What's one thing from the 1990s that will never be popular again? Being in front of the TV with

friends and family at a certain time to watch a certain show and if you missed it, you missed it.

Free AOL frisbees in the mail. Here's $20. I'll pick you up at eight when the mall closes. Don't

talk to strangers. Pay phones? Really hoping parachute pants come back? Personally, I've got a soft spot for jinko jeans.

Pogs. Even if Alf comes back for it. Hey, Bart, you know Alf? He's back in pog form.

The golden age of shareware, the idea of actually owning the software you buy and decent file sharing through Napster before companies inundated lime wire and the

like with virus-infected decoy seeds.

Get off the internet!

I need to use the phone!

Yo, MTV Raps!

Palm pilots?

What the figgedy-y-uck is a palm pilot.

Oh, a PDA.

I'd see them around a lot, and I remember wanting one real badly, but I wouldn't know what it was

for and why the hell would I even have one because I was a feral ADHD goblin child.

Phone booths, rewatching the Matrix is a constant reminder of this.

The film still holds up incredibly well, but the technology doesn't so much unless you can suspend

your belief for the time period.

See, when I was a kid, I thought the

Matrix was cool. I especially thought that Matrix 2 reloaded was cool, but now I'm older. I don't

really like the films anymore. Purchased cell phone ringtones. You have received a collect

call from, Hey mom, I'm fine and going to a friend's house. Burning CDs for every occasion and writing said occasion

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