Take a trip in my time machine to 1992, when Hasbro Flirt Squirts commercials aired on television, trying to convince girls to secretly spray their friends with water guns disguised as a calculator, candy, nail polish, lipstick, portable cassette player, and sunglasses. Those were different times, weren’t they? I can’t
This is a video of musician Jared Halley performing all the individual instrumental parts (including vocals) of Green Day’s 1992 banger ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ acapella, combining them into a multi-track performance of the entire song. That’s neat. You know, I always fancied my voice a bass guitar. It’s deep.
This is a video documenting launch day of the iMac at a CompUSA store in Alexandria, Virginia on August 15, 1998 — just over 24 years ago. The interviews with the Apple reps and customers are great. As my mom would say, it’s a real hoot. I remember when I
Nostalgia: I remember playing Warcraft II PvP over a 56k modem with friends in high school. I’d purposefully pick up the phone if they were going to beat me. This is a video of Youtuber Gough Lui connecting to the internet 90’s style via an period-appropriate PC (with Intel Pentium
The 90’s, what can I say — I lived through them. Or, I should say, I survived through them, because I’m not sure what I was doing could be considered living. What I’m doing now either. This is a half hour mashup medley of 600 songs that were released from
This is a vintage video from all the way back in 1991 (30 years ago!) of a couple kids playing a variety of games in an Aladdin’s Castle arcade at the local mall. Growing up in Alabama we didn’t have any Aladdin’s Castles, but we had a Time-Out arcade at
This is a video from musician Alex Melton (previously) of Oasis’s 1995 banger ‘Wonderwall’ reimagined in the style of Blink-182. Is it an accurate representation? Who knows. All I know is Blink 182’s Dude Ranch album was very meaningful to me when it came out in high school, particularly ‘Dammit’.
This is a commercial for the Yomega Brain yo-yo (Amazon ad link) aired during Saturday morning cartoons in the 90’s. It perfectly encapsulates the nineties in a now painful to watch 30-second ad. God, I was one of those kids. Toss in a kid with terrible hand-foot coordination playing hacky