▸ the soundtrack of
Class of 1997
🎓 Your class song · #1 of 1997
Something About the Way You Look Tonight
Elton John, Anne Dudley & Orchestra
Middle School
1990–1992Awkward dances and your first favorite band.
High School
1993–1997The lunch table, the hallway crush, the parking lot.
First Car
1995–1997Windows down, volume up, finally free.
College Years
1997–2001Dorm rooms, road trips, and figuring it out.
30-year reunion
2027
Generation
Xennial
You'd be about
47
🔙 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
Somewhere in 1997, Spider-Man was on, a Fruit by the Foot was open, and somebody was about to wait for the modem to finish screaming.
🎬 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 →
- Hey Arnold!
📰 Headlines
- Princess Diana dies
- Hong Kong returns to China
- Heaven's Gate suicides
- Mars Pathfinder lands
- Tobacco settlement
💡 Tech & Firsts
- DVD players hit US stores
- Wi-Fi (802.11) standard released
- Tamagotchi US launch
- First weblogs appear
- DVD movie releases begin
🏆 Sports
- Marlins win the World Series
- Bulls win their fifth title
- Packers win Super Bowl XXXI
- Red Wings win the Stanley Cup
- Tiger Woods wins the Masters
🤪 Crazes & fads
- Tamagotchi mania
- Beanie Babies peak
- Hanson 'MMMBop'
- Austin Powers
- Titanic fever begins
👖 Clothes
- JNCO wide-leg jeans
- Frosted tips
- Spaghetti-strap dresses
- Bucket hats
- Adidas track pants
💵 What it cost
- Stamp: 32¢
- Gas: ~$1.23/gal
- Movie ticket: ~$4.59
- Median new home: ~$146,000
- New car avg: ~$19,000
🧸 Toy chest
🍬 On the shelf
- Fruit by the Foot🛒 grab some →
- Shark Bites🛒 grab some →
- String Thing
- Butterfinger BB's
- Wonder Ball
- Sour Punch Straws🛒 grab some →
- Airheads Xtremes🛒 grab some →
- 3D Doritos
- Cheetos Paws
- Planters P.B. Crisps
🥤 In the fridge
- Clearly Canadian🛒 grab some →
- Snapple🛒 grab some →
- Fruitopia
- Orbitz
- Arizona Iced Tea🛒 grab some →
- Mistic
- All Sport
- Gatorade Frost🛒 grab some →
- SunnyD🛒 grab some →
- Squeezit
How well do you remember Class of 1997?
7 quick questions — the songs, the artists, the year. No cheating. 😏
💬 Memories from the Class of 1997
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📸 Your Class of 1997 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 1997 gear
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