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[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 116 points 1 year ago (9 children)
[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That ad campaign started in 99, its really more of a 2000’s thing.

[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 13 points 1 year ago

Ya, but it proves I lived through the 90's 😆

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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 91 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] fing3r@feddit.de 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

…it really whips the llamas ass!

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[–] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I survived idiocy of managers asking for Y2K compliant padlocks. As in, physical padlocks.

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hope you charged them double.

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[–] astroturds@startrek.website 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] Cabeza2000@lemm.ee 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] RadDevon@lemmy.zip 57 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] hardypart@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago

Remember Alf? He's back! In pog form!

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[–] PurpleTentacle@lemdro.id 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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[–] lps2@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] linkshandig@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago
[–] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] protput@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pshhhkkkkkkrrrr​kakingkakingkakingtsh​chchchchchchchcch​dingdingding

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[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not a word, but the phrase "going online". As in not being constantly connected at all times. We had to actually "get" online to look at stuff.

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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still laugh thinking back to 8th grade when my buddy, Tyler, got his first pair of JNCOs. To paint a picture, Tyler couldn't have been more than 90 pounds soaking wet and had a bowl cut (being it the 90s). He had a big goofy grin on his face and goes "check it out - I can fit a while 2 liter of Mountain Dew in my pocket!" And sure enough, he pulled a full 2 liter of Mountain Dew out of his front pocket.

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[–] d3lta19@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago
[–] lavadrop@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago (9 children)
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[–] RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago
[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Discman - so much better than the Walkman. =)

[–] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I loved my discman, but remember trying to pretend like it wasn't skipping with every bodily movement? That's the advantage the walkman had that we didn't want to admit at the time

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[–] mom@nom.mom 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Baud. Maybe kilobauds.. That and "da bomb" are very memorable to me from then...

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[–] Confuserated@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Tubthumping

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Kkrrrsshhhbiiieieiekkkkrrrrriieiekkkrrsshshshbriiieie

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[–] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Be kind, REWIND.

[–] JoeClu@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 21 points 1 year ago
[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] scott@lem.free.as 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Information superhighway"

Two words, I know.

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[–] exiaxzero@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Floppy disks (or "diskettes").

Also, Y2K.

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[–] Wage_slave@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

BRRRRphhhhttttttbrrrrrraaaaaapppppingtingtingBOINGBaTingBatingtingphhhhhhhhttttt.....

The sounds of the internet, volume one.

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[–] logos@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] ji88aja88a@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] LaughingFox@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] quantum_mechanic@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Clear craze.

As in technology. Translucent gadgets were all the rage. Not quite one word, I was going to go with translucent, but found it actually had a name.

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[–] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago
[–] marshadow@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wazzzzuuuuuuuup!

with entirely to much tongue.

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[–] scott@lem.free.as 13 points 1 year ago

autoexec.bat

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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