Things Only 90s Kids Will Remember*
The Mauve Decade girls do it better! We all know it. You might feel old knowing that Dracula came out 119 years ago. OMG. I feel so old. Here is a quick list of things that you will only get if you remember the 90s,
1) The First (and Second LOL) Franco-Dahomean War(s): Remember when the West African State of Dahomey was a thing? Well not after these wars.
2) Chanute-Herring Biplane: So much better than trying to lift yourself off an English beach by tying a bunch of kites to yourself.
3) McKinley is president: Far out! Let’s get imperial, America!
4) The Dreyfus affair: It’s amazing how far we have come since then. It’s like, OMG, remember when it everyone distrusted Jews? It was insane.
5) Benz Velo: Everyone who was anyone was driving this “car.” Though we all know, it was really just the coolest motorized wagon.
6) Seeing the Kinetoscope at the World’s Fair: The 1 minute long film “Blacksmith Scene” is still totally a classic. So quotable for not having any words.
7) CO2: 2 scientists independently suggested that human CO2 emissions might cause global warming. Talk about an inconvenient truth.
8) Gold in the District of Alaska: forget California, this decade was all about Alaska. It was great to get out of America and do some traveling. Who knows? Maybe you even got rich.
9) Temperance was in!: We didn’t need booze to turn up. Just cool chicks and morality! Yeah!
10) Sherlock Holmes, Rudyard Kipling, Heart of Darkness: So much good reading. Literally books haven’t been nearly as racist since.
11) Ragtime and John Phillip Sousa were playing all the time: Throwback jamz! You know you still can hum along to those crazy marches.
*As of May 12, 2016, there is only one confirmed living person who remembers the 90s.
