Remember 1999

[Silent Alarm]

Get your nostalgia on and giggle as much as you cringe. I was fairly young but right at the 'absorbing pop culture for the first time' phase.

 

[Bluelegs]

The obsession with nostalgia these days has become so much that the nostalgia has worn off and lost its charm. If you're constantly being reminded of memories that happened a long time ago those memories no longer feel distant.

 

[Silent Alarm]

The obsession with nostalgia these days has become so much that the nostalgia has worn off and lost its charm. If you're constantly being reminded of memories that happened a long time ago those memories no longer feel distant.

Blame Tumblr.

 

[Scotland]

Yeah, I was right into 'absorbing pop culture' when I was 5.

 

[Poseidon]

I probably went on a 'nostalgia binge' a few years back and since then nothing has made me feel that feel again.

The thing that gets me is the whole '90s kid' argument. I was born in 1991 and I don't consider myself a 90s kid. I only remember 1995 onwards and most of the good parts were spent in the early 00s where we had cool stuff like MSN messenger and Eminem. Not sure why people are so obsessed with labelling themselves as '[decade] kid' anyway.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

What's the point of this thread?

 

[rayven]

I I was born in 1991 .

Petrol prices went threw the roof that summer.. AC/DC ruled.... and SA dominated state footy

 

[Gough]

I bought a pub at the end of 1999 and embarked on two of the worst years of my life, up until then the year was a solid 7/10.

 

[Cruyff14]

I remember a lot of the 90s. I watched some of the clip, the songs definitely took me back!

 

[rayven]

I bought a pub at the end of 1999 and embarked on two of the worst years of my life,

Guess you never had a brewery sponsorship?

 

[Waynesworld]

Santana & Rob Thomas

Also best NYE party I ever went to

 

[Scotland]

The thing that gets me is the whole '90s kid' argument. I was born in 1991 and I don't consider myself a 90s kid. I only remember 1995 onwards and most of the good parts were spent in the early 00s where we had cool stuff like MSN messenger and Eminem. Not sure why people are so obsessed with labelling themselves as '[decade] kid' anyway.

Being a 'decade' kid is about remembering things you identify with from your childhood. People tend to use 'I'm a 80s/90s/whatever kid' to attach themselves to things as some sort of validation.

I was born in 1984, so started school in 1990. When the 1990s started I started school, and when the 1990s ended I was almost finished, so can't fit the age bracket for a 90s kid any better. I associate different things with different parts, as a decade of any kid's life is a hell of a long time. When I think early 90s I think Leonardo & co. kicking Shredder's arse, and I think 'Matera sets sail for home' and playing computer games that came on 3.5/5.25inch floppy disks on computers that didn't necessarily have Windows. When I think about mid or late 90s I think about different stuff because times change (even in WA) and I was a lot different at 16 than I was at 6.

If I was born 5 years later, I would probably see things differently. I would associate the 1990s purely with what I did in the late 90s - whatever it was that kids did then, and my teen years would be in the Myspace era of the mid 2000s. Not sure if I would be a '90s kid' or not, but it would be massively floggish to crap on about how cool Nirvana were at their peak and whatnot. Would be like me raving about the original Transformers series as an '80s kid' when it finished before I turned 3...

 

[Poseidon]

What's the point of this thread?

 

[drummond2fevola]

Quoting for true hilarity

 

[JD11]

holy **** i love that sing it back song...

 

[Stratton_Gun]

I bought a pub at the end of 1999 and embarked on two of the worst years of my life, up until then the year was a solid 7/10.

What happened?

 

[j0rdy1]

No Sisqo? Or was that 2000.

 

[Poseidon]

What happened?

He fell in love with Diane, she left, Coach died and it was never quite the same with Rebecca.

 

[Cruyff14]

He fell in love with Diane, she left, Coach died and it was never quite the same with Rebecca.

You do know Gough is gay, right?

 

[GoldenHodge]

If I was born 5 years later, I would probably see things differently. I would associate the 1990s purely with what I did in the late 90s - whatever it was that kids did then, and my teen years would be in the Myspace era of the mid 2000s. Not sure if I would be a '90s kid' or not, but it would be massively floggish to crap on about how cool Nirvana were at their peak and whatnot. Would be like me raving about the original Transformers series as an '80s kid' when it finished before I turned 3...

It's worse if they call themselves a 90s kid and then they refer to something that happened in the early 00's as 90s nostalgia. I know a few people who have done that.

 

[Marlowe]

 

[Simple Jack]

I got that given to me on casette tape in '98 or '99. Small change in music storage technology since then...

 

[Gough]

What happened?

I've got a pretty addictive personality and it turned out that surrounding myself with drink and drinkers 24/7 probably wasn't the best idea that I ever had.

 

[Scotland]

Just watched the OP video.

I remember 95% of the things in it, but it's slightly depressing that I don't specifically associate any of them with my youth and they were 14 years ago.

 

[Marlowe]

I got that given to me on casette tape in '98 or '99. Small change in music storage technology since then...

I remember being incredibly jealous of the year 6 girl who would bring her discman to school. Granted this would probably be 10 years after discmans were cool, but I really wanted one.