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Continued from the 1980s



1990



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1994



1995

  • Windows 95


    • 1996



    1997



    1998



    1999

  • Y2K bug


    • Other Fads of the 1990s

  • 1940s Retro Movement
  • Amiga home computer
  • Baby Doll Fashion
  • Barcodedesigns
  • Barney
  • Beanie babies
  • Beavis & Butthead
  • Beepers
  • Betty Boop t-shirts
  • Big Bad Beetleborgs
  • Blue's Clues
  • Book clubs
  • Bowl cut
  • Boy bands (Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, 98 Degrees) and Bubble Gum Pop artists (Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Mandy Moore, Jessica Simpson)
  • Bugle Boy jeans
  • Caesar haircut
  • Caller ID
  • Cargo pants – late 1990s
  • Carmen Sandiego
  • Chat Rooms
  • Chicken Soup for the Soul books
  • The Club
  • Cornrows
  • Cosmetic contact lenses
  • Creepy Crawlers
  • Crystal Pepsi / Pepsi Clear
  • Digimon – 1998
  • Disney character t-shirts
  • Dolphin-safe tuna
  • Doodle bear
  • Elmo t-shirts
  • El Niño
  • Ebonics
  • Euro Disneyland
  • Fanny pack
  • Flannel shirts
  • Fox Kids magazine
  • FUBU clothing
  • Furby
  • GoGos
  • Game.com
  • Game Boy Camera
  • Goosebumps
  • Grafiti clothing
  • Grunge Music
  • Gushers fruit snacks
  • Hello Kitty merchandise
  • Hemp
  • Henna tatoos
  • Heroin chic
  • Hypercolor, continued from the 1980s
  • Irish Theme pubs
  • I've fallen and I can't get up
  • Jnco jeans and shirts
  • Key necklaces
  • Koosh products
  • Lambada dance
  • Laser pointers; late 1990s
  • Lisa Frank accessories
  • Looney Tunes t-shirts
  • Macarena – 1996
  • Mad cow disease
  • Magic Eye; 1993
  • Martha Stewart
  • Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
  • Mentos commercials
  • Mortal Kombat
  • Moviefone
  • Nerf toys
  • The nicotine patch
  • Nintendo Gameboy; 1989, but gained enormous popularity through the 1990s
  • Olestra
  • One-length haircut in Japan (hair worn straight down, cut to a straight line across the shoulders or back, and not layered)
  • Pacifiers for teens
  • Pager
  • Planet Hollywood
  • Pogs
  • Pokémon
  • Power Rangers
  • Psychic Friends Network
  • Rabbit's foot
  • Rachel haircut
  • Rave
  • Red Bull
  • Retro 1960s and early 1970s clothing and accessories
  • R. L. Stine books, Goosebumps and Fear Street
  • Rollerblades
  • Rugrats
  • S-curl
  • Sherbet Straws; these small tubes full of confectionery experienced a massive boom in sales during the 1990s
  • Short-sleeve hoodies
  • The Simpsons merchandise
  • Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
  • Snap bracelet
  • Snapple
  • Soccer moms
  • South Park merchandise
  • Starbucks
  • Starter jackets
  • Striped colored t-shirts
  • Super Game Boy
  • Surge soda
  • The Taco Bell chihuahua
  • Tae-Bo
  • Teen Talk Barbie
  • Tamagotchi
  • Thighmaster
  • Tickle Me Elmo
  • Tommy Hilfiger accessories
  • Viagra
  • Warehouse clubs
  • "Whatever" & "Talk to the hand"
  • Where's Waldo puzzles and books
  • Winnie the Pooh t-shirts and accessories for girls and women
  • Wallet chains
  • Wonderbra
  • Yo-yo — 1930s, but returned in the 1990s
  • Zima
  • Zubaz










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