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 - Press F8 for Safe Mode
You hammered one function key during boot and hoped Windows entered its beige emergency bunker.
90s Kid - Ctrl Alt Delete
Three keys formed the emergency exit, provided your fingers could reach all of them at once.
90s Kid - The Blue Screen
The computer replaced everything with blue text and made the youngest person in the house the incident commander.
90s Kid - Watching the Defrag Screen
Little colored blocks moved around for hours and somehow this counted as entertainment.
90s Kid - It Is Now Safe to Turn Off Your Computer
The computer finished shutting down, then politely waited for a human to finish the electricity.
90s Kid - The Start Button
Microsoft put one button in the corner and taught an entire generation where computing began.
90s Kid - The Tamagotchi Emergency
A plastic egg taught an entire generation that notifications were tiny hostage negotiations.
90s Kid - The Night Y2K Was Supposed to Eat the World
We watched the microwave at midnight, waiting for two missing digits to end civilization.
90s Kid - The Turbo Button
The button labeled TURBO existed mainly so your fast computer could pretend to be slow.
90s Kid - The Memory Card
Fifteen little blocks stood between your saved game and a family argument.
