The 90s thread

[Procrastinator35]

Lucky bastard!

So I looked up Sarah McLeod Sicko & lo & behold.....The one you're tripping over with your tongue, aint even the hot one.
Of Superjesus fame. The NZ Actress

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Horses for courses mate. We've all got different turn-ons! Wouldn't turn down either woman as it goes...

 

[peternorth]

Did anyone catch the ABC anniversary special on Recovery the other week? 90's music feels all over! Sarah McLeod from Superjesus is stil hot as f*ck...

I did

 

[peternorth]

My mate's kid brother dated her for a while.

Any news

 

[norway blue]

Faith No More . First record. And Pop Will Eat Itself .


On iPhone using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[footyfan1978]

The last decade before everyone had an internet connection in most Australian households.
Some of us had it in the mid 90's but in most cases it did not get taken up my most households until the turn of the century.
Was still a decade when landline phones and phone booths were common. Going to movies, watching regular tv and video rentals stores were what people did to watch movies and tv series.

 

[Scotland]

Phone boxes are something I just don't see any more. I don't know if Telstra have gone around and ripped most of them out, but on the rare occasion I'm stopped at a set of lights or something and see one just off the footpath I'll think 'oh yeah, I remember those'. And it wasn't that long ago that I was under 17 and using one to call home to get a lift from the station etc.

1990s internet was pretty lame. In fact 1990s tech was pretty lame in general. GoldenEye is still a good movie but it's funny watching Natalya ask the IBM guy for 14.4 modems and CD-ROM like it is cutting edge. Which for 1995 I guess it was. To me it feels like that dates the film even though it was made in the 90s and Cold War Russians were still the enemy.

This is the most 1990s website ever:

Space Jam

 

[Shell]

Def still public phones around. I heard somewhere telstra has to have a minimum no. of them still

 

[Shell]

Phone boxes are something I just don't see any more. I don't know if Telstra have gone around and ripped most of them out, but on the rare occasion I'm stopped at a set of lights or something and see one just off the footpath I'll think 'oh yeah, I remember those'. And it wasn't that long ago that I was under 17 and using one to call home to get a lift from the station etc.

1990s internet was pretty lame. In fact 1990s tech was pretty lame in general. GoldenEye is still a good movie but it's funny watching Natalya ask the IBM guy for 14.4 modems and CD-ROM like it is cutting edge. Which for 1995 I guess it was. To me it feels like that dates the film even though it was made in the 90s and Cold War Russians were still the enemy.

This is the most 1990s website ever:

Space Jam

Internet was lame. I had a 20m cord to run from the phone in the kitchen so i could use my laptop in my bedroom. And if the phone rang it cut in on the connection

 

[Scotland]

Laptop, la di da. We had a tower PC, a white one. Prior to that we had an old Amstrad that was pre Windows.

 

[Shell]

It was a laptop from work. Circa 2005. Sif i had the Internet in the 90s

 

[PT Bar None]

Street near me has 3 booths over a couple of blocks.


Unrelated, but there's traditionally a fair bit of drugs in the area

 

[peternorth]

Windows 95
World Cup ‘90

 

[footyfan1978]

Def still public phones around. I heard somewhere telstra has to have a minimum no. of them still

Yes, but whomever uses them now? I cannot recall using a public phone since early 2000's.

 

[blueboy25]

Yes, but whomever uses them now? I cannot recall using a public phone since early 2000's.

I am pretty sure you can send a text message from public phone boxes these days.

 

[footyfan1978]

I am pretty sure you can send a text message from public phone boxes these days.

Got no idea. Cannot even recall last time I used a phone booth. I am tipping not done it for over 15 years.

 

[blueboy25]

Got no idea. Cannot even recall last time I used a phone booth. I am tipping not done it for over 15 years.

same, last time I used a phone booth would have been back in the early 2000's when I was living in the UK. Also the last time I used a internet cafe

 

[footyfan1978]

same, last time I used a phone booth would have been back in the early 2000's when I was living in the UK. Also the last time I used a internet cafe

Yeah, I think I used an internet cafe overseas around 2006. By that time they on their last legs apart from in the CBD of Melbourne where one or two I remember seeing a year or two ago around Elizabeth or Swanston Street. Guess multi player gamers use them still.

 

[Mofra]

In under a fortnight the 90s started 30 years ago.

 

[Shell]

Last time i picked up a public phone was the obligatory photo op in London 2012.

Last internet cafe would have been same year- Santorini best one ever air con to 18 degrees and i watched geelong beat st kilda at etihad

 

[Scotland]

Def still public phones around. I heard somewhere telstra has to have a minimum no. of them still

And just like that I noticed one yesterday after thinking about them. There's on on Murray St in Perth CBD which I would walk past most days.

 

[Plugger35]

They were still writing songs about phone booths in the 90s.

Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand




And who can forget Ian Moss's Telephone Booth (it was released in 1989 but close enough)




I miss the good old days of those back to back phone booths in the city where you tried to make a call while some drug addict psycho next to you was slamming the phone down because he ran out of 20 cent pieces trying to score his next hit and other scumbags were yelling at you to hurry up.

Public phones always attracted the worst people, even after mobile phones came in the worst people couldn't afford them so they were still there.

 

[Plugger35]

I didn't purchase a mobile phone until I went to the UK in 1999 and I was trying to give job agencies there my landline number.

They just laughed at me and said you need to have a mobile so we can reject you for jobs on the spot without any waiting around.

So I went down to my local high street and bought the cheapest one I could find, it was a little BT number for about 30 quid but it did the job.

I think it might have been from a Carphone Warehouse but not the one Stephen Merchant worked at, he wasn't famous back then.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

When we inevitably get 3838272623637748484 movies and TV series doing 2000-2009 nostalgia, they'll be full of pre-smart mobile phones.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

"Stop sending text messages Stacey, we got to go see Kevin's new high definition TV!"