The Nineties kids are our legacy. This next generation of teenagers will have no experience what it was like going into a new century. Although we did grow up in the early 2000 era, we were born somewhere between 1990 and 1999. Next year’s sophomores will be born between 1999 and the year 2000. (Freshmen will be from 2000-2001) Which means the era is ending.

So what have we done as high schoolers that has made an impact on the present? We didn’t grow up with smart phones, 4G networking, WIFI, or even touchscreens. There are no longer our childhood favorites on tv. Items like Oreo O’s, Wonder Balls, and Blockbuster video stores have gone extinct. There was no YouTube, there were no iPads, and to go on the internet, we’d have to wait for our mom to get off the phone. And sit through the whole one minute long of the sound.

Everyone’s childhood held a different perspective, but a majority shared the same interests. Tv shows, video games, even playing outside after school. Statistics show that this generation of teenagers had more of a wild imagination as kids than this current generation does. Because we didn’t grow up with smart phones glowing in our faces constantly.

Nostalgia, nostalgia, oh the nostalgia. Everything we ever had was easily accessed to our fingertips. The technology era was booming when we were growing up. We were practically the guinea pigs for all the new future technology. We were the test subjects to see if they would get where they are today. Gameboys, Nintendo Systems, Playstations, Apple Macs, no wonder no one remembers the Atari game system.

Shows like Spongebob Squarepants, Power Rangers, Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Double Dare, Pokemon, and many more defined our entertainment as children. Overalls, scrunchies, high kneed socks, anything that you can think of. Because let’s be serious, the Nineties styles didn’t end until around 2004. Some believe that the Nineties never truly died. Others think that the Nineties are coming back. Though evolution can be proved through actual hard copy pictures, not from images on a screen.
If time travel was an option, would you travel back to your childhood? Or would you travel into the future to see what your kids will experience? The inevitable future is who we will become, and our past is who we are now.