Childhood during the 90's?

yayverily · April 6, 2008, 1:32pm

Came across this and decided to share–even I (parent) remember a lot of it:

You know you’re a 90’s kid if…

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<li>You’ve ever ended a sentence with the word “PSYCHE!”</li>
<li>You can sing the rap to “The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air”</li>
<li>You remember when Kurt Cobain, Tu Pac, and Selena died.</li>
<li>You know that “WOAH” comes from Joey from “Blossom” and that “How Rude!” comes from Stephanie from “Full House”</li>
<li>You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.</li>
<li>You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school. (LMAO)</li>
<li>You remember reading “Goosebumps”</li>
<li>You know the profound meaning of “Wax on, wax off”</li>
<li>You have pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.</li>
<li>You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.</li>
<li>You danced to “wannabe” by the Spice Girls, Females: had a new motto, Males: got a whole lot gay-er. (so tell me what you want, what you really really want.)</li>
<li>You remember the craze then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books.</li>
<li>You still get the urge to say “NOT” after (almost) every sentence…Not…</li>
<li>Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? was both a game and a TV game show.</li>
<li>You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green* Ranger were meant to be together.
(later to be white)</li>
<li>“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”</li>
<li>You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates</li>
<li>Two words… Trapper Keeper.</li>
<li>You ever got injured on a Slip ‘n’ Slide</li>
<li>You wore socks over leggings scrunched down (not me!)</li>
<li>“Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back, back” SHE ASKED HER MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER FOR FIFTY CENTS CENTS CENTS TO SEE THE ELEPHANTS PHANTS PHANTS JUMP OVER THE FENCE THE FENCE THE FENCE
he jumped so high high high he touched the sky sky sky and he didnt come back back back til the forth of july ly ly he jumped so low ow ow he stubbed his toe toe toe and thats the end end end of the elephants show show show</li>
<li>You remember boom boxes vs. cd players</li>
<li>You remember New Kids on The Block when they were cool</li>
<li>You knew all the characters names and their life stories on “Saved By The Bell”</li>
<li>You played and or collected “Pogs”</li>
<li>You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere</li>
<li>You watched the original Care Bears, My Little Pony, and/or Ninja Turtles</li>
<li>Yikes pencils and erasers were the ****.</li>
<li>All your school supplies were “Lisa Frank” brand.(pencils.notebooks.binders.etc.)</li>
<li>You remember when the new Beanie Babies (and were always sold out.</li>
<li>You used to wear those stick on earings, not only on your ears, but at the corners of your eyes.</li>
<li>You remember a time before the WB.</li>
<li>You’ve gotten creeped out by “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”</li>
<li>You know the Macarena by heart.</li>
<li>“Talk to the hand” … enough said</li>
<li>You thought Brain would finally take over the world</li>
<li>You always said, “Then why don’t you marry it!”</li>
</ul>

jessiehl · April 6, 2008, 1:57pm

Heh. I was a 90s kid (turned 5 in 1990, turned 15 in 2000), and only 15.33* of those 37 things apply to me. :)

<ul>
<li>The 0.33 comes from remembering when Kurt Cobain died, but not the other two. I’m pretty sure I didn’t know who the other two were until years after they died.</li>
</ul>

dntw8up · April 6, 2008, 2:07pm

Miss Mary Mack is MUCH older: [Mary</a> Mack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mack]Mary”>Mary Mack - Wikipedia)

paying3tuitions · April 6, 2008, 2:16pm

^^well, true Mary Mack is older, but it appeared as a school reading unit in the Open Court reading curriculum in the 1990’s, so it is bona fide nostalgia.

The OP made me smile.

Can still see my eldest tethered to the VCR with a wire, before they turned remote.

Also adding the biggie: Mr. Rogers, new episodes weekly, that is.

oldfort · April 6, 2008, 2:21pm

As a 90’s mom, I remember most of them - pogs, beanie babies, spice girls…

thumper1 · April 6, 2008, 2:27pm

Wouldn’t American Girl Dolls be part of this list? What about Walkman (pre CD)?

We still HAVE a lot of those things in our house.

QuantMech · April 6, 2008, 2:52pm

Saw this and had to post comments by QuantMechPrime, from end of senior year reflections for AP English:

On computer games
I sometimes played my daddy’s Return to Zork, although that mainly consisted of dying over and over and over and over and over, and never making it very far. I walked off the bridge and died. I took the wrong path and died. I got ill from the mouse I was inexplicably carrying with me and died. I never won. Even my daddy never won. Then the Macintosh got attacked by lightning and died. But unlike in Zork, it didn’t start over. All this was still better than the really old school version of the Oregon Trail, where you spent 89% of the time creating your wagon train, 2% traveling, 2% watching other people die, 1% dying of dysentery (every single time, I swear), and 6% writing your epitaph.

On Beanie Babies
Second grade saw the rise and partial fall of Beanie Babies, which essentially took over the world. Students ran polls on how many Beanie Babies others owned; suddenly, lacking an obsession with bean-filled creatures was a cause for apology. Near the end of the year, a far more insidious trend, Tamagotchis, arose. You wouldn’t think that so much evil could be crammed into a small egg-shaped piece of fluorescent plastic. I wound up with a hot pink one, which entertained me for about two days. These also prompted a particularly apt response from Bill Amend, where Paige received a “Tamagrouchy.”

Childhood during the 90's?

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