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Are you a child of the 1990s? Here are 26 ways to tell

Best. Decade. Ever.

DID YOU SPEND your formative years in the last decade but one?

Find out with our comprehensive guide. You’re a child of the ’90s if…

1. You know what these are:

pogs

Wikimedia Commons

2. You’d know what to do with one of these:

33710-snap bracelet

jkgiftonline.com

3. And the important meaning of these:

friendship

Flickr/Dicemanic

4. Owning a housebrick-sized one of these made you cool:

walkman

Flickr/Mountain/\Ash

5. You owned a Hypercolor t-shirt:

800px-Generra_Hypercolor_2

Wikimedia Commons

6. You used one of these to call home (and for emergencies):

callcard 2

ebay.ie

7. This was an essential tool for rewinding tapes:

biro_2

blinman.com

8. Sometimes you needed one if the DJ talked over the intro to your song.

RUINED

Dog photo from Shutterstock

9. Speaking of recordings, you also recorded the MTV awards, and then actually watched them. More than once.

MTV AWARDS

BEBETO MATTHEWS/AP/Press Association Images

10. You had a cool friend who went to something like this:

point depot

Flickr/desomurchu archive gallery

11. You owned jeans with one of these:

carpenter2

theunionshop.org

X-Worx? Eclipse? Your choice.

12. And maybe some tear-off pants:

pants

Yahoo Groups

These were a terrible idea, actually. Bonus if you got chased around the playground by people threatening to tear them off.

13. You had a favourite out of these guys:

Nick Tansley/EMPICS Entertainment

And would fight to the death for him.

14. This was kind of shocking



YouTube/Bicht Hunter

But exciting, obviously.

15. This was appropriate headgear if you were a girl:

velvet hat

greatlookz.com

16. This was appropriate headgear if you were a boy:

Music - Backstreet Boys Feature

Nick Tansley/EMPICS Entertainment

17. You owned a video with ‘DO NOT TAPE OVER’ written on it

vhs

Flickr/Orin Zebest

Possibly containing episodes of My So-Called Life.

18. And you remember the feeling when you rented a video, and the previous customer hadn’t rewound it:

why god why

Photo via Shutterstock

19. You owned runners that either pumped up:

pump 2

Flickr/chrisjtse

20. Or lit up:

lagear


YouTube/wwwgjackca

21. These were the best way to spend small break:

trumps

Flickr/epredator

22. Unless you had one of these:

gameboy

Flickr/Link576

23. And these kind of blew your mind:

tamagotchi

Flickr/The Akermarks

24. This was the most frustrating thing in the entire world:

aertel

Flickr/Dan Farrimond

25. Except for this sound:



YouTube/willterminus

26. And this seemed like a really, really big deal:

time

Flickr/Rob Boudon

Congratulations! You’re a child of the 1990s.

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