They’re showing Goosebumps on Cartoon Network all this month, and that made me think of the way things used to be. Are You Afraid of the Dark, Nick Jr., Creepy Crawlers…all that stuff.
So come on. Three cheers for the 90s, all!
Not from me. The 90s sucked.
Definitely not one of the cooler decades, in retrospect. But some highlights for me include:
MUSIC: Third-wave ska, trip-hop, and the swing revival.
COMICS: Starman, Sandman, Preacher, Sandman Mystery Theatre, Madman, Hellboy.
MOVIES: Pulp Fiction and the rise of Tarantino, L.A. Confidential, Dark City, Tombstone, The Matrix, South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut.
Really, the 90s for me were all about Tamagotchis.
I have Are You Afraid of the Dark and every time I watch it, I get nostalgic.
I’ve been collecting a ton of shows from that era (Pete and Pete, Clarissa Explains it All, Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts). All kinds of things.
I loved the 90’s. I was only 3-13 years old but it was GREAT!
You HAVE it? I can’t seem to find it on DVD. Netflix says they only have a compilation of the best of years, and it’s only the later ones.
I watch it online (youtube and some other sites) from time to time, but I’d love to have it on DVD…in what format do you have it?
Well, I have season 1 and a friend has the ENTIRE thing in .avi. Same as mine. I’ve been trying to get it from him but its been hard to find him.
I’ve also been collecting tv shows like Boy Meets World, Daria, Reboot, Sliders, Wonder Years, and the X-Files.
All great 90’s era shows.
I hate to admit this, but I miss the clothes. Baggy/ripped jeans and a flannel shirt were acceptable attire for practically any occasion (okay, any occasion when I was 14). Made getting dressed in the morning a lot simpler, let me tell you. And when I lived in South Dakota, it was cold enough that you could wear TWO flannel shirts! At the same time! Ah, the good old days… I also miss facial piercings still being sort of rebellious and cool, instead of nearly ubiquitous as they are today.
Ah, I miss rap metal. Specifically, Limp Bizkit. My lily-white ass can still rap along with Fred Durst and feel no shame! The angst, the rage, the dirty words. It spoke to me like nothing else. When you’re 9 or 10 years old, “Break Stuff” is the coolest thing you’ve ever heard, especially if your older brother listens to it.
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Huh, I posted in the thread about letting children watch South Park to say that I’ve been watching it since I was 8 years old. It now comes to light that I’ve been listening to angry, violent music since I was around the same age. Combine this with the shoot-em-up video games I play and the killing spree movies I watch, it’s a wonder I haven’t displayed any violent tendencies by now. Maybe all these vices cancel each other out. 
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This thread is making me feel really old, considering I went all through middle school, high school, and college in the '90s.
I don’t know if those who already mentioned it are talking about bootlegs or legits, but it turns out that the complete series of Are You Afraid of the Dark? was released in DVD in its nation of origin, Canada. Since American DVD players and Canadian DVD players are both in the same region, you could order the series from Canadian websites if you were so inclined- after all, the American dollar is now less than the Canadian.
I was in college in the early 90s, and wore baby-doll dresses as well as flannel shirts, though not at the same time. 
Also, I wrote poetry and nearly participated in a poetry slam before my friends talked me out of it. Plus I hung out at my school’s coffeehouse, back when coffeehouses were cool. (This was after the campus pub, my previous hangout, was closed down and became a taco restaurant.) I was a veritable repository of 90s cliches. 
Hey, me too! 1987 FTW!
I liked having the first run of all the stuff that’s still around but is now lame. Power Rangers (hey that stuff was hot in 4th grade), Pokemon, um… I would say Ninja Turtles, but they came out in the 80s…
Remember R. L. Stine? Rowling turned a generation of children onto reading… Stine made a generation unwilling to read a book more than 75 pages long.
I wasn’t allowed to read Goosebumps… for once the fundy(ish) upbringing worked out!
I was 18-28 during the '90s. It was mostly a great decade for me.
Sorry, all I remember about the 90s was an endless replay of never-ending plane flights and hotels that were clones of one another, distinguished only by the nav system on the NeverLost in my Hertzmobile.
…Not that there weren’t some good times, mind you; and even more important, some great war stories to tell the grandkids until they are stupefied.
Ah…
The time I let go a silent, but world-ending shrimp scampi-with-extra-garlic-butter fart on the MARTA one afternoon
The time all the gauges on my rental were (unknown to me) hors de combat after hitting the I-95 ramp on the South side of Philly after exiting the rental lot at the airport and all I saw was the gas gauge sitting on Empty
Driving in The Blizzard of '96 in Newark, NJ
Touching down at Chicago O’Hare at 8:45 pm in another freaking blizzard and being told by the cheerful Delta pilot that “we were the first Delta plane to manage to land here today.”
Same night as above. I asked the Hertz person how to get out of the lot and her saying, “Oh, just folow the snow plow!”
Being on a 767 on final to ATLwhich suddenly fell straight down in bad weather, and thinking that, “OK, I’m gonna give this one more second in free fall, THEN I am gonna panic.”
and so on. but it was really just business as usual. Ask me about the 70s, now, and I could go on and on and on and on…
There’s a lot of good TV from the 90’s I still love to watch. The adventures of Pete and Pete was mentioned above. I have the first two seasons on DVD.
A show that didn’t age well… at all…
Beavis and Butt-head
My best friend Dave and I LOVED LOVED LOVED that show when we were kids, and we were excited when the DVD’s came out. Bought the entire collection when they came out on DVD. Grabbed some beers and got ready to spend a night watching them all. Halfway through the second episode we got through we both sort of look at each other and thought, “Um, Dude, this stuff* really * isn’t funny anymore.” No wonder our parents thought we were morons.
I miss the idea of Wired. I miss the irrational exuberance behind the early era of the Web, when the Internet was opened up to the teeming millions and everyone finally realized what computers plus global communications networks could add up to.
I miss all of the weird business models (Delivering groceries via web-form dispatch? Really?) and the invincible stock market and the sheer humor of seeing people who Did Not Get It attempt to come to grips with the new world (Bob Dole. Just… Bob Dole.).
I don’t miss the AOLers, spambots, and loonies dumped onto Usenet, but I do miss the realization that soon everyone is going to be talking to each other without borders and without distance. I miss geeks being rock stars for the first time ever.
I don’t miss the software of the decade, but I do miss the innocent optimism of the early Linux community. In 1991, Linux was known to two-three people total and couldn’t even run a good compiler. By 1998, it was making major inroads in the server universe and giving Microsoft fits. It was like a bunch of hobbyists taking a knocked-together biplane and building it up to something that makes Boeing nervous, and doing it in less than ten years.
I went from 25 to 35 during that decade, went from ubergeek performing poet, to drugs and night clubs, to straight as a die solo parent.
I grew up during the 90’s.
Pink and gray color schemes. ‘Brown is the new black’. Comedy is the new Rock and Roll. Seinfeld. Friends.
Oprah (shudder)
I see your grew up and raise you. I was born in the 90’s.