Daily Life and Popular Culture in the 1990s

This video provides a brief introduction to daily life in the 1990s as well as highlighting some of the broad trends in popular culture during that decade.

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[Sugho]

90s were amazing, we already had a lot of technology but kids still got together to play on the street. Best of two worlds really.

[tylergann]

The thing about the 90s is that since it was the last decade before social media, smartphones, selfies, and texting, it was pretty much the last decade that people were actually human; socialized in real life, and lived in the moment.

[ChevyAxel]

I don’t care how much time goes by. I’ll forever be stuck in the 90s. Movies, music, cartoons, toys, wrestling. It never gets old for me

[anurag]

The 1990s were the perfect combination of technology and social life

[eydie]

I'm 64, a child of the 60s, a teen of the 70s, and a young woman of the 80s. However, the 90s is my favorite decade. That's the decade my son was young and he and I were having so much fun. He was born in 1988, a true 90s kid and I miss that era like crazy.

[celairgilfaenmirion]

Simpler times... internet, personal computers, email, and cell phones were luxuries and people actually got together to hang out. Walking through most towns nowadays... they just feel so empty...

[Ajz]

How do you completely fail to mention that the 90's had the BEST cartoons on TV, even by today's standards?

[Soulsworth]

Man, I miss the hell out of the 90s. Such a simpler time where social media didn't exist, and people were more care free. It was wonderful. If I could go back and experience it all again I would.

[lochycuh]

i wish i was a 90s kid. Just the thought of coming home from school and turning on the tv and watch classic tv shows sounds too good, and watching michael jordan play live. Nowadays kids are addicted to their phones including me

[jsergsif]

There was a certain magic to being a kid in the 90s. That eagerness to go play outside with your friends or watching a movie on a Friday night. The mysticism of that haunted house, or that enchanted creek. Everything was so fun and exciting. We were so happy and didn’t realize it.

[amyntut]

Kids today will never know the struggle of fighting someone to get off of the computer so you could use the phone or vice versa lol .

[thepanda]

The 90s was a party that lasted for 10 years. It was a blast

[isseez]

The 90s had enough technology to appreciate. Sadly society relies on it way too much today.

[calvinkoay]

90s..i remember.. was an era of collaboration. People were afraid of doing things independently. They love togetherness and often work in teams to complete a task.

[BlkAdler.]

I was born in the 90s. I would love to go back in time to relive my childhood.

[selenadiaz]

Being a teenager in the 90's was indescribable. If you lived it-you know. Fashion was Salvation Army, borrowed & traded clothes & consignment shopping- resourceful we were broke! We spent our money on concert tickets, gas money and beer! Knowing everything we were told was a lie and to live hard.. Music all day and all night.. Long live Gen X.

[dearyaryes]

There was a feeling that the entire country was experiencing a golden era during the 1990’s. The nation was rapidly moving forward from the strife and chaos of the 60’s and 70’s. Race relations started healing, the economy was exploding, the internet connected us together in a way as never before. All of mankind seemed poised to take a giant leap into the new millennium and usher in a period of human greatness never experienced before on this planet and then on a Tuesday morning in September of 2001 everything changed. Our dreams of building a Pax-Americana were rooted in the naive idea that the rest of the world was riding the same wave.... we could not have been more wrong my friends and here we are now.... Is there anything else that needs to be said?

[PodtrashRadio]

We spend so much time reading about history and the future that we don't realize we're a part of history RIGHT NOW. 100 years from now they will be talking about our generation as the technological revolution. Which could be either a good or bad thing but certainly changed the world forever.

[Awardance]

90’s were so fucking awesome to be a teenager :) I was born in 1981

[reallife]

This is when people connected on deeper levels. Trains were full of conversations not people with ther heads down into a phone. We talked about the sports game the day before. We all watched the same shows and would connect to eachother through them. Social media has given us a false perception of being connected. We are actually disconnected more then ever.