Links tagged with “1990s”
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Television: one of the most audacious pranks in history was hidden in a hit TV show for years.
I love this – so 1990s – but also, if it was “like a virus”, it was a virus that no one noticed and had no effect on anything. (via Web Curios)
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august and everything after - by Helena Fitzgerald
Lovely, lovely writing about this 1993 Counting Crows album which I have always been a bit embarrassed to love. (via MetaFilter)
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Atlas Minor • Believe
“C. and I have met quite a few nostalgic students. They’re making video poems to the 1990s. They deliver speeches in auditoriums about the stress of screens. They rhapsodize about a simpler time, and they sound like ancient poets, pining for a lost golden age.”
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Why the Nineties rocked - UnHerd
Douglas Coupland. “In the 1990s we still had the future, a place that you could travel to, that would be cool when you got there … Right now we merely have a future, and a murky one at that…”
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90sartschool • Instagram
Just photos of people at art school in the 1990s. The clothes, the posters, the old photo colours, the way people behaved in photos then, the cool. (via Web Curios)
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Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers – Vistaserv.net
Excellent work. Also, that first “blobby” potrace attempt looks wonderfully 1990s Template Gothic-like. (via Waxy)
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80’s students, what films were your film society showing then? | Ask MetaFilter
I like the idea of working out, or remembering, what films were considered classic/interesting at a specific point in the past.
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The Icon Browser
Loads of little icons collected from 1994 to 1996. (via One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age)
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the californian ideology - the hypermedia research centre - University of Westminster
I re-read that. It all seems true still except, perhaps, the optimistic hope that Europe could be different.
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Prince Charles Cinema - Slackers presents… Singles
Nostalgic retromania events have definitely reached the early 90s. “Not only will we be presenting the film, but there will also be a selection of music videos with lyrics on the screen for you to sing along to before the film…”
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Archived Music Press | Scans from the Melody Maker and N.M.E. circa 1987-1996
Lots of blasts from the past here. The couple of copies of MM/NME that I still have are intriguing, mainly the small and unimportant bits rather than the high-profile interviews etc usually featured here.
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YouTube - Broadcast Yourself - Public Videos // pajamapants
Videos and interviews with musicians, lots of Britpoppy stuff from the early 1990s including loads from Sleeper. Suddenly I feel 10+ years younger. Fab.