Nostalgic '90s Photos That Gen X Will Remember
by Brian GalindoBuzzFeedBuzzFeed StaffSenior Editor, Nostalgia Nerd
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Having TV watch parties with friends or family around "appointment TV," where you had to be sitting in front of the screen when it aired, or you missed it entirely (well, unless you were willing to wait for reruns to catch up later):
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The '90s-meets-'60s-psychedelic design on Fruitopia vending machines:
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Having to carry around change in case you needed to use a payphone:
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And having to carry around enough cash whenever you went out — especially to bars and clubs — because a LOT of places were cash only:
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E!'s Talk Soup hosted by Greg Kinnear, which was the old-school way to watch viral videos:
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The Ricki Lake show and her audience yelling "GO RICKI! GO RICKI!" at least 12 times an episode:
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The pre-Jon Stewart The Daily Show that was hosted by Craig Kilborn and was less newsy:
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Having a ton of blank VHS tapes with covers that looked like this and filled with random movies and TV shows you taped off TV:
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And all the extra labels that came with blank VHS tapes that no one would ever use:
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"No glove, no love" and a ton of other TV and magazine PSAs encouraging condom use to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS:
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Seeing every celebrity on red carpets wearing Red Ribbons to help raise awareness and support for people living with HIV/AIDS:
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Publishers Clearing House magazine stamps that you would use to order magazines that you then would never pay for:
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Blank cassette tapes that were supposed to capture the sound of CDs best, but honestly, sound exactly the same:
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And those micro cassettes that were primarily used in pre-digital answering machines:
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The pre-caller ID days of standing by the answering machine to screen the phone call and see who was calling and if you wanted to answer or not:
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Magic the Dog and all the Old Navy commercials he appeared in:
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The "Diet Coke Break" commercial that featured female office workers thirsting over a shirtless construction worker:
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And Wendy the "Snapple Lady," who appeared in all of the company's commercials:
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Snapple, when it came in glass bottles, and there was a trivia fact on the bottom of the bottle cap:
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Binaca and how your breath wasn't minty fresh until you sprayed enough that it felt like you had burned a hole in your mouth with it:
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Suzanne Somers ThighMaster that had the tagline "Squeeze, squeeze your way to shapely thighs," and that everyone's mom seemed to own:
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Decorative olive oil and vinegar bottles infused with random things that your mom decorated the kitchen with but NEVER used:
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Burgundy and Hunter Green color combo that was everyone's boomer parents used to decorate their houses with because it was "classy":
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Halogen torchiere floor lamps that would heat up so hot, you couldn't even touch the upper part of it:
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Tall CD towers that proudly displayed your CD collection:
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The Simpsons being a controversial TV show because it satirized the nuclear family and because Bart was considered a bad influence on kids:
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The Gap when their logo was spelled out in lowercase letters and it was the absolute coolest store:
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Cordless home phones that were giant with big antennas that stuck out and, weirdly, did not have much range. They also had zero battery life:
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And giant carphones, which were such a status symbol:
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Paging your friends and waiting around the phone for them to call you back:
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Looking for jobs, apartments, second-hand items, etc., in the newspaper classifieds:
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Oh-so-cool, sponge-painted walls that were a DIY project that half the time never turned out looking good:
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Celestial decor, which everybody had that one friend who went overboard with it:
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Those puffy leather couches that started out plush but slowly sagged beyond saving, getting m