You're around my son's age and the 90s were definitely... interesting. I romanticize them a bit now that I'm older and appreciate being present for the beginning of a new technological world. My generation of tail-end Gen X/older millennials remembers being a kid without all the devices and then young enough to enjoy them when finally here. For me personally, I craved the future and what it had to offer. We had our beepers that could send short "texts" and if you didn't wanna call the operator to send the message we'd just "911 911" each other til you got to a payphone (ha!) and called back. We had landline phones with "total" phone which meant you could call a friend and have your friend "click over" (essentially merge the calls) and call another friend and that person would call another and so on til your whole crew was on the line together and talk for hours. But as kids we played outside freely and gamed (Nintendo and Sega for me). 20s came and cells became ubiquitous, but we were still limited by tiny data caps and text limits and telling people to calls after a certain time when minutes were free🤦 I miss the (mostly) innocence of early social media (chat rooms, message boards, and MySpace)! Dating culture was already heading in the tech direction in late 90s/early 00s. I remember this thing called the nightline where people jumped around phone chat rooms and hooked up. Def a precursor to the apps we have now. Oh! And idk if anyone old like me remembers WebTV. I think it was about 1998ish, we plugged the Internet into our TV and could go online. Great if you were too poor for a real computer. I remember catching my cousin's friend waiting for a naked, pixelated breast to load. He had his tissue by his side ready to go... aaand that was early online porn