1. Napster

Before Napster, music downloading was the pastime of only the class “Poindexter”. In 1999 this all changed with the creation of Napster. Napster was created by a fellow geek named Shawn Fanning who set up the centralized file swapping service in only 60 solid hours. Napster is now dead, but it’s legacy continues with […]

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Grunge was massive during the 1990’s! As with any music scene it came with its own fashion that included:

Torn jeans,
Bulky shoes
Chequered flannel shirts (we already covered this here)
Chain wallets
Ripped Cardigans
Basketball caps (preferably worn backward)
Long hair
Grunge musicians tried to be just themselves without all the bullshit of glam rock

Whilst this naturalistic fashion worked well for some […]

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1. Ecstasy

This drug was first created by Fritz Hander in 1891 but sadly no actual human got to try it until 1959. It was in the early 1990s that the drug started to gain recreational popularity as part of the rave culture in the UK and Europe. The drug led to evolution of dance music […]

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Whilst this blog is really aimed at looking at our favorite toys of the 1990’s, we mustn’t forget our ghastly fashion mistakes. I have gone through the family album and pulled out some of the greatest fashion mistakes of the 1990’s:

1. Padded “lumber jack shirt”

Every young male in 1990’s had at least on of these […]

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