Stuff from the 90s

Things, trends, and habits from the 90s that are no more:

• Encyclopedia on a CD
• Having a separate phone line for internet access
• VHS cassettes
• Watching TV all day because you have nothing to do
• The Windows 95/98 startup sound
• The "It is now safe to turn off your computer" screen
• Getting an external light for your Game Boy
• VHS rewinders
• Carrying data on floppy disks
• That dialup modem sound
• Having to "log on" to the internet at all
• Walkman
• Discman
• Measuring processor speed by megahertz
• AOL keywords
• Going to an actual library to do research
• Beepers
• Carrying around a zipper case full of music CDs
• Discovering the concept of the gigabyte
• Car phones
• Disposable cameras
• Memorizing DOS commands to load up games
• Learning HTML to put up a personal webpage on Geocities
• Angelfire
• Altavista
• Ask Jeeves
• Yahoo! Internet directory
• Shareware
• Chatting with random people in FreeTel
• Polaroid cameras
• Not knowing how photos turned out until they're developed
• Buying film
• Blowing into video game carts to make them work
• Sega vs. Nintendo
• Reformatting a computer because Windows is getting slow
• PC games coming in huge boxes for no reason
• Saying CD-ROM for any reason at all
• "Information Superhighway"
• "Cyberspace"
• Sites with MIDI background music
• Animated gifs
• Webrings
• The blink tag
• Best viewed in Internet Exporer or Netscape Navigator
• Sites with frames
• Stuck in a video game? Stop playing.
• Calling every first-person shooter a "Doom clone"
• Boy bands
• Saturday morning cartoons
• Rollerblading
• Hand-animated movies
• TV Guide
• Goosebumps
• Beavis and Butthead
• Wearing a baseball cap backwards or sideways
• Linux being on the verge of taking over the world
• Microsoft being the evil empire
• Thinking that history has ended and democracy has won