{"id":2242,"date":"2025-06-02T12:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T03:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2025-06-11T20:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:11:08","slug":"coming-of-age-in-the-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/coming-of-age-in-the-1990s\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming of age in the 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While I was born in the &#8217;70s and consider myself a child of the &#8217;80s, I came of age in the &#8217;90s. I began high school in 1990 and graduated college in December 1999. Rayon shirts with neon-colored, geometric designs buttoned up to the top of the collar. Going from dialing into local BBSes to logging onto the internet through a local ISP. $1 Whoppers at Burger King. Caller ID box next to the family telephone, but no answering machine, and the phone tag that ensued. The unfortunate death of New Wave and Shoegaze music at the hands of Grunge. Reading Star Wars novels and that sense of excitement for the Star Wars series we had <em>before<\/em> Greedo shot first. The popularity explosion of coffee houses. A bubble economy of the dot com era that defied all economic rules. Buying a Super Nintendo, Sony Playstation, and Sega Saturn. Struggling to find love as well as myself, and the heartbreaking journey that entailed. Calling the girl I liked but getting her moody little sister who probably never told her I called. And best of all, writing letters to my pen-pal in Japan whom I proposed to in January 2000, then married a year later. I was a kid in the &#8217;80s, but became a man in the &#8217;90s. Check out this video and reminisce of the golden decade of the &#8217;90s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Tried Living As A 1990&#039;s Man For A Week, Here&#039;s What Happened\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x8jHOyG52WU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was born in the &#8217;70s and consider myself a child of the &#8217;80s, I came of age in the &#8217;90s. I began high school in 1990 and graduated college in December 1999. Rayon shirts with neon-colored, geometric designs buttoned up to the top of the collar. Going from dialing into local BBSes to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/coming-of-age-in-the-1990s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coming of age in the 1990s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,160],"tags":[281],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-nostalgia","tag-the-90s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2497,"url":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/a-visit-to-tiltstudio-arcade-at-arizona-mills-mall-in-tempe-az\/","url_meta":{"origin":2242,"position":0},"title":"A visit to TiltStudio Arcade at Arizona Mills Mall in Tempe, AZ","date":"2025-09-04","format":false,"excerpt":"So while I got to spend time with friends on my recent trip to Arizona, on the day which I visited Andy's Hobby HQ and Book Off, we also went to AZ Mills Mall in Tempe. 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