Hanging out with the teens of 1998
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- čas přidán 2. 05. 2024
- Footage of a group of kids and teens outside Oliver Platt High School in Meriden, Connecticut.
These JNCO lovin' tough teens are up to no good as you'll see in this video complete with smoking as well as some horrifyingly awful skating skills!
This one last around 5 minutes or so.
#jnco
#tommyhilfiger
#boss
it's almost like the camera man went back in time to film this "alright I'm gonna go upload this to youtube, thanks guys"
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(Because baby blue was all the rage in ‘98✨)
_"Youwhat? Is that an internet thing?"_
I scan in film for families as a side biz and upload to CZcams for them. and I'm always saying things like... isn't it crazy that you're holding that movie in your hand?
Thanks? For… what exactly? 😐
No shit, dude must be a time traveler. Otherwise, all this would just be too normal to film at the time.
I was a teenager in 1998, and I remember the sagging pants and clothing styles lol. This brings back memories. I miss the 1990s. I'll take it over the 2020s any day.
Me too.
Me three.
Me four
So was I and still to this day, I don’t know what was on the end of the chain attached to the waist.
@@CT-vm4gf a hook to the belt loop lol
Who remembers JNCO jeans?👖Those pants could fit a family of four in them.
🤣🤣
I do, but wish that I didn't. Think this was the 1st video from this channel ever that I found hard to watch lol
I remember those pants lol
My family still tortures me to this day about those Jeans lol
Me 👋🏼I had 2 pairs! Now my teenage daughters want them lol
I was 14 in 1998. This video really takes me back
Me too. PlayStation and Star Wars era for me.
I was a senior in 1998. I graduated ETHS- Go Mavericks! C/O '98 🎓 👩🎓 🤪
✨same✨
This makes me nostalgic and sad at the same time. Someone invent a time machine already!
Wallet chains!!!!!!!!! Love it
Totally agree
I still remember kids getting their chains caught in their desks at school, getting up, and getting them ripped off or dragging a desk down and getting laughed at lol
This really does seem like just a few years ago to me. People say the "90s" and I'm thinking it's not that long ago, and then I realize it's been three decades. I sometimes even think I must have travelled through a temporal rift. Lol.
Same.
It must be the result of having access to everything and so how "far away" or long something was is even faster. That shifting years test.. if 1990s is 70s, we are now in the 00s of the 70s, LOL.
It's like the 1960s were to the '90s. That's how long ago the 90s are to us now. 😭. Sooooo long ago.
You me and evrryone else. Stop trying to be special. Jesus. Glad nothing survives after death other than spirit 1
The 90s to me was 5 years ago 😂
Miss my flameheads and mad scientists. Miss my yomega x brain. Miss renting movies. Miss exploring the entire town on our bikes as kids without worry. Miss our gameboy colors with link cables, it made us closer and form bonds with each other. Today everything just keeps people further away.
on the playground, I was that kid with the link cable. Want your Machoke evolved? , you came to me :)
Yep. So many people cannot bring themselves to fully admit that it's not just different now, it's worse
@@flutebasket4294 I googled "I used to be Happy" and got 34.7 million results. I then googled "I used to be sad". I got somewhere around 64 results. You can do it for yourself.
What it says to me is that more people than ever before are sadder than they have ever been. And fewer people than ever before are happier than they used to be.
Big gov has to increase the division.
The truth is, it's still safe to ride around most towns, but they've made everyone so paranoid that the government will actually punish a parent now for letting a kid ride around town without adult supervision.
I was 17 in 1998. I graduated H.S. in 1999. I miss the 90s a lot. Current times are the pits…
Yes they are. I was 15 in 1998. We didnt know it then, but the 90s was the end of the good times. 70s, 80s and 90s were probably the best decades in this country.
I agree 90s bro I hate what smartphones have done to us
@@Sanpaku-san I use my smartphone phone in moderation. I’m actually female, silly:)
Same I was 16 in 1998. Class of 2000! I miss them y2k days. It felt like the 90s still but it was definitely shifting times into 2000s
I was 8 years old in 1998, but I'm the youngest of four and we all have fond memories of the 90's.
crazy how the fashion circled back around
When I see today's kids wearing it again, I feel old :D
Now it’s for political reasons as opposed to just a style
What a great video. I was born in 84 just turned 40. Remember this like it was yesterday. Jnko(spelling) wide leg jeans, Dyno BMX bikes and Nirvana!
I turn 40 next week ,it feels like yesterday to me too . Time flies
Jnco jeans... We called them "thieving jeans". Haro, Redline, DiamondBack and Specialized bikes, tons of great new music on MTV. I was 14, living it up on the Gulf coast of Florida
@@danw1089I turn 40 in a few weeks
@@danw1089 well happy early birthday. It's crazy to me because on paper I know I'm 40 but I still feel like I'm in my twenties I still laugh at farts and still have a good night at the bar raising a little hell, only difference is I know not to raise too much hell now, can we get to see some gray hairs in my goatee and after a long day of work on construction I feel it in my legs and back. Other than that, it's amazing how I still look at things the same way as I did pretty much 20 years ago, just through more experienced eyes. I kind of now realize what it's like people say respect your elders, imagine being twice our age being 80 how much stuff we would have experienced by then . I guess this is what they say maturity is. It's about time haha!
@@flman1284 no way! Hell yeah I had a Dyno VFR and a cherey red Haro Dave Mirra 540 air. The front and back pegs, the gyro, whatever the hell else we're popular..... Shimano V brakes or something like that I think.. going out raising hell on the bikes jumping curbs bunny hopping all over the place.haha
I was 17 back in 1998. It's not only hard to believe, but it's also very humbling that this was 26 years ago. Time certainly does seem to go faster as we get older.
Eu também tinha 17 em 1998.
O tempo voa.
I was also 17 in 1998. I graduated H.S. in 1999. I miss the 90s a lot. Current times really are the pits…
@@Lanae8199I completely feel the same way. I get home sick for the 90s. It wasn't a perfect decade (no decade is), but it was a better time back then. Today everything is just so nuts that I think I am gonna wake up back in the 90s and everything is chill again lol
@@DWOMTbe living in the 90s and early 00s its much better live that dumpster fire we live here now.
@@DWOMT Right you are.
Better times back than, that's for sure. Things were much more relaxed.
The darn phones ruining us all. 😂
90s was fun…
You get a real workout walking in those heavy pants all day.
Tripling the weight with the double chain wallets
Oversize was a component of the sustainable economy.
as a kid you didnt notice
Hahaa so true 😂 it didnt look easy walking in those pants.
And when it Rained omg kids don't know the struggle
No phones no social media everyone is aware just love ❤️it whoever thought 10 years after everything changed appreciate your work
Yep the baggy jeans were in style during those days!! Awesome you were able to capture these times.
1998 , the year I turned 24, got married and started my government job. I wish I can go back in time.
You were an old fart already in 98 lol. Just Messing with you 😊
Who here is old enough to remember parachute pants and AJ's jeans?
UFO Jeans!
Holy Smokes do I feel old. I was 30 in 1998, but it honestly doesn't feel that long ago. The Earth must be spinning faster. 😉
I think after we leave school we just get into our monotonous routines. Same office/retail/whatever job every day. Even though many people dreaded going to school, homework, projects etc, it kept us doing something different on a daily basis. Not to mention we always anticipated upcoming vacations. Spring, Summer, Winter breaks - all things we yearned for, and it's what made the years seem like they were taking forever.
Now, we don't really anticipate as many things - and we definitely don't anticipate them with the same excitement like we did as children.
So I hope everyone finds something to look forward to in their life, because it'll slow things down. (Also, we need to disconnect from our smartphones. That shit is definitely not helping)
I turned 30 that year, too. It kinda hit me in a sad way that my 20s were gone. I could no longer use my youth as an excuse to do outrageous things, lol. 🤣😂😆😁
@@alaricabercrombie2692 not only can we still do outrageous things, but we now get a discount on them. 😜
Notice how no one except the camera person was watching the world around them through a screen.
*Everyone else was living in the 3-dimensional reality of every moment of real life.*
lol the leather jackets, oversized tees and baggy pants what a time
The 90's was the very definition of living in the moment for me. Life was more fun without distractions and a fully digitalized everyday life. It's hard to explain if you weren't there but my most vivid memories of living life to the fullest are still from the 90's. Yep I miss them. :/
What a shame. Late 90s is also better.
“ JNCO “
Going for $500 on Ebay today.
I was 17 in 1998 I’m now 42 years old. Man I miss those times!
It's May the 3rd, 2024 and since I was born in 1985, I was 13 at this time. The 8th grade in "middle school" and it was a wild time where kids were carefree, starting fights and starting to experiment with drugs. Weed was my drug of choice and I was introduced to it but my late friend, Reed.. Being 39 now, oh those days seem like yesterday.. 😢 Memories, just distant memories.. 😓😮💨
jan 88 here. I was 10. These were fun times. Totally different.
Oct 15, 1985 here.
I knew it in the moment back then that 1998 would be a year to remember.
Especially the summer.
Awesome music and lots of memories playing the PS1.
It's hard to reconcile "starting fights" and "starting to experiment with drugs" with being "carefree".
@@smadaf It was indeed carefree. Most of the time, you were just "going along with the crowd" a.k.a. your group of friends at that moment. No thought into what you were doing. It was a totally different mindset compared to being an adult now where you rationally think things out. It happened then and it still happens today with being a teenager. In your teenager years, you never blindly jumped into a fight when a friend was in trouble? Did you end up smoking weed, drinking alcohol because everybody else was doing it while hanging out at a particular location?
@@Hmongboi228 , interesting discussion. I see what you mean about being carefree, in the sense of not having adult concerns. I was thinking of being carefree in a different sense: for me in my teens, if I'd been getting into fights or doing drugs, then that would have been a sign that there was some kind of trouble, something that was bothering me deeply, and that I was trying the wrong ways to fix it-a sign of not at all being free from certain cares.
To answer your questions:
• In my teens, other than a limited amount of violence in my own home, I was never in a fight. I never started a fight, never jumped into one, never participated in one, never saw any of my friends in one. There was one time on the bus home from school, when I was seventeen or eighteen, when a kid sitting in front of me started banging on the head of my brother (a few years younger than I), who was seated in front of him; after about the third time, when I realized that this kid (about my brother's age) wasn't going to let up, I slapped his head from behind, just once-it surprised him, he looked back at me, we made eye-contact, and that was that.
• I've never used weed in my life. I've never been drunk. Over the last two years of high school, I consumed the equivalent of probably about one or two alcoholic drink (some beer, some wine, some whisky). There were kids at my school who drank, who smoked pot, who smoked tobacco, and who tried other drugs; some of them were my friends; but _most_ of the kids at my high school didn't do any of those things in those years-so it wasn't the case that "everybody else was doing it". There were a few times when I was around my friends who drank: they became amazingly uninteresting and annoying when they drank. I had a friend who smoked cigarettes and pot and was a drinker; when she was around me, although she still smoked cigarettes because she was addicted, she didn't drink or smoke pot-I think she ordinarily felt a lot of painful holes in her life and tried to fill them with pot and booze when she was alone, but that when she was with me she got a different kind of satisfaction and didn't feel a need to resort to those substances. (I know that may sound snobby, but I think it's true in her case.)
I feel very fortunate. I went to an unusual high school, in the mid and late '90s; and, although it wasn't perfect, there was a lot about the experience that was hugely beneficial. Many of my classmates and I are still in touch, and it seems we all feel very fortunate that we went to our school instead of some other. I'm very interested in teenagers, their lives and their concerns and their troubles and the things that please them; I look at the kids who go to typical American high schools and I wish painfully that in certain ways their high-school experience could be more like the one that I and my classmates got to enjoy at our unusual school. (In a few ways, I think kids nowadays have it better than we had it.)
Anyway, thanks for listening. Sorry if it was too long. Maybe you can tell that this is an important topic for me.
I'm curious: where did you live in your teens?
I wonder where these kids are today? Love this video...90s were the best. No social media, no phones. Made us interact and be human to one another.
Kids today ended glue smartphones and doesnt care toys or tv as much. Feel bad them.
Judging by the comments they are on here staring at screens
Probably on the cell phones all day like every one else
@@MrVidification isn't that where you are??
@@Budrica probably yes because that is what everyone does in society these days. Back then screen time was a lot less accessible so human interaction was more natural.
Oh, this feels almost like yesterday. Those pants! And those times we got to experience as teens without constantly staring att our phones, to live life outside the syntethic, in the real world. Weird how time flies ❤ Thank you again for a great video! One of my fav channels 👍😊🤩
When people were shy of cameras and it wasn’t considered cool to pose for social media.✨
I was 14 in 98. I miss the 90’s so much. If I could get in a time machine and go back I would in a heartbeat.
This dude had the foresight to film details of everyone’s apparel. Wtf.
I was a teenager of 1998, and life was very tame then compared to now.
No social media or smartphones. We had real conversations.
Would love to go back to those days.
Imagine people wish to go back those days like wishing well or birthday wish......
Every time I look the 90s like everything was fun without social media in cell phone
EVERYBODY WAS SO CHILL BACK THEN
The memories that brings back I remember when I was just a teenager. I love ❤ the 90s. I miss it so much.
I love these old videos, its like time traveling. I turned 15 in 1998 and it feels like it wasnt that long ago at all. I remember that year well, it was my first year of high school. Time goes by so quick.
This is amazing. Baggy jeans and the movie Scream era. Also people were genuinely nicer to each other.
This is amazing. The enormous JNCO jeans nearly everyone is wearing. The smoking. Skateboards.
Now this is exactly what I like to see in youth! Not trying too hard to be cool, not spending too much time on their smartphones, no Instagram, no TikTok, no nothing! Just a group of friends having a good time
Yes !!! You nailed it!
Not trying too hard?! lol. Did you look at them?
@@mark3464 well at least they're not trying nearly as hard as teens today
I graduated from highschool in 1998. I never imagined a day with smartphones would come- had no inkling something like that would even exist!
@@mascara1777 we were all looking forward to today back then but now we realize the past was 10 times better
Great to see no tech interactions. Miss these times 😢
The late 90s - early 2000s were a great time to be alive. Yes, internet was around but most people did not live their lives online like today.
Absolutely! So much better living late 90s and early 2000s as much people aren't criticised like how we still alive back then.
I miss that time period like crazy! 1997-2000 were some of the most fun years of my life. Life just seemed much more balanced too. We had the internet and video games at home, but we still went out to the mall, the movies, and a lot of other hangout spots that sadly don't really exist anymore today. Smartphones thankfully didn't exist yet.
@@jscountrygirl85_326 Yep. The balance was definitely a great thing that I miss sorely these days, and it made people more focused on activities. Smartphones, with their apps and online availability, have become too convenient a distraction.
I can hear my dad in my head now, complaining about how teens and young adults dressed. I was approximately 13 in 98, attending a middle school that functioned like a hybrid school program. I didn't quite dress like these teens until a couple of years later in 2002. I wager most of the people in this footage are in their early to mid 40's already.
No phones in sight. They simply just had each other. What a time that was to be alive in the 90s.
Excellent video, no social media in the 1990s.
We had aol profiles
@@lisa-gu9ft , and ICQ!
AOL and The Globe.
@@lisa-gu9ftbut we had a good balance between internet and real life back then… a balance that unfortunately doesn’t exist anymore
That's not true , a lot of people hung out In AOL chats and a few other services It was already rapidly becoming very mainstream by this year to hang out online and socialize , most of the Internet worked almost the same way It does now , just slower and less social media options , but imo It was light-years better and more healthy normal community , Id say the golden age of social media actually started around the late 90s around 1998 and started getting worse around the late 2000s when Facebook and Twitter took over and the smartphone / iPhone craze which made it possible for everyone to be on social media mobilly on the go all day and get addicted instead of merely occasionally when they were at home on their desktops. I'd take the less advanced internet /social media life they had in this video over the toxic censored money driven corporate-ran no longer free or fun social media we have now anyday.
I graduated in '94, and I would gladly take this over what we have today. Even my 17 year old daughter wishes she grew up in the '90's. I tell her about the coffee houses and hanging in friends basements, listening to music. No phones in sight. Great time to be a teenager.
No cell phone in site! Good times.
"I didn't make the honor roll, I got straight F's." 🤪
I heard that part also😂 5:08
Nice to see kids wearing jeans of any kind and not just sweatpants
I graduated high school in 1998 yet this feels like watching something from the 1800’s 💀
Lol no.........
not even CLOSE!
JNCO jeans. Lol. Like wearing two skirts sewn together.
Wow, I remember huge baggy pants being an early 90s skateboarder thing. By the late 90s skaters wore less baggy pants. However, I remember non-skaters copying the baggy pants style, so they lagged 3 or 4 years behind actual skater trends.
Omg what I wouldn’t give to go back to these days. Jncos with chain wallets, DC skater shoes, platform foam flip flops, chokers, butterfly clips, body glitter, Sony Discmans and CD holders for your car visors, Backstreet Boys, Limp Bizkit, no one had social media or cell phones yet. Things were so simple then and we had no clue.
I was 21 in 1998. What a ride the 1990s were.
I never realized how loud teens can be without phones to occupy them. Really glad I wasn't an adult before social media lol Great video, thanks for sharing!
No social media, no phones. Real contact thru interaction...smh....no one is looking down at a phone. I miss these days. Innocence
I finished high school in 1998. Interesting to see what this group of kids was up to this one morning outside this one high school in Meriden, Connecticut. In many ways, they're similar to the kids at my high school in the same year; but there also are many differences. I'm glad I have many hundreds of photos from that time and many dozens of hours of audio and video recordings.
You should upload them
@@mistyfogarty1587 , I know, I know, I know. Concern about other people's privacy is always the biggest thing that stops me. I haven't figured out that part of the problem, and I've been contemplating it for years.
Depending on when this was shot in 1998 I would have either been a Senior in High School graduating that Spring or getting ready to go off to college that Fall. I remember those styles and fashions really well. I always liked the women's Levi's Silvertab loose fit jeans. Those days were so much better, kids could hang out, we still all wanted drivers license and vehicles and would go cruising around town to meet up on Friday's and Saturday's. Now kids just live thru their phones and it's why so many are depressed and miserable.
I was 16 years old in 1998; what a nice little flashback of these fun times 😌😎
I turned 25 in 98. I miss the 90s alot
Baggy is back in fashion. Everything comes full circle.
I remember bugle boy having jeans that were wide leg first and then Jinco became the popular choice and bugle boy faded away.
What's crazy to me is people still dress like this today timeless clothing, at least by where I stay (Los Angeles, echo park/silver lake area)
I was 16 in 1998, My first paycheck I bought Jnco jeans.
I fell right at home with this video.
Crazy this channel has so much access to so many clips from earlier time periods.
Baggy pants made a comeback back in 2024. My 14 year son even wears them!
Notice how everyone is not using a phone, their all speaking to each other instead of ignoring each other, and everyone is confident about how their appearance is. New age Social media ruined this generation.
Bingo
And look how close they all stand together in a huge group. 🙂
I think assuming they all feel confident about their appearance is a stretch. We can't read their minds.
Kids these days just look like copycats of each other when it comes to style of clothing.
@@smadaf At least they weren't walking around with tight clothes on and BBLs looking like who did it and why.
I was 18... we were the last great generation of teens
When I was a teenager in the 2010's I used to think that 1990s Fashion was crap. Now in the 2020's I think the People in the 90s looked better than during the 2010s.
Oh man this was my era...Jnco, Macgear, KIKWEAR, all were the dopest pants at the time and I rocked all them!
The good old fashioned days. Definitely a time capsule. I grew up in the 90's. I still remember sagging pants and wallet chains. The simple life back then. Before smart phones and social media took over. The better days of social interaction. Just to keep it simple.
I wish i was in the late 90s while focused my own miserable life today.
@@karinadelma Cell phones back in it's basic functions. The internet with out social media. The late 90's was the best. 2008 that's where everything went downhill.
@@Bates1960yeah 90s was good but 2008 was a pretty cool year…
@@DubBeats In 2008 that's when everything when down hill. People still sag their paints till this day.
I was in middle school that year, I remember wearing nWo shirt and Guess jeans, my school allowed students to comes to school in skateboards and Razor scooters to be stored in lockers!
Best time to be a Korn fan
I was a teen in 1998 and it was a wild time. Everyone wearing Jncos and trenchcoats. No covid, pre 9/11 era. My only concern was the next music video or cd from my favorite artist. New movies in the theatre and no warnings about safety before the movie. Gas prices were like 1.20 a gallon. Movie tickets were cheap as dirt. Toys R Us was still around. No one staring at their phones. Dial up internet. Napster. I could go on and on. It was an incredible time in the world
$4 matinee for that new Star Wars movie in 1999. Some of us made plenty use of that when we should have been in school.
@@fakereality96 aah the phantom menace. I remember seeing Pepsi machines that had a picture of that movie on the front. They were pushing it hard back then
Man, i would love to go back to those days.
This was the good old JNCO day's...
Loitering AND smoking??? This is why I was an early adopter of the Internet in 1998. I wasn't allowed to hang out with kids like these and they likely would've picked on me for being a softy. So the highlight of my after school day was browsing the Internet.
i was 15, this video is super cool ha ha.. always good shit on this channel
So nice not to see anyone staring mindlessly at a stupid phone. Wow do i miss those days
They were phones like flip phone and wasnt much else.
@@karinadelma yea but u dont see anyone using them, Thats the point sherlock. There were cells in the 80’s too if u wanna get that specific for no reason
I was 13 in 1998. I remember being so confused about the rather dumb fashion trends at the time. And I still am! Holy cow those are stupid looking pants lol. It was such a weird era. Everything was sooooo baggy. Even the suits and dress shirts were baggy. If you wore anything even remotely fitted or shorts that went above your lower ankles you were told you "look gay." lol
as a zoomer, i like it way better than the current fashion sense tho...
@@80s_GenLover I'm with ya. I love baggy clothes, especially baggy/looser pants. I hate skinny jeans and leggings. Fashion from the late 90s/early 2000s was much more chill and relaxed, imho.
No phone, no tablets, just people hanging out and talking to each other.
Ah, 1998. 16 year old me going to high school in NYC, Korn and Limp Bizkit on my cd player. Good times.
Back then, everyone wore south pole, exhaust, Rocca wear, and everything baggy and saggy. Back then, that was the style.
Love that NWO shirt at the end. NWO 4 LIFE!!!
Ah the days of WCW. The golden era of wrestling!
@@lettucesalad32423 I went to the last Starrcade, December 19, 1999.
"It's Just...Toooo....Sweeeeet."
I was 19 in 98 and remember it well.. great times!! In a short couple years 9/11 happened and it’s been straight downhill from there 😢
I was 15 OR 16 years old dependingon what month then. Thanks for the upload! RETRO GOLD! 🤘🏻👍🏻🇺🇲
That's awesome! Always enjoy reading your comments 😀
I was 10 years old in 1998. The last year of the elementar school year in Italy. Dawson's creek started, back street Boys were my favorite group and Life seemed easier than now. One of the best years of my life.
My birth year, oh man things were rough though in Rostov during the 90s
It doesn’t seem that long ago at all. One minute it was 1998, next minute it’s 2024,
1998 was such awesome time to live in especially that year in particular ❤
love the yo-yo debate at the very beginning lol. We had a legit yo-yo tournament at my elementary school around like 1999 and it was so wild and intense haha!
and fyi if you didn't have a top-line Butterfly then you had no shot at being cool lolololol
it's strange how back then this type of clothing could be put together for around $120~ and now people will pay upwards of $500 for emulations of this style in modern fashion
no smartphones, what a time
TIME FLIES.
Before social media and smartphones ruined life😢
I was 18 in 98, I had a mobile phone but I don’t think it could even send text messages back then, just phone calls.
Only the rich kids had cellys back then lol nothin wrong with that..and can't forget those Polo Sport shirts..man they were sooo fly😁👍
Are you a 1980 baby?
@@tennillej9601 I'm a mid 80s..was 2 young 2 do stuff 80s most of the 90s but still remem...the best flyest era ever by far..and how bout u??...nice pic👍
@@ckack1372 Finally a decent person on here lol I'm a 1991 baby so I only just remember this year but I do remember a time without phones well, thank you ☺️
Wish I grew up back then. People actually seem sane.
Funny how the fashions circled back around !
Ah yes, 1998. Jnco jeans, chain wallets, frosted tips, and pooka shell necklaces.
These videos are a great escape from reality
This is how life should be, before the alien phone takeover
Best era PlayStation1 games released in 1998 and best clothing era. 👊😎👌