Here's an article I posted years ago about purchasing games from the now largely defunct Toys 'R Us chain of toy stores. Buying video games at Toys 'R Us was such an arcane, labyrinthine experience. It felt like a sacred ritual!...
#GreatAlbums1990s - #SmashingPumpkins – #MellonCollieAndTheInfiniteSadness (1995). Corgan’s attempt to remake The Wall with ‘90s sensibilities worked pretty well, right down to the moments of flabby boredom that inflict the set between bangers like “Zero” and “Bullet with Butterfly Wings.” To be so ambitiously epic in an era of ironic detachment took a certain bravery, and few alt-rockers of the era had the guts to include unabashed pop like “1979.” #Music, #1990s, #GreatRockAlbums
On October 3, 1992, Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor shocked the world by ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II live on Saturday Night Live. #TV#SNL#SineadOConnor#1990s#Nostalgia
#GreatAlbums1990s - #MyBloodyValentine – #Loveless (1991) was largely indebted to the Cocteau Twins, although the added heaviness cut through the shoegaze pack just as nineties music shifted into sonic overdrive. Kevin Shields’ swirling guitars and the use of sampling against noise-infused rock were unbelievably seminal, anticipating everything that was about to explode in the world of both alt rock and electronica as the 90s really got going. #Albums, #Music, #1990s, #Reviews, #GreatRockAlbums
Said I woke up this morning and felt the blues coming on. The Track Of The Day is from The White Stripes self-titled album released in 1999 - St James Infirmary Blues.
Pixel art for the 1993 Amiga version of our game Moon Child. After Commodore went bankrupt in 1994, Moon Child was reinitiated for Windows and published in 1997.
I’ve been waiting for this for a couple of days: this was my child‘s room, taken in the mid-1990 when I discovered the magic of the Internet (and AOL). I listened to American radio stations, mainly from the Pacific North-West, because they had the best rock and grunge (in my opinion). I’m not exactly sure how I found Bad Religion (and later Green Day), but that was the punk of my time.
PS I also had one floppy disk where I stored pics with the hot guys found online. About 30 or so and then the disk was full.
#GreatAlbums1990s – #SigurRos - #AgaetisByrjun (1999). Sung in Icelandic and Vonlenska (the group’s own made-up language) SR’s breakthrough disc combines dreampop, classical, jazz and ambient gestures in music that thrills and haunts the more you repeat. Birgisson’s Bjork-on-downers voice is a beguiling instrument that lures the listener with its Nordic lament and childlike innocence. A post-rock symphonic journey like no other. #Albums, #Music, #Reviews, #1990s, #PostRock, #GreatWorldAlbums
Wow, (over) 30 years of the PDF. I use them daily. From the linked article:
"The concept of PDF - Portable Document Format - actually began with the Camelot Project in 1990. And Camelot itself would be nothing without the very backbone of the idea, PostScript, which started all the way back in 1985, and kickstarted the desktop publishing software revolution.
Back in those days, cross-platform compatibility was a nightmare, which led Dr. John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe, to initiate that project. Its goal was simple in its concept but ambitious in its execution: create a format that would enable anyone to send any document electronically to anyone else, and that person would be able to read and even print it with its formatting perfectly preserved.
...to us jaded computer users nearly at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, this may sound like nothing to be excited about, but back in the 80s and 90s, which was the personal computer’s infancy, this was a big deal.
...back then, you couldn’t be sure which software someone would be using. You wouldn’t even know which fonts were installed on their machine. If you used one that wasn’t in that other computer’s repertoire, it could at best mess up your document’s formatting. To make matters worse, there was the Mac/Windows divide which was often viewed as a deal-breaker. Many remained convinced a file created on one type of computer could not be opened on another."
Toys Were Us (kiblitzing.blogspot.com)
Here's an article I posted years ago about purchasing games from the now largely defunct Toys 'R Us chain of toy stores. Buying video games at Toys 'R Us was such an arcane, labyrinthine experience. It felt like a sacred ritual!...