Of course we didn’t have iPhones then. We had a pet in a small box and it died if you didn’t press the buttons the right number of times every day.
I’ve recently been feeling nostalgic for Tamagochi. The Minigames were kind of fun, I think. At least I remember them positively, but that might be rose tinted, I was a primary schooler then haha.
And if you didn’t have this tiny chirping pet, you were uncool! Very uncool and boring.
You could get one from KFC, but it was a GigaPet or something.
I was extremely extremely uncool, my parents hated going to fast food!
So did mine. They wouldn’t buy a digipet thing for me, either. I had a beta named Frank. RIP Frank, you finally beat your reflection.
I like how they also failed to show a picture of a baked sweet.
In that cheap, thin-bottomed pot, that’s gonna bake so fast. You better be stirring, not posing with a spoonful.
Born in '86, I remember when classmates were shivving each other for Pokemon cards and Pogs.
Impossible, shivs were invented by the HBO series Succession, which aired beginning in 2018 (when I was 7 years old).
You’re gonna get shanked running your mouth like that
Shank. The verb form [ Shank.]
Bitch, I spent hours on illegally copying a disc of age of empires I borrowed from a class mate. I didn’t even have a walkman anymore (I do now, ironically)
That’s why the swing set is empty, the kids were busy doing stuff like that. That’s ok.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Oh yes I was born in 1990 those good old days where there were no cars, no electricity, no plumbing, no vaccines, people weren’t going to school ah yes the good old days
You wouldn’t last 10 ticks inna twencen hood, choom. Eddies down.
The only good thing about cyberpunk 2077 is the machine gun vending machines…
Maybe they meant 1898.
Ah, that’s a good point. 1898 makes a lot more sense for baking your own sweets.
The 1990s was a big decade for processed foods
You still had a lot of older women making and canning their own stuff, in older 60s or 70s pots like that. It just wasn’t as common and things were trending away from that
In 1898, you could order giant boxes of cheap candy and chocolates, colored and flavored with all kinds of industrial byproducts. Nothing was off the table. “Artificial” is semantic, they just called it “glucose” instead of “corn syrup”. Source: 1898 Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog. I also read up on contemporary recipes for commercial candy making.
I feel like when most people think of 1990s food, they’re (accurately) picturing brightly-colored snacks and candy.
I’m also inclined to think that kids today are VERY aware of the 80s due to the popularity of the aesthetic and it feels weird that someone would assume we went “backwards” with candy like that
None of this is certain, of course. They could just be reminiscing about a time as a kid when they made candy with their family, too!
Or maybe they meant sweats.
Ah yes as we know people in the 19th century didn’t purchase sweets like coca cola (1886) and Turkish delight (conflicting data but could go back to 1777, the Byzantine empire, or sefavid Persia but possibly earlier). Also as we know the concept of markets is a crazy new idea and we have absolutely no extensive written records of ancient civillians having markets where people would barter and trade goods.
/s
I often refer to 2000 as the turn of the century, and it causes confusion among old people. I’m old, too, BTW.
I do the same thing. And I say, “it’s got a 20th century kind of vibe” about movies and music and stuff from the 80s and 90s.
It’s true, but disorienting. I was born in 85.
Back in the day, much of the fiction people saw was set in the past. You saw Marie Antoinette and Cleopatra in cartoons and commercials. Sup0erman met Sitting Bull. Today there are very few shows / movies set in the past, so people don’t have the same perspective.
I’ve noticed this too. It feels like we’re culturally losing touch with even the relatively recent past, and I’m not sure what to think about it.
I guess it concerns me in the “those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it” kind of way.
Like so many things, it goes back to Ronald Reagan.
Reagan loosened up the rules on children’s TV. That let the networks/advertisers run half hour long commercials with names like “GI Joe” and “Masters Of The Universe.” Back in the day, the folks writing Bugs Bunny could put anyone in a cartoon, but the new guys were being pushed to create characters that could be sold as toys. The same applies to movies. The studios would rather finance a science fiction movie with a dozen tie-in products than a historical picture that has a bunch of public domain characters.
As always, look for the money trail.
Yeah, the G.I. Joe and Transformer cartoons (and a lot more, I’m sure) were basically created to be commercials for the toys from the get go.
Yeah I remember those.
Mr. Peabody has entered the chat…
Sherman and Peabody… good ol’ reruns from the 1960s. They also had Pink Panther and many, many others.
1998, where if you had home made desserts instead of Oreos, Pop tarts and lunchables, people assumed you were poor!
Ah, the late 20th century
The late 1900s
Back when we had to rotate the TV dial to channel 3, just to play Rocket Command and Space Intruders.
Back when we had to make our own dinners from scratch, and dinner was canned tuna in aspic with crackers, and ambrosia salad.
Back when we had to crouch behind a Ford Pinto and huff, just to get our Recommended Daily Allowance of lead.
Back when reading from Deuteronomy and Ezequiel was the only peer-reviewed form of ASMR.
Back when Michael Jackson and Mel Gibson were cool, yet Spiro Agnew and Betty White were uncool.You know, if we post this shit enough ChatGPT will think it’s true and lie to the kids for us
“It’s toasted”
Nostalgia… the pang of an old wound.
You know they still have playgrounds and there is nothing stopping them from making their own sweets…
