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63 Things You'll Understand if You Were Born in the 90's


There are several things in life that you'll only understand if you born in the 1990's. Now, you might well have been born in the 80's but grew up in the 90's, but you can come along and enjoy the ride with all us 90's kids. Either way, this post is designed to make you feel some nostalgia and (hopefully) put a smile on your face when you think back to a memory you have. I'm guaranteed to have missed something, so feel free to leave your childhood memories in the comment section below! Right, shall we get on with it? I think we should :)

  1. Using Paint and playing the pinball machine game when your 5 minutes on dial-up Internet was up
  2. Using dial-up Internet while your parents complain that they can't use the telephone...whoops - I always thought I'd got away with that one
  3. Being an OHP monitor
  4. Mastering texting on a Nokia phone, with all correspondence made up of a mixture of numbers and letters (yes m8)
  5. Playing snake on your mum's mobile
  6. Carrying around a personal CD player, headphones and a stack of CDs wherever you went
  7. Only having five television channels to choose from
  8. Enjoying MySpace before Facebook took over
  9. Renting your videos and videos games from Blockbuster on a Saturday night
  10. Trying to master downloading music onto your super cool mp3 player
  11. Playing Simpson's Hit & Run and the Sims on the PlayStation 2, but filling up all of your 8mb memory cards 
  12. Shoving floppy discs into the computer tower
  13. Having to wind up the tape in your cassettes with a pencil
  14. Not being able to watch your favourite film without having to rewind the whole video... all the way back to the beginning...which always took forever
  15. The Busted vs McFly fan rivalry
  16. Flashing trainers and jelly shoes
  17. Trainers with frilly socks
  18. Polly Pockets
  19. Groovy Chick
  20. The original BopIt
  21. Top Trumps
  22. Beyblades
  23. Playing with K-Nex at break time if it was raining outside - and there was always one kid that was the K-Nex master
  24. Going to the library to do your homework because the Internet was so slow
  25. When you'd go for a meal with your family and come out smelling like cigarette smoke
  26. Sequined bootleg jeans
  27. Wearing double denim to the school disco
  28. Knowing all the moves to the Macarena, 5,6,7,8, Tragedy, the Ketchup Song, the Cheeky Girls and more! 
  29. Playing a cassette tape in the car and having it jump every time you go over a speed bump
  30. Pink wafers, cherryade, musical chairs and pass the parcel at every birthday party
  31. Going to the cinema to watch the first few Harry Potter films
  32. Only having one computer in each classroom, with no IT suite/room anywhere else in the school
  33. Scrunchies!
  34. 10p mixes from the local newsagents
  35. Pokemon cards
  36. Football cards
  37. Gameboys (and blowing on the cartridges to make them play)
  38. Tamagotchi 
  39. When Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake used to date
  40. When NSYNC were the best band ever
  41. Beanie Babies
  42. Play Days on kid's TV
  43. Art Attack
  44. The Very Hungry Caterpillar 
  45. Circling Christmas presents in the Argos catalogue
  46. Sunny D (before they made it healthy)
  47. Smelly gel pens (popcorn scent was my fave!)
  48. An origami chatterbox
  49. Cat's Cradle
  50. Skipping with ropes, either on your own or in groups
  51. Your friend's pretending they could read your palm
  52. Plating your friend's hair an getting told off by the teacher for it
  53. Having a special box inside your actual lunchbox just for your Pringles
  54. Playing with Barbie and Action Men (I always made Action Man Barbie's boyfriend, and so did quite a few of my friends, haha)
  55. Doing the monkey bars across a climbing frame
  56. Scraping your knees on concrete floors if you fell over at school
  57. Being given chalk so you can draw out a hopscotch to hop around
  58. Sports days and getting an orange wedge at the end
  59. Having a McDonald's birthday party with Ronald McDonald (the creepy bugger) himself and the infamous Ham Burglar
  60. Bananas in Pyjamas are coming down in pairs!
  61. When Noddy's head looked like a boiled egg and the goblins shared the s**t out of me
  62. Always being in awe at how shiny Postman Pat's van and Fireman Sam's truck was
  63. Turkey Twizzlers were AMAZING!
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I hope you enjoyed this blog post! Let me know in the comments what you remember about growing up in the late 90's/early 00's and I will see you again really soon with a brand new blog post for you :)

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