being legal age to be on this board isn't exactly old

that being said it was fucking awesome

It was, just let me just slip on my rose tinted glasses, FUCKING BRILLIANT

greatest era known to man
(in the western world at least)

>>7850347
I'm just joking

Imagine a world without cellphones in every pocket. Imagine a world without the internet being commonplace and no social networking sites. Imagine world with Saturday morning cartoons.

>everything still looks the way they did in the 80's

ESPECIALLY IN MY NEIBORHOOD

FREAKING POOR COMUNITY

'90 were glorious. Friends still played outside, summer's weren't shit. Music, clothes, vidya, tv...everything was awwwright (for a kid)

We saw the birth of the internet. It was crazy, especially in the beginning. The rest is more or less the same.

90s was a little odd but still nice.

>>7850367
> no social networking sides
tears of nostalgia are welling up

back when kids were allowed to play outside and food wasn't full of poison.

felt good man

ah the endless summers before work, yuck and internet, ew and growing old and bitter, boo

As a britfag who grew up in a small village during the 90s, it was epic.

Summers, brilliant. Waterfights involving kids from all over the village, and adventures in the woods and by the brook. Sleep overs, BRILLIANT Saturday morning cartoons. Colourful/chocolate cereals. TOYS IN CEREALS. Bright lime green pyjamas.

NINJA TURTLES.

Bike rides. I fucking loved bike rides.

>>7850388

How did people respond to the internet coming around?

>>7850383

This.

In the 90s, pop-culture was better. Video games were better. Movies were better.

And NO SCENE KIDS.

Pretty fucking awesome.

Everyone my age watched the same shit so we know each others references instantly. Pretty easy to make friends.

Kids these days and their 500 channels and youtube. No soul.

>>7850440

ME AGAIN.

Websites filled with .gifs. It was magical. BERNARD'S WATCH. Great toys. MIGHTY MAX. I love Mighty Max. Pokemon (when it was good). Maaan, standing in the playground swapping Pokemon cards when they were new, was great.

>>7850477
>>7850440

Do you have like ADD or something?

candy rained down from the sky and parents let us do whatever we wanted

>>7850449

About half the people who owned PCs would get dial-up, but not use it nearly as much as they do now. Really just to check emails and maybe create a geocities page.

AOL disks were the cancer killing the postal service. They were literally everywhere.

>>7850440
I am reading all your posts in a British accent inside my head and getting very turned on. Would you mind doing a vocaroo of them?

i remember playing outside with my bros and getting into ed, edd, and eddy style hijinks. SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS FUCK YEAR!!!! and as my dad was a successful stock broker, living a life of privaledge and luxury.

now, not so much.

>>7850513

Hah, I remember those AOL disks. Ahhh, nostalgia. Thankfully my parents never used that godforsaken service.

it was the fucking shit.

kids actually rode around on bikes outside. we shot each other with BB guns. playgrounds were deathtraps (the way they're supposed to be). we had quality goddamned television, people weren't afraid of everything killing them, and i actually knew my neighbors.

Three words;

SPACE JAM, BITCHES.

Man I just started a thread similar to this like fifteen minutes ago. OH WELL.

Anyway I don't remember the '80s extraordinarily well because I was a toddler during those years, but the '90s were fuckin' rad as shit. A king among decades. Playing outside, getting yourself all dirty, fighting with other kids, riding bikes, awesome video games, awesome TV, awesome toys...

Fuck, guys, nostalgia'd.

>>7850548

Space Jam was late 90s you motherfucker.

I played by a river in the forests of Maine for most of th 90's so idk.

>>7850530

http://vocaroo.com/?media=vKhryKc2qTUnQyCGQ

My voice is not sexy. SORRY, MAN/FEMALE.

I'm glad I am the last generation who actually had a childhood.

Chatting on facebook, text messaging, and playing on your iPhone is not a childhood. I feel bad for kids these days, they don't know any better.

>>7850578

NEENJA TUH-ALS

The 80s were a fucking nightmare time for me, I'd just hit puberty and all the fashions were geared toward looking like an effeminate new-romance fag and all the pop-stars were flouncy haired pretentious shits like Midge Ure or worse, Boy George.
It was hard to be a man.

Also; Thatcher was a cunt.

>>7850578
You have a sexy voice. I am sorry for being such a freak. Thankyou for indulging me.

Fembot, so no homo.

>>7850600

LEAVE MY SLIGHTLY BRUMMY ACCENT ALONE, MAN. YOU ONLY HAD TO HEAR THAT. I ALWAYS HEAR IT.

We did alot of speed and acid and worshiped Satan and got laid alot, it was pretty awesome.

>>7850604

I do not judge, fembot. You are as you are, and it is a pleasure to indulge.

Cargo pants, running around with no shoes on, Gameboy Pockets + Pokemon R/B

ahh, a time to be a kid it was

>>7850477
>>7850531
>>7850548
Early 90s.
Underage b&.

>>7850548
WELCOME TO THE SPACE JAM

>>7850636 Cargo pants.

Fuck I still wear those.

>>7850331
I'm 31. The 80's were fucking spectacular.

The 90's blew hard.

playing outside everyday and doing creative shit to have fun. 90's cartoons, discovering chatrooms and cybering, watching jeopardy, the simpsons, friends, and king of the hill every night with my parents, saying "psych"

>For all you old men out there

We need an upper limit on "growing up". I propose that a person stops growing up when they hit 20. So, if you were under 20 in 1995, you do not qualify as what the OP is asking about.

>>7850662
COME ON AND SLAM AND WELCOME TO THE JAM

COME ON AND SLAM IF YOU WANNA JAM

>>7850677

>Fuck I still wear those.

Fuck so I do I . . . sometimes. I think I have like one or two pairs in my closet.

Fuck tight jeans though, I'll never convert.

>>7850677
same but do you rememberer when everyone wore them all the time

>>7850636
>Cargo Pants, Gameboy
>Fuck yes.

It was fine. Less technology. More common sense - though I dont stress this heavily.

FUCK YEA CARGO PANTS
notable mention to cargo shorts also

>>7850721
You shouldn't stress it at all, sense is the most uncommon element in the Universe.

>>7850367
>>7850388
>>7850598
Truth detected. 'Twas good. To be honest, the internet should have stayed dial up, it would have prevented so much crap.

>>7850513
Hahahah AOL disks, I remember putting those bitches in the microwave, burning them, using them as frisbees...

The "you've got mail" bitch
the chef boyardee commercial with the mom and girl at the grocery store and the annoying bitch ass mom whose like "no you've had chef every night this week" and the can follows her home

mom got owned

>Starburst
>Opal Fruits

Awwww yeah, shit was AWESOME.

HELP IV'E FALLEN AND I CANT GET UP

>>7850785
spongebob is one of my favorite things from the 90's hands down though

Imagine a world with limited porn. Masturbation was tough in them days, son.

>>7850696

so me, who was born in the 70's can't claim to have grown up in the 80's and 90's?

fuck your bad math.

Summer wasn't complete without one of these

Great cereal. Way better cartoons. Toys were off the charts. Vidya was awesome. Music was alright, I guess. I mean, Vice City reminds me of my childhood with all the music that was playing. . . .

It was pretty colorful, and all the things we're laughing at now were dead-fucking-serious back then. Not too different from now, though.

>>7850367
>Saturday morning cartoons
Those were the days.

Are there no more Saturday morning cartoons?
I haven't watched TV in awhile.

same as today except we weren't as fat as you damn kids and we played outside more

having internet... actually, having even a computer was considered nerdy.

super nintendo was considered cutting a cutting edge console

every kid on my street had a bike and we'd ride around our neighborhood until sundown. nowdays kids just sit inside and play video games.

communication was slow as fuck. you'd have to check your answering machine for important calls. if you rand out of tape, your message didn't go through.

you would actually have to research material to write papers on

you got music through other people/magazines/small record stores

Solid steel monkey bars that you used to fuck yourself up on. I broke my left arm once and my right arm twice because of jungle gyms before I was 10.

Pokemon isn't early 90s, guys. Same with Space Jam and AOL disks. And Saturday morning cartoons didn't die out until, like, 5 years ago.

And seriously, "playing outside"? Even with the advent of the internet, it's not like these kids don't know how to fucking play outside or ride a bike. It's not like parks suddenly became extinct.

Stop nolstagiaing over stuff that isn't worth nolstagiaing over, faggots

I remember the first time I got on a computer, in like 1998.

Best rock and roll music ever in the early 90s, man.

Pavement, Archers of Loaf, Superchunk, and Guided By Voices owned.

>>7850872
>you got music through other people/magazines/small record stores
you never used to record off the radio?

>thread about the 80/90s
;_;

I bought a Ring Pop yesterday. Shit was awesome.

we thought dressing like this would never go out of style

We had sum kick-ass video games

When I was an underager in the 90's there was more local affair issues and gossip. People discussed themselves and their immediate lives in the town we all lived in. It felt so "real." I realize that sounds hokey, but the face to face conversations that were so prevalent and gave an organic quality to just being apart of that time. There were times when things got boring too, but one's true character came out -upbeat, stressed out, perv...etc, in the downtime.

Nowadays, I've noticed, in several thread in the last hour, that opinion has dramatically shifted to spending lots of time discussing people who will never be met with other people on the Internet who probably won't be met anytime soon. Mental stimulation is terrific today, physical encounters are probably going downhill, as everyone is at home, online, waiting for the next big thing to be exposed on ______ or where ever.

Computers were more interesting. They got better all the time. Now they just seem to get smaller and cheaper.

I always get this amazingly great feeling when I listen to 90's music and think about that time. Watching 90's movies even. It just makes you feel good, no one was scared of everything, not everyone was the same person, economy wasn't total shit, people were happy...
:(

>>7850934
Yeah.
And going to the dollar store and blockbuster with your mom was the shit

It was a more innocent time, movies still had SOME originality to them and cartoons were far far better to what's being made and played today. Internet wasn't so prolific either and I'd like to say that music was better but I never really cared for music back then, in fact I hated it because my sister would hog the TV and I'd miss my morning cartoons. That changed for me in the late 90s when I would start listening to my sisters old mixtapes and albums, 80s/90s hip hop was the best.

>90s
>High Fidelity
>Fucking awesome movie

This thread makes me wish I grew up in the 90's.

Growing up in the 00's sucked, man.

men didn't wear nut crushing jeans and wear eye liner.

>>7851010
>Blockbuster
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
OH MY GOD YES
RENTING PS1 + NINTENDO 64 GAMES LIKE THE FIRST OF THE NORTH STAR

>>7851022
Fuck yeah.
More John Cusack movies ITT

>>7850884
you're a fucking retard and the reason everything's foam padded and plastic and bull shit

>>7850808
God I fucking loved those, I had two of them. I remember pumping them until the plastic was about to break and then shooting people at close-range...shit actually sort of stung.

Terminator 2
most 90's movie ever

>>7851090
fucking fantastic feeling i get when watching john on his bike riding around
nostalgia blast whenever i see it

>>7850440 TOYS IN CEREALS

Wait, they don't do that any more?

>>7851112
They do, but it just isn't the same.
It's always something stupid like a small stuffed Disney character.

BEST TOYS, BEST CARTOONS! Terrible, terrible fashion.

god I still remember going to Pizza hut and laughing at the cover of Nevermind in the jukebox because it was the first penis I had ever seen

this may even have been before Kurt killed himself, recognized the cover years later when I started listening to Nirvana was kind of an oh shit moment

Everything sucked. The video players sucked, the games sucked, the world was going through so many civil wars and collapses I don't even know were to start, gang violence was rampant, AIDS was everywhere, far right militiamen were blowing shit up all over the place...

And I miss all of it ;_;

>>7850972
Early 90s was a recession. I graduated into that and spent a year on the dole doing websites for 4 pounds an hour... However, when I did start working I made more money than I have ever since.

Remeber when McDs had happy meal toys that wouldn't brake the second time you played with it?

Fucking Reagan was President. Felt bad man.

>>7851112

Most have website addresses on the back or a free code for some advertisement game site.

>>7851146
I meant the later half of the 90's. Still good times.

Rented out NES and SNES games and video tapes all the time. When the internet first came out dial up was total crap. Had to leave the computer on to download 50mb overnight at like 1.5k/s. Had to log off when someone wanted to make a phone call.

it was ok i was born '91 so i didn't really know all the shit going down but it was a simpler time filled with sunshine and rainbows compared to now, then again i only had dial up and vhs was still king so that kinda blew

it was like Miami Vice (season 1 and 2 only)

>>7851052
I think it was at Hollywood Video, before they teamed up with gamecrazy, that you could actually rent an entire console along with your game. It came in an awesome locked suitcase.

Greatest British PM ever.

Vanilla Ice
rapper of the year
every year

OH MY GOD THIS IS THE MOST PATHETIC INTERNET CIRCLE JERK I HAVE EVER SEEN. THEY WERE NOT THE 1950'S PEOPLE THIS IS NOT THE FUTUREEEE

>>7850440
>TOYS IN CEREALS
Oh how I miss those days. ;_;

>>7851212
'88 here. You are still a kiddily-wink.

Brilliant summers. alternative music everywhere. birth of the internet. Nothing like wearing my doc martens or flip flops, going out and skating with friends. dude this cool that. power rangers, space jam, dunkaroos, felt good man.

>>7851257
this thread is pathetic

>>7851283
'82 here, no u.

I was born in '79. I grew up in the eighties. I remember everyone in the eighties saying, "It's almost the nineties" and trying to be progressive, but looking stupid. In the 90's it was "It's almost the 21 century." and everyone trying to be progressive, but looking stupid.
No one said "it's almost 2010." and no one is trying to really be progressive anymore.
I remember being told in second grade, "in the year 2000 we'll have computers in every home, people will be able to book flights from their houses." I remember glancing over at the Apple IIe and wondering how that'd be possible.

The internet was so much more fun back then. You couldn't go to a website without seeing fire gifs, dancing babies, and "Under construction" signs everywhere.

Good times were had by all.

Trust Tomy.

90's produced some great movies

>>7851315
:(

1988blocks

>>7851333

fucking this. internet sites used to be so dysfunctional its laughable.

>>7851317

I remember watching "Beyond 2000" on tv. It was a show about new developments in technology. I recall one segment was about how "modems" would allow computers to talk to each other. They were a little vague about WHY this would be useful, and put it in terms of being able to link up with your neighbour's computer.

>>7851360
I see your pop-up pirate and I raise you one Grape Escape.

Mainstream movies seemed to be slightly better than they are now.

What we're doing right now would be unfathomable. The whole mode of interaction would be quite hard to grasp.

It was a time when The Simpsons was good

Born in '82.
As a little kid I remember every women having huge hair in the 80's. I didn't have cable till I was six years old and I didn't get the internet until I was 13. College was my first experience with non-dial-up internet and I got my first cell-phone.

I rode my bike all the time as a kid and played in the woods with the kids in my neighborhood. When I wasn't playing outside, I was playing video games. I was obsessed with Nintendo. I watched the Super Mario cartoons and even Capatin N. I read nintendo comics, subscribed to Nintendo Power, ate Super Mario fruit snacks, and collected any toys of Nintendo characters (mostly Mario). I once pushed a kid off a swing at recess because he said that Sonic could beat up Mario.

>>7851408
Dude, totally singing the commercial in my head. Thanks.

'79 birth here

The 80s were awesome. The 90s? Less so

>>7851467
Same here except for the snacks and toys. I did love Nintendo tho.

>>7850808


I wanted one of those so badly until i finally got one.

shit was cash

>>7851538
YOU HAVEN'T LIVED UNLESS YOU'VE EATEN SUPER MARIO FRUIT SNACKS!

>>7850383

Oh man... I miss playing outside.

early 90s had badass music. all over the place.

>>7850690

>discovering chatrooms and cybering

this

>>7851611
Picture? I recall a racoon mario fruit in my past, but I could be wrong. :(

>>7851403
>Beyond 2000

Holy shit! I remember that show. I had no cable then, and I remember being blown away every week on all the technologies that would soon be true. That was my favorite show on its short run.

Oddly, I think the whole show was geared around experimental stuff. Last I heard, the producers slipped into silence for a couple years before turning around and producing Mythbusters for the Discovery channel.

ancientfag here
Ther was a show before beyond 2000 called towards 2000, anybody remember or am I the oldestfag?

skinned knees and playing with toys in the dirt ftw

It was beautiful. Newspaper comics were colorized on Sundays only, which was something to look forward to after the morning cartoons of the previous Saturday had aired. Cartoons were generic, but managed to get away with wanton displays of violence by portraying themselves as parables of good versus evil. Weekdays after school was out, you would rush home to catch the Disney Afternoon. Action figure commercials aired almost thrice as often as the television shows designed to hock the merchandise, Happy Meals from McDonalds actually came in boxes that doubled as playsets for the toy inside, and if you wanted a song off the radio, then you had to have a stereo capable of recording from the station itself, silently hoping to yourself that the fucking announcer wouldn't do that goddamn thing where they keep talking all the way through the opening notes and up until a millisecond before the artist you wanted to record began singing.

>>7852131

Continued...

There were no massively mulitiplayer online role-playing games, so if you wanted to slay dragons, you actually needed imagination, and in most other cases, a few friends, pencil and paper, the trusty rulebook and the applicable dice involved. The most fun you could have under the covers at night was with a flashlight and your favorite book as you were trying to edge your way closer to winning something from Pizza Hut. There was only Nintendo and Sega in the video game system wars, fiercely trying to outdo one another for the dominance of your parents' income, and video games were all on cartridges which you would have to try to blow the debris out of if they didn't work, and if that didn't work, you had to try to forcefeed it into the system at some kind of bizarre angle.

>>7852139

Continued...

Wrestling was still real, and Hulk Hogan was everyone's hero. Mike Tyson was still relevant enough to be featured in video game merchandise, and Communism was still considered a threat. Toys were something sought to be accumulated not necessarily for the sake of having them to play with, but to have more than your friends by collecting all of them, a frame of mind we'd all be swept into once again when the Pokemon craze hit. The most reliable indicator you could get of what high school would be like was Saved by the Bell, and there was nothing better for storing your schoolwork in than a Trapper Keeper.

80's toys kicked ass. Everyone knows about Transformers, GI Joe, and Ninja Turtles, but even the 2nd-tier toys were awesome. Sectaurs...Micro Machines...Inhumanoids

Also, MTV still played music videos

>>7852147

I actually pity the spoiled, callow and overtly indulged fucking pieces of shit who were born too late to be able to enjoy the magnificence and splendor of the generations at which they scoff and jeer, but not nearly as much as I lament never being able to relive those days again.

I went to BBS's alot like 4chan but I used my phone to call up another guys phone to download porno. Nopne else could download porno till I hungup. 2400 kps! Word. Shopped pics of nude Paula Abdul. Hot stuff I tells ya.

Bepper ..

Cell phone was rare..

Remember a vhs tape?

>>7851856
Left side near the middle, these are the Mario fruit snacks used to eat. Probably unhealthy as hell but damn they had Mario on them!

ASL CHECK

I remember renting gameboy games from video stores ahaha

"Get off the Internet, I need to use the phone!"

I remember having to deal with the Dewey Decimal System to find one shitty book that was vaguely about my book report's topic.

>>7850884
a kid at our school died playing on the jungle gyms, landed squarely on his head and died of massive brain damage

and it still took our school several years to get rid of the things after, although they stopped letting us play on them.

good times.

back when windows users knew what a command line was?

I was born in 1990. I feel as if I was one of the last of the kids born who actually got to experience the good life, before technology took over.

I was in the dentist's office the other day and while waiting in the waiting room, a mom with her daughter, would couldn't have been older than seven years old, came in, on a cell phone. Shit hit me hard for some reason..and the girl was dressed..kind of like a slut.

I broke my leg playing games at school in 1993 and a lawsuit wasn't even considered. now it would have been a certainty

When the Gameboy Color came out, I did not specify "color" when I asked for a Gameboy for Christmas and thus got an actual Gameboy. They also gave me Super Mario Land, Yoshi's Cookie, and Tetris.

Hated my parents at the time but am thankful now.

I liked Limp Bizkit, KoRn, Slipcock and Linkin Park. Those albums don't really hold up today though.

Also nu metal was the worst movement in music ever.

Kindergarten 1993, I liked to play with blocks during playtime after lunch. They were pretty hefty wooden blocks and this boy liked to throw them at my head. I ended up not playing with them anymore, but he still threw them at me from across the room. My mom and teacher both insisted he was harmless. I'm curious as to what would happen now.

Bam! God tier for whoever can name all three characters in the upper left corner, and the guy in silver in the lower right.

You;re going to have to give us a clue

This thread reminded me that Corey Haim is dead

Then I thought about Lucas

;_;

ENCYCLOPEDIA'S WERE USEFUL. Also, libraries actually made a profit. Actually, now that I think about it, fuck you encyclopedia's, you ruined my childhood.

>>7853010

Bam! God tier for whoever can name all three characters in the upper left corner, and the guy in silver in the lower right.

Fuck, I recognize Brave Starr, really not sure who the Battle Beast/Teddy Ruxpin looking motherfucker is to his left, and I don't recognize the cowboy to his right.

The guy you mentioned at the bottom is Quicksilver, leader of the Silverhawks, which was one of three team based franchises I enjoyed, the other two being Tigersharks and Thundercats, forming the trinity of land, sea and air related animal inspired super teams.

Looks like I fall short of god tier, even though I could pretty much map out the rest of the picture in a heartbeat. I honestly still can't believe they don't have Tigersharks, Heathcliff or Karate Kat on there.

this thread actually made me tear up.

anybody else remember pete-n-pete? (barely pre '95) SNICK? Baseball actually being cool? the first nerf guns? i think life really might have been better then. I'm now considering an hero.

>>7853444
cowboy is boss hog dukes of hazzard

shitty>>7850331

>>7853645
whoooaa take it easy bud

>>7853691

Aah, I probably should have guessed that, but I was under the impression he might have been from some vague and esoterically short lived 1980s animated series.

The 80s and (early) 90s are just about the greatest years of human existence.

I'm glad to have been a part of it.

cross colors "wheres the beef" G I joes getting stitches L A gear oh and i cant forget the Hyper color shirts good times

>>7853836
Oh and reganomics

>>7853444
Because the bear is bullshit. Lookup Bearriors. It's an old Toyfare/Wizard joke. Picture blows anyways, not a Centurion in site.

Born in '80.

- I remember playing my Atari 2600 and lusting after the NES.
- Gameboy was kind of a disappointment.
- Saved forever for a sound card for the computer.
- Downloading "porn" with a 2400 baud modem.
- M.U.S.C.L.E. Men, fuck yeah!

i'd like to take a minute,
just sit right there,
I'll tell you howI became the prince of a town called Bel-Air

>>7854096
>I'll tell you howI became the prince of a town called Bel-Air

I read that as "howL"

>>7854071

FUCK I LOVED THOSE THINGS! I'd always lose the trashcan dealy they'd be packaged in though.

no one gave a shit about american politics because the worst shit on the news was an adulterous blowjob in the white house

aside from that, i look back on it and wish for it again. I remember MTV making some kind of effort to be progressive... educating its audience about safe sex, racial acceptance, things like that. I can remember carson daly and total request live (I think it was called total request at first) when they hosted it at their summer break property with no audience. britney spears, backstreet boys, n'sync. that was when MTV quickly devolved to this cesspool that makes people want to kill themselves

our country is so fucked when you compare it to now. I'd be fucking amazed if we ever recovered

80's! Not much for computers. A friend had every Amiga that came out. Earl Weaver Baseball, anyone? The schools had monochrome green Commodore PETs. Or TRS-80s from Radio Shack with the 8" floppy disks. Or perhaps a Texas Instruments TI-99 with Dungeons of Doom loaded off an audio cassette tape.
No Internet. The odd compuserve or BBS. Cell phones were the size of a brick and rare. The hot technology was the Sony Walkman!

"Y2K! The world's going to end!!"

Oh wait, sounds familiar...

Lways fun the 80's
I remember when Reagan thought he wasn't on air and said three two one boom and this may be the generation that experiences armageddon

Cold war fun times

>>7850367

Mother of God.

Saturday morning cartoons fucking rocked my world.

God damn nostalgia..

Videogames had heart back in the 90's

First mobiles $4k plus and bigger than a brick

i had a weeaboo phase in the 90's oh god.

56k porn man, kids nowadays are spoiled as fuck.

>>7852860

I remember when my 9 year old cousin got a cell phone a year or two back. That really pissed me off. Who the hell do you need to talk to on a cell phone when you're 9?

Fucking crazy.

I didn't get a cell phone until I was twenty and could afford to pay for it myself.

>>7854505

>search for porn
>wait 10 minutes for a picture to load
>realize girl is hideous

Wu Tang clan, you did not fuck with them

>>7854529

Waiting 2 hours for a 20 second clip then putting it on loop.

80s! Synth music was big. Music videos were an art form back then being so new, not the narcissistic booty BS now.
The web showed up around '91. Screw Firefox, the hot was NSCA Mosaic 0.9 beta!
If you want to see what the web looked like (and see the first web cam in existence), go into the Tools in your browser, ignore windows colours, ignore web settings for formatting and style, then search for Trojan Room coffee pot.
The web was grey with blue highlight, wiki-like simple formatting, and GIFs. No video.

>>7854505
My dial up was so terrible I couldn't even get porn. The running joke in the family was that if a phone rang within 5 miles the internet disconnected.

>>7854505
dear lord don't remind me. I can remember waiting 2 minutes just to see a set of tits on my 14k modem. Videos weren't even thought of as possible.

Free AOL sample disks lul.

>>7854577
I still have a stack of aol trial cds from 95. they're fun to frisbee at people

>>7854505

How the fuck do porn companies still make money nowadays??

>>7854577
LOL I remember those. God damnit.

Doing a render on a picture which took 8 hours on my brand new 386 with 387 cooproccessor notebook ( first 386 in notebook form it was hot)

>>7854577

I don't even use CD's anymore, i have Flashdrives.

- Plug in wire to get on internet; it spans the length of the kitchen.
- Mom rolls the laundry cart throuh the kitchen and over the wire.
- Wire unplugs while I'm playing my cartoonnetwork.com game
- Takes 5 minutes to log back into AOL and 15 for the game to load again

Good times

>>7854604
men over 35 who don't understand google.

Snakes on a Phone!

>>7854577
I saw the AOL 9.0 commercial so many times that the song frequently pops into my head out of nowhere.

I dropped my mom's cell phone on my foot and I honestly thought I broke a toe

Computer Shopper magazine... 2 inches thick


the first animated GIF I saw was pron. I remember my graphics designer friends gathered around a computer....marvelling at a banner ad showing ejaculation flying across the screen and splattering on.... well you get the picture

>>7854674
I don't believe I do. Please, do tell.

>>7854674
That would have been awesome. Remember when sites used to have hit counters? I do, just barely.

My memories of the 90s:
-Being the first kid around to have a computer at home (got one when I was four, since my dad works as an IT manager). Also, resultantly was the first to have internet access.
-Subsequently discovering internet porn.
-My dad getting a cell phone before many people had them. It was a pretty giant Motorola thing. Awesome at the time.
-Video games, which were way more awesome back then.
-Beast Wars, Reboot, TMNT, and other awesome TV shows
-Super Solvers series for the computer, which were the coolest shit ever.
-DUNKAROOS HOLY FUCKING SHIT and other awesome 90s food (Lunchables, etc.)
-Early Toonami

HAI GUISE AM I LATE TO THE PARTY??

I remember when I thought cordless phones and the internet were new and amazing even though the phone wouldn't work past my yard and web pages took half an hour to load, and now I carry a phone around in my pocket every day that I can use anywhere in the country and it can do anything a computer can do and the pages load almost instantly. And it's significantly smaller than a gameboy was back then. I was 10.

- Headbangers ball
- Aaah Real Monsters
- The Brave Little Toaster
- MTV actually had music
- Lit, Third Eye Blind, Blues Traveler
- The sound of a dial up modem
- Original Nintendo
- Battle Toads

The reason I think it was all so good is because we really didnt have all the choices we have nowerdays. We just HAD what was put out there but also the stuff that was out there was actually good. Now everything is more quantity over quality

what internet?

Holy shit, this new 28.8 is TWICE as fast as the 14.4 modem!

>>7850808
This. I remember huge super soaker fights and that one rich kid who had the SUPER SOAKER 200.

Yeah in the early 90s we all had bikes, traded baseball and NHL cards. One of my fondest memories is getting an old boombox with a built-in mic and recording voices as fake radio shows.

One of those totally 90's things to say was something and then pause... and then yell out NOOOOOOT!!! Also the PUNCH BUGGY game. RED PUNCH BUGGY NO RETURNS! Old Voltswagen beetles are rather rare now, but early 90s were everywhere.

As for computer stuff remember the old KID PIX? Make a scene with stamps then mash the stick of dynamite ERASE tool? Playing BOLO on a school maclab appletalk network... making HYPERCARD animations.

Also, anyone remember MATHNET on SQUARE ONE TELEVISION? Born in 1985...feels nostalgic man.

>>7855905

>Also, anyone remember MATHNET on SQUARE ONE TELEVISION? Born in 1985...feels nostalgic man.

Yup, it was on right after Carmen Sandiego :)

I remember that the only place to buy computer games was from Babbages. And a computer game consisted of a floppy disk--a real, bendable floppy disk--in a Ziploc bag tacked to the wall. The DRM Nazis of today would have had a heart attack.

I was born in 1990 so I Guess you could say I grew up in the 90's. FUCK YEAH I GOT MY FIRST COMPUTER IN 1998. I remember that sweet, sweet, dial up noise.I fucking loved the encyclopedia on the disc that came with the computer. Also, there were a bunch of kids on my block and we all played in each others backyards. Fuck that sounded wrong. Anyway, yeah, everyone moved away except two of us. Feels bad man.

Before the internet, if you were underage and wanted porn, you only had two options. One was to have a friend who could hook you up with some nudie mags, and hope that your parents and family didn't accidentally stumble across it. The other was to find your dad's secret porn stash, remove a porn mag, fap quickly so that you have enough time to put the mag back without anyone noticing, and then making it look like nobody touched the secret stash. That shit required skills.

Kids today have it too fucking easy.

>>7856142
we had software etc.

>>7856101

Heh. I remember yelling at the screen whenever there was a kid who couldn't run and place the siren things on the map fast enough.

'86 here

shit was pretty cash man. the 90's were when technology had progressed just enough to enhance people's lives without taking them over.

>>7856215
Yeah, after that you downloaded pics and small 2mb video clips and hid them in folders that sounded inconspicuous, which were placed in the \Windows dir. Now you just start private browsing and stream the porn.

I'm pretty sure this thing gave me my first boner.

No internet.

Snes.

Scrambled porn.

Thats all you need to know.

Before all these online multiplayer games we used to get together at one house to play video games.

If you were bad at mortal kombat you would be passing the controller after each match.

There was always one kid who pretty much never lost.

"BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!!"

That's pretty much what it was like.

>>7856353

The Charlotte Hornets were the shit in that game.

>>7856300

The addendum to this is that one house would have a Genesis, another would have an SNES, and you would cycle between the two.

>>7856300
My friends were MK fans and I hated it. I would have rather played Street Fighter but they all thought it was gay.

being a teenager in the early 90's was awesome. rave party scene was insane, crazy drugs everywhere.

>>7850331

How young could you be to call me old!?

playing soo many levels of mario and not finding the princess. and not able to save the game at all.

Contra was soo cool man.

Clicking on the games which required to download macromedia flash installer which was too big for that time.

damn, it was heavenly

>>7856397

So true. My cousin had the Genesis and I had the snes. I feel sorry for little kids growing up on the internet.

Lots and lots and lots of preening materialist assholes. People at the mall wearing clothes WITH THE TAGS STILL IN THEM SO YOU COULD SEE HOW MUCH THEY SPENT.

Totally fucking amazing music that opened a tiny crack in the music industry... and then a bunch of horrific shit came through that crack forever condemning DIY-era NYC bands, punk, synthpunk and various new wave types (remember Oppenheimer Analysis? Sure you do) to total obscurity forever.

America shit all over the constitutional separation of powers to prevent democracy from breaking out in Nicaragua.

The 80's sucked. Be glad you missed it.

Well the late 80's, I remember my family got money coming from doors and windows and we bought the biggest car in the neigbourhood, big tv, VCR, all this electronic stuff and everything. For me it was all happy and care-free but that's mostly because I was so young I think.
In the 90's the skies turned gray and it was always raining, always! Money disappeared and we had to swap the car for cheaper one, my father still had his job though, in many families it was worse and I knew this kid who only got to eat at school or when he was at my house.
The state ran out of cash too, we started to have shitty books and everything at school, even paper was rationed. At some point we got extra-holidays when teachers got laid off so those who had someone home waiting went there but some kids formed these packs and little-gangs that went shoplifting and doing some shit like that.
Common amusement was smashing windows and beerbottles as well as breaking into places. Not that we were evil or in need of money, we just thought it was cool.
In 1996 or so it started to get better, people didn't seem that desperate anymore and we got new books at school again, the late 90's was almost as care-free time as the late 80's.

snick, oh man, are you afraid of the dark? was the best show growing up

Ancient Fag here.(Born in 1966) 80's and 90's were damn cool for all the reasons mentioned so far. I can't talk for everyone, but in the early 80's we didn't have worry about school shootings, at least in the small town I lived. I remember walking through the woods down to the highway and across to sneek peeks at girly mags at the convenience store.One thing I definitely don't miss about the 80's was the cold war paranoia that the Russians were going to start world war three. Terrorists are scary, but not as bad as worrying the whole planet's going to get turned into a radioactive cinder. Nineties were great because anime started getting a foothold. I remember back around 95 renting out whatever Blockbuster or Movie Gallery had.(Cat Girl Nuku Nuku,Tenchi, Original Bubblegum Crisis, Urotsukodoji: Legend of the Overfiend.(You can't imagine how horrifying it was to see tentacle rape for the first time, and oh fuck the ending was depressing as hell.)
One thing I DON"T miss, (and this dips slightly into the 70's )is what you had to do to record a song off the radio. You had to get an old fashioned tape recorder and set it in front of the radio and wait until the song you wanted came on then fast as you could, hit the record and play buttons. You had to be really quite or the mic on the recorder would pick up the sounds you made. You also hoped to god, your mom or a sibling didn't open the door with no warning and ruin the tape. Even if you succeeded with all that, the sound quality was pretty lousy.

I just hope my kid isn't some technology super whore. I mean I see these 10 year old kids with cellphones and shit. The only time I see kids playing soccer in the street or something is when go back to my old ghetto neighborhood. Middle-class america sucks. To dependent on technology. The kids growing up these days are too feminine.

Cybering on compuserve chat rooms.

>>7856660
lol @ calling punk good music

protip: it's just as shitty as the other shit out there

It was easier to meet people and make friends. Nowadays people just give you their facebook account and off they go.

Star Trek TNG and DS9.

>>7850347
Actually legal age on this board would be being born in late 80's early 90's, meaning your youth would include the late 90s and early 2000s.

No one had any real ability to contact each other at every second. No cell phones, no one on the internet 24/7 (You only went on the internet after 8pm when rates were cheaper, or not at all if your mum wanted to wait for a call).

Strange enough now that we can contact each other 24/7 we're all more lonely

ah, wearing terrible clothes and watching Dino the Last Dinosaur

>>7858757
I think his name was Denver.

Don't mind me, just being where you would get all your info from before the invention of the internet

1. Music videos were an event, not ho hum
2. Madonna was sexy
3. Punk Rock and Alternative were not posturing teenie boppers just looking to get airplay
4. Your Mom was hot - and I did her
5. We did drugs and fucked without worrying about AIDS and shit like that
6. Penthouse Letters was relevant to my interests
7. You actually went on dates by meeting someone outside your house and not knowing who they were before you got to meet them.
8. It was a lot more simple back then. You were either gay or you weren't gay.
9. David Letterman was funny and innovative