Top 20 Things Only '90s Kids Will Understand

Only ‘90s kids will understand. For this list, we’ll be looking at the things from the 1990s that those who grew up during the decade either remember or fully comprehend. Our countdown includes Moon Shoes, how much a slap bracelet can hurt, raising Tamagotchis, and more! If there’s a distinctly ‘90s thing YOU'RE distinctly upset we forgot, remind us in the comments!

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[DanGamingFan]

I wasn't born until the tail end of this decade, but so many things from it became the best parts of my childhood. Classic movies, clothes, toys, and it was so great revisiting it all here.

[tify]

I was born in '88. The 90s was the best decade ever. Best era to be a child. Watching this almost made me tear up from nostalgia. One thing I'll never miss is that dang dial up internet. 😒

[bladerchick]

I was born in 1990. This video made my miss my childhood so much. God I love being a 90s kid and wish everyday I could go back.

[Lady-Kanerasoka]

Being a 90s kid, I can definitely relate to a lot of these. The Olsen twins were my childhood heroes. I amazingly never failed at opening a Capri Sun drink. I was an obsessive Beanie Babies collector and I slept with the “life-size” ones at night and I still have a vast majority of them in storage because I have such fond memories of them (many of them are souvenirs too). I went to Blockbuster once or twice a week ever since I was six cause there was one only 5 minutes away from my house and we would rent around 4-6 movies a week! I still have all the movies and games I ever bought from there.

[brittanymorton]

I was born in 1987 the 90s was everything to me. This video is so nostalgic! Thank you so much I shared it with my friends who are awesome 90s kids!

[janshelayyork]

I remember playing pinball, with Pokémon cards, putting glow-in-the-dark stars on my ceiling and pretending I was in space, my Gameboy original and advanced, watching Saturday morning cartoons, etc. Growing up in the 90s was legit. Take me back!

[justapeacefulmanwhosbornin]

The ‘90s is also part of my childhood. ❤

[Lady-Kanerasoka]

10:06 I can definitely relate to that! When I was in elementary school, we were always watching things like Reading Rainbow, Arthur, Bill Nye, and more as part of educational programs for the subject we were learning, but also my school district had its own TV channel and would air certain kids shows such as Reading Rainbow, Wishbone, Arthur, and more on certain days every weekday and we would always get to watch them whenever they came on and they weren’t part of a “privilege reward” or anything. It was the part of the day I always looked forward to the most, even more than recess LOL

[trinaq]

Even though I was only born towards the end of the 90's, I'm still nostalgic for that era, since it gave us plenty of iconic films, TV shows, phrases and fashions!

[amidthephantomsrose]

You forgot furbies, beanie bag chairs, our obsession with friends, the spice girls, backstreet boys, nysnc, Britney Spears, chia pets, recording our own mixtapes, recording movies on VHS, the dinsney Renaissance and the joy of watching one Saturday morning Disney cartoons.

[Scuba_steve]

i was born in 87' and til this day I'm forever grateful i was raised in the 90's. for me, not realizing how good we had it back in those days, i truly miss that decade a lot

[theodoretekkers]

. I definitely think the 90's were the best years to grow up in. Oh the nostalgia!

[daytonapeanut]

Ahh the THX sound. Ear splitting yes, but it got you hyped cause you knew you were in for something good

[mr.decencykeepinitreal]

Oh, I ❤ the ‘90s
One of my top 3 favorite decades. 😊

[ConnorMiller]

I miss the 90’s so much! The world was a much better place back then. No social media, no cancel culture, no mass shootings at concerts, and no wokedness! The shows, movies, music, fashions, educational programs, and so many other things made the world so much more at peace. Kids today will never understand the joy it was to grow up back in those days. 😊

[isaacjohnson]

Born in 1995 I can definitely relate to all of theses trends at the time some even made it into the 2000s I personally think that movies tv shows and music were the best in the 90s and 2000s

[DynamixWarePro]

I was born in 1988 so I grew up in the 90s. I remember being in school one day just randomly drawing the cool S. I always drew mine with a horizontal line at the bottom, not a point which was how I always drew them. I had never even seen it before but I was just drawing vertical lines and joining them up and came up with it. My sister had moon shoes, beanie babies and a skip it. I had forgotten about stamp pens, but I definitely remembered the multi coloured pens and used to have them, along with orange and yellow fluorescent highlighter markers.

I never actually seen or heard the THX logo in person as I only went to the cinema a few times in the 90s. I do remember trying not to get my CDs scratched, especially PC software, games and Windows CDs, but my sister who is 7 years younger than me, kept taking mine and I find them scratched up or left somewhere they could easily get damaged. I kept telling her not to take them and tried to hide them, but she kept finding and taking them.

Our family didn't get internet to the late 90s with 56K dialup and I remember trying to download a 3MB or so MP3 file and it taking over an hour and my mom kept telling me to hurry up and get off the internet.

I loved The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, for me it was one of my top favorite shows of the 90s along with Home Improvement and never missed them when they were on TV. I also remember having glow in the dark stickers on my bedroom ceiling as a young child, Pogs, Mighty Max (the world's most fun choking hazard), Bouncy Balls (I used to get some every week from machines in a local village near where we lived at the time), weird skateboard called something like a tri-board that was 3 sided with a wheel on each side, all the great kids shows, Spinner Yo-Yos, 3 sided plastic boomerangs (the ones I had were wider than what I have seen online today and each side had a whole in the top for your fingers to go through and they were fluorescent colors like pink and yellow)

[kimkinlock]

The nostalgia was so real, great list overall. Some misses:
- no mention of Trapper Keepers, book covers and colorful folders in the school supplies section
- ABC’s TGIF lineup
- PBS shows like Barney, Lamb Chop, Reading Rainbow, Ghost Writer Carmen Sandiego and Wishbone
- various studio logos/sign offs with audio like “sit ubu sit”, “DiC”, Disney, etc
- Walkman/Discman
- Captain Planet
- light up sneakers
- I wanna be like Mike

[ronniedefelice]

Born in January of 92. I Miss the 90s they'll never be another time like it

[cjhansen]

I remember these, thanks for the walk down memory lane.