Tag: 90s

Want to feel old? UVA basketball’s incoming class answers 90s trivia and actually do pretty well!

Virginia’s incoming first years try and answer some 90s trivia.

A popular trend over the last few years has a simple premise but usually a great payoff: ask people of one generation about the trends and popular items of a previous generation. Usually these end with the older generation feeling so, so ancient and wondering how the youths have been led so astray while the younger generation wonders why the older generation didn’t have reliable internet and made stuffed animals talk with terrifying voices (looking at you, Furby).

Virginia basketball had some fun with this, asking their highly-rated incoming class about the 90s in a social media video. Ryan Dunn, Leon Bond, Isaac Traudt, and Isaac McKneely — all born in the early 2000s — sat down to field some questions on the decade that preceded their arrival into the world.

They’re shown pictures of popular, trendy items like Beanie Babies or Tamagotchis, people like Lindsay Lohan and Steve Urkel and album covers like Backstreet Boys’ Millennium. That sound you hear is 90’s kids yelling “OH NO I FEEL SO OLDDDD.”

Bond dominates, even if he said he knew what VHS tapes were thanks to the hit Netflix show Stranger Things. All the guys knew slap bracelets and most recognized the red carpet coupling of Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. No one knew Tamagotchis (finger clocks!) or Lindsay Lohan circa Parent Trap era (Miranda Tisdale?!) or the AOL logo (I mean, why would they), but overall the guys did a great job and seemingly had fun.

Now if you excuse me, I’m going to reminisce about dial up internet and watching TRL after school on MTV.

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NBA Rising Stars were asked about the ’90s and their answers will make you feel so, so old

Prepare to feel ancient.

Revisiting ’90s nostalgia has, for many years, been an easy way to score internet points or drum up some conversation on a bad date. Nothing in common? You can always talk about Legends of the Hidden Temple. “Hey, I also loved that show!”

But, as always, the slow march of time goes on, and for young people now, that nostalgia is absolutely meaningless. Why would anyone under the age of 22 know what Full House is?

At the NBA All-Star weekend in Chicago, ESPN leaned into this, talking with members of the NBA Rising Stars game about the great decade of the ’90s. They do … poorly. It’s infuriating, but then you realize that Tyler Herro and RJ Barrett were both born in the year 2000, and it all makes sense. It’s sad, but it makes sense.

Someone get Herro a copy of Supa Dupa Fly, though. Please.

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