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Cue the Spice girls playing on your pink snazzy Discman. Trap your blonde highlights into a shiny orange scrunchie and Zig a Zig Ah yourself back to the nineties. Sunny Delight and Pop tarts. Space raider snacks and Aztec bars. The nineties lacked the magical mystery of the sixties, the glam of the seventies and the business acumen of the eighties. But it made up for this with pitifully bad music, fluorescent clothing and a particularly bad taste in shoes. If you are a child of the nineties, you will remember these: Tamagochis: Try to explain the appeal of these weird items to the savvy child of today. It seemed as if everyone was physically attached to Furbys and Polly Pocket: Furbys were plastic owl like creatures who took delight in being quiet when you wanted to the electronic blathering’s and particularly noisy when you needed silence. Furbys Polly Pockets: The tiniest doll in the world, living in the tiniest flip up plastic house. Everyone had one. Everyone lost one. Pogs: Remember these. Round printed discs which we collected and matched and collected and swopped… what was the purpose of pogs? Oh yes, of course, to teach us raw commercialism and the need for more useless things in our lives. Goths: Not to be mistaken with the punks of the eighties. Being a Goth was a way of life. Well, more a way of morbid undeadens. The hours it took to apply shocking makeup, black khol and lipstick and dressing in the ‘right ‘clothes, took away from Goth’s intended anarchism. Two hours in the bathroom applying eyeliner and ripping tights does not a provocateur make? Video tapes: How uncool was it to rent a video tape and find it had not
Barney: It would be ten years before this purple dinosaur became an So take a bow, child of the nineties. Your wonder years were so uncool and kitsch that they are now actually officially super- cool. And you didn’t turn out so bad yourself. Take a bow, child of the nineties. |
Category: Nostalgia
Think of the noun, nostalgia, when you long for the good old days of the past, a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time inone’s life, to one’s home or homeland, or to one’s family and friends;a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time
The noun nostalgia was invented by a Swiss doctor in the late 1600s. He put together the Greek nostos “homecoming” and algos “pain, distress” as a literal translation of the German Heimweh “homesickness.” Originally, it was a medical diagnosis for mercenary soldiers. Today, it describes a bittersweet longing for the past. Think of the dreamy way your grandpa tells stories of his childhood — he’s got nostalgia.
these little plastic eggs with tiny screens. Beeps alerted the owner to feeding and cleaning duties. — In these screens lived our hearts, our pets, our avatars, our very own Tamagotchi’s. The responsibility of constant care made the Tamagotchi a short lived obsession. 
were particularly scary toys when you woke at night and found them staring at you, mimicking your breathing. Ugh
the telly. ‘Do not tape over’ signs were an invitation to reuse and recycle. Video tapes are in attics all over the country. The only record of communions, family events and match of the Day.