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The Big Fat Mine Field Thread of 90s Nostalgia

This is a bit of a tangent. And I'm drinking for the first time in 39 days, so who knows where it will go but... You know what the problem is? I'll tell you what the problem is: You can't step in the same river twice. Because it isn't the same river and you aren't the same person.

I joke about going to a mall on Black Friday to see what a mall was like on a regular day in the 1990s, but you can't. Because there's no Suncoast Pictures anymore. There's a lot of boarded up storefronts. It isn't the same. You could have a million-zillion dollars and you couldn't buy a circuit switched landline for your house because they don't sell them anymore. Back in 2021 I was looking into it and the truth was, even if you could buy it, really, on the back-end, they were feeding it into a VOIP switch. It you want to do away with Google Maps I hope you did your buying years ago, because good luck on stopping into a gas station for street maps of the town you live in. Fond memories of a Rand McNally Road Atlas of the United States and whatever Avis maps and actual city maps were useful, hidden under a floormat (with a Yellow Pages stuffed under the "shotgun" seat).
 
GRAFFITI! What do you do when you're sitting on the shitter? Fuck off on your phone. No! It's the '90s. You probably don't have a phone. So your write upon the stall's walls:
Here I sit, all broken-hearted, a came to shit but only farted.
Some come to sit and think, others come to shit and stink, still others come to write on walls and roll their shit in little balls. Those who read what they have writ eat those little balls of shit.
 
Volpone said:
This is a bit of a tangent. And I'm drinking for the first time in 39 days, so who knows where it will go but... You know what the problem is? I'll tell you what the problem is: You can't step in the same river twice. Because it isn't the same river and you aren't the same person.

I joke about going to a mall on Black Friday to see what a mall was like on a regular day in the 1990s, but you can't. Because there's no Suncoast Pictures anymore. There's a lot of boarded up storefronts. It isn't the same. You could have a million-zillion dollars and you couldn't buy a circuit switched landline for your house because they don't sell them anymore. Back in 2021 I was looking into it and the truth was, even if you could buy it, really, on the back-end, they were feeding it into a VOIP switch. It you want to do away with Google Maps I hope you did your buying years ago, because good luck on stopping into a gas station for street maps of the town you live in. Fond memories of a Rand McNally Road Atlas of the United States and whatever Avis maps and actual city maps were useful, hidden under a floormat (with a Yellow Pages stuffed under the "shotgun" seat).
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This year, I've become obsessed with a YouTube page that takes camera tours of malls, attractions, annual fairs and flea markets all over the Northest to see if they are still thriving, or near dead. I don't travel much anymore, so it's a way to revisit places from my past...





 
Remember when what chip your computer had mattered?
 
The Pentium II was such a weird product of its era. Because they couldn’t properly marry the L2 cache to the die yet, Intel basically stuck the CPU core and cache chips on a little board, shoved that into an SECC cartridge, and had you plug the whole thing into Slot 1 like a tiny expansion card. It resembled a memory module inside more than the actual CPU as we recognise them today. One of the strangest consumer CPUs ever. Very 90s.

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In 1995, between parts 1 and 2 of 'Who Shot Mr Burns?' airing, I sat my friends down and forced them to rewatch part 1 TO FIGURE OUT WHO DID IT. None of use figured out it was Maggie. Because it was fucking stupid, really. But it was still great! The first and (probably) only time The Simpsons did a crossover and I probably spent literally all summer thinking about it. I remember literally every line and moment from Part 1 (but that's probably true of most early season episodes) and wish I could go back to the summer where a baby shooting an old man was the most important thing in the world.

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Volpone said:
This is a bit of a tangent. And I'm drinking for the first time in 39 days, so who knows where it will go but... You know what the problem is? I'll tell you what the problem is: You can't step in the same river twice. Because it isn't the same river and you aren't the same person.

I joke about going to a mall on Black Friday to see what a mall was like on a regular day in the 1990s, but you can't. Because there's no Suncoast Pictures anymore. There's a lot of boarded up storefronts. It isn't the same. You could have a million-zillion dollars and you couldn't buy a circuit switched landline for your house because they don't sell them anymore. Back in 2021 I was looking into it and the truth was, even if you could buy it, really, on the back-end, they were feeding it into a VOIP switch. It you want to do away with Google Maps I hope you did your buying years ago, because good luck on stopping into a gas station for street maps of the town you live in. Fond memories of a Rand McNally Road Atlas of the United States and whatever Avis maps and actual city maps were useful, hidden under a floormat (with a Yellow Pages stuffed under the "shotgun" seat).
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Oh. I remember what precipitated this post: Porn. In the 90s you went to the newsstand and bought a porno mag or you went to the sketchy little ADULTS ONLY curtained off section at the back of the video store and rented a porno movie. Then the Internet came along and you could get the filthiest porn in your own home for free. Now my state came out with some online ID verification thing so a lot of online porn location blocks Kentucky and the rest requires me to upload pictures of my drivers license to the Internet and it seems like the more times I do that the more opportunities there are for hackers to steal it. So a lot less porn for me now and it isn't like I can go to the local newsstand for a copy of this month's "Hustler" or the corner mom & pop video store to rent "Deep Inside Dirty Debutants 27".
 
The first computer I bought was in 1994, a Mac Quadra 660AV. It was a novelty because it had built-in video and audio inputs (hence the "AV"), so you didn't need to install a card.

They threw in a package with the monitor, mouse, and a modem for $3000. Which was a bargain off the retail price at the time, but I didn't realize it was because PowerMacs were only a few months away from being lauched. No regrets though -- I was capturing video* and blasting audio thru powered speakers while all my friends were making stick figures in MacDraw.

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* It had a small hard drive so video was 320x240 max and I mostly could only save stills and short videos, BUT I HAD THE CAPABILITY DAMMIT.
 

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