5:52 pm - 01/24/2013
90s kids rejoice: Web browser that no one uses makes a really cool commercial
Internet Explorer ad tugs at heartstrings of Gen-Y users
Whether you love or hate Internet Explorer, you've got to admit that some of its ads are pretty good.
Microsoft's latest IE ad, dubbed “Child of the 90s,” tries to appeal to people who remember the web browser at its worst.
The video shows snapshots of passing 1990s fads, such as Slap Wraps and Pogs. Meanwhile, a narrator describes how things were different back then. (My favorite line: “Lunch was a puzzle, not a picture,” spoken while stacks of Lunchables arrange themselves for an Instagram-style photo.) Take a look.
Source http://youtu.be/qkM6RJf15cg
Brought to you by Lunchables :) ONTD, what's your fave memory from this?
Whether you love or hate Internet Explorer, you've got to admit that some of its ads are pretty good.
Microsoft's latest IE ad, dubbed “Child of the 90s,” tries to appeal to people who remember the web browser at its worst.
The video shows snapshots of passing 1990s fads, such as Slap Wraps and Pogs. Meanwhile, a narrator describes how things were different back then. (My favorite line: “Lunch was a puzzle, not a picture,” spoken while stacks of Lunchables arrange themselves for an Instagram-style photo.) Take a look.
Source http://youtu.be/qkM6RJf15cg
Brought to you by Lunchables :) ONTD, what's your fave memory from this?
I think we used Netscape at first in school and I don't really remember all that much about it.
I loathe IE, but that was a cute commercial.
and I think of AOL when I think of internet in the 90's.
Still not using IE.
IE is really horrible I can't believe it is still around
That is how I was introduced to fanfiction ......
Just reading that I was hit by a train of nostalgia.
Selena stans had that place on lock.
12 year me was so innocent.
Edited at 2013-01-25 01:00 am (UTC)
hard to believe I thought the number of links was overwhelming considering how impossible that task would be now. Imagine trying to get every Sherlock-related thing online linked on ONE page. D:
I remember the first time I got on the internet was in 4th grade and we used Netscape Navigator to go to britneyspears.com.
you got all these awesome little things like her music video, and a bunch of stock photos you could scroll though. and it played 'Soda Pop' I think.
I remember using it in 3rd grade circa 1997 to get on the American Girl website and the Anastasia website.
And I remember that I made a Britney Spears fan page with Microsoft Word or some Microsoft program that let you make webpages. I didn't know that you had to publish it to the web and so it just sat there and the only person that looked at it was me.
The only fun part was the hunting, but then there was this one point where I was hunting and just shooting down all this game, even though I knew that "I" could only carry back like 200lbs and the rest would go back. There were all these corpses of buffalo on the screen and it hit me that I was contributing to the historical slaughter of wild buffalo, thereby ruining the lives of the virtual Native Americans who depended on them.
After that, I stopped playing.
yes we get it the 90s were the best ever etc
Don't get me wrong I have nostalgia for my 90s childhood but it's like people of my generation are so obsessed with their own nostalgia. Everyone feels that way about when they grew up-- the outfits, the games, the tv shows.
i just hate nostalgia of any decade tbh like if I have to hear my dad complaining about the world was better in the 70s or w/e rme
Damn that time of the month.