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[–] 155 points 3 months ago* (9 children)

Summer, 1998. Where sweets were sold as sour syrups in a squeeze tube and had flavors like Radical Blue Razz.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Radical Blue Razz

    Which also happened to be my stripper name.

    I was fired pretty quickly from "Dudes! Dudes! Dudes!"

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

    Back when Pokémon was still in black and white

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    And you had to hold it juuuust right to get the ambient light to illuminate the screen because they weren't backlit.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    And spamming the A button DID make the Pokeball capture at a higher rate

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  • [–] [S] 46 points 3 months ago (12 children)
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    [–] 40 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm team "let the youth have their fun" but also 1998 was peak lunchables.

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    [–] 34 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    i mean.... to be fair......... when i visited my hometown in poland in 1998....... it really still looked very much like 1980 was still looming around the corner... it wasnt the 18th hundred but i loved it for its gritty "you want sweets? how about a nice refreshing glass of last summers compote from gramps allotment?". silly nostalgia of course but yeah...

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    What I remember most from 1998 were commercials for flavored sugar water where kids turned into metallic early-CGI goop and rocketed through the air toward a woman carrying a tray of pouches so they could get there faster to consume.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I mean we still make marmelades and compots and such here.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah I make all my own jams, and fruit spreads. More expensive than the walmart brand, but like half the cost of the brands that come anywhere close to the quality.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    I was going to acid techno raves and getting completely mullered, and seeing some cracking sets at Ozzfest UK.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Ozzfest UK in '98 was my first gig with bands anyone had heard of. Hell of a way to start.

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    [–] 21 points 3 months ago

    This is exactly how Boomers talk about the 1950s.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    You can still cook things in 2026.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Most of my childhood was in the early 2010s but for me it was like I was living in the 90s because I was always at my grandparent's. They had all sorts of retro tech I played with as a kid. I burned CDs, I listened to cassettes and I had no internet, ever. My first exposure to a PC was with a mid 80s PC clone running Windows 1.0. So it's probably something like this

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

    What a difference in time perception we have, it's wild, cause the early 2010's was full on PS3 and late-early YouTube era for me. I think everyone I knew around me already was pretty connected to the internet. But yeah 10 years before that, I could see your grandparents' situation being commonplace. Glad you had that time to discover all this awesome technology !

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Can I put a bird on it?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    It's the late 1900's

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  • [+] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)
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    [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    I mean my mother made preserves and canned things, and was good at baking, and that was in the '80s. But there were also grocery stores with cookies. Because it was the 1980s lol

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago*

    Ah, the Gay 90s!

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    maybe some parts of the former Soviet Union

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago*

    My mother still makes jams and preserves, and I may follow in her footsteps, cause the trees in my yard will likely outlive her.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Summer of 98 was a fuck face joke for a while too

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