90s & 2000s Nostalgia
Before Slack or Teams, many 90s kids communicated using this AOL software characterized by its yellow running man icon.
What is AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)?
This two-word phrase describes what you are doing when you forget to turn your microphone on before speaking on a video call.
What is "on mute" (or "double muted")?
This mockumentary-style NBC sitcom features Michael Scott as the painfully awkward regional manager of a paper company.
What is The Office?
In 1970, a single first-class U.S. postage stamp cost this many cents—less than a dime.
What is 6 cents?
A father uses a customized mechanical suit to violently settle a labor dispute with a female manager who refuses to leave his coworker alone.
What is Aliens?
This handheld virtual pet from Japan required constant feeding and cleaning, often causing a distraction in schools during the late 90s.
What is a Tamagotchi?
This ubiquitous digital storage icon, found in almost every word processor, actually represents a physical piece of 1980s tech that most Gen Z workers have never seen in real life.
What is a floppy disk?
This 2006 fashion-world workplace comedy stars Anne Hathaway as an aspiring journalist who becomes the assistant to Miranda Priestly, a terrifyingly demanding magazine editor.
What is The Devil Wears Prada?
When McDonald’s first opened its doors in 1955, a standard hamburger cost exactly this much.
What is 15 cents?
A massive transportation delay forces an entire town to listen to a man talk about his childhood, his running hobby, and his shrimp business.
What is Forrest Gump?
This movie rental giant passed on buying Netflix for $50 million in the year 2000, a decision they deeply regretted later.
What is Blockbuster?
Invented in 1994 for the automotive industry, this matrix barcode became a universal tool during the pandemic for viewing touchless restaurant menus.
What is a QR code?
This 2015 comedy film stars Anne Hathaway as the founder of a fashion e-commerce site who hires a 70-year-old widower, played by Robert De Niro, through a senior internship program.
What is The Intern?
In 1990, the average price for a single gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the United States was right around this milestone amount.
What is $1.15?
An elderly man goes to extreme lengths to avoid being evicted from his home, taking a neighborhood kid hostage via an unconventional aviation method.
What is Up?
Long before streaming, people rushed to their mailboxes to get these iconic red-and-white paper envelopes containing physical movies.
What are Netflix DVDs?
To protect security, many companies use "MFA," an acronym that stands for this security process requiring two or more verification factors.
What is Multi-Factor Authentication?
This long-running CBS sitcom centers on a group of brilliant but socially awkward physicists working at Caltech, alongside their neighbor Penny, an aspiring actress working as a waitress.
What is The Big Bang Theory?
When Movie Gallery and Blockbuster were booming in the early 1990s, renting a movie on this physical cassette format usually cost about $2 to $3.
What is a VHS tape?
A young man struggles with a long-distance relationship after his boyfriend gets trapped in a high-security facility inside a giant plastic ball.
What is The Martian?
Before smartphones, this handheld device with a physical QWERTY keyboard and its own "Messenger" network was the ultimate status symbol for business professionals and teens alike.
What is a BlackBerry?
In computer terminology, this 4-letter term refers to a single, temporary flaw or fault in a system—a word originally coined by engineers when an actual insect short-circuited an early computer.
What is a bug?
This beloved medical comedy series stars Zach Braff as J.D., navigating the absurd, hilarious, and emotional realities of working as an internal medicine resident at Sacred Heart Hospital.
What is Scrubs?
Adjusted for inflation, the original 1977 Star Wars movie ticket cost about $11.50 in today's money, but its actual face-value price back then was just this much.
What is $2.25?
A major corporate logistics error leads to a wild animal infestation on a remote tropical island resort right before its grand opening.
What is Jurassic Park?