1995 20 years ago now

linkinpark875 · 02/01/15 - 00:31

Can you believe 20 years since N trance set you free? John Major was prime minister and everybody was still watching VHS and buying cassette tapes. Little did we know phones were on the way, the Internet and a Labour government which would leave the country bust by the next decade.

Post your memories or 1995..and key events or technology of the time..

InMyArms · 02/01/15 - 00:34

Doubt things would have been better under a Tory Government come 2010

[Deleted User] · 02/01/15 - 00:39

It freaks me out that I have some clear memories of things that happened 20 years ago. How did I get to be so old? :eek:

linkinpark875 · 02/01/15 - 00:43

Check this CD:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thats-What-Call-Music-1995/dp/B00000JNM9#featureBulletsAndDetailBullets_secondary_view_div_1420159301268

Oasia, Pulp, Cher, East 17...

It's like 1980 in 2000 it's that long ago. Even old pics from the millendium seem ages ago on Facebooks old pictures groups.

James Frederick · 02/01/15 - 00:46

indie.star wrote: »

It freaks me out that I have some clear memories of things that happened 20 years ago. How did I get to be so old? :eek:

I left school 20 years ago I feel really old.

linkinpark875 · 02/01/15 - 00:47

Cars:

http://bestsellingcarsblog.com/1996/01/uk-1995-last-year-at-1-for-the-ford-escort/

Some of them look modern today. We had bubble cars like the Ka and Micra.

Some movies from 1995:

Braveheart
Golden Eye
Apollo 13
Die Hard 3

linkinpark875 · 02/01/15 - 00:49

10 years since 2005 too. 30 years since 1985

Will focus on 1995 though some great 90's memories right in the middle of the decade..

fhs man 2 · 02/01/15 - 00:50

I was not alive so do not have any memories.

[Deleted User] · 02/01/15 - 00:53

James Frederick wrote: »

I left school 20 years ago I feel really old.

It'll be 8 years for me this year which is bad enough! I'm nearly into double figures! :eek:

And in a couple of years I'll have lots of clear memories about things that happened 20 years ago. :eek: :eek:

SherbetLemon · 02/01/15 - 00:55

Windows 95 was released.
DVDs were announced.
Ebay & Yahoo were founded.
Barings bank collapsed.

And my dear mother passed away.

ohglobbits · 02/01/15 - 00:57

Jim Davidson was toast of the town as the new presenter of the Generation Game to double up with Noel's House Party and render Saturday Night on BBC1 unwatchable.

Phoenix Lazarus · 02/01/15 - 00:58

indie.star wrote: »

It freaks me out that I have some clear memories of things that happened 20 years ago. How did I get to be so old? :eek:

Bet you can't imagine forty years of clear memories, like I have.

Si_Crewe · 02/01/15 - 00:59

I still consider the T-shirt I bought to commemorate Damon Hill winning the F1 world title to be one of my "new" T-shirts.

Miss XYZ · 02/01/15 - 01:00

linkinpark875 wrote: »

Can you believe 20 years since N trance set you free? John Major was prime minister and everybody was still watching VHS and buying cassette tapes. Little did we know phones were on the way, the Internet and a Labour government which would leave the country bust by the next decade.

Post your memories or 1995..and key events or technology of the time..

It's hard to believe that song is from 20 years ago - I used to spend Saturday nights dancing to it up on a podium in a local nightclub with friends, and Let Me Be Your Fantasy by Baby D. I still love both those songs! 20 years on I still can't stand still if I hear them!

I loved the Britpop scene too though. Ah those were the days!

Edit: I always had a bit of a soft spot for John Major. Christ knows why!

:D

ohglobbits · 02/01/15 - 01:10

Robert Carlyle's first major role as Hamish Macbeth the Scottish police officer with the little wee terrier by his side.

Si_Crewe · 02/01/15 - 01:11

Miss XYZ wrote: »

Edit: I always had a bit of a soft spot for John Major. Christ knows why! :D

Edwina? Is that you?

Miss XYZ · 02/01/15 - 01:14

Si_Crewe wrote: »

Edwina? Is that you?

Haha I don't think I saw him in quite the same way as Edwina. I just thought he was a really sweet Grandad type man - I always felt sorry for him if I saw him getting a hard time! And I loved how he was portrayed on Spitting Image with his peas.

[Deleted User] · 02/01/15 - 01:17

I think 1995 is the first year that I have multiple memories of things that happened in popular culture. I do have a couple of popular culture memories from 1994, like Snow White being re-released in the cinemas and The Flintstones movie coming out but I seem to have way more for the years that followed (which makes sense as I was older!)

I remember John Major being prime minister, Pocahontas coming out in the cinema, 'Set you Free' by N-Trance and being weirdly freaked out by the music video, being obsessed with Robson & Jerome, 'Cotton-Eyed Joe' and being absolutely terrified of the music video for 'Earth Song' to the point that I'd freak out of anyone even mentioned Michael Jackson.

rfonzo · 02/01/15 - 01:30

Yes, this was the year my sister was born. The summer was very hot. How great the mid nineties were.

Bex7t6 · 02/01/15 - 01:57

My memory - I gave birth to my first child. My son who turns 20 on January 23rd.

I was almost 19 and had absolutely no experience of looking after kids. I took to motherhood really well, breastfed for 14 months, despite not knowing any other mums who did so, had very little support with any of his upbringing from his dad and he was a really lovely and happy baby.

Turns out he is autistic so I got a double whammy of learning to be not only a mother, but mother of a child with special needs.
I guess if you are going to be a young parent you should do it with a bang eh?

Anyway...sorry for the essay.
Had a few cocktails and got carried away

Funk You · 02/01/15 - 02:04

I was 8 in 1995 and dont remember that much of significance from it, other than N Trance - Set You Free actually came out in 1992 and was already around in the clubs way before it got in the top 40 http://www.discogs.com/N-Trance-Set-You-Free/master/88199

Funk You · 02/01/15 - 02:09

Si_Crewe wrote: »

I still consider the T-shirt I bought to commemorate Damon Hill winning the F1 world title to be one of my "new" T-shirts.

He won it in 1996

Rhumbatugger · 02/01/15 - 02:12

rfonzo wrote: »

Yes, this was the year my sister was born. The summer was very hot. How great the mid nineties were.

My daughter was born in May that year, it was a boiling summer, she spent most of it in a vest and nappy by the back door where there was a bit of a draft.

I wasn't a young Mother like Bex, but in my early thirties, and it was knackering and I wasn't that good at it. So hail to you Bex.:D

Chihiro94 · 02/01/15 - 03:19

I was just a baby so the only memories I have are pictures. Retrospectively some of the films released then are quite good.

[Deleted User] · 02/01/15 - 03:25

Took my wife to Egypt for our 25th wedding anniversary. Was promoted to first engineer with a big salary increase:)

fizzycat · 02/01/15 - 03:51

linkinpark875 wrote: »

. Little did we know phones were on the way, ..

We had phones a long time before 1995.

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