I mean, I wasn't in charge of getting them, but learning about it was painful enough. I was young, and faith in humanity hadn't been burned out of me yet.
I remember this from the school library computers. That and even back then the school had some kind of broadband, it blew my mind that to get online all we had to do was open IE. I was used to that part but always had whatever dial up service we had at the time to open up and connect first. Just clicking IE and going was crazy to me.
I still laugh thinking back to 8th grade when my buddy, Tyler, got his first pair of JNCOs. To paint a picture, Tyler couldn't have been more than 90 pounds soaking wet and had a bowl cut (being it the 90s). He had a big goofy grin on his face and goes "check it out - I can fit a whole 2 liter of Mountain Dew in my pocket!" And sure enough, he pulled a full 2 liter of Mountain Dew out of his front pocket.
I don't remember kilobaud being a word. I only remember it being a word that was misused for some reason. Or maybe just disfavored against an actual unit. Like it was equivalent to like some small unit, and got outgrown quickly.
Like when going from bits per second to kilobits per second, I think hair was a single word that meant bits per second, but was not a literal unit, so kilobaud didn't make sense, whereas kilobits did.
At least that's how I remember it off hand, could be wrong.
Baud rate is the maximum number of transitions per second of the state of a transmission medium. Hz is the actual number of cycles per second, so it varies degending on the data transmitted. Bitrate is the number of bits transmitted per second.
Usually bits are transmitted in groups with some redundancy to allow errors to be corrected. E.g. early Ethernet used 8b/10b encoding; 8 bits of data were transmitted as a 10 bit "symbol".
With a 1b/1b encoding baud rate would equal bit rate, but in practice that was essentially never used so the numbers woud diverge. Bitrate is more meaningful to the user.
SI and binary prefixes can be applied to baud, so kilobaud is certainly a word.
It may have been misused at some point, but "baud" was a word long before the internet, and I distinctly remember my modem at the time using the word baud on the box. I was just a teenager, so I'm sure I was missing key information. It was used, tho.
Here, this is proving us both right:
If your modem-to-modem connection is at 14400 bps, it's going to be sending 6 bits per signal transition (or symbol) at 2400 baud. A speed of 28800 bps is obtained by 3200 baud at 9 bits/baud. When people misuse the word baud, they may mean the modem speed (such as 33.6k).
Kilobaud is definitely a word that means a thing. Baud is a literal unit of measure that uses the metric prefixes.
Like the translucent (still corded, so not that hi-tech) phone with the bright colors for all the components? I had one of those! I think the outer part of my cord was actually clear, too.
Ooh, and that dope clear pager was hella rad!
On that note, remember payphones?? (getting paged by my mom and having to find a payphone to call the family 800# and check in...)
Oh yeah! I have actually seen that (well, Phone(1) anyhow). I think it's on my short-list for after my Pixel6a! Thanks for bringing it back to my attention 😁
Wait, family 800 #? I don't remember that. We skipped pagers though, so I remember them being a thing, but I only saw them on TV, don't think I ever saw one in person besides on doctors at a hospital.
Huh. Well, it was a feature that my parents paid the telco for, so I don't know how it worked, but it was exactly what it says on the tin: an 800 telephone number that I could use from any phone and call my house phone.
Pagers were mostly a thing that dealers had so you could buy drugs. My mom got me one because I was always out driving around - sometimes up to 2 hours away on a whim - and she wanted to be able to check on me. We didn't have a cell phone, so this was the solution for her.
I still have one of those in clear blue, along with clear blue extender cords. Have clear purple GameCube controllers, and a light-up clear Xbox controller 😁
Now controllers are so heavy I have to skin them to help with hand fatigue, so no point getting clear cases.
I miss that aesthetic, though, and I’m glad it’s starting to reappear.
80's, early 90's. I think from '92 or so onwards, CD-ROM drives became standard equipment for home computers, but until the late 90's they still came equipped with a floppy drive, if only to boot into recovery mode after a crash.
I remember the info campaign of my country's change of currency when it got pegged to the Deutschmark after it did a Venezimbabwe. It was by a popular children's/teen tv show host.
I was about 2 or 3 but the only thing I remember is the news anchors repeating the word "Chechen" all the time. I understood nothing but it sounded funny.
We had a stereo with an inbuilt vinyl record player, as well as cassette tape player.
I played NES games on Terminator-2. Post-soviet collapse flooded the market with knockoffs which were decent for the price.
I remember watching Bill Clinton's scandal on the news though I had little idea what happened, nor what impeachment meant.
Well, if you had read my comment carefully within its context you'd see I said specifically that if you were using eMule in the early 2000s then you must have lived through the 90's, which is true.
If you need more help understanding that then please let me know so I can ignore your request at my leisure.
You'll need to do something that doesn't come up in the social zeitgeist that often, but is instantly recognizable to anyone from that era.
Maybe talk about how a lot of the time people's watches said different times and you didn't know which ones were right?
Alternatively you can share some personal anecdote that relates to well known trends at the time. Like talk about listening to smells like teen spirit while smoking cigarettes stolen from your friend's older brother.
Waaazzzaaaap
That ad campaign started in 99, its really more of a 2000’s thing.
Ya, but it proves I lived through the 90's 😆
The 90s were from 1995 to 2005. That's just my opinion. I know it sounds dumb. Many things from 1990 to 1994 feel like the 80's.
Outside of America, this is interpreted as a reference to Scary Movie instead of the budweiser ad.
As a European, that’s indeed how I interpreted this.
Hahaha that’s the first thing that popped in my mind! 😂
Here in the Netherlands I never heard of it!
Here you go!
Rad! Thanks :)
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Watskeburt?
Waaaatsgebeuuurrrd!
Winamp.
…it really whips the llamas ass!
Baaaahhh!!!
I still use Winamp regularly.
Skins for winamp!
Y2K.
I survived idiocy of managers asking for Y2K compliant padlocks. As in, physical padlocks.
Hope you charged them double.
"We gotta get the Locksmith to come out and replace the microchips. Yeah, it's going to be expensive but worth it"
Please tell us they did this.. 😂
I mean, I wasn't in charge of getting them, but learning about it was painful enough. I was young, and faith in humanity hadn't been burned out of me yet.
Encarta
I remember this from the school library computers. That and even back then the school had some kind of broadband, it blew my mind that to get online all we had to do was open IE. I was used to that part but always had whatever dial up service we had at the time to open up and connect first. Just clicking IE and going was crazy to me.
I remember trying to play Mind Maze and knowing absolutely nothing.
I loved the video it has about nuclear fission reactions.
Pogs
Remember Alf? He's back! In pog form!
Came here to say this! My collection is MIA and it still makes me sad thinking about it.
Your parents threw it away
Along with my pokemon cards
Hey can I come over and slam ur pogs?
Netscape
Linux and Mac users can hold on to a little piece of that history with the wonderful xscreensaver suite (its author, jwz, was a Netscape dude).
Even better just use Firefox it descended from Netscape Navigator.
Jwz! He was like nerd Jesus to us 90s computer geeks
Tamagotchi
Just bought my first Tamagatchi in 2023 lol
Had the yellow one and a game boy one.
And a couple different brand ones. Or maybe just one other one? I forget now.
NOT!
Dialup
Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcch*ding*ding*ding*
yep. that's the correct spelling for that sound
Welcome, you've got mail, goodbye...
Lol lol at you with internet. We didn't get access until 1999.
Psych!
You know that’s right!
Bobwehadababyitsaboy
I remember it as "eeetsaboy"
This was my first thought lol
Not a word, but the phrase "going online". As in not being constantly connected at all times. We had to actually "get" online to look at stuff.
JNCO's
I still laugh thinking back to 8th grade when my buddy, Tyler, got his first pair of JNCOs. To paint a picture, Tyler couldn't have been more than 90 pounds soaking wet and had a bowl cut (being it the 90s). He had a big goofy grin on his face and goes "check it out - I can fit a whole 2 liter of Mountain Dew in my pocket!" And sure enough, he pulled a full 2 liter of Mountain Dew out of his front pocket.
Tyler was definitely a product of the times
D.A.R.E
Ooo what about "Double-Dare"??
Physical challenge.
I started school in 2006 and I can still remember this being a thing
I only wear mine when getting really high
I failed D.A.R.E and they made me watch the ceremony of all the other kid's graduations. I just wasn't interested in drugs.
Pogs
Napster
Not
Myst
Baud. Maybe kilobauds.. That and "da bomb" are very memorable to me from then...
For a age of pre internet (for the masses) we sure had a lot of unique words :)
I don't remember kilobaud being a word. I only remember it being a word that was misused for some reason. Or maybe just disfavored against an actual unit. Like it was equivalent to like some small unit, and got outgrown quickly.
Like when going from bits per second to kilobits per second, I think hair was a single word that meant bits per second, but was not a literal unit, so kilobaud didn't make sense, whereas kilobits did.
At least that's how I remember it off hand, could be wrong.
Baud rate is the maximum number of transitions per second of the state of a transmission medium. Hz is the actual number of cycles per second, so it varies degending on the data transmitted. Bitrate is the number of bits transmitted per second.
Usually bits are transmitted in groups with some redundancy to allow errors to be corrected. E.g. early Ethernet used 8b/10b encoding; 8 bits of data were transmitted as a 10 bit "symbol".
With a 1b/1b encoding baud rate would equal bit rate, but in practice that was essentially never used so the numbers woud diverge. Bitrate is more meaningful to the user.
SI and binary prefixes can be applied to baud, so kilobaud is certainly a word.
It may have been misused at some point, but "baud" was a word long before the internet, and I distinctly remember my modem at the time using the word baud on the box. I was just a teenager, so I'm sure I was missing key information. It was used, tho.
Here, this is proving us both right:
Kilobaud is definitely a word that means a thing. Baud is a literal unit of measure that uses the metric prefixes.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Discman - so much better than the Walkman. =)
JNCO
Kikwear, too.
Randy River too
Kkrrrsshhhbiiieieiekkkkrrrrriieiekkkrrsshshshbriiieie
And then someone picked up the phone and you had to start all over again
Why did I hear this comment !?! 😂
Anyone remember upgrading their modem and getting excited because it made new noises? I can’t be the only one.
Cowabunga
Tubthumping
"Information superhighway"
Two words, I know.
Floppy disks (or "diskettes").
Also, Y2K.
BRRRRphhhhttttttbrrrrrraaaaaapppppingtingtingBOINGBaTingBatingtingphhhhhhhhttttt.....
The sounds of the internet, volume one.
Slime/goop
The 90s had an obsession with slime/goop. Toys, mascots, etc.
Gak.
You can't do that on television
Edit: looked it back up, didn't realize that ended in 90. It probably set that stage for slime use in Double Dare and the like
Flubber started that craze didn't it?
Clear craze.
As in technology. Translucent gadgets were all the rage. Not quite one word, I was going to go with translucent, but found it actually had a name.
You remember that future phones would be all transparent slabs of glass? Funny how things have changed and also not changed!
Like the translucent (still corded, so not that hi-tech) phone with the bright colors for all the components? I had one of those! I think the outer part of my cord was actually clear, too.
Ooh, and that dope clear pager was hella rad!
On that note, remember payphones?? (getting paged by my mom and having to find a payphone to call the family 800# and check in...)
You should take a look at the Nothing Phone if you still dig that aesthetic.
Oh yeah! I have actually seen that (well, Phone(1) anyhow). I think it's on my short-list for after my Pixel6a! Thanks for bringing it back to my attention 😁
Wait, family 800 #? I don't remember that. We skipped pagers though, so I remember them being a thing, but I only saw them on TV, don't think I ever saw one in person besides on doctors at a hospital.
Huh. Well, it was a feature that my parents paid the telco for, so I don't know how it worked, but it was exactly what it says on the tin: an 800 telephone number that I could use from any phone and call my house phone.
Pagers were mostly a thing that dealers had so you could buy drugs. My mom got me one because I was always out driving around - sometimes up to 2 hours away on a whim - and she wanted to be able to check on me. We didn't have a cell phone, so this was the solution for her.
We need to bring this back. I love clear stuff.
Clear is one of my favorite colors! (along with purple and glow-in-the-dark)
Oh hell yeah. Glow in the dark rocks. And I'm starting to appreciate purple and make up for all those years where I thought it was weird.
It's not a gas for appearance there, tho. It's to show you aren't stashing a shank in it.
My mate had a transparent ps1 controller. I wanted it so bad.
i've got a clear ps4 controller. it's pretty cool.
I still have one of those in clear blue, along with clear blue extender cords. Have clear purple GameCube controllers, and a light-up clear Xbox controller 😁
Now controllers are so heavy I have to skin them to help with hand fatigue, so no point getting clear cases.
I miss that aesthetic, though, and I’m glad it’s starting to reappear.
Nice! I'm considering buying a clear case off Ali Express for one of my ps4 controllers.
I can't stand the new ps5 controller. PS4 dualshock is where it's at!
I’m with you, the 5 controller is so heavy!
Imho, get the case. You’ll regret it slightly if you don’t.
IRC and ICQ
Be kind, REWIND.
NoFear
autoexec.batPhat
Wazzzzuuuuuuuup!
with entirely to much tongue.
Cowabunga
Hypercolor
Those were so awesome! How come they don't make hyoercolor shirts anymore?? I'd buy them.
The effect stopped working after a few washes, plus, if you broke a sweat your pits would glow like you were bleeding Gatorade.
Still rad.
Hey I invented that
Like a drum rhythm except with colored strobe.
I was thinking the t-shirts/clothing
Hackysack
Grunge
Bobwehadababyitsaboy
MiniDisc
Dude, what does mine say?
Emoticon
Scatman.
I didn't need this earworm today.
Whatever.
Hypercolor
Cowabunga!
Radical
Quake
BeOS
How do you like Haiku?
I like it very much. But I wonder if it will ever be suitable as a daily driver.
C:\DOOM\DOOM.EXE Edit: Fixed wrong slashes because crappy Android keyboard was missing it. Swapped keyboard.
Wrong slashes.
I know. The keyboard I have on Android lacks a backslash. I did just find it on the Samsung keyboard, though, so
C:\DOOM\DOOM.EXE
IDDQD
IDKFA
Idssispopd (or something like that)
Game Genie
Whatever.
It’s MY UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER!!! 🤘🎸
Mmm-Bop
Gameboy
tight.
Lay-hoo ze-her.
(It counts as one word. Shut up.)
PLUR
Gnarly
(The) bomb.
config.sysDial-up
Willennium
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Netscape Infoseek Lycos Geocities
How much is the fish?
IRC
Walkman
Uh-oh..
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Boutros boutros ghali. I guess that's three words.
Animaniacs
Cowabunga!!
Woahhhhhhhiiiiiiiimstillaliveyeayayeahiaiiiiimmmmmohhhhimstilalive
Animorphs.
Goosebumps.
Wishbone.
Rugrats.
Goldeneye.
"Radical" (as in meaning "super cool")
Rad dude!!!!
Rad.
56k Flex Modem
EXTREME!!!
Bosnia
Oof…
Radical/Rad!
Hampsterdance!
BILL BILL BILL BILL (It's one word, I just wrote it four times)
Science rules!
Inertia is a property of matter.
Was the floppy disc typically 90’s?
80's, early 90's. I think from '92 or so onwards, CD-ROM drives became standard equipment for home computers, but until the late 90's they still came equipped with a floppy drive, if only to boot into recovery mode after a crash.
Because CDs weren't commonly writeable until almost a decade later.
Just for Italian people: Cioè
Rollerblades
Whatever.
Meh
Windbreakers
IRC
Yo! Pick up the phone!
Wassssuuuuuuuuppppp?!
Pogs
You've Got Mail
Rave
Raves are still a thing
Are they still called raves though? The concept won't go away but I thought the term rave had fallen into disuse?
They're usually just called parties now
People still call them "raves" but more commonly "festivals"
Minidisc
WIN98
“Lady’s and gentleman, this is a computer and we might see it a lot more in the future.” - a news report back then. :)
1-800-CALL-ATT
Heeey, macarena!
Shazbot!
Such a good game for the day.
Wazzup
Need about 10 more Z's
Yeltzin
ISA slot
Yo'unbelievabo
OOOOOH!!!!!
WWW.
Floam.
Quakenet! (Its still up but.. a lot fewer users these days)
Wolf3d
Jorts
I guess that means you either lived through the 90s or are a current fan of Kevin Smith
I remember the info campaign of my country's change of currency when it got pegged to the Deutschmark after it did a Venezimbabwe. It was by a popular children's/teen tv show host.
I was about 2 or 3 but the only thing I remember is the news anchors repeating the word "Chechen" all the time. I understood nothing but it sounded funny.
We had a stereo with an inbuilt vinyl record player, as well as cassette tape player.
I played NES games on Terminator-2. Post-soviet collapse flooded the market with knockoffs which were decent for the price.
I remember watching Bill Clinton's scandal on the news though I had little idea what happened, nor what impeachment meant.
That's more than 1 word.
You mean titles are meant to be read? Whoops!
Terminator-2.
Wicked
Gak
Farfegnugen.
Fahrvergnügen?
If you're going to translate it into German (•_•)
Muss wohl.
Emule
eMule was first released in 2002, as an open source alternative client to the official eDonkey2000 client.
Napster would have technically been a 90's term, since it released mid 1999, but p2p wasn't really a mainstream thing until the early 2000's.
Yaeh, realized that soon after posting - my bad.
But you wouldn't have been using eMule in the early 2000's unless you lived through the 90's so I think it counts.
I also used eMule.
Sorry, I fail to see, how a product that was developed from 2002 until 2017 proves that you lived through the 90's.
Well, if you had read my comment carefully within its context you'd see I said specifically that if you were using eMule in the early 2000s then you must have lived through the 90's, which is true.
If you need more help understanding that then please let me know so I can ignore your request at my leisure.
!!! I lost so much time to Emule! Sadly it is more a 00’s thing. (Which sounds like a fun tread!)
C:\con\con
drivebys
Zetus Lapetus
I just found outnis two words.
Surge!
No. The "just say no" push was something I can't forget.
Koosh.
Coolaroonie
Tamagotchi!
The flashbacks to rushing home and feeding it are 🥰
Furby 👁️👄👁️👌
Hella
Millennium
e
It's Patrick, he took out life insurance!
airhogs!
Bobdolio
Sketchers
Fax
JNCO
Koosh
rawr :3
Phat
245032701*
can still remember my ICQ number, but constantly forget my own birthday xD
Teyandee!
For starters, Zorro!
iMac G3
Mondo
Wasn't too upset this disappeared. Sqeez-it bottles had the cool faces, and Mondo bottles were too stiff to squeeze easily.
Synchronize Swatches
Zubaz.
Zaphod
Doesn’t Hitchhiker’s Guide date back to the late 70’s?
I think the fifth book in the trilogy came out in the mid-90s.
And it's still a thing
Trough
golliwogs
Word, Dope, Fresh.... nvm that's pre-90s.
FROG BLAST THE VENT CORE
120 Minutes
Http://www. Lauracroftnude .com
Http://www. Hotnudecheerleaders .com
Didn't have a useable search engine
Sham-wow
Gateway
Treo
Trouse
Bead lizards
So assuming you actually have to...
You'll need to do something that doesn't come up in the social zeitgeist that often, but is instantly recognizable to anyone from that era.
Maybe talk about how a lot of the time people's watches said different times and you didn't know which ones were right?
Alternatively you can share some personal anecdote that relates to well known trends at the time. Like talk about listening to smells like teen spirit while smoking cigarettes stolen from your friend's older brother.
Limewire
Napster barely qualifies as 90s. Limewire absolutely not. That’s an 00s program
limewire wasn't even released until 2000, so i am not sure that's the best example
Yes but if you used it you were most definitely around in the 90s. Not a lot of infants were on limewire in 2002.
It’s a 00s thing but I understand where you are coming from :)
Sure, but if you used it, you lived through the 90s. Which was the title of the post.