How incredibly rude...

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Ds has just asked me what the 1990's were like in the manner of an interested history scholar.

They weren't THAT long ago.

I've just explained what the rave scene was like.

He is perplexed.

They have just happened!!

Have fun with it OP. Tell him we all used to travel around on hoverboards but they got banned because of health and safety.

I told him we celebrated the millennium hiding in lead lined cellars

Don't forget the tin foil hats

My seven year old asked me the other day how I'd arrived in the area we live in now.

I told him I moved here after I got married, wanted a bigger house yadda yadda.

He huffed a bit and said

'No , how did you get here with all your things? Were cars invented then?'

Gobsmacked

I showed my 13yo sister my tape walkman yesterday she couldn't figure out what it was

Tell him about the rise of the Furbies. How they had to be banned and priests had to come to the house to be rid of them.

Tell your children that once upon a time all telephones had to be fixed to a wire which went into the wall and see if they believe you . . .

I heard someone give their date of birth in a bank the other day - she was born in 1995. To my mind she should have been about 4 not a full grown woman

The 1990s? What? That was about last year, wasn't it?

My lovely dd (age 11) cannot get her head around the fact we had no computer games when we were young. I think we were about her age when we got our first console. So far she has asked me five times if it is true, her face looks like this

And once upon a time if you wanted to watch a television programme you had to be at the television when it was shown or you missed it!

My ds once asked my dh if he was scared when dinosaurs were on the earth!

My eldest didn't believe me that we had colour tv when I was a kid.

We stayed in my mum's caravan last week and I had to show my son that you need to rewind a video before you can watch it. He was confused.

Send him for a visit to his Auntie Zombie, Weasel. She'll set him straight.

You think you have it bad! My son is doing a module next term for his history degree that ends in 1967! I was 6 then. How can it be proper, academic history if I was alive?

The last class I taught had 2008 birthdates.

That made me feel very old. I'm going to feel ancient in reception next year!

My friends, who are fairly young grandparents and certainly extremely active, keep getting asked by their 5yo GS - "what was it like in the olden days?" "Did that happen in the olden days" and so on...

Obviously to him it is the "olden days" but to them it most definitely was not!

Just to follow on from Andrew - you need to mention that, if you wanted to change tv channel, you had to get up and go to the tv

Remember what the 1960's were like when you were a kid in the 1980's? Well, the 1990's are now's equivalent. That blows my mind.

ohfourfoxache I can just remember the time when there was only one channel and no need to change!

I miss the 90's

I'm upset that Johnny Depp is over 50... I realise I'm missing the point but it still made me feel old.
Dd had a school reading book with a cassette mentioned. Dh and I explained about listening to songs in order or fast forwarding through to the next one. Dd looked confused. Dd3 tried to swipe a photo frame and couldn't understand it wasn't touch screen.

One of my friends (who was about 16 at the time, about 10 years younger than me) was laughing while telling us that her younger brother didn't believe her that mobile phones didn't always have Internet and cameras on.
I said "I know what you mean. They didn't have colour screens either".
She was "wtf really? What so phones were black and white???"
Her head nearly exploded with confusion when I tried to explain about the pixel thingies on the screen and that you could see each one. Plus those cool pictures you could make on them using symbols!