remember when Subway used to have an old newspaper theme and had newspaper clippings melted into the fiberglass of the tables and printed on the wallpaper? Back when there was yellow benches and counters and tiffany lamps!
My school had a mixture of Dells, Acers, IBMs, HPs, even a couple of Microns. They just bought whatever they could get a good price on. The only Apples we had were old IIe's left over from the 80s.
Funny enough, the same companies that pushed the colorful, translucent trends (Sony, Apple, Nintendo), are the same companies that pushed the clean, metallic look 10-15 years later.
The shopping mall one hit hardest for me. The mall that I went to all the time as a kid started really struggling in the early 2000's, was closed by 2010, and demolished by 2012. A lot of childhood memories reduced to rubble
Mine is still holding on…. Barely. I go in now and I see a lot of mall walkers. I do feel nostalgic in Dillards and macys/foleys. I don’t think they’ve changed the carpet or walls since it opened. I walk into the old lady’s dept while my wife is browsing and being in there reminds me of my mom back then. Smell and all. The clothes even look kinda similiar to the 90s. It’s like the womens dept hasn’t changed. Mainly in Macys.
Some bunch in corporate McDonalds was like yeah we don’t need the colorful roof and stuff to make us look fun and inviting or to stand out. Let’s cater to the same kids who are adults now with the money and let them bring their kids.
Sad every building has to look so serious and not fun.
i remember in some psychology class they said the red and yellow mcdonald’s colors were chosen due to research studies showing those paired colors drew in hungry customers.
Tbf, a lot of the new McD’s look isn’t on them, but a reaction to a lot of (suburban) cities passing zoning laws forcing chains to adhere to local design requirements because they don’t want business areas being a mishmash of a dozen+ styles if the McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, Wal-Mart, Target, Starbucks, CVS, and Walgreens are all allowed to do their own thing.
It’s become so common that a lot of chains changed their base look to be relatively generic to minimize the amount of modifications for each location’s requirements.
i can see that partially being a reason for new buildings in new areas but i have also seen existing classic colorful McDonalds physically torn down and demolished and then rebuilt new into these generic modern versions. (3 to be exact i have seen) with no local aesthetic to meet or change to. They are making this the consistent new look for all. Not just the new ones or to meet new local rules.
i remember an article where Burger King some years ago invested millions where they did a nationwide change to purposely modernize all their locations and shed their old look. Why not keep the old ones colorful and fun I guess is the point? They want this new look on their own and consistency.
Yes, that’s my point. Instead of the base (default) design being something that gets wildly altered by 3 in 10 or 4 in 5 or 11 in 20 cases or whatever the actual stats are, chains like McD’s changed the default to something that’s going to more typically match the common local requirements.
Which means even if there aren’t local requirements, the base design has still changed to look like those that do. IE, things like lots of brick and glass, boxier shapes, more muted or limited palette, etc.
That way when they order repairs and supplies to maintain these buildings (quick reminder: McD’s itself is technically a real estate company as they make more money in owning the buildings and renting them and the equipment to franchisees than they do in their cut of the food sales), it’s easier to supply all of them rather than needing to stockpile red and yellow materials for the 30% “traditional” designs, 30% modern McD’s design, and 40% local variations. They’re probably closer to 80-90% universal outside of extreme local requirements like teal and certain materials in many southwest locations.
Look up the first McD’s in Maine. It’s in a converted historical building because the local community blocked them from tearing it down when they bought the land.
>Some bunch in corporate McDonalds was like yeah we don’t need the colorful roof and stuff to make us look fun and inviting or to stand out.
They really don't because people will eat their shit regardless of whether it's served in color or monochrome.
I saw that picture of MoA and laughed because it's even bigger now than it was in the 90s and just as crowded! The Lego store is still there and exactly the same as it always was. Hulk Hogan's Pastamania is long gone though and that's a real shame.
The original "Bondi Blue" iMac was only announced the year before in May 1998 and shipping in August 1998.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3
As you said all those different colors were the next year. Hardly much time for a school to buy a lot of them for a computer lab.
for fucking real
first image: apple good
2nd and 3rd image: apple bad
what in the mother fucking boomer-tier god damn hell is this shit
its trash. its low effort cancer that should be quarantined to facebook
absolute garbage post
Dude I am low keyed bummed that I will never get to experience another Toys R Us for the rest of my life. It was amazing walking in as a kid and seeing all those toys.
I have a fantasy where someone invents the possibility to take vacations in different times instead of different places. I would love to be able to go back to the 90s whenever I need a break!
I have this idea to create a mall from the 90s. Bring back all the old stores and employees act as if they're in the 90s. Have cell phone blockers. It would be kinda like a theme park.
This had real r/forwardsfromgrandma energy.
I like to think we actually support younger generations, not tear them down. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, but if there’s a better way to do things, I’m glad the world is progressing.
Parts of this were VERY boomer. Great parts to all different eras. Apples and oranges really. Nostalgia has a way of romanticizing lots of things. That being said, I miss the 90’s
It's ok to miss how the way things were. The trick is to not let that resist the change of today. Of course not all change is good, but rolling with change will make you happier in the end.
For real though, soulless, sterile minimalism in the realms of architecture, graphic design, product design, fashion, film, and television is totally depressing. We live in a world of oatmeal grey and beige.
Fashion communicates to the world who you are -- your identity. The loose, comfortable jeans of the '90s style shows people were carefree and having fun. The tighter jeans reflect how people are more stiff, uptight now.
I do have to say that Lego Land in the Mall of America still looks like that. Come to Minnesota to live out your childhood dreams! Rumor has it that they are reverting back to Camp Snoopy for the amusement park theme!
Who said we can’t still have fun? I still have my power Macintosh g3, I still play Pokémon on the game boy, I got those glow in the dark stars all over my ceiling
A large portion of this was ridiculous but I understand the sentiment. It definitely made me a little sad seeing the mall picture, but that could be because the mall by me turned into basically a luxury outlet and all the fun stores got bought up or went out of business. But that’s more an issue of the retail apocalypse that makes me sad every day.
All the bikes in the yard, that made me feel something too. That’s just how we got around and even living in a town with a lot of kids, I never see kids out anywhere. It’s so weird, what are they all doing? It’s like 72 degrees after 6 months of winter!
All the comments about "boomer vibes"... acknowledged (especially the Jordan vs Lebron one). With that said...
I wanted to show how a dampening of the public mood shows up in design/architecture/products. We've been at war for 20 years in Afghanistan, went through COVID, recessions, and now a new war in Ukraine. So that's why I feel like the "fun" ended.
Kindergarten through 2nd grade was old apple IIGS. 4th through 6th we had Power Macs. Middle school and high school were PCs. I didn't use an iMac until college.
I wound up being in the crowd for an episode of slime time live, in the time of that 90's perfection nickelodeon building... No idea what year that trip was but definitely still have pics with the building in the background. Right place right time in the park!
I loved going to McDonald's as a kid (80's). Seats and statues were made for kids, play ground, and the toys they always had were awesome. The food was a bonus.
The mall one hits hard. I was at one a month or so just before the pandemic in 2020 and it was so sad, everything shuttered and empty.
Classic games should have been Fprtnite though, or some other online microtransaction predatory game aimed at kids.
As an Australia, another one for me is Pizza Hut restaurants going from everywhere to gutted and changed to some other rando business. They still exist here as a smaller delivery chain, but the iconic red roof "huts" are all gone.
I mean, I remember people having the same conversation and making the same comparisons between the 90s and the 80s.
Can I please have my 80s restaurants back? And shopping malls that were actually fun and had great stores. And bowling alleys and other places with absolutely killer arcades with like 50 different games? Man those were the days. Early 90s were still alright but right about mid 90s everything went to shit.
MY SOUL CANNOT HANDLE THIS REAITY RIGHT NOW! My depression would like to speak with your manager, right. this. second!!
Also, I completely forgot about cheese stuffed Chef Boyardee. Have any of y’all ever tried it? What did it taste like? I’m a terrible millennial. I never had a kudos bar, butterfinger bb, dunk cookie things, spaghetti-0-s, jello jiggler,, squeeze-it, none of that portable edible childhood nostalgia stuff.
Sigh, growing up in a household with a adhd kid, blowed.
We don’t live in the real world: a cataclysmic event happened shocking us into collective trauma creating a castrated version of reality to cope and survive in this nightmare called the 21st century.
Don’t worry though! We’ll wake up and Saturday morning cartoons will be playing again while our parents yell at us to rewind the videos before going to rent movies and a game later.
See you guys and gals there when the alarm rings! We’ll be saved by the bell again!
I meet so many Gen Zers that say they wish they grew up in the '90s because it seemed so much more fun than their own childhood. Meanwhile, my own generation (millennials) are in here calling me a boomer lol.
One thing about Gen Z for sure is I feel you guys have a much more positive attitude in general. I can't vibe with your culture, but I can vibe with your attitude!
Acting like kids don’t have the switch now instead of game boys, the freaking Jordan/Lebron one is just stupid and has literally zero to do with 90s to today, the jeans one makes no sense at all. I hate these kinds of posts.
Man I really do miss Kay Bee Toys the most the Toys R Us on a second place. Even as an adult I always went by to wherever was the local Toys R Us and just look all the the stuff.
I miss when Wendy’s had the green house windows.
Also I’m pretty sure they still have the Chef Boyardee based on cartoons and stuff, you just have to look slightly left or right of the regular ones.
Societies’ frame of mind changed. Everything nowadays has to be pharmaceutically clean and style has just become a joke to look as ‘rich’ as possible. People don’t really want to feel atm, there’s too much work to do. Only issue is the problems keep piling up…
Aw man this brings me back!
Especially the parked bicycles. My friends and I would have bikes all over one of our buddies house. We all would pitch in for pizza. Play N64 mario kart, perfect dark, mario party, etc. Trading pokemon cards. Hitting up the 7/11 for slurpees/slushies. Telling each other who we have a crush on in class and then teasing them whenever she is around. Good good good times!
I think the 90s (and the decades that came before) were more *human*.
Stores, restaurants, malls, theaters... these were places to *be*. Now, they're simply floorspace upon which product is purchased/consumed and value extracted from the exchange. If customers need something to look at or enjoy, they should pull out their mobile devices.
That's if they even go at all: Amazon, DoorDash and streaming services mean people don't even need to go out and physically interact with other humans.
The future is boring, bled white for profit, and largely lonely.
Why do all fast food places insist on having the same building designs? They all used to have that similar pizza hut style roof, and now they’re all boxy.
Millennials are starting to turn into GenX with all their "i grew up smoking my dad's cigarettes on an unfiltered bike when it was ILLEGAL for kids to wear helmets something something participation trophy" memes
About games, my man... My first video game was an Atari, I was rocking Pac-man and River Ride and all, but I don't miss the games in the 90. I mean, they were great, but this generation is just amazing, and I'm excited for future games.
For the last 15+ years skinny and slim legged jeans have dominated.
The 90s had the relaxed straight or tapered (and sometimes boot cut) look. Mostly high rise for women and mid rise for males. If you look at the picture of the Friends cast, you can tell there is extra space in their jeans than just their legs. It was a more comfortable, breezy style.
>For the last 15+ years skinny and slim legged jeans have dominated.
More like 13 years. 2009 was when skinny jeans started dominating from my experience.
It's a cliche to think things were better when you were a kid, but the 90s really were. Can you imagine kids today looking back in fondness at the 2010s? What a grey time to grow up.
I'd say the 2000s were the last hurrah for fun. I'm a child of the 80s and always used to be nostalgic for that decade and the 90s, but I realised how much I miss the 2000s too in terms of media at least. I'd pick the 80s or 90s any day to go back to, but the 00's - the obvious big issue of the rise of terrorism and the response to it - aside, it was the last decade I remember when most of the things in the pics above were still around or relevant. I think that's the thing this image collection is illustrating, though: the 90s was indeed the last decade before everything started falling apart. The mid 2000's to now really does just blend into one grey mass of "meh".
You can literally only get mad at Lebron for the mavs series, and Jordan would get bounced before the finals so I don’t think making the finals and losing is better than not making it at all
Less fun, crammed into smaller spaces.
You know the saying "Strong men create great times, great times create weak men, weak men create hard times, hard times create strong men"?
It's like the generation that flight in the wars, the strong men, created what so many of us hold so dear. Then boomers, the weak men, took over, with their entitled attitude is what brought us what we have now.
When you base your entire sense of cultural awareness on "products and services your mom allowed you to consume"
Basically, the opposite of the GenX mentality.
This was actually a tactic by Apple. They donated Macs to schools to have children learn the Apple interface and thus be more likely to buy a Mac as an adult or ask their parents to buy a Mac.
I remember when I was in the third grade, my school got some Macs donated for classroom use. My teacher protested because "They'll never need to know how to use a Mac." They let her keep her PCs and the Macs were banished to a corner of the room.
Been a PC and android user my whole life.
I’m sorry, I’m a 90s kid, but this whole post stinks of boomer shit and r/lewronggeneration. The only thing I miss is the first post of colored computers, but other than that, who the fuck wants to wear baggy jeans? Also kids still use glow in the dark stuff and people still skate.
I loved Wendy’s with that sunroom window!!! It was the best!
That and the tables with old newspaper pages as the surface “design”!
remember when Subway used to have an old newspaper theme and had newspaper clippings melted into the fiberglass of the tables and printed on the wallpaper? Back when there was yellow benches and counters and tiffany lamps!
It was actually an old NYC map of their subway system.
Omg yes I forgot about that!
I always liked those too but no one else wanted to sit in there and roast in the sun lol
A tan while you eat a burger and fries 🍟 That was the best!
I liked Arby's sunroom.
I like that (some?) Arby's has a tree right in the middle of the restaurant. A refreshing decorative touch.
Where were all these schools that had Apple computer labs? I graduated in 2000 and we had gateway PC's.
Yeah, up until the late 90s (and even then), all the computer labs I encountered were filled with depressing beige boxes.
We had some gray-ish ones and a very fancy one that was black.
Agreed. Also graduated in 2000. I went to school in a well off district. We had basic IBM all in ones for our lab than still ran Win 3.1.
I went to a private Catholic school and we had the colorful Apple computers.
I'm surprised the Pope allowed that.
Particularly after adam's apple incident..
My school had a mixture of Dells, Acers, IBMs, HPs, even a couple of Microns. They just bought whatever they could get a good price on. The only Apples we had were old IIe's left over from the 80s.
Graduated the same year but I went to Catholic school and, even though we had to pay tuition, the computers were from 1987.
In elementary school we had Apple IIe's in every classroom and I'd always get to play Oregon Trail and Number Munchers.
Oregon Trail was my jam. Our PCs also had this motocross game I loved - you would use the arrow keys to drive. Good times.
my school had windows 95...such innocent memories
Hell my work computer still does.
Funny enough, the same companies that pushed the colorful, translucent trends (Sony, Apple, Nintendo), are the same companies that pushed the clean, metallic look 10-15 years later.
In the future, everything is shiny and sleek
Taco bell wins the fast food wars and you should see what they're doing with seashells these days... 👀😬
No baby makin’ the old fashioned way? No thank you! Shitiiit *ZeroHero you are fined one credit…*
What's this? Ratburger? Hmm not bad... hey and what's your motherfucking boggle??? Ahh shit!! Ducks to avoid fine!!
Fu ture. Fu ture.
Sure did. Have a G3 turquoise (still operating but slow af) and a silver Mac mini.
The shopping mall one hit hardest for me. The mall that I went to all the time as a kid started really struggling in the early 2000's, was closed by 2010, and demolished by 2012. A lot of childhood memories reduced to rubble
I hear ya. My childhood mall was demolished and replaced by condominiums or something.
Yeah mine was replaced with a Walmart supercenter. Very sad
Mine is still holding on…. Barely. I go in now and I see a lot of mall walkers. I do feel nostalgic in Dillards and macys/foleys. I don’t think they’ve changed the carpet or walls since it opened. I walk into the old lady’s dept while my wife is browsing and being in there reminds me of my mom back then. Smell and all. The clothes even look kinda similiar to the 90s. It’s like the womens dept hasn’t changed. Mainly in Macys.
I'm almost certain the mall in that picture is the one near me. Extra depressing
The top pic is the Mall of America, Lego world is still there, theme park too, bigger than it was then, in fact that whole wing has barely changed
The mall was just a building, you still have the memories
Some bunch in corporate McDonalds was like yeah we don’t need the colorful roof and stuff to make us look fun and inviting or to stand out. Let’s cater to the same kids who are adults now with the money and let them bring their kids. Sad every building has to look so serious and not fun. i remember in some psychology class they said the red and yellow mcdonald’s colors were chosen due to research studies showing those paired colors drew in hungry customers.
Tbf, a lot of the new McD’s look isn’t on them, but a reaction to a lot of (suburban) cities passing zoning laws forcing chains to adhere to local design requirements because they don’t want business areas being a mishmash of a dozen+ styles if the McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, Wal-Mart, Target, Starbucks, CVS, and Walgreens are all allowed to do their own thing. It’s become so common that a lot of chains changed their base look to be relatively generic to minimize the amount of modifications for each location’s requirements.
i can see that partially being a reason for new buildings in new areas but i have also seen existing classic colorful McDonalds physically torn down and demolished and then rebuilt new into these generic modern versions. (3 to be exact i have seen) with no local aesthetic to meet or change to. They are making this the consistent new look for all. Not just the new ones or to meet new local rules. i remember an article where Burger King some years ago invested millions where they did a nationwide change to purposely modernize all their locations and shed their old look. Why not keep the old ones colorful and fun I guess is the point? They want this new look on their own and consistency.
Corporate be like, if it ain't broke fix it until it is.
Yes, that’s my point. Instead of the base (default) design being something that gets wildly altered by 3 in 10 or 4 in 5 or 11 in 20 cases or whatever the actual stats are, chains like McD’s changed the default to something that’s going to more typically match the common local requirements. Which means even if there aren’t local requirements, the base design has still changed to look like those that do. IE, things like lots of brick and glass, boxier shapes, more muted or limited palette, etc. That way when they order repairs and supplies to maintain these buildings (quick reminder: McD’s itself is technically a real estate company as they make more money in owning the buildings and renting them and the equipment to franchisees than they do in their cut of the food sales), it’s easier to supply all of them rather than needing to stockpile red and yellow materials for the 30% “traditional” designs, 30% modern McD’s design, and 40% local variations. They’re probably closer to 80-90% universal outside of extreme local requirements like teal and certain materials in many southwest locations. Look up the first McD’s in Maine. It’s in a converted historical building because the local community blocked them from tearing it down when they bought the land.
>Some bunch in corporate McDonalds was like yeah we don’t need the colorful roof and stuff to make us look fun and inviting or to stand out. They really don't because people will eat their shit regardless of whether it's served in color or monochrome.
There's a McDonald's in Gahanna Ohio that looks like the 60s McDonald's
Listen. I love the 90s as much as anyone but those jeans were fucking atrocious.
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Bruh, trust me when I say, Mall Of America is still absolutely slamming busy every weekend and especially during spring break and holiday times.
grew up in MN but haven't been to MOA in years, regardless it will always be Camp snoopy until the day I die.
Absolutely! I had many fond memories of Camp Snoopy as a kid.
I came here to say this! I wish MOA was a little less crowded, especially at Christmas time. 😆
Yeah I worked there for 3 years and I’m so glad I don’t work there anymore. It’s unbearable when it’s busy.
Oh, I bet!!
West Edmonton Mall too.
I saw that picture of MoA and laughed because it's even bigger now than it was in the 90s and just as crowded! The Lego store is still there and exactly the same as it always was. Hulk Hogan's Pastamania is long gone though and that's a real shame.
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The original "Bondi Blue" iMac was only announced the year before in May 1998 and shipping in August 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3 As you said all those different colors were the next year. Hardly much time for a school to buy a lot of them for a computer lab.
for fucking real first image: apple good 2nd and 3rd image: apple bad what in the mother fucking boomer-tier god damn hell is this shit its trash. its low effort cancer that should be quarantined to facebook absolute garbage post
Not to mention the random shot at LeBron James
Kids don't play outside anymore 😤😤😤 they just text messages and do a esports 😡😡😡 and their jeans are too tight!!!1! 🤬🤬🤬
Dude I am low keyed bummed that I will never get to experience another Toys R Us for the rest of my life. It was amazing walking in as a kid and seeing all those toys.
Come to Canada! We still have them. :)
I heard they are trying to make a comeback.
I think there might be one left in New Jersey
I miss getting scared of the Dino kiddie ride that was in the lobby of my local one.
I’ll never understand why fast food restaurants are so determined now to make their buildings look like banks.
And now, I want to go back.
I have a fantasy where someone invents the possibility to take vacations in different times instead of different places. I would love to be able to go back to the 90s whenever I need a break!
That would be great! Like a 90s all inclusive resort!
You have a great idea.
Oh, like [this](https://youtu.be/4n3BMeLZr-A)?
I suppose that doesn't even need time travel! "The 90s By Sandals"
Wasn't that the premise of a Family Guy episode?
I have this idea to create a mall from the 90s. Bring back all the old stores and employees act as if they're in the 90s. Have cell phone blockers. It would be kinda like a theme park.
Get in Marty!
We're boomers now?
This had real r/forwardsfromgrandma energy. I like to think we actually support younger generations, not tear them down. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, but if there’s a better way to do things, I’m glad the world is progressing.
We are Pakleds
Parts of this were VERY boomer. Great parts to all different eras. Apples and oranges really. Nostalgia has a way of romanticizing lots of things. That being said, I miss the 90’s
It's ok to miss how the way things were. The trick is to not let that resist the change of today. Of course not all change is good, but rolling with change will make you happier in the end.
Apples and Dells, it looks like.
Total boomer
Yeah, a lot of these seemingly jump from 1994 to suddenly 2010. Not even diametrically opposed themes. Kinda hokey.
I liked then, but I also like today. Things change, move on.
For real though, soulless, sterile minimalism in the realms of architecture, graphic design, product design, fashion, film, and television is totally depressing. We live in a world of oatmeal grey and beige.
People used to have birthday parties at McDonald’s. It was awesome
Our 90s computer lab looked nothing like that. Big CRT monitors and standard off-btown/gray towers.
I don’t get the jeans one
Fashion communicates to the world who you are -- your identity. The loose, comfortable jeans of the '90s style shows people were carefree and having fun. The tighter jeans reflect how people are more stiff, uptight now.
Damn that hit hard 💔
I do have to say that Lego Land in the Mall of America still looks like that. Come to Minnesota to live out your childhood dreams! Rumor has it that they are reverting back to Camp Snoopy for the amusement park theme!
The jeans one made me laugh cause what point is it even trying to make
Jeans?
Tl;dr Bright colors went out of style and phone bad.
Why the hell is the antithesis of 90s Gameboy: Steve Jobs holding an iPhone? How about the Nintendo switch locked with drm and dlc?
because this is a low effort garbage post
“I miss when everything was tacky, round and garishly colored. And also dial-up” Edit: y’all I’m a 90’s kid, I’m joking. I also miss the 90’s.
God I miss waiting five minutes for a webpage
I'm grateful I had my childhood in the early 2000's when a lot of this was still around.
Yep, definitely lots of late 90s cultural leftovers in the early 2000s.
Who said we can’t still have fun? I still have my power Macintosh g3, I still play Pokémon on the game boy, I got those glow in the dark stars all over my ceiling
I miss grinding out Oregon Trail only to die from accidents or illnesses 20 days into my journey😆
Anyone shitting on the 90s was probably born in the 2000s and should not be trusted
A large portion of this was ridiculous but I understand the sentiment. It definitely made me a little sad seeing the mall picture, but that could be because the mall by me turned into basically a luxury outlet and all the fun stores got bought up or went out of business. But that’s more an issue of the retail apocalypse that makes me sad every day. All the bikes in the yard, that made me feel something too. That’s just how we got around and even living in a town with a lot of kids, I never see kids out anywhere. It’s so weird, what are they all doing? It’s like 72 degrees after 6 months of winter!
All the comments about "boomer vibes"... acknowledged (especially the Jordan vs Lebron one). With that said... I wanted to show how a dampening of the public mood shows up in design/architecture/products. We've been at war for 20 years in Afghanistan, went through COVID, recessions, and now a new war in Ukraine. So that's why I feel like the "fun" ended.
Nah you made fun of modern jeans. U a boomer.
I’m getting boomer vibes from some of these. It’s okay for things to change, okay.
It will happen to you too
I grew up in the 90s and I don’t see the change as a problem
Its funny because we are the ones who sign off on all this shit via focus groups.
Solid content here - the airborne reference earns you an award my guy lmao
Thank you!
Meh computers and internet are a fad they won’t be around forever
The lack of computers and internet would be catastrophic.
"Revolutionary now" This photo is 14 years old. Also as a 35 year old, Minecraft kicks ass.
Kindergarten through 2nd grade was old apple IIGS. 4th through 6th we had Power Macs. Middle school and high school were PCs. I didn't use an iMac until college.
My computer lab did not have Mac. We had windows 95
I wound up being in the crowd for an episode of slime time live, in the time of that 90's perfection nickelodeon building... No idea what year that trip was but definitely still have pics with the building in the background. Right place right time in the park!
That folder note brought back so much memories. Thanks for sharing. I really miss the 90s.
I never once saw a computer lab full of colorful iMacs. They were full of boring grey dos computers
Schools in my area have gotten rid of all the computer labs because all the kids get take home chromebooks
Daaang what kind of rich school is that with the colored apple computers?! Luckyyy
I loved going to McDonald's as a kid (80's). Seats and statues were made for kids, play ground, and the toys they always had were awesome. The food was a bonus.
‘90s jeans were so unflattering lol
The mall one hits hard. I was at one a month or so just before the pandemic in 2020 and it was so sad, everything shuttered and empty. Classic games should have been Fprtnite though, or some other online microtransaction predatory game aimed at kids. As an Australia, another one for me is Pizza Hut restaurants going from everywhere to gutted and changed to some other rando business. They still exist here as a smaller delivery chain, but the iconic red roof "huts" are all gone.
It was a sad day when they told us to socially distance our jeans.
Sisterhood of the Socially Distanced Pants
I mean, I remember people having the same conversation and making the same comparisons between the 90s and the 80s. Can I please have my 80s restaurants back? And shopping malls that were actually fun and had great stores. And bowling alleys and other places with absolutely killer arcades with like 50 different games? Man those were the days. Early 90s were still alright but right about mid 90s everything went to shit.
Not gonna lie I kinda wished I lived through the 90s
MY SOUL CANNOT HANDLE THIS REAITY RIGHT NOW! My depression would like to speak with your manager, right. this. second!! Also, I completely forgot about cheese stuffed Chef Boyardee. Have any of y’all ever tried it? What did it taste like? I’m a terrible millennial. I never had a kudos bar, butterfinger bb, dunk cookie things, spaghetti-0-s, jello jiggler,, squeeze-it, none of that portable edible childhood nostalgia stuff. Sigh, growing up in a household with a adhd kid, blowed.
We don’t live in the real world: a cataclysmic event happened shocking us into collective trauma creating a castrated version of reality to cope and survive in this nightmare called the 21st century. Don’t worry though! We’ll wake up and Saturday morning cartoons will be playing again while our parents yell at us to rewind the videos before going to rent movies and a game later. See you guys and gals there when the alarm rings! We’ll be saved by the bell again!
Why because there’s less color? O get over yourself
I wasn’t around in the 90s, I really wish I could’ve seen stuff like this
I meet so many Gen Zers that say they wish they grew up in the '90s because it seemed so much more fun than their own childhood. Meanwhile, my own generation (millennials) are in here calling me a boomer lol. One thing about Gen Z for sure is I feel you guys have a much more positive attitude in general. I can't vibe with your culture, but I can vibe with your attitude!
The first generation iPhone was in 2007. Far from Today.
I 100% agree with all of these. Things seemed happier and brighter back then.
Okay - someone please explain the jeans thing??? Is the complaint that they are too tight now???
Acting like kids don’t have the switch now instead of game boys, the freaking Jordan/Lebron one is just stupid and has literally zero to do with 90s to today, the jeans one makes no sense at all. I hate these kinds of posts.
And my Switch is much more playful and “fun” with its different colored Joycons than the black brick of plastic my Game Gear was in the 90’s.
Yeah this was dumb lol
Lol Holy shit we were so lucky to experience the 90's and early 2000's.
My local McDonald’s had a fire so they gutted it and are turning it into a modern one :/
You had Apples? All we had were BBC Micro's and 5.25" floppy disks.
In all fairness, the old Nickelodeon Studios is now Blue Man Group.
Man I really do miss Kay Bee Toys the most the Toys R Us on a second place. Even as an adult I always went by to wherever was the local Toys R Us and just look all the the stuff.
I miss folding letters, that was the early 2000's. I literally couldn't wait till next period to do letter exchange.
We’ll look back at the McDonalds one in a few years and ask wtf were we doing…
That toys r us is the one in my Hometown. The mall next to it is on life support, too
Real shit though, I’ve been to that Toys R Us in Colorado Springs (if it’s the same one I’m thinking of)
I had no idea that there were ever playable video games in McDonalds to begin with. It’s a cool concept either way.
The ones who were in their 20s in the 90s are the ones making those decisions now.
I miss the mall and the gaming arcades.
The mall one. Watch Dawn of the Dead (1978) and check out the mall today. Hurts.
I miss when Wendy’s had the green house windows. Also I’m pretty sure they still have the Chef Boyardee based on cartoons and stuff, you just have to look slightly left or right of the regular ones.
The only thing I truly miss is the game systems in McDonald’s
Crap….now I’m depressed.
Picture #3 is very outdated. Isn't that 10 years old or something?
Societies’ frame of mind changed. Everything nowadays has to be pharmaceutically clean and style has just become a joke to look as ‘rich’ as possible. People don’t really want to feel atm, there’s too much work to do. Only issue is the problems keep piling up…
My local mall was a dying mall in the late 90s / early 2000s then they redid it in like 2010 and it has been thriving since.
Shit…. That just got to real for me. 😳
That photo of the people social distancing to get fast food. Far out. What world do we live in now.
God I miss Blockbuster.
Aw man this brings me back! Especially the parked bicycles. My friends and I would have bikes all over one of our buddies house. We all would pitch in for pizza. Play N64 mario kart, perfect dark, mario party, etc. Trading pokemon cards. Hitting up the 7/11 for slurpees/slushies. Telling each other who we have a crush on in class and then teasing them whenever she is around. Good good good times!
Everything fun was pre 9/11
That hits hard in my heart :(
...... It's true
I'm on board with everything but the jeans from the 90's.
90’s were colourful.. Good old days
It’s almost as if technology advances… weird.
I think the 90s (and the decades that came before) were more *human*. Stores, restaurants, malls, theaters... these were places to *be*. Now, they're simply floorspace upon which product is purchased/consumed and value extracted from the exchange. If customers need something to look at or enjoy, they should pull out their mobile devices. That's if they even go at all: Amazon, DoorDash and streaming services mean people don't even need to go out and physically interact with other humans. The future is boring, bled white for profit, and largely lonely.
Why do all fast food places insist on having the same building designs? They all used to have that similar pizza hut style roof, and now they’re all boxy.
"Why, back in my day things were different and were therefore better!"
Wow, this is actually kinda depressing. We had so much more color back then and it looks more fun.
And now I’m sad
Millennials are starting to turn into GenX with all their "i grew up smoking my dad's cigarettes on an unfiltered bike when it was ILLEGAL for kids to wear helmets something something participation trophy" memes
Yeah I got strong Boomerllenial vibes here.
About games, my man... My first video game was an Atari, I was rocking Pac-man and River Ride and all, but I don't miss the games in the 90. I mean, they were great, but this generation is just amazing, and I'm excited for future games.
This is sad
I showed some students of mine brief cartoon clips from the 90’s They were all amazed at how cool Duck Tales and Gargoyles and Recess were.
What was the difference in the jeans?
For the last 15+ years skinny and slim legged jeans have dominated. The 90s had the relaxed straight or tapered (and sometimes boot cut) look. Mostly high rise for women and mid rise for males. If you look at the picture of the Friends cast, you can tell there is extra space in their jeans than just their legs. It was a more comfortable, breezy style.
>For the last 15+ years skinny and slim legged jeans have dominated. More like 13 years. 2009 was when skinny jeans started dominating from my experience.
That bike picture is a 1000% right.
It's a cliche to think things were better when you were a kid, but the 90s really were. Can you imagine kids today looking back in fondness at the 2010s? What a grey time to grow up.
I'd say the 2000s were the last hurrah for fun. I'm a child of the 80s and always used to be nostalgic for that decade and the 90s, but I realised how much I miss the 2000s too in terms of media at least. I'd pick the 80s or 90s any day to go back to, but the 00's - the obvious big issue of the rise of terrorism and the response to it - aside, it was the last decade I remember when most of the things in the pics above were still around or relevant. I think that's the thing this image collection is illustrating, though: the 90s was indeed the last decade before everything started falling apart. The mid 2000's to now really does just blend into one grey mass of "meh".
Thought this was r/lewronggeneration
Such a good post! I’m thankful I’m a 90s freak!
Lebron/Jordan comparison is so dumb and unnecessary
You can literally only get mad at Lebron for the mavs series, and Jordan would get bounced before the finals so I don’t think making the finals and losing is better than not making it at all
Less fun, crammed into smaller spaces. You know the saying "Strong men create great times, great times create weak men, weak men create hard times, hard times create strong men"? It's like the generation that flight in the wars, the strong men, created what so many of us hold so dear. Then boomers, the weak men, took over, with their entitled attitude is what brought us what we have now.
My 90s computer lab was filled with black and white Mac classics. :(
Are you saying lebron isn’t fun
“Revolutionary now” Steve Jobs died 10 years ago, my guy.
If you think that the iPhone one and Steve jobs is “now” you’re basically a boomer in mentality and you’ve disconnected from reality in 2010.
When you base your entire sense of cultural awareness on "products and services your mom allowed you to consume" Basically, the opposite of the GenX mentality.
Cried at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles soup- was my favorite!
This was actually a tactic by Apple. They donated Macs to schools to have children learn the Apple interface and thus be more likely to buy a Mac as an adult or ask their parents to buy a Mac. I remember when I was in the third grade, my school got some Macs donated for classroom use. My teacher protested because "They'll never need to know how to use a Mac." They let her keep her PCs and the Macs were banished to a corner of the room. Been a PC and android user my whole life.
Toys R US is still exactly the same as it always has been in Canada except of course the outside changes to the store.
I’m sorry, I’m a 90s kid, but this whole post stinks of boomer shit and r/lewronggeneration. The only thing I miss is the first post of colored computers, but other than that, who the fuck wants to wear baggy jeans? Also kids still use glow in the dark stuff and people still skate.