The 90's

kneemos

Was there anything remarkable about the 90's?
Seems like the invention of the Playstation and the internet resulted in the most nondescript decade ever.

I heart TV

kneemos wrote: »

Was there anything remarkable about the 90's?
Seems like the invention of the Playstation and the internet resulted in the most nondescript decade ever.

The internet was invented in the 60s not the 90s

Ignatius in bloom

kneemos wrote: »

Was there anything remarkable about the 90's?
Seems like the invention of the Playstation and the internet resulted in the most nondescript decade ever.

An amazing decade for music and film. Plus you could have a grope and a smoke while at the bar.

Menas

Ireland was a bit of a backwater in 1990. It was not so bad by the time 1999 came around!

Badly Drunk Boy

I got my first e-mail account in 1991.
Mad Cow Disease was really big.
Michelle Smith became the most adored person in Irish history after winning 3 gold medals at the 1996 Olympics.
Laibach released their album NATO.
I started eating Indian food.
Stargate SG-1 started.
The Soviet Union collapsed.
The Spice Girls!

meeeeh

The rise and fall of Nirvana. The grunge movement. The demise of action hero in the movies and the whole film industry was better for it.

The Backwards Man

Menas wrote: »

Ireland was a bit of a backwater in 1990. It was not so bad by the time 1999 came around!

This.

The decade that Ireland finally threw off the post independence shackles and began to come of age.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I barely remember the 90s.
Scrunchies
Tamogatchis
Those weird alien things that were supposed to open their eyes at the millennium.
Hairbands
Spice girls
Rugrats

That pretty much sums up my memories

Links234

Everything was better in the 90's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pa6SGYWADU

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

I heart TV wrote: »

The internet was invented in the 60s not the 90s

It became ubiquitous in the 90's, like mobile phones, like smartphone in the 00's, and tbf that's what really matters on a social level, and is what the op is actually trying to allude to.

RobertKK

Everyone was sniff banging, it was new, fresh from the states.

Badly Drunk Boy

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

It became ubiquitous in the 90's, like mobile phones, like smartphone in the 00's, and tbf that's what really matters on a social level, and is what the op is actually trying to allude to.

Or rather the World Wide Web, which was transferred through the internet, became available to the public.

Badly Drunk Boy

RobertKK wrote: »

Everyone was sniff banging, it was new, fresh from the states.

You could get a sniff-bang for 50p (once you got your deposit back).

smokie72

Father ted and Italia 90

meeeeh

I remember our it teacher in high school telling us if this amazing web which enables communication among scientists. She also said some businesses use it for advertising which it really isn't what it was intended for and it will have to be regulated. Couple of months later it was riddled with porn and the rest is history.

1990's was generally a very unique decade in world history.

It was after end of the Cold War and before 9/11 and all the upheaval that followed. Generally seemed to have the feeling that we had solved most of the first world's problems and had reached "end of history" status as the quote went.

It wasn't without problems (former Yugoslavia/Rwanda), but was a world without the euro currency (and the volatility/instability that went with it), and Islamic terrorism was non-existent in Europe and was mostly restricted to incidents in Israel/Palestine.

Growing up in the 1990's it seemed the world could only get better with time, but increasingly the gains achieved to that back are being rolled back: increasing censorship by PC elites, undemocratic EU, wars/violence/terrorism.

For me the thing that sums up the 90's is the TV show Friends. Nice, warm, gentle, cosy, prosperous.

dark crystal

We dominated the 90's when it came to shite pop bands and the Eurovision.

One eyed Jack

The Backwards Man wrote: »

This.

The decade that Ireland finally threw off the post independence shackles and began to come of age.

We no more came of age... more like the Celtic Tiger cubs pulled off their dirty nappies and waved them about the place all throughout the 90's, making shìt of the place! :pac:

Every generation thinks it's the one that came of age. Look at how the recent referendum was passed - "We're now a modern country in 2015..."

We were always a modern country, right down to when we swapped boiling cloth diapers for disposable nappies. It's come full circle again now with more and more people boiling reusable diapers instead of trying to dispose of environmentally unfriendly disposable nappies that aren't so disposable!

Jaysis that's an awful lot of shyte talk :pac:

90's, like any other decade, was whatever the person themselves made of it.

Fluffy Cat 88

It was a decade of hope. After the miserable 80's, teenagers could actually choose to stay here rather than emigrate like our older siblings did.

Cars improved, more shops opened, we had more "stuff" I suppose.

For me, the boom began in the 90's. There were jobs if you wanted one. Going out every Saturday night was the norm. I enjoyed the 90's.

As for the Millennium Bug.... much ado about nothing!

nullzero

Great music, action movies where every character was a wise cracking comedian. There was still a reasonable amount of originality in popular culture generally speaking not the situation of today where everything is a reboot or a retread of something else.
And what showing on with the shirts? Loudly coloured shirts with awful ties were everywhere, looking back they make the much maligned fashion of the 80's look normal.
To say the 90's was a nondescript decade is daft, since the turn of the century everything has felt kind of samey and much more nondescript than the previous decades which all seemed to have quite distinctive qualities.

Sir Osis of Liver.

T'was all about the yokes.

DanielODonnell

It depends what age you were, if you were a young fellow or just born in the decade it seems like it was a very fashionable time with want of a better word, I was born in 92 but to someone my parents age who were in their 30's at the time it was just a decade filled with work and raising children. I am sure someone who was born in early 2000's would think the 2000's were great because they were children at the time and had no worries.

For people who say the music was better, that depends what music you like as metal music is better now than it ever was, in terms of films, it was just the Disney movies that were better, hollywood films are actually better now.

donegaLroad

I remember pricing a mobile phone in London in 1991

£600 including connection to the network, but your talk time was extra.

kneemos

nullzero wrote: »

Great music, action movies where every character was a wise cracking comedian. There was still a reasonable amount of originality in popular culture generally speaking not the situation of today where everything is a reboot or a retread of something else.
And what showing on with the shirts? Loudly coloured shirts with awful ties were everywhere, looking back they make the much maligned fashion of the 80's look normal.
To say the 90's was a nondescript decade is daft, since the turn of the century everything has felt kind of samey and much more nondescript than the previous decades which all seemed to have quite distinctive qualities.

Compared to the originality of the 60's and 70's the 90's were dull as dishwater.
Don't remember any decent films or music from the 90's.Likewise popular movements.

Pink Lemons

donegaLroad wrote: »

I remember pricing a mobile phone in London in 1991

£600 including connection to the network, but your talk time was extra.

So an iPhone then

Links234

DanielODonnell wrote: »

metal music is better now than it ever was

:pac:

The amount of metal fans who'd pop a gasket over that statement!

DanielODonnell

Deleted User wrote: »

1990's was generally a very unique decade in world history.

It was after end of the Cold War and before 9/11 and all the upheaval that followed. Generally seemed to have the feeling that we had solved most of the first world's problems and had reached "end of history" status as the quote went.

It wasn't without problems (former Yugoslavia/Rwanda), but was a world without the euro currency (and the volatility/instability that went with it), and Islamic terrorism was non-existent in Europe and was mostly restricted to incidents in Israel/Palestine.

Growing up in the 1990's it seemed the world could only get better with time, but increasingly the gains achieved to that back are being rolled back: increasing censorship by PC elites, undemocratic EU, wars/violence/terrorism.

For me the thing that sums up the 90's is the TV show Friends. Nice, warm, gentle, cosy, prosperous.

In modern world history you mean, it is not like the 1390's or 1690s had massive media coverage, you could argue that the 590's were a "unique decade in world history" when the paddies invaded western britain to form scotland. Important things happen in every decade and every century.

Plus something I often state is that 44% of the Friends episodes were aired in the 2000's

RayM

It was a good decade. I always feel that everything (and I mean everything) started going wrong after the '90s. Although I'm not sure how much of that is just me being nostalgic.

Herb Powell

lol @ this entire thread

BMJD

Links234 wrote: »

:pac:

The amount of metal fans who'd pop a gasket over that statement!

I literally popped a gasket and an now shaking my fist in anger.

DanielODonnell

The Backwards Man wrote: »

This.

The decade that Ireland finally threw off the post independence shackles and began to come of age.

that depends where abouts you are talking about, I wouldn't call the chapel in Ballybrolly getting oil heating as coming of age.

(i had made than townland up though it seems it exists in co. armagh)

DanielODonnell

Links234 wrote: »

:pac:

The amount of metal fans who'd pop a gasket over that statement!

I suppose gothic metal was better but I can't think of any good bands as I am not a Metallica fan you see. I would associate bands like System of a Down more with the 2000's

The_Valeyard

kneemos wrote: »

Was there anything remarkable about the 90's?
Seems like the invention of the Playstation and the internet resulted in the most nondescript decade ever.

Why are you not using your own thread for your questions?

kneemos

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Why are you not using your own thread for your questions?

It's closed for essential maintenance.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

One eyed Jack wrote: »

We no more came of age... more like the Celtic Tiger cubs pulled off their dirty nappies and waved them about the place all throughout the 90's, making shìt of the place! :pac:

Every generation thinks it's the one that came of age. Look at how the recent referendum was passed - "We're now a modern country in 2015..."

We were always a modern country, right down to when we swapped boiling cloth diapers for disposable nappies. It's come full circle again now with more and more people boiling reusable diapers instead of trying to dispose of environmentally unfriendly disposable nappies that aren't so disposable!

Jaysis that's an awful lot of shyte talk :pac:

90's, like any other decade, was whatever the person themselves made of it.

I literally couldn't disagree with you more. We were in NO way a modern country not too long ago. Even the change in Ireland from the 80's through to today is monumental, sure, people are still people, and accents are pretty similar but almost everything else has changed.

If we take the 90's as the benchmark for how things were different before and after here are just a few things that are different, that you don't seem to be aware of for some reason.

It was illegal to be gay.
Our national roads were insanely bad, they were of the same standard as country roads today.
Our immigrants are not all thickos sent to work as labourers in England, they have degrees, skills and knowledge and many leave to earn big salaries, that was never the case before.
We shipped unmarried mothers into Magdelane Laundries.
Bastard children were sold to America.
Paedophile Priests raped and beat thousands of young boys for decades, and were protected.
You could drive after a bottle of whiskey.
If you wanted to book a flight it cost a small fortune which many couldn't afford.
The only tv was one channel that only aired at certain times.
The only radio was severely limited sh1te.
TVs were small and expensive.
Music was expensive to listen to.
Restaurants were of a poor standard.
Everyone ate potatoes every goddam day for dinner.
You had to wait weeks, even months to get a phone line installed for your home from our telecom monopoly.
Taxes were higher then.
ECT ect ect
I could literally keep going with this list for an hour.

Arse biscuits to you if you think nothings changed in this country! Fecking arse biscuits!

Sir Osis of Liver.

RayM wrote: »

It was a good decade. I always feel that everything (and I mean everything) started going wrong after the '90s. Although I'm not sure how much of that is just me being nostalgic.

The world became a sh1ttier place when Bush junior came to power and has been on a downward spiral since.

eezipc

Just watch Trainspotting. That's why none of us remember the 90's.

donegaLroad

Pink Lemons wrote: »

So an iPhone then

one of these yokes

KungPao

kneemos wrote: »

Compared to the originality of the 60's and 70's the 90's were dull as dishwater.
Don't remember any decent films or music from the 90's.Likewise popular movements.

Are you dead inside?

ChopShop

Links234 wrote: »

:pac:

The amount of metal fans who'd pop a gasket over that statement!

'Wahhh Slayer is crap now, and it's all Kerry King's fault.'

eezipc

kneemos wrote: »

Compared to the originality of the 60's and 70's the 90's were dull as dishwater.
Don't remember any decent films or music from the 90's.Likewise popular movements.

I think your argument is invalid....

http://www.imdb.com/search/title/?release_date=1990,1999&title_type=feature

jayo26

donegaLroad wrote: »

one of these yokes

She looks like a proper 90s yoke alright.

the evasion_kid

Twas the golden age of hip-hop

kneemos

eezipc wrote: »

I think your argument is invalid....

http://www.imdb.com/search/title/?release_date=1990,1999&title_type=feature

It was more social change and world events I had in mind when I started the thread.
Even cinema and music in the sixties and seventies was a giant leap in relation to what came before.

DarkyHughes

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

You could get a sniff-bang for 50p (once you got your deposit back).

You could get bags of coke for 50p back in the 90's? Was this the 1890's?

DanielODonnell

That phone in the photo would be late 80s, early 90s as in 1994/95 this was the size of mobile phone available

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=nokia+2110&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIr6i5goKDyAIVCQQaCh2ltwAS&biw=1242&bih=606

DarkyHughes

kneemos wrote: »

Compared to the originality of the 60's and 70's the 90's were dull as dishwater.
Don't remember any decent films or music from the 90's.Likewise popular movements.

You don't remember.....

Goodfellas "go get a shiny new box"
Pulp Fiction "and you will remember my name as Lord"
Reservoir Dogs "really big penis, hence like a virgin"
Casino "you made pop yo eye outta ya head"
Schindler's List "let my people gooooo"
Trainspotting "get a job, get a tv, get a sofa etc...."
Cape Fear "muhahahahahahahahaha Councillor "
Terminator 2 "i'll be back (several more times)"

Whitewinged

I used to like The Eurovision in the 90s.

The point system seemed to be fair well compared to now and Ireland won it 4 times in the 90s.

DarkyHughes

Whitewinged wrote: »

I used to like The Eurovision in the 90s.

The point system seemed to be fair well compared to now and Ireland won it 4 times in the 90s.

Me to. The 90's had to be the most proudest decade to be Irish, with the 2 football World Cups, the 3 Olympic gold medals, the Eurovision wins like you mentioned, The Good Friday Agreement.

We got so much done in the 90's.

Whitewinged

DarkyHughes wrote: »

Me to. The 90's had to be the most proudest decade to be Irish, with the 2 football World Cups, the 3 Olympic gold medals, the Eurovision wins like you mentioned, The Good Friday Agreement.

We got so much done in the 90's.

I always remember World Cup 1994.

Me and my pals were going to be staying in a tent in the back garden. Ireland were playing Italy and we heard them score and went to run into the house but i tripped and landed on the stake in the ground supporting the tent and hurt my knee. I still have the scar!

My mother used to get so emotional over the eurovision. She used to be welling up and shed say "your so lucky, we never used to win when i was growing up"

Ruu

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