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Krulsprietje@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 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?

Krulsprietje@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  • Vlhacs@reddthat.com
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    Waaazzzaaaap

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

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

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        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@lemmy.zip
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          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.

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

      • Sjoerd1993@lemmy.world
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        As a European, that’s indeed how I interpreted this.

    • Krulsprietje@lemm.eeOP
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      Here in the Netherlands I never heard of it!

      • Scroll Responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Here you go!

        • Krulsprietje@lemm.eeOP
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          Rad! Thanks :)

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

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      • Starb3an@sh.itjust.works
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        Watskeburt?

        • Krulsprietje@lemm.eeOP
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          Waaaatsgebeuuurrrd!

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

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    Winamp.

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      …it really whips the llamas ass!

      • Krulsprietje@lemm.eeOP
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        Baaaahhh!!!

    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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      I still use Winamp regularly.

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      still using it as my PC media player

    • TheHottub@lemmy.world
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      Skins for winamp!

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    Y2K.

    • richieadler 🇦🇷@lemmy.myserv.one
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      I survived idiocy of managers asking for Y2K compliant padlocks. As in, physical padlocks.

      • TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub
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        Hope you charged them double.

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

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            Please tell us they did this… 😂

        • richieadler 🇦🇷@lemmy.myserv.one
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          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.

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    Encarta

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      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.

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

    • mild_deviation@programming.dev
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      I loved the video it has about nuclear fission reactions.

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    Pogs

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

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

      • Samwizegamgi42@lemmy.world
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        Your parents threw it away

        • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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          Along with my pokemon cards

    • ninja@hoboninjachicken.com
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      Hey can I come over and slam ur pogs?

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    Netscape

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      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).

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        Add to that, flying toasters

      • const_void@lemmy.ml
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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

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      Just bought my first Tamagatchi in 2023 lol

    • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works
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      Had the yellow one and a game boy one.

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

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    NOT!

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    Bobwehadababyitsaboy

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      I remember it as “eeetsaboy”

    • trufax@beehaw.org
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      This one pops into my head way too often

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      This was my first thought lol

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    Dialup

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      Pshhhkkkkkkrrrr​kakingkakingkakingtsh​chchchchchchchcch​dingdingding

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        yep. that’s the correct spelling for that sound

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      Welcome, you’ve got mail, goodbye…

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

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        deleted by creator

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    Psych!

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      You know that’s right!

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    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.

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    I can do it with no words

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    Myst

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    Pogs

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