Quote Originally Posted by wolf_Q
I was born in 1984, but I'd say I grew up in the 90's, I definitely remember all of this. It's weird to say I remember when the internet and personal computers first came out.
Oh my, I remember that too. I remember having an XT (I think that's what it was called). I used to play a game called Math Rabbit on that computer. There were no colors on the screen...just black and green.

Then, years later, we upgraded to a 286.
Then a 386.
Then a 486.
Finally, we got a Pentium, and we all know the upgrades that followed.

I also remember loading computer games from dos instead of windows. I don't even remember how to do that anymore! Maybe is was C:/Games/the games name.

We grew up with the development of computers in our lives. We remember the first time the internet entered our house. We remember the first time cell phones came into being...and we remember when Concords left the airline industry. Wow. Lots of things have happened in these past 17 years!

My parents tell me they remember the first time they got a microwave, and a telephone...and how they used to use telegrams before the days of telephones. Isn't it interesting how the world changes in such a short amount of time?

This thread really brought be back some memories. I was about 5 years old in 1990, so most of my childhood memories are from the 90s. I remember my beloved slap bracelet, how excited I used to get when we would play Oregon Trail at school. (I used to go to the library just to play Oregon Trail AFTER school)! I remember Pinky and the Brain, and so many other cartoons like, "Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers", "Alvin and the Chipmunks", "GummiBears", TaleSpin, DuckTales, etc. Reading Rainbow was something I could NOT miss. I remember Wild America. I remember the Rugrats. I remember the Magic School Bus, and Wish Bone. I remember the GigaPet craze. All of my friends had it. I didn't. I wanted a REAL pet.

I remember playing with SillyPutty. In fact, I think I still have mine somewhere. Polly Pockets were my passion, and I have saved every single one of them for my own children to play with in the future. I used to make those little paper fortune tellars all the time. Paper, Rock, Scissors was the game we'd always play when we were bored. Atari was SO much fun. I remember playing a Big Bird game on that. It sounds so silly now. I remember my Cabbage Patch Dolls. I also remember my Cabbage Patch coloring book. I used to color ALL the time!

Childhood was wonderful, and as a child, I never wanted to grow up. I wanted to grasp onto those times forever. As you grow up, you realize you can't grasp onto anything forever. Times come and go. Things come and go. People come and go. But memories remain, perhaps forever, and it is so wonderful to go back on the memory lane and remember the things we used to do as kids.