SKIRMISHER

Thumb-sized videos, “edutainment,” squeaky speakers, Windows friggin 95, and an un-Googled world sans divine blessings like DVDs and online gaming?

I haven’t really been thinking about the mid-1990s until I saw this hilarious The Onion take on an “ancient” email dated more than a decade ago. Apparently, hardworking archaeologists unearthed a Compaq desktop PC in somebody’s yard, and brilliant scientists were able to “decipher” data off the ancient hard drive.

Says one of the smart guys, “”The discovery also sheds new light on the 1990s—an era we know very little about.”

Says The Onion:

Written by a “scully666@compuserve.com” and addressed to a “makincopeez@prodigy.net,” the writer expresses the ancient equivalent of boredom, asks the receiver about his or her status in their primeval office environment, then refers to the act of sending the e-mail itself.

Of the said email, archaeologist Lane Caspari says:

“It shows that these forgotten people of the ’90s had many of the same concerns as modern man, such as b-days, and slow periods at work. The presence of the archaic slang verbalization ‘what’s up’ appears to indicate that they cared about the immediate welfare of others in their closely knit community, much as we do today.”

I farted laughing over that one. But then, who wouldn’t?

RECENTLY UNEARTHED E-MAIL REVEALS WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE IN 1995 [The Onion]

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