Waaazzzaaaap
Outside of America, this is interpreted as a reference to Scary Movie instead of the budweiser ad.
As a European, that’s indeed how I interpreted this.
Hahaha that’s the first thing that popped in my mind! 😂
Here in the Netherlands I never heard of it!
Winamp.
…it really whips the llamas ass!
Baaaahhh!!!
I still use Winamp regularly.
Skins for winamp!
Encarta
I remember this from the school library computers. That and even back then the school had some kind of broadband, it blew my mind that to get online all we had to do was open IE. I was used to that part but always had whatever dial up service we had at the time to open up and connect first. Just clicking IE and going was crazy to me.
I remember trying to play Mind Maze and knowing absolutely nothing.
I loved the video it has about nuclear fission reactions.
Netscape
Linux and Mac users can hold on to a little piece of that history with the wonderful xscreensaver suite (its author, jwz, was a Netscape dude).
Even better just use Firefox it descended from Netscape Navigator.
Jwz! He was like nerd Jesus to us 90s computer geeks
Tamagotchi
Just bought my first Tamagatchi in 2023 lol
Had the yellow one and a game boy one.
And a couple different brand ones. Or maybe just one other one? I forget now.
NOT!
Bobwehadababyitsaboy
I remember it as "eeetsaboy"
This was my first thought lol
Psych!
You know that’s right!
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.
Remember cyberspace?
I remember before I had the internet wondering why companies had ads for "http://" and others were on "www" and having no clue if I needed to buy a special internet to access each.
D.A.R.E
Ooo what about "Double-Dare"??
Physical challenge.
I started school in 2006 and I can still remember this being a thing
I only wear mine when getting really high
I failed D.A.R.E and they made me watch the ceremony of all the other kid's graduations. I just wasn't interested in drugs.
JNCO's
I still laugh thinking back to 8th grade when my buddy, Tyler, got his first pair of JNCOs. To paint a picture, Tyler couldn't have been more than 90 pounds soaking wet and had a bowl cut (being it the 90s). He had a big goofy grin on his face and goes "check it out - I can fit a whole 2 liter of Mountain Dew in my pocket!" And sure enough, he pulled a full 2 liter of Mountain Dew out of his front pocket.
Tyler was definitely a product of the times
Pogs
Napster
Baud. Maybe kilobauds.. That and "da bomb" are very memorable to me from then...
For a age of pre internet (for the masses) we sure had a lot of unique words :)
I don't remember kilobaud being a word. I only remember it being a word that was misused for some reason. Or maybe just disfavored against an actual unit. Like it was equivalent to like some small unit, and got outgrown quickly.
Like when going from bits per second to kilobits per second, I think hair was a single word that meant bits per second, but was not a literal unit, so kilobaud didn't make sense, whereas kilobits did.
At least that's how I remember it off hand, could be wrong.
Baud rate is the maximum number of transitions per second of the state of a transmission medium. Hz is the actual number of cycles per second, so it varies degending on the data transmitted. Bitrate is the number of bits transmitted per second.
Usually bits are transmitted in groups with some redundancy to allow errors to be corrected. E.g. early Ethernet used 8b/10b encoding; 8 bits of data were transmitted as a 10 bit "symbol".
With a 1b/1b encoding baud rate would equal bit rate, but in practice that was essentially never used so the numbers woud diverge. Bitrate is more meaningful to the user.
SI and binary prefixes can be applied to baud, so kilobaud is certainly a word.
It may have been misused at some point, but "baud" was a word long before the internet, and I distinctly remember my modem at the time using the word baud on the box. I was just a teenager, so I'm sure I was missing key information. It was used, tho.
Here, this is proving us both right:
If your modem-to-modem connection is at 14400 bps, it's going to be sending 6 bits per signal transition (or symbol) at 2400 baud. A speed of 28800 bps is obtained by 3200 baud at 9 bits/baud. When people misuse the word baud, they may mean the modem speed (such as 33.6k).
Kilobaud is definitely a word that means a thing. Baud is a literal unit of measure that uses the metric prefixes.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Myst
The bundle of myst games was on humble bundle a week or two ago. I've been waiting for the right time to immerse myself in myst VR and be just as confounded as I was as a kid. Then I get to see if Riven is still completely impossible for me.
Kkrrrsshhhbiiieieiekkkkrrrrriieiekkkrrsshshshbriiieie
And then someone picked up the phone and you had to start all over again
Why did I hear this comment !?! 😂
Anyone remember upgrading their modem and getting excited because it made new noises? I can’t be the only one.
JNCO
Kikwear, too.
Randy River too
Discman - so much better than the Walkman. =)
I loved my discman, but remember trying to pretend like it wasn't skipping with every bodily movement? That's the advantage the walkman had that we didn't want to admit at the time
The later models had quite a large buffer and you'd have to shake it pretty long for it to skip.
By the time I could get one that wasn't a problem.
Mine has a 10 second buffer so it never skipped, except on the RW-CD that has been re written to 10x
minidisc
That was a cool fad. I had one that you could connect to the internet! Was rad.
Hitclips. Listen to the chorus of your favorite song for only $5 a pop.
Tubthumping
Slime/goop
The 90s had an obsession with slime/goop. Toys, mascots, etc.
Gak.
You can't do that on television
Edit: looked it back up, didn't realize that ended in 90. It probably set that stage for slime use in Double Dare and the like
Flubber started that craze didn't it?
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.
You remember that future phones would be all transparent slabs of glass? Funny how things have changed and also not changed!
Like the translucent (still corded, so not that hi-tech) phone with the bright colors for all the components? I had one of those! I think the outer part of my cord was actually clear, too.
Ooh, and that dope clear pager was hella rad!
On that note, remember payphones?? (getting paged by my mom and having to find a payphone to call the family 800# and check in...)
My mate had a transparent ps1 controller. I wanted it so bad.
i've got a clear ps4 controller. it's pretty cool.
I still have one of those in clear blue, along with clear blue extender cords. Have clear purple GameCube controllers, and a light-up clear Xbox controller 😁
Now controllers are so heavy I have to skin them to help with hand fatigue, so no point getting clear cases.
I miss that aesthetic, though, and I’m glad it’s starting to reappear.
Be kind, REWIND.
Phat
Hypercolor
Those were so awesome! How come they don't make hyoercolor shirts anymore?? I'd buy them.
The effect stopped working after a few washes, plus, if you broke a sweat your pits would glow like you were bleeding Gatorade.
Still rad.
Hey I invented that
Like a drum rhythm except with colored strobe.
I was thinking the t-shirts/clothing
MiniDisc
Dude, what does mine say?
Bobwehadababyitsaboy
Scatman.
I didn't need this earworm today.
Grunge
Radical
Cowabunga!
Hypercolor
C:\DOOM\DOOM.EXE Edit: Fixed wrong slashes because crappy Android keyboard was missing it. Swapped keyboard.
Wrong slashes.
I know. The keyboard I have on Android lacks a backslash. I did just find it on the Samsung keyboard, though, so
C:\DOOM\DOOM.EXE
IDDQD
IDKFA
Idssispopd (or something like that)
BeOS
How do you like Haiku?
I like it very much. But I wonder if it will ever be suitable as a daily driver.
Quake
Game Genie
Gameboy
Lay-hoo ze-her.
(It counts as one word. Shut up.)
Gnarly
PLUR
(The) bomb.
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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Netscape Infoseek Lycos Geocities
How much is the fish?
Walkman
Cowabunga!!
Animaniacs
Rad.
"Radical" (as in meaning "super cool")
Rad dude!!!!
56k Flex Modem
Was the floppy disc typically 90’s?
80's, early 90's. I think from '92 or so onwards, CD-ROM drives became standard equipment for home computers, but until the late 90's they still came equipped with a floppy drive, if only to boot into recovery mode after a crash.
Because CDs weren't commonly writeable until almost a decade later.
Radical/Rad!
Just for Italian people: Cioè
BILL BILL BILL BILL (It's one word, I just wrote it four times)
Science rules!
Inertia is a property of matter.
FidoNet
Mostly 80s and early 90s (I think the nodelist peaked in size in about 1991 or 1992 or thereabouts, at about 30,000 nodes - I could be wrong). It's still going by the way.
Bosnia
Oof…
Rollerblades
IRC
Windbreakers
Meh
Pogs
You've Got Mail
Whatever.
Minidisc
Heeey, macarena!
WIN98
“Lady’s and gentleman, this is a computer and we might see it a lot more in the future.” - a news report back then. :)
Wazzup
Need about 10 more Z's
Yeltzin
Yo'unbelievabo
OOOOOH!!!!!
I remember the info campaign of my country's change of currency when it got pegged to the Deutschmark after it did a Venezimbabwe. It was by a popular children's/teen tv show host.
I was about 2 or 3 but the only thing I remember is the news anchors repeating the word "Chechen" all the time. I understood nothing but it sounded funny.
We had a stereo with an inbuilt vinyl record player, as well as cassette tape player.
I played NES games on Terminator-2. Post-soviet collapse flooded the market with knockoffs which were decent for the price.
I remember watching Bill Clinton's scandal on the news though I had little idea what happened, nor what impeachment meant.
That's more than 1 word.
You mean titles are meant to be read? Whoops!
Terminator-2.
Wicked
Emule
eMule was first released in 2002, as an open source alternative client to the official eDonkey2000 client.
Napster would have technically been a 90's term, since it released mid 1999, but p2p wasn't really a mainstream thing until the early 2000's.
!!! I lost so much time to Emule! Sadly it is more a 00’s thing. (Which sounds like a fun tread!)
Quakenet! (Its still up but.. a lot fewer users these days)
Farfegnugen.
Fahrvergnügen?
If you're going to translate it into German (•_•)
Muss wohl.
Floam.
Gak
Tamagotchi!
The flashbacks to rushing home and feeding it are 🥰
Coolaroonie
Zetus Lapetus
I just found outnis two words.
drivebys
Koosh.
Surge!
It's Patrick, he took out life insurance!
245032701*
can still remember my ICQ number, but constantly forget my own birthday xD
Phat
rawr :3
JNCO
Koosh
Sketchers
Bobdolio
e
airhogs!
iMac G3
Shibby
Zaphod
Doesn’t Hitchhiker’s Guide date back to the late 70’s?
I think the fifth book in the trilogy came out in the mid-90s.
And it's still a thing
For starters, Zorro!
Teyandee!
Mondo
Wasn't too upset this disappeared. Sqeez-it bottles had the cool faces, and Mondo bottles were too stiff to squeeze easily.
120 Minutes
Zubaz.
FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE
Trough
Word, Dope, Fresh.... nvm that's pre-90s.
golliwogs
Http://www. Lauracroftnude .com
Http://www. Hotnudecheerleaders .com
Didn't have a useable search engine
Trouse
Gateway
Treo
Bead lizards
So assuming you actually have to...
You'll need to do something that doesn't come up in the social zeitgeist that often, but is instantly recognizable to anyone from that era.
Maybe talk about how a lot of the time people's watches said different times and you didn't know which ones were right?
Alternatively you can share some personal anecdote that relates to well known trends at the time. Like talk about listening to smells like teen spirit while smoking cigarettes stolen from your friend's older brother.
