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From 'Pulp Fiction' to TLC's 'Waterfalls', 1994 Was the Last Good Year—and It's Still Going

1994 was the last year before our culture began migrating to the internet. If you were alive then, you may remember how you heard about Kurt Cobain's death, or where you watched "Pulp Fiction." What were your cultural touchstones that year? Tell us in the comments below.

” My colleague Kate Knibbs has already written about how lamenting the demise of the monoculture is all a bit ludicrous, and while it’s arguable there’s just more culture now—more TikToks, more Instagram videos reeling out of Coachella, more streaming shows—there are still common denominators: Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, hating Zack Snyder movies. If anything unseats Civil War this weekend, it’ll be director Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, the horny tennis movie scored by Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. My memories of 1994 exist as they are; no one can go back and look at tweets, IG stories, or Facebook posts to watch their friend’s Ace Ventura impression or to recall how people reacted when Cobain died.

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