Remember the 1990s

Do you remember when we dialled up to get the internet started?
And we had a compact disc to release the music we felt uplifting and delved wholehearted. 

Do you remember the big TVs, that were heavy and needed two of you to lift?
And the Nokia 3210, the mobile phone which was indestructible like a mini brick,
And those days we put the phone down and didn’t pick it up until the following morning, 
Those were the days when the ‘ping’ from our phones rarely started calling. 

There was ‘The Word’, ‘Big Breakfast’ and Saturday daytime TV,
We didn’t feel compelled to our phones to check emails and or texts,
We had letters which came from a written list,
A physical thing we often couldn’t miss.

We had ‘Take That’, with ‘pray’ and  ‘relight my fire’,
We had night clubs and a kebab afterwards, those things we didn’t need but always desired.

He had fun and knew how to focus more,
Yes, the 90s had it quirks and way of living,
But those were the days we had teletext, our version of the latest news
Those were the day we didn’t need smartphones to make us feel amused. 

“90s enjoyment and challenges…”
Jason
11th October 2026