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And the Adventures of Super Mario 3! For about two years, you couldn't escape this. At the time, you wanted to scratch out your eyes and eardrums, but now that we're safely (?) past it, the spectacle of it is amusing. Far and away, though, the best thing was the Al Gore version of the macarena. 
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Memories, memories. Blossom. The cover of Joey Lawrence's CD.  Koosh balls! 
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Mar 23, 2012 20:28
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Dr. Chainsaws PhD posted:Ah, Revolution X. Even the name screams 90's! About a year ago, I saw a copy of it at Play & Trade for $5. I couldn't resist. It's even more horrible than you can imagine.
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korusan posted:So Kurt Cobain died on this date 18 years ago. One of the standout memories of my days in middle school is a talent show put on by faculty and students in my 8th grade year. A group of 8th grade boys covered "Polly Want a Cracker." It got a gym full of countrified, backwoods Georgia kids to headbang.  Those men who spent the night, they really weren't your uncles. And there was no such team as the "Do-me Babies." My late night teenaged weekend TV viewing was devoted to reruns of Duckman.
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Apr 9, 2012 02:53
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Wandering Knitter posted:You know what I don't miss from the 90's? Terrible YA books! Sure there was Goosebumps and R.L. Stine and all of the cool "scary" books. But all of the others were the same 'sounds cool but really were to teach you an important lesson. And for the girls, Sweet Valley High and Sweet Valley Twins. Those were extremely popular in my area around 1990. Desperate for something to read one night a couple of years ago, I pulled one off the shelf. Yikes, it was awful. Also when working in a middle school, someone left Whatever Happened to Janie? (sequel to The Face on the Milk Carton) on the shelf in the room I occupied. Boredom also led me to pick that up and spend my free time finishing it as form of punishment for starting it.
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May 10, 2012 00:19
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Lolitas Alright! posted:I spent every CENT of allowance, every bit of birthday or Christmas money I had on the books. I ended up totally scoring and finding four of the Kirsten books, the first Samantha book, and one of the Molly books at the thrift store all in one go. Cost me $5 for all of them because someone had marked in the corner of each cover with a blue colored pencil (which an artgum eraser got rid of). For some reason, I remember the dolls being about $75-$80, then again that might have been in the earliest days as I was reading those things at the end of the '80s. I begged and begged and begged and got the Samantha one. It's still at my mom's. I never really played with it, but I can't remember if I was pressured not to as it was too fancy or if I just didn't have the interest once I got it. It came with an authentic Indian head penny. I had all the books for Kirsten, Samantha and Molly. Mom would occasionally go off on some tangent like this, a mix of trying to make me a girly-girl (didn't happen) and actually be on the cutting edge of something.
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May 22, 2012 07:18
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Rahonavis posted:(And of COURSE both of these came home with me. In part because I had to know. Mostly because when someone too young to remember the 1990's asks me to describe the era to them, all I'll have to do is show them "Chant". "Monks had a hit record," I'll say. "That could have only happened in the 1990's.") Unless you're talking about nuns in the 1960s.
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Mourning Due posted:Ah, god, what was it? Mostly there, but out of order Maniac, Maniac, he's so cool! Maniac, Maniac, don't go to school! Runs all night, runs all right! Maniac, Maniac, kissed a bull! We had this in our own little classroom library in 5th grade and there was a waiting list a mile long. In 6th grade, the book that was all the rage was Matilda.
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A couple of ads from a 1996 Internet World magazine. Eudora. I had an independent ISP - none of the major ones had a local phone number - so I don't know about size limits on email or how useful this really might have been. I only knew one person who had it.  Don't you wish you could make web pages this fancy?  Hint: Just steal other people's graphics from Geocities. Until they disabled hotlinking, making you have to rehost them, too. I also have a year's worth of Yahoo Internet Life from late 1997-98. If anyone's curious I'll dig through those for things we can now mock.
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