So while we’re bringing up pop culture references, your 90’s nostalgia involves bike tag?!
I s’pose. I spent 1994 and early 1995 fumbling around on my blanket and in my crib, exploring, and drooling. I could read when I was two. I remember trying to eat my books at first, before I could read them. The gold spines looked so tasty!
Four words:
Parker
Lewis
Can’t
Lose
The 90’s were just the bastard child of the 80’s.
Best parts were the music videos which I understand aren’t on the DVDs. I was actually going to post saying that I loved that show but didn’t know how well it’d age. I haven’t seen it since the original airings on MTV.
With kids born in '88, '89, and '91, for me 90s culture was essentially Barney, Thomas the Tank Engine, Raffi, Pogs, Tamagotchis, and Pokemon.
As a kid from the 60s, the hugest change in the 90s was the saturation of PCs and the tremendous growth of the internet. And a lot of folks made a lot of money on tech stocks - that is - until they lost it.
On a semi-related subject I have every episode of Æon Flux on DVD which is still very watchable. If MTV ever released Liquid TV on DVD I’d give that a chance too.
Point of reference: I was 15-24 in the 90s.
This is what I think of when I think of the 90s:
-Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, etc.
-Backstreet Boys, NSync, Spice Girls, etc.
-Flanels and ripped jeans
-Seinfeld
-Salute Your Shorts, Clarissa Explains it All (seeing Melissa Joan Hart on L&O:SVU reminded me of that last night), Roundhouse
-The novelty of email and the Internet
-Beepers!
I friggin’ loved the 90s!
I’m about the same age and I mostly remember the 90s as follows:
-Super Techmo Bo Jackson was the greatest athlete in history.
-Everyone pretty much wore plaid flannel shirts, jeans, barn jackets and a dirty, worn baseball cap
-Grunge and alt-rock: Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins
-People actually thought Beavis & Butthead and Ren & Stimpy were funny
-Ice Beer
-My fraternity brother, a professional DJ at a local rave club, who was unable to actually DJ our fraternity parties because the only thing the fat sorority girls wanted to listen to was ABBA, Dave Mathews, Counting Crows and Blues Traveler
-Gangsta rap: Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre
-Summer down at the Jersey Shore where every song was either The Macarena or something off a Jock Jams CDs.
-Working in various Dot-coms and tech firms around the 128 loop in Boston
-The Great Swing Dance Revival of 1997
-Nu-Metal + Woodstock = disaster
-Frequenting nightclubs that mostly played a constant mix of trance and house music
-Y2K
almost forgot:
-The combination of Alysia Silverstone and Aerosmith was one of the greatest things to happen to music videos.
-Baywatch was the most brilliant idea for a TV show ever
-Movies like Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Swingers, Singles, Reality Bites, Empire Records, and High Fidelity defined the lifestyle of every 20-29 year old
-Ex-dot-com workers joining 405 Clubs (so named for the maximum $405 weekly unemployment benefit)
I was 12-22 in the 90’s, so I very much came of age.
A few months ago I was flipping through my 9th grade yearbook and was reminded of just how baggy the clothing was. Everyone was wearing HUGE sweatshirts, like the kind that came down to your knees. And jeans with rolled cuffs. So heinous, but better than the current trend for 13-year-olds to show as much skin as possible.
Man, I miss my calico dress with knock off Doc Martens and a flannel shirt on top look. 
It looked like I’d dragged it off the laundry pile, but of course I’d agonized over it for ages trying to get the “right” look.
Remember how Guns n’ Roses was briefly really cool again in the 90’s? God, how I loved those tapes.
sigh I wore a vintage wedding dress and Doc Martens to the premiere of Pulp Fiction. We used to go smoke and drink shitty coffee for HOURS at Denny’s. Nirvana and the Cure and R.E.M. were my life. I wanted a pager. We’d go clubbing in Portland at the City Nightclub - downstairs would play that Blur song “Boys who like girls who like girls, etc.” and really bizarre techno remixes of songs from he Grease soundtrack and upstairs was Goth/Industrial: Dead Can Dance, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Sisters of Mercy… No respectable person shopped at actual department stores, we bought all our clothes at Goodwill and other thrift stores. I went dumpster diving and found an army jacket and clogs, wore them to high school all the time. We brought a Pet Shop Boys CD to one of our high school dances and laughed at all the hicks trying to dance to “Go West”. My mom bought me a Gateway computer that cost a couple grand, and I signed up for my first FREE 10 HOURS on AOL. Every single one of my friends would meet up at a pre-decided location Friday night at 9 for X-Files; my dad gave me several episodes on VHS for my birthday and I was suddenly the most Popular Girl in the Land. Poppy Z. Brite was the greatest author I’d ever read. Y2K was a load of crap but a really good excuse to throw an insane party. South Park Night at the local bar was a huge hit. EVERYTHING was better with weed.
Man, those were the days.
(aged 13-23 in the 90’s)
I loved the 90’s. College and getting married and grad school! I had bright blue Docs which I wore with a black bodysuit and goofy dresses, flannel shirts, my hair was undercut, it was great. I had a babydoll dress in which I looked marvelous.
I listened to a ton of ‘alternative’ rock and got hooked on Sarah McLachlan with her very first album. Heck, I went and saw her sing in a bar in San Francisco in the middle of the Rodney King riots! Yeah, that was not very bright of me.
Then I got married and moved to San Jose just in time for the dot-com boom. That was interesting. Half the people I knew were working at start-ups and getting rich. I worked for a while at a technical library at SAP and read all those magazines like Fast Company and Wired.
Hey, good times.
I have unfortunately been finding this lately with alot of things from that age. I remember some shows being so great and aweasome but when I rewatch them, some don’t live up to par.
However, some still do!
Pete & Pete, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Rocko’s Modern Life (which I found out by rewatching it that it wasn’t just for kids!)
Others, not so much.
Clarissa Explains it All, Dinosaurs, Wishbone (although its not bad, its not what I remember)
You better believe it!
Aside from the tv shows already mentioned, I miss the music. It was better then, than it is now. Especially R&B. I’ve been compiling all the best R&B songs from the 90s onto a CD and it brings back memories of 7th grade dances. Of 8th grade graduation parties I went to when I was in the 7th grade and having my first slow dance with my first real crush.
Oh and as far as R.L Stine goes, it wasn’t wimpy Goosebumps books for me, it was Fear Street! I had them all, every R.L. Stine book besides Goosebumps. I was a much bigger fan of Chrisopher Pike though. L.J. Smith too.
I’m rambling.
I was 21-31 in the 90s. It was the decade I graduated college, spiraled down into homelessness, and clawed my way back up. I remember a lot of disillusionment and divorce. Not the best of times for SLK.
I beg to differ here. Rewatching the series on DVD (Thank you, Disney!), I’d say that Dinosaurs is as much “not just for kids” as Rocko’s Modern Life was. Although the series took a while to find its footing, it would soon skewer a number of things in the typical Henson style (“Remember kids, say no to drugs. If not for yourself, then for us- so we don’t have to do another one of these sappy “Say no to drugs” episodes!”), and featured episodes which surreptitiously commented on homosexuality, racism, sex, religion (All hail the Great Potato!), and even Disneyland itself (in a rather acidic episode which didn’t air until syndication, in which Mr. Richfield spoofs Walt Disney’s famous speech by saying that Wesaysoland will never be completed as long as children have imagination- and adults have disposable income).
The 90s can be summed up with two words:
Hammer Time
Stop.