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Subject: teens in the 90s?
ok im doing a presentation for a soc. class about teens in the 90s and i need to know what they were like at work school hanging out.. i need to know how they acted towards society and towards their peers... any help would be greatly appreciated!!! thank you!
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May I ask how old you are? I mean the 90's were only 4 years ago.
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seventeen. i know what the 90s were like i just need to know what the teens were like since i was 4-14 years old i kinda missed out on the early stuff.
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Well I am 21, so I was 8-18 in the 90's so my entire teen period was spent in them. I don't know if any of my memories would be of much use to you as I am British, and if you are from anywhere else my experiences might not be relevant, but here goes!
From about '94 to '97 the majority of teens in Britain seemed obsessed by the Brit Pop / Indie music phenomenon i.e., bands like Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Radiohead, Ash etc. There was also a "Cool Britannia" vibe going on at the time. Most of those kids also grew their hair longish and sometimes wore 60's style clothes. The teens that disliked Brit Pop tended to be into the Spice Girls......
From about 93'-94' it was really cool for girls to collect toy trolls! At the beginning to mid '90's, there also seemed to be a lot of teens into supporting Greenpeace and campaigning against animal testing, etc, and sadly that seems to have waned since then.
Loads of teens wore tie-dye T-Shirts for a while.....There was also a major craze that started in about 95' for the most fashionable kids to wear Caterpillar Boots. Kickers mocassin shoes and Nike Air Max trainers.
Fashionable TV shows were Friends, Ally McBeal and the X-Files, and any British soap opera such as Eastenders. Most teens loved the film "Trainspotting", too.
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i turned 13 in 97 sooo i guess i was a teen in da 90s
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^you're a late 90s kid yeah, but you are also a 00s kid too.
I think the original poster is asking more about teens in the first half of the 90s. There were 2 or 3 different types of 90s, much like how there were 2 or 3 different types of 80s.
I graduated high school in 1996, so I was part of the early and mid 1990s. It really wasn't that different from now. Technology and fashions were different, but that's about all. Cell phones weren't really a part of the mainstream culture at that time. The web/internet was around, but not like now. It wasn't till about 1998 or 1999 that the web truly became part of the culture. Baggy pants and the 70s retro look came in style back in 1992, and I guess they never went out of style!!
In many ways the early 1990s are eerily similar to the early 2000s. We have a George Bush in the White House just like then. And the early 90s had a terrible economy, much like now, those were really depressing times. I think that just fed the gloomy grunge music that came out of that time. Late 1991 to Early 1997 was the core of the 90s. When the bubble gum teeny pop took over sometime in mid-late 1997, I felt that the core 90s had come to an end. Like all kids, kids back then thought they were the first kids that ever existed and that what we were doing and going through was totally brand new. Then we got older, turned 25, started talking about being 30 year olds and sadly realized we were just like everyone generation before us (even our parents). ;)
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I dont know what it was, but when i was in middle shcool there was some weird fad where overalls were cool (mostly among girls though) for a while. or maybe it was just here. lol. I remember that in 96/97(12 or 13 for me)
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I dont know what it was, but when i was in middle shcool there was some weird fad where overalls were cool (mostly among girls though) for a while. or maybe it was just here. lol. I remember that in 96/97(12 or 13 for me)
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It wasn't just where you were 1992thousand. I think it was in the spring of 97 when the fad was at its strongest. I even made my mom buy me a pair of overalls because it was so "cool". What were we thinking?????
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no, overalls became a big thing earlier in the 90's, due to the whole "hippie" movement that most people were trying to bring back. And in the hip hop scene, one strap of the overalls was undone, and that was the cool way to wear 'em.
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no, overalls became a big thing earlier in the 90's, due to the whole "hippie" movement that most people were trying to bring back. And in the hip hop scene, one strap of the overalls was undone, and that was the cool way to wear 'em.
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I swear there was another revival of the overalls. Maybe it was only a local fad because the area I live in has its own fads every once in a while.
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There was a fad for a while where you wore jeans with holes in the knees. Stonewashed jeans were "in" too. Also, In our school it was cool NOT to wear socks.
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actually, the holey stonewashed jeans were big in the late 80's.... if you need a mental picure, just think of Bon Jovi.
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awhile ago a huge trend started and its still kind of visible...
-> rugby polos <-
:/
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Seriously, watch Clueless and Empire Records. That's a great look at life for teenagers in the mid-1990's. Another would be the show My So-Called Life. If you can find the DVD release of that show, rent it or buy it. It'd so be worth it.
I'm 17, so I'm mostly a mid&late 90's kid/early 00's teen. However, I had sisters who were born in the early 80's, so they pretty much went through the teenager thing in the 90's. I see 1994-1996 as the "true 90's". The early 90's still had traces of the 80's, and late 90's culture is way too similar to how it is now.
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omg, last christmas my b/f got me the My So Called Life dvd box set!! I am the happiest girl alive!! The funny thing about that show, was that they cancelled it because of how true to life it was with all the topics they brought up... and just shortly after, all of tv was like that. it's sad how one show has to sacrifice itself to open a doorway!
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Seriously, watch Clueless and Empire Records. That's a great look at life for teenagers in the mid-1990's. Another would be the show My So-Called Life. If you can find the DVD release of that show, rent it or buy it. It'd so be worth it.
I'm 17, so I'm mostly a mid&late 90's kid/early 00's teen. However, I had sisters who were born in the early 80's, so they pretty much went through the teenager thing in the 90's. I see 1994-1996 as the "true 90's". The early 90's still had traces of the 80's, and late 90's culture is way too similar to how it is now.
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The early 90's had more traces of the very late 80's, i.e. 1989. You are waaay too young to remember the "real 80's". You weren't even alive for most of the real 80's. I promise you, that no kid was moonwalking or breakdancing in 1989. I know that's how you kids around think, you guys think that every fad, fashion, music group, and TV show were all happening at the exact same time every year from 1980 to 1989 and even up to 1993. I once had a kid born in 1985 ask me why Cyndi Lauper wasn't popular in 1989, and he simply didn't get why she fell out of fashion by '89. And another thing, I also promise you that NO KID felt safe walking around saying something as corny as "totally radical!", "fer sure!" or using any other type of 80's lingo by 1989 or 1990. No one dared act like they were still in the 80's, despite the left over fashions from 1989.
You were simply too young to remember how it really was. The real, true, genuine, core years, or whatever you want to call it of of the 80's were like 1980/'81 to about 1987.
M.C. Hammer, Saved by the Bell, Fresh Prince, Vanilla Ice and all that other early 90's stuff that you remember from when you were 4 or 5 years old was not the 1980's.
And the real or true 90's were 1991 to 1996/1997, maybey up to 1998. Grunge became mainstream in 1991, when it died and was replaced by Britney Spears, the 90's died. 1999 was not part of the real 90's. 1990 was a year that was stuck in limbo, being neither part of the 80's or 90's. That's my take on it.
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you're right..the nineties ended in 94/95. ....and then the Spice Girls came out, which led to the Hansons and N'sync. ...And Carson Daly.. okay, i just upset myself. :(
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I was 10-12 in 90-92, 13-17 in 93-97, and 18-19 in 98-99.
When I was a child in the early 90s, the big things were MC Hammer, Bart Simpson, the NES, the original Ninja Turtles and Tiny Toon Adventures. School started at 8:30. Kids wore neon and played Ninja Turtles on the playground. I also tried to fit in by not doing my homework as much, cuz I was under the impression that it was cool at the time to be a rebel(of course I now realize that I was wrong). I usually played Nintendo when I got home or on Saturday mornings, but when it was summer, me and my bro had our friend come over and had Super Soaker fights, back when they were less advanced and neon colored.
Then in Junior High, there was a BIG change. School started at 8am. Students were talking like they were in high school, but of course still acting like they were hormonally charged 6th-graders... There was talk about bringing drugs to school, and Juvee, stuff I didn't know about in elementary school. Plus, a good amount of them were dressed in gangsta rap clothes and speaking the lingo.
I was always the quiet nerdy-looking one(xept when I was 13 and tried to act like the other students... let's speak nothing more of that dark time). So I still was big into staying home and this time, playing my super nintendo or genesis, or even drawing my comics.
(To this day, I still don't see how 1993 could've been any similar to the late 80s or early 90s. Guess it was just most of the adults while the youth moved on)
Then high school came, and it was even bigger. School started at 7:30am, so all the students were dead tired. The grunge look was fading and getting replaced with saggy pants. I was still silent and negligent on homework as ever, and still not a popular student, but by the end, I did go to a few writers' club meetings. Basically Junior high but even more hormonically charged. There were many teens who weren't stereotypical, and many who were. Also, there was a class where each student had to take care of a baby-doll to learn about parenthood(which was also a plot in a Pepper Ann cartoon, which was kinda cool). And many students smoked, and were allowed to do so off-campus and even got away with it sometimes on the bus. Plus, by then, skateboarding was gaining in popularity. Flannel and eventually sagging evolved into the styles you see today, aside from the ugly sideways caps you see on occasion.
Basically, it's the same old same old:
populars
jocks
wannabe's
preps
outcasts
nerds
punks
quiet types
resentful types
average types
non-curricular types who stay home(such as gamers)
etc..
As a young adult of 98-99, I didn't go to community college until late 99. The rest of the time I stayed home and continued my comics and gaming and developed a new love for electronic dance music.
I wish I could help more, but I'm tired, lol..
There are probly tons of others willing to fill in for me so away I go :P
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And the real or true 90's were 1991 to 1996/1997, maybey up to 1998. Grunge became mainstream in 1991, when it died and was replaced by Britney Spears, the 90's died. 1999 was not part of the real 90's. 1990 was a year that was stuck in limbo, being neither part of the 80's or 90's. That's my take on it.
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IMHO, I think the 80's finally died in 1994. The 90's started in 94' and is still around today. I think the 90's are finally starting to disappear now. It seems like at the beginning of every new decade, everybody goes into 4 years of mouring for the previous decade and pretend that the decade has never really left. Finally we get over the loss and move on to different things.
But ya, there are many examples of teens from the 1990's from TV series made at the time.
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IMHO, I think the 80's finally died in 1994. The 90's started in 94' and is still around today. I think the 90's are finally starting to disappear now. It seems like at the beginning of every new decade, everybody goes into 4 years of mouring for the previous decade and pretend that the decade has never really left. Finally we get over the loss and move on to different things.
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No, the 80's faded away in the early nineties, but that doesn't mean the decade actually started in 94. Everyone struggled to get out of the spandex pant, aqua net groove and that created the nineties (91). Grunge became big, and hip hop broke through to the mainstream like wildfire. That's what made the early 90's so distinct! Everyone and everything was wanting to make changes, to move on to something new. I'm 21, too young to be a part of generation X, but im old enough to remember feeling the decade evolve. Long story short, I agree with Paul_S. The 90's may not have died in 96/97, but it definitely deteriorated, just like every decade does.
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I spent my teen years in the 90s. Here's what I remember... Early 90s I had just started junior high and we had a keyboarding course which we took on... wait for it... Typewriters. I don't remember using a computer until probably 95 or so. Had my first look at the internet in 96. Was amazed that I could find information on pretty much anything I wanted. I was into the grunge scene... Pearl Jam, Nirvana, all that stuff. I remember wearing lots of plaid and spending hours cutting holes in jeans so they looked "just right". There was big hair and then the middle part straight look came about. Also we spent a bit of time putting beads in strands of our hair or wrapping it with embroidery floss... The beads were super glued in. We hung out at the local teen spot affectionately known as "The Pool Hall" where we would try and find someone old enough to buy us smokes. We'd split a pack and pay less than half of what they are now. We'd pop quarters into the jukebox and hang out there all night. Sometimes we'd go to each others houses and watch stupid horror movies from the 80s. Yep, that's pretty much what I remember.
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Is it me or Am I seeing more and more teens now that I used to see in the early 90's? God I'm getting older! :P ;D
Howard
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I'm sorry, but I hate the whole debate about what is "actually 90s". Give me a break! Whatever happened in the years 1990-1999 is technically 90s. I don't care if it has traces of 80s, or traces of 2000s (and some things do, of course), it is still 90s if it happened in the 90s. Every decade is going to have traces of the previous decade in it; that's just the way it is.
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anyone remember when Anime started to come back in the later half? At First Ronin Warriors and Sailor Moon were put on syndication in 95 then in 96/97 Dragonball and DBZ went on syndication. I almost coldnt believe how fast DBZ caught on, throughout 8th grade we spent many lunches talking/arguing about Xmen Spiderman and DBZ. It was weird, because when i started high school in Fall 98(the same time cartoon network put DBZ Ronin Sailor Moon etc... in Toonami) there was already some DBZ gang(they claimed it was in other states too...god i hope not!) and they all took on names of characters like Goku Piccolo Kame Yamcha etc...jeez they were corny..i played football with some of the guys sometimes but i wasn't dumb enough to join that gang lol.
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The early 90's had more traces of the very late 80's, i.e. 1989. You are waaay too young to remember the "real 80's". You weren't even alive for most of the real 80's. I promise you, that no kid was moonwalking or breakdancing in 1989. I know that's how you kids around think, you guys think that every fad, fashion, music group, and TV show were all happening at the exact same time every year from 1980 to 1989 and even up to 1993. I once had a kid born in 1985 ask me why Cyndi Lauper wasn't popular in 1989, and he simply didn't get why she fell out of fashion by '89. And another thing, I also promise you that NO KID felt safe walking around saying something as corny as "totally radical!", "fer sure!" or using any other type of 80's lingo by 1989 or 1990. No one dared act like they were still in the 80's, despite the left over fashions from 1989.
You were simply too young to remember how it really was. The real, true, genuine, core years, or whatever you want to call it of of the 80's were like 1980/'81 to about 1987.
M.C. Hammer, Saved by the Bell, Fresh Prince, Vanilla Ice and all that other early 90's stuff that you remember from when you were 4 or 5 years old was not the 1980's.
And the real or true 90's were 1991 to 1996/1997, maybey up to 1998. Grunge became mainstream in 1991, when it died and was replaced by Britney Spears, the 90's died. 1999 was not part of the real 90's. 1990 was a year that was stuck in limbo, being neither part of the 80's or 90's. That's my take on it.
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I agree with this poster. 1999 was not part of the real 90's. I think when Britney Spears released her first single that was basically the end of the 90's right then and there. 1992-1996 was grunge, gangsta rap(Death Row and Suge Kinight)soft rock/R&B(Boyz II men, Mariah Carey, and Toni Braxton) with a little fun pop music music in there(Amy Grant, Ace of Base.) When I look back at the 1997-1998 period I see stuff like Dru Hill, Total, Puff Daddy, Mase, Monica, Next, and KiCi and JoJo on top of the charts. So, the 1997-1998 period had an urban music type of vibe to it. 1999+ is not par of the 90's at all. I think 1996 was the best year musically for the 90's maybe. Stone Temple Pilots, Alice In chains, and Pearl Jam still manged to go double platinum with their albums that year. Donna Lewis, Primitive Radio Gods, Soul Coughing and Joan Osborine were all one hit wonders in 1996. Dance Acts like La Bouche and No Mercy each had a couple hits in 1996. Groups like Social Distortion, Better Than Ezra, and Fountains of Wayne I could remember too a little bit. The urban music started to come in a little bit than too. Alot of different music was playing on the radio in 96. Maybe all of it wasn't good but I kinda liked the diversity that was going on then. Even a New Jack Sing Artist of the late 80's/early 90's like Keith Sweat had a couple hits in 1996.
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Hmmm...this is a tough question without a true answer I'm afraid. I was 13 when the 90's started so I feel like I had a pretty good grasp on the "teen" thing throughout the early to mid 90's. I just recall those times being rather chaotic as far as pop culture went. It really was a faceless period of time..at least 90-93 was. Music was a real mess...if you don't believe me, look up a billboard chart from late 91 or 92. As far as style goes, just watch 90210 to get the basic "it" look from that time-period. Preppy boys wore rugby shirts or polo shirts and either khakis from Britches or the Gap or stonewashed button-fly levi jeans. College sweatshirts were cool to wear with maybe a turtle-neck underneath. I remember guys wearing cardigan sweaters too over turtlenecks. This is the wee-early 90's mind you. about 93-94, the flannel thing really took off and everything changed. Oh yeah, STARTER JACKETS were big among young teen boys. Michael Jordan stuff was big. I remember girls wearing tops with flared sleeves and plumed collars. I remember bell-bottoms coming back for girls too, and platform shoes. To be honest, as far as girls go, the style wasn't that much different from today. The hair has changed a bit...no more poofy bangs. Also, boys tended to part their hair more than they do now.
As far as social interaction...you would be very hard-pressed to find much of a difference at all. Boys will be boys and girls will be girls...not much changes. I know that at least at the school I went to, you were a loser if you did drugs...period. You were cool if you drank, but drugs were not cool at all. I remember that changing dramatically just as soon as I graduated and that "Dazed and Confused" movie came out. I think kids were probably a little more careful about sex back then simply because the whole AIDS thing really hit hard when we were getting to middle school and it scared the bejesus out of most of us. It seems like there is more tollerance for homosexuality among teens these days and I think that's simply because society is more tolerant in general. It's all over TV and in the movies now.
You know, I think that teens changed dramatically twice during that decade...once in 1993 and again in 1997. The whole alterna-kid thing really changed the way people acted toward each other and toward society in general. I think people are right in saying that the 80's attitude truly died then and a return to the 70's was prevailant. 1997 brought back glamour, pop-stars and style reminiscent of the 80's.
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All right, here it goes... I was born in 84' so for me I literally started Kindergarten in 1990 and was 6 years old. I started 1st grade when I was 7 and that was in 1991, thus I was a true child of the 90s. I ended the 90s with my first semester of my freshmen year at high school having been completed.
So, I'll start when I was a Kindergartener/1st grader.
This was a time when I was very much into two things mainly: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Nintendo! So, I basically followed whatever the Ninja Turtles did. I said Cowabunga Dude! and Peace to the Earth Man! Strangely I remember Pizza being really prominent and popular during these times. Every party was a Pizza party, The Turtles always ate pizza, In Home Alone 1 + 2 there seemed to be lot of pizza. Maybe it is just me, but that is what I remember ;D
Anyway, Nintendo (NES) was huge. Either that or sega, but I was really into Super Mario Bros.3 and the Ninja Turtle games. So, my cartoons were all very action packed, I watched them in the morning on weekdays, and they included, TMNT, Smurfs, The Real Ghost Busters, and Captain Planet. Of course, I also watched Saturday Morning Cartoons. I also seem to have went to Chucky Cheeses' a lot.
I think in 2nd or 3rd grade(92-93) Power Rangers was cool for me. I liked them at the time (sadly :-[). Anyway, on to 5th, 6th,and 7th grade(95-98) and I can't really remember 4th..
Anyway I really remember this time for some wierd reason.
I remember Magic cards being REALLY popular and then all of a sudden not as much.. Hackysacking, Yo-Yos were big stuff. Tie Dye shirts (95-97ish). Baggy pants were HUGE with Chain Wallets :) , JNCO jeans (still cool), Air walks, Corduroy pants for a short time (People started saying only gay people wore them, so it kinda died..), POGS Were Very HUGE! Skater Hair cuts( 95-97ish) which transformed into Pushing your hair up in front with Gel(98-00). Pac Sun clothes were big, lots of Alien T-Shirts and such.
Later in 8th grade to 9th grade( 98' to-end of 99'), Clothes for me anyway were very Old Navy, Aeropostale, Tommy Hilfiger (Preppy). Pants were not baggy, but not tight either.
Side Note: I would just like to say that As clothes and Hair grew Preppy so, did Pop grow in Popularity, then in the 00s essentialy 01', Hair started to Punk out and Hair went spikey and Clothes Punked out and Beanies became cool, and Britney and Basically Pop, Died( Perhaps a slow death, but a Death none the less), Hoodies are in style now, and T-shirts are cool and Preppy is very much disliked by most now. Rap is bigger than ever and so is Rock. I personally believe we shouldn't say the 90s or 00s but should say this era. Like The Pop era/ Boy Band/ Britney era, or the Grunge era, etc.
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ok im doing a presentation for a soc. class about teens in the 90s and i need to know what they were like at work school hanging out.. i need to know how they acted towards society and towards their peers... End Quote
Let's see, they suddenly had to hang out in groups of 50 or more, stop bathing, and wear clothes so baggy their crotch hung down around their knees. Basically made the bums and hobos look like Remington Steele. :P
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I remember the overall fad in the early 90s (overall shorts anyone?)
for me personally, the style of life since about 94 has been retrograded to the punk of the early eighties late seventies (think misfits, dead kennedys, etc)
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I was born in 1980; a quintessential 'child of the 90s'. The 90s changed radically, even moreso than the 80s, in my opinion (yes, I remember much of the 80s, too.) My own take is, the late 80s and early 90s ('88-'91) weren't all that different. Neon everything, beanbag chairs, play-all-day arcades, Virtual Reality, NeXT Computer (Black Hardware, baby.) In Colorado, where I live, we still said "radical", "dudical", and "tubular" well into the late 80's.
Grunge started popping up in the late 80s, and exploded in the early 90s. By the "angst-filled summer of 1992", hair bands were out and grunge was king. This continued until 1994, when Kurt checked out. The 'real' 90s struggled on through the rest of 1994 and through 1995, with a brief Industrial music trend. Bands like Filter and Gravity Kills emerged, while Killing Joke released the most excellent 'Pandemonium' in 1994.
When I was a teen, I was rolling porto-potties down hills and blowing the doors off (with people in them), ripping off street signs, shoplifting, skateboarding, getting high on whatever I could find, buy, or steal, blowing up mailboxes with M-80s (real M-80s), and feeding Alka-Seltzer to squirrels. Kids nowadays don't do the stuff we did.
The 'real' 90s died in 1996, when the Spice Girls emerged. That killed it; grunge was out, bubblegum pop was in. The modern Internet was going full force; everyone and their mother had an ISP account. Cell phones rung in school kids' backpacks. Schools instituted totalitarian non-smoking bans, and cut their "smoking pits" (couldn't smoke within one mile of school property.) Kids just a couple years younger than my agegroup ate this stuff up--they seemed like a different generation--and we learned that they, in fact, are (born 1982-2000.)
Ah, brings a tear to my eye. I was 16 when the 90s croaked. R.I.P 1990s.
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Hey everyone!!
i'm brand new here, though i wish i'd have found this group like 2 years ago!
although i'm only 18, i still remember the early 90s very well because i had older cousins, and of course we always wanna be like older kids. i remember back when gangsta rap was still in, before all these weak rappers like nelly. the first time i heard rappers like scarface, it actually scared me. also, tupac shakur was really popular.
dance music was cool too. a lot of one hit wonders with nice beats. songs like "jellyhead", and almost anything by ace of bass. also, there was some good alternative rock stuff like rem, toad the wet sprocket and spin doctors. when i look back, my absolute fave 90s song is "no rain" by blind melon. pop stuff like boy bands and spice girls didnt start getting big until the end of the decade, which i also consider to be the demise of the decade.
shows like "rosanne" were popular. i remember i absolutely loved that show, and looking back on it, i dont understand why that family was considered like, lower class, because their portrayal of an american family seemed much more real to me.
sorry to be long winded, that was just a little bit of what i remember of the 90s. gosh, if any of you are interested, theres a early90smusic yahoogroup. they dont have much yet, but are trying to get more people.
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I think generations are really more like just a few years. People born from like 1977 to like 1980 are part of one generation. Then the next one is like everyone born from 1981 to like 1983. Then mine is pretty much anyone born from like 1984 to 1987. I mean, I was born in 1985, and I feel like I have more in common with an '87 kid than I do with someone who was born in '83. I mean, fads just change that quick. My Class of 2000 sister once told me she thought it was ridicolous how addicted my generation was to coffee. It's all like the intricate little waves of Generation Yers.
Howard, there's a simple reason why there are more teenagers now than there was back in the early 90's. We're the kids of Baby Boomers, and there was a lot more people born in the 1980's than were born in the 70's. Which sucks for us, 'cause it makes getting into college just that much harder.(Ever notice that there are a ton of college-related commercials now? Prime reason is because there was a huge spike in birth rates during the mid-80's, and all of us are hitting college now.)
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You're right about birthrates. For instance, anyone who tells you Generation X was only ten years long, because of birthrates, is full of it. They forgot all the kids born under the Carter Administration ('76-'80). There were less births in 1980 than in 1975; everybody was disco dancing and hopped up on coke (and no, disco didn't die in 1979, either.) Watch a movie made in 1995 called "Kids." That's my 'generation' (whatever it is); late 80s, early 90s teens. I see the generation split a couple years after I was born.. around '82. Why?:
1981: Ronald Reagan takes office
1981: first child welfare laws enacted
1982: infamous "Baby On Board" decal first appears
1982: disco dies, finally
1983: minivan invented
And several others. There definitely was a split.
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Yeah. My generation is probaly better-defined by Clueless and American Pie. (I'd like to include My So-Called Life, but that's kinda iffy. That show was like borderline Gex X/Gen Y.)
Seriously, it does seem that 1981/1982 was a major turning point. People born in like '79 or '80 seem alot more mature that '81 or '82 people...I mean, my sister's 21, and she doesn't look or talk much different than she did at 17.
Then there's my "peers", who I consider to be those who are about 16-19. When I talk to someone born around '84 to '87, I feel like they're the kids who grew up the same time I did. If I talk to someone born in '83 or '89, it's like I'm talking to someone in a different generation. I mean, I was talking to a freshman, and he was like,"I don't like The Smashing Pumpkins", and I was like,"You're too young to remember them!" He said I was too, until he remembered that I'm 18 and would have been around 11 when they were peaking in '96, so of course I was into them.
It's making me sad though, when I think there's going to be a whole generation of kids who weren't affected by bands like Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpikins, Stone Temple Pilots, and Oasis...so sad.
Subject: Re: teens in the 90s?
to me it seems like 86 was the split, i remember when i was a junior and senior lots of sophs/frosh didnt even remember the Fugees, plus lots more of them seemed into the Good Charlotte type stuff, while lots of us seemed to still be into Green Day and Tupac. Also lots of us rememberd stuff like Blossom and My So Called Life and Ghost Writer, where the freshmen seemed to not remember much before shows like South Park and Buffy, and we remembered when were in middle school No Doubt Bone Thugs Matchbox 20 Notorious B.I.G but a few years behinds us was Eminem Nelly Limp Bizkit TRL stuff.
BTW about birthyears...I think the reason Gen-X gets about 10 years is because though the birthrate dropped almost every year between 57 and 76, 1965 was easily the biggest drop, also the year the total births dropped below 4 million, and 1977 was the year it started to recover. So many classify Gen-X as circa 65-76.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005067.html
Subject: Re: teens in the 90s?
I don't know about the Generation X and Y thing. Honestly, I never felt like I really belonged to either generation, but sorta sandwiched inbetween both. I think generational labels are a bunch of bull, the media says the same stupid stuff about every generation that comes along. "These kids today are bad and immoral, they don't listen to their elders and just hang out at the mall all day." "They're very misunderstood and they grow up in a hectic world". Man you could almost say the same stuff about a teenager who was around in the year 5000 B.C. Just substitue "play Super Nintendo" and "watch 90210" all day for "surf the internet" and "watch Smallville/Roswell" and you have the difference for what the media says about teenagers from 1993 and teens around today in 2003. Then these kids think they are the coolest most gritty kids around, then they get older and enter their mid 20's and are replaced by a new batch of kids.
I was born in 1975, and when the term "Generation X" first came out in the early 1990's I was around 15 years old and I knew exactly who the media was really talking about. People born in the 1960's. Those guys were/are the real "Gen Xers", I mean knew that that crowd was/is far too young to be labeled as "Baby Boomers" like my parents who were born in the 1940's. But since I was just a kid in the 80's, and still in high school in the early 90's, I felt a world away from the true Generation Xers that were born in the 60's.
Over the years the term "Gen X" has come to mean different things, generally just thrown out to describe anyone that's young. I feel stupid calling myself a Generation Y dude because I know I'm way too old to have much in common with most kids born in the 80's, that are far more Yish. Usually when generational demographics are listed, people around my age are on the tail end or very often the very last year of "Generation X". Now me personally I consider my generation to be anyone born within a 5 year span of me. The old 5 year rule works well for me. So I guess that's 1970 to 1980 since I was born in '75. I can kinda relate to people born in the very early 80's, (at least they remember a lot of the 80's cartoons like Transfromers and G.I. Joe), but no way am I going to pretend that anyone born after 1981 or '82 at the latest is of the same generation as me. I'm already 28 years old. On my older side, I guess the birth year limit could be extended 2 years to include those born in 1968, which be the current 35 year olds. Basically if you can't remember when TV shows like The A-Team, Transformers, The Cosby Show, Knight Rider, and MacGyver were aired in first run, and movies like The Karate Kid and Ghostbusters were originally released in the theaters, then I don't consider you to be of the same generation as me.
I tend to agree with what cyclonus5150 posted about generations. (cool name by the way dude, Cyclonus was one of my favorite new Decepticons that took orders from Galvatron). Not much has really changed in the way kids act from 1993 to 2003. The big change I notice is that homosexuality is more open in the mainstream, whereas back then it was still kinda in the closet. And suburban White kids are much more into rap music today then they were back in '93. Not many White kids bought 2pac's second album in '93, but today in '03 rap is really embraced. I graduated high school in 1993 and you could just feel the pop culture make a sharp change that year. Nirvana may have been around in '91, but it really wasn't until '93 that the changing of the guard took place.