30. When salad in a bag, microwave popcorn, and Snapple were new.
31. Seeing product placement in movies for the first time (see Reeses Pieces in E.T.)
32. When Law & Order was new.
33. Car windows without “Baby on Board” signs.
34. Crazes: break dancing, Trivial Pursuit, Rubik’s Cube, and Cabbage Patch dolls.
35. Feathered hair, shoulder pads, Jams, and all things Ocean Pacific.
36. Banana Republic as a Safari-themed clothing company (pre-Gap).
37. Madonna with body fat.
Technology
38. When laptops were not available.
39. Television before reality shows (see The Real World).
40. Pre-Internet library research.
41. Feeling odd about IMing or texting the person sitting next to you.
42. Buying a fax machine.
43. College without cell phones.
44. A Sony Walkman (and thriving record stores, boom boxes, albums, and tape cassettes).
45. Car windows that manually roll up.
46. Learning about genetic engineering—from the movies only.
47. Using the first Apple computer as a computer—not as a fish tank.
48. Video games not in 3D.
49. When Microsoft felt new.
50. Life before virtual reality.
