📁 Around the house 📁 School days 📁 Snacks 📁 Toys 📁 Technology 📁 The street 📁 Festivals 📁 Timeline 90s Museum Things from a Vietnamese childhood in the 80s and 90s: from the little “toad” fan and the rabbit-ear TV to virtual pets and cassette tapes. Every exhibit is a pixel drawing and a short story. Click one to take a look.
🗓 Timeline 1986 Đổi Mới (Renovation) In December 1986 the Sixth Party Congress launched Đổi Mới: the ration-coupon era gradually ended and markets and shops came to life. 1992 Doraemon arrives in Vietnam In 1992 Kim Đồng Publishing released Doraemon: the robot cat and his magic pocket followed a whole generation as it grew up. 1994 The last Tết with firecrackers The Lunar New Year of 1994 was the last one with firecrackers across Vietnam: from the start of 1995, they were banned. 1997 The Internet arrives in Vietnam On 19 November 1997 Vietnam officially connected to the global Internet: screeching modems, web pages loading line by line, and soon internet cafés everywhere. 1998 The World Cup summer of '98 The summer of the 1998 World Cup in France: whole neighbourhoods stayed up late, and cafés put plastic stools out into the street. 199x Journey to the West every summer Every summer TV reran Journey to the West: the whole street knew the theme tune, the Monkey King's cloud somersault and every time the pilgrims got captured. 199x Rolling power cuts In the years of power shortages, the outage schedule was taped by the meter: the whole street sat on their doorsteps and kids played hide-and-seek by moonlight. 2000 The Y2K New Year On 31 December 1999 the world held its breath over the “Y2K bug”: could computers count into the year 2000? Then everything carried on as normal. 2002 Thần đồng đất Việt comics In 2002 the Vietnamese comic series “Thần đồng đất Việt” was born: Trạng Tí and friends became best friends to a whole generation. 2003 SEA Games 22 in Vietnam In December 2003 Vietnam hosted the Southeast Asian Games for the first time and topped the medal table, with red flags everywhere. 2008 The AFF Cup 2008 celebrations On the night of 28 December 2008 Vietnam won the AFF Cup with Lê Công Vinh's late header, and the whole country poured into the streets until dawn. 200x The video rental shop The disc rental shop at the end of the alley: walls of film discs, rented by the day, late fees, and the family watching series until late at night.