Britpop, dial-up and Cool Britannia

Born in the 1990s?

Here's what shaped your world.

The 1990s gave us the internet, the Spice Girls, Tony Blair and the most ferocious chart battles in pop history. Oasis and Blur went head to head, Princess Diana died and shocked the world, and a generation of kids spent their evenings logging on to AOL.

Life in the 1990s

Pint of Beer

£1.60

Average House

£65,000

Prime Minister

Major / Blair

US President

Bush Sr / Clinton

#1 Songs of the 1990s

1990

Nothing Compares 2 U

Sinéad O'Connor

1995

Back for Good

Take That

1996

Earth Song

Michael Jackson

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Defining TV Shows of the 1990s

1994

Friends

US · NBC

1993

The X-Files

US · Fox

1996

TFI Friday

UK · Channel 4

Famous People Born in the 1990s

You're in good company.

Ed Sheeran

Harry Styles

Zayn Malik

Malala Yousafzai

Justin Bieber

Kendall Jenner

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