Nostalgia

The glow-in-the-dark Wacky Wallwalker from Froot Loops. You’d throw it on the wall and it would slowly crawl down.

And you probably have the song stuck in your head now.

From Tom Scott’s newsletter:

You LOVED playing yours, but HATED the awful battery life.

I’m sure the word “yogurt” belongs in quotes when describing this stuff. But as a 5-year-old, I loved the stuff. I can’t imagine I’d like it now if they still made it. But it’s associated with fond memories.

I suspect this may be a lesser-known one. It was on CBS in 1996 and was cancelled after only one season (partially because of the FCC’s strengthened requirements for making kids’ shows “educational"), but it’s very much imprinted on my brain.

This is one of the best phones I ever owned. You could type nearly as fast on it as a traditional keyboard. It even had a scroll ball as well to act like a mouse. The things I would do for Google to implement something like this in a modern Pixel phone. I hate even trying to respond to people these days from my phone, because of how just how bad touch keyboards are in comparison.

A friend recommended I try the chicken and I laughed for a bit about the site. Had to post here.

The commercial with the jingle is required: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_WTjcI-VtA

Shoutout to Mr. and Mrs. “E” for their upstairs and downstairs VCRs always set to the correct time.

I remember this was a huge phenomenon when it came out and people were recording it on their home VCR’s and playing it back frame by blurry frame. News programs reported on it. Serious people discussed the reasons why they thought it was fake, as though it wasn’t just grainy footage of a plaster dummy stuffed with spiced meats.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20896812

A favorite of mine growing up. I loved trying to make water worthy boats. They were terrifying boats.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20008150

Another post reminded me that these existed and were everywhere in the 90s.

I grew up in the 90s and aughts. These containers were frequently around cash registers in convenience stores and perhaps other small businesses. I don’t remember them being so consistently branded, but my experience then would have been limited to going into a handful of stores in the same locale. Of course, Canada ditched pennies (1 cent pieces) from cash transactions just over 10 years ago (we now round for cash transactions).

Oscar’s pet worm and most loyal companion