Why Were Games For Mac So Popular In The 90s

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The 1990s were a period of change for WWE; it included the fall of the Golden Age, the rise and fall of the New Generation Era, and the rise of the Attitude Era. A Big Mac in 2016 tastes just like a Big Mac in 1996, and it’s probably going to taste like a Big Mac in 2026. But the one thing about fast food that does change are the fast food restaurant interiors of your favorite late night jams.

In this nostalgic List Show episode, John Green remembers the '90s. Don't miss an episode of mental_floss on YouTube—.

(Images and footage provided. Main image credit:, Flickr. Transcript provided by.) 1. Hi, I'm John Green, welcome to my salon, this is mental_floss on YouTube, and did you know that in 1999, people believed that Furbies contained computer chips so they could record words and repeat them? Now, that wasn't true, but the National Security Agency still banned people from bringing their Furbies to work. Now don't ask me which NSA employees, y'know, had Furbies in the office because I don't know, but regardless, that's the first of 90 facts about the '90s I'm going to share with you today in this video brought to you by our friends at Geico. Jennifer Aniston didn't love her Friends haircut, the Rachel—in fact, she called it “the ugliest haircut I've ever seen”.

3. Alanis Morissette has said that she was embarrassed by the backlash to her song 'Ironic,' although she notes it is ironic that a song called 'Ironic' is not filled with ironies. Napster launched in 1999, and within two years, it had 26.4 million users.

5. And if you think that's a lot, AOL Instant Messenger launched in 1997 and gained 53 million users in less than 10 years. Nowadays there are fewer than four million active users. Wait, there are four million active users of AOL Instant Messenger?! How many of them just left their away messages up for the last ten years? 6. But speaking of outmoded technologies, 61 million people were using pagers in 1994. 7. In 1992 during a 60 Minutes interview about Bill’s infidelity, Hillary Clinton said, “I'm not sitting here as some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette.” Hillary later gave an apology to the singer. 8. The 90's book Who Moved My Cheese sold a couple million copies in China, where it inspired books like Whose Cheese Should I Move? and No One Can Move My Cheese! Especially weird when you consider that cheese does not really have a place in Chinese cuisine.

9. By the way, when Beauty and the Beast was released in China, Jackie Chan voiced the Beast. 10. You may remember that choker necklaces made a comeback in the nineties. Throughout history they've had different implications, like during the French Revolution, some women wore red ribbons around their neck to pay tribute to those who had been executed. In the 1800s, it was a way to identify prostitutes. Hd format for mac and windows. 11. Doc Martens were invented by Claus Martens when he needed a low-impact shoe after a ski accident. 12. Miss Cleo was the spokesperson for Psychic Readers Network Inc., who later got a $5 million fine from the FTC for making deceptive claims, you know, like about being psychic. The amazing thing is that they didn't see it coming. 13. Anyway, NC-17 became a legitimate movie rating in 1990.

The first NC-17 movie was Henry and June. 14. Slap Bracelets were invented by a high school shop teacher who was playing with steel ribbons. 15. Billy Crystal has said he only regrets turning down one role in his career: Buzz Lightyear. 16. Another movie role that could have been: Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Mia in Pulp Fiction. She had to turn it down due to her Seinfeld commitment. We don’t really have a joke about that, but we do have Quentin Tarantino on our wall! 17. Speaking of which, Larry David made a “no hugging, no learning” rule for Seinfeld scripts. Basically, he didn't want the characters to have sentimental, Full House-y revelations.

18. We now associate PowerPoint with Microsoft Office but in the 90's, it was originally developed for a Mac. 19. The voice who announced 'You've Got Mail!'

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Whenever you received an e-mail was Elwood Edwards. He recorded the saying in his living room on a cassette deck.

20. Jeff Hawkins developed the Palm Pilot’s look by cutting a block of wood to the right size and using a short chopstick as the model for the writing utensil. 21. The Rembrandts can thank the television program Friends for their only hit, 'I’ll Be There for You.'