upon a time you'd have music on in your car and you'd be tooling down the road listening to your tunes and you'd hit a pothole and the music, which was coming from a compact disc in your compact disc player, would SKIP, sometimes very badly. I was reminded that this was a thing by a coworker and now that I remember it I feel like I should use it in a scene if I ever need to quickly establish we are in the late 90s or early 2000s (model of car and type of music notwithstanding)
Another thing about the 90s I don't see contemporary media set in the period referencing enough is MORPHING; everybody was talking about morphing. It started as a special-effects technique and then people started using it for anytime one thing transforms into another thing. If I were on The Other Site I might write something like, before there was morbing, there was morphing, but I think the statue of limitations has passed, both on That Site and on morb
I present to you, the Nokia morph, a fantastic time capsule from the early 2000s (yes it's technically from 2008 but just try telling me this isn't the final form of Y2K)
