A screenshot of the show 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' (© Gp W Prod/Everett / Rex Features)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Be honest, Michelangelo was your favorite. But where did he pick up that surfer lingo?

A Walkman (© Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images)

The Walkman: Remember the concept of rewinding a song to the beginning? Exquisite agony!

A Rollerblade (© David Arky/Tetra images RF/Getty Images)

Rollerblades: We thought this was going to turn into, like, an Olympic sport at one point.

The Spice Girls (© Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

The Spice Girls: Boys wanted them; girls wannabe them. Zig-a-zig-ah!

A musician wearing a Tattoo Choker (© Eisman/Getty Images)

Tattoo choker: What were these things?! Everyone wore them, and no one asked why.

Japanese Bandai Corp.'s Tamagotchi virtual pet (© Ted Thai//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Tamagotchi: Cleaning up after a pretend pet was way more important than math class.

Gwen Stefani at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards (© Barry King/WireImage/Getty Images)

Gwen bindi: Way before L.A.M.B., Gwen Stefani clued us into bindis and henna.

Portrait of young woman in Overalls (© Dimitri Vervitsiotis/Getty Images)

Overalls: In the’90s, you didn’t have to choose between looking cool and being comfy.

A screenshot of Microsoft's Windows 95 via guidebookgallery.org (© Microsoft, http://aka.ms/windows-95)

Windows 95: An operating system that changed the world and let us play hours and hours of MYST

A Cross Colours clothing advertisement for Women (© Cross Colours Clothing via Erica Strawberry Kane, http://aka.ms/cross-colours)

Cross Colours: The height of ’90s fashion. The brand is still around but, sigh, not quite the same.

ZIMA: A ZIMA hanging sign for sale by Ebay user hand-cuffs (©Ebay.com, http://aka.ms/zima)

ZIMA: It was zome kind of alcohol, and it zworked.

Flat-Top: Chris Rock in 1993 (© Steve Eichner/WireImage/Getty Images)

Flat-Top: What '90s dreamboat didn’t aspire to these great heights?

Zubaz: Zubaz pants (© Zubaz, http://aka.ms/zubaz-pants)

Zubaz: $100 million grossed by 1991. Zubaz probably misses the '90s even more than we do.

13 things we miss about life in the '90s

8/20/2012

Between the ‘90s flashback video we can’t stop watching and the Spice Girls' appearance at the Olympic closing ceremony still haunting our dreams, we can’t stop remembering things we miss from the glorious '90s. There were things we enjoyed then that we didn’t even realize were "'90s" — we just thought, hey, cargo pants are comfy, and Salt-n-Pepa sounds awesome. Little did we realize how soon it would all fade away like a sweet, sweet dream. Children, the present is a palace made of sand and the wind is blowing! So excuse us while we mourn these artifacts of the ‘90s.

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