What do YOU remember about the 1990's?

Question

What do you remember about the 1990's? The bands, a certain event, the clothes, the crazy fads? ;)

Answer 1

I remember:

Margaret Thatcher stepping down as PM.
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
The attempted coup-d'etat in the former Soviet Union and how Boris Yeltsin resisted it with his public appearance on a tank.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
The final collapse of the U.S.S.R. and the formation of the Unified Team for the 1992 Olympics.
Gennifer Flowers.
The USA Dream Team at the 1992 Summer Olympic games.
Ross Perot's bid for the presidency, beginning with an appearance on Larry King Live.
The Clinton-Gore bus campaign tour immediately after the Democratic convention.
Clinton's victory in 1992.
The first attack on the World Trade Centre.
"Don't ask, don't tell."
Clinton's haircut on the tarmac at LAX.
The Branch Davidian standoff in Waco and its tragic end.
The near-total collapse of the Progressive Conservatives in Canada.
North American Free Trade Agreement.
The Maastrict Treaty, forming the EU.
The cancelation of the World Series and the NHL lockout.
Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" and the Republican taking of Congress.
The launch of UPN with Star Trek: Voyager.
The Oklahoma City bombing.
The Quebec sovereignty referendum and how it almost passed.
The start of Yahoo! and the World Wide Web.
Paula Jones.
The O.J. Simpson trial and acquital.
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and its impact on Jupiter.
Bob Dole's run for presidency.
The Centennial Park bombing during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Comet Hale-Bopp and its effect on Heaven's Gate.
Monica Lewinsky.
The embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
Tony Blair's Labour Party coming to power after 18 years.
"Ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Missile strikes in Baghdad while Congress debated impeachment. (Reference the movie Wag the Dog.)
The re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy in theatres.
Clinton's impeachment acquital.
Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota.
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
The conflict with Serbia over Kosovo.
The shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado.
The impending Y2K crisis.

Answer 2

Mainly, it will be the music that the decade produced. At the start of 1990, the airwaves were eminating predominantly hair-band and new pop. Somewhere along the way though, Nirvana was producing "Bleach" and "Nevermind". Once the tracks off those albums popularized, a new genre punched through. Grunge. Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam soon dominated rock stations, and hence forth music changed forever. Through the mid and late 90's, bands like Green Day, Weezer, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers rode in off of their Seattle forefathers coat-tails to extinuate the sound that the aforementioned bands produced. Aside from the music this brilliant era produced, there will be the last of the great sit-coms. Full House, Home Improvement, Seinfeld, and Friends all were in their hey day at some point in the 90's. They popularized before sit-coms were all sex, all the time, while still having the witty living room humor we have all come to know and love. Today's impostors are an embarrassment to the ones that came before them. So, I summarize that it was the great music and sit-coms that will forever be remembered from the 90's.

Answer 3

The millennium celebration at the end was ruined by the press.
Margaret Thatcher lost power and eventually the Labour crowd won over with the young Tony Blair.
The radiation from chernobly disaster was still afecting the UK.
People began to die of CJD.
Aids increase thoughout the 90's.
Mobile phones got steadily smaller.
Easyjet started up in 1998 and the low cost airlines began to become major airlines.
Diana died, I was not impressed by the hype.
Housing prices made a recovery in the 1990's after the crash.
The Gulf war was big and was the shortest war ever - 44 days.
Kuwait was 'freed'

Answer 4

I remember loads, East 17, Take That, Oasis v Blur, Pulp, Doc Martens, Dodgy Spice Girls Trainers, Stripy hair a la All Saints etc, Levi's ad music always getting to Number 1, Wet Wet Bloody Wet's eternity at number one, Noel's House Party, Right Said Fred, the return of Bootcut jeans, classic dance music, Eastenders still being a good programme, Gladiators, People wearing dummies as necklaces, The Crystal Maze, Boy's with floppy hair - especially Dieter Brummer from Home and Away, Heartbreak High - I could go on but I won't lol :)

Answer 5

1991 The Perisan Gulf War, burning oil fields.

1992 Rodney King, stone washed jeans

1993 Gruge Rock hitting the peak...

1994 World Cup comes to the USA, Kurt Cobain committing suicide

1995 ????

1996 OJ trial, Summer Olympics In Atl., Star Wars in Theatres

1997 Very Hot Summer, Princess Diana

1998 Internet Internet

1999 The Matrix, and Y2K worries.

Answer 6

I remember most of it! I turned 13 in 1990. The music, the tv shows...okay, the clothes were bad, but the rest was great! Movies: Forrest Gump, SIngles, Natural Born Killers, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance...TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, ER...Grunge, Punk and Rock: Nirvana, Green Day, Red Hot Chilli Peppers...the surge of Britpop: Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Spice Girls...boybands: NKOTB, Boyzone...

I also remember the Gulf War, the Fall of Soviet Union, my country joining EU AND winning the Ice Hockey WorldCupi n 1995, me moving first to SoCa, then to London...doing a lot of chemicals...herbs...brews...

Ah, those were the days...

Answer 7

I grew up in the 90's. I was born in 1984.
I remember when Desert Storm happened. They handed out trading cards at school with Soldiers on them.
Jelly Shoes
Snap Bracelets
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Macarena
Grunge Rock Became Big
Casette Tapes
Nick At Nite And TGIF on ABC
RollerBlades Were Popular

Answer 8

My so called life, Friends, 90210, Melrose place, the Rachel Cut, Plaid shirts, Grunge, Kurt Cobain, Radiohead, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Clueless, Dazed and Confused, Ethan Hawke, Reality Bites, Wynona Ryder, Titanic, Mini Backpacks, baggy jeans, Nike shirts, Princess Diana's Death, Snapple, Babydoll dresses, Maryjane shoes, Gap clothes, Doc martens, Mallrats, Clerks, Oklahoma City bombing, Bush, Clinton, Desert Storm, Spice girls, boy bands, Butthole surfers, lillith fair, Tori Amos, Alanis Morrisete's Jagged little pill, discman, Pretty woman, Schlindler's list, Jurassic park, furby, hooked on phonics, Stop the insanity, beanie babies, Sega!

Answer 9

grunge was the soundtrack to my 20's and it fit the events so well. On the 20th anniversary of Earth Day I went to an art fesival and the cops thought I was a hooker. I had big hopes and dreams, then reality descended. I grew up, kicking and screaming. If I had to go back to the 90's I'd do more drugs so I wouldn't remember them this well.

Answer 10

A certain event?
My memory of the 90s is full of events, but not those which are cited in the extension to your question.
I remember being asked by Lebanese asylum seekers why the UN fought to oust Saddam Hussein's regime from Kuwait, when they completely ignored the problems in the Lebanon.
I remember reading the interview with a Bosnian Muslim who had escaped from Srbrenica with three children. Her husband was missing and she had fled, on foot with her three young children. She was asked: 'But nothing happened to you, personally?' She answered, 'It was in the night when the men came. It brings shame on my family.' There was a note in the minutes, "Asylum seeker looks hopefully in the eyes of the interviewer." She was unable to give more details, but as her legal advisor, I succeeded in gaining asylum for her and her children.
Experiencing the atmosphere of continuous fear amongst non-violent Turkish Kurds in eastern Turkey.
Telling an 18 year old Kosovo Albanian to go into hiding, because it was clear that NATO would start action very soon.
He went into hiding for just three weeks. Then all hell broke loose and there was a deportation stop.
But the hardest thing was on 31st December 1999. We were with a Turkish Kurdish family whose 6 year old son had died in the first week of December. The mourning father was un-shaven, because that is their custom. About 11.00 p.m. I said to him, 'Don't mis-understand me, I know it's your culture, but your wife is pregnant, we're going into a new millenium, you have to look to the future. Couldn't you shave?' And he did.
I was humbled. It still brings tears to my eyes.