Me too.

Me three.

Me four

So was I and still to this day, I don’t know what was on the end of the chain attached to the waist.

@@CT-vm4gf a hook to the belt loop lol

🩵🩵🩵 (Because baby blue was all the rage in ‘98✨)

_"Youwhat? Is that an internet thing?"_

I scan in film for families as a side biz and upload to KZfaq for them. and I'm always saying things like... isn't it crazy that you're holding that movie in your hand?

Thanks? For… what exactly? 😐

No shit, dude must be a time traveler. Otherwise, all this would just be too normal to film at the time.

on the playground, I was that kid with the link cable. Want your Machoke evolved? , you came to me :)

Yep. So many people cannot bring themselves to fully admit that it's not just different now, it's worse

​@@flutebasket4294 I googled "I used to be Happy" and got 34.7 million results. I then googled "I used to be sad". I got somewhere around 64 results. You can do it for yourself. What it says to me is that more people than ever before are sadder than they have ever been. And fewer people than ever before are happier than they used to be.

Big gov has to increase the division.

The truth is, it's still safe to ride around most towns, but they've made everyone so paranoid that the government will actually punish a parent now for letting a kid ride around town without adult supervision.

Same.

It must be the result of having access to everything and so how "far away" or long something was is even faster. That shifting years test.. if 1990s is 70s, we are now in the 00s of the 70s, LOL.

It's like the 1960s were to the '90s. That's how long ago the 90s are to us now. 😭. Sooooo long ago.

You me and evrryone else. Stop trying to be special. Jesus. Glad nothing survives after death other than spirit 1

The 90s to me was 5 years ago 😂

Me too. PlayStation and Star Wars era for me.

I was a senior in 1998. I graduated ETHS- Go Mavericks! C/O '98 🎓 👩‍🎓 🤪

✨same✨

🤣🤣

I do, but wish that I didn't. Think this was the 1st video from this channel ever that I found hard to watch lol

I remember those pants lol

My family still tortures me to this day about those Jeans lol

Me 👋🏼I had 2 pairs! Now my teenage daughters want them lol

Yes they are. I was 15 in 1998. We didnt know it then, but the 90s was the end of the good times. 70s, 80s and 90s were probably the best decades in this country.

I agree 90s bro I hate what smartphones have done to us

@@Sanpaku-san I use my smartphone phone in moderation. I’m actually female, silly:)

Same I was 16 in 1998. Class of 2000! I miss them y2k days. It felt like the 90s still but it was definitely shifting times into 2000s

I was 14 in 1998. Best times of my life

I turn 40 next week ,it feels like yesterday to me too . Time flies

Jnco jeans... We called them "thieving jeans". Haro, Redline, DiamondBack and Specialized bikes, tons of great new music on MTV. I was 14, living it up on the Gulf coast of Florida

​@@danw1089I turn 40 in a few weeks

@@danw1089 well happy early birthday. It's crazy to me because on paper I know I'm 40 but I still feel like I'm in my twenties I still laugh at farts and still have a good night at the bar raising a little hell, only difference is I know not to raise too much hell now, can we get to see some gray hairs in my goatee and after a long day of work on construction I feel it in my legs and back. Other than that, it's amazing how I still look at things the same way as I did pretty much 20 years ago, just through more experienced eyes. I kind of now realize what it's like people say respect your elders, imagine being twice our age being 80 how much stuff we would have experienced by then . I guess this is what they say maturity is. It's about time haha!

@@flman1284 no way! Hell yeah I had a Dyno VFR and a cherey red Haro Dave Mirra 540 air. The front and back pegs, the gyro, whatever the hell else we're popular..... Shimano V brakes or something like that I think.. going out raising hell on the bikes jumping curbs bunny hopping all over the place.haha

Totally agree

I still remember kids getting their chains caught in their desks at school, getting up, and getting them ripped off or dragging a desk down and getting laughed at lol

I had FOUR chains on my wallet.

I know people that still rock a chain like that. Kinda makes me want one ahahaha

I still wear wallet chains

The darn phones ruining us all. 😂

90s was fun…

Eu também tinha 17 em 1998. O tempo voa.

I was also 17 in 1998. I graduated H.S. in 1999. I miss the 90s a lot. Current times really are the pits…

​@@Lanae8199I completely feel the same way. I get home sick for the 90s. It wasn't a perfect decade (no decade is), but it was a better time back then. Today everything is just so nuts that I think I am gonna wake up back in the 90s and everything is chill again lol

​@@DWOMTbe living in the 90s and early 00s its much better live that dumpster fire we live here now.

@@DWOMT Right you are.

Same here! 8 years young. Great times. I wouldn’t trade my childhood for anything!

@@jeltoninc.8542I was also 8. 1998 was a rough year personally I liked 1997 and 1999 better, too much BS happening to me. I was into all the fads then, yo-yos, furby, beanie babies, Pokémon cards, ect. Watching Cartoon Network at its best, Kids WB, Nickelodeon still decent then, Disney channel was still great even.

@@oldradiosnphonographs i was 7.. but ya everything you names off was my life too.. remember getting my brothers yoyo that had a nice bearing in it. so it spun real good.. i thought it was mega cool kid territory.. beanie babies yep.. had a couple.. pokemon cards without question.. gameboy color pokemon.. giga pets specifically looney tunes.. baggy pants even tho i hated them riding my motorcycle and bicycle.. i just knew they were cool so i wore them anyways..

Tripling the weight with the double chain wallets

Oversize was a component of the sustainable economy.

as a kid you didnt notice

Hahaa so true 😂 it didnt look easy walking in those pants.

And when it Rained omg kids don't know the struggle

I turned 30 that year, too. It kinda hit me in a sad way that my 20s were gone. I could no longer use my youth as an excuse to do outrageous things, lol. 🤣😂😆😁

@@alaricabercrombie2692 not only can we still do outrageous things, but we now get a discount on them. 😜

You were an old fart already in 98 lol. Just Messing with you 😊

Kids today ended glue smartphones and doesnt care toys or tv as much. Feel bad them.

Judging by the comments they are on here staring at screens

Probably on the cell phones all day like every one else

​@@MrVidification isn't that where you are??

@@Budrica probably yes because that is what everyone does in society these days. Back then screen time was a lot less accessible so human interaction was more natural.

Yes !!! You nailed it!

Not trying too hard?! lol. Did you look at them?

@@mark3464 well at least they're not trying nearly as hard as teens today

I graduated from highschool in 1998. I never imagined a day with smartphones would come- had no inkling something like that would even exist!

@@mascara1777 we were all looking forward to today back then but now we realize the past was 10 times better

Imagine people wish to go back those days like wishing well or birthday wish......

Every time I look the 90s like everything was fun without social media in cell phone

What a shame. Late 90s is also better.

We had aol profiles

@@lisa-gu9ft , and ICQ!

AOL and The Globe.

@@lisa-gu9ftbut we had a good balance between internet and real life back then… a balance that unfortunately doesn’t exist anymore

That's not true , a lot of people hung out In AOL chats and a few other services It was already rapidly becoming very mainstream by this year to hang out online and socialize , most of the Internet worked almost the same way It does now , just slower and less social media options , but imo It was light-years better and more healthy normal community , Id say the golden age of social media actually started around the late 90s around 1998 and started getting worse around the late 2000s when Facebook and Twitter took over and the smartphone / iPhone craze which made it possible for everyone to be on social media mobilly on the go all day and get addicted instead of merely occasionally when they were at home on their desktops. I'd take the less advanced internet /social media life they had in this video over the toxic censored money driven corporate-ran no longer free or fun social media we have now anyday.

jan 88 here. I was 10. These were fun times. Totally different.

Oct 15, 1985 here. I knew it in the moment back then that 1998 would be a year to remember. Especially the summer. Awesome music and lots of memories playing the PS1.

It's hard to reconcile "starting fights" and "starting to experiment with drugs" with being "carefree".

@@smadaf It was indeed carefree. Most of the time, you were just "going along with the crowd" a.k.a. your group of friends at that moment. No thought into what you were doing. It was a totally different mindset compared to being an adult now where you rationally think things out. It happened then and it still happens today with being a teenager. In your teenager years, you never blindly jumped into a fight when a friend was in trouble? Did you end up smoking weed, drinking alcohol because everybody else was doing it while hanging out at a particular location?

@@Hmongboi228 , interesting discussion. I see what you mean about being carefree, in the sense of not having adult concerns. I was thinking of being carefree in a different sense: for me in my teens, if I'd been getting into fights or doing drugs, then that would have been a sign that there was some kind of trouble, something that was bothering me deeply, and that I was trying the wrong ways to fix it-a sign of not at all being free from certain cares. To answer your questions: • In my teens, other than a limited amount of violence in my own home, I was never in a fight. I never started a fight, never jumped into one, never participated in one, never saw any of my friends in one. There was one time on the bus home from school, when I was seventeen or eighteen, when a kid sitting in front of me started banging on the head of my brother (a few years younger than I), who was seated in front of him; after about the third time, when I realized that this kid (about my brother's age) wasn't going to let up, I slapped his head from behind, just once-it surprised him, he looked back at me, we made eye-contact, and that was that. • I've never used weed in my life. I've never been drunk. Over the last two years of high school, I consumed the equivalent of probably about one or two alcoholic drink (some beer, some wine, some whisky). There were kids at my school who drank, who smoked pot, who smoked tobacco, and who tried other drugs; some of them were my friends; but _most_ of the kids at my high school didn't do any of those things in those years-so it wasn't the case that "everybody else was doing it". There were a few times when I was around my friends who drank: they became amazingly uninteresting and annoying when they drank. I had a friend who smoked cigarettes and pot and was a drinker; when she was around me, although she still smoked cigarettes because she was addicted, she didn't drink or smoke pot-I think she ordinarily felt a lot of painful holes in her life and tried to fill them with pot and booze when she was alone, but that when she was with me she got a different kind of satisfaction and didn't feel a need to resort to those substances. (I know that may sound snobby, but I think it's true in her case.) I feel very fortunate. I went to an unusual high school, in the mid and late '90s; and, although it wasn't perfect, there was a lot about the experience that was hugely beneficial. Many of my classmates and I are still in touch, and it seems we all feel very fortunate that we went to our school instead of some other. I'm very interested in teenagers, their lives and their concerns and their troubles and the things that please them; I look at the kids who go to typical American high schools and I wish painfully that in certain ways their high-school experience could be more like the one that I and my classmates got to enjoy at our unusual school. (In a few ways, I think kids nowadays have it better than we had it.) Anyway, thanks for listening. Sorry if it was too long. Maybe you can tell that this is an important topic for me. I'm curious: where did you live in your teens?

When I see today's kids wearing it again, I feel old :D

Now it’s for political reasons as opposed to just a style

@@MerlinTheCommenteryeah I agree. And it’s actually way different now too. Everyone has green or pink, blue hair, 30 piercings and all act the same. Back then it was just a style

It usually does, although it seems like when it does they pick the worst parts of a decade's fashion to bring back lol.

I was 9 in 1998 I sure miss those times especially WWF,WCW celebrity death match, Xena warrior princess, Hercules,‘and walker texas ranger is where it was at in my opinion 😫♥️

Going for $500 on Ebay today.

Absolutely! So much better living late 90s and early 2000s as much people aren't criticised like how we still alive back then.

I miss that time period like crazy! 1997-2000 were some of the most fun years of my life. Life just seemed much more balanced too. We had the internet and video games at home, but we still went out to the mall, the movies, and a lot of other hangout spots that sadly don't really exist anymore today. Smartphones thankfully didn't exist yet.

@@jscountrygirl85_326 Yep. The balance was definitely a great thing that I miss sorely these days, and it made people more focused on activities. Smartphones, with their apps and online availability, have become too convenient a distraction.

UFO Jeans!

You should upload them

@@mistyfogarty1587 , I know, I know, I know. Concern about other people's privacy is always the biggest thing that stops me. I haven't figured out that part of the problem, and I've been contemplating it for years.

I heard that part also😂 5:08

Bingo

And look how close they all stand together in a huge group. 🙂

I think assuming they all feel confident about their appearance is a stretch. We can't read their minds.

Kids these days just look like copycats of each other when it comes to style of clothing.

@@smadaf At least they weren't walking around with tight clothes on and BBLs looking like who did it and why.

Lol no......... not even CLOSE!

$4 matinee for that new Star Wars movie in 1999. Some of us made plenty use of that when we should have been in school.

@@fakereality96 aah the phantom menace. I remember seeing Pepsi machines that had a picture of that movie on the front. They were pushing it hard back then

I wish i was in the late 90s while focused my own miserable life today.

@@karinadelma Cell phones back in it's basic functions. The internet with out social media. The late 90's was the best. 2008 that's where everything went downhill.

@@Bates1960yeah 90s was good but 2008 was a pretty cool year…

@@DubBeats In 2008 that's when everything when down hill. People still sag their paints till this day.

Ah the days of WCW. The golden era of wrestling!

​@@lettucesalad32423 I went to the last Starrcade, December 19, 1999.

"It's Just...Toooo....Sweeeeet."

You’re living in it.

as a zoomer, i like it way better than the current fashion sense tho...

@@70s_GenLover I'm with ya. I love baggy clothes, especially baggy/looser pants. I hate skinny jeans and leggings. Fashion from the late 90s/early 2000s was much more chill and relaxed, imho.

They were phones like flip phone and wasnt much else.

@@karinadelma yea but u dont see anyone using them, Thats the point sherlock. There were cells in the 80’s too if u wanna get that specific for no reason

Only the rich kids had cellys back then lol nothin wrong with that..and can't forget those Polo Sport shirts..man they were sooo fly😁👍

Are you a 1980 baby?

@@tennillej9601 I'm a mid 80s..was 2 young 2 do stuff 80s most of the 90s but still remem...the best flyest era ever by far..and how bout u??...nice pic👍

@@ckack1372 Finally a decent person on here lol I'm a 1991 baby so I only just remember this year but I do remember a time without phones well, thank you ☺️

THANK YOU! as a 21 year old, that's what i've been trying to tell older generations, we don't have those social places anymore. i envy your generation...

6 here, buddy