Being a kid in the 80’s and a teen in the 90’s were definitely the good ol’ days for me.
@peterbelanger40942 жыл бұрын
The 90's was great for 20-somehtings too. Image how great the 90's would have been without parental oversight? The education system was already pretty undermined by then, you guys got a bad deal there.
@TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores2 жыл бұрын
@@peterbelanger4094 The 90's job market was great too. Recent college grads could get jobs without having years and years of experience.
@SJHFoto2 жыл бұрын
I was a 20-something thru most of the 90s. I have a lot of fond memories of this decade, but it wasn't really because of anything inherent in the 1990s-it was because during this decade, my friends and I took a 1000+ km roadtrip almost every year. Now with them mostly married, and with other responsibilities that I have, those days are long gone (the last big roadtrip that I took with a friend (it was actually about 3000km roundtrip) was in 2005) I still do a lot of driving, but they are mostly work trips, and I am either by myself or with employees
@shannonhill33562 жыл бұрын
@@SJHFoto you’ll get back out there, my dude. That spirit doesn’t fade away 🤙🏼
@hadriangonzalez6072 жыл бұрын
Being a kid in the 90s and a teen in the 00s was better.. you get the best of both worlds. The early 90s still had a lot of influence of the 80s and the early 00s saw the world shift to digital before it became the toxic wasteland that it has become. Over all.. Any decade where you didn't have the burden of bills would be the best.
@bouttopullup51272 жыл бұрын
This makes me want to cry. I would do ANYTHING to go back
@Sarcastic_redbeard34 Жыл бұрын
Me too! So much
@RogersGirl885 ай бұрын
Me three. Like ANYTHING! Except that… Well, maybe.
@YoZa14583Күн бұрын
“ANYTHING to go back” billy, born in 2039
@jellyontheplate29342 жыл бұрын
I still feel the 90's were the last 'real' decade to grow up in. You could go outside and be a child without the pressure of 'social media', yet as we grew older the internet was there (albeit, in it's societal infancy). I think it was the perfect sweet spot.
@aeroripper2 жыл бұрын
It wasn't all consuming like it is now, it was still an amazing novelty in it's early days.
@supersmashmaster432 жыл бұрын
I think that goes for the 2000s as well. I was born in 2000 so I grew up all throughout that decade and even though the internet was well developed and used by that point, I still went outside to play with friends and toys, and only went on the internet to play games and watch videos for a bit. It wasn’t till like 2008 where the internet became a lot more involved and I started using it pretty much all the time.
@mikec54002 жыл бұрын
what child has pressure of social media and cannot go outside lol?
@JALC-x2 жыл бұрын
this is the comment i clicked on this video to find.. kids not going outside and being obsessed about social media is a fallacy, if a child is naturally unadventurous or doesn't like going outside they would've found something else to do in any other period of time. If they are naturally self-conscious and insecure about how they compare to other kids they would feel the same way at school or watching tv etc in any other time period. Too many people blame kids for all these things, when in reality it's millenial parents being too protective to let their kids explore on their own, too careless to allow them access to any social media, not strict enough to limit their time online, and too lazy to bring them up properly. I'm only 19 myself and grew up doing typical outdoor kid stuff but it's getting tiring hearing the same people who can't bring kids up properly in a modern world preach about how much better they had it
@forza87192 жыл бұрын
@@JALC-x you make a good point on parents failing to discipline their kids, and yes introverts will be introverts. But the real culprit is social media’s method of making us sick. It’s far deeper than most people realize. Just another addiction. Look at Twitter, used to be fun, now it’s become a toxic place for people to rage. Just toxicity everywhere. That’s why I said we as a society peaked between the 00’s and early 10’s.
@incog99skd112 жыл бұрын
I remember getting an AOL install disk in the mail about every week. We started using them as coasters.
@Leguminator2 жыл бұрын
They were everywhere! They gave them out in grocery store checkout lines.
@CatholicTraditional2 жыл бұрын
Yep, we got one mailed all the time, long before we got a home computer (2004), when by that time cable co. modems had internet access, for which we connect today.
@KaneshaDi2 жыл бұрын
I had a Word Processor at one time and all those AOL Install Disks that would come in the mail ended up becoming disks for my word processor as those disks could be re-formatted.
@peterbelanger40942 жыл бұрын
People used to make stuff out of those free AoL disks. Clothes, lamps, furniture... There was no shortage.
@TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores2 жыл бұрын
@@KaneshaDi That must of been when they were still mailing floppy disks. Most of the AOL disks I received were CD-ROMs and thus, not recordable.
@DareToBeDeviant2 жыл бұрын
While I love dabbling in nostalgia it sure is depressing to know we'll never have things like they were before.
@robertd98502 жыл бұрын
Or it could get better than was before. The '80's started off awful. I thought the good times would never come back but most of the '90's put the earlier good times to shame.
@DareToBeDeviant2 жыл бұрын
@@robertd9850 What about the 80s didn't you like? Some people are divided about the decade because of things like hairstyles and clothing choices (yikes!) but it did kick off synthesizers gave us some of the best sci-fi movies still loved today. Still, a mixed pot of crazy.
@robertd98502 жыл бұрын
@@DareToBeDeviant The early years were dreadful. High gas prices, hostages, threat of nuclear attack, dismal economy, heat waves and droughts where I lived. Really pretty awful. It got a little better middle decade and much better the last 3 years.
@DareToBeDeviant2 жыл бұрын
@@robertd9850 My condolences you had to ensure that. Over here on the Rust Belt nothing ever happens. The entire west half of the USA could be on fire and we wouldn't be notified for impending doom.
@PraveenSrJ015 ай бұрын
I wish we could rewind ⏪ to the 1990s
@CR-vj6vv2 жыл бұрын
When I was a teenager in the 90s, I loved it. But I also remember being so optimistic about the future and how things would be better with more technology. Unfortunately it did not turn out that way and it just made society worse.
@aeroripper2 жыл бұрын
Gaming and the early internet were totally amazing. Now it's made everything easier but also harder to turn off to enjoy non-connected life.
@BlueRice2 жыл бұрын
yeah.. really worse. when technologies came out. it was always exciting and powerful. each console came out was always powerful and new. now you have ps5.. likes ehh.. you have a 600 hp factory sport car is like ehhh. maybe we're just getting old
@lebrown50752 жыл бұрын
now the fringe idiots can find each other and increase their numbers
@PerceptionVsReality3332 жыл бұрын
I was the same way.
@frankburns59752 жыл бұрын
@@BlueRice it's not just that we're getting old, if you look at how children act vs the 90s and prior, the raising, the legal limits etc, the school, everything, it's not the same, and that's why over time, kids have quit moving out at as young of ages, don't learn the basics of life in school anymore, are always on the internet or doing something with a mobile app instead of being out in social, which causes a lot to not know how to talk to people especially in a bad situation. A lot more kids are shooting kids now then before and I believe that's part of why.
@Gappasaurus2 жыл бұрын
I still keep some maps in my car… being lost in the middle of nowhere with a dead phone or no cell signal is just a bit _too_ realistic a fear to ignore 😅
@jamesslick47902 жыл бұрын
👍😊👍 Yep!!! As convenient as modern tech is, ALWAYS have a back-up. I still have "real" maps in my car, I also have a "real" radio, and an Mp3 player. You cannot always have "signal" everywhere. I am a "tech" geek, but having "low tech" alternatives is vital. "a bit too realistic a fear" is the reason to have insurance after all!
@skylilly12 жыл бұрын
Me, too. I enjoy the paper maps. lol
@kurtrussell52282 жыл бұрын
Get a dedicated GPS, they use satellites not cell phone towers
@Stephen-ob3ij2 жыл бұрын
Always had a motors carrier atlas, would still have it if I was out there today.
@jamesslick47902 жыл бұрын
@@kurtrussell5228 Yes, true, but STILL have paper!
@IDontWantThisStupidHandle2 жыл бұрын
As a 90s kid, this video makes me weep. I truly didn't know how good I had it back then.
@jaepoxz Жыл бұрын
We all didn’t know this was the best it would get. I wish I would’ve appreciated it way more than I did. I would gladly go back in a heartbeat if I could
@skrapelotto Жыл бұрын
that’s literally the whole point of Nostalgia. You don’t appreciate the present until its the past. The best version of the past are your teenage years and you only remember the good feelings not the bad. We all do it.
@RainaCK_NOLA Жыл бұрын
We never do.
@Angie23436 ай бұрын
Same here.
@troylowe8142 жыл бұрын
You know what else disappeared from grocery stores and drug stores in the 1990's? Comic book spinner racks. The last one I saw in a grocery store was in 2000.
@SJHFoto2 жыл бұрын
I remember them as a kid (70s and 80s)
@timothylewis25272 жыл бұрын
In 1993I used to walk a couple of miles to buy comics from this convenience store spinner rack. And if they didn't have what I was looking for, I'd walk another mile to another store with different books. Those were the days!
@thenewbrazy99972 жыл бұрын
Comic book whats that some sort of bible ? You mean cartoons? Movies like marvel comics? Youre old, an old man. Trolling babby ;)
@helterskelter4every12 жыл бұрын
The used-to-be-called-dollar-store has something close. I wouldn’t say they’d give you that “nostalgia feeling” or anything, but they do put little kid comics on them. Again though, expect nothing, but they do have something that resembles what you’re talking about… kind of. It’s the closest to them in modern times that I can think of is what I’m trying to say. I think of those same racks when I see them, that’s why I mentioned them. It’s not the same “nostalgia” type feeling, but they do remind me of those old turnstile type racks, if you know what I mean??? I guess you’d have to see them to understand. Hopefully that makes some sense.
@rbsmith33652 жыл бұрын
Try at bookstores.
@John_Fugazzi2 жыл бұрын
It's hard to believe the 90s are on Recollection Road, but after watching it I have to say that was a really different time.
@anthonycarlisle61842 жыл бұрын
It's technically 3 decades ago, '00s, '10s, now early '20's. 🤷
@peterbelanger40942 жыл бұрын
@@anthonycarlisle6184 Yes, it is. ... now here's a box of crayons.
@strange4change_62 жыл бұрын
It is a bit surreal seeing your childhood (I was born in '85) already being recollected. It also hits home when you see kids now having retro day at school and they're wearing clothes from the '90s. Now I know how my mom felt when I was looking for '60s and '70s clothes in the late '90s for my retro days.
@stevestreet28252 жыл бұрын
@@strange4change_6 hopefully they aren't transitioning or invited to drag bars. Another 2 yrs of joey and US will be broken up by ....
@RF-vg5kv2 жыл бұрын
@@stevestreet2825 🤣 sounds like another dramatic deplorable
@alvd85112 жыл бұрын
This video forgot to mention the anticipation of watching your favorite shows on TV, rushing home just to get there in time. Nowadays the instantaneous access to the internet kind of killed of that feeling. Also, whoever heard of watching 5 min clips back then?
@colederosier53742 жыл бұрын
Good point. I can recall having "watch parties" with friends when new episodes of our favorite TV shows would air. With streaming, there's been a loss of the shared experience to some extent. It's also odd that streaming services tend to release the entirety of a season at once for the binge-watching crowd. There was something about having to wait until the following week for the next episode. It gave you something to look forward to.
@MomMom4Cubs2 жыл бұрын
The 5 minute clips were music videos. I agree with your sentiment, though.
@P-dub9782 жыл бұрын
I used to get the same feeling with music album. Now I barley care anymore
@XNY556-Apple2 жыл бұрын
We used to program our VCR to record TV shows but preferred watching it when it actually aired.
@JF-co8wj Жыл бұрын
I would record shows with my VCR, I would set the timer or sometimes TV Guides had a code for each show. I could put that code into the VCR and it knew what show to record.
@swebruh2 жыл бұрын
As a Swede, born 1985, we pretty much had the same thing with everything that was mentioned, and I miss those days. The 90's was probably the best time of my life. 😀
@aeroripper2 жыл бұрын
Not sure if you played video games but the 90s was a golden age for them growing up especially in the early days of LAN and early internet networking. Younger generations born in the later 90s-early 2000s or later will never know what the world was like before the internet.
@j.mad4142 жыл бұрын
BEST TIME OF MY LIFE!!!
@onecoolcat24782 жыл бұрын
The last fun decade......I was in my 20's (turned 20 in 1990) and had many great times. Interesting to read how many other people, besides myself, remember the 90's being the last amazing decade. Now everything is so serious and somber....the America I knew is no more.
@289cobra92 жыл бұрын
Turned 28 in 1990. I know what you mean.
@pickfairguy2 жыл бұрын
Agreed. America today resembles 1970s-80s Soviet Eastern Bloc atmosphere with slightly better surface aesthetics. The underlying energy is the same. Truly sad.
@georgebailey88722 жыл бұрын
I also turned 20 in 1990. It was a great decade, then the 2000’s came along. Everything we do is recorded and available for the world to view. The 90s was a time of personal and financial growth for our generation. It was the last time we actually had to wait and anticipate special things like Christmas. Now everything is available all the time. This century sure got off to a s**t start!
@royrowland57632 жыл бұрын
Said every generation ever about about a new generation. (eyeroll).
@amazingsupergirl7125 Жыл бұрын
I was 20 in 1990 too but I think the 80s were the last real decade. I even remember feeling like we were losing what we had so great. Everything was starting to get so controversial like in the 70s. The positive is we didn’t have technology yet. Nobody really had computers or internet and definitely not social media. The only computer I used was for Lotus123 and Word Perfect in the student computer lab. But, it was then that I discovered that software and troubleshooting hardware came natural for me and still does. I remember graduating and my good friend gave me his email address. I had no idea what it was. 😅
@trumpsez53992 жыл бұрын
The last real decade of old America.
@SMac-bq8sk2 жыл бұрын
Agreed. After 1999, it all started going to sh*t.
@leowhite84612 жыл бұрын
So true
@marcmarc19672 жыл бұрын
@@SMac-bq8sk I'd say 2008, but it was a slow progression.
@theman362 жыл бұрын
Well said.
@glowdoll1832 жыл бұрын
No it’s still here it’s on the news every day. I guess when you got to enjoy those pleasures and not have to deal with governmental US cartels tunneling drugs into your community and economic disparities; that same government actively creating and building situations to destroy the family for generations; while playing it off as help or assistance, I guess you would miss that huh 🤔
@itiswhatitis76392 жыл бұрын
I remember my returning from Miami. My ID was in my dirty laundry and I told the guy that all I had available was my Block Buster video card. He let me on the flight.
@deboraholsen25042 жыл бұрын
That is hilarious! I kept my Blockbuster and Hollywood Video cards for quite a while in my purse because I missed going into the stores! I think in life, we just deal with whatever technology we are given at the time. :)
@owowhatsthis._.69432 жыл бұрын
Bro what?! XD THATS CRAZYY HAHA
@titamartinez1622 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂wow
@bigred31642 жыл бұрын
That Blockbuster card saved your life lmao
@bigred31642 жыл бұрын
@@deboraholsen2504 My sister still has a video from Blockbuster (Silence of the Lambs) it's like a trophy now lol. Still has the "Favorites" insert, too! We sometimes wonder how much the late fee would be now.
@Jantv812 жыл бұрын
I miss the 90s! Those were my “ Wonder Years.”
@mariamercy73172 жыл бұрын
The 70s were the best years. Lol 😉
@jamesslick47902 жыл бұрын
@@mariamercy7317 I grew up in the '70s, there's some parallels between those decades that I don't' think (sadly) apply in the LAST 20 years. My NIECE "turned me on" to "Brewstewfilms" (KZbin channel) and, if you swap out the "pop culture", It's eerily remincent of my 1970s childhood. 🤷♂️
@peterbelanger40942 жыл бұрын
best decade to be a 20-something. the music was awesome.
@mariamercy73172 жыл бұрын
@@jamesslick4790 You are sooo right. Sadly last 20 years are exactly that "Sad" 😢 I lived through the mid 50s, 60s, 70s. Times have changed so much. Wish I could say "For better." I was raised in NYC where children could sit on the steps of their building till late at night, without supervision of parents without fear... I'm about to cry.
@jamesslick47902 жыл бұрын
@@mariamercy7317 Some things have got better, But overall In my humble opinion is that "our world" (us who grew from the 50's-'90s -The Post World War 2 era) pretty much ended on 9/11/01 😞
@robertabrams85622 жыл бұрын
I remember waiting 20-25mins to get connected to the internet in the early 90’s! And then my family telling me to get off the computer, so they could make a phone call! They still jokingly talk about the OJ Simpson trial today, but back then, it was an incredibly big deal!
@MemphisTiger2 жыл бұрын
I remember taking upwards of 1 hour to connect...and the FRUSTRATION of being connected...and someone in your house picks up the phone...your computer freezes up but for a minute or so you don't realize you were kicked offline all because someone picked up the damn phone! lol
@ShelbyFarrow2 жыл бұрын
Me too! My Mom would sometimes kick me off the computer so she could talk to her friends. Getting online was pretty difficult sometimes with dial up. I remember watching the OJ verdict as it happened.
@leesashriber50972 жыл бұрын
Those discs that were always in the mail 📬 😂
@SweetBearCub2 жыл бұрын
Even when I lived in the boonies in the US, it never took me longer than around 2 minutes to get online with dial-up. A dedicated line and a modem code to silence the connection sounds and I was good.
@TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores2 жыл бұрын
Well it is 2022 and it sometimes still takes up to 20 minutes for me to get connected to the internet with my cable modem, if I try to connect in the early evening when everyone else seems to be online. If I try in the middle of the night, it only takes a minute. (I turn off my computer and modem when I am not using them.)
@crismartinez16422 жыл бұрын
The 90s were the the last decade where you truly felt free and optimistic. After 2001 everything kinda went to 💩
@anthonycarlisle61842 жыл бұрын
That it did, in my opinion too, and not b/c of nostalgia. One big pile of 💩 after '01 indeed
@peterbelanger40942 жыл бұрын
@Dani Hope internet/ smartphones have caused society to change to a primarily online society. There isn't so much to even do out in the real world anymore. Everyone has abandoned it. People just sit there and stare at their g-d phones all the time. Our civilization is in such tragic decay :( THIS crap is what we are stuck with now. I hate the internet. It ruined everything.
@MmntechCa2 жыл бұрын
@@peterbelanger4094 If you were a nerd though, the internet was the ultimate playground in the 90s and especially the early 2000s. It only got ruined when it went mainstream and huge corporations monopolized it. I miss the digital Wild West. Back when the only "social media" were bulletin boards, chat rooms, and forums full of like minded geeks. Back when the most controversial discussions were Athlon XP versus Pentium 4, and everyone had relations with your mom. Before everything got curated and censored by algorithms and brain dead ideologs.
@davidgold59612 жыл бұрын
The day the music died was November 22nd, 1963 in Dallas.
@jbar_852 жыл бұрын
Exactly. That’s how I feel too!
@Soooooooooooonicable2 жыл бұрын
Logging into AOL was always such a magical feeling. The early internet in general was like the wild west. It was much less centralized and content felt more personal.
@aeroripper2 жыл бұрын
Yup, and all the amateur geocities and altavista crappy internet sites people made. The internet was totally novel and amazing in the early days, and now it's just omnipresent and created significant societal problems.
@BlueRice2 жыл бұрын
yeah that time. there wasnt no youtube, no reddit, nothing major social platform. but it was exciting because you read up on random things. surf the web about game emulator, breakdance moves, reading romantic drama story telling, underground rap and so on. high quality picture was nice back then since it takes so long to load and view.
@TheSimoc2 жыл бұрын
Yep, and everything was even working and efficient. No need for gigabytes and gigahertzes to render simple websites like today.
@BlueRice2 жыл бұрын
@@TheSimoc petium 1 cpu still can sruf the website today. Higher performance mean for better graphic and computing power. You can do more with better performance.
@TheSimoc2 жыл бұрын
@@BlueRice Depends wholly on what website. Not many modern websites work with Pentium 1 and even less with a browser that can be run by such. Of course more performance allows you to do more, but unfortunately most of it isn't utilized for that nowadays, instead it is mostly wasted on unnecessary bloat. Even simple textual content and UI of many today's webpages is often more resource hogging than fancy interactive animated graphics of 90s and early 00s.
@sloppyjoe4002 жыл бұрын
I will always cherish the memories of going to the video store Friday nights with my Dad
@SJHFoto2 жыл бұрын
On weekends, sometimes friends and I went to the video store and rented a movie (We went to the theatre sometimes, but some movies that we thought were decent we walked out on for immorality, cursing, violence, etc, and rented movies already were watched my friends some times, so they were a safer choice) Besides, we could rent a movie, order some pizzas and save tons of money!
@heyyo1622 жыл бұрын
and now you have different accounts on Netflix.
@aeroripper2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes friday nights were the best. Blockbuster was popular on the weekends and it felt like more of an 'event' to watch a popular movie that just came out on rental. Now it seems cheap because there's such a vast amount of content you can watch anytime or anywhere you want.
@jamestakacs2 жыл бұрын
I absolutely loved the old AOL. During a bad time in my life I met a terrific friend with a shoulder to cry on and a ear that listened. So yea, I loved AOL.
@someguy25942 жыл бұрын
Keep in mind nobody will feel this way looking back on the 2020’s. Pandemics, mass shootings, political turmoil, etc. I was only born in 99’ but I feel like kids are going to have a really hard time feeling nostalgic of their youth in a couple decades.
@xDevenchi2 жыл бұрын
If there’s one thing I have learned in my relatively short time on this Earth is that the future is full of uncertainty
@supersaturn9562 жыл бұрын
💯🔥💯🔥
@RF-vg5kv2 жыл бұрын
Well people tend to overlook that bad and remember the good and Nostalgia, the 80s and 90s were not all happiness and roses, alot of messed up shit happened to. If it's part of your formidable years you tend to look at it in a positive way. It's like really all generations have done and will do.
@bigred31642 жыл бұрын
I feel terrible for kids these days. They shouldn't have to be so used to school shootings and the mass hysteria.
@someguy25942 жыл бұрын
@@RF-vg5kv I completely agree, but with the events that have happened (unique to the 21st century) I think adults in the future will think of these decades as a semi dark age.
@elultimo1022 жыл бұрын
Going to the airport used to be an adventure. One was treated like a valued guest. Now it's like entering a pen, the "flight attendants" are now the prison guards, and treat you as an inmate.
@laudanum6692 жыл бұрын
That's because you don't fly First Class:)
@sarahsimpkins13112 жыл бұрын
Yeah because of September 11
@elultimo1022 жыл бұрын
@@sarahsimpkins1311 ---From what I understand, the entire Patriot Act was a series of control measures, that they never had the votes to push through before 9/11. At most, those airline passengers probably expected to end up in Havana, or other such place. This will not happen today, because 100 other passengers would overcome a couple looneys with box cutters. (Israeli officials said that the entire post-9/11 is an effective way to annoy the public. I would like to know how they prevent such occurrences, given constant terrorist threats in that region).
@sarahsimpkins13112 жыл бұрын
@@elultimo102 yeah ok
@joerichardwad1645 Жыл бұрын
Lol, what the hell kind of airline are you flying on??! 🤣🤣
@whosoever2 жыл бұрын
You forgot one more thing that's gone forever, hopes and dreams. Those left in the 90s as well
@sunnyscott48762 жыл бұрын
Courtesy, thoughtfulness and kindness seem to have disappeared as well.
@aeroripper2 жыл бұрын
The internet has changed almost everything about how we live, similar to the way electricity affected the modern world.
@39zack2 жыл бұрын
Hopes and Dreams was reintroduced in 2015
@aeroripper2 жыл бұрын
@@39zack huh?
@zedtrek2 жыл бұрын
Well, also normalised omophobia and child abuse seems to be gone, so I wouldn't say it was all better.
@mjallen13082 жыл бұрын
I was still using 5.25” floppies in the early 90s. Especially at school. Playing Oregon trail. I miss the maps. I remember picking hotels using books which showed off amenities. I remember the Macarena. And I remember my parents dropping me off and walking me to the gate.
@bigred31642 жыл бұрын
Did you die of dysentery?
@cdldriver23482 жыл бұрын
I still own a Commodore 64 that comes with data cassettes & a ton of 5 1/4" floppy disks, they still work. :)
@L.Spencer2 жыл бұрын
We had a Vic 20, I remember playing space invaders on it as a kid.
@misterhat58232 жыл бұрын
I have one I need to fix. Somewhere there's a TI99/4A that still works floating around too. Oh... And an Atari 130XL.
@cdldriver23482 жыл бұрын
@@misterhat5823 I had a TI 99 / 4A as well, Tombstone was my game!
@misterhat58232 жыл бұрын
@@cdldriver2348 I remember that. I spent most my time typing in BASIC programs.
@jamesslick47902 жыл бұрын
@@cdldriver2348 FUN FACT: The TI-99/4 (the TI-99/4A' s predecessor) was the first "consumer" PC with a 16 Bit microprocessor! Pretty heady tech in an innocent looking little box in 1979! 👍😊👍
@blueroanspecial2 жыл бұрын
Remember, be kind and rewind!
@tadehpetrossian56982 жыл бұрын
The 1990s were the great last decades. As soon as 2001 came everything went to crap.
@richierich3541 Жыл бұрын
9-11-2001 to be exact.
@fuzzyduck19896 ай бұрын
@@richierich3541 9+1+1= 11
@EnjoyingTheSimpleLife2 жыл бұрын
Crazy 80's and 90's don't seem that long ago Thanks for all the memories and all ya do Great video
@skylilly12 жыл бұрын
I still have my vhs player plugged in until I get them all converted...I have about 20 more to go. I hope it holds out. :) I like the famly programming way better in the 90's then the nonsense they have now.
@KATHIESHOES2 жыл бұрын
I actually have two players and 300 plus vhs tapes! Everything works!!
@beavis47632 жыл бұрын
All my tapes went into the trash about 10 years ago.
@toshineon2 жыл бұрын
I have an ex-girlfriend who insisted I get a VCR when we were living together, because she thought VHS was the only correct way of watching her favorite Disney movies.
@RCPropaganda2 жыл бұрын
I really been missing the good old days of the 90's. Things just suck today as good as they are. I would love to go back to the 90's for sure.
@williamjones71632 жыл бұрын
I was waiting for the connect sound of a modern. And "You got mail!"
@Cryo8372 жыл бұрын
Spent a lot of money at Blockbuster renting VHS tape in the 90's (Brenham, TX). Then the transition to DVD started in the early 2000's. And when streaming became mainstream it was over for Blockbuster. In the late 90's my internet connection was a dialup 54K modem. Most of the time the actual rate was between 28K and 44K. Never got to 54K. Then DSL was the thing. And when fibre optic came to town, dialup faded away. Got my first cell phone in 1996. It was as big as a walkie/talkie and most of the time it was on the more expensive "roaming" mode as network coverage was limited. And yea, 9/11 ruined a lot of things...including air travel. It used to be enjoyable...used to be.
@okiebill19482 жыл бұрын
My response to your mentioning that 9/11 has ruined a lot of things is this: I remember my elementary school principal talking to us students in an all-school assembly in our school auditorium. This was back in the 1950's. He told us that all it takes is ONE PERSON breaking the rules to ruin it for everyone else!!!!! That principle plays out each and every day to this day!!! All it took was ONE hijacker on 9-11 to ruin air travel forever for all of us. (Of course, there were several other hijackers on other planes as well). The wife and I used to enjoy air travel, but not anymore!!!
@jons.62162 жыл бұрын
There was also that all but forgotten media between VHS and DVD that was the Laserdisc! Pretty much what could be put onto a DVD with special channels and extra features but the size of a large LP record and thick!
@bearforce1872 жыл бұрын
I remember those and a salesman telling me they were going to take over the market, the machines were very expensive, thankfully I never bought one. They were gone as fast as they appeared.
@misterhat58232 жыл бұрын
@@bearforce187 They actually survived quite some time in home theater and industrial applications.
@jblyon22 жыл бұрын
I still have a Laserdisc machine and a small collection of movies.
@Rigel_Chiokis2 жыл бұрын
The technology of bouncing a laser off of the reflective surface of a disc to produce sound and video did survive though. It was refined into a much more compact, cost effective format and renamed the Compact Disc, then later, the DVD.
@markbowman55152 жыл бұрын
Laser disc is from the 80s
@mikevogler54552 жыл бұрын
Great video. Kinda sad watching it, considering how bad everything is now, compared to how things were back then. Really was the last great decade. So glad I had the opportunity of spending my teen years during that particular decade. Thanks for the walk back down memory lane, and the resurgence of memories from better times. Here's to the past. 🙋🍻
@appleforever66642 жыл бұрын
I remember having a second phone line while in college in order to use the internet. I didn’t want to tie up the primary phone line for the rest of my family.
@bigred31642 жыл бұрын
You guys must've have some money then! lol That was not cheap in those days!
@Caleb-fv5fp2 жыл бұрын
Trust me, cellphones weren’t popular until the early to mid 2000s. If you had a cellphone in the 90s you where rich. Even in the early 2000s a cellphone was a huge flex.
@dc53302 жыл бұрын
ehhh we mostly all had those Nokia candy bar phones when they got really mainstream, and then everyone had the Motorola Razr after that in the early 00s. But definitely late 90s was a little less common.
@Catstuff91 Жыл бұрын
I got my first cellphone in 7th grade in 2003/2004 ... it was a flip phone 😭.. but ya everyone was always amazed by it at the time I don't remember any of my friends at the time having one 😂
@drusmith34802 жыл бұрын
I was in the U.S. Army during most of the 90s. Those were good times. 🪖
@tiffbeevachou1082 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I was raised in the 80s and 90s and I try to give my kids a 1990's childhood as much as I can.
@fanaticat1 Жыл бұрын
wow, what memories! I had a pager, a vcr, drank zima, did the Macarena, watched those sitcoms, etc. I can't believe that it's been 30 years since these things were popular...time flies! Thanks for the memories!
@colederosier53742 жыл бұрын
I still have a bunch of my old VHS tapes and DVDs. They still work fine, so the last thing I'd want to do is see them end up in a landfill. Similarly, I kept most of the cassettes and CDs from my childhood (ZZ Top _Eliminator_ on cassette is the shit lol). I'm not getting rid of them.
@ragingjaguarknight862 жыл бұрын
Me too. I even have combination DVD/VCR so I can still use them if need be. ^_^
@sunnymane2 жыл бұрын
I know that’s right Cole 😂🔥🔥
@bigred31642 жыл бұрын
I still have my parents old vinyl, compact cassettes, and 8- track cassettes! What can I say? We grew up with great music in the house 🎶🎸📻
@stephendacey87612 жыл бұрын
I have some that are for "mature audiences only".😆
@colederosier53742 жыл бұрын
@@stephendacey8761 ahahaha!
@sarge68702 жыл бұрын
My first computer was a Tandy 1000tx (Radio Shack). Windows didn't even exist yet. The computer came with 2 books as thick as an encyclopedia. The books taught me how to write DOS code and I made little programs like Lotto number pickers & Lotto number checkers. The computer didn't even have a hard drive! I had to buy a separate 5 1/4" floppy drive to run programs. Even the modem to get online was a separate piece of equipment.
@VettRose2 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine if computers still came with programming guides?? Dang, that would be so awesome and useful.
@sarge68702 жыл бұрын
@@VettRose Yeah, like everything in life today, nothing is "User Friendly" anymore!
@dguy03862 жыл бұрын
VHS lived well into the 2000s, there are 3 years that can be pointed to as major in the decline of VHS, DVDs first outsold VHS in 2003 thus marking the true begining of their decline, most major movie companies gave up on the platform in 2006 and VHS officially died in 2008, but people still had tapes long after this and many still do today
@L.Spencer2 жыл бұрын
We still have a VCR. It's wonky, though. But I used it to record figure skating about a year ago. We even have some unopened VCR tapes.
@charleso88262 жыл бұрын
Funny you say that I just bought 2 of them about 45 minutes ago haha true
@misterhat58232 жыл бұрын
@@L.Spencer I have one too. The belts need changed.
@sarge68702 жыл бұрын
I still have a bunch of VHS tapes! Just nothing to play them on!!
@elultimo1022 жыл бұрын
@@charleso8826 I have about 15 VCRs & hundreds of tapes, including over 100 sealed blanks. (I can't fix them, so I got them when the transition was happening---$5 to $20 each.)
@calbob7502 жыл бұрын
Back before the cell phone was everywhere, if your car broke down on the road it was either a long walk to the nearest phone or hope that someone gave you a ride to an exit with a service station or pay phone.
@SJHFoto2 жыл бұрын
I remember picking up some French girls when I was in Northern Ontario because their RV broke down. Poor kids-in that area there was no cell reception (this was around 2010) and I worried about them. We went all the way back to Sault Ste Marie (about 150km from where I was) but I had time and they got to a spot where they could rent another vehicle safely
@martinpennock94302 жыл бұрын
Yup, remember it all! Love the channel, thanks for the post, and thanks for the memories! God bless you and yours and thanks again for all you do!
@howyoudurrinhunneh2 жыл бұрын
My first DVD player was a VCR combo so I could still record tv. Bought it in 2002.
@incog99skd112 жыл бұрын
I still have a Dishnetwork cable box with a DIGITAL tape player built in. I hear it is quite collectable. It is not compatible with magnetic VCR tape. Digital blank tapes were 14 dollars each in the late 1990s which was considered very expensive. It was the last gasp of tape technology.
@Perririri2 жыл бұрын
But what about the discontinuation of the Analogue TV format?
@incog99skd112 жыл бұрын
@@Perririri I remember that. People either had to get new TV sets or a set top box to convert the signal.
@chriselmago66662 жыл бұрын
mine too
@mattwolf76982 жыл бұрын
@@Perririri A VCR could still record TV today if the signal first ran through a converter box.
@davidgoodman69242 жыл бұрын
Ahh yes, Blockbuster Video and Domino's Pizza on a Friday night at the friend's house...great times!
@user-nl8wf7tc3m5 ай бұрын
Now a days kids stream movies eat pizza and look at there iPads while they are all in the same room. Us 90’s we had it good. Best decade ever
@georgebudimir78012 жыл бұрын
I wondered if you'd include the airline change due to 911. I still have photos of relatives and friends first getting off the plane and looking around to see anyone they knew. And when they do, and you make that connection, it's total bliss. Sad that had to end. Now you just go to baggage claim and wait. Definitely not the same experience.
@okiebill19482 жыл бұрын
I miss that too, and dread having to go through security every time I do fly. I have had a complete shoulder replacement of my right shoulder and therefore have a prosthetic shoulder made of metal and plastic. Also, I wear an implanted heart monitor. Both the shoulder hardware and heart monitor set off all the metal detectors and show up on the x-ray machines. I have to be pulled aside for further screening and have to show them cards issued to me by my surgeons to convince TSA agents what they are seeing.
@emmyg2 жыл бұрын
@@okiebill1948 I am treated the same way because I have a colostomy well I was always singled out the last time the officer finally told me why they were literally poking my colostomy to see if anything solid was in there no joke, smugglers were putting fake colostomies on their mules to smuggle everything from small animals to drugs.
@krisrhood21272 жыл бұрын
I remember flying to California In the 90s. My aunt and mother took me to the airport. When I went through the checkpoint I was wearing a lot of punk jewelry and I had no trouble getting past security. However my aunt who had an artificial hip had an awful time
@situated42 жыл бұрын
To be fair, however, your aunt's always been a problem.
@CreativeCreatorCreates2 жыл бұрын
I had a lot of folks tease me about my mods (piercings) and how I would get through the airport security. I had zero problems and a lot of piercings. My family was worried about me in lightning storms too.
@Jakereviewsall2 жыл бұрын
I was born in the 80s so of course I grew up with all of this. This triggers so many memories I completely forgot about. When you think back it was a completely different world. I hate that my kids will not get to experience many things like I did.
@shibolinemress8913 Жыл бұрын
In retrospect, the years 1990-2000 (my 30's) were the best of my adult life so far. Thanks for the memories!
@markbowman55152 жыл бұрын
I saw something today about "Ask Jeeves"...forgot all about that one from the 90s
@westonmeyer3110 Жыл бұрын
The original Google
@texman81502 жыл бұрын
I got caught up in the Furby craze, similar to the Beanie Baby phenomenum. I purchased somewhere around sixty of them. My trophy Furby, which I still have, is the so-called "Hi-C" Furby. Only 5,000 of these were made as prizes in a sweepstakes run by the company that made Hi-C drinks. Regarding my early on-line experience, I chose to go with a competitor of AOL called Prodigy.
@commontater246012 жыл бұрын
Mad. Maze.
@sandybruce90922 жыл бұрын
Oh my, I had forgotten Prodigy!!
@spookumstarslap2 жыл бұрын
We also used prodigy
@tinasmith13912 жыл бұрын
Sadly 2020 is going to be remembered as an even bigger change than 2001. 194 countries just signed on to the WHO's one world government. Life was never perfect but the world today is steadily getting worse. With all that's going on today it feels like the 1990s were a hundred years ago.
@Jantv812 жыл бұрын
We have to go through this time… it sucks big time but in the end remember the NWO will not happen! God wins!
@rhuephus2 жыл бұрын
well . Since it's already 2022, you're 2 years too late
@mariamercy73172 жыл бұрын
I'll never forget the first time I watched a DVD movie. I asked my son "Where do I hit to rewind it?" He and his wife laughed so much. 😂 I was used to the VCR... Wow, I just remembered I had an 8 Track Tape Player/Recorder Sad about 9/11. I used to receive or say "Farewell" to friends and family right by the plane entrance 😔
@fr2ncm92 жыл бұрын
My family started to buy VCR's in the early 80's. We would record classic movies and keep them in a collection. I think at one point, we had 100 classic movies in our collection. Of course they were recorded in lower quality Ep format.
@mariamercy73172 жыл бұрын
@@fr2ncm9 Wow, 100 is a great collection. Hope you have them or at least some. They are like treasure. I still have some in a box, some movies I bought and some I recorded. Surely the quality wasn't all that good.
@insomniafun87512 жыл бұрын
"Please be kind, rewind" was LAW at the Hollywood video I worked at in HS. We even went so far as to ban some people from renting when they kept bringing back tapes that they hadn't rewound. Worked there for almost two years, my first year we burned out 3 rewinders because people wouldn't do it themselves before returning.
@jackielinde75682 жыл бұрын
Thank you for acknowledging the efforts of IT Staff everywhere for heading off the potential disaster that Y2K could have been. Because it didn't happen, many folks have been questioning the alarm raised and the urgency to which we responded, not realizing it's those exact things that prevented the disaster.
@TheSimoc2 жыл бұрын
Well, I appreciate the staff having prepared for it, certainly there has been less and more needs with critical systems. But, honestly, after all the convoluted alarmist fearmongering, it was just too "funny disappointment" to see how my offline home computer just booted up normally after all. The point of all its funniness was in that the systems that might have really suffered from the y2k problem, didn't anyhow touch average punters (as it was rather simple and affordable for maintainers of such systems to prepare for it and they were very technically concious of the applicable issues), yet all the the far-fetched worst-case-scenario fearmongering news were targeted for average punters, whose only touch with computers were the home computers, with main usage being gaming, word processing, and... just a status symbol. Minority even had an internet connection. Yet majority of home computer owners were not technically savvy, so they fell into fear of the y2k journalism with complicated technical explanations and far-fetched example scenarios, thinking it will make their offline home computers to explode due to RTC overflow. Well, it is what we call "click journalism" nowadays - then you just needed to pay for the paper.
@BcFuTw9jt Жыл бұрын
They way things are now they should have just let it crash
@stevecritchley2506 Жыл бұрын
@@TheSimoc True, there was a lot of overblown hype. I was one of the people fixing software etc to head off the problem, and it was annoying to have to waste time reassuring customers who'd been told by some "snake oil salesman" Y2K consultant that they were at risk when in reality they had nothing to worry about. Often they wouldn't believe us ...
@maxpayne73122 жыл бұрын
I remember TGIF like it was yesterday, as soon as my 6th period class ended from high school I would wait for the bus or just walk home (didn’t live that far) and wait til 8:00 to watch the new episodes or reruns of Step by Step, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers and Full House then in the late 90’s the lineup was Full House, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Boy Meets World and Family Matters although by that time I think that show was gone by then I don’t know Those were my Fridays growing up
@aeroripper2 жыл бұрын
I remember Friday's were pizza night along with whatever the newest movie rental releases were at blockbuster if they weren't all rented out. Life just seemed a lot simpler back then.
@bigred31642 жыл бұрын
ABC ruled Friday nights in the 90s. Every other day, well...
@allenjones3130 Жыл бұрын
I liked Lori Loughlin on "Full House".
@teazy74682 жыл бұрын
Our world is much worse today than ever, and sadly more to come
@hewitc2 жыл бұрын
We are sinking into the ocean and hurricanes are worse than ever. I never thought climate change would come this soon.
@hewitc2 жыл бұрын
It's the one issue that dramatically affects everyone on the planet!
@okiebill19482 жыл бұрын
We are also being covered up with plastic. Our trash is piling up at such an alarming rate that we will soon be buried in it!!! We are running out of places to dispose of it. Our "throw-away" society and planned obsolescence are biting us in the butt!!
@MrOiram46 Жыл бұрын
@@hewitc Boy I remember when a giant asteroid nuked the whole planet for the 6th time instantly and wiped out the giant lizards in my backyard, climate changes these days are trivial in comparison
@hewitc Жыл бұрын
@@MrOiram46 The changes, due to warming oceans, are starting to cause famines, migrations and politcal unrest. Things won't get better. In the short term insurers are dropping coverage in affected areas, like Florida.
@smorris2818 ай бұрын
I was kid in the 90's, it was truly a great time to be alive. Kids went outside to ride bikes, play kickball and play in the mud. Now, kids are glued to tablets, phones and anything with a screen, and the parents aren't any better.
@ozzmania082 жыл бұрын
I miss the 90s as much as I remember of course. I was born in '87 so I definitely remember some of these especially the 9/11 attacks and the Y2K fear. I still remember the old Windows 95 games I played and Sega Genesis original PlayStation games whenever I could. Time was definitely so much better back then. I miss it so much.
@bigred31642 жыл бұрын
Yet, we spent so much of our childhood wishing we were grown-ups....
@Sparky-ww5re2 жыл бұрын
@@bigred3164 I know that feeling too well, I was born 1989 and so remember many of the 90s tech, how awesome the future would be for me when I got older (or so I thought) 🥵
@seancondon55722 жыл бұрын
4:30 good ol' Rand McNally. Back when one could afford to go on a road trip without having to pull out a second mortgage, that was THE WAY to plan the trip. Unfortunately it couldn't alert you to traffic conditions and speed traps.
@kevinhull79252 жыл бұрын
With the dial-up, I remember one time my mom and I were online and my grandma tried to call us...a little bit later, we heard pounding on our door. My mom asked, “Who’s there?”, and the answer was, “You’re mother!” My grandma had driven a half hour with a friend because she got worried when she couldn’t get a hold of us. I also remember when McDonald’s raised the Happy Meal price from $2.00 to $2.60 due to the increased demand because of Beanie Babies.
@MikeLutton2 жыл бұрын
i love the 1990s
@NGMonocrom2 жыл бұрын
#13 ~ A genuinely prosperous economy, instead of one that fluctuated from almost decent to horrendous, since the start of the 21st Century.
@peterbelanger40942 жыл бұрын
Yeah, back before they sold out our manufacturing capacity to other nations.
@aeroripper2 жыл бұрын
The mid-late nighties are still the highest period of jobs created in US history, and seen as the most stable period internationally between the end of the cold war and into 2001. Ever since then it feels like the US has been on a seesaw of moving from one crisis to another.
@mikeywestside85092 жыл бұрын
I remember we used to have to rewind the VHS tapes before you return them to Blockbuster video. When DVDs came out I told my dad to make sure that he rewinds the DVD before he returns it. The joke only worked a couple times and then he caught on.
@incog99skd112 жыл бұрын
I remember the special tape rewinding machines. You used those so you could play another tape immediately while the one you just watched rewound.
@CatholicTraditional2 жыл бұрын
@@incog99skd11 We still have our VHS rewinder.
@sbell57022 жыл бұрын
I remember heading to AAA before going on a big trip to get TripTiks where the agent would mark road closures, construction, etc. They were handy, but man, do I appreciate getting directions on my phone!
@bretthibbs60832 жыл бұрын
same here I used them in 1994 for my drive down to Florida from Minnesota
@jeremiahadams82752 жыл бұрын
I miss the 90s
@jordanstarnes62 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1998. I remember some of these things still lingering around due to the high price of the new tech. I'm glad i got to experience what I could of it. Kids these days will never know lol
@blackfindave4722 Жыл бұрын
Same brother , I was Born in 1998 we are the last generation,who enjoyed their childhood before tech took hold of people's life's
@zymeerwhitman8761 Жыл бұрын
I was born 1997 and experienced having an Chirp phone and having 90s Computer and be outside until 8:00PM from 2-8 seven hours of outside
@justayoutuber19062 жыл бұрын
This is kinda of warmed-over leftovers of the 80s
@man_on_wheelz2 жыл бұрын
You know… I didn’t fly on a plane for the first time until 2012 as an adult… but as a kid… yeah, I do remember my mom and I walking with my cousin all the way to the gate and watching her fly out on her 747 jumbo jet before turning to head back home. You just made me remember that was actually a thing! Not to mention waiting for her at her suspected terminal to return, watching the plane land and park at the terminal to let my cousin off. We did that a few times actually! Wow… memory unlocked for sure!
@bentonrp2 жыл бұрын
Some even MORE obscure things from the 90's: "Be Kind, Rewind" sticker reminders on tapes. Nearly every product being called "The 2000" (Vornado 2000, the Eureka 2000, Powerwash 2000...) Slim T.V.s that weren't really CRTs, but weren't at all flat screens (still glass). LCD screens everywhere. Flip phones with T9 texting. Household Computer towers. Car install GPS devices and car phones. Those little security code numbers on car door handles instead of a keyed entry. Boom boxes and stereo systems with huge, cloth speakers. Those little handheld portable black and white t.v.'s with rabbit ear antennas. Every song sounding like high-energy techno mixed with chinese guzheng right after Mortal Kombat came out. "When will we ever get a 64 bit console???" Neo Geo, Sega Saturn, 3DO and Jaguar costing too much and not worth even a normal system.
@bentonrp2 жыл бұрын
DVD covers with locking tabs to open and thick, thick solid plastic construction.
@cuisinwithkev26992 жыл бұрын
I saved up for 2 years to buy a Jaguar. I was disappointed with it, so decided to save up for another 2 years to buy Jaguar CD when it came out, thinking it was what was missing. I was wrong again. It sat in a box for 25 years until I sold it last year on eBay. I wasn't disappointed anymore!
@johntracy722 жыл бұрын
Some of us still have VCR's and videotapes. I still have one and about 550 videotapes.
@blueeyedsoulman2 жыл бұрын
My Sony camera is one of the first digital cameras and uses a floppy disk to store photos. It works great to this day. It has lasted me at least 25 years.
@misterhat58232 жыл бұрын
VHS isn't gone forever. You can still buy the machines and the tapes.
@mariamercy73172 жыл бұрын
I still have both though I don't use them. To me they are relics.
@CatholicTraditional2 жыл бұрын
We had a DVD/VCR combo for about 20 yrs. When it died last year, we bought a refurbished one that works awesome. They don’t make them anymore; we still have a bunch of tapes.
@Hoovie95962 жыл бұрын
One thing I’d like to see gone forever: excessive KZbin ads !!!
@gregggoss22102 жыл бұрын
One thing I would like to see gone forever is Joe Biden and everyone associated with him.
@gregggoss22102 жыл бұрын
@@Hoovie9596, sounds like a plan.
@davidkost4182 жыл бұрын
Also phone booths - paper calendars - phone books - alarm clocks - home phones - answering machines - cell phones made them obsolete-
@sarge68702 жыл бұрын
Remember getting phone books delivered each year?
@DW30102 жыл бұрын
@@sarge6870 not sure what you mean as they still deliver them here yearly. I got mine last week actually.
@sarge68702 жыл бұрын
@@DW3010 I live on Long Island, N.Y. We haven't had a phone book delivered in years!!
@CatholicTraditional2 жыл бұрын
@@sarge6870 Where I’m from, haven’t had a white pages delivered since ca. 2008 and a yellow pages since 2015. The phone company might still do it if you order one. They used to mail one annually for free.
@sarge68702 жыл бұрын
@@CatholicTraditional your probably right but at my age, I have people saved in my contacts that I want to speak to. If I need a commercial number, an internet search is all it takes!!😃
@thebunnyfoofoo2 жыл бұрын
Good thing the movie Home Alone was made in the 1990s before airline security changed. There is no way no one would have missed Kevin being on the plane if they were waiting hours in holiday air travel security.
@dtj33082 жыл бұрын
Oh the days when you were charged 50cents for not rewinding the VHS movie rental...
@Madness8322 жыл бұрын
On December 31st, 1999, about ten-to-midnight, I booted up my Win98 PC & went to watch the ball drop. The latter fell & the computer (& the lights) were still on. It was still workin' fine!
@dguy03862 жыл бұрын
interestingly plenty of people who were far from being alive in the 90s still do the Macarena today, it's aged really well as far as pop culture references go
@glenjohnson93022 жыл бұрын
First time I programmed a computer it was on punch cards.
@traphouseadmin97512 жыл бұрын
I miss the 90s...
@user-nl8wf7tc3m5 ай бұрын
Toy stores, video stores and music stores they really are gone forever :( I miss them
@FallacyAsPraxis2 жыл бұрын
I have a love-hate relationship with the past. I am forever a slave to nostalgia, because I love looking back and thinking about the simplicity and (mostly) niceness of the long ago past. But it did have its issues. I love watching old videos of looking at old photos of the past. Especially of people who I don't know. Its fun to imagine stories about them and what was happening in the moment, and what their lives might have been like. It convinces me more every time I do it that people are more alike than we think. I was born at the very end of the 1960s, and I hit my prime 30 years ago, and I fondly recall all these things in this video and so many others on your channel. The problem for me is that I stopped 'aging' in my early 20s. I still look like my photos from back then. All my family and friends are older, and grayed up, and a bit heavier...and they all tease me about it. I never made any deals with the Devil, but I sometimes feel like Dorian Gray.
@okiebill19482 жыл бұрын
One of the things about the past that I am glad is gone, for all intents and purposes, is public smoking. I am forever grateful that most places these days are tobacco/smoke free. I remember well the 50's and 60's when smoking was allowed almost everywhere and all of us non-smokers had to tolerate all that second-hand smoke. I never smoked or used tobacco in any other form and never will!!!!!!!!
@okiebill19482 жыл бұрын
I also stopped "aging" in my early 20's, and am 74 years young now, but look and feel like a man in his 20's. LOL
@aeroripper2 жыл бұрын
The strongest memories are typically formed in the teenage years and early adulthood before age 25 due to development of the brain and the strong dopamine release that comes with new and early life experiences. Nostalgia is likely an evolutionary development in our species as a way to improve group bonding and survival chances during difficult times. Think about it.
@gamewizardks2 жыл бұрын
The thing that ultimately replaced floppy discs wasn't CDs, it was flash memory.
@aeroripper2 жыл бұрын
Yup, even now flash memory outside of hard drives isn't really needed with all manner of cloud based storage. You can just send yourself an e-mail or throw it on a file share.
@gamewizardks2 жыл бұрын
@@aeroripper Absolutely.
@garywagner2466 Жыл бұрын
CDs came first. Flash drives were invented in 1984 but didn’t become popular until USB 2.0 in 2000.
@tumbacuero2 жыл бұрын
I miss the 90’s
@allen_p2 жыл бұрын
I still have a combination VHS/DVD Player under my tv and paper maps in my truck.
@DidntSay2 жыл бұрын
I have so many vhs tapes that I love. I recorded lots of tv shows back in the day. I purchased a high end professional Sony VCR (used) years ago to make sure I could still watch them. I also have 4 or 5 backup VCRs in a closet. Sure I could convert stuff to DVD, but I like the nostalgia of watching the tapes.
@KirkHMiller2 жыл бұрын
DVD’s weren’t “high definition”. They were 480p which is better than vhs quality, but not officially HD.
@wbharris10312 жыл бұрын
He said "high resolution".
@AurorasJournals Жыл бұрын
Last great decade, before everything became complicated. I’m happy to have been a kid in the 80’s and teen in 90’s. It was the last great decade for being a kid.
@cuisinwithkev26992 жыл бұрын
It seemed like every kid in my town knew the callback numbers of the payphones so we always had an idea of where someone was. It also wasn't uncommon to answer a ringing payphone and signal to those nearby who might have been waiting for a call.
@aeroripper2 жыл бұрын
Don't forget about *69 to see who called you
@sweets68652 жыл бұрын
This video brings back great memories that I wish I could go back to life was simple..
@davidsquires1542 жыл бұрын
I, remember the payphones and the vcr movies. And, I was working for Kmart in the 1990's. I, did a Kmart Store Closing Sale. The, Kmart Store where I worked at, and Kmart Closed Permanently on Sunday, May 8,1996. I, took 1 month of unemployment. Then, on June 13, 1996 at Meijer. I, worked at Meijer until April 13, 2012, and I retired from Meijer. I, have been retired for 10 years.
@lander774772 жыл бұрын
2:25 .....and is there a reason you didn't play a sample of that old dial up sound?
@Truthseeker15152 жыл бұрын
I graduated from HS in 1991 so obviously an 80s kid but came of age during the 90s.....a great time. AOL really broke through in 1995-96, it was not commercial before. Also, the mall was still alive which it no longer is today...
@dc53302 жыл бұрын
The malls are back with more people than I've ever seen from any time in the 80s or 90s. It's insane. At least in Southern California. YMMV
@inspirequeens Жыл бұрын
I was born in 1992, but I very clearly remember watching movies on VHS tapes as a kid, going to Blockbuster, using floppy disks for school work, listening to music on CD players, watching DVD’s before streaming became popular, logging into AOL….. My heart is heavy remembering these things compared to how things are now. I had the best of both worlds….just enough technology that was able to have a profound change on my life but not so much that I was glued to screens like today’s kids are. Back when kids used to enjoy going outside without the constant need for IG or TikTok.
@ashleyzirnheld83302 жыл бұрын
I remember in JR high when I wanted to use the phone but couldn't bc my mom would be online and you pick the phone up and hear the connection 😀
@samanthab19232 жыл бұрын
I still love looking at paper maps or atlas’
@Randy.E.R Жыл бұрын
This really hit home, especially TGiF. This was when our daughter was a young teenager and spent her Friday nights with us watching one sitcom after another. She always wanted a frosty from Wendy's which was 99 cents at the time, before she wrapped herself in a blanket and sat between me and my wife. I thought the shows were absolutely ridiculous at the time. But I would almost sell my soul to relive those Friday nights. Our kids grow up too quickly, and before you know it, they are gone. Our daughter has kids of her own that are young teenagers. I don't think they watch TV together. Its a shame because they don't know what they are missing. Every time I go over there, no one is talking. They all have their faces buried in cell phones.
@mayavenuemisfit8148 ай бұрын
I remember my brother and sister and I, along with all of our friends and even some of the other neighborhood kids, used to watch TGIF together. We would blow whatever money we had on snacks and pop, and just sit down in front of the TV and watch Urkel, or Step By Step, Boy Meets World, whatever shows they would cycle on there. Our parents never had to worry about what we were doing on Friday nights. It was either watch TGIF, or go to a high school football game during football season. Good times.
@MoonLoonie692 жыл бұрын
Nobody will miss dial-up or slow AF internet. It was a nightmare for me and anyone growing up.