i mean.... to be fair......... when i visited my hometown in poland in 1998....... it really still looked very much like 1980 was still looming around the corner... it wasnt the 18th hundred but i loved it for its gritty "you want sweets? how about a nice refreshing glass of last summers compote from gramps allotment?". silly nostalgia of course but yeah...
What I remember most from 1998 were commercials for flavored sugar water where kids turned into metallic early-CGI goop and rocketed through the air toward a woman carrying a tray of pouches so they could get there faster to consume.
Yeah I make all my own jams, and fruit spreads. More expensive than the walmart brand, but like half the cost of the brands that come anywhere close to the quality.
Yeah, I make jams most years, pickles regularly, and at my old house we had an extremely productive orange tree, so I made a lot of marmalade. My current house has a lemon tree, but it needs to be seen by an arborist. Then I’ll probably get into making lemon curd.
PNC Bank Arts Center in New Jersey. It was Sabbath with Ozzy, rob zombie, SoaD, POD, Drowning Pool. And I remember Andrew WK did well enough to get bumped up to main stage, and he made a fan out of me, guy's a nut.
Most of my childhood was in the early 2010s but for me it was like I was living in the 90s because I was always at my grandparent's. They had all sorts of retro tech I played with as a kid. I burned CDs, I listened to cassettes and I had no internet, ever. My first exposure to a PC was with a mid 80s PC clone running Windows 1.0.
So it's probably something like this
What a difference in time perception we have, it's wild, cause the early 2010's was full on PS3 and late-early YouTube era for me. I think everyone I knew around me already was pretty connected to the internet. But yeah 10 years before that, I could see your grandparents' situation being commonplace. Glad you had that time to discover all this awesome technology !
My brother had internet access over 3G but he wouldn't let me use it, but sometimes he gave me some new games to play. That's how I got to play Minecraft and that's how I learned programming with Game Maker. But yes, I also had a Wii and a DSi but I had just a handful of games, so I played Pokémon White all day and almost finished it three times
I mean my mother made preserves and canned things, and was good at baking, and that was in the '80s. But there were also grocery stores with cookies. Because it was the 1980s lol
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kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 155 pts · 38d
Summer, 1998. Where sweets were sold as sour syrups in a squeeze tube and had flavors like Radical Blue Razz.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 38d
Which also happened to be my stripper name.
I was fired pretty quickly from "Dudes! Dudes! Dudes!"
Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 38d
It's not supposed to be blue, the guests were getting concerned
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 38d
That's what Vicarious Vince, the manager of Dudes! Dudes! Dudes! said, but I still say he just couldn't handle my Razzmatazz.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 38d
You can get a cream for that. Clear it up in a week or so.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 38d
That's my rash mat-ass, for which I already have a tincture.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space · 12 pts · 38d
♪ Kiss me beneath the milky twilight ♪ then.
socsa@piefed.social · 8 pts · 38d
It's a baby bottle pop!
mosspiglet@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 38d
Back when everything was inexplicably EXTREME!!
nonfuinoncuro@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 38d
Maultasche@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 38d
Back when Pokémon was still in black and white
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 46 pts · 38d
Dark green and light green
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 38d
And you had to hold it juuuust right to get the ambient light to illuminate the screen because they weren't backlit.
BoosBeau@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 38d
And spamming the A button DID make the Pokeball capture at a higher rate
lokalhorst@feddit.org · 13 pts · 38d
I hate to tell you, but actually you had to spam the B button.
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 38d
I thought it was A+down
bless@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 38d
Red and blue ;)
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 46 pts · 39d
Portlandia clip referenced in the title
Rato@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 38d
Thanks for posting the reference, it was new to me.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 38d
You're very welcome!
makes mocking gestures at ExLisper 😁
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · -76 pts · 39d
Everyone knows the reference, no need to post it.
f314@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 39d
I didn’t.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 1 pts · 38d
Surprisingly few people get jokes in shitpost community.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · -37 pts · 39d
I know, good for you!
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 38d
I have literally never heard of Portlandia before, no need to post saying no need to post
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · -6 pts · 38d
I don't believe you. You're just saying that to make me look bad.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 38d
Nah you got that covered
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 5 pts · 38d
😠
djmikeale@feddit.dk · 0 pts · 38d
I didn't know the reference
lmuel@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 38d
No
Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online · 40 pts · 38d
I'm team "let the youth have their fun" but also 1998 was peak lunchables.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 38d
Even as a child, I realized Lunchables were a horribly overpriced baby-sized deli platter. Gimme a sandwich! I don't need crackers and 1oz of ham.
mlatu@moist.catsweat.com · 34 pts · 39d
i mean.... to be fair......... when i visited my hometown in poland in 1998....... it really still looked very much like 1980 was still looming around the corner... it wasnt the 18th hundred but i loved it for its gritty "you want sweets? how about a nice refreshing glass of last summers compote from gramps allotment?". silly nostalgia of course but yeah...
Signtist@bookwyr.me · 23 pts · 38d
What I remember most from 1998 were commercials for flavored sugar water where kids turned into metallic early-CGI goop and rocketed through the air toward a woman carrying a tray of pouches so they could get there faster to consume.
Drusas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 38d
Capri Sun
jade52@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 38d
This is also what I remember. Spot on.
BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 38d
Speaking of, would you be interested in trying some liquid slam?
https://youtu.be/eyd51lvu3xw
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 38d
Pouches?
realitista@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 39d
Having moved to Czechia in the '90s from the US, there was a pretty huge difference back then, especially in the countryside.
Klear@piefed.world · 5 pts · 38d
40 years of corrupt authoritarian government does that.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 39d
I mean we still make marmelades and compots and such here.
Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au · 5 pts · 39d
Yeah I make all my own jams, and fruit spreads. More expensive than the walmart brand, but like half the cost of the brands that come anywhere close to the quality.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 39d
I mean we use pur own fruit so they are quite cheap. You only really need to buy sugar then
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 38d
And you know where it's from (to the meter) and whats inside.
BartyDeCanter@piefed.social · 3 pts · 38d
Yeah, I make jams most years, pickles regularly, and at my old house we had an extremely productive orange tree, so I made a lot of marmalade. My current house has a lemon tree, but it needs to be seen by an arborist. Then I’ll probably get into making lemon curd.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 38d
Recently made a lemon curd for my birthday :)
As a twist I also made one with yuzu.
Love me some curd :D
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 27 pts · 38d
I was going to acid techno raves and getting completely mullered, and seeing some cracking sets at Ozzfest UK.
djdarren@piefed.social · 6 pts · 38d
Ozzfest UK in '98 was my first gig with bands anyone had heard of. Hell of a way to start.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 38d
My first Ozzfest was 2001. I was 13 years old. It was a lot of fun. I was there for SoaD, but left liking so many more bands.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 38d
Which stop? I didn't even realize that System was on any leg of that one, but I did see them later that year at Pledge of Allegiance.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 38d
PNC Bank Arts Center in New Jersey. It was Sabbath with Ozzy, rob zombie, SoaD, POD, Drowning Pool. And I remember Andrew WK did well enough to get bumped up to main stage, and he made a fan out of me, guy's a nut.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 38d
None of those sounded familiar and from the Wikipedia set lists it looks like you went in '02
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 38d
It would seem as though you're right. I guess it was shortly before my 15th birthday then. Time plays tricks on the memory!
Hoimo@ani.social · 2 pts · 38d
But were you a sweet and were you getting baked?
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 38d
This is exactly how Boomers talk about the 1950s.
Yeller_king@reddthat.com · 19 pts · 38d
You can still cook things in 2026.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 38d
Big if true
megrania@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 38d
I summer 2026, at least in Europe, a lot of people try to stay away from heat sources as much as they can though 🥵
hansolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 38d
Take a hot plate outside. Cook your jam under a tree like they did in 1998
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 38d
The summer is snack time until the cold weather shows up again.
pewpew@feddit.it · 18 pts · 38d
Most of my childhood was in the early 2010s but for me it was like I was living in the 90s because I was always at my grandparent's. They had all sorts of retro tech I played with as a kid. I burned CDs, I listened to cassettes and I had no internet, ever. My first exposure to a PC was with a mid 80s PC clone running Windows 1.0. So it's probably something like this
Pipas66@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 38d
What a difference in time perception we have, it's wild, cause the early 2010's was full on PS3 and late-early YouTube era for me. I think everyone I knew around me already was pretty connected to the internet. But yeah 10 years before that, I could see your grandparents' situation being commonplace. Glad you had that time to discover all this awesome technology !
pewpew@feddit.it · 1 pts · 38d
My brother had internet access over 3G but he wouldn't let me use it, but sometimes he gave me some new games to play. That's how I got to play Minecraft and that's how I learned programming with Game Maker. But yes, I also had a Wii and a DSi but I had just a handful of games, so I played Pokémon White all day and almost finished it three times
TIEPilot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 39d
Can I put a bird on it?
DisasterTransport@startrek.website · 6 pts · 38d
Also 1998: Olestra
mosspiglet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 38d
My mom was upset when they stopped making Olestra chips. She would eat them instead of taking laxatives to make herself poop.
TownhouseGloryHole@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 38d
There's always sugar free gummy bears.
Snapz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 38d
The old diarrhea pandemics are new again!!!
Etterra@discuss.online · 6 pts · 38d
I mean my mother made preserves and canned things, and was good at baking, and that was in the '80s. But there were also grocery stores with cookies. Because it was the 1980s lol
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 38d
It's the late 1900's
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 38d
maybe some parts of the former Soviet Union
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 38d
Ah, the Gay 90s!
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 38d
My mother still makes jams and preserves, and I may follow in her footsteps, cause the trees in my yard will likely outlive her.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 38d
Summer of 98 was a fuck face joke for a while too
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 38d
A what joke? 🤔
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 38d
Was a podcast produced by Roosterteeth before rebranding to "regulation" after RT was shut down featuring Andrew, Nick, Eric, Geoff and Gavin.
farmgineer@nord.pub · 2 pts · 38d
We made Jam two days ago (blueberry from our own bushes). We have some ume (plum) from last season as well.
rmuk@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 38d
Spring 1998 vibes frfr no cap