1. What the original Netflix looked like:
2. What happened in McDonald's that day:
3. How wild MySpace was:
4. The longest 8 hours of your life:
5. Peak MySpace:
6. How to effectively measure time:
7. The dark days:
8. The devestation:
The code for the bathroom at this Starbucks is 90210 which the young barista passed on matter-of-factly as "nine zero two one zero" causing me to crumble into infinity dust
9. The wildest time to be alive:
10. This fact of life:
11. The mad dash:
I feel sorry for Netflix era kids. They will never know the high stakes adrenaline of running to the bathroom/fridge/bedroom in a single ad break, with the beckoning call of a sibling screaming “It’s ONNNNNN” to send you hurdling over furniture to get back in time.
12. Who this guy is:
My dad looks like he just got a letter
13. The true, unabashed joy:
14. The ghost of Britney past:
15. Late 2000s babies:
16. How to also tell age:
if you remember these, you’re eligible for assisted living, life alert and the jitterbug flip phone
17. Past belts becoming future embarrassment:
18. The sanctuary:
19. The original Spotify:
20. The warm glow of the TV:
21. The terror:
Kids these days just get a push alert to find out that school's canceled. They'll never know the pure terror/joy of waking up early and having to wait to see their district come across the scroll on the morning news.
22. Becoming a technological genius:
23. The loudest sound known to humankind:
24. Proto-Alexa:
25. The implications of being that low:
26. The no-internet struggle:
27. And, finally, Blink's truth:
