# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**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, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/41 "2007-04-03T09:58:06Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] 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? [/QUOTE] Point taken - I do recall an interview with a child actor on Leno - Jay asked him what his favorite film was and the kid said, “Jaws II.” Jay said, “What about Jaws one?” The kid answered, “that was before my time.” I guess it is all relative. ---
**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, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/42 "2007-04-03T10:09:33Z")
> [@Argent Towers](#): > > 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. Keep in mind that I went to middle school in Southern California, where pop culture hits the end user before anywhere else. The cool kids all had spiked hair by the time I was in sixth grade (which is when I moved out here). I made the switch myself in 8th grade, as I was not very cool at the time. I’m sure the coolest of the cool had liberty spikes before 5th grade. ---
**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, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/43 "2007-04-03T14:09:01Z")
[QUOTE=Blake] 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. [/QUOTE] Oh, yeah, a _European_ “WOOOOO!!!” guy maybe, but not an\* American \* “WOOOOO!!!” guy; that’s my point. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/44 "2007-04-03T14:18:56Z")
Talk shows (and their digest, Talk Soup)! SNICK (Saturday Night Nick(elodeon)) Sketch Comedies High-top fades these nuts ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/45 "2007-04-03T16:43:13Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Overweight, dark-haired women with blue dresses and berets. [/QUOTE] I read that and thought "Hmmm, the only association I make with that is… of course! :smack: " What’s happened to her, btw? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/46 "2007-04-03T16:55:55Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] I read that and thought "Hmmm, the only association I make with that is… of course! :smack: " What’s happened to her, btw? [/QUOTE] And I just answered my own question- > **[Monica Lewinsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Lewinski)** > > Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American activist. She became internationally known in the late 1990s after U.S. president Bill Clinton admitted to having had an affair with her during her days as a White House intern between 1995 and 1997. The affair and its repercussions (which included Clinton's impeachment) became known as the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal. Following the scandal, Lewinsky designed a line of handbags under her name, served as an advertising spokesperson for a ... “In December 2006, Lewinsky graduated with a master’s degree in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics[11] where she had been studying since September 2005.[12] Her thesis was entitled “In Search of the Impartial Juror: An exploration of the third person effect and pre-trial publicity.”” Not bad. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/47 "2007-04-04T15:45:43Z")
Body piercings and multiple tattoos. They existed before 1990 and they’re still with us, but the '90s are when they really came into vogue. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/48 "2007-04-04T15:48:20Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] 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”. [/QUOTE] Computer-to-computer communication via phone lines was possible in 1969, but the Internet as such is not that old – see [here.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet) ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/49 "2007-04-04T15:53:26Z")
WWJD Dangit, the software won’t let me post in all caps! ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/50 "2007-04-04T15:56:48Z")
Let us not forget some of the cheesier 90’s stuff: MC Hammer Vanilla Ice Billy Ray Cyrus More TV shows: Married With Children (spanned the late 80’s-early 90s) The Wonder Years (ditto) Roseanne ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/51 "2007-04-04T16:07:37Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] 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. [/QUOTE] I think I’m a bit older. I distinctly remembered a period where guys took the Christian Slater style haircut to the next level with hair all the same length ending in a clearly defined “ledge”. Lot of guys in college had 90210 sideburns in the early 90s too. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/52 "2007-04-04T16:43:18Z")
Jeff Dahmer, Lorena Bobbitt, and Tonya Harding. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/53 "2007-04-04T17:05:52Z")
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] Jeff Dahmer, Lorena Bobbitt, and Tonya Harding. Ick. [/QUOTE] What did Jeff Dahmer say to Lorena Bobbit? “Are you going to eat that?” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/54 "2007-04-04T17:37:55Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] Billy Ray Cyrus [/QUOTE] _Achy Breaky Heart_ Cyrus, of course, as opposed to _Hannah Montana_/_Dancing With the Stars_ Cyrus. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/55 "2007-04-04T20:03:12Z")
If by nostalgia it doesn’t necessarily have to be a fond memory, how about those shorts women used to wear that were midthigh length, skintight, and had lacy bottoms like lingerie? I remember some standup comedian joking about this after the 1994 earthquake in L.A., when people were lining up to enter grocery stores for a few supplies–he said it was the end of the world, and women were out and about in their underwear. I didn’t much care for the style. How about coffeehouses? Around where I live they’re almost all gone when there used to be five within an easy walk. Which reminds me, at the closing party of the one I frequented, they played Counting Crows the whole evening, another band I strongly associate with the early 90s. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/56 "2007-04-04T20:05:18Z")
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus] How about coffeehouses? [/QUOTE] If it ain’t Starbucks, it’s gone. You know what I miss from the '90s? Nostalgia about the '70s! 🙂 \* \*Yes, even for **that.** ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/57 "2007-04-04T20:06:54Z")
AOL Prodigy GEnie (Again, ‘nostalgia’ not meaning ‘wonderful’, but just that they were there). I don’t think it’s too early to be doing this. I’m not young at all, except at heart, yet I remember things seeming different 15 years ago, apart from myself, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/58 "2007-04-04T20:41:33Z")
Hell, I remember _yesterday_ fondly. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449/59 "2007-04-10T02:42:32Z")
The 90s did have some of the cheesiest dance music ever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-would-1990s-nostalgia-include/398449.md?page=2)