18 Things We All Did In The '90s But Will Never Do AgainSkip To ContentHomepageSign InSearch BuzzFeedSearch BuzzFeedlol Badge Feedwin Badge Feedtrending Badge FeedCalifornia residents can opt out of "sales" of personal data.Do Not Sell My Personal Information 2022 BuzzFeed, Inc PressRSSPrivacyConsent PreferencesUser TermsAd ChoicesHelpContactSitemapPosted on 9 Nov 2018 18 Things We All Did In The 90s But Will Never Do Again It was a simpler time... by Hanifah RahmanBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestTwitterMailLink 1 Everyone had biceps of steel from winding down the car windows Santeri Viinamäki / Wikimedia Commons / Via commons.wikimedia.org 2 You probably wasted a lot of your time listening out for your favourite hits to come on the radio so you record the ultimate mix tape Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF Dude Bro Party Massacre III / Via giphy.com 3 And you d spend ages rehearsing the best voicemail message for your home phone Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF CBS / Via Netflix.com 4 Many hours of the 90s were spent trying to decipher the shapes in our Magic Eye books Abe Books 5 As was the extreme sport of trying to make it back in front of the TV before the ad break finished and your show came back on Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 20th Century Fox / Via giphy.com 6 You saved all your modern class projects on ~modern~ floppy disks Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF Great Big Story / YouTube / Via youtube.com 7 Your summer days most likely included drinking as much Sunny D as you could to work out just how much it would take to turn you yellow Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF Sunny Delight / Via giphy.com 8 And blowing into your games cartridges was basically a daily ritual Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF The Verge / YouTube / Via youtube.com 9 Kids today will never understand the pain of having to rewind an entire VHS tape with your eyes closed just to avoid spoilers Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF LordOfTheBoxes12 / ITV / Via youtube.com 10 Or having to spend your allowance paying Blockbuster fines imgur.com 11 You most likely spent many hours trying to salvage your favourite cassette after suffering a disaster like this Flickr: tratamesuavementee 12 But once you progressed onto CDs you probably took a while trying to find clothes with pockets that could actually fit your CD player in Herper / Via imgur.com 13 Most 90s kids lost many hours trying to figure out the exact rules of Minesweeper Posted byu/Willch4000 / Via reddit.com 14 When we weren t taking part in a serious Pokémon card exchange Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF IronSoul / Via aminoapps.com 15 Or hearing songs on the radio and then completely guessing the lyrics Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF Pleated Jeans / YouTube / Via youtube.com 16 Private conversations were pretty much non-existent — all your gossiping took place on the corded home phone which was probably in the living room Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF FOX / Via frinkiac.com 17 If you were lucky enough to have a phone you threw it around with reckless abandon never worrying about cracking the screen sdan87 / YouTube / Via youtube.com 18 And long gone are the days of looking up numbers in the giant phone book Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF GTE / Via youtube.com God I miss the 90s Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF PBS / Via giphy.com Share This ArticleFacebookPinterestTwitterMailLink