Hope she forgets to chew her devils food snack well
by Anonymous | reply 193 | April 2, 2024 2:51 PM |
Tower Records. The porn section at Tower Records. The porn star signings at Tower Records.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | April 2, 2024 3:33 PM |
They had that R194? At the Tower Records on Market Street in SF?
by Anonymous | reply 195 | April 2, 2024 3:34 PM |
Michael Jackson in person because he’s dead or maybe he just wants us to think that?
by Anonymous | reply 196 | April 2, 2024 3:40 PM |
Zima
by Anonymous | reply 197 | April 2, 2024 3:52 PM |
Magazines like Vanity Fair and Vogue were printed on thick luxurious paper.
Magazines in general.
by Anonymous | reply 198 | April 2, 2024 3:53 PM |
HOT guys cruising or flirting with me.
by Anonymous | reply 199 | April 2, 2024 3:54 PM |
Video rental sections in grocery store chains.
by Anonymous | reply 200 | April 2, 2024 3:55 PM |
R172 still around although you have to order them from France.
Which can take some of the spontaneity out of the sodomy.
by Anonymous | reply 201 | April 2, 2024 4:39 PM |
Rentboys and hustler bars in the West 40s.
by Anonymous | reply 202 | April 2, 2024 4:46 PM |
Yanni
Limp Bizkit
Creed
by Anonymous | reply 203 | April 2, 2024 4:50 PM |
Mom and pop bakeries that discount their day-old products as opposed to some kind of artisinal bakery that still charges full price for a two-week old roll that crumbles into dust when you bite into it.
by Anonymous | reply 204 | April 2, 2024 5:06 PM |
R203 And for those three losses, I'm eternally grateful. We are f@cked if Fred Durst gets a reboot of The Apprentice, we'll see Trump 2.0 in short pants and an Ed Hardy hat.
Creed blew donkey balls when they were new, nobody has time for their lead singers Messiah complex.
by Anonymous | reply 205 | April 2, 2024 5:14 PM |
Limp Bizkit, Creed and also Kid Rock were fucking AWFUL. Thankfully their respective stardoms were short-lived. Absolute assholes who made garbage music.
by Anonymous | reply 206 | April 2, 2024 5:17 PM |
AOL - trivia chats, chats hosted by writers for NY Times, the Atlantic, Harper’s.
The following stores and products mentioned on Seinfeld were real and I miss them
Champagne Video
Love Cosmetics
Brentano’s
Hunan Balcony
Movie Phone
Fat Free Yogurt Store that wasn’t fat free (Tasti D Lite)
The Wiz (electronics store, not the play)
Contraceptive sponges, and their withdrawal from the market (TODAY sponge)
by Anonymous | reply 207 | April 2, 2024 5:32 PM |
Yes, R204, this is one of my pet peeves. It deserves its own thread! When did it become acceptable to sell day old pastries and bread for full price? Probably at the same time when it became acceptable to ask for tip for handing you over a bread roll.
by Anonymous | reply 208 | April 2, 2024 5:41 PM |
R205/R206, agreed completely. That's something I don't miss about the 90's, the descent into Nu Metal and rap. Especially Southern rap.
by Anonymous | reply 209 | April 2, 2024 5:55 PM |
Same, r209. The late 90s pop music landscape had a lot of shit. The recent Woodstock 99 documentaries on HBO and Netflix are a time capsule of how much the music sucked.
by Anonymous | reply 210 | April 2, 2024 5:57 PM |
R210, Jesus Christ, that Woodstock 99 documentary on netflix was horrific for so many reasons, including the music. It was like hell on earth. I feel bad for any woman who attended that festival, it sounds like pure anarchy (I'm thinking of the large amount of sexual abuse that occurred). And that's without mentioning that people were rubbing mud all over themselves. Except it wasn't mud, it was shit.
by Anonymous | reply 211 | April 2, 2024 6:26 PM |
R208, Yes, and they let things stay in the case forever until they taste like refrigerator.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | April 2, 2024 6:28 PM |
R211 The one on Max is a bit older, but also very good. That was one festival I had zero interest in by lineup alone, but it was a hell unto itself where it was, with the temp and no water. It was heater skelter.
by Anonymous | reply 213 | April 2, 2024 6:29 PM |
^helter 🥴
by Anonymous | reply 214 | April 2, 2024 6:30 PM |
I miss waiting in line to buy tickets for concerts. It was fun when you would get up early and be the first one and get really good seats. 5th row center for the Blonde Ambition Concert. Those were the days.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | April 2, 2024 6:38 PM |
R213, I have never been interested in going to any music festival and that documentary just sealed the deal for me. I know other ones are way less chaotic but it just looks like hell.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | April 2, 2024 6:39 PM |
Rolled denim 501’s Shorts and Combat Boots
by Anonymous | reply 217 | April 2, 2024 6:47 PM |
Stirrup pants.
Glenn Close from “Fatal Attraction” permanent wave.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | April 2, 2024 7:01 PM |
R25, Cathy Mitchell is everywhere and is bigger today than she was in the 90s.
by Anonymous | reply 219 | April 2, 2024 7:09 PM |
Zines
by Anonymous | reply 220 | April 2, 2024 7:10 PM |
[quote] Limp Bizkit, Creed and also Kid Rock were fucking AWFUL. Thankfully their respective stardoms were short-lived. Absolute assholes who made garbage music.
They’re still making hit albums.
by Anonymous | reply 221 | April 2, 2024 7:12 PM |
But they haven't been pop culture celebrities in a long time r221. You don't really hear about them anymore like you did in the late 90s
by Anonymous | reply 222 | April 2, 2024 7:14 PM |
Actual sets/locations instead of fake, blue looking CGI.
by Anonymous | reply 223 | April 2, 2024 7:38 PM |
Along those same lines R223, network and major shows still being filmed in Los Angeles instead of Canada.
by Anonymous | reply 224 | April 2, 2024 7:41 PM |
Janbot in their prime
by Anonymous | reply 225 | April 2, 2024 7:41 PM |
Meg Ryan being successful
by Anonymous | reply 226 | April 2, 2024 7:45 PM |
People believing Julia Roberts is "America's Sweetheart"
by Anonymous | reply 227 | April 2, 2024 7:46 PM |
By the 1990s, DL fave Brendad Ixon was already completely washed up as an actress. She last worked in the 1980s.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | April 2, 2024 7:48 PM |
R216 I did not mean to imply I'd gone. I had older friends who did 94 and although they did have a good time it was because they were tripping, it was all mud, but really, just, mud. Unlike the shitshow that was greedstock. A friend did have it through pay-per-view/MTV, and the footage was a mess, and exploitative as hell.
by Anonymous | reply 229 | April 2, 2024 7:53 PM |
Pro-choice Republicans
by Anonymous | reply 230 | April 2, 2024 8:16 PM |
The great documentaries on HBO:
Pimps Up, Ho's Down
Hookers At The Point
Autopsy
Life Stories: Families In Crisis
And all the true crime: Brett Killed Mom, Paradise Lost, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 231 | April 2, 2024 11:58 PM |
Music Videos on MTV
by Anonymous | reply 232 | April 3, 2024 12:04 AM |
My toes.
by Anonymous | reply 233 | April 3, 2024 2:59 AM |
Dire warnings about the havoc that will ensue when computers are crippled by the transition to the year 2000.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | April 3, 2024 3:04 AM |
The fabulous Reality TV series "Love Connection." A man or woman has to decide which of 3 people he wants to go out on a date with. They can either choose themselves or go out with the one the audience voted for.
Then they have to come back and the person that was chosen tells the audience how the date went. Some have great dates, some are horrid.
They need to bring this back.
by Anonymous | reply 235 | April 3, 2024 7:13 AM |
Love Connection will be back in “two and two.”
by Anonymous | reply 236 | April 3, 2024 12:10 PM |
Brittany Murphy Matthew Perry Anna Nicole Smith
by Anonymous | reply 237 | April 3, 2024 12:18 PM |
[quote]Things from the 1990's you just don't see anymore
We did keep photographs, but....
by Anonymous | reply 238 | April 3, 2024 12:20 PM |
I was going to mention Snapple and Clearly Canadian but was beaten to it in two different posts.
So I will add: Raves
by Anonymous | reply 239 | April 3, 2024 1:42 PM |
r235 They did bring it back. Andy Cohen did, he hosted It died a fast death. He was terrible
by Anonymous | reply 240 | April 3, 2024 1:48 PM |
Apple Slice soda
by Anonymous | reply 241 | April 3, 2024 8:33 PM |
Kurt Cobain.
by Anonymous | reply 242 | April 3, 2024 8:35 PM |
My mistake.
Apple Slice was discontinued in 1988.
by Anonymous | reply 243 | April 3, 2024 8:36 PM |
I can't find my Rolodex anywhere.
by Anonymous | reply 244 | April 3, 2024 9:27 PM |
Service Merchandise. It was a little creepy. You paid for an item, then stood around a small area with other people waiting for your purchase to roll down a shaft from the warehouse behind the store. It seemed so impersonal.
by Anonymous | reply 245 | April 4, 2024 12:44 AM |
Talent. Great trashy TV. Groundbreaking cartoons for kids and some of the best of all of time(Rugrats, Ren&Stimpy,Hey Arnold Ahhh Real Monsters) and some of the best club music ever. A great economy, diversity but everyone knew their place. There's more I want to add but I have to wait until I'm sober.
by Anonymous | reply 246 | April 4, 2024 1:08 AM |
Franklin Covey Planners
by Anonymous | reply 247 | April 4, 2024 2:16 AM |
Movie show/airing type programming like TBS's Dinner and Movie and USA's Up All Night.
by Anonymous | reply 248 | April 4, 2024 2:24 AM |
[quote] Mix tapes/cd's as the ultimate romantic gesture
This was an '80s thing, as well. I'm sure it was popular in the '70s, too.
Anyway, I had a friend named Rosie (Roseanne, actually). Someone made her a mix tape (or CD) of all songs that mention the name Rosie. There's a surprising amount of songs that do. One of my faves: Cracklin' Rosie by Neil Diamond.
by Anonymous | reply 249 | April 4, 2024 2:38 AM |
For the Patsy Ramsey posters. This is how you sign off:
by Anonymous | reply 250 | April 4, 2024 2:39 AM |
[quote] Limp Bizkit, Creed and also Kid Rock were fucking AWFUL. Thankfully their respective stardoms were short-lived. Absolute assholes who made garbage music.
[quote] They’re still making hit albums.
I doubt that. I would like to hear the name (title) of one of these "hit albums."
by Anonymous | reply 251 | April 4, 2024 2:40 AM |
R195, I lived in Boston and it had a very generous porn section. At the time my boyfriend was a manager at Tower and set up all the bartenders in gay clubs with free accounts. We didn’t pay for a drink for well over a decade!
I remember several straight porn stars and all their hangers on coming by our apartment late night a few times, boyfriend was bisexual. We had a Gogo box for a coffee table and he’d get more than a few straightish guys to get up and dance on it late night in ther underwear. Although I was annoyed at the time, it was HAWT.
by Anonymous | reply 252 | April 4, 2024 7:52 AM |
[quote]For the Patsy Ramsey posters. This is how you sign off:
[quote]—Mrs. Patsy Ramsey, Formerly of Boulder, CO
Yes, except that you would lower-case "formerly."
by Anonymous | reply 253 | April 4, 2024 10:40 AM |
And not to be nit-pickier, but was it not once “The former Mrs. Patsy Ramsey” (noting she too has shuffled off this mortal coil) “formerly of Boulder, CO”?
by Anonymous | reply 254 | April 4, 2024 11:21 AM |
R64 I loved those shirts! However they lasted only maybe three to four wearings before self-destructing. I remember tropical /Hawaiian styles being very popular.
by Anonymous | reply 255 | April 4, 2024 11:35 AM |
Hardons
by Anonymous | reply 256 | April 4, 2024 1:48 PM |
R252 You lost me at porn "Stars" in Boston
by Anonymous | reply 257 | April 4, 2024 1:51 PM |
Jenny Jones
by Anonymous | reply 258 | April 4, 2024 1:51 PM |
The QE2 unless you want to go to Dubai where (like the Queen Mary in Long Beach) it's permanently moored as a floating hotel.
And, at $54 a night (for two) it's a helluva lot cheaper than when it last sailed 15 years ago.
by Anonymous | reply 260 | April 4, 2024 5:10 PM |
Sally Jessy Raphael.
by Anonymous | reply 261 | April 4, 2024 7:44 PM |
Rolonda
by Anonymous | reply 262 | April 4, 2024 11:07 PM |
Jenny Jones.
by Anonymous | reply 263 | April 4, 2024 11:38 PM |
[quote]Zines
YES! Definitely.
Also: Prodigy Internet Soho sodas
by Anonymous | reply 264 | April 5, 2024 12:40 AM |
UFO documentaries on TLC.
by Anonymous | reply 265 | April 5, 2024 1:19 AM |
Internet cafés.
by Anonymous | reply 266 | April 5, 2024 3:25 AM |
[quote]UFO documentaries on TLC.
They're still on the History Channel constantly.
by Anonymous | reply 267 | April 5, 2024 4:28 AM |
About a dozen US daytime soap operas.
by Anonymous | reply 268 | April 5, 2024 6:37 AM |
David Faustino
by Anonymous | reply 269 | April 5, 2024 10:49 AM |
Pan Am
Northwest Orient
TWA
Eastern Airlines
Air Tran
MGM Grand Air
Aloha Air
America West
US Air
Braniff
Midwest Express
by Anonymous | reply 270 | April 5, 2024 5:14 PM |
WB
UPN
The Family Channel
by Anonymous | reply 271 | April 6, 2024 4:30 AM |
People dying from AIDS
by Anonymous | reply 272 | April 6, 2024 5:50 PM |