My Name Raven: 22 Terrible ’90s Problems That Kids Today Will Never Understand

1. That sometimes all your music would fall out of the box your music was kept in.

2. And that the only way to get the music back into the music box was with a pencil.

3. That later, you abandoned your music boxes and got a giant saucer iPod that was too big for your pocket.

4. That you had to keep your Netflix in a large pile of Netflix boxes.

5. That Wikipedia wasn’t just there, you had to put the Wikipedia into your computer on a shiny plate.

6. Your iPhone was tied to a box on the wall by a twisty phone rope.

7. Also if you wanted to meet someone, you had to agree on how to do it when they were also standing within a phone rope’s length of their iPhone wall box.

8. Wifi was also made out of lots of phone ropes that you had to tie to your computer to make the wifi work.

9. To get the internet, you had to make a telephone call to a special computer.

10. Then the special computer would sing you an angry robot song. You had to wait for it to finish singing you the song before you could have internet.

11. Also that you couldn’t do internet if your somebody else was telephoning anybody other than the special computer.

12. That this icon exists because you had to take your data out of the computer and keep it in a special plastic data envelope.

They were called “floppies” because they weren’t floppy.

13. Also if you wanted an app you had to get the app by putting a series of data envelopes into your computer.

14. Luckily app envelopes often came glued to the covers of magazines! (Like websites made of paper.)

15. You had to remember to bring a Google Maps with you and then you could never fold Google Maps back up properly.

16. You had to take your Instagrams with a special Instagram box.

17. Then you had to take the Instagrams out of the Instagram box and put them in a special Instagram tube and take them to a shop where they would put them onto paper.