Misconceptions About the '90s

[@ConradSpoke]

It always infuriates me when people say that Y2K was "nothing." It's a cynical repudiation of the massive effort of thousands of software heroes.

[@asongfromunderthefloorboards]

Well, we'll what happens in 15 years... For those who don't know, if you've seen a file timestamp default to December 31, 1969, that's a popular way of calculating time as seconds since Jan 1, 1970 (so a default invalid -1 is one second before the new year). On Jan 19, 2038, we run out of seconds on many systems and they'll roll back to the largest negative number representing Dec 13, 1901. Issues have already popped up when planning for the future. PCs and phones are pretty easy to update. But computers in your microwave, car, or an airplane are not. We don't know where all the computers that keep track of time are. So it'll be a surprise which ones get very confused. This is likely going to be much bigger than Y2K.

[@reppepper]

Yes, it was my friend’s job for two years to fix code for the phone company to prep for 2000.

[@joebaumgart1146]

@@asongfromunderthefloorboards scarier than that. Silicon is unstable at an atomic level. We are reaching that threshold very soon. If we don't find another way to store data, the best case scenario is we no longer progress.

[@daveslave7858]

well THEY DID build it up to be an apocalyptic event right up to new years eve.

[@tonimuellerDD]

Hear, hear!

[@paulacaddo2530]

I was a programmer during the Y2K scare. Not only did I have to change my own code but I had to go into older programs written by former employees, follow their logic and change anything that used 2 digit years to code that used 4 digit years. We had to work on New Year’s Eve and come in early on New Year’s Day. I only had one problem with one program and it was easily fixed. Preparing for Y2K was quite intense and definitely prevented many problems. To this day, I still use a 4 digit year when I write or say any date.

[@squidcaps4308]

Y2K is tragic, in the sense that because so many developers and coders worked long, grueling hours to prevent it and managed to do it so well that nothing really happened.. And then they were mocked for warning us about it.

[@tonimuellerDD]

Alas, there is no glory in prevention.

[@Theomite]

I never did. I suspected that we were saved by nerds behind the scenes and had anybody challenged me to do so, i would've stood up for them.

[@jenniferrogers2981]

I was 10 and poor. This didn't seem relevant nor real in rural southern places 🤷🏽‍♀️ I legitimately didn't know this was such a serious issue until now in my 30s.

[@marqbarq5977]

I worked for 4 years for the US Federal Government on the Y2K issues. The amount of effort was huge. There were huge issues across the software that needed to and were fixed.

[@TWX1138]

My dad was a computer programmer for a state government, and he helped write and maintain their state government accounting system. This system was written largely in COBOL and ran on a system compatible with the IBM S-370. He had to actually go back and fix some of his own programs, software he'd written in the late seventies that was still in use in the late nineties, and only used two-digit years. On December 31st, 1999, basically all hands were on-deck to deal with IT and CIS issues if any cropped up. Apparently they did a good enough job that it wasn't a big deal, but that was more because of all of the work they did in advance.

[@loufancelli1330]

As someone who worked at a major US bank in the years leading up to (and following) Y2K I can tell you the fears were absolutely well founded. The only reason why Y2K went off without a hitch was due to hundreds of thousands of people working across many different industries to make sure it didn't end up being a disaster. I was only indirectly involved and saw the crazy hours that people were putting in on that project and it was one of the reasons why I didn't "over prep" like so many others did. Basically the only thing I made sure of was that I had some bottled water on hand and was NOT in an airplane on 12/31 or 1/1.

[@davidswartz2420]

Minor clarification, identical twins can be different handed. It is called mirror twins. I have a set.

[@dianacarbonate]

I love learning new random medical facts! Thank you! And good luck with the kids; raising identical twins sounds a bit scary lol

[@michaelcrouthers8857]

And it's not uncommon for identical twins to be different heights or weights. One twin could receive more nutritional while in the womb. Environmental factors also play a roll. As toddlers the Olsen twins were indistinguishable. It was only as they grew older and one abused her body more than the other that they began to look disimilar (the afore-mentioned environmental factors). Also, identical twins don't always share an amnionic sac or even a placenta. As they've never taken a DNA test that implied otherwise, I believe Mary-Kate and Ashley ARE monozygotic twins.

[@NewMateo]

90s was a good time to grow up. Early enough to enjoy the internet but not young enough to screw it up by having your entire online history catalogued on social media.

[@squidcaps4308]

It was even better as young adult.. You started the decade with grunge and ended in a hedonistic raves.

[@rickseiden1]

I have to correct you on this. You said that the jury found OJ innocent. In the US (where I live) it's either guilty or not guilty. In the case of OJ, it was not guilty, but it was probably not entirely because the jury believed he didn't do it, but because the jury believed the prosecution didn't prove he did it.

[@JaTjr32]

What is that a correction of? Or was it fixed? Edit. I am not asking the difference between guilty and innocent. Watch the video. Where is innocent said? Who is this person correcting?

[@galactusholmes]

@@JaTjr32 Not guilty and Innocent are two different things according to the law

[@mystic_tacos]

@@JaTjr32 They found him not guilty based upon the evidence provided by the prosecution. On the flip side, they could have found him guilty of all charges based on sufficient evidence from the prosecution. US courts do not find anybody guilty or innocent, it's guilty or not-guilty.

[@dianacarbonate]

Yes it was almost certainly because evidence was garbage. I was only 10 at the time but we watched a lot of the trial and talked about it in my civil rights class that we happened to be doing at the time. It was clear that he did it, but we couldn't help but celebrate the first time in the history of the country that a black man was not convicted with crappy evidence and police work just because the jury wanted to find him guilty. We didn't celebrate him not getting convicted; we celebrated that the verdict showed progress in the legal system's treatment of black men and the in the country in general. It's a really complex issue, obviously. We also celebrated when his ass eventually got sent to prison.

[@JaTjr32]

@@galactusholmes Cool. The video says Not guilty. So, what is it a correction of?

[@Varizen87]

When I was teaching, I had a pair of actual identical twins who I could tell apart after a while of practice. It helped they always sat next to each other. But one was left handed the other was right handed. But more importantly, while they physically looked almost exactly alike, the mole patterns on their skin were different. I just found one speck on one of their faces, that told me which one it was. One had one on her temple/cheek area, the other didn't. However, we all know there's only 1 Olsen Twin. She just moves back and forth really fast creating the illusion of a second one. She's also incredibly adept with making any cosmetic and prosthetic changes she needs to make while moving so fast to keep up the act. Wake up, Sheeple.

[@jenniferrogers2981]

This comment is underrated 😅

[@firstcynic92]

Further on the gloves... They were skin tight driving gloves. They hadn't been handled well by the police. Simpson was also trying them on while wearing surgical gloves. Later in the trial Simpson was asked to try on a new pair of the same gloves, in the same size, and not while wearing surgical gloves... they fit perfectly. Paul Baran is the best candidate for "person who invented the internet" as he came up with the idea of digital packet switching. TCP/IP wouldn't work without packet switching.

[@ryacus]

All I can say is you don't lose a civil suit if you're innocent.

[@firstcynic92]

@@ryacus Civil suits are not judged to the same standards as criminal trials.

[@toastangler]

Also, the way he positioned his hand and fingers while trying on the glove. He deliberately tried to make it not fit. Dude was guilty af. He should be doing life in prison right now.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

IIRC it was TCP/IP which was based on an idea from a gent working for the UK's GPO (General Post Office). The GPO wasn't just about mail, it controlled telephony at the time too (loooong story). Anyway, someone from DARPA on a visit to a conference in the UK (I think - it's been 20 years since I did the course on html & the history of the web) mentioned that they were having difficulties in getting "unscrambled" messages at the end point. The GPO guy described each section of the message as a postcard, with its own "address", and a code saying where in the message it should appear, along with the small piece of data requiring transmitting. At the receiving end, the "postcards" would be reassembled in the correct order by using a basic sort code. That "simple" idea solved a months-long headache!

[@donovankriasol]

Love the 90s. The best childhood of all decades. Love from México!

[@howHumam]

It was good, I must agree. A bit colder for me, but I'd do the '90s again...

[@fenhen]

6:05 Technically they didn’t find him innocent, just “not guilty”.

[@michelegraham1181]

I was born at the end of 1985, and I consider myself a 90s kid because I don't really remember that much about the 80s. I was barely 5 in 1990. I remember that I thought Furbys were ugly AF, slap bracelets were dumb, poof bangs were ugly, and Giga Pets were anxiety inducing. But I loved Ninja Turtles, The X-Files, and my N64. I never figured out how to play Pogs, either.

[@stocktonjoans]

I remember being vaguely disappointed that Y2K didn't start an apocalypse

[@galactusholmes]

I remember going to work and asking ''where is my hell, death, and destruction?''. My coworkers really didn't care for me back then. Probably still don't

[@rowanrooks]

Honestly, I'd love to see misconceptions about different centuries when you've finished up all of the decades.

[@Zeyev]

Thanks for mentioning the Y2K issue. My office's contractor handled (mainly telephone) inquiries from the public in the USA about the matter. Lots of misconceptions. Lots of highfalutin bureaucrats from the White House. And being at work at midnight while my friends were partying. It was a crazy time.

[@artkincell]

How about Misconceptions of the 1680s?

[@flamshiz]

the story of the mosaic internet browser is actually pretty wild on its own. invented by eventual Mozilla founders and then snatched from under their nose by Microsoft using licensing rights technicalities to take down their other company's absolutely dominant browser, Netscape navigator. at least I think that's how the story goes. in fact, I think Mozilla was so called because it was the "mosaic killer" although that might be apocryphal. I'd say a bit more thrilling than just the first browser with inline images

[@DeeSargent]

Remember Peter Gibbons whole mundane job in office space that he hated so much was changing the date for Y2K.🤣

[@iprobablyforgotsomething]

Have the 90's really been long enough ago now that there are a multitude of misconceptions about them...? Nooooo it can't be! Surely the 90's were only like 5ish years ago, right?! Maybe 10 at the most?? T__T

[@fireaza]

If there wasn't a newspaper that reported the correction on Furbys with the headline "Furby Cleared of All Spy Charges" then they weren't doing their job!

[@decorummortis5175]

I was born in 87, so yeah def a 90s kid

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

I saw weird dates such as 1999, 19100, 19101 all the way up to 19113

[@LilBob3963]

I was born in 1980 and the 90's was the best time of my life. I feel like both a Gen X'er and a Millennial.

[@丫o]

@LilBob3963 Good news! There’s a recognized in between cohort known as xennial, which I fall into as well.

[@btetschner]

Julia Roberts does have a great smile. The unknown fear of Y2K is that it would start the 2000s, a decade that was far inferior to The 90s. Very interesting and helpful video, thank you for making it.

[@daveayerstdavies]

I was a software engineer in the 1990's. I wrote embedded software for medical systems and other safety critical applications. We had been writing software that encoded dates beyond 2000 from the very outset of having computers inside instruments and appliances. We all thought the 'Y2K' panic was hyped-up by the many new companies that emerged, promising to 'Y2K certify' all their clients' software. Although it was true that there was a lot of sloppy in-house written business software was tripping up due to short-sighted decisions, the software in hospital life support systems and aircraft avionics was (and is) engineered to much higher standards.

[@daveayerstdavies]

I think the hysteria over aircraft potentially falling out of the sky at midnight on New Year 2000 was due to the assumption that safety critical systems were written to the same standards as business software. 'Computer professionals' at that time were predominantly engaged in developing or adapting business systems. Engineered software was an entirely different discipline and poorly understood by the people dealing with fixing the many date encoding problems in database systems and accounting software. It was predictable that they judged hardware embedded systems by the quality and standards they were used to.

[@matthewdrennen1710]

14:32 - To call Mary Kate and Ashley "fraternal twins" is accurate and acceptable but, to identify female dizygotic or biovular twins, it would be more precise to call them "sororal twins".

[@IceMetalPunk]

The most important thing about the Olsen sisters wasn't mentioned: Lizzie is the best actress among them, and she was a given a disappointing travesty of writing in Multiverse of Madness, but she deserved much better.

[@MentalFloss]

Martha Marcy May Marlene hive, rise up

[@ellengutoskey9369]

Humble foot soldier in the Martha Marcy May Marlene militia reporting for duty

[@californiumblog]

I want to complain about this unwarranted attack on my person. The 90s were yesterday and there should be no misconceptions yet. Saying otherwise is mean 😭.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

I bought some bottled water & withdrew some extra cash from the automatic teller for Y2K. That was my entire preparation for the 'apocalypse'. LOL!

[@sschmidtevalue]

As a software engineer, I knew that the y2k issues were overblown. There WERE systems that needed overhauling, but your cars and appliances weren't among them. There was no reason your car or refrigerator would care what year it was.

[@CraftAero]

It was a fear-mongering cash grab. And VERY intrusive if you allowed third party Y2K "specialists" into your systems. At home, I did exactly what our IT Mgrs at work did, (several months before hand) full back up and then manually set the system time to 11:59pm Dec.31 1999 and just let it roll-over. We even had some stand alone IBM 286ATs running machinery, zero issues corporate wide.

[@faiththebeliever]

Excellent video. Very helpful and thorough in explanation. Thank you!❤

[@whoismre]

People born in 1978 don’t see themselves as part of Gen X. We’re from the little gap period that can’t be Gen X or Millennials. We are the Oregon Trail generation. The first ones to use computers in school. First with Nintendo etc.

[@Crazael]

I was born in '84, but I consider myself a 90s kid because I barely remember anything that happened in the 80s.

[@squidcaps4308]

I was born in '73 and i'm 80s kid, most of the stuff that i associate with growing up is from the 80s.

[@iprobablyforgotsomething]

You are a 90's kid. You were just an 80's baby (and toddler and first-grader) first. Your prime kid-years were in the nifty 90's. : )

[@dixievfd55]

Furby was the big toy of 1997 not 1999. I worked at Wards and remember that Christmas season. Wards was out of business by the end the 1999 summer season and our store had virtually no business during the 1998 Christmas season.

[@ashleyrichards5194]

Uhh they were everywhere for at least a couple years

[@OptimusPhillip]

My parents were computer programmers in the 90s. They would tell us about how they worked long hours in the later days of 1999 to be absolutely sure all the systems they were working on were Y2K-protected.

[@fishnet420]

The intro was giving huge "The Infographics Show" vibe. Wasn't looking at the screen at first and thought I started a different video lol

[@niravdarmesh5278]

Fantastic video, Dude!

[@SabbyCat52]

I always thought it was common for some identical twins to be opposite handed.

[@alexmiller8177]

Topic theme could be : "history's silliest mistakes".

[@NickRoman]

The Furby thing is interesting because there have been toys that would do that. I wonder what happened when those came along.

[@RealMKproductions]

The last one about MK and Ashley blew my mind 🤯

[@NickRoman]

"High performance computing and communications act" I'm just getting a giggle out of what people in 1991 must have thought of as "high performance".

[@taxbetterman]

What about the roaring 20s personally I think they were quiet

[@aprilbrown8081]

1978 and I consider myself a 90s teen/young adult. I was too old for pogs and dunkaroos, but was steeped in grunge, Sassy and Zima

[@aroundtheworldlearning2309]

Have you done the 2010s? What about: Miscinceptions about Presidents Misconceptions about the Gold Rush Misconceptions about Immigrants Misconception about the English Language Misconceptions about School (based on movies)

[@TheHoagus]

Well, that's a gorgeous hoodie.

[@kuntamdc]

Really enjoy your hosting style. Can't wait for the next one!

[@anyawillowfan]

Ironically we now have many gadgets in our homes and pockets that are not only capable of recording conversations, but listening to conversations unless you turn it off (there's a reason Google and Amazon advertise items you've recently discussed with family/friends), yet governments don't seems concerned about privacy as long as they can subpoena anyone's information they want.

[@belstar1128]

i noticed that some people think the 90s were more high tech like i see people claiming that mp3 players and cell phones were common and everyone stopped using vhs as soon as dvd came out. and they stopped using cassettes quickly too .that that is not the case few people used those things the 90s.

[@whoismre]

Wait. 1998 and the older brother is using a Sony Walkman? More likely a portable CD player. We’re talking 1998 not 1988. Unless he’s using a really old beat up one. But that picture wouldn’t make sense.

[@will-o-the-wisp-witch]

sony walkman cd players were still iconic in the late 90s, I remember asking for one but my mom got me a cheaper brand one at jcpenney.

[@belstar1128]

no not everyone is a rich audiophile .plenty of people used walkmans until the year 2000 the more modern ones with grey or black plastic

[@kandipiatkowski8589]

Both of my kids are 90s kids, one being born in Nov 89, the other in Oct 92. However, anyone alive during the 90s could relate to anything that happened in the 90s. I guess I'm considered gen X (I was born in Sept 69).

[@anttibjorklund1869]

Misconceptiond sbout the 1890s?

[@tymime]

I never quite understood the etymology of "millenial", which implies something to do with the year 2000. As someone born in '89, it always rubbed me the wrong way.

[@StephanFitzgeraldTay]

The idea is that we were coming of age at the turn of the Millennium. The eldest of us were in college. The youngest of us were starting school. I would start high school in 2000.

[@tymime]

Still, there's always going to be a sense of "newness" to the 21st century for me, that doesn't quite feel like it has anything to do with me personally. And I think it makes more sense to say "Gen Y" anyway.

[@belstar1128]

these terms were made up in the 1950s by the "greatest generation" the boomers were being born at that time the future generations were called x y z because they didn't know what they would do. but y quickly got changed to millennials because they would be coming of age around the year 2000 .even if they were born before it

[@AllegrettoATempo]

It's a misconception that identical twins have the same dominant hand! My husband is right handed and his identical twin is left handed. They were observed mo/mo on ultrasound which was confirmed at the c-section delivery, so definitely identical.

[@angelcdeath]

As an older sibling born in early 1981, it's reeaally hard not to feel like I'm not apart of gen x. I blame MTV.

[@gildedbear5355]

funnily enough, I was born in late 1980 and I have NEVER felt like I'm a part of gen x. These days I self identify as an elder millennial simply because I feel I have more in common with them *shrug* It's fun to be born in the generational gap, isn't it? 8)

[@angelcdeath]

@@gildedbear5355 You an only or younger child? :)

[@gildedbear5355]

@@angelcdeath younger yeah. Not the youngest, but three older siblings.

[@angelcdeath]

@@gildedbear5355 I wonder if we lean one way or the other depending on that. Kind of interesting. :) I have a younger sibling, myself.

[@gildedbear5355]

@@angelcdeath Yeah, it is interesting. I expect that there is some of that. Sort of looking up or down and saying, "well, I'm not part of that so must be part of the other." shrug

[@Jahmaan]

Olsen twins blew my mind

[@bonwatcher]

If it weren't for guys like Peter Gibbons, Michael Bolton and Sameer Naga... neem... manja... Notgonnahappen at Initech, the year 2000 bug would've been a disaster. Just ask their boss Bill Lumbergh. Or Milton. 🤣

[@tkarmiste]

Misconceptions about space with guest co-host Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut

[@grindsession24]

Justin Dodd for President!!!

[@shdon]

Nitpick: Cerf's last name is not pronounced Kerf but should be pronounced Serf.

[@magubus]

Biggest misconception is that is was a good decade

[@belstar1128]

it was not perfect for sure music went down hill quickly and the lack of modern technology made life harder

[@canis2020]

If the glove don't fit, you must acquit. Doesn't work as a defence with your breeding partner. 6 kids later and she just says "no".......

[@galactusholmes]

"Elder Millennials'' lol

[@patrickdavis9566]

I'm gen X. SO... let's see what you think. I will edit after. Our generation knew things none of the others did, will or can. We only had to be home when the street lights started coming on. We programed. In Lubbock Texas me my brother built what you now know as Google/Facebook. We used TI computers, dial up land lines, tape drives and we called it the BBS. Our generation has seen the evolution of technology and are the creator's of the technology. Our generation is responsible for almost everything you take advantage of currently and yet we could hunt, skin and cook our own food. My generation is the only one you never hear or talk about. We are responsible for China even becoming a developed country. Thank Mr Regan for that and basically shipping manufacturer's from USA, Mexico, Canada and other countries with his fun policies. Fun fact. USA Ford employees were making like 13$ per hour building trucks and parts. Union. In Mexico.. .05 cents per hour doing the same thing. Regan was amazing slave driver. Amazing. Yeah that trash too was us. The trickle down economics that didn't work 35 yrs ago still doesn't work now. We were a generation of creator's and ideas. Not all good. But we are next to never mentioned in media. For good reason. We are the only reason you have this internet.

[@markedis5902]

I’m early gen X (68). The very best generation. We may be getting old now but we saw all the best bands

[@patrickdavis9566]

@@markedis5902 we built this internet. We actually have skills. From hunting, building, mechanics and programming. My youngest 6yr old. Only child I have wanted or raised. I will teach her the top 3 things I said. If I can keep this carcass functional long enough.

[@zanews23]

You didn’t end up editing 🤪

[@patrickdavis9566]

@@zanews23 you're correct.

[@TheEmmaHouli]

You might be gen Xr but you sound like a boomer. You next to never mentioned in the media (any more but growing up I heard plenty about the burnout generation) because BuzzFeed created the millennial vs boomer 'war' otherwise known as target audience (millennial) Vs their parents (boomers). Now gen z are the new hottness to destroy industries and corporate culture and it's easier to pin them against millennials who already invested in their identity as such. You generation is not special. If it eases the pain, no one's is. We all have different cultural touchstones, have childhoods experiences largely based on parents leniency, and are more progressive than the generation that came before us

[@swagswap]

Only 340's kids will remember...

[@AmandaTroutman]

Psssst generations are subjective delineations made up by marketing ppl. Also who thought furbies could record audio? 30 seconds with one would tell you that.... I think I still have mine.

[@joshbobst1629]

Was Y2K completely unfounded? It seems to me like it was actually quite founded, but the state spent a huge amount of resources in the year-and-a-half leading up to it to make sure that the founded concerns didn't bear out, which it succeeded at. Its success at that, compared to its profound failure at dealing with the pandemic, really points out the huge erosion of State capacity in those intervening years.

[@BologneseJones]

I was born in 75 alive and working during y2k .it was very real and we all prepared.. nothing happened thank goodness

[@sadib100]

All '90s kids are me.

[@ClockCutter]

Garbage in, garbage out? Yeah, the jury's verdict was garbage, for sure. I'm not sure how you've determined that the glove stunt did not convince jurors. Are many of them on record about it?

[@StephanFitzgeraldTay]

The prosecution was handed a case of poorly handled evidence. Not much they could do to turn that sow's ear into a silk purse.

[@bblvrable]

I think they meant that the glove stunt was not the lone reason why he was acquitted, which a lot of people believe. The glove was just one of many issues with the prosecution's case. I think the blatant mishandling of evidence was much more influential in the jury's decision than a poorly fitting glove.

[@NeonVisual]

Tim Berners-Lee, British inventor of the World Wide Web.

[@robnovak7320]

Having worked for and spoken to the man, I can assure you that Vint Cerf's last name is pronounced as "serf", not "kerf".

[@MegaTechnoteacher]

Hilarious that the protest sign misspelled acquit

[@BackYardScience2000]

I alone keep dunkaroos in business these days. Lol

[@annika_panicka]

Oh, good - I have a lot of misconceptions about the '90s - it's all a blur to me!

[@B_kinda]

South Park “MEMBER” 🫐🍓

[@88happiness]

I'm interested to know that the Y2K actually did have some effects

[@drpattiethomas]

Since you are running out of decades and we are now firmly in the 2020s, how about doing misconceptions of the 1920s (Roaring 20s). If you'd done this already, my apologies.

[@alexisthinking]

Misconceptions about snakes

[@alicedominguez9994]

get ALL your facts right emm-kay

[@garysimonson1135]

No reference to Grunge? The defining musical and pop culture movement of the decade? Picture it: suddenly Seattle was mecca, everyone was listening to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, etc.; people were wearing flannels and Doc Martens, and it was cool to be cynical and ironic. The Grunge movement wiped out the 80s excess and set the course for the new decade. It was a monoculture phenomenon that overtook everything and the kind of thing you just can't replicate in today's fractured world.

[@mystuff8602]

The Internet has two dads!

[@milascave2]

I was already in my thirties in the 1990s. For me, it was a whirlwind of Anarchists, neo-Pagans, the BDSM community, ad polyamory. It was good for me.l. However, the rise of tech did not make it any better. In fact, the hassle of dealing with it made it worse. And that is one things has has not changed. Basic cell phones made things better eventually, but that was about it.

[@CrystalWilliamsoncoach]

Justin was that kid you? I guess I was your older sister in that scenario LOL

[@MattLovesVinyl]

Not a misconception: Everything was better in the 90's. Movie. Music. TV. Comics. Baseball. The NFL. The NBA. America. The only thing better right now than it was in the 90's is College Football.

[@toastangler]

I was born in 81. I consider myself a 90's kid, but I also feel that I relate more to Gen X, than I can a lot of millennials. I think the internet's obsession with generational titles is ridiculous. Especially when people say "ok boomer" to someone. Most of them don't even know when the Baby Boom happened.

[@StephanFitzgeraldTay]

That would make sense... especially if you had older siblings or cousins.

[@OneOfThoseTypes]

LOL why would there be misconceptions about something so recent?

[@Afaustianbargainbin]

Because there are now 23 year olds who weren’t alive then. Easy to have misconceptions about a time period you weren’t around for.

[@OneOfThoseTypes]

@@Afaustianbargainbin Also you can google things now.

[@belstar1128]

people are even making things up about life in 2010

[@Apophis324]

Running out of decades? How about misconceptions about the 1340's? We must know the truth!!

[@koreanelvis]

I hated those Furby things. You should’ve just said it was true so that these later generations WILL NEVER BRING THEM BACK!!! By the way, I’m a Gen-X’er.

[@chadrowland4670]

Actually Al Gore never said he invented the internet.

[@katkaat]

Furbees were supposed to be birds??

[@powerviolentnightmare5026]

I'm neither Millennial nor Gen X or Boomer. I'm 37 years old.

[@ryacus]

That falls squarely under Millennial.

[@Afaustianbargainbin]

That makes you firmly a millennial.

[@courtneypuzzo2502]

@Powerviolent Nightmare technically you are a Millennial as you are 37 Millennials began in January 1981 and completed in Dec 1996 Gen X ran from January 1965 to Dec 1980 the current gen of kids born between 2012-present are called gen Alpha I'm a Millennial and proud of it learned to type in elementary school also turn 38 on March 5th born in 1985

[@whoismre]

I got you on that. I remember when Gen X was considered in different years. And Gen Y was something.

[@stormboss57]

Cawabunga!!

[@MrShaclakclak]

Justin, we all know you were born in 1997. Now shudaup!

[@whoismre]

1997! That’s a 90s baby!!!

[@rosehipowl]

I'm sorry WHAT???? MARY-KATE AND ASHLEY AREN'T IDENTICAL??????????????? I'm not one of those people who says science is wrong because it said something I don't agree with BUT NO THEY ARE CLEARLY THE SAME THEY LOOK THE SAME??? at my primary school there were two pairs of twins (not related to each other, just happened to be two sets of identical twins, one was identical boys, the other was identical girls) and the girl pair looked less identical than MK&A do. My general criteria for whether or not someone is a 90s kid is whether A) they have memories of 9/11 happening at the time it happened (or learning about it happening in the following days), B) they remember a time prior to 9/11 and/or the internet being everywhere, and C) they remember the milennium new year and/or the eclipse that happened then that everyone was crazy about (I'm British, this may have just been a British thing). If you meet all of these and you weren't an adult/older teenager at the time, you are a 90s kid. If you meet some, you are likely a younger 90s kid or from a different part of the world. If you meet none, you are not a 90s kid, sorry, find your own cringe clique. I hate the term "90s kid" but I got so frustrated with random people claiming to be one that I made my own criteria in my head. I don't know why it's the 90s everyone's obsessed with, I just don't get it. I am technically a 90s kid but I haven't cared about it since I was a teenager and followed a whole load of Facebook pages about it lmao

[@CrzyMFT]

What's with the fingernails?

[@DullBull]

Pretty sure there's no such thing as 'officially' a millennial.