1990s Things We HATED Waiting For

Remember waiting all night for one download, only to have somebody pick up the phone? In the 90s, everything made us wait: the snow day list on the morning news, the Prevue Channel scrolling past our channel, the new release wall at Blockbuster, and that one phone call we stayed home for. This is a trip back to the good old days of American nostalgia, when dial up internet screeched through the living room, songs came from the radio, and photos took a week to come back from the drugstore. From Saturday morning cartoons and rabbit ears to concert ticket lines and “please allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery,” these are the childhood memories Gen X and 90s kids still talk about. Back then, all that waiting drove us crazy. Today, most of us would give anything to feel it again. So grab a seat and take a walk down memory lane with us. 00:00 Intro 00:26 Snow Day School Closings 01:12 Dial-Up Internet 01:59 Recording Songs Off the Radio 02:34 The Prevue Channel (TV Guide Channel) 03:23 Meeting Up Before Cell Phones 03:54 Film Developing & One-Hour Photo 04:31 Blockbuster & the Video Store 05:03 Weekly TV Shows & Summer Reruns 05:37 Mail-Order Prizes: 6 to 8 Weeks for Delivery 06:27 Rabbit Ears TV Antenna 06:56 Camping Out for Concert Tickets 07:28 Saturday Morning Cartoons 07:58 Christmas Morning in the 90s 08:42 Waiting by the Phone 09:14 Outro What did you wait for the most growing up, and what did I miss? Tell me in the comments. And if this brought back some memories, subscribe to Memory Trails for more nostalgia from the decades we grew up in. #90s #nostalgia #genx