Jaleel White’s character, Steve Urkel, became a cultural phenomenon on Family Matters thanks to this iconic four-word catchphrase.
Did I do that?
Jennifer Lopez landed her breakout role portraying this beloved, late Mexican-American Tejano singer in a 1997 biographical film.
Selena
This British girl group exploded onto the U.S. music scene when their debut single topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997.
The Spice Girls
Long before streaming and Netflix, this ubiquitous blue-and-yellow brick-and-mortar chain store was the go-to spot to rent VHS tapes on a Friday night.
Blockbuster
On the Nickelodeon cartoon Doug, this theatrically dramatic, beret-wearing girl was Doug Funnie's older sister.
Judy Funny
This Nickelodeon sitcom gave actress Melissa Joan Hart her very first starring role as a teenager navigating high school.
Clarissa Explains It All
This actor took home the Best Actor Oscar in 1995, famously uttering the line, "Life is like a box of chocolates..."
Tom Hanks
Starting in 1998, this massive compilation album series gathered all the biggest radio hits of the year onto a single CD.
Now that's what I call music
If you received a mysterious call on your household landline, dialing this two-digit star code would automatically call back the last number that rang
*69
This beloved 90s lunchbox snack featured small graham cookies on one side and a well of sweet frosting on the other for dipping.
Dunkaroos
This 1992 MTV series is widely considered by television historians to be the first-ever modern reality TV show.
The Real World
He was the young heartthrob who provided the speaking voice for young Simba in Disney's original 1994 animated film, The Lion King.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Launched in 1999, this pioneering peer-to-peer file-sharing network terrified the music industry by allowing users to share MP3s for free.
Napster
Before USB flash drives and cloud storage existed, computers relied on these magnetic storage devices to save small files.
Floppy Disc
This iconic backyard water blaster, invented by a NASA engineer, became a mandatory summer staple for kids in the 1990s.
Supersoaker
On the hit sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch, this was the name of Sabrina’s sassy, talking black cat.
Salem
Winning 11 Academy Awards and grossing over $1.8 billion in its initial run, this 1997 disaster-romance was the highest-grossing movie of the decade.
Titanic
This colorful, egg-shaped digital keychain toy from Japan required kids to feed, clean up after, and discipline a virtual pet.
Tomogatchi
This puzzle game made history when a Russian cosmonaut brought a Game Boy version aboard the Mir space station, making it the first video game played in space.
Tetris
This was the name of the fictional town and local school attended by Doug Funnie, Skeeter Valentine, and Patti Mayonnaise.
Bluffington
Carson Daly rose to fame as the host of this wildly popular MTV music video countdown show that defined late-90s youth culture.
(TRL) Total Request Live
Who was the killer in Scream 2?
Billy Loomis
If you were working an hourly job at the very start of the decade, this specific dollar amount was the federal minimum wage in 1990.
$4.25
While many people originally thought the acronym stood for "Digital Video Disc," it officially stands for this.
DVD
Coming in a plastic, tape-measure-style container, this pink bubblegum challenged kids to see how many feet of gum they could chew at once.
Bubble Tape