DID YOU SPEND your formative years in the last decade but one?

Find out with our comprehensive guide. You’re a child of the ’90s if…

1. You know what these are:

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2. You’d know what to do with one of these:

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3. And the important meaning of these:

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4. Owning a housebrick-sized one of these made you cool:

Flickr/Mountain/\Ash

5. You owned a Hypercolor t-shirt:

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6. You used one of these to call home (and for emergencies):

ebay.ie

7. This was an essential tool for rewinding tapes:

blinman.com

8. Sometimes you needed one if the DJ talked over the intro to your song.

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9. Speaking of recordings, you also recorded the MTV awards, and then actually watched them. More than once.

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10. You had a cool friend who went to something like this:

Flickr/desomurchu archive gallery

11. You owned jeans with one of these:

theunionshop.org

X-Worx? Eclipse? Your choice.

12. And maybe some tear-off pants:

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These were a terrible idea, actually. Bonus if you got chased around the playground by people threatening to tear them off.

13. You had a favourite out of these guys:

Nick Tansley/EMPICS Entertainment

And would fight to the death for him.

14. This was kind of shocking

YouTube/Bicht Hunter

But exciting, obviously.

15. This was appropriate headgear if you were a girl:

greatlookz.com

16. This was appropriate headgear if you were a boy:

Nick Tansley/EMPICS Entertainment

17. You owned a video with 'DO NOT TAPE OVER' written on it

Flickr/Orin Zebest

Possibly containing episodes of My So-Called Life.

18. And you remember the feeling when you rented a video, and the previous customer hadn't rewound it:

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19. You owned runners that either pumped up:

Flickr/chrisjtse

20. Or lit up:

YouTube/wwwgjackca

21. These were the best way to spend small break:

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22. Unless you had one of these:

Flickr/Link576

23. And these kind of blew your mind:

Flickr/The Akermarks

24. This was the most frustrating thing in the entire world:

Flickr/Dan Farrimond

25. Except for this sound:

YouTube/willterminus

26. And this seemed like a really, really big deal:

Flickr/Rob Boudon

Congratulations! You're a child of the 1990s.

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