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 Zip Disk
One hundred megabytes in a chunky blue square: finally, enough room for everything.
90s Kid - The AIM Away Message
The first social status update was a handwritten sign taped to an empty digital chair.
90s Kid - The Discman and the Skip
Portable music, provided you agreed not to move like a portable person.
90s Kid - The Caller ID Box
The tiny beige oracle that told the whole family who was interrupting dinner.
90s Kid - Channel 3 Was Not a Channel
The sacred television setting that made the VCR, game console, and family peace work.
90s Kid - The AOL CD That Would Not Stop Arriving
The internet used to arrive in the mailbox, shiny, free, and apparently breeding.
90s Kid - The Day We Got 56k
The afternoon the modem screamed a little faster and the whole house held its breath.
90s Kid - The Dot-Matrix Printer
The screaming beige monster that printed your book report one agonizing dot at a time, and the perforated paper-strips you weren’t allowed to tear off too early.
90s Kid - The Universal Remote
You remember the fat black remote with too many buttons that somehow ran the whole living room.
90s Kid - The LAN Party
You remember hauling your whole computer across town just to sit in a room and frag your friends.
