30+ Photos Only ’90s Kids Can Understand

Curiosities
year ago

Feeding the Tamagotchi, collecting Lip Smackers and Pogs, recording playlists on CDs, wearing the T-shirt from your favorite music band, and making braided bracelets — ’90s kids, we’re all adults today. And looking at modern children, we often forget that our childhood was completely different, but no less fun and fascinating.

So, from time to time it’s pleasant to recall the things that created the magic of our ’90s childhood.

1. Legend said that the blue part could erase ink.

2. Kids today will never understand the struggle of having to hit a button 3 times just to get one letter.

3. Pencils with cartridges: You lose one of these — you`re screwed.

4. It was a thing to write your a’s and y’s like that!

5. Taking the ball out of the computer mouse

6. In the ’90s, Trix had shapes!

7. This is how dads used to choose music to listen to on the road.

8. “I kept all of my Lip Smacker lip gloss flavors in a plastic caboodle and whipped that box out like a pro to reapply after every lunch period.”

9. Back in the day, these cups were super cool!

10. Solitaire card backs on Windows ’95

11. Making these things

12. “These McDonald’s Potato Heads took me back to my childhood.”

13. The most ’90s thing ever

14. Cobain hair, check. Band shirt, check. Velvet shirt, check. Iconic Pepsi logo, check.

15. Abandoned McDonald’s on a remote Alaskan island

16. Any Pog-lovers out there?

17. Playing Polly Pocket

18. “Windbreakers! I remember scanning JCPenney catalogs for these things.”

19. We were all quite crafty.

20. “I peaked in the late ’90s.”

21. “People look at me like I’m crazy when I ask about these.”

22. A pair of these bad boys

23. Remember these?

24. “Playing this in Sears while my parents shopped”

25. Bashing ankles on a Skip-It

26. “The fidget spinner of my childhood”

27. You didn’t have to enter your personal info online to win a soda.

28. Sticking these to your earlobes

29. Finishing all the rings seemed like a huge accomplishment!

30. A Tamagotchi could replace a pet.

31. If you were born after the ’90s, you probably won’t understand the struggle.

32. Bubble Beeper: the cool way to store your gum in the ’90s

Please note: This article was updated in January 2023 to correct source material and factual inaccuracies.
Preview photo credit Lexjiggler / reddit

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Aadya
4 years ago

#2 I'm typing the comment from this type of phone XD but still I'm a 90s born :D

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Eli G.
4 years ago

I had this trick when I lost one of the catridges, I just put tiny balls of paper inside my pencil.

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Sana
4 years ago

I’m sure I'm not the only 20s kid who’s seen all of these and had many of them☺️

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Emily
4 years ago

This takes me back, I was only born in 1998 but I remember a lot of these things

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Aditya
4 years ago

Great article, was nice to get a little trip down memory lane! Will never forget how long it took for things to load on my computer.. Luckily those things are in the past

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Kusuma.kusuma
4 years ago

as someone who was born in '87, I feel so related with number 1-5:) (well, actually, most of them?)

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Shiori
4 years ago

I was born after the 90s but still lucky enough to experience some of these ^^

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Amy
4 years ago

Omg, my feelings, my childhood! These bring me so many memories ?

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Laura
4 years ago

Unbelievable how things have changed! I remember a few of these too

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Alyson
4 years ago

Nokia phones were the best just because of the snake game they used to have ?

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Kusuma.kusuma
4 years ago
Alyson

this game was the best at that time, simple yet fun. I remember played this game with my friends at school..so nostalgic seeing this pic. thanks for sharing :))

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joseph brath
3 years ago

Those pencils, we still have something like them in our house. My mom absolutely loves them.? Called push pencils. If the pencil led gets too short, you just push another one out. My mom was born in 1977 so we have a lot of old fashioned junk here???

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