What do you remember most about the era you grew up in?

I grew up in the early 2000’s. What sticks out to me the most is the snacks and foods that were out. I remember green ketchup and grilled cheese Uncrustables and also Pepsi blue.

I also remember the TV shows that were out. SpongeBob had just started and it was a big deal. Also Rocket Power was another popular one. I had a Rocket Power back pack in 3rd grade.

As for the styles flare jeans were in. Also LiveStrong bracelets. And black Vans with colored stripes.

Fall Out Boy was a popular band. The song Sugar We’re going down was a great song. Green Day released their very popular album American Idiot.

What do you remember most from your era?

I was a teen in the 90s, but I remember the snap bracelets from the 80s. I didn't get a computer until 1994 or so, but I remember aol instant messenger and chat rooms. When I was in high school, the shows on The WB were popular: Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Roswell, Dawson's Creek, Felicity...

Probably the music... first the "British invasion" (The Beatles, et al) followed by the folk music revival and then folk-rock.

@Skeezyks your generation had the best music!

I grew up in the 50's & 60's. Lived in So. Calif with Lockheed military aircraft being built almost in my back yard & rocket testing in the mountains around the valley I lived it. The "cold war" was REAL for areas like I lived it. They had air raid drills once a month because if any area would be targeted it would be us. It didn't create fear in me because nothing ever happened but it is definitely something that stood out from my childhood

I was so glad I wasn’t born during the Cold War. Especially when the Cuban missle crisis happened. My mom told me stories about how they had planned on hiding in their basement if anything happened. They had a neighbor who didn’t have a basement and they said if she ran fast enough she could stay with them. My uncle said duck and cover was just a nice way of kissing your *** goodbye.

My mom says it was a very scary time.

I’m also glad I was too young to comprehend Y2K.

What stood out for me was the music and unrest. Vietnam protest, woman power, our bodies ourselves. Kent state, Bell bottoms, Mary Jane, and turn on, tune in, drop out. The rad psychedelic posters. And burned into my psych is the little girl running naked down the street after being nepalmed. Peace ✌️ ☮️ , protest songs and the green turtle that implored us to drop and cover. Wine skins, bare feet and long hair.

Landing on the moon, the space race and Star Trek.

70s&80s here.

The main thing I remember was the freedom kids had as compared to today. I remember walking to school by myself in grade 1. And after school we'd just ride our bikes and play outside until it was dinner time.

And 80s alt-rock. Good music.

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I was a kid in the 1980`s and a teenager in the late eighties and early 90`s . When I was a kid I remember 80`s music that I still love until this day. I remember when MTV played music videos and when that was a pretty new thing. I remember 80`s movies like The Breakfast Club and Pretty In Pink. I remember the great Cabbage Patch Kids doll craze and that we were so happy when my Mom got us one.

In the early nineties I remember when Grunge music and fashion became the new big thing. I loved that music too.

I did not care for the grunge look myself. But it was in when I was in high school.

assassination of John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King

Vietnam War and the protests

much needed changes in human rights

my high school in daily lockdown due to racial unrest due to court ordered busing

bell bottom pants, Gunny Sack dresses, a relaxation of norms about how to dress

long hair on men and women

looooong lines at gas stations due to rationing

The Cold War, duck and cover, a conviction that we were all going to die in a nuclear war. Like Eskie I lived in an area that would have been ground zero if the bombing started.

Flower power, we would going to solve the world's problems.

Seems like my memories are mostly dark. I suspect my view is colored by the deep dark pit my life was then....

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Originally Posted by lizardlady assassination of John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King Vietnam War and the protests much needed changes in human rights my high school in daily lockdown due to racial unrest due to court ordered busing bell bottom pants, Gunny Sack dresses, a relaxation of norms about how to dress long hair on men and women looooong lines at gas stations due to rationing The Cold War, duck and cover, a conviction that we were all going to die in a nuclear war. Like Eskie I lived in an area that would have been ground zero if the bombing started. Flower power, we would going to solve the world's problems. Seems like my memories are mostly dark. I suspect my view is colored by the deep dark pit my life was then....

YES, to all these memories too. I don't think they were dark memories, they were what was realistic about our era. My only good memories have nothing to do with the era itself (& they are few & far between too)

I was born in 1969 so I was a child throughout the '70s. The things I remember most were the decor and fashions of that time, the clothes, the colours. I still have a great 'fondness' for 1970s things. I just think 70s decor looks cool and laid back.

Look at this old 70s wallpaper, the pattern and the colours. Isn't she a beauty? 🥰🧡

children's tv

the channels were litirally full of shows- new ones at that, updating quite often

but now children's tv sucks. their's nothing wrong with peppa pig or spongebob, but their is when that's the only show broadcast

okay, okay. in the 90's they were a bit obsessed over rugrats, but at least their was lots of other variety.

their just isn't now

our version of nick junior's so desperate to keep on air that they are doing a month marathon of paw patrol.

no joke

it's so sad. I miss all the variety

As a small kid, I remember Mr Rogers, The Electric Company and Zoom. I remember Mr Hooper dying. At 54, I still sometimes say "Ahh Ahh Ahh" after counting something.

Jimmy Carter's election and peanut flavored everything. I remember going with a friend and their dad to get a peanut butter ice cream malt. So good. PB is still my favorite food. I eat it every day.

I remember spending the entire day outside playing with friends. We lived a few miles outside the closest town and we would just wander the pastures and fields around us, without a worry in the world.

I remember we had a party line telephone, that we only answered if it rang twice. Ring, other party. Ring, ring, that was us.

The Iran hostages and the failed attempt to rescue them.

I remember Friday Night Videos, I think a competitor to MTV. I remember my dad forbidding us from watching Saturday Night Live because he walked in on a skit with John Belushi with white powder under his nose. I later saw the skit and he was eating a powdered donut, but my dad assumed it was drugs. And I think that was the point of the skit.

The Midnight Special and Wolf Man Jack. Johnny Carson. We were allowed to watch the monologue.

Ronald Reagan's election and assassination attempt. I graduated and then entered the Army in 84 and my first ever presidential vote was for Reagan. I wasn't then and am not now a real follower of politics.

your party line reminded me of a fun memory (a bit bad, but it was fun!)

when my mother was out 1 evening, I spent then ight round my friendj ane's house, and her kids kelly and emma were their too

well: kelly and me decided to make a prank call to a catelogue company, and we ended up getting catelogues ordered to every address in our street without anyone living their

it cost a lot of money to order the catelogues, (we used jane's credit card), but I have fun with it!. we both did!. I used to really enjoy prank calls when I was younger

I remember having a really basic cellphone that could make calls, and nothing else

their was a travel information line too, and everytime my phone would be topped up with money, I'd use it all to call the travel line

don't know why, it was fun!

My dad having long side burns, crimplene dresses, I had one I remember vividly how it looked and my mom had crimplene dress and pants too, weird hair dos on both men and women, Cold War, we had bunkers type of things where people supposed to hide and there was a training in school what to do in case of nuclear attack, (lol I was on the other side of iron curtain but boy it was the same nonsense), summer cottage and summer camps, dinky cars-don’t recall what kind we had, rotary phones, phone booth, telegraph station where you could send telegrams from, people smoking on the airplanes and on trains, black and white tv with bunny ears antenna, I remember when we got color tv and it was weird to see things in color, black and white photography! I was born in the 60s.

For those of you who lived through duck and cover, did you ever wonder how kneeling down and covering your head was going to protect you from a nuke? Oh yes, and girls were supposed to kneel because if we sat cross legged like the boys somebody might see our undies! I wondered about that too. If we were turned to a pile of radioactive ash what difference did it make? In some ways I was a contrary little beast.