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[-] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 178 points 1 year ago
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[-] scytale@lemm.ee 139 points 1 year ago
[-] fing3r@feddit.de 64 points 1 year ago

…it really whips the llamas ass!

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[-] astroturds@startrek.website 97 points 1 year ago
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[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 43 points 1 year ago

I survived idiocy of managers asking for Y2K compliant padlocks. As in, physical padlocks.

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 21 points 1 year ago

Hope you charged them double.

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[-] RadDevon@lemmy.zip 81 points 1 year ago
[-] hardypart@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago

Remember Alf? He's back! In pog form!

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[-] Cabeza2000@lemm.ee 80 points 1 year ago
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[-] PurpleTentacle@lemdro.id 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] protput@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pshhhkkkkkkrrrr​kakingkakingkakingtsh​chchchchchchchcch​dingdingding

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[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 45 points 1 year ago
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[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 year ago

Not a word, but the phrase "going online". As in not being constantly connected at all times. We had to actually "get" online to look at stuff.

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[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago
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[-] mom@nom.mom 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Baud. Maybe kilobauds.. That and "da bomb" are very memorable to me from then...

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[-] lavadrop@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago
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[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 33 points 1 year ago

Discman - so much better than the Walkman. =)

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[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Be kind, REWIND.

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

Kkrrrsshhhbiiieieiekkkkrrrrriieiekkkrrsshshshbriiieie

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[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago
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[-] Confuserated@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Tubthumping

[-] scott@lem.free.as 30 points 1 year ago

"Information superhighway"

Two words, I know.

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[-] Wage_slave@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago

BRRRRphhhhttttttbrrrrrraaaaaapppppingtingtingBOINGBaTingBatingtingphhhhhhhhttttt.....

The sounds of the internet, volume one.

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[-] Sacha@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Slime/goop

The 90s had an obsession with slime/goop. Toys, mascots, etc.

[-] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 27 points 1 year ago
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[-] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago
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[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 year ago

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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[-] exiaxzero@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Floppy disks (or "diskettes").

Also, Y2K.

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[-] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

Wazzzzuuuuuuuup!

with entirely to much tongue.

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