What were you doing in 1994?

[MANT!]

Lived in the Western side of Fort Worth, worked on the East side of Dallas..worst commute I ever had, 60 miles each way..
Traffic sucked unless I added an additional 10 miles to my commute by taking the northern route of the wagon wheel (635 instead of 183)...however was a fantastic time to be a fan of ST and SF..with Channel 21 out of Fort Worth running DS9-TNG-TOS on daily and weekly rotation, with the TOS movies often run in primetime..They also covered the local ST and SF conventions as part of a local focus show.Channel 27 at the same time was running UFO and Space 1999 with B grade SF movies every weekend..
I was in a new house with 2 young children 2 nice cars in a great neighborhood. Clinton was President..the economy was in growth, with salaries rising.. Good times...

 

[Mattadd]

Being 9 years old in primary school for most of it, flying off on holiday that summer, not much else.

This exactly.

Although I did start getting into Star Trek and was old enough that I can still remember watching All Good Things when it first aired with my mom.

 

[BK613]

1994 is the year I caught up with Kirk's stated age of 34...

 

[shivkala]

At this time in 1994, I was getting ready for my sophomore year of high school. I had recently gotten glasses and over the summer, my dad took my sister and I on a road trip through Pennsylvania. We were living in New York at the time and he wanted to show us his alma matter, the University of Pittsburgh and meet up with a friend at Penn State. We also visited the NFL Hall of Fame in a side excursion to Ohio.

I was mourning the loss of TNG, but as a DC comics fan, I was loving Zero Hour. I was also excited for August when "Zero Month" was and all the titles would feature origin stories to reflect the retconned continuity.

Other than that, not much else was going on. Not the best year of my life, but certainly a decent one.

 

[HaventGotALife]

1994 was a big year for me and had a huge impact on who I am today. That was the year I moved back from living with my dad for 2 years to living with my mom and it was a bad experience. I basically have had only 2 years in my life were I felt happy and those 2 years were it because I loved high school. I loved playing sports and the whole experience and it was also the only 2 years of my life were I wasn't overweight.

It was also the year I became a Trek fan. Started watching TNG reruns and got hooked and was able to watch TNG's final season and DS9's second season, live ever week. That eventually lead me to become even more interested in other sci-fi stuff such as X-Files and Babylon 5 and the list kepth growing till I was a legitmate fan. I went from shy regular guy who didn't know how to talk to people very well to shy nerd who didn't know how to talk to people very well but also started have some of his more weird aspects begin to emerge. For some reason it didn't occur to me that thinking I might get to time travel or increase my intelligence by biting a electric fence might be a little unusual. That took many years to develop.

Jason

1994. It was a very awkward year for me. For one, I went through puberty, and discovered girls (and boys). It was a year my Dad was in Jail for a DUI, and I gained a tremendous amount of weight. It would take a growth spurt to get it off. I was 10, and the weight isolated me from my classmates, I started to hate private elementary school.

It was a bad year. The overriding emotions are guilt, shame, and loneliness. Anxiety reached its peak.

 

[Q2UnME]

Let's see .... 1994 ..... Worst. Year. Ever.

Went through a very painful divorce that year. Gave 50% of everything to my ex-wife and lost seeing my two young sons everyday. I firmly believe it took another 5 years of my life after that to fully recover (in both mind and spirit)

 

[USS Triumphant]

I had been married *and* on the Internet (but not the WWW, yet) for two years, and a father and graduated from high school for one year. The first period in my life when I wasn't sure where my next meal was coming from, and my wife and I were surviving on cheap boxes of "burgers" and ramen and love to afford formula and diapers, was in that year. It was the year my mom faked a pregnancy and then was arrested for a murder-for-hire scheme that killed one of my older friends, all in an attempt to collect his insurance and inheritance. It was the year I had a spiritual awakening that I REALLY could have done without. The year I met one of my closest friends and the year he introduced me to Dr. Demento (his radio programs and CDs, not him personally).

Toward the end of that year, we finally got a settlement check from a bad wreck I had been in back in '90, and along with other things I took care of, I built my first PC completely from separate components - significant because I'm a network and systems administrator now, and that was a big stepping stone along the way. (It was also the machine I played with the April '94 preview of Windows 95 on, that the shop that sold me the parts had gotten hold of and shared with me though they weren't supposed to.) And '94 was also the year my son learned the first song he ever sang along to, which was "Stay (I Missed You)" by Lisa Loeb and the Nine Stories.

 

[Refuge]

I had been married *and* on the Internet (but not the WWW, yet) for two years, and a father and graduated from high school for one year. The first period in my life when I wasn't sure where my next meal was coming from, and my wife and I were surviving on cheap boxes of "burgers" and ramen and love to afford formula and diapers, was in that year. It was the year my mom faked a pregnancy and then was arrested for a murder-for-hire scheme that killed one of my older friends, all in an attempt to collect his insurance and inheritance. It was the year I had a spiritual awakening that I REALLY could have done without. The year I met one of my closest friends and the year he introduced me to Dr. Demento (his radio programs and CDs, not him personally).

Toward the end of that year, we finally got a settlement check from a bad wreck I had been in back in '90, and along with other things I took care of, I built my first PC completely from separate components - significant because I'm a network and systems administrator now, and that was a big stepping stone along the way. (It was also the machine I played with the April '94 preview of Windows 95 on, that the shop that sold me the parts had gotten hold of and shared with me though they weren't supposed to.) And '94 was also the year my son learned the first song he ever sang along to, which was "Stay (I Missed You)" by Lisa Loeb and the Nine Stories.

Wow! Big year

 

[thestrangequark]

'94? Swimming, apparently:

 

[Hugo Rune]

I swam in T-Shirt too (or did you get pushed)

Even a sliver of sunlight caused me to turn tomato.

Back in 1994 I was at the height of my "Fuck you all, I hate everything" idiocy. I'd not come to terms with the death of my father and had no idea how to express it.

All I can say is thank the gods for my Uncle, who introduced me to prog music. It took over my life from about 1992 onward and if it weren't for delving into that crazy shit, spending hours on end rummaging for decent 70's vinyls in second hand stores in town, between 1992 and 1997 I might have just lost it.

Not my favourite years. But, hey, the likes of Soundgarden with Superunknown, Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral, Pearl Jam's Vitalogy, Pink Floyd's The Division Bell, The Black Crowes' Amorica, Dream Theatre's Awake, Queensryche's Promised Land, and Yes's Talk got me through the tougher sections.

Hugo - Watching the sand fall...

 

[thestrangequark]

I swam in T-Shirt too (or did you get pushed)

That shirt changed color in the water! I didn't usually swim in a T-shirt -- I loved my swimsuits -- but that shirt was special!

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Graduating high school.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

I had been married *and* on the Internet (but not the WWW, yet) for two years, and a father and graduated from high school for one year. The first period in my life when I wasn't sure where my next meal was coming from, and my wife and I were surviving on cheap boxes of "burgers" and ramen and love to afford formula and diapers, was in that year. It was the year my mom faked a pregnancy and then was arrested for a murder-for-hire scheme that killed one of my older friends, all in an attempt to collect his insurance and inheritance. It was the year I had a spiritual awakening that I REALLY could have done without. The year I met one of my closest friends and the year he introduced me to Dr. Demento (his radio programs and CDs, not him personally).

Toward the end of that year, we finally got a settlement check from a bad wreck I had been in back in '90, and along with other things I took care of, I built my first PC completely from separate components - significant because I'm a network and systems administrator now, and that was a big stepping stone along the way. (It was also the machine I played with the April '94 preview of Windows 95 on, that the shop that sold me the parts had gotten hold of and shared with me though they weren't supposed to.) And '94 was also the year my son learned the first song he ever sang along to, which was "Stay (I Missed You)" by Lisa Loeb and the Nine Stories.

Yikes, what a year!

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Losing my religion mostly.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I hate to say this, but I'm almost glad I wasn't yet the baseball fanatic that I am now - because in 1994, this happened.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

5th and 6th grade for me. Not my happiest years. By far more socially isolated and targeted than any other year of my life.

 

[Lord Garth]

Going to high school... Unfortunately.

 

[RAMA]

Wow, so long ago. Just quit a job working in the graphic design field that I hated in 1994, which was no big deal because I'd just gotten a small inheritence 2 years before.

RAMA

 

[scotthm]

In 1994 I was working to create a GIS database for our city. I enjoyed that job.

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[Catarina]

I was 12. I was mad we moved to Phoenix. I wanted a cold, snowy December. Now that I get cold easily, Phoenix is starting to seem appealing. But not yet.