1. Removable face plates for car stereos (which you had to remember to remove each time you parked your car):
2. E!'s Wild On series, which was a kinda softcore porn-ish show...
3. ...and Coming Attractions, which was literally a half-hour show of just movie trailers:
4. The '90s-meets-psychedelic design on Fruitopia vending machines:
5. The 25 AOL free-trial CDs you and your family would get every month:
6. The Jerry Springer Too Hot for TV! VHS tape that they would show commercials for late at night:
7. The Spice Girls' Generation Next Pepsi commercial (FTR, the song they sang was a bop):
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8. The envelopes you'd get your developed photos back in:
9. These lava lamps that you thought looked both retro and futuristic:
10. "Goth Talk" on SNL, which was hosted by Circe Nightshade and Azrael Abyss:
11. David Arquette and other celebs doing commercials for collect call companies:
12. Having your floor look like this whenever you made a mixtape:
13. The racy Candie's perfume commercials that starred Alyssa Milano:
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14. Those big Nature Sounds music displays inside Targets:
15. Having a ton of blank VHS tapes with covers that looked like this:
16. Real California Cheese commercials (that featured this logo):
17. Cookie Crook, Chip the Dog, and Cookie Cop as the mascots for Cookie Crisp cereal:
18. That weird Friends Diet Coke contest that made no sense:
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19. Socially Hazardous stickers that they sold at gas stations and sticker vending machines inside Walmart:
20. Evian being the bougiest bottled water you could buy:
21. Publishers Clearing House magazine stamps that you would use to order magazines that you then would never pay for:
22. Ordering VHS tapes through Columbia House (which you wouldn't pay for):
23. McDonald's food that came in this packaging:
24. CompUSA (where everyone got their desktop PC fixed at):
25. The Discovery Channel Store, which was filled with so many overpriced things:
26. And the Natural Wonders stores with their light-wood interiors and rain sticks:
@jhonnycharles88 The Natural Wonders store got a lot of my allowance back then 😂🤣
27. Cyber cafés, which are kinda weird in retrospect:
28. Pager cases that you would clip onto your belt or jean pockets:
29. The absolute trend phenomenon that was WonderBra:
30. The green FBI warning screen that played before Disney VHS tapes:
31. Coupons that came inside VHS movies you bought:
32. Cool boom boxes that came with removable speakers:
33. Old Navy commercials that featured the "Item of the Week":
34. Gap's super-catchy "Everyone in..." campaign:
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35. And lastly, the Jar Jar Binks lollipops that basically made you French-kiss Jar Jar:
