Yahoo Lifestyle People Are Sharing Things That Were Super Common In 1994 But Have Ceased To Exist By 2024
Recently, u/FlintTheDad asked the r/AskReddit Community "What existed in 1994 but not in 2024?" The answers are super fascinating and thought-provoking. So here are 22 people, places, and things that you mighttttt just remember, depending on your age:
1."Movie rental stores."
2."Made in Hong Kong."
"It used to be commonplace on plastic products, toys etc., but no longer."
"I was recently told that most items that said "made in Hong Kong" were made in mainland China and just exported out of Hong Kong. I guess this makes sense as it presumably ended once the mainland started exporting directly."
"Hello from Hong Kong! Nowadays, we say, 'The only thing manufactured in Hong Kong is deals,' which is pretty accurate."
3."Being able to be completely unreachable as soon as you left your house."
4."World War I Veterans."
"This is true. I had a neighbor who fought in World War I. He was born in 1892 and lived until 1997. I remember him fondly. At the age of 98, we had to stop him from mowing his field with a hand-swinging scythe because he hurt his back. He and his wife both lived to be over 100. I still miss dropping by to chat with them."
5."The Montreal Expos."
6."The Seattle SuperSonics."
7."The Hartford Whalers."
8."The smoking section in the high school I attended."
9."Mir Space Station"
"A fantastic piece of engineering despite its failures. Anyone who is in any way interested in space travel should absolutely look into Mir."
10."Netscape."
11."Public telephones."
12."Phone books."
"Anyone remember using them as a booster seat?"
13."The ability [for Americans] to go to Canada without a passport."
14."Concert goers without cell phones."
15."$1 menus at fast food places."
16."Toys 'R' Us."
17."Kids playing outside 'until the street lights come on'."
18."Wendy's salad bar."
"Wendy’s and Pizza Hut had such good salad bars, at least to my adolescent taste buds."
19."The phrase 'get off the internet. I need to use the phone.'"
"Choosing between Neopets and being able to send or receive calls was wild."
20."Tower Records and large vinyl stores."
21."Socialising without putting a metric on it."
22."Steak and Ale Restaurants"
Though, according to their website, after being closed for sixteen years, they have opened a new location in Burnsville, Minnesota! It goes to show that sometimes the things we thought were lost have a funny way of coming back around...
So, did these bring you back or leave you scratching your head? Anything else from the 90s that has ceased to exist? Let me know in the comments!
I, for one, can't imagine having had a smoking section at my high school.
Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
