Twitter Trend #igrewup on - 'I Grew Up On'

Last night, going into the early hours of this morning, there was a twitter trend doing the global rounds. For those not familiar with Twitter or it's trends, it's where you preface a word or a phrase with a hashtag '#' and if popular it makes the top ten trending topics on Twitter. Before you know it the whole world is in on it.

I usually hate trending topics or in twitter speak. #tt with a passion, but last night's one which was #igrewupon and #igrewup brought back some fond memories and was actually pretty entertaining reading some of the other ones of the people I follow and nodding in agreement at them.

Being 30, born in 79 I was pretty much a child of the 80's/90's...here are the ones I contributed to the #tt.

#Igrewupon 4 TV channels before the days of cable...

#Igrewupon sittin @ the table with the fam @ dinner, if u turned to look at the TV one piece a clap! And you waited till every1 was finished

#Igrewupon playing in my back garden. Walking street which part, at how much O clock?  

#Igrewupon no chicken shop after school. Dinner was cooked by mother not nyamed from a box pun di street fried by the Indian man!

#Igrewupon doo doo plaits for school. And stocking foot at night as a headscarf!

#Igrewupon watching VHS tapes of RnB vids taped by my friends from cable cause my mum refused to pay for it!

#Igrewupon The Cosby Show, A different World, Alf, Different Strokes, Punky Brewster, The Wonder Years

#Igrewupon The Fresh Prince of Bel Air when they were shown for the very first time on TV.

#Igrewupon Top of The Pops and when number ones lasted an average of 3 weeks!

#Igrewupon music videos by Michael Jackson actually making news and drawing in 13 million people to watch on TV. His videos were an event!

#Igrewupon Nike Air Max 1, 2, 3 and 4

#Igrewupon stock, aitken and waterman songs

#Igrewupon Smash Hits magazine and had the lyrics from it ready to sing along when Top of the Pops came on.

Reading all these #Igrewupon my kids aren't going to appreciate a damn thing. They won't even know what a cassette or a walkman is.

#Igrewupon mercury one 2 one and BT cellnet back in the day before orange & vodafone etc. Damn remember when there was ONLY BT.

#Igrewupon that bastard house phone with the dial. Finger in,spin,it spins back,nxt number. UGH!When you dialled a wrong number long ting!!!

#Igrewupon beatings! Nuff said!

#Igrewupon Benny Hill Monday's 8pm on Thames Television. There was no Carlton or ITV then. It was called Thames!!!!

#Igrewupon No problem. First black UK TV show on channel 4.

#Igrewupon Clapham being a predominately black area, where you couldn't pay white folks to reach. Go there in 2009 where my people at??

#Igrewupon black folks owning big ass houses 4 and 5 storeys in London, that was the family home and the norm.

#Igrewupon REAL celebrities and no reality TV. Although I love reality TV!

#Igrewupon having to wait 3-6months for a movie to hit the cinema in the UK from the US. We were a vex nation coz of that!

#Igrewupon Connect 4 and Guess Who. They never got old to me, I could have fun for hours.

#Igrewupon having to push 2 buttons to record every damn thing.

#Igrewupon NO night buses. You missed the last bus. Your ass got left. No mobile phone, reverse call in a raatid phone box!

#Igrewupon mek it last, cause after it done yuh nah get no more.

#Igrewupon a treat WAS McDonalds. My mum was tight, cheeseburger OR a hamburger, Small Fries & a small Coke. Not even a happy meal!!!!

#Igrewupon Trocadero being tha lick where if you were somebody (as a teen) you'd go there to be seen and get chirpsed!

#Igrewupon butters, fritters, chief, innit doh, skettel

#Igrewupon that jungle chuuuuuuuune by General Levy 'Incredible' that was ALWAYS in heavy rotation on The Box!

         

#Igrewupon when a black person was on TV my sister would scream "black people are on the telly" and we'd all run, sit and watch in amazement

#Igrewupon Grange Hill....the days of Zammo, Justine, Ziggy etc. That show was tha lick!

#Igrewupon Neighbours & Home & Away where you'd buss your ass to get home to watch it and talk about it at school the next day!

#Igrewupon NO knife/gun crime. Word got around a fight was happening at a certain time & after school they'd use their fists to sort it out

#Igrewupon penny sweets. Haribo mi backfoot. Not in my day!

#Igrewupon Care Bears, He-Man, She-Ra, The Wuzzles, Fraggle Rock, The Ewoks, Thundercats, SuperTed, Inspector Gadget, Bananaman, Raggy Dolls

#igrewupon Wizbit. "Ha ha thisaway, ha ha thataway, ha ha thisaway my oh my" WTF kinda theme tune is that!

#igrewupon a boy would come over to our group and say "my friend wants to talk to you"....that never happened to me it was the other girls

#igrewupon Reebok Pumps, LA Gear, British Knights....(Hammer sung the theme tune)

#Igrewup on Pepsi & Coca Cola commercials ! "I am the future of the world.I am the hope of my nation.I am tomorrows ppl.I am the new inspiration. And we have a song 2 sing 2 you. We have a msg 2 bring to you *forgets words* and tomorrow, tomorrow, *forgets words again*

#igrewupon Dwayne and Whitley!!!!!!!!!! *drops the mic. hands in the air. Backs away from the stage*

#igrewupon thin, fat, thin, fat, thin, fat, thin, fat, Oprah!

#igrewupon Judy Blume! RT if ya feel me girls!!!

#igrewupon REAL RnB music! Just today I was singing hard to Tevin Campbell, took me back! Can we Talk is still a tune I DON'T CARE!!!

#igrewup during a time when Bad Boy had good artists on the label and no one could touch em. Faith, Biggie, Total, etc...they were killin it

#igrewupon @MariahCarey for the past 20 of my 30 years! Damn Mariah's career has been a long one. Her music got me thru some hellish times!