25 Things '90s Kids Could Do That Today's Kids Can't 

you forgot the sound that brings all 90s kids together...the sound of getting onto the internet!

Favorite memory from back then was coming home Friday night sleepover with friends. Some pizza ordered, a movie rented from blockbuster, and end the night with friends and brothers playing N64. Those were the days

The 90s were so simple and fun. I grew up in the 90s. A era that has been hard to replicate. Early 2000s was close second. This was a major nostalgic video for sure

I was already an adult in the 90s but I still think it was the best decade. I really loved the 90s and achieved a lot too.

My most favorite films from the 90's: - Home Alone - Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - The Lion King The 90's was a truly amazing decade when it comes to films, games, music, and TV programs.😊

70s, 80s, and 90s were simply the best!

The 90's cartoons were outstanding! From Animaniacs to Courage the Cowardly dog to Dexter's lab just to name a few. It introduced Mark Hammel's iconic Joker!!! SOUTH PARK

You are the absolute face of list 25. No one could do it better.

I miss my easy bake oven! We didn’t come inside until the lights came on at night! I was born in 1985 and I loved all of these! Thanks for the nostalgia flashback!

I remember candy cigarettes. I haven’t seen those around in years. I actually used to watch brain surge on Nickelodeon. It was one of my favorite shows.

As a kid of the 90’s and having seen Nirvana, Pearl Jam, STP and Temple of the Dog live I’ll admit it truly was an amazing time. Sucks so many ended up dead. RIP Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Chris Cornell and Scott Wyland, Andrew Wood!

Don’t forget watching eyewitness in class too! The moment that TV cart came in the room, you knew it was going to be a good day! 😂 and the book fair! Damn, I miss the 90s!! It truly was the best time to grow up!! 80s made me and the 90s raised me!!!

Out all the things I loved about the 90s, BlockBuster is the one I absolutely miss the most. Going to BlockBuster every Friday to rent some movies and video games plus grabbing some popcorn, candy & soda was the highlight of my weekends and an experience that streaming cannot replicate today imho.

The 90s "It" will always hold a place in my heart

Figure It Out was my life!!! I miss the 90's so much! Playing in the neighborhood until the street lights came on- they were code for "Get your butt home!"

You forgot the furbies acted possessed especially in groups or low batteries and would turn on at random times on a closet shelf months after being put away.

I had a Dukes of Hazzard peddle car as a kid. I bought my son the mustang power wheels in 2008. Time flys. Glad Mike is back.

I'm blessed enough to have enjoyed 100% of the things on this list. What a blast from the past, thanks Mike!

10:39 I, too, have all of the Goosebumps books! I have some of the special edition books, too! Good looks for this pick, #List25 !

I was a 20 something in the 90s, and it was great time to be alive. I liked it better than the 80s, and I remember the grunge movement very well.

Oh how I miss the 90s so much. Those were the best times ever!! I would give anything to go back to those times.

Thank you for the dose of nostalgia this morning Mike and co.

One of my favorite memories of the 90’s Waiting till midnight on Saturdays to watch Headbangers ball on mtv and getting your VHS tape ready so you can push record on all your favorite videos so you could have a mix vhs tape of all the best music videos to play after school or when your friends came over!

I turned 21 in 1991, I stopped drinking in 1993. Lol.

LISA FRAAANK! LMAO!! OMG! I can't stop laughing. I loved her.

Me? A child of the 70's. We also passed notes in class. We could spend an entire Saturday morning watching cartoons on one of the three only television networks that existed at the time. We could listen to our favorite tunes on vinyl, on cassette or 8 track. For a quick minute we could watch a movie on a video disc. An afternoon of fun didn't cost a small fortune. When I was a kid admission was free at the San Diego Zoo was free for kids under 16. Most movie theaters had a double feature on the bill. Many neighborhood parks offered free summer activities. Good times, good times! I must admit that 90's kids did have it pretty good. I have one child who was a 90's kid. He was definitely a fan of the Goosebumps series.

Still had a chance to see 8 track in vehicles before compact disc made into every ride. Cigarette machines, ash trays made into the back of car seats, Oldsmobiles, Pogs, Nokia phones with snake, a whole different world away now.

Sailormoon was pretty big in the 90s. I remembered always waiting every Sunday morning just to watch the anime even though I read the comics more than watching tv. I used to collect sailormoon cards and stickers and still remember the smell of the candies they came with.

Who says you can't still pass notes in class?? Modern teachers might not be on the lookout for it! 🙂

Started a physical journal as a teen in the 80's and I've been writing on and off in them every since.

Lisa frank was life

I was a kid in the 90s and enjoyed 90% of the things on this list. IDK if I have a favorite memory since I was 7 by 2000 but I do know the clothes and jackets we wore was a style that when looking back I'm like "what did my parents dress me in?" 😂 yet when I see the blue white and purple jackets it instantly takes me back to being a kid.

Thank you Mike!! First welcome back you look amazing!!!! And two...thank you for reminding me about growing up during that time watching Hey Arnold with my lil kids...so keep up the great work!!

This was fun, thanks for the trip down memory lane I was a teenager in the 90's and it is probably my favorite decade. Loved my see through landline phone. I loved going to the mall with my friends and spending hours there and then calling my mom collect and saying as fast as we could "Can you get us?" And hanging up so she wouldn't be charged.

I grew up in the '80s and 90's and started having kids in the 2000s, as my kids grew up I made sure they got to experience a lot of the same things I did as a kid. We still to this day have a VCR and VHS tapes that we watch, a tape deck and cassettes we listen to, burnt CDs for car rides, and my girls played with Polly Pocket. My kids watch Bill Nye to help with science homework. This video was a blast from the past, I loved it.

Mike, for someone who doesn't like horror movies, you owning the GOOSEBUMPS books way back when is funnily ironic.

I was in my 20’s something during the 1990’s. I still have lots of VHS tapes, CDS, only a few tape cassettes, Super NES, and even Sega Genesis. I was more into 1980’s when I was a kid. Even part of 1970’s. I was born in late July 1970. I remembered playing 8-track tapes when I was little and even record players,too. I did a lot of stuff from the 70’s and the 80’s.

I still keep a paper journal and write first/second drafts and do any creative writing with a pen and paper (though any coursework is typed when I hand it in). I just *love* stationary! The smell of the paper, the wonderful feeling of writing that first letter in a fresh notebook, the joy of finding a quirky stationary set or a beautiful cloth bound notebook. I can browse stationary and book shops for hours while spending my rent money! And now that I'm starting my degree soon I have an excuse to buy even more stationary! 😁🤓 I also had all of the original Goosebumps books which I passed down to my cousins who later passed them on... like a family heirloom 😂

We need to bring back technology and trends of the 1990s. Everything today is SO complicated, digital, and technological.

I currently have a collection of about 400 VHS tapes, plus 100s of Cassette Tapes, Vinyls and CDs 👌

Carson Daly has been and still is hosting The Voice on NBC since it started. I think he also comes on Today morning show a lot too

I always look forward to List 25 new uploads, keep up the great work. *Can't stop at just one, now you must do all the decades... maybe start with “when baby boomers; gen x, y & z’ers; etc were kids”

Actually going "trick or treating" was another thing I miss. You have to go to some event or hike miles nowadays to get any candy. Its been a totally different experience for my own kids. I think I miss almost everything about the 80s and 90s though.

Animorphs has to get an honorable mention on this. I loved those books

As a child of the sixties, we rarely passed notes, but we did whisper stuff to each other, because our desks were closer together. The only things we did throw was someone's stuff if we were teasing them or inkballs, that paper balls dipped in ink from an ink cartridge, bottle or ink well, or crisp ( potato chip ) packet water bombs out of windows. 😁 Candy cigarettes and candy necklaces go way back to at least the sixties, I ate them then. You can still buy candy necklaces in the UK. I've still got a see through mini scanning radio from the nineties.

Carson Daly is the host on The Voice, but that is all I know about what he is doing now. I miss watching music videos on MTV....This generation just don't know what they are missing. I was born in 81 & my favorite show on Nickelodeon was "You Can't Do That on Television" but I believe it was in the 80's & ended in 1990.

So glad your back doing the list25, stopped watching when you left cuz it wasn't the same. This was a really great list, I remember the 90's and this video made me tear up a little. It was a great time in life.

I was truly a 90s kid and most of this stuff on this list. Watching Saturday Morning Cartoons should have been on here also. I remember doing all that, especially running around the neighborhood with no supervision. The 90s were an amazing time to be a kid.

Since I was born in 1979. So I got a feel for the 80s as a child but most definitely the 90s left a mark in my life as a preteen and teenager. All my 10's were in the 90s pretty much 😂😂😂 I see the 90s like the 60s. There was so much going on in music, pop culture, politics and just changed the world in general to what we still live today. And that in a nutshell is what the 60s did for that generation and we got a taste of that in the 90s. Definitely a decade of seeing a lot of things for the last time and some for the first time.

i was born after the 90's but still grew up with these stuff, I miss ittttt but great vid, keep it up :)

Sorry Mike by the time you got to singing the Bill Nye theme song I had already done it in my head🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It's always something said that it was simpler times in decades that passed. I just come here to watch history. I was born in 1992 and I can remember a few of these. So there was a lot of stuff in the 1990s then. The internet got popular, and went from taking several minutes to connect to being more accessible. I am the generation of watching movies on the VHS in my childhood and now I don't even watch movies on the DVD anymore. It's great to see the Internet and apps these days give us access to any music instantly. It's great to have WiFi today. I can really remember Bill Nye.

Best note ever. Should we tell our parents? They will probably take it away not to mention hate us..... Honey it's a kitten, we will be fine

I Still have my collection of VHS and still watch them too. LOL

And I’m now away to Google to look for a Digimon Tamagotchi

Great Furby impression, Mike! 😁

was a teen in the 70's (Yikes) but I remember my son went from beepers to a cell phone pretty quickly. He was 12 years old! He loved Bill Nye. He's 37 now. I hope he catches this video. He lives in Tampa😄! Another good one, Mike✌️

We late ‘60s, early ‘70s kids had notebooks and paper tablets with rainbows, and butterflies, sort of a prelude to the Lisa Frank style. And Osmond and Partridge Family faces. Whenever a girl swung her locker door open, there was a pic of Donny, or David Cassidy, or Bobby Sherman. OMG, now I’M getting nostalgic!

I was barely around in the 90's, but I remember a lot of this stuff from the 2000's. :)

Fond memories of the "simpler" past times (years, or epochs). As a child or the 1960's, as a surviving baby boomer, the one most important new and memorible of "new" intertainment devices was the transistor, small portable radio. Prior to then, people had non-portable, tube/plug into the wall only radios. But the transistor radio allowed to take music with us, AND, special events, like the baseball world series games, we could access between classes on school days. (usually no radios were allowed during classroom-times). Also, many of us boomers gained more from our teenage experiences, that we could use in the adult world, from the simple fact that most of us were REQUIRED to pay attention in classrooms, and learn, or else "get into" trouble for not behaving well enough. If this sounds "restrictive" or repressed, and it was, so why didn't this repression cause problems? Because it gave us a sense of what the limits in life were, especially "gettin' rich". The make more wealth ideals of the 1980's was just a load of hype and hustle, and this failed. And that failure was unavoidable, but a much higher percentage of people, us AND our parents were aware of what was going on. We had a much more disciplined manner (some of us) of reviewing current news and events, and most of this was due to having confidence in our knowledge and understandings. A good educational background was the main key element, along with freedom of speech and of the press/media news stories. Now, this isn't about most of the boomers being smarter or better, we were just who we were, when we were. Thanks Mike, good to see you back and presenting your fine video programs. Go RU-vid! Go git 'em! 🤗

Dude! Carson Daily is the host on The Voice! Original host, and they’re on Season 22! He and Blake Shelton are the only two originals left… PLUS he is Catholic, and got ordained so he could officiate Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani’s wedding on July 3, 2021! 😁

I'm happy that my kids like to pop in one of many VHS tapes once and awhile. They like to kick it ol Skool sometimes. They play NES, watch DVDS and listen to CDS as well.

I took a see through landline phone to college in 2008. Everybody who saw it LOVED it!

I'm generation x but I still had fun in the 90's. Lol, my Mom was obsessed with Furbies😂

I was a pre-teen/teen in the 90's and I remember all this stuff vividly, Fun Fact: I still have my Blockbuster Video card.

I JUST saw a Polly pocket the other day at Target with my niece. I even said, “I can’t believe that’s still a thing” my niece got mad at me for being OLD

I miss the 80s and 90s,

I was a child of the 70's!🤣

Hey Mike I’m half 80s and 90s kid we are witness of impressive inventions we watch how the internet came to be and how technology evolve

Great video! Missed you, Mike! So glad you're back! ❤️

You forgot the Dread of someone finding your journal and reading it.

As a Noughties kid...I must admit, I never heard of the Grunge until recently, so I wondered wondered about it, thanks for posting

Oh the memories of watching all the shows on TGIF. Thank God Its Friday !!! Once I sat down on the couch me not moving until it done. Legend of the Hidden temple was a great show on Nickelodeon as you actually learn how to work as a team as well as history

80's and 90's was definitely a different time kids today really won't get to experience....kind of sad. But amazing how they can ask their phones anything and get an immediate answer to Any curious questions they have. For us, it was either a process to find out or we'd just shrug our shoulders and speculate.

WOW.. Thanks for the nostalgia. The 90s... The decade in which i rode my bike as kid for the last time, and also the decade I got married and had kids, man TGIF, hanging out unsupervised, u had TRL but we watched rap City.. The CD/DVD case..🤣🤣 my wife and I had separate ones. The first time I seen a translucent phone was the first time I was in my soon to be wife's bedroom.

Great countdown on memory lane !!

While reading a film reference book, I discovered that some fifties films, were remakes of thirties films, so a Hollywood obsession with remakes is nothing new.

Just last week I was raving about how awesome colored plastic devices were. I want!

I still play my game boy.

Gotta throw a nod to Gen X here too! 😉

Ok Mike! I love your videos! And I have to say that being a child in the 70s & my teen years where the 80s… but we had candy necklaces, pixie styx and we had the candy cigarettes way back when… but our candy cigarettes had the red little tips. My daughter who was born in the mid 90s never saw them with the red tips. But I do love watching your videos! Please keep them coming!!!

Oh by the way Mike if you're curious Carson Daly is currently the host of the voice and has been since the show started but I'm not sure what he's doing outside of that

I grew up during the '70s and '80s and I had a diary with a lock my brother's kept reading lol so my senior year I learned how to write Gregg style shorthand like they use in offices at the time... I drove my brother's crazy because they couldn't read it

my sister still has her gameboy to this day. and yes it still works. i believe she has a Kirby game for it

I had some custom away messages in the early 2000s, not the '90s. Mine was, "Can't talk right now, I have homework or am writing a fanfic. If it's an emergency, call 911."

Every decade had it's own uniqueness about it but I still say the 80s we're the best!!🎉🎉

In the UK our game shows were Get Your Own Back, 50/50 and Funhouse. Some of the things on this list must had been US specific because I don't remember them in the UK.

Pixie Sticks and Candy Necklaces came out in the 1950's and Candy Cigarettes date back to the 1930's. All of them are still available today. Candy Cigarettes are harder to find but they are still available in some Candy Stores. They also come in a smaller size as "Candy Sticks" in boxes with cartoons. Thank You, Dollar Tree for childhood candy.

My fondest 90s memories - Friday night. You ask your mom if your friend can sleep over. She says yes and takes you to Blockbuster to rent some movies and maybe a PS1 game. Dinner rolls around and you get pizza, Bagel Bites, or Hot Pockets. Saturday morning you and your friend take your bikes and you are gone for hours before anyone starts asking questions.

Renting movies and games for a week was awesome. It actually helped to see if they were good to buy or not.

Early 2000’s kid here and I still remember most of this stuff lol

I’m a 70’s kid, (boomer), but these lists are fun to watch.👍🙌🇺🇸

My best memory was spending time with loved ones. I miss them so much! Some of them passed away, sadly. One was due to covid, the other was due to a stroke. Hopefully they're having a good time in heaven. At least they don't have to suffer physically anymore. Hopefully they can find inner peace, comfort, and happiness. The 90's were better times, that's for sure.

I just saw Polly Pocket toys at Target lol. They're definitely still around. Sure, they look different than they did in the 90's, but they still exist.

Travel pillows were pricey- no one was going to buy one for a kid - real pillows were too bulky in a packed car; what's an 80's/ 90's kid to do on a long road-trip? Well, if you were my family, you'd rinse out your step-dad's empty goon bags (translation: the bladders inside of boxed wine)- & then blow them up manually. That was how we reused/ recycled in Australia...

I had a 2 300 cd/dvd cases both full, one for music, one for movies. It took me almost 4 months to put all of them on a 8tb media drive, whew.

Never heard of Polly pocket. Golly Gee, I must have slept through the 90s. I remember Blockbuster, Beany Babies, and getting regular AOL, but not much more.

Technically you can still pass notes and have a physical journal. ...and although you can have VHS tapes, cassette tapes, and CDs, they are definitely not seen as much. ...so many remakes. I own the Parent Trap, the sequel and the remake. ...I recently found an unopened AOL disk. ...also my profile asked what computer I had...so I said that I didn't have one, I accessed the internet using an old shoe.

good times I had as a 90s kid

The 90s was the birth of my favorite games like Resident Evil and Tomb Raider. I loved older video games than the games we have now.