What’s one word to prove you lived trough the 90’s?

Waaazzzaaaap

That ad campaign started in 99, its really more of a 2000’s thing.
- Ya, but it proves I lived through the 90's 😆
- The 90s were from 1995 to 2005. That's just my opinion. I know it sounds dumb. Many things from 1990 to 1994 feel like the 80's.
Outside of America, this is interpreted as a reference to Scary Movie instead of the budweiser ad.
- As a European, that’s indeed how I interpreted this.
Here in the Netherlands I never heard of it!
- Here you go!
- Watskeburt?
Hahaha that’s the first thing that popped in my mind! 😂

Winamp.

Encarta

I remember this from the school library computers. That and even back then the school had some kind of broadband, it blew my mind that to get online all we had to do was open IE. I was used to that part but always had whatever dial up service we had at the time to open up and connect first. Just clicking IE and going was crazy to me.
I remember trying to play Mind Maze and knowing absolutely nothing.
I loved the video it has about nuclear fission reactions.

Y2K.

I survived idiocy of managers asking for Y2K compliant padlocks. As in, physical padlocks.
- Hope you charged them double.

Pogs

Remember Alf? He's back! In pog form!
Came here to say this! My collection is MIA and it still makes me sad thinking about it.
- Your parents threw it away
Hey can I come over and slam ur pogs?

Netscape

Linux and Mac users can hold on to a little piece of that history with the wonderful xscreensaver suite (its author, jwz, was a Netscape dude).
- Add to that, flying toasters
- Even better just use Firefox it descended from Netscape Navigator.
- Jwz! He was like nerd Jesus to us 90s computer geeks

Tamagotchi

Just bought my first Tamagatchi in 2023 lol
Had the yellow one and a game boy one.
And a couple different brand ones. Or maybe just one other one? I forget now.

NOT!

Bobwehadababyitsaboy

I remember it as "eeetsaboy"
This one pops into my head way too often
This was my first thought lol

Dialup

Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcchdingdingding
Welcome, you've got mail, goodbye...
Lol lol at you with internet. We didn't get access until 1999.

Psych!

You know that’s right!

Not a word, but the phrase "going online". As in not being constantly connected at all times. We had to actually "get" online to look at stuff.

Myst

Pogs

JNCO's

I still laugh thinking back to 8th grade when my buddy, Tyler, got his first pair of JNCOs. To paint a picture, Tyler couldn't have been more than 90 pounds soaking wet and had a bowl cut (being it the 90s). He had a big goofy grin on his face and goes "check it out - I can fit a whole 2 liter of Mountain Dew in my pocket!" And sure enough, he pulled a full 2 liter of Mountain Dew out of his front pocket.
- Tyler was definitely a product of the times

D.A.R.E

JNCO

Discman - so much better than the Walkman. =)

Napster

Baud. Maybe kilobauds.. That and "da bomb" are very memorable to me from then...

For a age of pre internet (for the masses) we sure had a lot of unique words :)
I don't remember kilobaud being a word. I only remember it being a word that was misused for some reason. Or maybe just disfavored against an actual unit. Like it was equivalent to like some small unit, and got outgrown quickly.
Like when going from bits per second to kilobits per second, I think hair was a single word that meant bits per second, but was not a literal unit, so kilobaud didn't make sense, whereas kilobits did.
At least that's how I remember it off hand, could be wrong.
- Baud rate is the maximum number of transitions per second of the state of a transmission medium. Hz is the actual number of cycles per second, so it varies degending on the data transmitted. Bitrate is the number of bits transmitted per second.
  Usually bits are transmitted in groups with some redundancy to allow errors to be corrected. E.g. early Ethernet used 8b/10b encoding; 8 bits of data were transmitted as a 10 bit "symbol".
  With a 1b/1b encoding baud rate would equal bit rate, but in practice that was essentially never used so the numbers woud diverge. Bitrate is more meaningful to the user.
  SI and binary prefixes can be applied to baud, so kilobaud is certainly a word.
- It may have been misused at some point, but "baud" was a word long before the internet, and I distinctly remember my modem at the time using the word baud on the box. I was just a teenager, so I'm sure I was missing key information. It was used, tho.
  Here, this is proving us both right:
  If your modem-to-modem connection is at 14400 bps, it's going to be sending 6 bits per signal transition (or symbol) at 2400 baud. A speed of 28800 bps is obtained by 3200 baud at 9 bits/baud. When people misuse the word baud, they may mean the modem speed (such as 33.6k).
  Kilobaud is definitely a word that means a thing. Baud is a literal unit of measure that uses the metric prefixes.
  ¯(ツ)/¯

Be kind, REWIND.

Not

Kkrrrsshhhbiiieieiekkkkrrrrriieiekkkrrsshshshbriiieie

And then someone picked up the phone and you had to start all over again
Why did I hear this comment !?! 😂
Anyone remember upgrading their modem and getting excited because it made new noises? I can’t be the only one.

BRRRRphhhhttttttbrrrrrraaaaaapppppingtingtingBOINGBaTingBatingtingphhhhhhhhttttt.....

The sounds of the internet, volume one.

Tubthumping

"Information superhighway"

Two words, I know.

Floppy disks (or "diskettes").

Also, Y2K.

Slime/goop

The 90s had an obsession with slime/goop. Toys, mascots, etc.

Cowabunga

Clear craze.

As in technology. Translucent gadgets were all the rage. Not quite one word, I was going to go with translucent, but found it actually had a name.

You remember that future phones would be all transparent slabs of glass? Funny how things have changed and also not changed!
Like the translucent (still corded, so not that hi-tech) phone with the bright colors for all the components? I had one of those! I think the outer part of my cord was actually clear, too.
Ooh, and that dope clear pager was hella rad!
On that note, remember payphones?? (getting paged by my mom and having to find a payphone to call the family 800# and check in...)
- Wait, family 800 #? I don't remember that. We skipped pagers though, so I remember them being a thing, but I only saw them on TV, don't think I ever saw one in person besides on doctors at a hospital.
- You should take a look at the Nothing Phone if you still dig that aesthetic.
That's how you know technology was inside them. I vaguely remember we had an eMac which had a combined CRT and computer inside it. Do not remember liking it
- Your first sentence made me literally laugh audibly. At work.
  Our computer lab when I was in high school was all those eMacs. I hated them and their single mouse button.
  I definitely deleted the system drive from half of them at one point or another. It wasn’t hard, either, it was on the desktop.
  Sure it didn’t actually delete anything on the drive, but it did force an intensive repair (they reformatted all of them, idk if there was another fix) :)
We need to bring this back. I love clear stuff.
- Clear is one of my favorite colors! (along with purple and glow-in-the-dark)
- It's not a gas for appearance there, tho. It's to show you aren't stashing a shank in it.
My mate had a transparent ps1 controller. I wanted it so bad.
- i've got a clear ps4 controller. it's pretty cool.
- I still have one of those in clear blue, along with clear blue extender cords. Have clear purple GameCube controllers, and a light-up clear Xbox controller 😁
  Now controllers are so heavy I have to skin them to help with hand fatigue, so no point getting clear cases.
  I miss that aesthetic, though, and I’m glad it’s starting to reappear.

NoFear

Macarena

Phat

IRC and ICQ

autoexec.bat

Wazzzzuuuuuuuup!

with entirely to much tongue.

watchin the game...

Cowabunga

Hypercolor

Dialup

SKREEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEE-KERBONG-KERBONG-KERBONG-kshkshkshkshkshksh

MiniDisc

Dude, what does mine say?

Hackysack

Emoticon

Pogs

Bobwehadababyitsaboy

Gameboy

Scatman.

Cowabunga!

Grunge

Dial-up

Whatever.

tight.

Whatever.

It’s MY UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER!!! 🤘🎸

Hypercolor

Quake

Psyche!

Mmm-Bop

BeOS

How do you like Haiku?
- I like it very much. But I wonder if it will ever be suitable as a daily driver.

Radical

C:\DOOM\DOOM.EXE Edit: Fixed wrong slashes because crappy Android keyboard was missing it. Swapped keyboard.

Game Genie

Netscape Infoseek Lycos Geocities

Gnarly

How much is the fish?

IRC

ICQ
- Uh oh.
- I had SUCH a low number (5 digits afair) at first, but then I forgot the password and had to make a new one 😅

Xtreme

Woahhhhhhhiiiiiiiimstillaliveyeayayeahiaiiiiimmmmmohhhhimstilalive

(The) bomb.

PLUR

config.sys

Tubular

Hampsterdance!

Walkman

Was the floppy disc typically 90’s?

Uh-oh..

Bosnia

Oof…

"Radical" (as in meaning "super cool")

Rad dude!!!!

Willennium

Animaniacs

1-800-collect

Payphone

FidoNet

Boutros boutros ghali. I guess that's three words.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

BILL BILL BILL BILL (It's one word, I just wrote it four times)

Science rules!
- Inertia is a property of matter.

56k Flex Modem

Rad.

Cowabunga!!

Windbreakers

"Heyimatthemallcomegetmebythefoodcourt" is my one word. It's what you would use as your name when using 1-800-collect.

Reminds me when you got charged by the minute on early cellphones and basically conducted all business in 50 seconds or less cause you got the first minute free.

Rad

Rave

Animorphs.

Goosebumps.

Wishbone.

Rugrats.

Goldeneye.

EXTREME!!!

Farfegnugen.

Fahrvergnügen?
- If you're going to translate it into German (•_•)
- Muss wohl.

You've Got Mail

Zetus Lapetus

I just found outnis two words.

1-800-CALL-ATT

“Lady’s and gentleman, this is a computer and we might see it a lot more in the future.” - a news report back then. :)

Just for Italian people: Cioè

Pager

Rollerblades

Surge!

Shazbot!

Such a good game for the day.

OK, I know the game you mean, but that could also prove you lived through the 1970's, when Mork and Mindy went on the air.
- I was born in the early 90s and I thought of Mork and Mindy first.
[vgtg]
god I love Tribes 1

Whatever.

Pogs

Yo! Pick up the phone!

Wassssuuuuuuuuppppp?!

Waaaaaaaaasssssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap‽

Heeey, macarena!

WWW.

Meh

Minidisc

Floam.

Wazzup

Need about 10 more Z's

Radical/Rad!

Yo'unbelievabo

OOOOOH!!!!!

No. The "just say no" push was something I can't forget.

IRC

WIN98

ISA slot

"You've got mail!"

Quakenet! (Its still up but.. a lot fewer users these days)

Zubaz.

Wolf3d

And Doom

Furby 👁️👄👁️👌

Can't let the furby into the Pentagon! It might learn state secrets!

Gak

I remember the info campaign of my country's change of currency when it got pegged to the Deutschmark after it did a Venezimbabwe. It was by a popular children's/teen tv show host.

I was about 2 or 3 but the only thing I remember is the news anchors repeating the word "Chechen" all the time. I understood nothing but it sounded funny.

We had a stereo with an inbuilt vinyl record player, as well as cassette tape player.

I played NES games on Terminator-2. Post-soviet collapse flooded the market with knockoffs which were decent for the price.

I remember watching Bill Clinton's scandal on the news though I had little idea what happened, nor what impeachment meant.

That's more than 1 word.
- You mean titles are meant to be read? Whoops!
  Terminator-2.

Jorts

I guess that means you either lived through the 90s or are a current fan of Kevin Smith

I am both of those things.
Or you used to follow a pro-union advocate that happened to also be a cat. Not in the 90s, until The Musk made Twitter unusable.

Pager

C:\con\con

Emule

eMule was first released in 2002, as an open source alternative client to the official eDonkey2000 client.
Napster would have technically been a 90's term, since it released mid 1999, but p2p wasn't really a mainstream thing until the early 2000's.
- Yaeh, realized that soon after posting - my bad.
- But you wouldn't have been using eMule in the early 2000's unless you lived through the 90's so I think it counts.
  I also used eMule.
!!! I lost so much time to Emule! Sadly it is more a 00’s thing. (Which sounds like a fun tread!)

As Navi: "Hey listen"

Wicked

YO LISTEN UP HERES A STORY

ABOUT A LITTLE GUY THAT LIVES IN A BLUE WORLD

AND ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT AND EVERYTHING HE SEES IS JUST BLUE LIKE HIM

INSIDE AND OUTSIDE

Coolaroonie

Millennium

Whoa!

It doesn't necessarily work online though cuz you can't hear that I'm saying it in the voice of Joey Lawrence from Blossom

MORPH

drivebys

Tamagotchi!

The flashbacks to rushing home and feeding it are 🥰

Hella

Mondo

Wasn't too upset this disappeared. Sqeez-it bottles had the cool faces, and Mondo bottles were too stiff to squeeze easily.

I remember my sphere was obsessed with the turn of the millenium

Yeltzin

JNCO

Amiga

It's Patrick, he took out life insurance!

245032701*

can still remember my ICQ number, but constantly forget my own birthday xD

120 Minutes

airhogs!

Sham-wow

Koosh

Balzac

Fax

Bobdolio

Sketchers

rawr :3

Word, Dope, Fresh.... nvm that's pre-90s.

e

Phat

For starters, Zorro!

Mojo

Plastics? No, wait...

Gateway

FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE

Synchronize Swatches

- Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=RJsbebHE4-A
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

golliwogs

Trough

Zaphod

"dip"

as in "no dip"

Http://www. Lauracroftnude .com

Http://www. Hotnudecheerleaders .com

Didn't have a useable search engine

iMac G3

Bead lizards

Trouse

Treo

Teyandee!

So assuming you actually have to...

You'll need to do something that doesn't come up in the social zeitgeist that often, but is instantly recognizable to anyone from that era.

Maybe talk about how a lot of the time people's watches said different times and you didn't know which ones were right?

Alternatively you can share some personal anecdote that relates to well known trends at the time. Like talk about listening to smells like teen spirit while smoking cigarettes stolen from your friend's older brother.

Limewire

Napster barely qualifies as 90s. Limewire absolutely not. That’s an 00s program
limewire wasn't even released until 2000, so i am not sure that's the best example
- Yes but if you used it you were most definitely around in the 90s. Not a lot of infants were on limewire in 2002.