90's Feels/ Comfy Thread

>that time a kid at school said their brother drank a jolt cola and it made him run so fast in the 100 metre his leg broke

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My dad's still a communist so he has his party member badge hung in his house still.

Does anyone remember these things? I was born in 2000, but I still remember seeing them around school and church as a little kid

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Trust me, that shit's advanced. When I was in 4th grade in 1999 the teacher played all the videos on a tiny TV at the front. Not even the bog roll-in ones, like a small 10 incher connected to his computer.

uk early 90s birthday party bros where u at

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Dang. I remember watching things on CRTs on carts. They still had VCRs, too. The device in the image I posted wasn't used for video, though. Just images or text.

Born in '83. 90's were the best. I miss how simple everything seemed back then. We have unparalleled access to entertainment and information now but every seems miserable all the time.

Take me back.

If memory serve me this was what they used. He was advanced enough to have computer files of the videos we watched, so that's neat. It was a poor area so food was free. Did your school ever serve these long hot-pocket things? I was thinking back on i, and they had these weird pizza sticks but I don't know what they're called.

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I'm still a senior in high school, and they do serve them. We have these pizza stick things as well. they come stuck together in groups of three, and you have to rip them apart. I can't find a picture of them online, but they're called rips.

you can't even go to a fast food place and sit next to a wall of glass blocks anymore, that experience is gone forever

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No, they came in wrappers. They were weirdly hot (I burned myself really bad on the cheese a lot, it sometimes left marks) and I believe they had a cartoon lion on them.

Yeah, we didn't have those. I live in washington, so the school lunches are probably different in whatever state you live in.

I live in Kentucky, and graduated in 2014.

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>getting those cups and sitting down in a matching room

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That's pretty much the opposite side of the country, so I'm not surprised our lunches were so different. I'm (hopefully) graduating this coming year. So far, there's no reason I shouldn't graduate, but you never know.

You've got maiI!

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>overhead projector
I hated having to do any kind of demonstration on those. For one being in front of class sucked but the heat generated by that bulb was fucking kill

I was too young to have to do presentations on them. How would you even do the presentations, though? If I remember correctly, slides for overheads had to be transparent, so would you have to print your work out on sheets of transparent plastic? I'm probably missing something, though. It's been maybe ten years since I;ve seen one of those.

>A teacher with a computer.
When I was in school the only computers were the apple macs in the computer lab

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>Computer lab
I didn't even have one until high school.

You could use a laser printer to print of the transparencies but that was later on. Early on it was a matter or drawing and writing everything by hand with wet erase markers

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Oh god. As someone with horrible handwriting, that sounds like hell.

Sucks to be poor.

My elementary school was better off than the poor as fuck high school I went to. The computer lab in my high school was full of X86s with one pentium up front for the teacher.

Even if you have good handwriting it wouldn't matter. You would likely be staring down at a bright light trying to write on slick plastic with a slick marker.

Also back then it was all chalkboards. Dry erase was like advanced alien technology

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I've never had to write on chalkboards. It was dry-erase boards, then SMART boards. SMART boards are this dumb gimmicky touch-sensitive whiteboard-like devices that my school district got memed into buying. They didn't even have screens, so you had to project things onto them. I guess they weren't too bad, though. When my junior year rolled around, all the SMART boards in the district got replaced with these huge wall-mounted TVs that teachers use in tandem with whiteboards. Our smartboards looked a lot like pic related, but they were a lighter color and didn't have speakers on the sides. I think the company that made them ended up going out of business or something.

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Much nostalgia with a chalkboard.
Whenever anyone wrote anything on it there was this very distinctive clicking and sliding sound, sometimes a blood-turning squeak if the chalk had a hard piece in it. Shit was dusty too.

Another interesting fact was most blackboards were actually steel so you could use magnets on them like a fridge

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My maps still had ussr on them in 2014

My globe

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I work for a school that still uses a 1985 map, but all the new countries are painted in by students.

Yeah, I have a whole playlist of music from that period. It simultaneously puts a smile on my face and makes me want to cry.

youtu.be/Nntd2fgMUYw

Fucking this, that one shitty FPS paintball game they had and AIM.

Ah I even remember when my life was threatened by a pedophile at the tender age of 10 because I was retarded and went into chatrooms actually stating my true age. Honestly I don't know if it was a male or female though, but they started to weird me out, I kept blocking them they made like 10 fucking screen names and threatened to track me down and kill me if I blocked them again. What innocent and sweet times.

>Not experiencing ninja turtles in the original tv show in the late 80s and early 90s

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Ah yes AOL.

I used to use the free 3 month trial CDs for YEARS to get free dial up. Would enter in my moms old bank acct with completely made up names and addresses.

This was back in the days where there were no limits on free trial periods and little to no financial record/database keeping or security. I miss those days

I watched 9/11 happen on one of these.

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The last couple years of the 90s and the first couple of the 00s were the best. In the wake of the dot com bubble crash everybody was scrambling to pick up the pieces and Web 2.0 became a wild, open frontier. Online media just took off. It was a golden age of piracy, pornography, and file sharing in general.

It was fleeting though. I think the birth of Jow Forums in 2003 is what heralded the end of the golden age, it appeared, then exploded in popularity and grew and grew until it essentially became a representation of everything that era of 1998 - 2004 represented.

The true death of the wild west web didn't come until 2007 though.

Dang. I was just barely one year old at the time. We still had TVs that looked almost exactly like that when I was about 10, though. My school did, I mean Same carts and everything.

>tfw no keen

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Man I didn't see a chalkboard until I went to college and I was born in 1989.

I still have a stack of AOL CDs I use as coasters
I still have a few of those tins the AOL CDs came in for a bit that I use as weed sorting / joint rolling trays.
I remember back when AOL free trials came in the mail on a floppy

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I think my teachers wore sunscreen or something cause the heat coming off those things was intense. Also you couldn't ever see shit while trying to write on them.

They didn't let us watch it on TV at my school; we had to listen to the radio broadcasts, and we couldn't even get that to work.

We didn't even have classes that day. I mean we did, but nobody did anything. It was just news all day. They had a giant American flag draped in the main hall for the rest of my time at middle school after 9/11.

I thought sunscreen was for protection against UV rays, not heat.

Chalkboard sounds give me ASMR now. I also get it from smelling chalk dust.

Fuck if I know anything about it, I guess.

The first period of the day (Spanish for me) was cancelled and dedicated to "talking about the attack", but everything went on as usual after that.

>tfw when watching the 2nd plane crash live in social studies class on the mounted classroom tv (because that class was in trailers behind the main building so each class had to have its own tv)

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I think the teachers tried at my school, but they were definitely out of it and weren't really sure what to do besides go through the motions. Some kids had family in NYC, and they got sent home.

>that gross bald ass drummer
>That lame chorus
You have shit taste in shit post grunge

Splatterball. It looked like Doom and played like shit on dial up. The goddamn thing cost like $1.99 per hour. I remember getting in trouble for racking up a $60+ bill playing Splatterball and Magestorm.

There were no aggregate one-stop websites in the 90s. No reddit, facebook, deviantart, nothing. You kept a huge list of bookmarks on your browser. If you wanted to read a forum about The Simpsons, there was a specific site you had to reach and sign up for membership to post anything.

Gamefaqs did exist back then, you had to print out 12-page FAQs with ASCII characters that could be printed universally on all old 90s printers if you wanted to impress the local yokels at the arcade with badass Mortal Kombat 3 fatalities.

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Shit, that image gives me the comfiest boner

>Small town backroom dealing meant I got to work at a pool when I was 15
>Meet girl at pool, cool and cute, but after the season ends a few months later we lost touch
>Middle of winter, get a AOL email from her
>Wants to know what I'm up to, etc
>Continue contact, eventually start AOL instant messenger
>Spend nearly a year talking nightly and talking about sex only a bunch of horny teenagers could
>We lose contact during college and maybe only talked a few times since
>Found out a couple years ago she got married and had a kid
>Good for her

Never did hook up, but it was just so comfy to hop on AOL and see an email from a cute girl talking about her day. First time I felt why people could want to have a relationship. For better or worse, AOL is now synonymous with puberty.

All that reading for a shItty little pizza that was somehow still awesome.

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Yep, white boards started taking off in the mid 90s due to concerns over chalk dust.

Even better were the small slate blackboards. They had that comfy stone chink sound writing on them.

Yep, the slate boards were best. I actually have a slate chalkboard at home that I use for tracking errands/chores I have to do during the week.

Bonus for using natural chalk

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I remember doing that too, but I did it in 2007 and 2008.

It started sometime in the 80s and was in full swing in the 90s. I would have figured it would have been banned by the 2000s but guess not.

watched it on that too. a whole day of 9/11. shit was srs bizness

We always used the cheapo crayola chalk at school so I use something very similar to it.

Checking the television schedule in the newspaper to see if MTV was airing anything cool that day. They had no real weekly schedule back then, shit was just on when it was on.

If you saw something on the schedule you wanted, then it was time to prime up the VCR and move the tape to the end of the last show you recorded. Wait at home until it comes on and start taping in EP mode so you could show your pals this "wicked sick cartoon with this chick with pointy tits shooting all these dudes" because they'd never believe it otherwise.

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For me, it's the Pumpkins

my senior english teacher had one of those that he used. I graduated in 2017.

>tfw I have the aeon flux box set

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>I'M
>JUST
>RUNNIN
>IN
>THE
>90'S

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Your taste is so bad it leads me to believe you don't have a soul.

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I remember making sick mix tapes by recording off the radio using a cassette. You'd leave the radio playing all day and hope the DJ played it without talking over it like a cunt.

Hell yes, still some that look like this nearish to me

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The song your post made me think of

biggest regret is not participating in early messaging groups online

ICQ and Oregon Trail.

Oh fuck
Ale 81 is fucking great

You didn't miss anything special, zoom-zoom. Well, maybe non-ironic arcades. That's about it.

>tfw other than smart cancer devices, the world has felt the same since 2007

>not noticing how music, film, and video games have objectively declined since 2007

>back when you only had to charge your phone once a week

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90s had a great economy(a real economy not this meme we have today) but it was shit in so many ways. Crime was extremely high and nigger riots were worse. It was like pol memes come to life.

Ah, the neon-lit mall arcade. They became a thing in the 80s, thrived in the 90s, and very quickly shriveled to almost nothing in the first half of the 00s.

What was once the refuge of the proto-spergs and fuck-ups is now a relic of a bygone age like the drive-in movie theater. Only a handful still exist in places that are tragically behind the times (and mini-golf courses for some reason).

I wonder if anyone ever got the remote controlled car from the prize shelf for 8000 tickets.

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A true robot had no business in an arcade though. Maybe sometimes we got to go with an older cousin or something but otherwise is was just another place to get bullied....
Safer to stay home and play zelda on your SNES

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Fuck dude I remember talking to a cute girl on AIM when I was 13-14 years old. Playing baseball, playing windwaker, and talking to her are literally what I picture when I think about middle school. What a magical time to be a young teen.

I finished school in 2011

In my middle school years 2006 to 2009 we had all these old 90s things. even the Computer Room was full of old white big PCs. They had Windows 98 on them later Windows XP.

On the last days of 7th Grade we did no stuff only walking around school. Some played pokemon ruby, others played Yu Gi Oh versus each other. Three of my class, our math teacher, me and 2 from other class went to Computer room.

We played Age of Empires II vs each other.

Im born 1996. Im from the suburban / rural Part of south germany. Franconia.

Most of my school years were in the next small town. We had these old roll up TVs. This and Chalkboard and overhead projectors and a fucking Computer Room full of old white Windows 98 PCs. All the stuff was bought "new" in the mid 90s to early 2000. They never bought again more or other stuff.

Even all the books.

My Math Book was from 1989 and in my English book they said "Bill Clinton is the president of the United States of America".

A shame. i dont had a mobilphone with camera in that time. The book name lists were all so loooong. It started early mid 90s and went on till mid end 2000s.

Each book was at least 8 to 10 years old

It was so bullshit. It was 2009 and we had to learn how to use Word 2003 , Excel 2003 and Powerpoint 2003 on fucking Windows 98. In 2009!

In the final IT test (Summer 2013) we had to make a Data Base in Access 2003 that work with Excel 2003 so we can calculate with it and then make diagrams with it on the pc and then write about out Work in Word 2003 and then also make a Presentation in PP 2003. We had 2 1/2 hours time for it. In fucking 2013.
I started first grade in september 2001. I saw 9/11 while i was doing "writing" homework with my mother in the kitchen. I finished normal school in Summer 2013.

In trade school it was all a big upgrade. I went to trade school in Nuremberg and they were up to date. We had computer in each room, free WLAN for you smartphones (so you can "resarce on the internet" white boards, beamer and these Document Cameras ( called "Elmos" )

The bad cgi made the lego games all the more appealing at the time. Nowadays they're vaporwave music video tier.

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Holy fuck I remember blue work sheets in school now, hadn't given them a second thought.

Oh man, I used to watch so much TV in the 90's.
Are You afraid of the dark was the best.

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Can't ever imagine our school letting students use them, they were expensive and still quite new when I was at school.

Also the entire school district had one VGA projector+windows 95 laptop that was shared between a number of schools.

Wow so smart boards are obsolete now? They seemed futuristic when they were being installed near the end of my high school experience.

Ditto machines hung on forever because they were absolutely dirt cheap to operate and would never break down. The funny thing is that weird purple color wasn't the only option. It was the cheapest option.

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This is very nostalgic, looking at some of my old school sheets and certificates they are indeed all blueish-purple in color.

When did they stop using them? All of my 90's stuff is like this but it just kind of stops when I get to my early 00's records.

Looking back, it wasn't the healthiest of times.

My rule is that if you weren't alive or can't remember 9/11 you're too young for anything you say to matter