i think we should all use common sense and logic when we answer and ask a question but always stay open minded
just cause science fails to explain something does not mean its real (afterlife,big foot, ghosts etc..) does not mean its fake try to stay opened mined instead of closed
A place where "journalists" post collections of gifs/tweets from other people/pictures that are vaguely related to what they are talking about, write some captions, give it a clickbaity title, and it's called journalism. Where else could people get articles like "celebrity X said something shocking" or quizzes for anything you could think of?
Somehow, despite being born in 2000, I got a 90% of being a 90's kid, it didn't help that most of the questions didn't offer an other or none of the above for most questions.
So what do they mean by 90's anyway? So once the world enters the year 2000 everything from the 90's disappears from existence and only the kids who were born in the 90's can remember ?
I thought a "90's kid" was supposed to be a kid that *Grew up* in the 90's.
Not that that is in any way a positive distinction.
Those who look back on the 90's fondly either never lived through it so built a idealized concept, or they have a selective memory. They've forgotten ADSL or even Dial Up, or the fact that most families didn't even have a computer at home, and even more rarely the Internet. It was a luxury limited to the middle and upper class. That is why it's funny to hear modern kids say "I wish I could grow up in the 90's so I could use Windows 95" without realizing that back then, PCs, Access to the Internet, and even technology at a whole was not nearly as commoditized.
Yea, not to mention computers are sooooo much cheaper nowadays. Back in the 90s it was a few grand for a decent system. I remember my first hard drive, an RLL 10MB full height drive (for you youngins, that's two 5.25" bays). My grandpa paid several hundred for that.
I do miss BBSes though. Yea, I know there are still some out there but it's not the same. I still have a copy of Telemate 4.12 with a phonebook listing like 15 or so local boards. The first BBS I joined was "House of Magic", something running on a Commodore 64 toward the late 80s. I connected with a 300 baud modem. You can read faster than the data comes across on the screen, lol. If I had to download the MP3 I'm listening to right now it would've taken about six hours When I finally got a US Robotics Courier HST Dual Standard 14.4 I felt like I just bought a Ferrari. It even looked awesome heh.
My first foray into something grander than BBSes was Prodigy. I still remember my login ID; FCXX31A. Prodigy forums is where I learned about hex editing. I used what I learned to screw with Wing Commander 2 - put the Concordia's conversion cannon on the little P64 Ferret
A place where "journalists" post collections of gifs/tweets from other people/pictures that are vaguely related to what they are talking about, write some captions, give it a clickbaity title, and it's called journalism. Where else could people get articles like "celebrity X said something shocking" or quizzes for anything you could think of?
Well it was more of a rhetorical question than an actual question, but that works as well.
So what do they mean by 90's anyway? So once the world enters the year 2000 everything from the 90's disappears from existence and only the kids who were born in the 90's can remember ?
abmfjdkbm? ? ?? ? ?!!!!!1!!
Why else does the term "Only 90s kids will remember this" come from then? Despite that, I'm born in the 21st century and still know a majority of what happened in the 90s, even as a young kid.
Really? Because I remembered having shelves filled with all VHS tapes of old disney movies and shows.
They did not cease to exist after 1989. But they had existed for nearly a decade by 1990, so using them as an example of "the 90's" doesn't make any sense.
Audio Cassette Tapes were first introduced in the 70's. They overtook 8-tracks particularly around the end of the decade. By the 90's, Compact Discs had started to overtake Audio Cassette Tapes as a De Facto "Standard" release format for new albums. Not surprisingly considering CDs had been around for nearly all of the 80's, with the first albums starting to be released on CD starting in 1982.
VHS (And Betamax) are from the 70's. (1977 for VHS in particular). They are no more "90's" than they are 80's.
I see "Only 90s kids will remember this". A lot. It's usually a bunch of stupid nonsense, to be honest. If you're lucky it will be somebody who actually lived through the 90's deciding that everybody had their childhood.
My favourite is when they reference technology or things like AOL instant messenger. "Oh you grew up in the 90's remember AOL Instant messenger typical 90's right" Yeah, typical 90's if you were upper-middle class, maybe.
I got 84%, but I had to just pick a best answer for some of the questions, as the options they gave simply weren't all that great.
When were you born?
I went with 1987-1992, because 1986 wasn't an option (seriously, I started first grade in 1992. How is that not an option, but 1997-2000 is?
Favorite 90;s toy?
Pogs didn't make the list? Nor NERF guns (despite the 90's probably being the Golden Age for them)? And seriously, no Game Boy?!
I went with Beanie Babies as we did have a small collection of them.
Best 90's treat?
This was a tough one, as I remember enjoying most of these, but not enough to label any of them my "favorite". Went with 3D Doritos because, hey, why not?
Favorite artist or group?
Didn't much care for these options. The only group on there that I have ever both heard and not hated was Green Day, and I don't think I heard them until I was in college. "Weird Al" Yankovic should have totally been on that list.
Favorite TV Show?
Another tough one! Part of the problem is that I entered the 90's at age 4, and graduated out at age 14, so which shows I watched depended on when you're talking about. Also, how can you not have "Saved by the Bell" as an option, when you actually have a picture of Zack Morris on your quiz header?!
Went with Doug because, hey, who doesn't like Doug? (Fun fact: Doug was voiced by Billy West, the actor who did approximately 92% of the male voices for Futurama.)
What did you usually do on weekends?
"Reading books" wasn't an option, so Nerf Wars was an easy choice.
Go-to computer program?
Solitaire and Minesweeper?! Some kids' schools must have been loaded to have computers that could run those! We always just considered ourselves fortunate that our computer monitors had color! Anyway, the one, single game our school's computers had was Oregon Trail, though I would have definitely played Math Blaster if it had been available at school (we had it at home).
Prized school supply?
What in the world is a "Lisa Frank folder"? Just sounds too much like "frankfurter", and now I'm hungry. Great.
Anyway, I went with "Multi-colored push-up pen" because that and the eraser caps were the only things on that list I remember owning, and frankly, the eraser caps were more something you had because they were useful rather than something to be "prized". Also, I know they weren't invented in the 90's, but what 90's kid didn't treasure their Trapper Keeper?
Flannel?
I did try flannel once or twice, but quickly deemed it FAR too warm for anything but cold weather and quickly abandoned it.
Inflatable furniture?
Was this seriously a thing? O_o
Pogs?
Oh, sure! You can bring them up now, but not in the "favorite toys" question!
Did you play "Power Rangers"?
Wasn't sure what to put here. I mean, technically I did, but I've never seen the show so I was really just running around copying what everyone else was doing, so does that count? I answered "Nah".
Stupid hair?
Even back then that stuff just looked ridiculous.
Goosebumps?
Why is it that just because I never read Goosebumps I have to respond that, "I don't read"?
90's scent?
The only one of those products with which I'm familiar is the Dr. Pepper Lipsmackers. Did those have a scent? I thought they just had a taste when you licked your lips?
Record radio to tapes?
Why is the answer, "I don't recall"? Some of us legitimately never really listened to the radio.
All in all, this was a really, really, poorly made quiz which seems to be heavily biased towards one person's particular view of the 90's, and excludes a large portion of the population that actually grew up in the 90's.
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"Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped. The success or failure of any given step will have no impact on the macro level."
-Red Mage, 8-Bit Theater
"90% of the Internet's statistics are made-up, and 7/8 of its quotes are misattributed."
-Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
Eh, I was born in 1997. I don't see anything special about 'the nineties,' other than the computers that cost a fortune and couldn't really do much.
I'll have you know that our IBM-compatible computer could boot up in less than 10 minutes! We had a nice, finished interface for DOS so that we didn't have to bother with command prompts all the time! And, if I got stuck at a certain point in a game, I could just dial-up CompuServe, and after just a few short minutes establishing a connection (assuming no one else in the family needed to use the phone) I could try to find if someone else had had a similar issue and posted about it! Sometimes, it would even have been resolved!!
"Couldn't do much," indeed! Hmph!
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"Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped. The success or failure of any given step will have no impact on the macro level."
-Red Mage, 8-Bit Theater
"90% of the Internet's statistics are made-up, and 7/8 of its quotes are misattributed."
-Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
Oh, anyone remember the name of that candy that started out really bitter but then turned sweet (or was it the other way around? o_0 )? I remember the green one was pretty good.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/farrahpenn/what-percent-90s-kid-were-you?utm_term=.kqK9DaYEvN#.lnRrDO09n5 Take the quiz and give your percentage. Most here were born in the 2000s and probably be 0%, Here's a funny video explaning the 90s if you did not exist in the 90s
I cannot use this account anymore
You say that as if it matters how 90's someone is... It's like judging someone based on how much Fallout lore they know. It makes no sense.
born in 99, but its buzz feed....
"good night, good luck" -dying light
i think we should all use common sense and logic when we answer and ask a question but always stay open minded
just cause science fails to explain something does not mean its real (afterlife,big foot, ghosts etc..) does not mean its fake try to stay opened mined instead of closed
What kind of test requires you to find out the percentage of how '90s' are you?
Seriously, what is even buzzfeed?
A place where "journalists" post collections of gifs/tweets from other people/pictures that are vaguely related to what they are talking about, write some captions, give it a clickbaity title, and it's called journalism. Where else could people get articles like "celebrity X said something shocking" or quizzes for anything you could think of?
People seem not to appreciate what you're doing here. Don't feel too bad though.
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king
Somehow, despite being born in 2000, I got a 90% of being a 90's kid, it didn't help that most of the questions didn't offer an other or none of the above for most questions.
I'm so 90s I'm Blue.
At least until I Saw the Sign (that I had mistakenly thought the lyrics were "I saw the sun" for years...)
Because I'm an All-Star...
...at pogs! (still no idea how to play 'em, all I know is it involved hitting a stack of 'em with a pog puck).
Of course when I was on the playground, chillin' all cool outside of the school...
... Tiger Electronics games were my preferred leisure (man, those things were crap).
It sure was a transformative period...
...a modern period...
...with songs that were never not on the radio, all the better to serenade...
...someone waiting for the stupid AOL guy to finish running so one could connect to the internet.
Who needs wikipedia when one has Encarta Encyclopedia with its thousands of articles?
Mind you, the 90s weren't all fun and games. At times it was a real life or death struggle...
...where quacking hoodlums could strike at any time...
...and a changing world lead to societal upheaval...
...and a new world order.
New dynasties emerged...
... as heroes clashed...
...and ardent defenders withstood aggressors...
...as the world awaited Y2K with great trepidation.
The only hope mankind had against a descent into pure chaos...
...was Batman!
Also, the Plymouth Prowler looked awesome (too bad it was a bit of a death machine).
Cassettes, the Walkman, and VHS tapes were also pretty nifty for their time.
All of those were around in the 80's.
So what do they mean by 90's anyway? So once the world enters the year 2000 everything from the 90's disappears from existence and only the kids who were born in the 90's can remember ?
abmfjdkbm? ? ?? ? ?!!!!!1!!
don't be that person who ruins another's day.
I thought a "90's kid" was supposed to be a kid that *Grew up* in the 90's.
Not that that is in any way a positive distinction.
Those who look back on the 90's fondly either never lived through it so built a idealized concept, or they have a selective memory. They've forgotten ADSL or even Dial Up, or the fact that most families didn't even have a computer at home, and even more rarely the Internet. It was a luxury limited to the middle and upper class. That is why it's funny to hear modern kids say "I wish I could grow up in the 90's so I could use Windows 95" without realizing that back then, PCs, Access to the Internet, and even technology at a whole was not nearly as commoditized.
Yea, not to mention computers are sooooo much cheaper nowadays. Back in the 90s it was a few grand for a decent system. I remember my first hard drive, an RLL 10MB full height drive (for you youngins, that's two 5.25" bays). My grandpa paid several hundred for that.
I do miss BBSes though. Yea, I know there are still some out there but it's not the same. I still have a copy of Telemate 4.12 with a phonebook listing like 15 or so local boards. The first BBS I joined was "House of Magic", something running on a Commodore 64 toward the late 80s. I connected with a 300 baud modem. You can read faster than the data comes across on the screen, lol. If I had to download the MP3 I'm listening to right now it would've taken about six hours When I finally got a US Robotics Courier HST Dual Standard 14.4 I felt like I just bought a Ferrari. It even looked awesome heh.
My first foray into something grander than BBSes was Prodigy. I still remember my login ID; FCXX31A. Prodigy forums is where I learned about hex editing. I used what I learned to screw with Wing Commander 2 - put the Concordia's conversion cannon on the little P64 Ferret
Better watch out, or you'll get caught up in the
Well it was more of a rhetorical question than an actual question, but that works as well.
Why else does the term "Only 90s kids will remember this" come from then? Despite that, I'm born in the 21st century and still know a majority of what happened in the 90s, even as a young kid.
Really? Because I remembered having shelves filled with all VHS tapes of old disney movies and shows.
They did not cease to exist after 1989. But they had existed for nearly a decade by 1990, so using them as an example of "the 90's" doesn't make any sense.
Audio Cassette Tapes were first introduced in the 70's. They overtook 8-tracks particularly around the end of the decade. By the 90's, Compact Discs had started to overtake Audio Cassette Tapes as a De Facto "Standard" release format for new albums. Not surprisingly considering CDs had been around for nearly all of the 80's, with the first albums starting to be released on CD starting in 1982.
VHS (And Betamax) are from the 70's. (1977 for VHS in particular). They are no more "90's" than they are 80's.
I see "Only 90s kids will remember this". A lot. It's usually a bunch of stupid nonsense, to be honest. If you're lucky it will be somebody who actually lived through the 90's deciding that everybody had their childhood.
My favourite is when they reference technology or things like AOL instant messenger. "Oh you grew up in the 90's remember AOL Instant messenger typical 90's right" Yeah, typical 90's if you were upper-middle class, maybe.
I got 84%, but I had to just pick a best answer for some of the questions, as the options they gave simply weren't all that great.
When were you born?
I went with 1987-1992, because 1986 wasn't an option (seriously, I started first grade in 1992. How is that not an option, but 1997-2000 is?
Favorite 90;s toy?
Pogs didn't make the list? Nor NERF guns (despite the 90's probably being the Golden Age for them)? And seriously, no Game Boy?!
I went with Beanie Babies as we did have a small collection of them.
Best 90's treat?
This was a tough one, as I remember enjoying most of these, but not enough to label any of them my "favorite". Went with 3D Doritos because, hey, why not?
Favorite artist or group?
Didn't much care for these options. The only group on there that I have ever both heard and not hated was Green Day, and I don't think I heard them until I was in college. "Weird Al" Yankovic should have totally been on that list.
Favorite TV Show?
Another tough one! Part of the problem is that I entered the 90's at age 4, and graduated out at age 14, so which shows I watched depended on when you're talking about. Also, how can you not have "Saved by the Bell" as an option, when you actually have a picture of Zack Morris on your quiz header?!
Went with Doug because, hey, who doesn't like Doug? (Fun fact: Doug was voiced by Billy West, the actor who did approximately 92% of the male voices for Futurama.)
What did you usually do on weekends?
"Reading books" wasn't an option, so Nerf Wars was an easy choice.
Go-to computer program?
Solitaire and Minesweeper?! Some kids' schools must have been loaded to have computers that could run those! We always just considered ourselves fortunate that our computer monitors had color! Anyway, the one, single game our school's computers had was Oregon Trail, though I would have definitely played Math Blaster if it had been available at school (we had it at home).
Prized school supply?
What in the world is a "Lisa Frank folder"? Just sounds too much like "frankfurter", and now I'm hungry. Great.
Anyway, I went with "Multi-colored push-up pen" because that and the eraser caps were the only things on that list I remember owning, and frankly, the eraser caps were more something you had because they were useful rather than something to be "prized". Also, I know they weren't invented in the 90's, but what 90's kid didn't treasure their Trapper Keeper?
Flannel?
I did try flannel once or twice, but quickly deemed it FAR too warm for anything but cold weather and quickly abandoned it.
Inflatable furniture?
Was this seriously a thing? O_o
Pogs?
Oh, sure! You can bring them up now, but not in the "favorite toys" question!
Did you play "Power Rangers"?
Wasn't sure what to put here. I mean, technically I did, but I've never seen the show so I was really just running around copying what everyone else was doing, so does that count? I answered "Nah".
Stupid hair?
Even back then that stuff just looked ridiculous.
Goosebumps?
Why is it that just because I never read Goosebumps I have to respond that, "I don't read"?
90's scent?
The only one of those products with which I'm familiar is the Dr. Pepper Lipsmackers. Did those have a scent? I thought they just had a taste when you licked your lips?
Record radio to tapes?
Why is the answer, "I don't recall"? Some of us legitimately never really listened to the radio.
All in all, this was a really, really, poorly made quiz which seems to be heavily biased towards one person's particular view of the 90's, and excludes a large portion of the population that actually grew up in the 90's.
"Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped. The success or failure of any given step will have no impact on the macro level."
-Red Mage, 8-Bit Theater
"90% of the Internet's statistics are made-up, and 7/8 of its quotes are misattributed."
-Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
Eh, I was born in 1997. I don't see anything special about 'the nineties,' other than the computers that cost a fortune and couldn't really do much.
And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different coat, that's all the truth I know.
In a coat of gold or a coat of red, a lion still has claws,
And mine are long and sharp, my lord, as long and sharp as yours.
And so he spoke, and so he spoke, that lord of Castamere,
But now the rains weep o'er his hall, with no one there to hear.
Yes now the rains weep o'er his hall, and not a soul to hear.
I'll have you know that our IBM-compatible computer could boot up in less than 10 minutes! We had a nice, finished interface for DOS so that we didn't have to bother with command prompts all the time! And, if I got stuck at a certain point in a game, I could just dial-up CompuServe, and after just a few short minutes establishing a connection (assuming no one else in the family needed to use the phone) I could try to find if someone else had had a similar issue and posted about it! Sometimes, it would even have been resolved!!
"Couldn't do much," indeed! Hmph!
"Most plans are critically flawed by their own logic. A failure at any step will ruin everything after it. That's just basic cause and effect. It's easy for a good plan to fall apart. Therefore, a plan that has no attachment to logic cannot be stopped. The success or failure of any given step will have no impact on the macro level."
-Red Mage, 8-Bit Theater
"90% of the Internet's statistics are made-up, and 7/8 of its quotes are misattributed."
-Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
Oh, anyone remember the name of that candy that started out really bitter but then turned sweet (or was it the other way around? o_0 )? I remember the green one was pretty good.
Oh yeah, and is Big League Chew still around?