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Happy Friday everyone! Since it Friday it's time for my next edition of Nineties Friday. #ninetiesfriday is an event where you can share anything you like from the decade of the 1990's, your imagination in the limit. Thanks to @geneeverett for starting the event, one winner will be chosen each week and will receive 6 HSBI, three from me and three from Gene. As you can see I'm diving in with another gadget from the 90's.
The Apple QuickTake was one the very first consumer focused digital cameras. It was released in 1994 and was a big innovation by the 90's standards. Resolution on these cameras was only 640x480 pixels, so nothing compared to today but not bad for the early nineties. The model 200 had 2 MG of memory on a flash card. Very much a dinosaur now but this was a big push towards digital cameras and the end of film that had been used for so many decades prior. If just goes to show you how Apple was a company of great innovation even back then!
I never owned a digital camera until the following decade because film at the the time was better resolution, but I'm sure a few of you probably had one...
Tamagotchi
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Tamagotchi pets showed up in 1996 as the first digital pet. It became an instant hit. It featured a pet that had to be fed and taken care of or the pet would die. I personally never owned one of these but I did see many kids (and adults) playing with them. A very simple technology that made the company a fortune. It was much better than the pet rock that came about in the 1970's!
Seinfeld
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Seinfeld was one of the greatest sitcoms ever produced, although by today's standards of too much political correctness many of the episodes never could have been made. It's a fun show to watch even today on streaming, and Netflix has the whole series currently. Today I thought I might share episodes that focus more on George (Jason Alexander.) The first two are just that, but the third started as George by went in another direction as you'll see!
One of the great Seinfeld episodes is "The Jimmy", where the character Jimmy refers to himself in the third person and George picks up the habit as well subconsciously.
For those who have watched Seinfeld you all know George is kind of a loser... In this episode he decides to do the exact opposite of his natural instincts because they've given him nothing but failure. This comes from "The Opposite":
I was going to focus only on George, but then I watched this episode the other day on Netflix. Many people know Bryan Cranston best from "Breaking Bad", but before that he was a regular in comedies like "Malcolm In The Middle" and "Seinfeld". In this one the ongoing joke is the use of "yada, yada" to jump over the boring parts of a story. This episode you get to see Bryan Cranston and Robert Wagner guest starring as dentists:
Now let's move onto a few songs that were big in the decade of the 90's.
Lenny Kravitz
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Lenny Kravitz came from a show business family and decided young to become a musician. He started recording albums in 1985 but never hit mainstream until 1993 when he released "Are You Gonna Go My Way". While I've never been a huge Kravitz fan, this song seriously rocks, so much so that even Metallica made a cover of it!
The Offspring
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The Offspring have long been one of my favorite bands. They originated in Garden Grove, California in 1984 as a punk band but never hit the mainstream until 1994 with their album "Smash". In 1998 they release the album "Americana" which included this great track, "The Kids Aren't Alright":
Since I spent the majority of the 90's in countries that only spoke Spanish I like to add in one or two songs that were popular in the same epoch. Today I'm going with:
Juan Luis Guerra
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Juan Luis Guerra is a Dominican artist that rose to fame in the mid 1980's with his group Juan Luis Guerra y 440. He has been one the best selling Latin American artists for decades with his use of blending different musical styles and sounds, with merengue being the principle one. In 1990 they released the album "Bachata Rosa" which is when I first heard him with the hit song "Burbujas De Amor" (Love Bubbles):
That will just about wrap up this edition of #ninetiesfriday. Thank you for stopping by and for all of your support, it is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to leave them below. Have a great weekend everyone!
And my disclaimer:
The video links I am sharing are not mine, I am only sharing the link to the copyright owner's video. No copyright infringement is intended. Used under fair-use section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Kravitz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Offspring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Luis_Guerra
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