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CelticPredator posted:Since Toys R Us is going down soon, they should let people run through there with a cart for five minutes and go to town. Nah, they're going to use one of those awful liquidation companies that mark everything up to full price, and then tag everything like it's a fire sale, slowly bringing down prices over a month until the sadness hanging over the store is so palpable it permanently and invisibly stains anything you might have bought for 5% less than its President's Day sale price would have been.
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Inzombiac posted:To this day I don't understant why people liked Fruitopia.
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Inzombiac posted:No but it was marketed as a healthy alternative to soda. Ah. Maybe that was the impression I got by the tagline "for the mind, body, and planet." Guess that sounds like a health drink, but I always had the impression it was meant to convey some sort of oneness with the universe. Now, we have Vitamin Water, which only has 31 grams of sugar per bottle, and is dressed to look like prescription medicine.
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Also I think target. I’m just seeing bold red lines, gray businessy gridwork and sans serif no nonsense signage in my head right now.
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Inzombiac posted:There was a retrotech exhibit in Moscow a little while ago. I was looking through the gallery and I saw my very first laptop. My brother had a Compaq like that too. I think I played one of the King's Quest games on it. I liked it as a space-saving solution, but in 2021 I feel shoulder pain just looking at it.
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I can't imagine someone "never having been" to Subway before. I absolutely can imagine someone "never ever" going to Subway again. (True story, I ate at Subway 3 times a week for a month about a decade ago and will never eat there again. I didn't have a bad experience, it's just not good food, and it starts to add up somehow.)
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I feel like some of that stuff was an outgrowth of executive desk toys from the 80's.
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I was so bored at my 90's job I would defrag my floppies, and Windows 95 was dumb enough to do it. It was satisfying.
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ah, genre discussions One thing I like about being an old is not caring about which part of the record store my music was stocked. I do sorta miss the sound and feel of slapping back used CDs on the racks while treasure hunting. $7 instead of $16.99 for a whole entire album! I sure hope the two songs I heard on my local station are representative of the whole thing.
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Apple now has a commercial where the iPad hipster child says “what’s a computer?”
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There’s plenty of military flavored sf TV so you have to savor the truly weird and bad where you can get it.
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Maybe everyone has a name that screams '90's' to them. Mine is 'Tyler,' even though I grew up not knowing a single one, but it's from a song by the Toadies. "Brick Johnson," to reply to whatever was going on upthread.
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The lead singer there was in an early episode of Highlander, the TV series
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Unperson_47 posted:I can't look at the pod racer onscreen as anything but 2 human legs, splayed out, joined by a chain at the ankles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAEv897dle8&t=71s
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ugh, I've had Take A Picture by Filter in my head last couple days
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hatelull posted:I think Jesse Camp (winner of the first "Wanna Be A VJ" thing) actually beats out Kennedy in terms of obnoxious presentation. Didn't he get a music video and disappear after less than a year, then the normie runner up guy was on MTV for a decade or something Also I think you're right, but Kennedy sucks more. I feel like you could give Jesse some weed and attention and he'd fade into the background, but Kennedy would be up at 5am and still talking very opinionatedly about things she doesn't know anything about.
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Mu Zeta posted:Yeah why did they get a super hot chick to destroy a kitchen. It was hot. "Any questions?" "...um, yeah, could you do that again?"
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Unperson_47 posted:I never could stand Saved by the Bell. A Different World, however, was great.  The characters of Saved by the Bell always struck me as the worst people. Also you just reminded me of Jasmine Guy's music career. And that Lark Voorhees of Saved by the Bell was/is a Jehovah's Witness, developed a mental illness, and wrote an unhinged quasi-religious book: https://www.amazon.com/True-Light-T...&s=books&sr=1-1
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This Wendy's nearish to me in Clermont, FL kept the sunroom even though the rest of the building was modernized to the current brand standards.  My local Wendy's was still a good place to eat until their COVID-interrupted remodel (sunroom intact). It looks exactly like the above. Then they finished the remodel, reopened, and for some reason the food isn't good anymore. Everything's in smaller portions and all dried out, and of course the prices are higher. The 90s didn't end all at once, and another portion of that decade died that day.
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Neito posted:I like to imagine that you two are standing next to each other, posting in the same thread, enjoying some Baconator fries. I actually have a friend who lives in Clermont, and I was talking to him yesterday how it would be cool if we could just go to our local identical Wendy's and through some dimensional chicanery both meet up for lunch.
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Naked Man Punch posted:Including O Canada, which introduced so many people to "Log Driver's Waltz" and "Blackfly" (among a bunch of other really good shorts). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtI1pWkHto0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1S5pAF1YYA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f389hIxZAOc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxmCO_L_CC8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXKUcsvhQc I kinda wish Cartoon Network had a 300 hour or so block of its old programming hidden somewhere on the web, when it had very little original programming, and virtually no anime. It was like this flea market of random and often terrible cartoons. I love The Big Snit more than words can say. doctorfrog has a new favorite as of 00:45 on Aug 26, 2022 |
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Animal-Mother posted:Wait a minute. So this rear end in a top hat wasn't in the Zima commercials? mandy patinkin I'm pretty sure
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I had this one, and I miss it. 
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Years ago on the forums there was a very brief rush to play the multiplayer game of this, Madballs in Babo Invasion.
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Alaois posted:drat its weird how people prefer the dominant aesthetic from a bygone era, one they aren't currently immersed in and encountering every day familiarity breeds contempt What irritates me most about UI designs is the lack of ability to change anything other than wallpaper these days.
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I only ever heard the one mazzy star song, featured in the fistfight scene in Starship Troopers. But yeah it was a sad song.
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Unperson_47 posted:I can still taste the plastic that those cups were made of. Pretty sure that microscopic particles of 90's collector cups are going to be in my bloodstream until death.
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At least Mad TV had those animated Spy vs. Spy bits.
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Unperson_47 posted:It's also available on archive.org if anyone is interested. Hell yeah. I want to encourage anyone who finds things they love on archive.org, to personally archive them themselves. Archive.org is too good to last in these evil times.
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I had a Radio Shack one in the 80's. Great fun, except sometimes I'd make this 100-step thing and it wouldn't work, and boy howdy would I be mad. It was used and it's possible some random component was bad, or more likely some of the wires were broken inside their insulation. But overall? Dang fun. I liked the projects that made lots of noises.
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A lot of the fashion I'm seeing in these could still be worn today, even in the first video, which is more than a quarter century old. Aside from the clear popularity of these malls, there isn't much different from my last trip to my local mall... which was before COVID, so who knows what a wreck that place must be by now. Biggest nostalgia shot came from the receipt printer screeching in the third video. Last note: that girl in the weird outfit in video one screams "Gramma made me this outfit and the second I get it off my body I'm never wearing it again."
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root beer posted:This is just a hoity and/or toity shopping mall in an affluent part of town, built 10-15 years before the upper middle class started to prefer those open-air malls anchored by, idk, Crate & Barrels and Apple stores instead of the usual Macy’s or Dillard’s "There it is, the world's largest cubic zirconium. What an eyesore."
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dialhforhero posted:I mean…she looks hot to me. I bet if she were a more average looking person those clothes would look more dated.
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I wish Timex would bring back the turn-n-pull, but I have a feeling it would be ridiculously overpriced. I wore one for years, a terribly unfashionable device with a plastic crystal that got all scratched up, but it was pretty useful to use to set short-run timers, you just turn the outer bezel a certain number of minutes or hours ahead and pull the pusher out, and you're good. It's quicker than setting a timer on a digital watch, where you're pushing two or three pushers a number of times, or unlocking a phone and tapping in a time on a virtual keypad.
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Rub a monkey's tummy! Rub a monkey's tummy with your head!
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Neito posted:One of my weird 90s internet memories was...
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I liked the Netscape Communicator Suite because it had all the internet stuff in one big package, with these cool collapsible toolbars and stuff. Felt very office-y and grown up. I think I ended up leaving it for Opera, which was blazing fast at the time. I didn't want to pay for it, so I put up with the ad they placed in the toolbar. For a bit I used MSN Explorer because of that nice, neat sense of completeness, similar to how I felt with Netscape Communicator. Sure it was designed for the elderly, but there was a time when how a piece of software felt to use was part of the fun. doctorfrog has a new favorite as of 02:39 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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