What do YOU remember about the 1990's?

Question

What do you remember about the 1990's? The bands, a certain event, the clothes, the crazy fads? ;)

Answer 1

I remember:



Margaret Thatcher stepping down as PM.

The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

The attempted coup-d'etat in the former Soviet Union and how Boris Yeltsin resisted it with his public appearance on a tank.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

The final collapse of the U.S.S.R. and the formation of the Unified Team for the 1992 Olympics.

Gennifer Flowers.

The USA Dream Team at the 1992 Summer Olympic games.

Ross Perot's bid for the presidency, beginning with an appearance on Larry King Live.

The Clinton-Gore bus campaign tour immediately after the Democratic convention.

Clinton's victory in 1992.

The first attack on the World Trade Centre.

"Don't ask, don't tell."

Clinton's haircut on the tarmac at LAX.

The Branch Davidian standoff in Waco and its tragic end.

The near-total collapse of the Progressive Conservatives in Canada.

North American Free Trade Agreement.

The Maastrict Treaty, forming the EU.

The cancelation of the World Series and the NHL lockout.

Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" and the Republican taking of Congress.

The launch of UPN with Star Trek: Voyager.

The Oklahoma City bombing.

The Quebec sovereignty referendum and how it almost passed.

The start of Yahoo! and the World Wide Web.

Paula Jones.

The O.J. Simpson trial and acquital.

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and its impact on Jupiter.

Bob Dole's run for presidency.

The Centennial Park bombing during the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Comet Hale-Bopp and its effect on Heaven's Gate.

Monica Lewinsky.

The embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

Tony Blair's Labour Party coming to power after 18 years.

"Ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Missile strikes in Baghdad while Congress debated impeachment. (Reference the movie Wag the Dog.)

The re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy in theatres.

Clinton's impeachment acquital.

Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota.

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

The conflict with Serbia over Kosovo.

The shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado.

The impending Y2K crisis.

Answer 2

Mainly, it will be the music that the decade produced. At the start of 1990, the airwaves were eminating predominantly hair-band and new pop. Somewhere along the way though, Nirvana was producing "Bleach" and "Nevermind". Once the tracks off those albums popularized, a new genre punched through. Grunge. Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam soon dominated rock stations, and hence forth music changed forever. Through the mid and late 90's, bands like Green Day, Weezer, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers rode in off of their Seattle forefathers coat-tails to extinuate the sound that the aforementioned bands produced. Aside from the music this brilliant era produced, there will be the last of the great sit-coms. Full House, Home Improvement, Seinfeld, and Friends all were in their hey day at some point in the 90's. They popularized before sit-coms were all sex, all the time, while still having the witty living room humor we have all come to know and love. Today's impostors are an embarrassment to the ones that came before them. So, I summarize that it was the great music and sit-coms that will forever be remembered from the 90's.

Answer 3

The millennium celebration at the end was ruined by the press.

Margaret Thatcher lost power and eventually the Labour crowd won over with the young Tony Blair.

The radiation from chernobly disaster was still afecting the UK.

People began to die of CJD.

Aids increase thoughout the 90's.

Mobile phones got steadily smaller.

Easyjet started up in 1998 and the low cost airlines began to become major airlines.

Diana died, I was not impressed by the hype.

Housing prices made a recovery in the 1990's after the crash.

The Gulf war was big and was the shortest war ever - 44 days.

Kuwait was 'freed'

Answer 4

I remember loads, East 17, Take That, Oasis v Blur, Pulp, Doc Martens, Dodgy Spice Girls Trainers, Stripy hair a la All Saints etc, Levi's ad music always getting to Number 1, Wet Wet Bloody Wet's eternity at number one, Noel's House Party, Right Said Fred, the return of Bootcut jeans, classic dance music, Eastenders still being a good programme, Gladiators, People wearing dummies as necklaces, The Crystal Maze, Boy's with floppy hair - especially Dieter Brummer from Home and Away, Heartbreak High - I could go on but I won't lol :)

Answer 5

1991 The Perisan Gulf War, burning oil fields.



1992 Rodney King, stone washed jeans



1993 Gruge Rock hitting the peak...



1994 World Cup comes to the USA, Kurt Cobain committing suicide



1995 ????



1996 OJ trial, Summer Olympics In Atl., Star Wars in Theatres



1997 Very Hot Summer, Princess Diana



1998 Internet Internet



1999 The Matrix, and Y2K worries.

Answer 6

I remember most of it! I turned 13 in 1990. The music, the tv shows...okay, the clothes were bad, but the rest was great! Movies: Forrest Gump, SIngles, Natural Born Killers, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance...TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, ER...Grunge, Punk and Rock: Nirvana, Green Day, Red Hot Chilli Peppers...the surge of Britpop: Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Spice Girls...boybands: NKOTB, Boyzone...



I also remember the Gulf War, the Fall of Soviet Union, my country joining EU AND winning the Ice Hockey WorldCupi n 1995, me moving first to SoCa, then to London...doing a lot of chemicals...herbs...brews...



Ah, those were the days...

Answer 7

I grew up in the 90's. I was born in 1984.

I remember when Desert Storm happened. They handed out trading cards at school with Soldiers on them.

Jelly Shoes

Snap Bracelets

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Macarena

Grunge Rock Became Big

Casette Tapes

Nick At Nite And TGIF on ABC

RollerBlades Were Popular

Answer 8

My so called life, Friends, 90210, Melrose place, the Rachel Cut, Plaid shirts, Grunge, Kurt Cobain, Radiohead, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Clueless, Dazed and Confused, Ethan Hawke, Reality Bites, Wynona Ryder, Titanic, Mini Backpacks, baggy jeans, Nike shirts, Princess Diana's Death, Snapple, Babydoll dresses, Maryjane shoes, Gap clothes, Doc martens, Mallrats, Clerks, Oklahoma City bombing, Bush, Clinton, Desert Storm, Spice girls, boy bands, Butthole surfers, lillith fair, Tori Amos, Alanis Morrisete's Jagged little pill, discman, Pretty woman, Schlindler's list, Jurassic park, furby, hooked on phonics, Stop the insanity, beanie babies, Sega!

Answer 9

grunge was the soundtrack to my 20's and it fit the events so well. On the 20th anniversary of Earth Day I went to an art fesival and the cops thought I was a hooker. I had big hopes and dreams, then reality descended. I grew up, kicking and screaming. If I had to go back to the 90's I'd do more drugs so I wouldn't remember them this well.

Answer 10

A certain event?

My memory of the 90s is full of events, but not those which are cited in the extension to your question.

I remember being asked by Lebanese asylum seekers why the UN fought to oust Saddam Hussein's regime from Kuwait, when they completely ignored the problems in the Lebanon.

I remember reading the interview with a Bosnian Muslim who had escaped from Srbrenica with three children. Her husband was missing and she had fled, on foot with her three young children. She was asked: 'But nothing happened to you, personally?' She answered, 'It was in the night when the men came. It brings shame on my family.' There was a note in the minutes, "Asylum seeker looks hopefully in the eyes of the interviewer." She was unable to give more details, but as her legal advisor, I succeeded in gaining asylum for her and her children.

Experiencing the atmosphere of continuous fear amongst non-violent Turkish Kurds in eastern Turkey.

Telling an 18 year old Kosovo Albanian to go into hiding, because it was clear that NATO would start action very soon.

He went into hiding for just three weeks. Then all hell broke loose and there was a deportation stop.

But the hardest thing was on 31st December 1999. We were with a Turkish Kurdish family whose 6 year old son had died in the first week of December. The mourning father was un-shaven, because that is their custom. About 11.00 p.m. I said to him, 'Don't mis-understand me, I know it's your culture, but your wife is pregnant, we're going into a new millenium, you have to look to the future. Couldn't you shave?' And he did.

I was humbled. It still brings tears to my eyes.

Answer 11

The only thing I remember about the 90's is the biggest tax hikes in US history, compliments of Billy Boy. My favorite cars ever being produced, the Lamborghini Murcielago , and the Chrysler LeBaron J body. Neither of which, I could afford due to the higher taxes.

Answer 12

Spice Girls

Boy bands

Grunge music

Bill Clinton

Macarena

"Pulp Fiction"

The Power Rangers

Answer 13

Tickle Me Elmo, Hootie and the Blowfish, "What's up, sisterfriend?", what were those little electonic pets? Tamagatchi? Jonathan Taylor Thomas, The Lion King, Yankees and Derek Jeter, Saving Private Ryan, "Life is like a box of choclates...", SNL

Answer 14

Fresh Prince

"Now this is story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down. And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there. I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bell Air."



Power Rangers

Dial Up Internet

Pokemon

N*SYNC (bleh)

Backstreet Boys (double bleh)

Spice Girls (triple bleh)

Britney Spears (quadruple bleh)

Tupac

OJ Simpson (O.O)

Bill Clinton and Monica

Answer 15

Wallabees

Fila Trainers

Naf Naf Jackets

Corkscrew perms

Happy Mondays

Kenny Thomas





I loved the 90'S!!!!!

Answer 16

Oklahoma City Bombing, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Creed, AC/DC, Jon Banet Ramsey





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Answer 17

Rodney king, LA riots, Waco,hurricane andrew, Columbine Oklahoma city, the first world trade attack, gulf war cloning,the dawn of DVD's

wearing your clothes backwards a la kriss kross. en vogue emf the breeders nirvana pogs slap bracelets

Friends,homocide life on the street,when ER was a good show, doogie howser MD, Pulp fiction, the shawshank redemption,forrest gump,saving private ryan the sixth sense and fight club.

Answer 18

losing my parents and my Nan within 16 months. getting married being a stepfather and a proper father 94 and 97. Splitting up with an ex fiancee. being a postman a milkman doing a bungee jump saving a babies life. soldier soldier on tv. Four weddings and a funeral getting drunk. Whigfield

Answer 19

The Cleveland Indians being good for the first time in 30 years.

Answer 20

Big specs, Levi 501s, Oasis Wonderwall

Answer 21

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Answer 22

most of all the music Oasis, Blur the Verve going to raves passing my driving test and my team winning the Scottish Cup in 98 the first time in about 42 years ..Brilliant

Answer 23

I was a size 9 wore contacts and had 3 yes 3 boyfriends.

Answer 24

I remember pretty much everything, seeing as it was only 8 years ago.



However, the big ones:



Band: Oasis

Event: Diana's death

Clothes: Combat Trousers

Fads: A new thing called the internet

Answer 25

Verdict of Not Guilty, criminal case, Orenthal James Simpson, for the murder of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman.

Answer 26

The most I remember is my youngest child was born in 1994. He is now 12(almost 13).

Answer 27

My life was pretty turbulent in those years. I'd been raised in a cult, and became a Christian, so by 93 I'd lost all contact with my family (basically I'm dead as far as they're concerned). So I don't remember much else.

Answer 28

Saved By the Bell

Answer 29

The acquittal and subsequent riots in LA in the beating case of Rodney King.



President Clinton's famous "I did not have sex with her" speech.



The downing of a US helicopter in Somalia and Clinton ordering troops to tuck tail and run.

Answer 30

More lay offs. less violence. more charismatic renewal coventions. More prayer meetings. People started to be more attentive to their health. More exercice advertisement, more spas. Real Estate are up and down rates. Increase of marriages and divorces, abortions, domestic violence. Travel more .... More new model cars. More food chain stores and franchise hair salons.

Answer 31

raindance

moondance

euphoria

love doves

2 bad mice

ebeneezer good

the prodigy

crusties

diy

castlemorton

the simpsons

playstation 1

pink champagne

m25 partys

naff naff

love peace and unity

the death of diana

the berlin wall coming down

wasted weekends

comedowns

sesames treat

party on the pier

digweed

sasha

billy nasty

oakenfold

ibiza

floppy hats

whistles

white gloves

flouro jackets

oi! oi!

magic mushrooms

amyl nitrate

the police (raids)

moving shadow

react

dance 2 trance

etc

etc

i was thier,doing it proper...allright mate wots your name where you from..WICKED!!!!

Answer 32

Blur, Pulp ...and wanting to look like either Justine (elastica) or Louise (sleeper). Cutting my hair short. Wearing kids Tshirts so that they were nice and tight and showed off my tum with flares and DM's!

Answer 33

i was in the service during the war and the music then was just lovely for the situation and seperations we all endured but that music sounds as good to me today as it did 60 odd years ago and it brings back so many mixed memories

Answer 34

Pump up the Jam and Roxette - meeting my husband and the birth of 3 of our 4 sons. (quite an eventful decade for me!!!!)

Answer 35

The sixties were called the swinging sixties.

The nineties were called the nervous nineties.



All i can say is Thank God for the 70s.

Answer 36

I want Mandy's phone number!!!!



My memories are mostly stuff like sitting on the park with my mates and a bottle of Diamond White (wallpaper-stripper strength cider) and sinking a few buckets.



(tears of nostalgia....)

Answer 37

1990 and1991 were the years I had my 2 children, its also memorable for me throwing out my drunk violent ex partner, and getting on with my life!!!

Answer 38

1991) losing my friend to breast cancer at the age of 29..

1993)leaving my now ex husband..

1995)passing my driving test 1st time..

1999) getting totally sloshed waiting to see the millennium in ..

Answer 39

Collapse ot Soviet Union

Answer 40

The Spice Girls - the first time we saw Geri's union jack dress.

Answer 41

Dayglow bright coloured towelling socks!!



orange, green, yellow flourecent colours, if you worn odd colours then you were really cool!!



Grolsh bottle tops on my trainers!



Sony sports yellow walkman, god that was cool!



Yo-Yo's with coca-cola/7up/fanta etc written on them, everyone had them at school.



Bros! what a cheesy band but they were huge.



Michael Jacksons 'Bad' every kid wanted to be Michael jackson in the 90's



The A-team. classic.

Answer 42

To me, there is no difference between the eighties, nineties, and the current decade.



The key-word is mediocrity, and today, political correctness makes it worse.

Answer 43

Center parting hairstyles for the lads!!!

Answer 44

A whole load of rubbish music.

Answer 45

I remember having loads of fun being young and single and silly... LOL!

Answer 46

I remember shell suits!

Answer 47

nirvana, you cant say that on television, spice girls, are you afraid of the dark, legend of the hidden temple, good punk rock....

Answer 48

chocolates

in gold foil

like a car

Answer 49

I got my first ferret. His name was also Nigel.

Answer 50

the t.v show.



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Answer 51

Elementary school and the spice girls

Answer 52

well...what i remember bout the 90's is....

..........................

...my birth ....1992

...N SYNC....1995

...backstreet boys.......1993

...westlife......1998

...i got in kindergarten....1998

...A1...1999



i think thats all i can remember!!

i'm only a child on those years!!

Answer 53

My stupid husband finally left me

Answer 54

i remember take that and gettin my big juicy ck sucked by mandy "blow ya spuds Gleeson"