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The 90's ended with the release of Break Stuff which thus caused the World Trade Centers to be attacked.
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Jan 22, 2015 06:16
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Remember defragging hard drives?
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ninjahedgehog posted:Culturally, definitely. Aesthetics-wise, I think it ended with the iPod. Suddenly neon colors and garish patterns weren't cool anymore, everything was sleek and white and understated and that's stuck with us until the present day. I'd say as far as Pop music goes I think it was this.
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Jan 22, 2015 12:48
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Kavak posted:That was literally one month later, so it might as well be 9/11. At least it's easier to trace than when the 90's started. It's hard to pin down a specific date to describe the exact start of the 90s because so many political, social, cultural, and economic events contributed to its genesis. William Strauss and Neil Howe are the preeminent scholars in generational studies, and they suggest the first Millennials were entering elementary school when the Soviet Union collapsed, so I agree with the above posters that right then is as good a time as any to say the 90s started. Lots of things happened in the years following the collapse that would shape the new generation and make them so much different than Generation X, which preceded it. That's a pretty generic "start," though--I'm sure 90s fashion, music, technology, etc. all have their own particular events that "officially" kicked off the decade.
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Jan 22, 2015 14:40
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OctoberBlues posted:Isn't there some website that goes over this, with pictures of crowd shots at malls and stuff as evidence? I would really like to see that.
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Jan 22, 2015 14:50
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In the UK music scene, the 1990s had the best novelty songs. Sure, the early 2000s might have had ringtone music filling that niche, but it had nothing on Lindisfarne re-recording "Fog on the Tyne" with Paul Gascoigne on lead vocals.
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Jan 23, 2015 01:17
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TISM were a fantastically weird band here in Australia. i still chuck that song on during parties if I can get away with it. Regurgitator too had some kitschy songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlmyKZMHboE A song with lyrics based on vocal training words and phrases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG6s5L28Igg Then this poo poo came out, to give the furries something to get excited about : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1_NtckgpXU
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Jan 24, 2015 09:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg this is the most 90s music video.
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This reminded me of the Official UK World Cup Anthem, World in Motion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re4aDJL3heA Even when they preformed it later in their career they'd still get football players to come out and do the rap. I always found it funny Hooky is the only band member that doesn't look awkward as hell in the video. In the 90s Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr formed a group called Electronic. Their stuff is pretty sterotypical 90s synthpop dancy stuff. Neil Tennant joined on a few tracks, and the video for Disappointed was super 90s cliches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBm8j4UJsSE What was the thing with the flag guys? Like was that a thing at dance clubs in the 90s? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXWZrHke8Hw I swear 90s videos tended to be just mish mashes of random images. Something I had forgotten about, even Bowie got into jungle beats and such in the 90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoWRd6xg4Y8 seizure inducing. twistedmentat has a new favorite as of 19:15 on Jan 25, 2015 |
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Jan 25, 2015 18:52
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Pop Will Eat Itself was party of a short-lived subculture in the UK called Grebo, which was basically a blend of industrial and electronica with the kind of rock/punk influences that would become grunge. So there's some stuff you see with PWEI that you don't see mixed together anywhere else, but I don't think flags were a thing.
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Speaking of World Cup Anthems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc This was in the opening of the EA World Cup '98 game for some reason. I had no idea of how soccer worked, and it took me some time to realize that an Own Goal was not a good thing. I still somehow managed to beat the game as Germany.
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Halloween Jack posted:Pop Will Eat Itself was party of a short-lived subculture in the UK called Grebo, which was basically a blend of industrial and electronica with the kind of rock/punk influences that would become grunge. So there's some stuff you see with PWEI that you don't see mixed together anywhere else, but I don't think flags were a thing. I was talking more of muscly black guys with flags in 90s dance videos in general.
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Jan 25, 2015 21:37
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Oh wow. I remember that monstrosity or a monstrosity like it on a display in the video game section of Toys R Us.
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Jan 27, 2015 01:19
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davidspackage posted:You could show up to work with a mustache of human poo poo to roughly the same effect. The rat tail or its close cousin, the padawan braid, is still alive and well in Australia.
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Jan 28, 2015 11:27
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MinistryofLard posted:The rat tail or its close cousin, the padawan braid, is still alive and well in Australia. Can confirm. The person I know calls it his "jedi' and tries to convince people to grow one. He also enjoys pretending he knows whatever martial art Bruce Lee started.
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Jan 28, 2015 12:00
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Not just Australia: This was one of the first things I saw when I got off the plane. Welcome to NY, here's some white trash!
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Jan 28, 2015 14:50
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iDALjY4QnY Great for ruining cushions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajp0Uaw4rqo
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Jan 28, 2015 18:18
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Grape Soda posted:Not just Australia: Someone please kill these younglings.
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Jan 28, 2015 19:21
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:It's hard to pin down a specific date to describe the exact start of the 90s because so many political, social, cultural, and economic events contributed to its genesis. I would go with the Soviet Union's Collapse-9/11 too. I think what essentially defined the 90s was the whole "end of history" feeling. I was born in 1986 and I can remember this general feeling that things were getting inevitably better. Sure, there was stuff like Bosnia and Chechnya but they were, iirc, mostly seen as a kind of echo from the Cold War that were just sorting themselves out. What was the general feeling between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR? Did people think that it was only a matter of time before the USSR disintegrated or was the Cold War still much of an issue?
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I would also say that the rejection of materialism (or more accurately of stylized expensive fashion style materialism) as a mainstream cultural trend was when the 90's was really solidified. In reality it was just as commercial and materialistic as the 80's was, but the aesthetic was a sort of faux-non-fashionable fashion where you saw things like nice mainstream retailers selling "work pants" for 150 dollars and other fashionable recreations of things that were "uncool" or "poor". In less grunge fashion trends you had stuff like Calvin Klein who sold a ton of clothes based entirely on having ad campaigns designed around how apathetic they were to being cool. It even effected gangster rap for a while where you saw the transition from expensive 80's clubwear to a more southern California influenced cholo look. I think when you saw the "end " of the 90's was when you had the resurgence of suits and "classy" outfits in hip hop, groups like Nsync and BSB who wore different insane fashion outfits at every event and when you started to see pop-punk bands who dressed like the mannequins in an American Eagle store (lookin' at you Newfound Glory). or you can go with what my friend says: the 90's begins with the cancellation of Miami Vice and ends with the finale of The X Files.
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I'm interested in the various New Religious Movements that sprung up during the 1990s (granted, some predated the decade, but rose to prominence then), associated with millenarianism, conspiracy theory and ufology; people like the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, the Order of the Solar Temple, the Pana Wave Laboratory and so on, people who believed the evil planet Nibiru was hiding in the perihelion of Comet Hale-Bopp and would emerge from behind the Sun to destroy the Earth, that kind of thing. If the pervasive fear of world communism ended with the USSR and the pervasive fear of radical Islamic terrorism emerged on 9/11, the pervasive fear of the 1990s was conspiracies and cabals and New World Orders. If they were conspiring with Reptilians or Reticulans, that was a bonus. It was the decade of The X-Files after all.
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Three-Phase posted:Oh wow. I remember that monstrosity or a monstrosity like it on a display in the video game section of Toys R Us. That TV (the Samsung GXTV) was a pretty big deal at the time it came out. Mainly due to all the artificial hype gaming mags were generating about it, at the time. I believe both Gamefan and EGM had contests in which that was the grand prize. That said, It was a pretty solid unit and actually had really good sound. I've seen one recently at a local buy and sell type shop and was tempted to snatch it up. But they wanted $150 for it. CONTENT!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwAI4rntFrE LET'S GOOOOOOOO!
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Benny Harvey posted:What was the general feeling between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR? Did people think that it was only a matter of time before the USSR disintegrated or was the Cold War still much of an issue? The U.S. was still afraid of the Soviet Union (they boasted until the very end that they had enough nuclear weaponry to destroy the earth hundreds of times over (and certainly did)), but when the Wall went down and people had free and unrestricted access to East Berlin, it was obvious that there was almost nothing to be afraid of. The socio-economic-political system they'd been talking up for ages clearly wasn't working out and hadn't been for a long time, and it wasn't immediately apparent until we could finally see what things looked like on the other side. The eventual collapse of the Soviet Union was pretty much a foregone conclusion at that point.
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The weird little swing revival thing that happened in the mid/late 90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkmgafBRdos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IqH3uliwJY That was a thing that happened. BBVD was a fun show tho. 
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davidspackage posted:Someone please kill these younglings. That was a father/son duo eating lunch with mom/sister. Mom/sis looked relatively normal, other than the whole mom allowing her husband and son to grow rat tails in 2013 when I took that picture. Someone else has to have braided them so they are complicit in this. Dad's is so long that his braided rat tail rests on the chair back  I'm from rural Kansas and those things disappeared around 9/11. My brother lives in an even more inbred part of the state than I do so I should tell him to call me the next time he sees one.
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I worked at Microsoft from the early to late 90s and it was amazing when the web became a thing. I was working as a UX lead on a major new productivity application and suddenly management wanted things to be more graphics-rich and so forth because of seeing stuff on the web. So I mocked some stuff up but the memory and storage footprint at the time required that all image files had to be 16 colors (4 bit Windows palette), and we had to optimize for 640x480 desktop as a baseline. So the developers were all "Yeah, not going to happen lol." When Doom and Descent came out people were either playing over the corpnet during work or staying late to do multiplayer gaming. This was when having a 28k dial up connection at home was a rare thing. I remember seeing Amazon.com in 95 and it was just a place to buy books. And when Google became a force in 98 or so. Before Google if you wanted to search the web Alta Vista was the site to use, or Webcrawler.
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This is 90's as hell! http://youtu.be/2up7su7CeMU
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Metal Loaf posted:I'm interested in the various New Religious Movements that sprung up during the 1990s (granted, some predated the decade, but rose to prominence then), associated with millenarianism, conspiracy theory and ufology; people like the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinrikyo, the Order of the Solar Temple, the Pana Wave Laboratory and so on, people who believed the evil planet Nibiru was hiding in the perihelion of Comet Hale-Bopp and would emerge from behind the Sun to destroy the Earth, that kind of thing. I think that's just crazy people being crazy, or simply ignorance and fear mixed, not a typical thing of the 90's. In 2012 we had all that Mayan poo poo and today a huge number of kids in France believe the Charlie Hebdo attacks were staged by mossad agents and no one is actually dead. Just google illuminati on youtube to see how popular this subject still is. Some people just need to believe really bad someone is in control, because the contrary is too frightening to think about. e: it doesn't help that there has always been a great number of people making money out of these paranoid thoughts. Making fake UFO videos and linking them on conspiracy boards is easy money for some. SpaceGoatFarts has a new favorite as of 09:04 on Jan 29, 2015 |
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Keith Atherton posted:
Hotbot 4 lyfe.  In 96 or 97 a bunch of friends of mine got jobs in an amazon distribution center in DE. We barely had any idea what it even was before that, but they paid pretty well and did not give a poo poo if you had piercings or blue hair. Some of those people still work for them, no longer in their warehouses though.
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It was all about AOL Keywords and Yahoo! for me! Speaking of AOL, I don't think this web transcript of a AOL chat with Vince McMahon as been posted: http://pwchronicle.blogspot.co.uk/2006/01/history-vince-mcmahons-troubled-1998.html The chat as got everything from South Park to the internet screwing up and Vince talking to himself for awhile. It is a perfect time capsule of life in 1998.
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Jan 29, 2015 22:41
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50 I like how if you lose you burst into flames and spin away through the air all the way to hell.
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Ehud posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50 It's the grand tradition of toy commercials making something seem a lot cooler than it is so you'll bug your parents for it. Then again I never got Crossfire, so maybe I'm wrong and it was exactly like that. 
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Jan 30, 2015 02:59
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 I remember when my uncle got this in like 1996 and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Ahead of its time in a way...
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Travic posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iDALjY4QnY Oh wow - after seeing that ad, I can recall the smell of Gak. And the taste. 
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I remember writing an essay (for a module I didn't particularly want to do) about how abusive behaviour on social media and, more generally, social media itself, could conceivably be regulated effectively. The academic literature on this topic is essentially barren, filled with 20-year old articles discussing how LambdaMOO will always be relevant, and how the worst non-viral threat the Internet was ever likely to muster would be virtual rape.
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If you used AIM at all in the late 90s/early 2000s, you either had an icon from badassbuddy.com or a friends list full of people who did:       As far as I was concerned, this was the apex of comedy and artistic skill when I was 10.
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