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What’s one word to prove you lived trough the 90’s? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 164 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Waaazzzaaaap

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That ad campaign started in 99, its really more of a 2000’s thing.

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Winamp.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

…it really whips the llamas ass!

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Y2K.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I survived idiocy of managers asking for Y2K compliant padlocks. As in, physical padlocks.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hope you charged them double.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Encarta

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Pogs

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Remember Alf? He's back! In pog form!

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Netscape

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Tamagotchi

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

NOT!

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Dialup

[–] protput 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pshhhkkkkkkrrrr​kakingkakingkakingtsh​chchchchchchchcch​*ding*ding*ding*

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bobwehadababyitsaboy

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Psych!

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not a word, but the phrase "going online". As in not being constantly connected at all times. We had to actually "get" online to look at stuff.

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[–] ChonkyOwlbear 39 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I can do it with no words

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[–] Chainweasel 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)

D.A.R.E

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[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

JNCO's

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Pogs

[–] RozhkiNozhki 34 points 1 year ago

Napster

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Baud. Maybe kilobauds.. That and "da bomb" are very memorable to me from then...

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Myst

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[–] sturmblast 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Kkrrrsshhhbiiieieiekkkkrrrrriieiekkkrrsshshshbriiieie

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Discman - so much better than the Walkman. =)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

JNCO

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cowabunga

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[–] Confuserated 30 points 1 year ago

Tubthumping

[–] exiaxzero 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Floppy disks (or "diskettes").

Also, Y2K.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Information superhighway"

Two words, I know.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

BRRRRphhhhttttttbrrrrrraaaaaapppppingtingtingBOINGBaTingBatingtingphhhhhhhhttttt.....

The sounds of the internet, volume one.

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[–] Sacha 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Slime/goop

The 90s had an obsession with slime/goop. Toys, mascots, etc.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Gak.

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[–] JoeClu 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

IRC and ICQ

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Clear craze.

As in technology. Translucent gadgets were all the rage. Not quite one word, I was going to go with translucent, but found it actually had a name.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

NoFear

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Be kind, REWIND.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Phat

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

autoexec.bat

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wazzzzuuuuuuuup!

with entirely to much tongue.

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[–] LaughingFox 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cowabunga

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[–] ji88aja88a 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hypercolor

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hackysack

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tamagotchi

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Emoticon

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