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Outside of America, this is interpreted as a reference to Scary Movie instead of the budweiser ad.
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Y2K.
I survived idiocy of managers asking for Y2K compliant padlocks. As in, physical padlocks.
Hope you charged them double.
"We gotta get the Locksmith to come out and replace the microchips. Yeah, it's going to be expensive but worth it"
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Psych!
NOT!
Dialup
Baud. Maybe kilobauds.. That and "da bomb" are very memorable to me from then...
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Kkrrrsshhhbiiieieiekkkkrrrrriieiekkkrrsshshshbriiieie
And then someone picked up the phone and you had to start all over again
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Discman - so much better than the Walkman. =)
I loved my discman, but remember trying to pretend like it wasn't skipping with every bodily movement? That's the advantage the walkman had that we didn't want to admit at the time
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Be kind, REWIND.
Pogs
BRRRRphhhhttttttbrrrrrraaaaaapppppingtingtingBOINGBaTingBatingtingphhhhhhhhttttt.....
The sounds of the internet, volume one.
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Clear craze.
As in technology. Translucent gadgets were all the rage. Not quite one word, I was going to go with translucent, but found it actually had a name.
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Gameboy
Phat
Game Genie
Quake
Netscape Infoseek Lycos Geocities
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