lunes, 26 de marzo de 2012

10 Ways to Re-Live the ’90s Online

"Exciting. Confrontational. Visually interesting. Action-oriented. And capable of producing emotional moments." These are the lines from a script for an American Gladiators commercial from the early '90s. It's also a great way to describe the '90s themselves.

It's certainly a decade near and dear to our hearts. Many of us straddled the eras before and after the advent of mobile tech and the Internet. It was a truly rad period of innovation. Cell phones gradually migrated from bulky bags to our pockets, gaming went mobile and computing power increased by leaps and bounds. It was so exciting we created new words like "Cowabunga" to describe our elation.

All jokes aside, it signaled a dramatic shift in the way we consumed information. Music videos exploded in popularity. Experimentation with creating websites took off. Fashion ranged from colorful and daring to gloomy and unkept.

Looking back, it was a time of digital naivety, a time when we were still figuring out what it meant to be constantly connected. So if you're yearning for a simpler time, put on your slap bracelet, lace up your Rollerblades and get Airborne with us down memory lane. You'll find everything from rat-tails to tight-rolled jeans, all in the beautifully wonky, 4:3 square aspect ratio.

Did we miss something quintessentially '90s? Let us know in the comments.

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