# How long before '90s nostalgia hits the scene? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315 "2011-07-17T03:01:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/1 "2011-07-17T03:01:25Z")
I’m thinking retro-rave clubs (analogous to retro-disco clubs), that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/2 "2011-07-17T07:46:39Z")
Nev_aaa_! The 90s were shit stains on History’s underwear, they should not be remembered. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/3 "2011-07-17T08:57:30Z")
I can’t figure out what defines “the 90s.” There were early technologies that are now standard, and a few pop culture events that are either ridiculed or fondly remembered, like any decade, but otherwise I find it hard to really define. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/4 "2011-07-17T09:00:01Z")
Figuring that the Transformers film was released in 2007, then 90s nostalgia should hit around 2017. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/5 "2011-07-17T09:35:25Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I can’t figure out what defines “the 90s.” The closest I’ve managed is “_Parker Lewis Can’t Lose_” (A great show, BTW, which still holds up today). There’s something extremely “90s” about it that I can’t quite put my finger on (the shirts maybe?), but otherwise, yeah, I agree with you, there doesn’t seem to be much that really defines the '90s in a broad cultural sense at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/6 "2011-07-17T09:39:18Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > The closest I’ve managed is “_Parker Lewis Can’t Lose_” (A great show, BTW, which still holds up today). There’s something extremely “90s” about it that I can’t quite put my finger on (the shirts maybe?), but otherwise, yeah, I agree with you, there doesn’t seem to be much that really defines the '90s in a broad cultural sense at the moment. That’s exactly why I loathe/hate the 90s. For all the ludicrousness the eighties embraced and embodied, at least they had style. The 90s are just a black hole to me, a waste in humankind’s time. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/7 "2011-07-17T10:00:04Z")
As soon as kids who grew up in the 1990’s have large amounts of disposable income. “Nostalgia”, after all, is a marketing construct. ---
**Author:** ![Bibliothecarius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@Bibliothecarius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliothecarius)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/8 "2011-07-17T10:32:54Z")
I thought it had already begun with that atrocious remake of _90210_… ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/9 "2011-07-17T10:40:37Z")
Soundgarden, the Backstreet Boys, and the New Kids on the Block are all on reunion tours this year. I’d say it’s already hit. ---
**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/10 "2011-07-17T10:53:37Z")
5 years ago, I worked next door to a nightclub that had 90’s Night. They’d play Beverly Hills 90210 on the screens, lots of grunge remixes, drink specials on Kahlua Mudslides, and the bartenders would wear colored jeans and those 90s shirts. It was clearly early 1990s that was the focus - so it took about ten years I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/11 "2011-07-17T11:46:12Z")
I believe 90’s nostalgia is scheduled to start on [July](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VHITziyFP8) [25th](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVKgu_NyoYQ&NR=1), [2011](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gADvXMKo_yE&feature=related). ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/12 "2011-07-17T12:51:23Z")
If you are Jonesing for some 90s nostalgia, just go back and watch [Singles](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105415/). I get the distinct impression Cameron Crowe was consciously trying to create a future nostalgia piece by capturing as much of the 90s Seattle zeitgeist as he could. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/13 "2011-07-17T15:13:06Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I can’t figure out what defines “the 90s.” Nirvana. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/14 "2011-07-17T15:57:09Z")
If you’re talking about nostalgia from people who personally have fond memories of '90s popular culture, I’ve been feeling '90s nostalgia since about 2000. I’m sure many people in their 30s today think back fondly on the pop music, TV shows, etc. of their teen years. If you’re talking about younger people being interested in the popular culture of the '90s, again, it’s already happened. I live in a small town in the South, and I’ve been seeing teenagers in Nirvana t-shirts around for at least three or four years. You can get the shirts at the local J.C. Penney. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/15 "2011-07-17T17:10:50Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I can’t figure out what defines “the 90s.” Grunge, dotcoms, a blue dress, and an ill-fitting glove, as far as I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/16 "2011-07-17T17:32:39Z")
When the History Channel does a 90’s Tech episode you know that it’s started (and in case you are guessing, it’s already happened). Or, as another poster mentioned, when people who were kids in the 90’s grow up, have disposable income and want to start buying or reliving their childhood. Maybe another 10 years before it really gets rolling I guess. -XT ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/17 "2011-07-17T19:40:33Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > Nev_aaa_! The 90s were shit stains on History’s underwear, they should not be remembered. 😕 Despite all the Genx “angst,” the '90s were a happy, cheerful, **optimistic** time, in sharp contrast to the decades before and after. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/18 "2011-07-17T19:41:50Z")
> [@Ibanez](#): > > Nirvana. Fuck **that** shit! Weird Al Yankovic! ---
**Author:** ![Fourtyfold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@Fourtyfold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fourtyfold)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/19 "2011-07-17T19:53:47Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > Nev_aaa_! The 90s were shit stains on History’s underwear, they should not be remembered. That’s what I used to think about the '70s, until I got old enough to be seduced by nostalgia. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315/20 "2011-07-17T20:17:38Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > 😕 Despite all the Genx “angst,” the '90s were a happy, cheerful, **optimistic** time, in sharp contrast to the decades before and after. Yeah. Seems to me the period of time inbetween the end of the Cold War and the start of the War on Terror is rather cleaner a section of history’s underwear than its surroundings. But to each their own. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-90s-nostalgia-hits-the-scene/589315.md?page=2)