▸ the year you arrived
1993
🎉 Happy Birthday! 🎉
You will be 33 this year — a child of the '90s.
The song that ruled the year you arrived
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Top of your year, by vibe
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Top 10 of 1993
Your stats
Your generation
Millennial
1993 belonged to
Whitney Houston
3 year-end chart hits
🔙 The world you were born into
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
🎬 Set the scene
Nothing fancy — just 1993, Batman: The Animated Series, a Snapple, a Rice Krispies Treat, and the kind of afternoon that disappeared before dinner.
📼 Saturday cartoons
- Doug👕 tee →
- Rugrats👕 tee →
- The Ren & Stimpy Show
- X-Men👕 tee →
- Batman: The Animated Series👕 tee →
- Animaniacs👕 tee →
- Rocko's Modern Life
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles👕 tee →
📰 Headlines
- WTC bombing
- Waco siege
- Clinton inaugurated
- Oslo Accords signed
- Brady gun bill passes
💡 Tech & Firsts
- Mosaic web browser released
- Intel Pentium chip debuts
- Apple Newton ships
- Doom released (PC gaming)
- Myst CD-ROM hit
🏆 Sports
- Blue Jays repeat (Carter walk-off)
- Bulls three-peat
- Cowboys win Super Bowl XXVII
- Canadiens win the Stanley Cup
- Jordan's first retirement
🤪 Crazes & fads
- Beanie Babies launch
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- Jurassic Park dino-mania
- The X-Files debuts
- Mortal Kombat fervor
👖 Clothes
- Flannel & combat boots
- Chokers
- Slip dresses
- Doc Martens
- Plaid everything
💵 What it cost
- Stamp: 29¢
- Gas: ~$1.11/gal
- Movie ticket: ~$4.14
- Median new home: ~$126,500
- New car avg: ~$17,000
🧸 Toy chest
🍬 On the shelf
- Fruit by the Foot🛒 grab some →
- Shark Bites🛒 grab some →
- String Thing
- Butterfinger BB's
- Sour Punch Straws🛒 grab some →
- Airheads Xtremes🛒 grab some →
- Cheetos Paws
- Planters P.B. Crisps
- Planters Cheez Balls🛒 grab some →
- Kudos Bars
🥤 In the fridge
How well do you remember 1993?
7 quick questions — the songs, the artists, the year. No cheating. 😏
💬 Memories from 1993
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