▸ the soundtrack of
Class of 1994
Middle School
1987–1989Awkward dances and your first favorite band.
High School
1990–1994The lunch table, the hallway crush, the parking lot.
First Car
1992–1994Windows down, volume up, finally free.
College Years
1994–1998Dorm rooms, road trips, and figuring it out.
Early Adulthood
1999–2003First apartment, first heartbreak, first paycheck.
30-year reunion
2024
Generation
Gen X
You'd be about
50
🔙 The world when you walked the stage
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
🎬 Set the scene
After school, 1994: the TV was playing Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, a Clearly Canadian was in the kitchen, and later you'd flip through a fat CD binder in the car.
🎬 At the movies
📼 Saturday cartoons
- Doug👕 tee →
- Rugrats👕 tee →
- The Ren & Stimpy Show
- X-Men👕 tee →
- Batman: The Animated Series👕 tee →
- Animaniacs👕 tee →
- Rocko's Modern Life
- Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
- Spider-Man👕 tee →
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles👕 tee →
📰 Headlines
- O.J. Simpson Bronco chase
- Kurt Cobain dies
- Nelson Mandela elected president
- Rwandan genocide
- NAFTA takes effect
💡 Tech & Firsts
- Netscape Navigator launches
- Sony PlayStation debuts (Japan)
- Yahoo! founded
- Amazon founded
- First banner ads online
🏆 Sports
- World Series canceled (strike)
- Rockets win the NBA title
- Cowboys win Super Bowl XXVIII
- Rangers win the Stanley Cup
- Brazil wins the '94 World Cup (USA)
🤪 Crazes & fads
- Power Rangers peak
- Friends debuts
- Lion King fever
- Magic: The Gathering
- Forrest Gump quotes
👖 Clothes
- Grunge meets preppy
- Flannel tied at the waist
- Mom jeans
- Chunky sneakers
- Babydoll dresses
💵 What it cost
- Stamp: 29¢
- Gas: ~$1.11/gal
- Movie ticket: ~$4.18
- Median new home: ~$130,000
- Milk: ~$2.88/gal
🧸 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
- Clearly Canadian🛒 grab some →
- Snapple🛒 grab some →
- Fruitopia
- Arizona Iced Tea🛒 grab some →
- Mistic
- All Sport
- Gatorade Frost🛒 grab some →
- SunnyD🛒 grab some →
- Squeezit
- Crystal Pepsi
How well do you remember Class of 1994?
7 quick questions — the songs, the artists, the year. No cheating. 😏
💬 Memories from the Class of 1994
“getting rickrolled”
— Anonymouson this song →
📸 Your Class of 1994 card
A neon card of your class's year — post it to your reunion group or tag your class.
👥 Find your class
The people who came up on the same songs are hanging out right now.
🎓 Class of 1994 gear
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