Thought we forgot about Harry Potter? As if! Rowling's wizardly saga felt like more than a book series practically from the second that Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was published in the U. Harry's wizarding world infatuated kids around the globe, who dressed as their favorite character for Halloween frankly, any day of the year or lauded their preferred house.
As one of the most successful movie franchises and best-selling book series in history, there's no denying Harry Potter was a fantastic character for a kid to grow up with. If you were a kid in the '90s, your snacks had swag. Whether you treated your Fruit by the Foot like a yo-yo, smothered your Dunkaroos in the colorful frosting, or relished in exploding your Gushers, snack time felt like play time.
GoGurt made yogurt exciting to eat, and Baby Bottle Pops created friendly competitions for who could get the most sugary powder on their candy. And lest we forget Lunchables or Oreo O's. There were probably more child cavities than ever during this decade, but fillings were a sign of a good time. Whether you were waking up early on Saturday morning or sprinting from the school bus to turn on the TV, there was always something good on, particularly thanks to Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.
While pop may have reigned supreme for the younger music lovers in the '90s, every genre had its fair share of bangers. Now is still going strong, recently releasing its 75th iteration in America the brand has also issued several spinoffs, including Now That's What I Call the s , but they just don't have the same significance for kids of the digital era. Now was the way to hear all of your favorite hits like "Barbie Girl," "Closing Time," and "All Star" in one place—on your Walkman, of course.
It was hard to not fall in love with Michelle Tanner on Full House , especially when she'd drop her famous quip "You got it dude! In Full House 's final years, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen began an illustrious career as adorable, fun-loving twins that engaged people of all ages with their sisterly antics. But even if you weren't solving mysteries or jetsetting to Australia, Mary Kate and Ashley sure made it fun to pretend you did. Considering what's possible on the internet now, it's almost unimaginable that it started where it did.
In , though, getting real-time search results through the World Wide Web seemed like magic. Not to mention the introduction of Google in , which would change our lives in a major way. And if we only knew how innocent AIM was compared to today's social media, but we digress. We certainly don't miss the dial-up sound or loud "You've got mail" alerts, but ah, do they bring back memories of a simpler time.
Today, even 6-year-olds have their own iPhones and know how to text or FaceTime. However, 30 years ago, the only way to get in touch with your friends was calling and asking their dads if they were home.
The problem with landlines was that sometimes you'd try to make a call when your sister was talking to her best friend about her crush—but as long as you didn't get caught, that was the sneakiest way to get the gossip. Barney was arguably the biggest advocate for making learning fun, using songs and dances to teach viewers about everything from exercise to friendship.
Sure, Sesame Street was already doing that, but there was something magical about Barney that made him instantly feel like your best friend even if he may have seemed a little odd to your parents. You probably couldn't even count the amount of Barney birthday parties you attended, and you likely owned a Barney backpack, shirt, or toy.
At the very least, you spent your childhood singing "I Love You" and can still recite every word to this day. Accessories offered endless ways to express yourself in the '90s.
You could bling-out your 'do with butterfly clips, hair bobbles, and hair wraps, or simply throw on a bandana if you weren't having a great hair day. You constantly swapped your Ying-Yang and tattoo choker necklaces, and you could stick on earrings whether or not your ears were pierced.
Sure, slap bracelets hurt your wrists and mood rings turned your fingers green, but you could care less. All Rights Reserved. Oh my California Raisins, you just brought back so many great memories!
I remember watching ET, as well as Ghostbusters, at my first sleepover and yes watching Back to the Future in the theater, as well as everything else you mentioned.
Those things were my childhood! I like how your title put it…we were 80s kids who came of age in the 90s. You are aware that the 90s was technically the decade when the internet came about, right? As much as they can claim they can. As someone who was born in and remembers plenty of things from before I beg to differ. Not to mention that there is still another half of the decade full of memories that our childhood was all about! As someone up above put it those of us born in were 80s kids who came of age in the 90s.
I was born in Part of the micro generation, called Xennial. Half my childhood was in both decades. Half analog. Half digital. And still a millennial. I entered high school Grade 9 in , and graduated in But around the time I started school in Kindergarten, that signals me that I have become a kid and no longer a toddler at this time. I was born in , I spend all of my time outside playing in the park, I had a tamagotchi, a furby and a game boy.
I remember rewinding VHS tapes and cassettes, and watching the simpsoms and friends because my mom loved that show on tv. The last day of class before summer, we would always have a water-balloon fight in the park, and when in the beach we would play with magic mitts and they would get so full of sand that we had to throw them out. My favorite movie was the parent trap, and my sister and I would always fight over who would be the daughter while playing with sylvanian houses.
I am born in 85 and my memories start at I watched every episode of , sister sister, boy meets world, family matters, step by step, fresh prince. I can go on and on. I remember when nirvana debut on MTV. Nintendo was the thing. For girls there was mall madness and many other games like Trouble and Guess who. Adam Sandler made the Hanukkah song. Going to teen clubs. Shuffle dancing which is now coming back. Doin the running man and roger rabbit.
What are you on about? Your definition makes someone legally an adult before the decade was even half gone. Meanwhile it makes those who had their childhood years entirely in the 90s not 90s kids. I would never call myself an 80s kid cuz I was picking bugs from under rocks, and my nose for most of the 80s. I was not a part of pop culture at all, because back then our childhood lasted until about 13, to be honest.
I did have a whole giant computer in my room without internet, eventually I got some games on it, like sim ant, sim city 1, sim copter, theme park…those games were so fun then.
The internet went mainstream, grunge and pop dominated music charts, and the president had an affair. And that's just a tiny fraction of what went down. Even if you lived through it, it's easy to forget all of the things that made the '90s truly unique. Capri Suns are straight-up delicious and their foil casing was pretty revolutionary when it first came out.
It took some practice, but figuring out how to open one without jamming your straw through the top or into your finger was a serious skill. Troll dolls were everything back in the day, and you couldn't have just one. A major downside: It was hard AF to brush their hair. It was the stuff of high school dreams: year-old Sabrina found out she's a witch and gets to perform magic all the time.
How could you not watch? When pool noodles became popular, it was kind of mind-blowing. Being able to float on something you didn't have to blow up just made you feel really, really cool—that, and being able to shoot water out of one end like an elephant, of course. They were teeny-tiny figurines that were forever getting lost. But you just so happened to have a zillion of them, so it was all good.
CDs were way cooler than tapes, but they were kinda finicky. Blowing and shirt-rubbing were all socially-accepted ways to try to make your CDs play without skipping. American Girl dolls technically came out in the mid-'80s, but they really blew up in the '90s.
Reading about the adventures of your American Girl doll while she chilled nearby on her stand was pretty freaking cool. Unfortunately, you could tape over those tapes, which often sparked epic wars between siblings. And, you know, with cooler outfits. You were either heavy into 'N Sync, the Backstreet Boys, or 98 Degrees, and obviously you were going to marry someone from "your" band someday.
You couldn't ride the fence with these, either—you had to go all in with one or the other. You could spend hours jumping up and down on one of these, and the fact that your parents thought they were dangerous only made them cooler.
Voting for your favorite video to make the top 10 was the perfect way to use up time you should have been spending on homework. No one knew what would happen at midnight on January 1, Would the internet crash and the world shut down? Despite people completely freaking out, nothing happened. If anyone else dated Justin Timberlake, 'N Sync fans would have hated her. But this was Britney freaking Spears.
The two were everywhere in the late '90s, and everyone wanted to be them. Getting a Tamagotchi seemed like a good idea at the time—it was like a pet, but you didn't have to clean up after it. But after two days of forgetting to feed and play with it, you were kinda over it.
It's easy to pause your favorite show now when you want to eat, pee, or do whatever. Back then, you just had to wait for commercial breaks and scramble to jam everything in before they were over. Forrest Gump came out in , and it was huge. Everyone would quote "Run, Forrest, run! The World Wide Web was technically invented in , but it really took off in the '90s.
Sure, you had to use dial-up and it took forever for really basic websites to load, but the internet was so, so cool. Titanic came out in , and everyone and their mom obsessed over the love story of Jack and Rose, and that damn boat ruining everything.
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