Honestly it would’ve been cool to be born in 1990, I’d have a 90s childhood and be a teenager in the early 2000s and now I’d be an adult! And I probably wouldn’t be on Tumblr! But also being able to experience the early internet in all it’s glory would be cool too, I vaguely remember the MySpace era but I was a little kid then.

Being born in 92 let me tell you I was at the forefront of social media shit. Facebook came about in my first year of high school.

The early internet was absolute chaos.

See, that’s the appeal, everything’s so sterile and based around marketing now, it’s boring. What happened to dumb flash animated glittery bullshit?

Candystand.com was a 4th graders paradise

@the-mighty-birdy if you want to experience the early internet in all its glory you would have had to be born in the 80’s

Dial up was something to marvelled at

I caught the tail end of it. My first computer memory is dial up

You had to download online games like ragnarok online in 15 megabyte chunks, then extract them all into the same folder.

Search engines weren't as developed as they are today, so a lot of web exploration was based on "web rings"; links on a website that led to related websites. A lot of exploration was also literally based on manually typing URLs into the address bar.

It’s Official!

We’re making THE JUNGLE MOVIE and we’ve got a cast that includes NINETEEN returning voice actors. Read more at The AV Club!

A lot of returning voice actors?

Looks like things are off to a great start.

The weekend comes I’m down with that Grab your ball, grab your bat Head to the beach, grab some rays Better hurry up just got two days!

By: eclosion

I love these kids that think a bunch of aliens committing a vague and non-graphic form of suicide is entirely groundbreaking, and going against some serious taboos for an animated program that is popular with children.

Meanwhile, back in the 90’s, Mrs. Bighead was frappé’d in a blender (I believe this is also in the episode where she is flagrantly trying to seduce Rocko), Ren and Stimpy had various limbs and/or facial components literally ripped off of, or gruesomely sliding off of their bodies (as well as on other people, such as Wilber Cobb), Linka’s cousin OD’d on drugs, was found in a pool of his own blood, and died right in front of her in an episode of Captain Planet, the Animaniacs literally made a joke about fingering The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, and Ren, Stimpy, and a couple of dimwitted cowboys sing a happy song about executing people via hanging.

Mighty Mouse snorted a handful of cocaine (which ended up getting that show cancelled), and Rocko accidentally grabbed a bear’s balls while picking berries in the woods,

(oh, and let’s not forget the time he worked as a phone sex operator).  In the episode “Sven Hoek”, after delivering one of the most chilling moments in animated history directed at Stimpy and Sven, Ren pisses on an electrified board game (complete with piss-hitting-cardboard sound effect, and the unzipping in the crotch area) and gets sent to hell, and apparently, none of these people have ever heard of Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men: The Animated Series, or Disney’s own Gargoyles, in which there were many incredibly dark and violent moments - such as a woman accidentally getting shot.

^ Disney show.

This is only a tiny sampling.  Cartoons have been pushing the limit for decades (anyone else aware of the fact that the entire premise of Cow and Chicken is that the Devil is trying to tempt the siblings to commit evil in order to drag their souls to hell?  It’s in the pilot.  Red explicitly refers to himself as “The Devil”.). 

Seriously, you can stop freaking out over incredibly inane things, because chances are, cartoons from the past have already shown much worse.

#tgif

People these days don’t even realize that back in the 80′s-early 90′s, there were cartoons for fucking everything.  Design created for a line of surfer/skater shirts?  See above.

I wondered when I’d see something about this show. I think I got a vhs that had two episodes of this and possibly another cartoon.

I still have a hard time understanding how people can sing lyrics of voice act for something like a cartoon without dying of embarrassment.

I’m rewatching Johnny Bravo

All Grown Up/Isiah Stephens I

Trying to cure crappy sleep schedule with MORPHING TIME! (I hope the movie won’t be terrible.)

Photoshop.

Fuck yea

There was a movie? I only remember the tv show.

mmm yea that’s a good whiff of 2008

this is scary

Am I the only one who prefers THIS interface over the new one?

i would to anything to have this back

I didn't realize how much I missed the old YouTube interface.

This is not “cool.”

This is sad.

In fact, it’s more than just sad… It’s pathetic.

Between the MLP crap, the Disney Princess garbage, the never ending 90’s nostalgia, the barbie collections, and the weird obsession with Harry Potter (basically a kids book), this sort of thing is causing the “peter pan complex” that is so epidemic in my generation, and it’s created the entire hipster movement as well:

Encouraging people from the age of 20 or so up into their mid 30’s to spend time and money reminiscing about their childhoods out of the sunlight and off of the streets, holed away in a dark living room or bedroom watching something stupid like Disney’s The Fox and the Hound or playing Zelda.

Yes, it’s nice to remember what life was like back when we were kids, but for crying out loud… you’re not kids anymore. And when I see shit like this being glorified on tumblr or anywhere else, I cringe at the thought of these infantile man-children and women-children who never grew up, and how they’re going to be running the planet in short order.

I grew up largely without video games (my choice), and mostly played with action figures. However, even now as an adult, I would never adorn my fucking living room or bedroom shelves with old collectable toys (let alone make an entire room devoted to such a thing). They were for playing with, and then they were for the donation box for someone else to enjoy once I grew up. So yeah, this room full of various consoles and every retro old video game known to man? Pathetic. And so is anyone who says, “to each their own.”

TL;RD version

First off, anybody who claims that someone is a child because of their interests is a child in themselves. If you think that what makes you an adult is liking a certain thing and disliking other things, it appears that you have failed to grow up and stayed in the middle school stage where it was “cool” to say that others were little kids for watching cartoons. Grow the fuck up. A real adult doesn’t give a shit what others think about his or her interests. You have obviously failed to grow up. Now, let’s talk about your inability to see.

If you were to actually pay attention as to what’s in this picture, you would see that it’s not just 90s stuff. I can see an SNES, but I can also see a GameCube and a PS2 (both of which were released post-2000). This isn’t somebody’s reminiscence chamber — this is someone’s collection. Somebody had a hobby that they loved and they had the means to create this. There is somebody out there who absolutely adores something, doesn’t give a flying fuck what people like you think, and decided to make this dream a reality. They feel a sense of accomplishment that you never will, and you judging them won’t affect them in the least. You know why? Because you’re still a child worrying about what others might think about you (“oh no! What if they think that I’m littler than them!”), whereas this person here realized that what matters is what makes them happy.

I’m not the biggest fan of video games, but I see this and I see a human being that managed to accomplish something. I won’t be able to appreciate it as much as he/she can, but I can definitely say that the pride this person feels is well deserved.

As for you, you’re pathetic. You never grew up. You probably live your life in fear of what others think about you. You subscribe to some “norm” that was set by nobody in particular. You still live life thinking that there are some sharp lines that need adherence. You’re the child. Only children worry about what others think about what they like. I still remember middle school — kids telling others that they were little because they liked thing X or thing Y. Grow up, man-child. Middle school’s over.

Heres some things that will make you miss your child-hood!

Pictures courtesy of : http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/things-that-look-just-like-childhood

1. THE HARDEST GAME YOU WILL EVER PLAY.

2. THE ORIGINAL TEXT MESSAGE

3. THESE BAD BOYS

4. THIS WAITING SCREEN

5. TALKING APPLIANCES (y)

6. SPINNING/FLYING DOLLS

7. BLOW UP FURNITURE

8. ACTUAL GOOD CEREAL PRIZES

9. THIS TRIO

10. THESE COLLECTIBLE PLATES

11. CRAZY CHOKERS

12. HIT CLIPS! (Y)

13. ORANGE TAPES

14. ROBO DOGS

Omg.

Fuck yeah.

I've been meaning to do a rewatch of those movies for a few years. I'll try to get around to it this christmas break.

Marie Antoinette and her little sister

I get it

I finally get the joke

I don’t get it…..

They both lost their heads. 

OH GOD

You know, only NOW do I get everything that’s going on in this scene. He’s pretending to be drunk, Darjeeling is a type of tea, and Marie Antoinette got her head chopped off. Amazing how 18 years of hindsight makes you appreciate things more.

Then you get some people who think nostalgia is all about trying to relive your childhood.

For me, at least, rewatching old shows I saw as a kid has been a really interesting experience because the take-away was completely different than when I first saw it.

I first saw Neon Genesis Evangelion when I was around 14. I'm a bit nervous about watching it again. Gundam Wing was a great show to rewatch, because the action scenes and main heroes really aren't all that important to the plot.