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.
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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.
Here in the Netherlands I never heard of it!
Rad! Thanks :)
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Watskeburt?
Waaaatsgebeuuurrrd!
Winamp.
…it really whips the llamas ass!
Baaaahhh!!!
I still use Winamp regularly.
Skins for winamp!
still using it as my PC media player
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.
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.
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.
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.
Add to that, flying toasters
Jwz! He was like nerd Jesus to us 90s computer geeks
Bobwehadababyitsaboy
I remember it as “eeetsaboy”
This one pops into my head way too often
This was my first thought lol
Tamagotchi
Had the yellow one and a game boy one.
And a couple different brand ones. Or maybe just one other one? I forget now.
Just bought my first Tamagatchi in 2023 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.
Remember cyberspace?
I remember before I had the internet wondering why companies had ads for “http://” and others were on “www” and having no clue if I needed to buy a special internet to access each.
Myst
Ad Riven. I read all the novels, too!
Riven remake is underway!
This. Wait for the remake, the original plays like shit on modern Windows versions.
It plays perfectly fine, it uses ScummVM. You’re just spoiled with first person controls and a free roaming environment.
No, I played the original Riven on Windows 2000. This looks much worse. For example the embedded videos aren’t aligned properly and they clearly have different color correction so they pop out from the rest of the static images. And, I could be wrong but it just seems much more pixelated or lower color fidelity. I realize having a better quality monitor and higher resolution might explain some of that, but regardless of the technical explanation the user experience becomes worse than playing on contemporary equipment. They should have used a better upscaling algorithm. There were other issues too that I can’t recall at this moment. Just the fact that you get the geek-oriented ScummVM interface in your face when you buy a game is kind of jarring.
Most things you describe are the side effects of displaying a 640x480 game on a modern LCD. I agree, however, that the default settings make the game look worse because of aspect ratio correction and the default nearest neighbor scaler. Both can be improved by either using an SVGA CRT or a pixel shader.
Sweet, I guess I’m going to have to get a PC at some point. I actually played Riven for iPadOS recently and it was still fun, but the point and click is pretty tedious.
I’m not sure a remake willl ever match the magic of when I originally played in 1998, though. My laptop was so junky I played most of the game under a blanket because the screen was so dark, haha.
Im pretty sure I missed a lot in the first playthrough due to a dark screen haha
But agreed that it will be hard to recreate that magic - Riven really was ahead of its time and is still my favorite of the series
DUDE. It took me ages (get it!!?) to spot the switch to get in to the elevator on the forest island from the ground level. Thought you had to go the long way around every time.
The bundle of myst games was on humble bundle a week or two ago. I’ve been waiting for the right time to immerse myself in myst VR and be just as confounded as I was as a kid. Then I get to see if Riven is still completely impossible for me.
Pogs
JNCO
Kikwear, too.
Randy River too
Napster
Discman - so much better than the Walkman. =)
I loved my discman, but remember trying to pretend like it wasn’t skipping with every bodily movement? That’s the advantage the walkman had that we didn’t want to admit at the time
The later models had quite a large buffer and you’d have to shake it pretty long for it to skip.
By the time I could get one that wasn’t a problem.
Mine has a 10 second buffer so it never skipped, except on the RW-CD that has been re written to 10x
minidisc
That was a cool fad. I had one that you could connect to the internet! Was rad.
Hitclips. Listen to the chorus of your favorite song for only $5 a pop.
Felt like they were only really big in Japan and the U.K. though. I thought it was such a cool technology, but couldn’t even find one to buy where I grew up.
