Portlandia was spot on

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• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Summer, 1998. Where sweets were sold as sour syrups and had flavors like Radical Blue Razz.

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• Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I’m team “let the youth have their fun” but also 1998 was peak lunchables.

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• Maultasche@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Back when Pokémon was still in black and white

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  • bless@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Red and blue ;)

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  • __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Dark green and light green

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    • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      And you had to hold it juuuust right to get the ambient light to illuminate the screen because they weren’t backlit.

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was going to acid techno raves and getting completely mullered, and seeing some cracking sets at Ozzfest UK.

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  • djdarren@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ozzfest UK in ’98 was my first gig with bands anyone had heard of. Hell of a way to start.

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    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      My first Ozzfest was 2001. I was 13 years old. It was a lot of fun. I was there for SoaD, but left liking so many more bands.

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• mlatu@moist.catsweat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i mean.... to be fair......... when i visited my hometown in poland in 1998....... it really still looked very much like 1980 was still looming around the corner... it wasnt the 18th hundred but i loved it for its gritty "you want sweets? how about a nice refreshing glass of last summers compote from gramps allotment?". silly nostalgia of course but yeah...

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  • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What I remember most from 1998 were commercials for flavored sugar water where kids turned into metallic early-CGI goop and rocketed through the air toward a woman carrying a tray of pouches so they could get there faster to consume.

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    • jade52@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is also what I remember. Spot on.

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  • realitista@lemmus.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Having moved to Czechia in the '90s from the US, there was a pretty huge difference back then, especially in the countryside.

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    • Klear@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      40 years of corrupt authoritarian government does that.

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• Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean we still make marmelades and compots and such here.

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  • Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah I make all my own jams, and fruit spreads. More expensive than the walmart brand, but like half the cost of the brands that come anywhere close to the quality.

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean we use pur own fruit so they are quite cheap. You only really need to buy sugar then

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Portlandia clip referenced in the title

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  • Rato@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks for posting the reference, it was new to me.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Everyone knows the reference, no need to post it.

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    • f314@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I didn’t.

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    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have literally never heard of Portlandia before, no need to post saying no need to post

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    • djmikeale@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I didn’t know the reference

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    • lmuel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      No

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• pewpew@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Most of my childhood was in the early 2010s but for me it was like I was living in the 90s because I was always at my grandparent’s. They had all sorts of retro tech I played with as a kid. My first exposure to a PC was with a mid 80s PC clone running Windows 1.0. So it’s probably something like this

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• xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s the late 1900’s

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• TIEPilot@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can I put a bird on it?

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