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Waaazzzaaaap
That ad campaign started in 99, its really more of a 2000’s thing.
Ya, but it proves I lived through the 90’s 😆
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.
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.
Outside of America, this is interpreted as a reference to Scary Movie instead of the budweiser ad.
As a European, that’s indeed how I interpreted this.
Hahaha that’s the first thing that popped in my mind! 😂
Here in the Netherlands I never heard of it!
Here you go!
Rad! Thanks :)
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.
Watskeburt?
Waaaatsgebeuuurrrd!
Winamp.
…it really whips the llamas ass!
Baaaahhh!!!
I still use Winamp regularly.
Skins for winamp!
still using it as my PC media player
Encarta
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.
I remember trying to play Mind Maze and knowing absolutely nothing.
I loved the video it has about nuclear fission reactions.
Y2K.
I survived idiocy of managers asking for Y2K compliant padlocks. As in, physical padlocks.
Hope you charged them double.
“We gotta get the Locksmith to come out and replace the microchips. Yeah, it’s going to be expensive but worth it”
Please tell us they did this… 😂
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.
Pogs
Remember Alf? He’s back! In pog form!
Came here to say this! My collection is MIA and it still makes me sad thinking about it.
Your parents threw it away
Along with my pokemon cards
Hey can I come over and slam ur pogs?
Netscape
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).
Even better just use Firefox it descended from Netscape Navigator.
Add to that, flying toasters
Jwz! He was like nerd Jesus to us 90s computer geeks
Tamagotchi
Just bought my first Tamagatchi in 2023 lol
Had the yellow one and a game boy one.
And a couple different brand ones. Or maybe just one other one? I forget now.
NOT!
Bobwehadababyitsaboy
I remember it as “eeetsaboy”
This one pops into my head way too often
This was my first thought lol
Psych!
You know that’s right!
Dialup
Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcchdingdingding
yep. that’s the correct spelling for that sound
Welcome, you’ve got mail, goodbye…
Lol lol at you with internet. We didn’t get access until 1999.
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Myst
Ad Riven. I read all the novels, too!
Riven remake is underway!
Sweet, I guess I’m going to have to get a PC at some point. I actually played Riven for iPadOS recently and it was still fun, but the point and click is pretty tedious.
I’m not sure a remake willl ever match the magic of when I originally played in 1998, though. My laptop was so junky I played most of the game under a blanket because the screen was so dark, haha.
Im pretty sure I missed a lot in the first playthrough due to a dark screen haha
But agreed that it will be hard to recreate that magic - Riven really was ahead of its time and is still my favorite of the series
DUDE. It took me ages (get it!!?) to spot the switch to get in to the elevator on the forest island from the ground level. Thought you had to go the long way around every time.
This. Wait for the remake, the original plays like shit on modern Windows versions.
It plays perfectly fine, it uses ScummVM. You’re just spoiled with first person controls and a free roaming environment.
No, I played the original Riven on Windows 2000. This looks much worse. For example the embedded videos aren’t aligned properly and they clearly have different color correction so they pop out from the rest of the static images. And, I could be wrong but it just seems much more pixelated or lower color fidelity. I realize having a better quality monitor and higher resolution might explain some of that, but regardless of the technical explanation the user experience becomes worse than playing on contemporary equipment. They should have used a better upscaling algorithm. There were other issues too that I can’t recall at this moment. Just the fact that you get the geek-oriented ScummVM interface in your face when you buy a game is kind of jarring.
The bundle of myst games was on humble bundle a week or two ago. I’ve been waiting for the right time to immerse myself in myst VR and be just as confounded as I was as a kid. Then I get to see if Riven is still completely impossible for me.
Umm, excuse me, but I believe you’re missing a “start” and/or “select.” pushes glasses up nose
This is how you know they didn’t have friends. Select & Start was the end combo for two player cheat.
Technically they weren’t part of the cheat, just needed to start the game. A lot of games at the time also copied the Konami sequence but handled the ending differently.
Oh. Well then, I stand corrected.
That’s 80s.
It was first used in '86 with Gradius, but wasn’t popularized until the 90’s. Most notably with Contra on the NES, which released only a year after Gradius.
It was well-known to me in the 80s, at least. The fact that both those games are NES games makes it firmly 80s, in my mind.
Also, to be fair here, even if you recognize stuff from the 80’s, and you’re still around now, then you definitely lived through the 90’s. lol
Yes, but by that logic, I could say I remember the moon landing and it proves I lived through the 90s.
I mean the whole logic of the thread is that if you know one word you can make people think you lived in the 90’s. Like, you think some 10 year old born in 2013 couldn’t just find some 90’s media and say a popular catch phrase?
Start
Select Start*
Wasn’t it “…B A B A Select Start”, too?
Select Start for two players. Just Start for solo.
Still, “B A B A” for either.
No, it’s just one B A. Maybe somewhere down the line there’s a variant or two but in its true and unaltered form the Konami Code is UUDDLRLRBA
Source: Gradius, Contra, etc
What 30+ years does to recollection, ya know? 😅
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.
Remember cyberspace?
I remember before I had the internet wondering why companies had ads for “http://” and others were on “www” and having no clue if I needed to buy a special internet to access each.
JNCO’s
I still laugh thinking back to 8th grade when my buddy, Tyler, got his first pair of JNCOs. To paint a picture, Tyler couldn’t have been more than 90 pounds soaking wet and had a bowl cut (being it the 90s). He had a big goofy grin on his face and goes “check it out - I can fit a whole 2 liter of Mountain Dew in my pocket!” And sure enough, he pulled a full 2 liter of Mountain Dew out of his front pocket.
Tyler was definitely a product of the times