Oh, 90s. You were something, all right. How different it was being young back then.

We collected 10-öre coins to buy a 50-öres chewing gum. We saw the arrival of the golden 10 coin and thought that had to be worth so much more since it was gold. We rented video tapes, not DVDs (actually, at home we used to rent the video recorder as well, because we didn’t have one). We had both OÄ and NO/SO as subjects in school. We collected yo-yos and plastic pacifiers in different sizes and colours that you could wear as necklaces. We traded ‘the Lion King’ trading cards during breaks, always looking for those final cards to make the collection complete. We knew our friends’ home numbers by heart.

We had desks with lids in school. We saw the change from the black board and chalk to whiteboard and pens. We started using Lunarstorm. We played Super Mario on Nintendo. We were subjected to the ban on tamaguchi during classes. We wore those awful astronaut-like shower caps showering after gym class. We used ICQ. We know Robert Gustafsson from Björnes Magasin, not from Parlamentet. We watched Fresh Prince in Bel Air, Saved by the Bell, Family Matters, Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We remember when you had to call 90 000 in case of an emergency, not 112. We went to see Jurassic Park in the cinema. We went to Denmark on the boat, not on the train.

We wore bicycle trousers, Fruit-of-the-loom sweatshirts, rings that supposedly changed their colour after your mood and necklaces with hearts that you broke in two and shared with your best friend. We had our hair cut like Robyn. We actually saw Sweden win the bronze medal in the 1994 WC in the US and sang ‘När vi gräver guld i USA’ at the top of our lungs. We listened to Backstreet Boys and GES. We sang Coolio’s ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’, Green Day’s ‘Basket Case’ and Oasis’ ‘Wonderwall’. We ate Raider, not Twix. We swooned over Leonardo Di Caprio in Titanic. We watched Fångarna på Fortet and 24 Karat.

*gets all nostalgic*