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What’s one word to prove you lived trough the 90’s? (lemm.ee)

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[-] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 181 points 1 year ago

Waaazzzaaaap

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[-] scytale@lemm.ee 141 points 1 year ago

Winamp.

[-] fing3r@feddit.de 65 points 1 year ago

…it really whips the llamas ass!

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[-] astroturds@startrek.website 98 points 1 year ago

Encarta

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[-] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 98 points 1 year ago

Y2K.

[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 46 points 1 year ago

I survived idiocy of managers asking for Y2K compliant padlocks. As in, physical padlocks.

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 23 points 1 year ago

Hope you charged them double.

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[-] RadDevon@lemmy.zip 83 points 1 year ago

Pogs

[-] hardypart@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago

Remember Alf? He's back! In pog form!

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[-] Cabeza2000@lemm.ee 81 points 1 year ago

Netscape

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[-] PurpleTentacle@lemdro.id 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tamagotchi

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[-] linkshandig@lemm.ee 54 points 1 year ago

NOT!

[-] lps2@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 year ago

Bobwehadababyitsaboy

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[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago

Dialup

[-] protput@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcchdingdingding

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[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 46 points 1 year ago

Psych!

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[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

I can do it with no words

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[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago

Myst

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[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

D.A.R.E

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[-] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

JNCO's

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[-] d3lta19@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 year ago

Pogs

[-] lavadrop@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 year ago

JNCO

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[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 34 points 1 year ago

Discman - so much better than the Walkman. =)

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[-] RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Napster

[-] mom@nom.mom 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

Kkrrrsshhhbiiieieiekkkkrrrrriieiekkkrrsshshshbriiieie

[-] NotSpez@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

And then someone picked up the phone and you had to start all over again

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[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Be kind, REWIND.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Not

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[-] scott@lem.free.as 30 points 1 year ago

"Information superhighway"

Two words, I know.

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[-] Wage_slave@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago

BRRRRphhhhttttttbrrrrrraaaaaapppppingtingtingBOINGBaTingBatingtingphhhhhhhhttttt.....

The sounds of the internet, volume one.

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[-] Confuserated@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Tubthumping

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] exiaxzero@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Floppy disks (or "diskettes").

Also, Y2K.

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[-] Sacha@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Slime/goop

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

[-] dewritochan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago

Gak.

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[-] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 27 points 1 year ago

NoFear

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[-] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago

Cowabunga

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[-] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Macarena

[-] JoeClu@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

IRC and ICQ

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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 25 points 1 year ago

Phat

[-] scott@lem.free.as 21 points 1 year ago

autoexec.bat

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[-] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

Wazzzzuuuuuuuup!

with entirely to much tongue.

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[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

Tamagotchi

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[-] LaughingFox@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Cowabunga

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[-] marshadow@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago

Dialup

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[-] ji88aja88a@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Hypercolor

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[-] Grishaix@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago

MiniDisc

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