People once hurt their knuckles while sharpening pencils with this device:įruit Snacks like Gushers are once common:Ĭhildren once served their french toast the size of cereal with milk:Ĭolor Changing spoons once took the form of Simba or his late father King Mufasa from The Lion King: Television show contestants once got covered in green slime: Street Sharks are once a popular favorite. If people remembered cleaning video games at that time, it is this: The other example was Don Bluth’s 1988 animated film The Land Before Time, which is something of a dinosaur-centric quest story (involving five baby dinosaurs: respectively a sauropod, a ceratopsian, a hadrosaur, a pterosaur (which is technically not a dinosaur or a bird) an a stegosaur) produced by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his collaborator on the Indiana Jones series, Steven Spielberg:Ĭolor-coded pens are once common at that time: One was 1987′s The Brave Little Toaster, a quest story involving five household appliances (respectively a toaster, a lamp, an electric blanket, a radio device, and a vacuum cleaner) on a quest to reunite with their city-dwelling masters to whom they are slaves in the countryside (which was based on a novella published on Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine in 1980 by Thomas Disch.): Here are two examples of animated films for children, which, despite their origins in the late 1980s, became part of the childhood of people growing up during that time called the 1990s. It was a golden age for the Nickelodeon channel with television shows as diverse as Rugrats, Ren and Stimpy, Doug, Rocko’s Modern Life, Aaah! Real Monsters, Kenan and Kel and Rocket Power, among others.Īn anthropomorphic kangaroo once adorned a brand of snacks called Dunkaroos. Spongebob Squarepants himself began his long reign on Nickelodeon at the end of the decade. Michael Jordan ruled the Basketball Slam Dunk Court. The best video gaming comes from the 1990s, in addition: It was still the golden age of the Video Rental Place like this:Īnd people back then always remembered to ‘Be Kind Rewind’: Some people blind themselves with shampoo:īefore the DVD format was introduced in 1997, the VHS format that defeated the Betamax format in the 1980s reigned supreme: This expression is symbolic of the pain people had endure when faced with dial-up internet:Īnother symbolic expression regarding once CDs rolled around is also one of pain for people growing up in the 1990s:īefore Apple Computers and the late Steve Jobs introduced the iPod, there was this: There was a phenomenon from the Japanese islands called Pokemon that was especially popular in America (despite a controversial episode whose flashing colors caused more seizures than ever before): People once owned these Milky Pens shown below:įruit Juices that kept a child hydrated was once common in the 1990s: This type of game allowed people to predict their future outcome: If people back then want to predict the future and solve problems, they had to resort to this device: The best and hardest game people ever played during that time are Waterful Ring Tosses: People once listened to the radio and record their favorite songs in a boombox like this:Īnd people once played music on a Sony Walkman like this one: This is part of what the internet probably looked like during its formative years: People once loved those orange VHS tapes of Nickelodeon shows during the 90s like these three: Text messages are very different back then like in these scraps of paper below: Look for it only on the internet, for the 90s are now no more than a dream remembered…a decade gone with the wind.īelow are many of the awesome things that only those growing up during that time will remember: Here was the last ever to be seen of everything analog and pre-digital, the first ever to be seen of everything digital and informative–some of which are still with us today–and the only time ever to be seen of Beanies Babies, of boy bands, and of Spice Girls. Here in that otherwise peaceful time before the jolt of 9/11 and the reality of the Bush presidency and the great Recession, innocence and the 20th century itself took their last bow each. There was an era of love, laughter, and innocence called the 1990s.
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