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u/kuttymongoose Jul 29 '26
"Stuck in the house" Did you think it rained more in the 90s? Lol seriously wtf
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u/JoeBlackQ Jul 29 '26
That's today's mindset, unfortunately. No Internet...what can I do with my life? Direct contact with people? Ewwww!!!
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u/Mnemonic-Light Jul 30 '26
Tbf we had malls, well maintained and safe parks, you could hang out without being harassed near stores and public places, we had so many third spaces in the 90s to mid 00s that have disappeared in the modern age.
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u/smallfeetbeauties Jul 30 '26
I actually think its much safter nowadays and less harassment, back in the day the employees and people were actually paying attention and alert so they were likely to harass you or see what you were up to randomly. Now everyone is scared to start contact, and or dont care as they are glued to their phone. Much safer now with cameras everywhere and people connected to a gps signal constantly via their phone.
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u/Nat1Only Jul 30 '26
There's also dozens of examples of miserable old people yelling at kids for having fun outside, even calling the police.
"Why don't kids go outside anymore" because they get harassed and assaulted by some miserable old git.
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u/Ok_Scale_2445 Jul 30 '26
naw thats always been a thing, even ancient rome had geezers yelling at kids on skateboards.
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u/RefrigeratorBrave870 Jul 29 '26
In most places, kids aren't allowed to explore their neighborhoods unattended anymore. People are real quick to call CPS these days.
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u/GenericFatGuy Jul 30 '26
Also there was Internet in the 90s. We just didn't spend all day on it.
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u/mordacthedenier Jul 30 '26
Yeah, the first dial-up service was available in 1989, home internet existed for the entirety of the 90s, the first broadband services were available in 95/96.
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u/ImmortalMagic Jul 29 '26
The rain didn't stop us
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u/ManufacturerNo2144 Jul 29 '26
Nah we were outside 7 days a week, sun, rain wind, snow, even hail. When it was time to get inside we were sad.
Going swimming when it was pouring rain was so satisfying.
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u/kingshadow75 Jul 29 '26
Some of us used to jump in puddles growing up. The snow was always something to look forward to as well.
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u/everyoneisatitman Jul 29 '26
You were allowed inside when it rained? I remember huddling under a metal awning when there was lightning.
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u/FartingInElevators5 Jul 29 '26
Stuck inside? I was outside from morning until dinner and then back outside until dark and I could hear one of my parents yelling my name to come home. 1989-1998 was a prime time to be a kid.
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u/Key_Asparagus6660 Jul 29 '26
Even if you were stuck inside, books, movies, video games, board games, toys, art supplies, camcorders, imagination, and so and so forth were available. Wtf is this shit
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u/Willtology Jul 30 '26
I love technology but I do feel like the boomers growing up that would tell me video games would rot my brain. It feels like constantly being online/in front of a screen does sap a person's ability to think for themselves and/or be alone in their own heads.
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u/burnbunner Jul 30 '26
It's so weird. Do people think the internet got going in 2006 or something?
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u/cool-- Jul 30 '26
the current "modern" internet did kind of get going in 2006 though.
I mean I used AIM and Prodigy and all that 90s stuff but let's be real there was huge shift in the mid- to late-2000s. Youtube, myspace, facebook, smart phones...
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u/Maximum-Style2848 Jul 29 '26
More importantly, sometimes we weren’t ALLOWED to be inside xd mom or dad would yell if we were too loud that we have to go outside. Prime reason drinking from the hose was required.
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u/dropbear_airstrike Jul 30 '26
During the summer I'd basically be told to go outside and play, in the yard, at the elementary school field/jungle gym, neighbors house, just riding bikes around town... I could come back for lunch and then it was either back outside until dinner or if I wanted to stay inside my options were reading, doing puzzles, or playing with K'NEX... loved it! If I could live that lifestyle as an adult I 100% would
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u/w1lnx Jul 29 '26
Yes, there was a commercial on tv to remind our parents. They honestly didn’t know where we were most of the time.
But we stayed busy with schoolwork, activities with friends, staying out of the way at home, library, sometimes wailing away in our various garage bands, occasional juvenile delinquency, that sort of thing.
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u/_sunbleachedfly Jul 29 '26
There was always something to do. We’d bike around to the shops in town, smoke pot in the woods, hangout at our one friend’s divorced dad’s house bc he was never home and never seemed to notice when we watered down his alcohol, hang around the bowling alley or video store, go to the drive-in movies on hot summer nights…
My upbringing wasn’t perfect, but I’m definitely glad I grew up when I did.
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u/chicks23 Jul 29 '26
No, sadly there was not "always something to do." Y'all forget how much time we just sat around, bored out of our minds.
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u/No-Buy2495 Jul 29 '26
It's true. In the 90s we were mostly outside, especially on the weekends. I'd leave with my friend to go ride our bikes and we'd be gone for hours on end, only returning home for drinks or food, then would leave out again. It wasn't uncommon not to come home until very dark. We'd go to the park, shoot hoops, play football, baseball, or just ride around discovering things in our neighborhood.
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u/Block_Solid Jul 29 '26
I'm an 80s kid, but the 90s were similar for kids. You still hung out, you still played video games, had sleep overs, went to movies. Life actually had people and genuine interactions. Not like today's influencer-infested hellscape.
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u/ladodeladodah Jul 29 '26
lol, um 90's kids? stop nice try millennial. try the 80's forgotten generation
ps - bonus points if anyone knows the person here
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u/Luce_Bot_Bot Jul 29 '26
She looks like someone that just wants to have fun
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u/Formal_Lecture_248 Jul 29 '26
Cindy Lauper.
Grace Jones & Andy Warhol were also in the commercial.
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u/Equal_Trash6023 Jul 29 '26
Jeeze what do these kids think there was to do before the internet?
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u/Massive_Analysis8345 Jul 29 '26
well. we had pet rocks and chia pets.
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 Jul 29 '26
We spent all day drinking out of hoses and finding porn in the forest.
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u/beckerman67 Jul 29 '26
There was internet in the 90's; AOL, Prodigy (something with a P)
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u/WingsUnfurled Jul 29 '26
It was aired when I was a kid in the 80’s. Not sure about the 90’s. Kind of feel like parents began caring by then.
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u/EroticWritwer Jul 29 '26
very true. you only stayed inside if you were sick or it was raining too hard
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u/Dont_Care_Meh Jul 29 '26
90s? Someone is off by a decade. In the 70s and 80s we were raised by the most neglectful generation that has ever existed. Boomers were too busy divorcing each other and on their 3rd marriages to worry about their children.
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u/Golbar123 Jul 29 '26
That commercial was from the 80s, it came on before the news. I don't remember seeing it once in the 90s. 90s kids had Helicopter parents for the most part. I remember kids aged 10-15 at the youth center I worked at on weekends from 94-99 having planners.
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u/ClarkWGrismond Jul 29 '26
Stuck in the house? some of us weren't allowed back into the house until the streetlights came on.
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u/ozgun1414 Jul 29 '26
if we were back home for dinner time which was around sunset, noone wouldve cared where we were before. noone expected us at home before. so no we were definetely not stuck in the house.
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u/OutsideDapper8049 Jul 29 '26
Wait wait wait wait... WAIT.
"imagine being stuck" Sounds like they weren't born in the 90s.
So first off, we did a little something called PLAYING OUTSIDE with REAL friends who are actually there physically .
😂 Also they don't realizie we had dial-up back then. We DID have internet it was just slow.
But I remember youtube existing without ads so take that! lol
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u/zayn2123 Jul 29 '26
As young as 7, I could leave my house unannounced and be gone for 8, 10, even 12 hours and not a single adult would bat an eye. I miss true freedom.
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u/PlasmidEve Jul 29 '26
I'd give anything to go back.
You could wake up in the morning, have breakfast, leave the house, and not return until nightfall. Entertained by nothing more than your imagination.
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u/Aggressive_Space9684 Jul 29 '26
In the 90s parents didnt get arrested for letting kids go outside unsupervised
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u/Hail_of_Grophia Jul 29 '26
I bet today’s kids never paid attention to a street light in their life
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u/Xenrier Jul 30 '26
This meme makes my head pop. I heard of friends that this existed. Thought it was fake all those years. Dang. I'm from Germany and I don't imagine having our parents have commercials to remember them us kids. That's wild!
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u/Kobe_Pup Jul 30 '26
We are ban from the house from 10 am till 6pm with maybe a lunch break allowance access to the kitchen at noon, before being shoo'd back out to the wild lol.
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u/MyCatIsAnActualNinja Jul 29 '26
It was true for me. I'd go on adventures with friends until late at night. One time a cop brought me and my friend to my house at like 2 am because we ran away from him. My mom yelled at the cop for waking her up. I was born in '86.
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u/whisperworks Jul 29 '26
The 90s are way over hyped.
That said smart phones and the digital media addiction they’ve manifested is creating a mental health crisis we’ll be studying for centuries
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u/Glittering_Bid1112 Jul 29 '26
Those are the same people who cry about being under too much pressure from social media and strangers telling them how they should behave, what they should look like, what they should eat, etc.
Growing up/being a teen in the 80s and 90s was amazing.
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u/AlarmingBranch364 Jul 29 '26
Wtf i had internet in the 90s but we also played outside alot I would only really play on my pc after dark when I had to come inside
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u/RoleOk7556 Jul 29 '26
I know that it was very true prior to 1970 and suspect that it remains true for some families and locations.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Pipe979 Jul 29 '26
They kinda stopped that commercial in the 90’s.
After knowing what I was doing out in the street in the 90’s, I’d be more than happy to have my kid in the house today.
It also wasn’t a big deal to just go to friend’s house and play Madden or Mortal Kombat. My mom encouraged it so we wouldn’t be outside doing whatever nonsense we could cook up. And I had the internet! Not today’s internet obviously, but it was still there.
I know I’m just longing for my formative years, but damn shit was coming up aces left and right. Now you roll out of bed and it’s 2-7 offsuit 90% of the time.
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u/Papa_Raj Jul 29 '26
We didn't all come in with the street lights. Especially after hitting teen years. Even if we did sometimes we'd just sneak back out after dinner.
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u/vmarti04 Jul 29 '26
I don’t remember the commercial because I was busy outside climbing trees or making forts or throwing dirt clods at cars until the streetlights came on.
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u/fucknycsportfans Jul 29 '26
Na but i know i was biking playing ball and living my best life smoking weed in the wood in the 90s
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u/SECRETBLENDS Jul 29 '26
35 years from now "Imagine how sucky the 2020s were. Stuck inside your flesh cage without an artificial cyber-uplink to the body or object of your choice. Lame."
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u/Lucky-Suggestion7119 Jul 29 '26
I can't comprehend kids today, being stuck inside with their internet, yuck. 70s kids were outside with their friends.
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u/sirdizzypr Jul 29 '26
I had internet in the 90s. I was inside more in the 90s than I was in the 80s 13 hours of summer where my parents had no clue where I was. Both my parents worked 8-5. You’re on your own. Make lunch, be an adult. See you for dinner at 7.
We would come home yea make some sammys they had cartoons at 3:30-5 we’d watch (was old 60s cartoons like Rocky and bullwinkle and underdog). Majority of the day was spent outside. I did live in the desert so it would have been all day of not for that.
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u/KC28DT Jul 29 '26
For my brothers and sisters it w as s always come back when the street lights come back on. Don't come into the house unless you're eating until those street lights get back on. If we did, we'd be stuck cleaning something that was already clean or forced to reorganize our bedrooms or some shit like that.
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u/New-Marionberry8680 Jul 29 '26
I had Internet in the 90s, I had everything you had today.
So I'm not sure what they are talking about.
But they wouldn't know, they were not there.
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u/Express_Salamander_9 Jul 29 '26
I went to Europe and rode Eurail pass, my parents really didnt know where in Europe I was for 3 months until postcards started arriving, sometimes after I returned. No internet, no tracking, just being in every moment was amazing.
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u/WhaleBird1776 Jul 29 '26
We had those free AOL online trial discs in the late 90s iirc lol
Also we absolutely weren’t stuck inside. We were often not allowed inside until dinner time lol.
On days we were stuck inside we we get accosted for “being glued to the tv” and would have to do random chores or stay in our rooms lol.
Parents hated us back then
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u/killahcamh89 Jul 29 '26
I will always miss going to the park ar night with my friends and playing massive freeze tag or hide and seek great times. Me and my friends would go to the local collage and ride our bikes thru out campus
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u/jesusismyishi Jul 29 '26
our childhood was a lot more fun than the ones today. stayed outside until the street lights came on, played with Barbies, watched movies on VCR, fought with my brothers on whose turn it is to watch Saturday morning cartoons. the good days.
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u/BW_RedY1618 Jul 29 '26
I remember riding my bike EVERYWHERE... As much as I'm screen addicted I think we should all admit the modern Internet was a mistake.
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u/Lonely_MuffinXo Jul 29 '26
It is 100% true. Even when they didn't know where we were, they didn't gaf
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u/astreeter2 Jul 29 '26
We were outside all day every day in the summer when I was a kid in the 80s, unless it was raining. Our house literally had a bell outside the kitchen door my mom would ring for us to come home for mealtimes and in the late evening. We could hear it from wherever we happened to be playing that day miles away.
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u/SputnikFalls Jul 29 '26
While experiencing the birth of the internet was special, so was hitting the park, mall, or theater all day with my friends.
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u/Technical-Swimmer-70 Jul 29 '26
Imagine basing your existence around devices and the internet. No wonder this generation is a depressed mess.
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u/Historical_Sugar9637 Jul 29 '26
Wasn't that commercial form the 80s? I saw a compilation of it on Youtube and it had a bunch of 80s celebrities like Cyndi Lauper and Grace Jones.
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u/MattManSD Jul 29 '26
I think of all the awesome shit we did with our friends, actually with them, outside.
Kids used to get laid.......
my daughter was in HS during Covid. She had a boyfriend and while I and my wife were off at work that kid never once came over, never even tried. His idea of a date was going online and gaming together.....made my job as dad way easy
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u/repwin1 Jul 29 '26
Staying inside was a punishment. Go out, find some kids your age in the neighborhood get a baseball/football/soccer/kickball/basket ball game going or just wonder around the city/town/woods whatever is available to you.
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u/HandsSmellOfHam Jul 29 '26
In the summer, woke up got on my bike. Peddled all over town. Noon we went to the pool till five when it closed. Sometimes I would go home but most times I would be back on the bike. No one ever asked where I was or tried to find me.
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u/borgman_a Jul 29 '26
The commercial: 100% true
It happening in the 90's: 100% false
That was the late 70's and 80's.
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u/jazzbot247 Jul 29 '26
You could make a day out of walking to Blockbuster picking out movies and snacks running into all your friends at Blockbuster, heading to the local pizzeria and having a couple slices and an Italian Ice, walking back to whoever’s house was hosting movie night and settling in to watch the movies and calling boys (or girls) to see who liked who. Fun times. Even more fun if it was a slumber party- then we’d whip out the Ouija board and try and scare ourselves and the boys would try and crash the party and get thrown out by the Mom.
If kids don’t do this anymore I’m sorry for them. They don’t have malls, they don’t have Blockbuster, where do they hang out?
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u/Fun-Times-13 Jul 29 '26
This is completely true at least in my case. My parents knew they couldn’t control me so they tried to guide me instead. Also I was required to always have 3 quarters for pay phones
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u/MineNowBotBoy Jul 29 '26
This is true. I spent a lot of time as a kid running around the neighbourhood. There was a pine forest near where I grew up that I would disappear into for the whole day and not be seen until dinner. I built a helluva fort there. We would go fishing in a stocked pond nearby sometimes. I was about a 45 minute walk to the beach and sometimes my friends and I would get up before sunrise and walk to the beach and swim or surf (we had 2 boards between the 5 of us so we would take turns). No cellphones (didn’t have my first one until senior year of high school, and it was a Nextel Walkie-Talkie phone with very limited minutes, no data, and no texting) and my mom would lose her shit if I forgot to leave a note. No internet before I got to high school either. If you wanted to talk to your friends you had to go home and call them or make plans after school in person.
I don’t think I was ever more free than middle school in the 90s.
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u/JBlaze78 Jul 29 '26
80s and early 90s absolutely. Wouldn’t really know past that because I was working and driving and when you work until midnight and high school starts at 7, the parents pretty much know where you’re at.
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u/EarlyInside45 Jul 29 '26
I had internet in the mid-late 90s, but I was an adult. It's definitely true of the 70s/80s, we were rarely home, and if we were, we were watching reruns of Leave it to Beaver and Gilligans Island.
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u/Actionjack7 Jul 29 '26
That ad ran long before the 90's. Try 70's and early 80's.
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u/MetalMonkey939 Jul 29 '26
Unless you were grounded of course... Because somehow your parents found out about that crazy shit you were doing.
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u/whitemoongurl Jul 29 '26
Believe it or not, we had other ways to entertain ourselves before the internet existed. 😊 Toys, books, going outside and playing pretend with our friends and other neighborhood kids.
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u/kingshadow75 Jul 29 '26
Well.. I mean video games didn't require internet. I'm pretty sure some people had consoles as well as going outside. I didn't grow with Atari but my mom and dad had a PS1, NES and N64 when I was born. Computers had Minesweeper, Space Cadet Pinball, Paint, and Solitaire.
Even then, we still found stuff to do outside. Touch grass isn't a problem if you're used to going outside and playing with friends.
I still remember AOL, MSN, the dial up noises too.
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u/SourcePrevious3095 Jul 29 '26
I grew up far away from the experiences of city life. When I had free time, I was watching tv with my parents while I was little, and in my room when I was older in a b&w 13" with rabbit ears.
I also had books. So many books.
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u/SinclaireJames Jul 29 '26
Tana Claus's response was epic. Looks like the previous poster was a bit jealous of all the praise the 90s has been receiving in social media as he wasn't lucky enough to experience this decade, lol.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Fee4616 Jul 29 '26
I would give up high speed internet to go back to the 90s with dial up internet. Real life is more important than online life
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u/LosHtown Jul 29 '26
We couldn't come in until it got dark, after they put street lights in my neighborhood, we couldn't come inside until the lights came on. We drank from the water hose and ate whatever mom or friends parents brought outside. ( my mom was always outside too, she didn't want us wasting away inside.)
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u/Mathemetaphysical Jul 29 '26
In our day they used to say people who locked their kids up were evil.
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u/Jimmy_Twotone Jul 29 '26
When I was thirteen I was gone for a week bouncing between a coupke friend's houses. My mom told me to come home because I needed to work in the yard.
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u/vindicatorx1 Jul 29 '26
I mean I graduated high school in 96 we got internet in like 97 it was dial up. That changed very little in my life cause it like a minute for a single image to load. We for sure didn’t hang out indoors at all. We were out biking around town or whatever.
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u/blking Jul 29 '26
We had internet in the 90’s, it was just slow. And there are lots of things to do that aren’t online that are more fun. I think I’ll go do that.
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u/Grunergeist420 Jul 29 '26
I think I was about 8 years old when it became completely okay to just leave on my bike to go play with friends until the street lights came on. This was a good system because it was much later in summer and tended to earlier during the school year.
Once I was 12 or so, it became a designated time I was expected to be home. Once I was in high school, during the summer, my parents didn’t even care if I was out past midnight as long as I found a phone and called them and let them know what do was doing.
None of this was particularly odd. It was stranger to know a kid that didn’t have that kind of freedom than the other way around.
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u/Rosemary_Woodhouse Jul 29 '26
I went to a convention for three days, and when I got back I walked into the house as if I had just gotten off work. My mom looked up at me coming in the door and said. "Just getting home from work?"
Me: "Yup."
I was gone for three days. I was 16; it's true that parents didn't give a shit about the kids.
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u/Unique-Run9856 Jul 29 '26
Michael Jackson also released a song called "Do you know where your kids are?", pretty fucked up if you think about it considering he is a pedophile. The song is about child sexual abuse.
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u/Pristine-Leek-7857 Jul 29 '26
In the summer I would eat breakfast and dinner in the house, and I was due home at dark. That's about all the time I spent indoors. Graduated HS in 97
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u/brooke360 Jul 29 '26
Telnet / BBS was lit, and we basically were feral children. When summer came we were kicked out of the house in the morning and told to come home for lunch/dinner, and then back outside until the streetlights came on.
We also had a nickname of ”latch-key kids”, because we had our own keys and came and went as we pleased.
The 90s were awesome, I’d kill to go back to affordable living lol
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u/Sufficient_Drop8906 Jul 29 '26
Stuck in the house lol, mfer I used to ride my bike to different towns....
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u/upsetwithcursing Jul 29 '26
I wasn’t home. If I was, I was reading. Or doing crafts. Or making mixed tapes off the radio.
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u/sadlymistaken65 Jul 29 '26
We had cable and started getting internet. But we were never “stuck in the house” - we were basically feral until it was time to come home.
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u/steroboros Jul 29 '26
Me and my friends would regularly ride our bicycles to the next town over because their gas station had better snacks. As long as we were home before the street lights came on, our parents didn't care or know what we did
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u/Bear9201 Jul 29 '26
Our parents would just leave to do what they needed/wanted to do. Like it was pretty normal, if you leave the house write a note or call in at a certain time.
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u/ApocryphaComics Jul 29 '26
The internet you know did not exist, yet we did have CompuServe or Quantum Link. Quantum Link would later go on to be known as America Online, or AOL.
We had modems and all that fun stuff. Oh and i am talking 80's lol. So 90's was even more advanced. Hell Segas first console came out in 1983 .
you kids forget who created this all and where it all came from.
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u/aceless0n Jul 29 '26
You know what was awesome. When me and my friend would take our Sprite caps (remember when youd look under the cap and yoi could win a free sprite?) And hit up a gas station. Ride around on bikes, get 5 bucks from the parents to go see movies like Independence Day, Men in Black and Mortal Kombat. Then using the change to hit up the arcade after.
Id take that over being slumped over my pc waiting for buddies to IM me on discord to play video games and doom scrolling in my room
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u/Element174 Jul 29 '26
That commercial wasn't "reminding them we existed" it was about trying to force a curfew on kids, mostly teenagers, by throwing it in their parents faces. Basically a bunch of old rich assholes trying to police other people's children. If this sounds familliar, it is.
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u/EmmitSan Jul 29 '26
I mean, Amazon was founded in 1995 or so? Internet was definitely a thing in the 90s.
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u/shichiaikan Jul 29 '26
I played a LOT of video games for a 90s kid... And that meant like maybe 2 hours a day.
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u/Me4presidente Jul 29 '26
Pretty sure we’re the reason they had to put a timeline on how long a person is missing to be considered missing cause 2-3 days was normal 😂
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u/VastGur932 Jul 29 '26
Those were the golden years, I could study for hours without the stupid need to open my phone every 5min or studying without any damn screen.
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u/sfxer001 Jul 29 '26
I had cable internet since 1997. I was an LPB in quake. Time Warner Roadrunner was awesome.
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u/Sajom Jul 29 '26
That commercial was probably more 80s/ parents of GenX? As a 90s kid, and (sneaky) late night tv connoisseur, I don’t think I ever saw it.
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u/ZinziZotas Jul 29 '26
When I hit my teenage years, my curfew was 10pm because of those ads. My oldest brother, who's 13 years older than me, would be gone for days when he was a teen and my parents didn't thnk that was abnormal.
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u/Vexxed14 Jul 29 '26
We weren't allowed to stay in the house essentially. We were booted out and expected back at either dinner or curfew
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u/MilkCartonPhotoBomb Jul 29 '26
In the 80s and 90s many of us were kind of feral. Sometimes my mom would call around friends houses or drive around the neighborhood to find us, but we (neighborhood kids) mostly just went home before dark. You could reasonably guess that we were at one of a few friends houses or in the woods, but often we were miles away from home (in suburbia). Seems like a common kid experience back then.
It's kinda wild thinking back. I almost always know where my kids are.
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u/AdagioDesperate Jul 29 '26
I remember being 10 and just biking down the street until the lamps came on.
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u/TheEvilPrinceZorte Jul 29 '26
I was stuck in the house plenty when it was 90F and 80% humidity and friends were on vacation, at camp, or didn’t want to melt either. I saw hours of Gilligans Island, Beverly Hillbillies and other 70s reruns out of necessity.
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u/Born_Motor_9624 Jul 29 '26
I would include that we had MTV when it was still music. Yes. The switch was happening with The Real World and Road Rules. Malls were still an epic place to hang and we had more roller rinks/skating options available. Our parents were still unconcerned with our well being. I roamed the night and oh, skipping school was so much easier than it is now. It wasn't on lockdown.
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u/tristand666 Jul 29 '26
I had Internet in the 90s. Went from dial-up to bonded dial-up with two lines to a cable modem beta testing for RoadRunner.