Oh, how we laughed back in the 90s when Travis sang ‘remember the eighties/they were worse than the nineties’.
But with hindsight, the nineties were pretty crap too. For every Nirvana there was a Nickelback, for every Schindler’s List a Spiceworld.
And the hair. Oh god, the hair.
Here are 21 things kids today will never understand about the nineties.
1. Dial-up internet
It was slow, it cost a fortune, you couldn’t use the phone at the same time and a single song would take four hours to download. We spent most of our time waiting for YouTube to be invented and flicking through Digitiser on teletext instead.
2. Britpop
So many guitarists. So few good songs.
3. Tony Blair
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