This is what a mobile phone looked like.

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This is what a laptop looked like.

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This is what Windows looked like.

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This is what an Xbox looked like.

This is what an MP3 player looked like.

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This is what hair looked like.

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This is what A+ hair looked like.

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This is what Hillary Clinton looked like.

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This is what the sexiest man alive looked like.

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This is what The Queen looked like.

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This what the two most powerful people in the world looked like.

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This is what a gangster looked like.

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This is what a serial killer looked like.

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This is what awareness looked like.

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This is what hashtag activism looked like.
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This is what terror looked like.

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New York looked like this.

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This is what professional musicians looked like.

This is what the MTV Awards looked like.

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SNL looked like this.

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This is what the video for the year's #1 song looked like.
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This is what the Eurovision winners looked like.
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This is what the rest of the pop music scene looked like.

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This is what the #1 TV show looked like.

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This was what the TV looked like the rest of the time.

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This is what a tween movie looked like.

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This is what a James Bond movie looked like.

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Teen Wolf looked like this.

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Scary movies looked like this.
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This is what kids looked like.

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Space travel looked like this.
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This is what $2 at Taco Bell looked like.

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This is what art looked like.

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This is what failure looked like.

This is what a limo looked like.

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This is what the Statue of Liberty looked like.

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Some people thought MJ might look like this when he got old. He didn't.

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