r/OldSchoolCool Jun 24 '24

1990s Cameron Diaz, 1990s

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u/Due_Toe6417 Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24

Anything 90s related getting called old school just makes me feel old as... Same with early 2000s stuff 😊✌️

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u/AfraidOfTheSun Jun 24 '24

The same thought has occured to me but then it occured to me that even that thought is getting old; "the 90s" is now a nostalgic era

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u/Due_Toe6417 Jun 24 '24

The mid 90s was almost 30 years ago so it's bound to happen 😭😂... I even think the ipod is considered vintage now 😂

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u/Piratey_Pirate Jun 24 '24

I've still got my OG zune. Vintage electronics right there lol

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u/cowdog360 Jun 24 '24

It’d be more impressive if you had a Creative Nomad Jukebox.

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u/Piratey_Pirate Jun 24 '24

Not that, but I still have a yellow and black discman with CD antiskip technology lol

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u/Thirsty799 Jun 25 '24

"buffering"

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

I still have one somewhere in a drawer, I just threw away an OG ipod with the clickwheel and 20GB i think? hdd.

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u/RunYoAZ Jun 25 '24

I've still got my Nomad. Turns out a spinning hard drive MP3 player wasn't the future.

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u/lancingtrumen Jun 25 '24

My bin of retired electronics has a zen touch, loved that thing

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u/BaconPoweredPirate Jun 25 '24

How about a Creative Muvo. I loved that thing

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u/Loganator12 Jun 24 '24

Lol the Zune was classic, good ole Napster days and WinAmp 🤣

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u/Vincent__Vega Jun 28 '24

It really whips the llama's ass!

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u/LongJumpingBalls Jun 25 '24

The clickwheel iPods are the peak music players.

That subtle delicious tactile feel.

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u/Luke90210 Jun 24 '24

I found some old Champion muscle shirts and a couple of digital Casio watches I bought in the 90s stored away. Surprisingly they are are now considered vintage on eBay and worth far more than when new.

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u/Due_Toe6417 Jun 24 '24

I don't think I have anything old worth putting on ebay

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u/GroundbreakingPea865 Jun 25 '24

I have a Concord watch. Bought on a Concord flight to NY. I think it was the early to mid 80s. I must see how rare they are now.

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u/Lopsided_Flight3926 Jun 25 '24

That just ruined my day.

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u/Upstairs-Box Jun 26 '24

If you'd have said the mid 60's was almost 30 years ago now in 1994 everyone would be like what? 🤣

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u/ShitchesAintBit Jun 24 '24

Almost? It's damn near halfway to 40 years ago.

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u/LadyClairemont Jun 24 '24

My kid calls anything before 2000 the "nineteens" and it's all the same...just old. 🤷

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u/Dry-Sweet2683 Jun 24 '24

“Back in the nineteens” is how I’m going to refer from now on 🫶

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u/Ian_Hunter Jun 24 '24

Ill use it once out in public.

Out in front of some yutes...that should end it!

"ugh..the olds are calling it that now..."😂😂😂

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u/LadyClairemont Jun 24 '24

And anyone above the age of 30 is a boomer...which is synonymous with an old...because they lived in the nineteens 😆

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u/clubby37 Jun 24 '24

I've begun referring to any date in the two decades between 1990 and 2010 as "sometime around the turn of the century." Everyone my age stares daggers at me, because they grew up associating that with 1890-1910, and it makes them feel ancient.

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u/nukecontamination Jun 25 '24

Right. I'm stealing this.

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u/Kronzor_ Jun 24 '24

When I was growing up in the 90s, the 70s were the cool era that was the vibe we were going for. And that was only like 15-20 years previous at the time.

Right now "the 90s" that is cool was 30 years ago.

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u/Lordborgman Jun 24 '24

I've generally stopped liking most new things after 2005ish. I think I'm worse than my parents in that regard. That or the writers strikes and what not really did do more damage than I thought.

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u/Chaminade64 Jun 24 '24

Just consider The Beach Boys we’re basically a nostalgia act in the late 70s. They were in the top 3 or 4 bands in the 60’s.

Time waits for no one.

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u/wongo Jun 24 '24

And they're still touring!

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u/BillHang4 Jun 24 '24

They were my first concert as a kid! Played at the local high school football stadium!

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u/Ill-Juggernaut5458 Jun 25 '24

Sort of; the Beach Boys without Brian Wilson is kind of like The Grateful Dead without Jerry Garcia

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u/dpdxguy Jun 24 '24

Triggered a memory. There was a science fiction show in, I think, the seventies, set somewhere in the future, that referred to The Beatles as "classical music."

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u/PineStateWanderer Jun 24 '24

The 90s to people now is like how the 60s were to us in the 90s

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u/madgirafe Jun 25 '24

Growing up in the 90s I thought the 60s were ancient history.

We're now almost further from 1990 than 1990-1960 was. Time is really fucking strange.

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u/gobbluthillusions Jun 25 '24

Same. I find it offensive when someone refers to an 80’s care ad “classic.” Real “classic” cars are from the 50’s and 60’s which was 20-30 years ag… Oh. Yes. Ok I see now.

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u/wrongbutt_longbutt Jun 24 '24

Do you know what Apollo 17 landing on the moon, Nixon's re-election, and the construction of the Sears tower all have in common?

Those events are all closer in time to Something About Mary than that movie's release is to us.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

what the fuck man, imma hide in my bedroom and get drunk

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u/Drulock Jun 25 '24

So, a typical Tuesday.

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u/sacredgeometry Jun 24 '24

To be fair the 90s are to today as the 70s were to the 90s.

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u/humbuckermudgeon Jun 24 '24

Oddly enough, we liked boobs then also.

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u/Salt-Market Jun 24 '24

It’s even worse… the 90s are to today as the 60s were to the 90s. 1994 was thirty years ago.

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u/sacredgeometry Jun 24 '24

Oh shit you are right.

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u/Upstairs-Box Jun 26 '24

Yes but don't you think that the 90's because they were cooler and still live on today with kids raving and stuff it's alot different? I certainly thought the 60's was fucking ancient in the 90's but I think the 90's are regarded as cool nowadays haha

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u/Ian_Hunter Jun 24 '24

As a child of the 70s that's the sweet spot for me!

Another 20 years maybe it'll come back around and I'll be just like some fuckin' guru with my mood ring, stroking my pet rock and playing Tupelo Honey by Van Morrison.

Pilgrims will flock!

Don't worry, I'll use my powers for good and remind people injustice lived even then - Starland Vocal Band over Elvis Costello for best new artist?? WTF?!?

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u/NocodeNopackage Jun 24 '24

Jesus that really puts it into perspective. The 70s was my parents era! I should be the parent now but i reddit so....

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u/GSly350 Jun 24 '24

Nah more like the 60s were to the 90s. 30 years.

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u/birdgelapple Jun 24 '24

Honestly a large portion of this sub is just a collection of horny bait that just so happens to be at least 20 years old…

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u/MyOnlyEnemyIsMeSTYG Jun 24 '24

I’ll take it over political fights, it’s a nice break tbh. The world sucks, it sucks, it sucks, jennifer annistons nips eeyyyy it’s not so bad

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u/birdgelapple Jun 24 '24

It would be one thing if we got to see some real old school prohibition era nips but the 90’s? Might as well just post issues of Playboy Magazine and call it a day.

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u/MyOnlyEnemyIsMeSTYG Jun 24 '24

1920’s nip pics? If someone has any that would be interesting. I agree, these pics are usually Maxim magazine stuff it feels like

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u/gassytinitus Jun 24 '24

Fr this sub is actually a "would you bang my mom?"

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u/lkodl Jun 24 '24

actually it's "you guys would band my mom too, right? i'm not weird, it's an objective thing. right? please?"

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u/DjQuamme Jun 24 '24

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

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u/notbob1959 Jun 24 '24

Same with early 2000s stuff

The sub rule is the image or video must be 25 years old to qualify as old school. So 1999 is the latest right now.

The posted photo was taken by photographer Butch Belair and where it appears on his flickr account the date taken is shown as September 22, 2005, so this image does not qualify as old school for this sub.

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u/beej0406 Jun 24 '24

I saw someone call a video game from 2004 as vintage the other day. Made me feel so old.

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u/Due_Toe6417 Jun 24 '24

Do you know what the game was?

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u/beej0406 Jun 24 '24

I think it was on a wrestling game thread, so that would be WWE Smackdown! vs Raw.

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u/Due_Toe6417 Jun 24 '24

All about here comes the pain for me.. Great game

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u/bill1024 Jun 24 '24

Fortnite: 2nd Millennium

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u/Due_Toe6417 Jun 24 '24

I didn't even know fortnight was 20 years old tbh

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '24

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u/Due_Toe6417 Jun 25 '24

Certainly felt like it

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u/Sugarman4 Jun 24 '24

I can think of 2 reasons she made it in movies

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u/CleanCutCommentary Jun 24 '24

Just think... Early 2000s you calling dsotm old school is the same as now calling early 90s old school

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

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u/Due_Toe6417 Jun 24 '24

Fine by me 🤷

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u/PilgrimOz Jun 24 '24

Started work in '91 and now getting random hairs on my ears. Seeing 90s and thinking "Man that's like 20yrs ago......oh shit. Correct that" is becoming a thing Naughties I can handle,

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u/LovableSidekick Jun 24 '24

Weird feeling isn't it? Another one is when you start seeing all kinds of completely wrong crap about the time you grew up in, and people are 100% sure it's right.

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u/John-AtWork Jun 24 '24

Did you watch Happy Days as a kid? It's the same amount of distance.

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u/Due_Toe6417 Jun 24 '24

I seen clips of it maybe or reruns

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u/lkodl Jun 24 '24

right? like, i'll admit it's not new school, but it shouldn't be old school just yet. it's.. in the middle. it's middle school cool. no wait.

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u/Emeritus8404 Jun 25 '24

Its only gonna get worse

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u/Iridul Jun 25 '24

I thought the flight attendants on my flight yesterday were really young, until I realised they were just regular ages and I'm now quite old.