The 90s Nostalgia Thread

I remember Floppy discs and when a MB was considered alot of space.

I remember when Toonami was hosted by Moltar.

^^ I still have some floppies. And a few Zip disks. Hundred megs was a lot of space back then.

Now, if your thumbdrive has less than 2 gigs, you're a scrub.

First HDD I ever bought was 30mb; this was probably 1990.

Is this thread for older people during nineties or are the ones born in nineties allowed too?

you're allowed here if you fondly remember things from the 90's

like spaceship iMacs

Talking pin's. I never had one, but there were always ads or contests allowing to win some.

...also, pin's in general.

Remember Chocoballs, those hollow chocolate balls with character-shaped candy or stickers inside? Man, I always tried to bug Mom into getting me those...

I remember silly shampoo commercials... Actually, all silly commercials for kids.

Also, gotta love that old film quality thing... Everything looks little blurry, but it has so good charm...

I remember these chocolate and/or vanilla cream filled cookies that came in an fantasy theme shapes, like a dragon or a knight. I'd kill to have some of those again. Even a commercial would be nice.

: I think those were called Wonderballs. I have a few stickers from those things on my wall somewhere...

Wonderballs! That's it! Man, those things were good. Were there commercials for them with a catchy jingle? I think I vaguely remember one, but it was so long ago I can't be sure.

edited 9th Nov '11 1:45:40 PM by ladyofprocrastination

Morven: The first HDD I remember buying was a 20 MB MiniScribe back in 1992. We tried to get a controller for it from some place in Computer Shopper, but the seller never shipped it, so my brother and I ended up taking it apart.

Oddly enough, we kept the logic board, and years later, in 1995, we used it to fix my 12th-grade English teacher's old 286. Weird how that worked out. :D

edited 9th Nov '11 9:27:30 PM by lee4hmz

This was a Great Valley Products HD for the Amiga 500, which had a sidecar chassis that plugged into the single expansion port the Amiga 500 had on the left-hand side, and was shaped to integrate nicely with it. It also had room for two megabytes of memory in it, making it a great one-stop expansion for that system. Going from one megabyte and floppy disks to three megabytes and a hard disk was like night to day.

In so many respects the Amiga was a beautiful system, and I was as happy with it then as I am with my Mac these days. I had a lot of fun programming on it, and CygnusEd is still one of my favorite editors of all time, especially with the AREXX extensibility.

edited 9th Nov '11 10:19:12 PM by Morven

We didn't get a PC with a working hard disk until early 1993, a late Christmas present from our uncle — a 286/12 with a Seagate ST-251 in it. I still love how that thing sounded. XD

As for programming, I didn't do a lot of programming on that machine; lack of money and no high-speed Internet meant I was pretty much stuck with QBASIC and DEBUG. I remember writing a crappy little IDE hard drive identifier utility in DEBUG and posting it someplace, but I don't think anyone ever downloaded it.

I bought the Dev Pac 3 assembler early on and wrote a bunch of little utilities for myself in assembler; later, after I saved up the money, I bought Lattice C (or was it SAS C at that point?). There weren't any free assemblers or C compilers available at the time; GCC wasn't ported until later.

Man, I remember that computer we had that had both Windows and DOS on it.

This isn't a strictly 90's thing but....

Remember when skiing was a thing? When every TV series had a ski-episode? (just as prevalent as the Beach Episode)

I remember that! I wonder why that died out.

Remember when kids didn't know how to use computers? I remember my school actually had computer classes because most of us didn't know how to use them. Now an 8 year old not knowing how to use a computer would be weird.

So gotta love my old recorded VHS... So much nostalgia....

I've been looking up old board game commercials lately.

Oh man, "The Grape Escape" was the most twisted thing EVER. It's like if they let Jigsaw design a children's board game.

I just finished watching NGE and have been considering cracking out the Play Station for some old fashioned Resident Evil 2-style zombie hunting.

And I might watch Cliffhanger and Dante's Peak again.

Aaaaaah, good times...

I remember commercials for Wonder World, that aquarium-gel thing. My sister and I always wanted it, but we never got it. We did get spirographs, though...

So some of us in the Naruto thread were talking about how Lisa Foiles, formerly of All That, grew up really hot.

As for nostalgia: we had the best cartoons. Beast Wars. The DCAU. The Simpsons prime. etc.

Also, anyone remember D.W.'s snowball? I just ran into that on a Wiki Walk on "Rashomon"-Style.

don't forget Rockos Modern Life and Rugrats