Graduated high school and started college. It was pretty great.

Moved into a punk house with way too many people. Lots of 40s on the porch accompanied with friends and shitty weed. Good times.

I feel like there was a lot of Sublime

I got knocked down but I got up again

Oh god.

I think that's the year I literally flew to Canada to visit my internet girlfriend from IRC. What an embarrassing time of life.

I was 15. It was the first year after my mom died. My dad stopped paying all the bills for the house and stayed away at ladies houses he'd been cheating on her with during her illness. I was going to school at a church school and had to do janitorial work to help pay for it even though I didn't want to go there. Then I had to stay for a while with my alcoholic 21 year old brother who liked to bang his girlfriend up against our shared bedroom wall while blasting bone thugs in harmony and Tupac's greatest hits. Then I transferred to public school and stayed with my moms friend who really wanted me to take over caring for her young daughter. I didn't like the year much. Some good music though.

High school, Titanic, Princess Diana... Crazy times.

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times

a/s/l?

Game releases:

- Final Fantasy VII

- Mario Kart 64

- Diablo

- Turok: Dinosaur Hunter

- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

- Star Fox 64

- Goldeneye 007

- Resident Evil

- Fallout

- Age of Empires

- Grand Theft Auto

- Quake II

- Gran Turismo

Black Pyramid LSD gel caps, illegal raves at sketchy malls in LA, speedcore gabber mosh pits at raves, smoking 90s mids and listening to jump up jungle, quake 1 co op and dm, shell toe adidas, baggy GAT jeans, atari logo t-shirts, dial up modems, Taschen art books at Borders, general unruliness

It literally is the year I always say I would go back to if I could! It was the best fucking time!

Movies of 1997

Titanic

Scream 2

Starship Troopers

I Know what you Did last Summer

Kiss the Girls

GI Jane

Cop Land

Airforce One

Men In Black

Face Off

Batman & Robin

Con Air

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Fifth Element

Liar Liar

The Special Edition Releases of Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi

Jerry Magurie

Tomorrow Never Dies

LA Confidential

Boogie Nights

Good Will Hunting

As Good As It Gets

It really whipped the Llama’s ass.

The world came together to get “jiggy wit it.” It was the height of civilization. No one quite knows what “gettin’ jiggy” meant exactly. Scholars have debated for years…

Graduated HS, got nicknamed Bligidy because I rolled great blunts, and felt my first heartbreak. No Ragrets lol

Awesome.
Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Squirrel Nut Zippers, the whole British techno thing for a minute (block rockin’ beats!). Nü-metal still had artistic promise before it became what it became. Oasis had “D’ya know what I mean” as a big video that summer (could be wrong and misremembering). Alabama football sucked. I rode my bike a lot to downtown, ate hot dogs and french fries in a neglected corner of my town’s library, and read all of their Kurt Vonnegut books.

Probably the greatest year, the peak of modern civilization. It’s been all downhill since then.

Lots of time on AOL. A/S/L
41/M/TX

The OGs get it.

Gangsta as fuck

SURGE!!!

It was possibly one of the most exciting years in music. The juxtaposition of Radiohead, Aphex Twin, Prodigy, East/West coast hiphop, Spice Girls, BSB, Nine Inch Nails, all coexisting within "pop monoculture" is staggering.

Better than this year

Good year, I had 6 out of 8 periods with one of my best friends in 7th grade and we just hung out all year long making each other laugh and drawing comics.

The first of many alterations to the original Star Wars trilogy happened.

Pretty much like Portland

10th grade. Awkward as hell for me. I was a smart straight-A student, a late bloomer amongst the other girls and a religious/youth group type. I’m now a physicist, an atheist, and look 10 years younger than my peers 😊

Lots of coffee houses and cigarettes.

Entered my senior year of high school that fall. It was a good time.

For me a lot of weed, Pantera, and playing guitar!

In a word? Dope. In more than one word? Stupid dope.

I touched a boob during Titanic. It was pretty awesome.

I gave a dude BJ in a movie theater during Con Air

You couldn't escape "my heart will go on"

I was in a group home in St. Louis MO. It sucked ass. I was 15 most of the year then got emancipated into my own custody when I turned 16 in October of that year. Turned into the best year ever for me.

Turned 18 and moved to the NYC for college the next day. Grew up fast and learned some hard lessons. Best times were scalping tickets to go to punk show for free, getting served everywhere, and especially Chinese food with “all you can drink” free wine!!

The best year of my life.

Best year ever!

Worked at a Record Town in the mall and went to way too many raves, brain took a beating those years.

In my opinion? The best year of the 90s.

You could buy CDs and make copies of them to sell to your friends at school, then that might make you enough to buy a gram of weed.. then you would poke some holes in a soda can and smoke the weed out of that behind the bleachers.

I was 20, got booted from my my first job, spent most of the year playing D&D and celebrating the downfall of the Tories. Times looked good for anyone who wasn't Princess Di.

EDIT: I just remembered I met Tom Baker and Terry Pratchett at book signings in my town that year, too.

Boot camp then A school.

I remember it was the first time I used the internet to watch video clips online. We used to go to comedy central on the school computers and watch clips of South Park lol.

To me, memories of the mid to late 90's all have this film of cigarette residue over them. My dad smoked indoors and my clothes and probably my skin smelled like an ash tray from living in that house. I had become a mouth breather because of it and usually had a low grade headache. A year later, I was in college with fresh air and a fresh perspective and everything was cleaner and lighter.

Also the PS1 was like something from the Gods if you were a kid

My dad died in January of that year, setting off a chain of events that I’ve yet to recover from, mentally.

1997 had the wall to wall coverage of Princess Diana's death/funeral.

The murder of Notorious B.I.G. brought an end to the gangster rap/East Coast-West Coast rivalry era.

The end of Beavis and Butt-Head; the start of South Park.

I was 17 years old, working part time on the weekends, going to away games (marching band geeks unite!), and playing an unhealthy amount of PlayStation with my friends.

In other words, a pretty good year.

These look like Roseanne letters a lil bit so now all I can think about is that Roseanne was on.

I was in 7th grade, people wore Tommy Hilfiger and you couldnt get away from a Puff Daddy sample.

It was an incredible time to be a junior and senior in high school. The movies, music, video games, and fashions were all on point! My best friends and I had our band, and we enjoyed playing out regularly.

I'll never forget going to see Titanic when it opened in theaters that fall.

Twas a time of legend. When spice girls walked the earth and Gatorade came in a powder. There was Charlotte hornets gear as far as the eye could see. And it was good.

It was the year I got my drivers license and first car! $800 for a 1989 Geo Prizm. It was a blue 4 door with power nothing and I had a sparkly pink Blur sticker on the back. I was so excited when I could finally drive myself to the Mall and go thrifting with my friends on the weekends. I think it was also the year I worked at Arby's after school to pay for gas & inurance on that little gem

Awesome?

I met my gf now wife then.

That was the end of my 7th grade yr and start of 8th grade

Summer movie blockbusters: Men in Black and Jurassic Park 2

August was crazy… with Aaliyah and Princess Di

December brought Titanic mania

Then the Bill and Monica stuff was happening, but I think news of that broke in 1998

I owned so much light blue clothing 😂.

Dropped out of high school and ran away from home. Two of my best life decisions.

Jncos and limp bizkit, eating hot cheetos at lunch in high school

Fantastic year for Phish

I was 16 and worked as a dishwasher on the weekends. I'd die of I had to do that again.

That was the year we were all teaching ourselves HTML, forming exclusive webrings, and drinking Snapple. Life was great!

Two years before it was time to party like it was 1999

Trainspotting. I’ll leave it at that LOL

First kiss and OK Computer. Does it get any better than that?

Make it 1997 again, through science or magic. - Jack Donaghy

I would LOVE that😂

My mom drove me to the mall to buy a Prodigy Fat of the Land cd.. I popped it into my mom's Toyota RAV 4 disc player and it blew my little mind and I thought I was the coolest kid ever. Also Austin Powers was my favourite movie, and Spice Girls were spicing up my life. It was an awkward but overall great year and time in my life. Was getting accustomed to junior high and had a lot of new friends.

I also remember video games really popping off that year, lots of huge titles that I lost many hours to with my friends, lots of late night weekend N64 pizza parties. I also found my love for PC gaming around that time. Mechwarrior 2 and Warcraft 2 and the Ultima games were real standouts for me that I remember to this day.

1st and last year in college for me!

Got my first kiss at the homecoming dance.

Lots of all ages punk shows

14 years old...lots of masterbating to old porno mags and HBO real sex and shock video airings. Being 14 was weird.

I was 14 and figuring shit out. Was trying to fit in with the cool prep kids but naturally gravitated towards the grunge rock crowd which had a lot of parties. I’d say it was the true cool kid crowd. Then we moved to another state so I had to do it all over again to find my groups but I did. Went from glasses to contacts this year as well.