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What’s one word to prove you lived trough the 90’s? (lemm.ee)
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[–] 28 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Clear craze.

As in technology. Translucent gadgets were all the rage. Not quite one word, I was going to go with translucent, but found it actually had a name.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Like the translucent (still corded, so not that hi-tech) phone with the bright colors for all the components? I had one of those! I think the outer part of my cord was actually clear, too.

    Ooh, and that dope clear pager was hella rad!

    On that note, remember payphones?? (getting paged by my mom and having to find a payphone to call the family 800# and check in...)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Wait, family 800 #? I don't remember that. We skipped pagers though, so I remember them being a thing, but I only saw them on TV, don't think I ever saw one in person besides on doctors at a hospital.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Huh. Well, it was a feature that my parents paid the telco for, so I don't know how it worked, but it was exactly what it says on the tin: an 800 telephone number that I could use from any phone and call my house phone.

    Pagers were mostly a thing that dealers had so you could buy drugs. My mom got me one because I was always out driving around - sometimes up to 2 hours away on a whim - and she wanted to be able to check on me. We didn't have a cell phone, so this was the solution for her.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    We need to bring this back. I love clear stuff.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's how you know technology was inside them. I vaguely remember we had an eMac which had a combined CRT and computer inside it. Do not remember liking it

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Your first sentence made me literally laugh audibly. At work.

    Our computer lab when I was in high school was all those eMacs. I hated them and their single mouse button.

    I definitely deleted the system drive from half of them at one point or another. It wasn’t hard, either, it was on the desktop.

    Sure it didn’t actually delete anything on the drive, but it did force an intensive repair (they reformatted all of them, idk if there was another fix) :)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    My mate had a transparent ps1 controller. I wanted it so bad.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I still have one of those in clear blue, along with clear blue extender cords. Have clear purple GameCube controllers, and a light-up clear Xbox controller 😁

    Now controllers are so heavy I have to skin them to help with hand fatigue, so no point getting clear cases.

    I miss that aesthetic, though, and I’m glad it’s starting to reappear.

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