People & Events

• the Persian Gulf War
• Kurt Cobain's suicide
• the O.J. Simpson trial
• Rodney King and the L.A. riots
• Columbine High
• Oklahoma City Bombing
• the Waco Branch Davidian Siege
• Tiananmen Square
• the Lewinsky sex scandal
• Saddam Hussein
• Y2K paranoia
• the collapse of the Soviet Union
• Bosnia
• Chechnya
• the murder of Matthew Shepard
• Dr. Kevorkian
• Mad Cow Disease
• Dolly the Cloned Sheep
• the Ebola Virus
• the AIDS epidemic
• Lorena Bobbitt
• El Nino
• "I did not inhale"
• Margaret Thatcher
• the death of Princess Diana
• Jeffrey Dahmer
• the murder of Yusef Hawkins
• Winona Ryder shoplifting

Music

• Pearl Jam
• Nirvana
• Trent Reznor
• Marilyn Manson
• Alanis Morissette
• the advancing decline of MTV
• the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls
• Napster
• the Macarena being played EVERYWHERE
• boy bands
• Spice Girls
• Puff Daddy
• Vanilla Ice
• MC Hammer
• Hanson
• britpop
• new wave

TV & Films

• The X-Files
• Clerks
• Pump Up The Volume
• Heathers
• Back to the Future
• Daria
• 90210
• The Simpsons
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The Matrix
• the beginning of reality TV
• Beavis and Butthead
• Ren and Stimpy
• Fraggle Rock
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• You Can't Do That On Television
• NYPD Blue
• Roseanne
• Full House

Fashion

• grunge
• kinderwhore
• heroin chic
• flannel shirts
• fanny packs
• Keds
• leggings with big sweaters
• slouch socks
• Cool Britannia/Union Jack
• neon colors
• acid wash jeans
• belly button rings
• Doc Martens

Other

• Nintendo
• 70's nostalgia
• shopping malls as the place to be seen
• beepers/pagers
• WWJD
• Beanie Babies
• My Little Pony
• Cabbage Patch Dolls
• Tamagotchis
• laser disks
• AOL
• Magic Eye 3D posters
• Pogs
• "Elmo-mania" the Tickle Me Elmo craze
• everyone's parents getting divorced
• goth subculture
• Rock the Vote