"Please Learn From Our Mistakes, Children:" People Are Sharing The '90s Memories That Deserve To Be Left In The Past

Recently, I asked the BuzzFeed Community astir '90s things radical are ace nostalgic for — adjacent though they weren’t really that great.

Here are 15 of their apical responses:

1. "The state to fume beauteous overmuch anywhere. Sounds large successful theory, but goddamn, everyone and everything reeked of cigarettes each the time."

2. "Having to tally backmost to the sofa successful bid to not miss the TV show."

3. "Fruit Stripe gum. Tastes great…for a fewer seconds."

4. "Furbies! Yes, they were cute, and everyone wanted them, but erstwhile they woke you up successful the mediate of the night, they ended up successful the laundry country oregon determination they couldn't find you! My ma yet made america get escaped of them all!"

5. "I cognize immoderate privation for a simpler time, but if you didn't person cable, it was slim pickings for amusement unless you were capable to spell to Blockbuster regularly. Often, you conscionable made bash with the 3 oregon 4 VHS tapes you had, oregon what you could get from rabbit ears. Nowadays, contempt it being overwhelming astatine times owed to choice, I tin usually find thing to watch, adjacent if I person already seen it."

"It was adjacent worse if you lived determination acold from civilization. Where I grew up successful Ireland, we lone had 2 channels connected the TV (unless it got excessively windy, past we had none). There was 1 store successful the colony that rented videos, but seldom thing caller and not overmuch of a selection, truthful by the clip I was a teenager, we'd astir apt rented each of them much than once."

6. "While lodging and nutrient prices were overmuch cheaper, exertion of immoderate benignant was a batch much expensive. Small, dense conduit televisions would outgo hundreds much than a ample 4K sheet today, and computers would outgo arsenic overmuch arsenic a car, and beryllium rendered obsolete wrong months."

7. "Video games. Don't get maine wrong, immoderate were great, but astir are not anymore. They were truly hard, truthful you couldn't decorativeness them successful a azygous rental (thank you, Blockbuster). Or, if you could grip the difficulty, the games were abbreviated and could beryllium finished successful conscionable a fewer hours. The controls weren't arsenic bully arsenic you mightiness retrieve they were either."

8. "Lack of smartphones. I similar being capable to reply immoderate question I person astatine immoderate infinitesimal it arises. I similar being capable to telephone a household subordinate successful an exigency astatine immoderate time, and there's a precocious accidental they'll answer. I similar looking astatine memes and watching videos. Admittedly, I americium excessively young to retrieve a clip earlier compartment phones, but I bash retrieve a clip earlier smartphones, and I bash similar the latter."

10. "ALL of the fashion. Flared jeans that soak up to your genu the 2nd it rains, jelly sandals that fundamentally springiness you trench foot, skintight polyester conduit tops that thrust up, past down, past up and down somehow, zig-zag hairsbreadth parts that instrumentality an hr to perfect, and don't get maine started connected hairsbreadth crimping…it's each bad. Please larn from our mistakes, children!"

11. "Having to spell to your friend's location successful an effort to find them."

12. "I was lone 5 erstwhile the decennary ended, truthful I person a small little ‘90s acquisition than older Millennials. However, it was overmuch harder to find the answers to your questions. You'd sermon things with friends oregon family, and past conscionable extremity connected a cliffhanger. Or my ma would driblet her catchphrase of, 'Look it up successful the encyclopedia.' Sure, encyclopedias were afloat of a batch of topics, but determination wasn't overmuch depth. Sometimes you didn’t adjacent rather cognize what to look up, since your encyclopedic hunt was truthful limited."

13. "Grunge euphony perfectly sucks and is truthful depressing."

"I hatred grunge. I hated it then, and I hatred it now. That whiny-ass male-dominated genre of euphony was the worst. All melodic and catchy music, thing with creation vibes oregon synths was banished from alt vigor astir overnight. Depeche Mode? Gone. You wanna perceive Brit Pop? Nope. All Nirvana and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. Our section alt euphony presumption STILL plays mostly grunge. If I perceive different Alice In Chains song…"

14. "I was 14 erstwhile 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' dropped. The video was sooooo antithetic than thing other showing connected MTV. Holy shit, was it powerful. It seemed similar overnight, everybody looked similar they discontinue bathing and lone owned flannel."

15. And finally: "Limp Bizkit. They made euphony for aggravated 15-year-old boys, who didn't adjacent cognize what they were aggravated at."

What's thing astir the '90s you decidedly don't miss? Tell america each astir it successful the comments oregon the anonymous comments container below!

Note: Some responses person been edited for length/clarity.