When I Was Your Age, Pluto Was a Planet

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That just about sums up the 90s, people. A lot has changed.

We watched...

• ABC Kids
• Captain Planet (hands up if you still remember the song!)
• Mr Squiggle
• Rage Top 50
• The Secret World of Alex Mack
• Round the Twist (Have you ever, ever felt like this? Have strange things happened, are you going round the twist?)
• Hey Hey It's Saturday!
• Saturday Disney (I remember getting up early, before Mum and Dad got up, to watch this)

We said...

• That's so funny, I forgot to laugh. (Witty, right?)
• Cross my heart, hope to die (stick a needle in my eye)
• A pinch and a punch for the first day of the month. No returns!
• Whoever smelt it, delt it
• Talk to the hand!
• It's the song that never ends, it goes on and on my friends, some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and they went on singing it forever just because...
• I know you are, you said you are, but what am I? (What a comeback. Or how about if someone called you a bitch, you'd say "a bitch is a female dog, dogs bark, bark grows on trees, trees are nature, nature is beautiful, so thank you for calling me beautiful")

We loved...

• Tamagotchi (I always wanted one)
• Pokemon (gotta catch 'em all!) - my brother and I used to collect the cards. And we owned the handbook.
• Tazos
• Lego
• Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars
• Barbie (I had 3)
• Furbies (never had one, but wanted one)
• Baby Born (always wanted one of these, too...)

Sports...

• Ian Thorpe
• Pat Rafter
• The Waugh Brothers
• Sydney Olympics
• Shane Warne (before he took drugs and cheated on his wife)
• Auskick (yep, I used to play!)

We read...

• Paul Jennings
• Goosebumps
• The Faraway Tree (Enid Blyton), The Fantastic Five
• Nancy Drew
• Babysitter's Club
• Magic School Bus

We listened to...

• Spice Girls
• Britney
• Backstreet Boys
• N'Sync
• Aqua
• S Club 7

School...

• Healthy Harold (ha ha, remember when the older kids used to tell you that Harold was actaully a puppet? And then he'd come out about it himself in yr 6.)
• No hat, no play
• Handball
• Jump Rope for Heart
• Heads down, thumbs up
• Scholastic Book Club
• The Neverending Story (our rainy day movie at school, they'd play it in the library)

Remember...

• before there were DVDs, there was VHS
• before there were CDs, there were cassettes
• before iPods, we listened to walkmans/discmans
• before there was MySpace and Facebook, everyone had hotmail
• before Limewire, there was Napster
• before computer games, there were board games (eg Monopoly Junior), and Game Boy
• before digital cameras, you had to get your photos developed
• before text messaging, we called each other on landlines
• before we got drunk at parties, we'd have fun at blue light discos
• "Paul Keating was some guy that ran the country and John Howard became the only PM you really ever knew because you were too young to care before that."
• "Service stations didn’t need space for 4 digits on their petrol prices signs."

Growing up in Australia in the 90s was rad. Who would have thought you'd miss the 90s so much?

x
Just a girl