What decade were you born in?

[Cory]

To discover some of the diversity on Administrata, I ask you this simple question, what decade were you born in? What are some of your fondest memories of that decade?

I was born in the 90s. I admired growing up around a caring, supportive family at the time. As a child, I would dig in the dirt or sandbox thinking I was a construction worker because I found construction vehicles excited me and made me want to be one. I also remember going to fun places like the city park, arcades, and theme parks. It was a simpler time.

 

[fdk]

I'm a 90s kid too (late 90s). I remember very, very little of the 90s itself, though.

My earliest real memories are from the very early 2000s, around 2001-2002. For example one of the first ever memories I have as a child is seeing an image of the Twin towers burning on a news report on TV. That's not a fond memory of course though, just one of my first. As for fond memories, the summer FIFA World Cup in 2006 was probably my fondest memory as a child, I remember our school was super cool about it and would let us watch the games and I think we watched every game or thereabouts of the World Cup that year. When we weren't watching football, we were playing it. I love memories like that!

 

[Cloaked]

50's. The German countryside. Cities still showed damage from WW2. The countryside was beautiful and so peaceful.

 

[Cedric]

I'm from '91. I like being among the first kids who had a PC. I remember the Playstation 1 coming out, and other consoles like N64. I liked being a kid and playing outside, something I rarely see nowdays.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I was born in 1990 so right at the beginning of the 90's! I was a Sega kid growing up and still a die hard Sonic fan but it really was special back in the day being a 4 year old watching Sonic run across the screen. Also seeing that switch from 2D to 3D games was really something! I also remember hanging outside and having to come home as soon as the streetlights came on.

 

[InMyOpinion]

I was an early 90's kid. Love the fact that I grew up before all of the technology and phones to be honest lol

 

[Matthew]

I was born in 94. Grew up playing N64 and Gameboy games. Had my mom's Atari as well. My PC used dial up interview and I played Zoo Tycoon almost religiously. I enjoyed burning CDs and watching MTV and VH1 music videos. The VH1 metal documentaries were great. Cribs and Pimp My Ride were a lot of fun to watch too

 

[Mace]

Born in '93. I remember everyone was worried about computers / data loss / etc. when we would go from '99 to '01, haha. Oh, and also, I remember my whole family being so worried for my aunt who was supposed to be at the WTC for a meeting on 9/11 '01, and no one could reach her that day... but she had missed her flight because she had forgotten her passport, so she wasn't there when it happened. Turned out she simply did not pick up her phone because she got on a different plane because of that and it was like an 11-hour flight.

Things I loved growing up:

• Playing outside - I had to return home when the street lights would turn on. Building hangouts, playing ball games, skating, etc.
• Playing games on my PlayStation 1, N64, Gameboy Color (Pokemon Blue was my first game) / GBA, GameCube, etc.
• Playing around on my computer (my dad gave me one really early, it was a Packard Bell PC). I'd play games on floppy disks, Rollercoaster Tycoon, RuneScape, etc. - and of course Mine Sweeper and Pinball haha.
• Later, Rayman 2 came out, and I absolutely loved that game (and to be fair, I think it looked great for that time)
• Being at home every Wednesday afternoon
• Summer break, of course!
• Making my own music CD's (and creating my own CD stickers/covers - which obviously were very ugly haha)
• Watching the first series of Pokemon
• Being able to go ice skating outside during winter (you really shouldn't even try nowadays ...)