I recognised too many of those for my own good. Nearly all.

You might want to note that Hotmail (HoTMaiL at the time) was originally independent from Microsoft, and was later purchased by them. I had an email address with them during that phase...

This seems to be a pretty common phenomenon. Several years ago I ran into this guy who was a troublemaker in high school, always being sent to the principal’s office, on the train. Almost immediately, he tried to teach me about Jesus.

How can you leave out the original NES commercial, where two ‘80s bros are in a house that blasts off into space?

It’s pretty common for “bro” types to refer to their close friends as “the boys”. As in, “crack a cold one open with the boys.”

It’s amazing how toxic youth culture got between 1994 (Woodstock II) and 1999.

Such an amazing track.

If there’s a MegaMan 12. This one was pretty much out of the blue.

Please don’t give the Dilbert guy any attention.

What happens if you consume the Sega bath salts?

I remember my local suburban arcade having one of these. No one knew what the deal with it was, we just knew it was a “new version” that let you do some cool stuff.

There’s an age-old saying: “Pics or it didn’t happen.” You had your opportunity to shine.

Given what we know now, it looks like the world of video games would have turned out astonishingly differently if Sony hadn’t tried to pull a fast one with licensing and royalties on CD-ROM games. Hiroshi Yamauchi must have exploded once they figured that bit out. If Sony had continued on its SFC-compatible course,…

I’ll always love this movie. It was much better than Napoleon Dynamite. It was the kind of movie Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers would have approved of.

You mean like the very real feud they had with Dan Quayle during the first Bush presidency?

So good at cancelling noise that Donald Trump thinks they’re censoring him.

It’s the same story with Money For Nothing by Dire Straits. That song contains a homophobic slur, but the song is from the viewpoint of an ignorant working class Joe jealous of the rock lifestyle.

I tried watching the first episode of the anime, and it was absolutely terrible. It did not click with me one bit. People advised me to skip 4 or 5 episodes, so I reluctantly gave it another chance and did. Now I’m almost 200 episodes into it.

Love that wallpaper.

Gotta correct you on Apple copying Vista on this. Mac OS X had translucency effects dating back to the first pre-release. It was one of the features of Aqua Steve Jobs was thrilled to show off.