# What does / would "1990s nostalgia" include? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449 "2007-04-02T18:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/21 "2007-04-03T01:58:15Z")
[QUOTE=HubZilla] Sports teams of the decade (by number of titles): …College basketball: Kentucky… [/QUOTE] I believe you misspelled “Duke.” 😃 Five championship game appearances, two championships in the 90s. Kentucky? Bah! I have one word for Kentucky fans: _Laettner_. > [@monstro](#): > > -The Rodney King riots. School was let out early because of them. The school bus ride home was very…interesting. My ride on MARTA that day was…interesting, too. Especially when a throng of black teenagers got on the train in Decatur (heading to downtown Atlanta) and started chanting “Kill the white people! Kill the white people!” I didn’t worry too much, though; they were laughing and cutting up while they chanted. Like they on their way to a party. …A white-people-killin’ party. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/22 "2007-04-03T02:18:52Z")
Overweight, dark-haired women with blue dresses and berets. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/23 "2007-04-03T02:25:23Z")
Urkel! ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/24 "2007-04-03T02:26:21Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] I believe you misspelled “Duke.” 😃 Five championship game appearances, two championships in the 90s. Kentucky? Bah! I have one word for Kentucky fans: _Laettner_. [/QUOTE] D’oh, I thought Kentucky won 3 tournaments instead of 2. My bad. I figured I’d hear from Florida State fans about me anointing my alma mater “Team of the 90s”. But 3 NCs \> 2 NCs. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/25 "2007-04-03T02:31:28Z")
[QUOTE=Krokodil] Lilith Faire Buffy the Vampire Slayer [/QUOTE] And grrlpower as a cultural and educational phenomenon, really. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/26 "2007-04-03T02:37:38Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Music is tough, the 90s is when music kind of went in every direction. I don’t think there was a strong central sound to the 90s. 40s = Swing, Boogie Woogie 50s = Rock & Roll 60s = Folk Rock and the British Invasion 70s = Stadium Rock and Disco 80s = Punk & New Age 90s = Grunge, Rap, R&B, Strong Woman Singer/Songwriters, Country’s resurgence, etc. [/QUOTE] I mostly think of the 90s as alternative rock and rap but I think you’re right! First of all, every band was labeled “alternative” even if they sounded nothing like any other “alternative” band: Nirvana, Live, Matchbox 20, NIN, Smashing Pumpkins, Mathew Sweet, Gin Blossoms, Blues Traveler, Limp Bizkit. Second of all, the 90s were filled with more short-lived music fads. Techno (someone mentioned raves), retro swing (see Swingers or Big Bad Voodoo Daddy), grunge (which only really lasted from 91-93), nu-metal (AKA rap metal), post-hippy jam bands like Phish, Rusted Root and Spin Doctors. etc Not to mention you couldn’t have a modern sporting event without the cheeseball dance music from the 90s - 2 Unlimited (Get Ready For This), Ace of Base, House of Pain. Also, for the 80s I believe you mean Punk and New Wave. The Police are New Wave. Enya is New Age. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/27 "2007-04-03T02:40:16Z")
Um… dudes? This is all fine and well… but the most important thing by far about the 1990s-- the thing that everyone should carry in their hearts from that era-- is that everything was _ **EXTREEEEEEMMME!!!** __ **WOOOOOO!!! WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!** _ \*\*YOU KNOW IT! YOU KNOW IT WAS!!! \*\* _kickflips and ollies all over the forum_ The Nineties were\*\*\* TOTALLY EXTREEEMMME!!! WOOOOOOO!!!\*\*\*\* \*\*\* EXTREEEEEEMMME NINETIES!!!\*\*\* \*The first official sighting of a “WOOOOOO!!!” guy was documented in Fort Lauderdale, FL in 1989. By 1993 their range had spread throughout the American Midwest, probably aided by dispersal in shipments of citrus fruit. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/28 "2007-04-03T02:43:34Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] … Also, for the 80s I believe you mean Punk and New Wave. The Police are New Wave. Enya is New Age. [/QUOTE] Good catch, I did indeed mean New Wave. ---
**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/29 "2007-04-03T02:45:05Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] There’s actually a Facebook group called “If you remember this you grew up in the 90s.” Here’s part of their list: [/QUOTE] I don’t know, **HazelNutCoffee** , I’m a child of the eighties, and I think a fair amount of that list belongs to the eighties, and some (Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew, Slinkys) belong even earlier. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/30 "2007-04-03T02:48:43Z")
The late '80s and early '90s kind of overlap. I was born in 1985, but when I was younger, I thought that the world began on January 1, 1990. I remember waking up one morning and seeing that date on the calendar, and had no recollection of anything happening before that date. So some late '80s nostalgia makes its way into the early '90s- old TV shows, Ninja Turtles, etc. Many of the things that were popular around 1987-89 (perhaps even earlier) made their way into the early '90s. ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/31 "2007-04-03T02:49:33Z")
Xena! From the early 90s, Lollapalooza and all the associated stuff. Overplucked eyebrows and brown lip-liner. From the late 90s, glitter and shimmer makeup. Tattoos. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/32 "2007-04-03T02:55:21Z")
[QUOTE=HubZilla] I figured I’d hear from Florida State fans about me anointing my alma mater “Team of the 90s”. But 3 NCs \> 2 NCs. [/QUOTE] You could also make an argument for the Braves being the baseball team of the 90s, based on their consistent excellence: 9 division titles in the decade. (Though they did have a serious “bridesmaid” problem, getting only one World Series title.) ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/33 "2007-04-03T04:42:36Z")
SNES and N64 for the win. And classic PC FPS shooters to scare the Congress. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/34 "2007-04-03T05:30:39Z")
Teletubbies Tickle Me Elmo Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/35 "2007-04-03T08:14:41Z")
Backstreet Boys? Britney Spears pre-trainwreck Mary-Kate and Ashley videos Boy Meets World Sabrina the Teenage Witch Furbies Napster marshmallow coats those power bead bracelets ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/36 "2007-04-03T08:44:46Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] \*The first official sighting of a “WOOOOOO!!!” guy was documented in Fort Lauderdale, FL in 1989. By 1993 their range had spread throughout the American Midwest, probably aided by dispersal in shipments of citrus fruit. [/QUOTE] If a “WOOO” guy is simply someone trying to make an event seem interesting by saying “woo” a lot then it is very much predates the 90s, and even the 80s. The personality and the overuse of the word “woo” along with phrases such as “extreme” and “really exciting” was so well known that it was parodied in “The Young Ones” TV series in 1982 or 1983. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/37 "2007-04-03T09:31:21Z")
Economic optimism. Great baseball. The only baseball season without a World Series. Spiked hair. I mean, a couple people still do it, but when I was in middle school (edit: 1997-2000) _every_ boy had spiked hair. The Super Nintendo, the Genesis, the Game Gear, the original PlayStation, the Dreamcast. Gangster rap. Rollerskating being cool. Greeting everyone with “yo” in a completely non-ironic way. (I lived in the DC area, FWIW.) Boy bands in general. > [@dwc1970](#): > > The advent of the Internet The advent of the Internet occurred in 1969. I think you mean “the advent of the World Wide Web” or “the beginning of home access to the Internet as a common thing”. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/38 "2007-04-03T09:50:18Z")
1990’s _nostalgia_? Goodlord - how old is someone who thinks that the 1990’s is nostalgia - 11? :: DMark goes and chases some kids off his lawn and then takes a nap. :: ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/39 "2007-04-03T09:51:39Z")
I’m only 20 and the 1990s were a nostalgic time for me. I mean, that was my childhood. You’re telling me there’s nothing nostalgic about your childhood? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/40 "2007-04-03T09:55:58Z")
Wow, **fetus** , we are in the exact same generation. Maybe this is part of why I find myself in agreement with pretty much all of your posts. But when I went to middle school, in 1998 (7th grade) all the boys still had the “bowl” cut, or its cooler variation, the parted-in-the-middle David-Duchovny-In-The-Third-Season-of-The-X-Files look. The cooler guys dyed the top part blonde, and had the brown roots showing on the bottom part. It wasn’t until the next year, 8th grade, when this was replaced by the spiked hair. And **DMark,** you’re discounting the effect of looking back 10 years when you’re in your 20s. That’s half of your damn life we’re talking about - it seems like a hell of a long time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449.md?page=3)