New: 90s KID: Be Kind, Rewind (3:29). A rented-VHS trip through Friday nights at the video store, four-player N64, dial-up, Windows 95 and 98, the Weather Channel at 3:47 AM, my family’s car lot on Highway 50, and the year nothing broke. The pixel art, music, and sound effects were all made for this. Press play, then read the posts below. Want to send it to someone? Here is the post for sharing.
90s Kid - The Under Construction Page
The website had one paragraph, seven animated workers, and a promise to return soon.
90s Kid - The IRC Chatroom
A text window became a room, the person with an at-sign became law, and one mistyped command became public.
90s Kid - Your ICQ Number
Friendship required memorizing a number longer than your home phone and waiting for the little uh-oh.
90s Kid - The Winamp Visualizer
A tiny music player opened a portal of colors powerful enough to make homework impossible.
90s Kid - Napster and the Mystery Download
The song took four hours, reached 99 percent, and became something recorded from a radio in a bathroom.
90s Kid - The 32 MB MP3 Player
Portable digital music arrived with enough room for an album, assuming the album showed discipline.
90s Kid - The Rechargeable Batteries
Four batteries charged all night so the handheld could survive part of a car ride.
90s Kid - The Calculator Watch
Thirty tiny buttons transformed your wrist into a business computer nobody could actually type on.
90s Kid - The Camera That Used Floppy Disks
A digital camera saved photographs onto the same square disks as homework.
90s Kid - I Went Outside. There Was Infrastructure.
A scooter ride became a tour of the boxes, cables, pipes, towers, and one camera that keep a neighborhood interesting.
