I was born in the early 80's and lived my teen years in the 90's. It was "my time" so to speak. The music was awsome, there were breakthroughs in style that were just mindblowing, especially in my favourite genre of the time (hard rock/metal)
Nirvana drove me to become a musician and no other musical experience I have ever had comes even close to being a child, looking at the tv screen at a dancing janitor in a tutu and just being left stunned in awed silence at what I was hearing.
I't was the time of System of a downs gold years (self-titled to toxicity)
slipknot entered the scene. say what you want about them, they were ground breaking and brilliant.
hed(pe)'s gold years
The last of pantera's best work GSTK ruled
too many awesome bands are flooding back to me now and I have to leave it there out of decency for the reader.
incidently the 90's spelled the demise of Metallica which was sad, I really like them then(can't listen to Metallica anymore)
That and you could still buy cassette tapes at the music stores.
VCRS!!!!! <-RIP
High speed tape dub with realtime audio aka chipmunk mode.
Game wise
Quake, GTA, T.I.M riven,half-life, a great time for game developement.
a time before mobile phones and digital cameras(very rare and expensive if there were any).
I remember that you could reset an entire network of computers by rubbing your shoes on the carpet and zapping the keyhole on the front of the computer.
The introduction to g.u.i interfaces on computers.
the first cd burners where burning a cd required you to leave the computer alone for a long time. even accessing the start menu was asking for a dud disk. write x2,rw x1.
two 4 gig hard drives giving me a monster 8 gig of hard drive space.
the internet wasn't widly used in my home town yet. we'd all heard of it and a few people had played around with it but it wasnt really useful for anything(so my understanding was)
Public liability wasn't heard of, if you slipped and fell, you were a dumbass and should watch where you are going.
super nintendo and sony playstation. Tony hawk skating.
The 90's are a very nostalgic time for me.
but no way in hell id go back there.
Sometimes I like to use words out of contents