Michael Jackson videos that premiered on Fox, TGIF, America Online when it first came out and every kid talked about how their family was using their 10 hours a month (we were the family that got 10 hours when everyone else was up to 50 hours a month, 14.4 when everyone else was 28.8, with your parents getting pissed because the phone line was always busy because you were on the internet), Real World when they had 'real' people on it and you knew you were too young to be watching it but you watched because your older sister did,In Living Color, Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise", the O.J Simpson trial when you would come home from school and watch all the way until your parents came home from work, the transition from cassette tapes to cd's, Virtua Fighter and Sega Dreamcast and Neo Geo and Super Nintendo and Ridge Racer and Final Fantasy VII and Sonic the Hedgehog (not having any of those made it a requirement to know how to make and keep friends), Fruit Gushers, Fruit by the Foot and Eggo waffles and, of course, Golden Grahams, where they were only good during the first minute and became a chore to eat once they crossed the one-minute threshold and became soggy. Those moments shaped our mind and souls, thoughts and interests, wishes and desires. Memories.
