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Because I missed it last night.

I'm going to write a fic where my main character (a teenager) time travels to 1995. I want to put in as much 90s nostalgia/references as I can and I welcome any ideas.

1995 internet will definitely be featured (dial-up modem, AltaVista/Netscape) but I'm wondering if a modern day smart phone would get a phone signal in 1995?

Anything else that would be a stark difference for a modern day young person? It's a US setting.

I'd hazard a guess that the phones wouldn't work, but check out this article;

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone.htm

it's not the end all be all but it's easy to understand.

Thanks for the link!

Comparison ideas:
--Gaming platforms
--VCR vs. DVD/blu-ray/streaming
--Price of gas (it was ~$1.00 when I was a kid in Chicago back then)

Pop culture:
--President Clinton scandal
--Hit sitcoms like Friends, Seinfeld, and Frasier
--Furbys and Tamogochi games
--Blockbuster
--Britney Spears
--Boy bands (Backstreet Boy, N*SYNC, 98 Degrees, New Kids)

Oh! and cheesy 90's phrases:
--Wazzzzzz upppppp?
--As if!
--Talk to the hand ('cause the face don't want to hear it)
--Add "psyche" or "not!" at the end of sentences to be mean/sarcastic

Also, you might want to check out the show Hindsight because it's about a young woman who goes back to the 90s to fix her relationship with her best friend, and you get a really good look into the decade and what stuff was popular back then. It's a good show and would be great for your research!

Edited 2016-08-05 22:50 (UTC)

A bit early for Clinton/Britney Spears, but the rest is great! VCR vs DVD/Streaming, definitely! I will work a Netflix joke in there somewhere. :)

And wow, I had not heard about that show! Thank you for recommending it, it's perfect for my purposes!

Pagers. Analog cellphones. I'd say fashion but a lot f the 90s seems to be coming back. Video stores.

Oooh pagers! I'd forgotten about that.

I don't think cellphones can be analog. No smart phones though.

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Popular movies in 1995: Toy Story, Apollo 13, Pocahontas, The Bridges of Madison County, Babe (also the year Waterworld came out, but not sure I'd call that popular)

...and in 1994: Forrest Gump, The Lion King, Pulp Fiction, Interview with the Vampire.

Cellphones had antennas that you had to extend to make a call. Teenagers rarely had them and if you did, it was often considered a marker of being rich (see the movie Clueless... which came out in 1995, actually!)

Some people used PDAs (personal digital assistant - like a smart phone that had no phone/internet or a really small, low-tech tablet computer that could be used in place of a paper agenda/calendar). They had little styluses.

Laptops were a lot thicker and less common.

WiFi wasn't a thing.

Thank you! The cell phone as a marker of being rich is something I'll def. use!

O.J. Simpson trial!

Dance the Macarena!

Braveheart won the Oscar for Best Picture and Mel Gibson wasn't crazy yet!

You should make your character buy some Apple shares...

The Oklahoma City Bombing happened in 1995. Maybe a modern teenager would react to that differently than a teenager at the time? I was 15 in 1995 and I don't remember how I reacted, really, so I can't offer insight as to *how* it would be different. I think it freaked me out less then than a comparable bombing would freak me out today, and yet obviously 9/11 was worse. I didn't really have a frame of reference for it and didn't live near Oklahoma, so I just sort of didn't react. Now it's a bit like "where's next?"

CDs! Hell, cassette tapes were still around, even. And widely used.

Those were the golden days of when "console wars" meant SNES v Sega Genesis, too.

Uh, almost every girl in my entire school wore tight back pants with flared bottoms. And track suits weren't just for Russian mobsters.

Oh, yes, fighting to get the CD jewel cases open!

I had a walkman in the 90s (not a Walkman-brand walkman, but you know). I made mixed tapes to use in it. Towards the end of the decade, I got a discman but it was bulkier than the walkman and you couldn't jostle it much because it would skip, so not really something you wanted to take jogging. My parents had a discman they used for long car trips. It plugged into the car stereo (our car was from 1992 and had no cd slot in the stereo). They had this sort of shock-absorbing thing for it to sit on atop the center console so it wouldn't skip if the car went over a bump. Headphones didn't have to be huge, but I do not remember earbuds being a thing yet.

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1. Pop culture: Sony Playstation launched (only cool if you were a kid, past age 11 it was akin to playing with barbie dolls so older kids played in secret), Aeon Flux premiered on MTV, MOTHERFUCKING XENA
2. Movies: Braveheart and Pocahontas (Mel Gibson was still cool), Clueless, Babe, Dangerous Minds (the movie where a white chick goes to to teach at a black school and spawns the biggest song of the year, Gangsta's paradise)
3. Biggest songs: TLC - Waterfalls (they were the biggest girl group), Seal - Kiss from a Rose, Los del Rio - Macarena (everybody knew the dance), Alanis Morisette - You oughta know, Selena - Dreaming of you (released posthumously after her murder)
4. Things that affected daily life: Smoking is banned in public places, Windows 95 launched (along with Internet Explorer and CD rom drives started replacing floppy disks), bottled water started appearing in stores and people thought it was stupid
5. Biggest news: Oklahoma City Bombing, The Tokyo Subway attacks (January), End of Bosnian Civil War (Signing of Dayton Accords), Yitzak Rabin got assassinated, O.J. Simpson trial (biggest scandal because at the time racial tensions were at an all-time high... EVERYONE had an opinion on O.J.), Hugh Grant was caught getting a BJ from a prostitute

Some cellphones existed but they were WEIRD and super expensive. Pagers were ok.
Laptops existed but again, nobody had them unless they were extremely wealthy and nerdy. Or lawyers/doctors.
Blind dates were for grown-ups, and you scoured the newspapers for potential mates. (A fun past-time for teenage girls was marking down the best personal ads and reading them aloud with your friends.)
Instead of sending your boo naked pics, you snuck into the school's office and photocopied your ass to oblivion.
Jeans and scrunchies were in. People took fashion tips from Empire Records and Clueless. Dudes wore overalls and spiky gelled hair.

That's an extensive list, thank you!

How many of these songs have you even heard of?

http://top40-charts.com/features/YearEnd/yearend1995.php

Your modern teenager will expect to hear what we think of as "90s music", looking forward to classic grunge tracks from Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, etc. Thinking they'll hear the songs that get played on nostalgia stations. They won't. They'll hear that list. It will be confusing and upsetting.

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I don't remember much from the 90s (and most of what I remember is late 90s), but I grew up with a lot of stuff my parents got during that time.

DOS (and Windows 95).
Doom (1993) and Doom II (1994).
Shareware games in general. Apogee was a notable distributor.
Platformers galore on PC.
Warcraft (1994), possibly Warcraft II (sometime in 1995).
Floppy discs. Just, floppy discs. (Aka the symbol on save buttons.)
The old monochrome Gameboy was around too I think?

Pokémon didn't exist. (February 1996 in Japan)
Duke Nukem games were still platformers only. (DN3D was 1997)

Still neglecting all my fics :( I haven't had a "regular week" in forever! But I have an outline for the next chapter of one and half of a chapter of another. Blah.

I don't know how to finish a kinky one-shot. I've had my characters try out bondage, but now they're done, what? How does it end?
I'm also supposed to translate and maybe rework and expand a bit a short one-shot but I haven't even started yet.

Personally, I'd end it on a joke. "So, where's the key for these shackles?" "I thought you had the key!" That sort of thing.

Re: writing thread

malurette - 2016-08-06 09:06 (UTC) - Expand

I finally started getting somewhere on the fic I was having trouble starting. I had to come up with a completely different beginning, but it works.

I'm all set to start planning out something I want to write based on a heavily altered version of things I have fantasized about because it would probably be shunned otherwise (I might write both versions though, one would be just for me) because of loli shit. We'll see how it goes.

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