Only 90s kids will understand

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[–] 148 points 6 months ago (25 children)

Recently got asked by a youngster whether I know PokΓ©mon.

Kid ... I was there, 3000 years ago at the beginning.

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  • [–] 56 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    me when kids explain minecraft history to me

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    My kid is getting into Minecraft and it's so hard to not stop their excitement by being like "yeah, I know, I've been playing this for longer than you've been alive" because I love how excited they get learning about how to make basic shit (and they're playing ATM10,so there's a TON of shit they haven't even come close to seeing) and sharing that with me.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    I was 22 when Pokemon started becoming popular in the US. You really feel being a Gen Xer in a Millenial nostalgia world!

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    yeah, i'm an older Xennial and my younger sibling was not allowed to watch anime for reasons. My first handheld gaming console was my first smartphone in 2014? I don't understand pokemans at all.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I have a neighbor who's four years older than me, but the rift between 1983 and 1987, technology, seems insurmountable, it's insane.

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  • [–] 51 points 6 months ago (13 children)

    You had to be born in the mid late 80s To truly appreciate the 90s

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  • [–] 47 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    GenX hates this one thing...

    Thats not true, they hate most things.

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    [–] 31 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    1000003294

    mfw over half my hair is gray and the kids online are complaining about being old

    mfw I get AARP monthly newsletters

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    I get aarp letters too, but it was also really common in the 90s and early 00s to fill in your birthday as the early half of the 1900s. So I think that’s just them thinking I’m over a hundred.

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    [–] 18 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    It's kinda silly. I was born very early 90s, but since I was so young I don't actually remember much about that time. My teenager years were in 00s, so I much more identify as "millenial" or 90s baby rather than 90s kid

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Totally. The difference between generations is cultural not time based.

    Millennials are old enough remember where they were on 9/11. Similar to GenX and the Challenger explosion in 86. Not sure what the zoomer equivalent is -maybe Obama? For Gen alpha it'll be remembering the pandemic starting.

    Millenials can't remember life before wireless communication.

    Zoomer's can't remember life before the internet.

    Alpha can't remember a time before smart phones.

    Gen Beta wont remember a time before AI (shudders)

    Not sure about boomers/genx... probably something about the vietnam war or colour tv.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (15 children)

    90s kid here. i dont get it.

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  • [–] [S] 35 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    The one person was born in 2000 and the other person complains about how young they are. It turns out that the complainer was born in 1999, and therefore is only a year older. Thus making the complaint a bit silly.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I like to think he was born on 12/31/99 to make it extra ridiculous.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    I think of it like this. They’re a 90s baby, not a 90s kid.

    90s kid would be more like born in the mid 80s to mid 90s so you have actual memories of the 90s.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    I was born in 89, so remember a good portion of the 90s. It was a much simpler time but obviously we tend to romanticise the fun memories and quietly ignore how vastly more inconvenient daily life was.

    Mobile phones were not really a thing yet so getting in touch with your friends required a combination of patience and sheer luck.

    The internet was a different place entirely and was experienced in 30 minute chunks of time, just long enough to download a song or two before being kicked off for tying up the landline.

    Daily entertainment was 4, maybe 5 analogue TV channels, plus a collection of VHS tapes which are all degrading by being rewatched constantly.

    Every piece of life admin that you would normally do online today was instead done with pen and paper.

    Honestly, I'm amazed we ever got anything done.

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  • I was born in 84 so I grew up with the best of the late 80s and early 90s, the simplicity, style and general vibe of live in those days was amazing.

    Come home from school, grab a sunny d, go watch cartoons while talking about how realistic the snes graphics looked. Play some pogs and replace the batteries on my yak bak, listening to oasis and reading goosebumps.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I was born 95, but I was the youngest kid. I was exposed to a lot of 90's stuff that I probably wouldn't have been if not for that, like the snes felt really crusty and old by the time I would have been old enough to get my own console, but I grew up mirroring the excitement of my older peers for stuff like SMW and Plok. I miss a lot of stuff from the 90's and I was only ever 4 or younger in it hahahaha

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    [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Bro misses the β€˜90s like he had rent to pay back then 😭

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    I have a memory of getting annoyed because I kept writing 93 instead of 94 on my school work after the Christmas holiday was over

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Wait so he was the baby from Eraserhead?

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    [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    people will form tribes for just about anything

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