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:
2. You’d know what to do with one of these:
3. And the important meaning of these:
4. Owning a housebrick-sized one of these made you cool:
5. You owned a Hypercolor t-shirt:
6. You used one of these to call home (and for emergencies):
7. This was an essential tool for rewinding tapes:
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:
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11. You owned jeans with one of these:
X-Worx? Eclipse? Your choice.
12. And maybe some tear-off pants:
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:
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And would fight to the death for him.
14. This was kind of shocking
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But exciting, obviously.
15. This was appropriate headgear if you were a girl:
16. This was appropriate headgear if you were a boy:
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17. You owned a video with 'DO NOT TAPE OVER' written on it
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:
20. Or lit up:
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21. These were the best way to spend small break:
22. Unless you had one of these:
23. And these kind of blew your mind:
24. This was the most frustrating thing in the entire world:
25. Except for this sound:
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26. And this seemed like a really, really big deal:
Congratulations! You're a child of the 1990s.
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