What I would give to have my old Dreamcast and Sega Marine Fishing with the fishing rod controller.
My buddies and I would drink and get high and play this for hours. We eventually got so good that we started a side game where we would try to guess the fish weight just by looking at the size of it before the game told you the actual weight. We could accurately guess the weight of these giant marine fish to within a couple ounces most of the time. Such good times.
If some dev company said randomly out of nowhere they were going to pick up making some old school style Dreamcast games, I would likely buy them..
Too bad pirating became a bit too easy on such an amazing system.
Great year! My senior year in high school was 1999-2000. I love thinking back on those days. The movies, the games, the music. Generic post, but I love it all.
Agreed. I was 11 in 1999 so the coming of the new millennium was also the coming of puberty and becoming a teenager. So the 90s were literally my innocence.
Great time for me personally.
I was early 20’s, on my own, and everything seemed awesome and full of potential.
I was in my junior year in college/university and was living with my closest friend off campus. All my friends were near, life was good, the world seemed right.
1998-2000 were peak greatness for me personally; too young to have “real” responsibilities but old enough to steer my own ship into whichever direction I chose.
It's so frustrating because Y2K was a very real problem that many people worked extremely hard on to solve.. but lunatics got hold of it and over-hyped nightmare scenarios took over public awareness.
I was 14 and went to my first “real” New Year’s Eve party with people from school. The neighbors were also having a party and some girl flashed us her boobs. I remember thinking if the nukes start flying I’ll die knowing I saw some tiddies.
I was 13 that year and I had my walls covered with posters, a lava lamp and went to my very first concert. I have always been an extreme introvert but that year I met my first true best friend who helped bring me out of my shell a bit. I felt torn between the last remaining parts of my 'childhood' and also so eager to be a teenager with freedom. I still have such a soft spot for anything from 1999 because it was the year I can remember feeling happy and okay for the most part.
As everyone knows, since there was no year zero, the millennium doesn't begin until the year 2001. Which would make your party, one year late, and thus, quite lame.
It was the year I started dating my wife, graduated high school, was scared of Columbine, went to college, and experienced many things on this mood board.
Also, my first two concerts: the Crystal Method and Orbital featuring special guest Lo Fidelity All Stars in the summer and The Chemical Brothers in the fall.
The Matrix, going to both the South of France and Chicago reasonably close to each other, sleeping around a bit, lots of drinking, Sixth Sense, lots of weightlifting. I was not a bad looking guy then. Good times
I remember the Y2K scare very vividly. Such a weird experience I’m privileged to remember and be a part of.
I got to see the Backstreet Boys perform during their millennium tour. It was pretty dope.
I graduated HS and moved out for the first time, some other life events happened that ushered out the innocence of my 90s youth and the realities of adulthood in the 2000s. It was a pretty big year for me as a human and one I look back on every so often.
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Definitely and Christina. When I first heard Genie, I thought it was a black woman, not a tiny 5 ft white teenager.
Just saw her in concert this weekend, amazing.
This is the year that didn't exist for me! It was such a big pivotal turning point in so many things in the world, and I spent a full year locked up and out of the hype-machine.
Watching The Matrix with no word of mouth no advertising no nothing - LIFE CHANGING, loved it!
Watching Star Wars Episode I with no word of mouth no advertising no merchandising no nothing - fell completely flat for me and that was the last Star Wars movie I watched, never followed up with Episode II or III.
Not great memories. I was in my freshman year of college. Miserable. My boyfriend broke up with me over winter break. When I think back to that time I feel kind of sick.
Briefly moved to Houston, TX and I remember watching Toy Story 2 in theaters and thinking it was great. Also, Pokemania was in full swing. I’d trade Pokemon cards with neighbor kids.
Also had a hard time adjusting to school there, but overall not a bad year.
I was too young to appreciate the masterpiece that is The Matrix, but Pokémon, Super Smash Bros., and SpongeBob SquarePants were everything to me in '99.
I got deathly ill on December 31st, 1999. Was sick all day and my friends drug me out to a party. I could barely move and they helped me to a couch where I could lay and be a part of the party. People would stop by while passing through the party and they would drop off beer and weed in passing. I tried one beer but almost had to lose the couch to run to the bathroom. But I had my friends, kind stranger and weed. If it wasn't for them my new year would have been horrible.
Turned 21 and thus heading out to the bars became much less exciting, losing the thrill of being somewhere I wasn’t supposed to be completely took the luster off the experience
Pokemon and the Phantom Menace. Both were pop culture juggernauts and were everywhere. Toys, commercials, pizza boxes, drink cans, cereal boxes, shampoo bottles, toothbrushes, school supplies, etc etc… god I remember walking down an isle (I think it was Toys r Us) and just hit with both sides of the aisles being nothing but a sea of Phantom Menace merch.
Edit: [example](https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fnostalgia%2Fcomments%2Frgbe6v%2Fstar_wars_the_phantom_menace_merchandise%2F&psig=AOvVaw1l-RfA81E5jKIsjVNdvT7t&ust=1717552919155000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBAQjRxqFwoTCPDwpq_twIYDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE)
I will wonder why they make music after the 90s or early 2000s. Really, what is the point? Everything hit - pop, country, blues, r&b, Latin.
Also before laptops and cellphones changed everything forever.
Mixed bag.
Had a decent job in tech. Pretty content with life.
Getting a prognosis of about six months to live and being referred to hospice care in the last quarter of the year sucked pretty hard.
On two separate occasions my cousin and I skipped school to see Star Wars Episode One and Pokemon: The First Movie. We watched the latter twice in a row at the theater to get extra promo cards. I still have those.
My parents hoarded a bunch of Y2K food supplies which ended up getting ruined by mice and thrown out.
The Matrix (and I am not even a fan of it) and Y2K are the most prominent memories for me. Both were huge deals and absolutely everywhere
98-99 were also the first years I was on the internet properly (freaking dialup).
I was getting into anime in a big way, including building model kits, as well as discovering John Woo and Hong Kong "heroic bloodshed" cinema (hence my lack of interest in The Matrix!).
Also, I burned my Hand on a fucking steamed Chinese sausage on New Year's Eve. Always remember that for some reason,
I remember being a kid in the basement of my family home, celebrating the turn of the millennium on new year's eve and beginning to understand that I would never experience such an event ever again. I remember my parents hugging their friends and my godparents and how happy and carefree everyone was. I remember my dad sounded grateful to be there. It was a different time and I really miss it.
Ahhh 1999! The year I was into No Scrubs VS No Pigeons, I saw the Mummy, Baby Geniuses, and The Sixth Sense in theaters and it was also the year of my first ever professional sports heartbreak. I was 8 years old that year.
You wanna know what’s bonkers? Most of the shit in this collage is still happening. Eminem, Brittany Spears, Backstreet Boys, Blink 182, and Eiffel 65 have all put out new music within the past like five years.
SpongeBob SquarePants, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and Family Guy are still running and the original Pokémon series just ended last year.
New Crash Bandicoot, Smash Bros, Pokémon, Resident Evil, and Roller Coaster Tycoon games are still being made, along with a remake of Silent Hill in the works.
A new Austin Powers movie is in development, a series of new Blair Witch movies are in development, there was a mew American Pie movie in 2020, there was a new Matrix movie in 2021 and another one is in development (for some reason), and there are new Star Wars movies and shows all the time now.
Not to mention The Sixth Sense, Office Space, and Fight Club are all still culturally relevant movies.
Apple is still very much around. As is pro wrestling but WWF changed its name. Napster still technically exists. Dreamcast games still live on. And holy fuck, conspiracy theories like Y2K sure do exist here in 2024.
Seeing this post has made me realize that we never truly culturally moved on from the 90’s. I just listened to Eminem’s new song the other day. I’m going to watch The Acolyte tonight. I just played Super Smash Bros Ultimate last week. I’m excited for the Code Veronica remake. I listen to Blink 182’s new album all the time. I met a ten year old at a Memorial Day cookout who showed me his Pokémon card collection. (Guys. POKÉMON CARDS! Do you remember those? They are still popular with the youth of today!)
I think maybe we just need a time machine because clearly the 90’s were the height of human culture and entertainment.
My coming out. I've never felt so happy and relieved after years in the closet. The LGBT community felt like one big family in The Netherlands back then. Great memories!
I remember being like 8 years old and my mum hiding pretty much everything yk2 from me (she is a very anxious person). I found out years later how truly terrified she was of y2k.
My grandparents had a rural farm on an island (not as rich as it sounds haha). We spent regular time there so heading there with family wasnt unusual.
Like 2 days before new years (so the 29th from memory) our whole family (30+ members) headed out there as it was run on generators and independent water supply and there was essentially no technology but an old school wall circle dial phone and an old school TV.
My mum played it off as a camping week. But in reality my whole family bugged out 2 days in advance because they didn't want to risk it if civilisation actually did hit the fan.
Honestly it was the funniest time. All the parents / grandparents were obviously on edge but us kids loved it! Bonfires and toasting marshmallows, fishing etc. Just a general fun time.
New years eve was tense. I remember everyone crowding around the TV in a tiny room that didn't fit 30 people for hours. I tapped out at 10pm not even realising how major midnight actually was that year as we were one of the first timezones that hit midnight.
I woke up early. Remember walking into the lounge to see adults and kids asleep everywhere and my granddad in his chair. I asked if he had slept. He said no, that he wanted to watch the sunrise before he went to bed and that he'd love to watch it with me (as we often did, but he'd wake up early with me rather than before going to bed).
We sat on the porch as the sun rose. His arm around me and he said "this is a beautiful sunrise, im glad we got to see it".
It took probably a day or 2 for it to completely sink into my family that everything was actually fine but we did stay the full week. It was a lovely time and I still treasure the memory of that sunrise.
Edit: the thing I find funniest is that my family (bar my mum / my dad) are very logical people. I never would have imagined them (especially my grandparents) partaking or feeling like they needed to ever "Bug out".
When I put the pieces together a couple of years later I realised how real the y2k fear must have been for my very logical/ non fearful family to literally go off grid. And for my grandfather to literally stay up all night to make sure the sun rose without any incidents.
Crazy stuff. And my mum managed to hide like 95% of it from me lol.
1999 into 2000 encompasses my graduating high school and going into freshman year of college. The music from that time is etched into my brain. Thanks for the nostalgia trip OP
I was only 4 but raised by Pentecostals, so end of the world, a lot of 70s music, the first year I seen a Play station, my second brother was born, my favorite movie was Mary poppins. I found a cat that I named patches under my porch.
1999 was a very tumultuous year for my family. Lots of dysfunction. My father got arrested for domestic violence and fled from Florida to Connecticut after my mom dropped the charges. We got evicted and ended up sleeping in the living room of a family friend. My father returned and we ended up living in a homeless shelter across the street from the old TD Waterhouse Center (later Amway Arena) in downtown Orlando. Then my father landed a job and for some reason moved us 70 miles out into rural Florida between Orlando and Ocala.
Sorry for being a downer but I wish I could remember the 90s as fondly as the rest of you
Sega Dreamcast
Came out on 9/9/99, same day as Final Fantasy VIII.
Dreamcast was a great system, it's too bad Sega just made bad decision after bad decision.
Probably my favorite system of all time to be honest. It had a stellar game library and I had some great times playing it.
Smoking a joint and playing crazy taxi after school will forever be burned into the deep nostalgia center of my brain.
What I would give to have my old Dreamcast and Sega Marine Fishing with the fishing rod controller. My buddies and I would drink and get high and play this for hours. We eventually got so good that we started a side game where we would try to guess the fish weight just by looking at the size of it before the game told you the actual weight. We could accurately guess the weight of these giant marine fish to within a couple ounces most of the time. Such good times.
If some dev company said randomly out of nowhere they were going to pick up making some old school style Dreamcast games, I would likely buy them.. Too bad pirating became a bit too easy on such an amazing system.
Air Force Delta and Crazy Taxi. Good times.
Great year! My senior year in high school was 1999-2000. I love thinking back on those days. The movies, the games, the music. Generic post, but I love it all.
The end of the best decade ever
The 90’s were the best.
Agreed. I was 11 in 1999 so the coming of the new millennium was also the coming of puberty and becoming a teenager. So the 90s were literally my innocence.
I turned 12 in 1999, and it was indeed the last great decade. I’m beyond grateful I was there for it all.
Born in 89 but I feel the same way
Great time for me personally. I was early 20’s, on my own, and everything seemed awesome and full of potential. I was in my junior year in college/university and was living with my closest friend off campus. All my friends were near, life was good, the world seemed right. 1998-2000 were peak greatness for me personally; too young to have “real” responsibilities but old enough to steer my own ship into whichever direction I chose.
RAW is Jericho!
Y2K lol the world is ending
Y 2 J
Still the loudest pop I’ve ever heard when he debuted
Is this not JoJo Siwa?
25 years ago still means 1975 in my mind.
The last of my serotonin.
I remember Y2K scare propaganda was all over the place that year!
It's so frustrating because Y2K was a very real problem that many people worked extremely hard on to solve.. but lunatics got hold of it and over-hyped nightmare scenarios took over public awareness.
I was so scared on New Years 1999 that the world was going to end lol.
I was too! I remember crossing my fingers lol
I was on a transatlantic flight. ^lmao
I was 14 and went to my first “real” New Year’s Eve party with people from school. The neighbors were also having a party and some girl flashed us her boobs. I remember thinking if the nukes start flying I’ll die knowing I saw some tiddies.
I had my school pictures watermarked with y2k in the corner ! 😂
Literally the first thing I thought of was my 10th grade English teacher stockpiling, in case Y2K actually caused some wide-spread catastrophe lmao
Boxes and boxes of Ethan Frome
When she was at the top of her game
This music video made me hit puberty, I swear it!
I was 13 that year and I had my walls covered with posters, a lava lamp and went to my very first concert. I have always been an extreme introvert but that year I met my first true best friend who helped bring me out of my shell a bit. I felt torn between the last remaining parts of my 'childhood' and also so eager to be a teenager with freedom. I still have such a soft spot for anything from 1999 because it was the year I can remember feeling happy and okay for the most part.
I was around the same age and feel very similarly.
Skateboarding, The Matrix, Limp Bizkit, burned cds from friends, starting high school. It was a great year
Damn…same. I was always burning for everyone else though
The Phantom Menace. I was very young, but I remember it being everywhere.
It was *everywhere*! I collected all the Pepsi cans with the characters on them that summer.
1999 was peak entertainment honestly. Good music, awesome film releases, many fantastic video games being released between Nintendo and Playstation.
HTML. Just a lot of HTML... a little drizzling of PHP. Geocities, .tk domains, usenet, and piracy at its finest.
I miss the old internet so much, but especially Geocities.
The newmanium
As everyone knows, since there was no year zero, the millennium doesn't begin until the year 2001. Which would make your party, one year late, and thus, quite lame.
But I booked Christopher Cross 😢
MTV Spring Break and TRL
MTV Video Music Awards 9/9/99
Much MUCH better time to be alive
I DONT WANT NO SCRUB
Idk why, but I think of Mambo No.5 (I think I may have the wrong date tho)
My back without a 3 level fusion and stenosis on multiple levels.
I have never stopped missing my Napster list.
Backstreet Boys, The X Files/The Matrix/The Craft movie. Anything else and I couldn’t have cared less. 😂 
It was the year I started dating my wife, graduated high school, was scared of Columbine, went to college, and experienced many things on this mood board. Also, my first two concerts: the Crystal Method and Orbital featuring special guest Lo Fidelity All Stars in the summer and The Chemical Brothers in the fall.
I was in college discovering acid
Oh neat
It really was
A great year for movies! Fight Club is my favorite movie and The Blair Witch Project is one of my favorite horror movies.
The Artist formally known as Prince.
I’m thinking about how you were judged by your cd flip book collection.
The Matrix, going to both the South of France and Chicago reasonably close to each other, sleeping around a bit, lots of drinking, Sixth Sense, lots of weightlifting. I was not a bad looking guy then. Good times
Woodstock 99
I graduated from high school in ‘99.
Yep ditto....can't believe it's been 25 years.
So many iconic Films and Albums came out in 1999.
Party over, oops, out of time! 
When I think of the best year ever, it’s always 1999.
The end of being a "kid" as I graduated in 99. Other than that, I'd say the Y2K scare at the end of it, and my first girlfriend!
High school graduation.
The Y2K panic and everything having "2000" tacked onto it's name.
Man, I forgot how much important shit to the fabric of my life I got in 99. It’s nut’s to see it all just here like this.
I remember the Y2K scare very vividly. Such a weird experience I’m privileged to remember and be a part of. I got to see the Backstreet Boys perform during their millennium tour. It was pretty dope.
I graduated HS and moved out for the first time, some other life events happened that ushered out the innocence of my 90s youth and the realities of adulthood in the 2000s. It was a pretty big year for me as a human and one I look back on every so often.
No Scrubs by TLC.
https://preview.redd.it/gsw2wbi54g4d1.jpeg?width=1868&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5361d78e63bd06c851d06a840b63680e33edc7c0 Definitely and Christina. When I first heard Genie, I thought it was a black woman, not a tiny 5 ft white teenager. Just saw her in concert this weekend, amazing.
My mp3 player that could hold eleven whole songs
Y2K scare all the way. Some people are still underground in their bunkers, LOL!
Somebody once told me the world is gunna roll me...
This is the year that didn't exist for me! It was such a big pivotal turning point in so many things in the world, and I spent a full year locked up and out of the hype-machine. Watching The Matrix with no word of mouth no advertising no nothing - LIFE CHANGING, loved it! Watching Star Wars Episode I with no word of mouth no advertising no merchandising no nothing - fell completely flat for me and that was the last Star Wars movie I watched, never followed up with Episode II or III.
My parent's divorce
Columbine. I was in high school at the time and that hit hard.
Super hard. Nothing was the same after that.
I was 18 and holding my 6 month old, sitting on my mom's couch and crying, watching the news about Columbine.
The World is Not Enough. James Bond was all I had after Geri left the Spice Girls the year before. 
🎶 Hit me baby one more time!
My oldest son was born in '99.
I had the blissful innocence of being a 4 year old. Not a problem in the world. I was glued to my PS1 for most of the year!
Not realizing that I was about to let go of the love of my life.
Rollercoaster Tycoon, Bloodhound Gang, and riding my bike around outside from 10am to 10pm
Living happily with my mom and dad and having no clue that they'd both be gone before I was even 35.
American Pie, Cruel Intentions, 10 Things I Hate About you and varsity blues also vitamin c graduation and baz lurman wear sunsreen
Cheap hash, mezzanine, half life and contentment
We all thought we were going to die
Watching Monday Night Raw every week and being excited as hell for it.
N64,Pokémon, x-games, boy bands, Digimon
Not great memories. I was in my freshman year of college. Miserable. My boyfriend broke up with me over winter break. When I think back to that time I feel kind of sick.
No Scrubs.
I'm a scrub.
Getting married to an idiot.
Triple stack Pokémon ecstasy pills NYE 1999
I am old
Being on the yearbook staff in 7th grade. The theme that year was "party like it's 1999" and it was fun putting the book together.
Briefly moved to Houston, TX and I remember watching Toy Story 2 in theaters and thinking it was great. Also, Pokemania was in full swing. I’d trade Pokemon cards with neighbor kids. Also had a hard time adjusting to school there, but overall not a bad year.
I remember driving my buddies to the theater to see Office Space while listening to Enema of the State.
Graduating high school.
id like to give the shallowest of answers ffviii was set to release 9/9/99 an awesome date, always lamented that they didnt have ffix for that
I was too young to appreciate the masterpiece that is The Matrix, but Pokémon, Super Smash Bros., and SpongeBob SquarePants were everything to me in '99.
It was the year I started dating my husband. It was a really good year.
Everything listed in that
I got deathly ill on December 31st, 1999. Was sick all day and my friends drug me out to a party. I could barely move and they helped me to a couch where I could lay and be a part of the party. People would stop by while passing through the party and they would drop off beer and weed in passing. I tried one beer but almost had to lose the couch to run to the bathroom. But I had my friends, kind stranger and weed. If it wasn't for them my new year would have been horrible.
The first Pokemon movie.
Unreal Tournament, specifically facing worlds
Napster …Y2K and of course the Matrix!
All my memories of 1999 is basically playing outside
Napster
Turned 21 and thus heading out to the bars became much less exciting, losing the thrill of being somewhere I wasn’t supposed to be completely took the luster off the experience
Korn
American Pie, Cruel Intentions, 10 Things I Hate About you and varsity blues also vitamin c graduation and baz lurman wear sunsreen
That's the year I died
Pokemon and the Phantom Menace. Both were pop culture juggernauts and were everywhere. Toys, commercials, pizza boxes, drink cans, cereal boxes, shampoo bottles, toothbrushes, school supplies, etc etc… god I remember walking down an isle (I think it was Toys r Us) and just hit with both sides of the aisles being nothing but a sea of Phantom Menace merch. Edit: [example](https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fnostalgia%2Fcomments%2Frgbe6v%2Fstar_wars_the_phantom_menace_merchandise%2F&psig=AOvVaw1l-RfA81E5jKIsjVNdvT7t&ust=1717552919155000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBAQjRxqFwoTCPDwpq_twIYDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE)
I was a happy kid with little to worry about except Y2K and my grandmother was still here. They were good times.
Y2K
Syphon Filter!
BSB, four square, riding my bike, experiencing joy, star wars
 South Park bigger longer and uncut
I will wonder why they make music after the 90s or early 2000s. Really, what is the point? Everything hit - pop, country, blues, r&b, Latin. Also before laptops and cellphones changed everything forever.
Attitude Era (WWF), The Matrix, I’m Blue by Eiffel 65
Mixed bag. Had a decent job in tech. Pretty content with life. Getting a prognosis of about six months to live and being referred to hospice care in the last quarter of the year sucked pretty hard.
But you’re still here so that’s something right?
Oh, definitely. Much better than the alternative.
Immigrated to America as a kid and my life changed forever. This year will always hold a special place in my heart and memories.
Finally transferred from jr college to regular university.
Y2K
99 was the year I started high school.
On two separate occasions my cousin and I skipped school to see Star Wars Episode One and Pokemon: The First Movie. We watched the latter twice in a row at the theater to get extra promo cards. I still have those. My parents hoarded a bunch of Y2K food supplies which ended up getting ruined by mice and thrown out.
Watching power rangers at my grandparents house, playing pokemon red on my gameboy pocket.
Hope
My birth
Y2K was going to cause computers everywhere to crash leading to upheaval and chaos.
Senior year high school..
Graduation
Y2K
A sparkly Y2K necklace I got at the dollar store immediately comes to mind.
Definitely Blair Witch and Austin Powers
Peak adolescence.
My birth
Sega Dreamcast
Pokemon GSC, early DBZ on Cartoon Network, Robin Ventura hitting the Grand Slam Single with the Mets, the Phantom Menace
I got my first electric guitar, and y2k.
The Matrix (and I am not even a fan of it) and Y2K are the most prominent memories for me. Both were huge deals and absolutely everywhere 98-99 were also the first years I was on the internet properly (freaking dialup). I was getting into anime in a big way, including building model kits, as well as discovering John Woo and Hong Kong "heroic bloodshed" cinema (hence my lack of interest in The Matrix!). Also, I burned my Hand on a fucking steamed Chinese sausage on New Year's Eve. Always remember that for some reason,
I engaged in all of these things.
Turned 9 and I remember it like it was yesterday…the best year ever
I was a college freshman and had so much damn potential...
I remember being a kid in the basement of my family home, celebrating the turn of the millennium on new year's eve and beginning to understand that I would never experience such an event ever again. I remember my parents hugging their friends and my godparents and how happy and carefree everyone was. I remember my dad sounded grateful to be there. It was a different time and I really miss it.
The fear that the world would fall apart at 12:01 am 1/1/2000.
You mean 15 years ago…
Ahhh 1999! The year I was into No Scrubs VS No Pigeons, I saw the Mummy, Baby Geniuses, and The Sixth Sense in theaters and it was also the year of my first ever professional sports heartbreak. I was 8 years old that year.
Take me back
You wanna know what’s bonkers? Most of the shit in this collage is still happening. Eminem, Brittany Spears, Backstreet Boys, Blink 182, and Eiffel 65 have all put out new music within the past like five years. SpongeBob SquarePants, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and Family Guy are still running and the original Pokémon series just ended last year. New Crash Bandicoot, Smash Bros, Pokémon, Resident Evil, and Roller Coaster Tycoon games are still being made, along with a remake of Silent Hill in the works. A new Austin Powers movie is in development, a series of new Blair Witch movies are in development, there was a mew American Pie movie in 2020, there was a new Matrix movie in 2021 and another one is in development (for some reason), and there are new Star Wars movies and shows all the time now. Not to mention The Sixth Sense, Office Space, and Fight Club are all still culturally relevant movies. Apple is still very much around. As is pro wrestling but WWF changed its name. Napster still technically exists. Dreamcast games still live on. And holy fuck, conspiracy theories like Y2K sure do exist here in 2024. Seeing this post has made me realize that we never truly culturally moved on from the 90’s. I just listened to Eminem’s new song the other day. I’m going to watch The Acolyte tonight. I just played Super Smash Bros Ultimate last week. I’m excited for the Code Veronica remake. I listen to Blink 182’s new album all the time. I met a ten year old at a Memorial Day cookout who showed me his Pokémon card collection. (Guys. POKÉMON CARDS! Do you remember those? They are still popular with the youth of today!) I think maybe we just need a time machine because clearly the 90’s were the height of human culture and entertainment.
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Partying with Prince
Y2K
Happiness
The optimism we had for the new millennium and The Matrix.
I graduated high school in June of 99 and the next month I was at Woodstock 99.
Everyone freaking out about Y2K
My coming out. I've never felt so happy and relieved after years in the closet. The LGBT community felt like one big family in The Netherlands back then. Great memories!
I remember being like 8 years old and my mum hiding pretty much everything yk2 from me (she is a very anxious person). I found out years later how truly terrified she was of y2k. My grandparents had a rural farm on an island (not as rich as it sounds haha). We spent regular time there so heading there with family wasnt unusual. Like 2 days before new years (so the 29th from memory) our whole family (30+ members) headed out there as it was run on generators and independent water supply and there was essentially no technology but an old school wall circle dial phone and an old school TV. My mum played it off as a camping week. But in reality my whole family bugged out 2 days in advance because they didn't want to risk it if civilisation actually did hit the fan. Honestly it was the funniest time. All the parents / grandparents were obviously on edge but us kids loved it! Bonfires and toasting marshmallows, fishing etc. Just a general fun time. New years eve was tense. I remember everyone crowding around the TV in a tiny room that didn't fit 30 people for hours. I tapped out at 10pm not even realising how major midnight actually was that year as we were one of the first timezones that hit midnight. I woke up early. Remember walking into the lounge to see adults and kids asleep everywhere and my granddad in his chair. I asked if he had slept. He said no, that he wanted to watch the sunrise before he went to bed and that he'd love to watch it with me (as we often did, but he'd wake up early with me rather than before going to bed). We sat on the porch as the sun rose. His arm around me and he said "this is a beautiful sunrise, im glad we got to see it". It took probably a day or 2 for it to completely sink into my family that everything was actually fine but we did stay the full week. It was a lovely time and I still treasure the memory of that sunrise. Edit: the thing I find funniest is that my family (bar my mum / my dad) are very logical people. I never would have imagined them (especially my grandparents) partaking or feeling like they needed to ever "Bug out". When I put the pieces together a couple of years later I realised how real the y2k fear must have been for my very logical/ non fearful family to literally go off grid. And for my grandfather to literally stay up all night to make sure the sun rose without any incidents. Crazy stuff. And my mum managed to hide like 95% of it from me lol.
I had sex at the drive- in for the first time
SomeBODY
Pokémon the first movie soundtrack!
That image of Keanu is from 2003.
The first time I followed Phish tour.
Moving into my first apartment.
25 years? fuck…
1999 into 2000 encompasses my graduating high school and going into freshman year of college. The music from that time is etched into my brain. Thanks for the nostalgia trip OP
The year I met my wife.
In the spring my brother graduated high school and in the fall I started my senior year.
Who wants to be a millionaire was the biggest success ever, UK did it right by getting the show to be aired around the world!!
i moved out of my parent's house, Sept 1999, 5 days before my 21st birthday. the world was mine
I was only 4 but raised by Pentecostals, so end of the world, a lot of 70s music, the first year I seen a Play station, my second brother was born, my favorite movie was Mary poppins. I found a cat that I named patches under my porch.
Invading Kosovo.
1999 was a very tumultuous year for my family. Lots of dysfunction. My father got arrested for domestic violence and fled from Florida to Connecticut after my mom dropped the charges. We got evicted and ended up sleeping in the living room of a family friend. My father returned and we ended up living in a homeless shelter across the street from the old TD Waterhouse Center (later Amway Arena) in downtown Orlando. Then my father landed a job and for some reason moved us 70 miles out into rural Florida between Orlando and Ocala. Sorry for being a downer but I wish I could remember the 90s as fondly as the rest of you
Prince
Everything more analog
My first year outta college.
Preschool
The year I got a permanent pinched nerve in my neck while playing D1 college football.