You typed a full polite question into the internet and received twelve unrelated fan pages.

90s Kid - Asking the Search Portal

You typed a full polite question into the internet and received twelve unrelated fan pages.

September 26, 2026 · 3 min · 495 words · Justin
The website had no comments section, so strangers wrote in a public digital wedding book.

90s Kid - Sign My Guestbook

The website had no comments section, so strangers wrote in a public digital wedding book.

September 25, 2026 · 4 min · 711 words · Justin
Before algorithms, websites held hands and passed you to the next person who loved the same obscure thing.

90s Kid - The Webring

Before algorithms, websites held hands and passed you to the next person who loved the same obscure thing.

September 24, 2026 · 3 min · 556 words · Justin
The website had one paragraph, seven animated workers, and a promise to return soon.

90s Kid - The Under Construction Page

The website had one paragraph, seven animated workers, and a promise to return soon.

September 23, 2026 · 3 min · 574 words · Justin
A tall solar camera tower with a stylized B on its panel and cameras stacked down the mast

The Pole Camera Field Guide

Plate readers, average-speed towers, gunshot sensors, surveillance trailers and a flood station in the mountains. Twelve kinds of unattended cameras, how to tell them apart, and what each one actually watches.

September 23, 2026 · 11 min · 2193 words · Justin
A text window became a room, the person with an at-sign became law, and one mistyped command became public.

90s Kid - The IRC Chatroom

A text window became a room, the person with an at-sign became law, and one mistyped command became public.

September 22, 2026 · 4 min · 646 words · Justin
Friendship required memorizing a number longer than your home phone and waiting for the little uh-oh.

90s Kid - Your ICQ Number

Friendship required memorizing a number longer than your home phone and waiting for the little uh-oh.

September 21, 2026 · 3 min · 614 words · Justin
A tiny music player opened a portal of colors powerful enough to make homework impossible.

90s Kid - The Winamp Visualizer

A tiny music player opened a portal of colors powerful enough to make homework impossible.

September 20, 2026 · 3 min · 621 words · Justin
The song took four hours, reached 99 percent, and became something recorded from a radio in a bathroom.

90s Kid - Napster and the Mystery Download

The song took four hours, reached 99 percent, and became something recorded from a radio in a bathroom.

September 19, 2026 · 3 min · 505 words · Justin
A confident AI robot presents an enormous accessibility request for an electric scooter outside a historic mansion museum.

The AI Had a Plan for the Mansion

I asked AI to check whether attractions would allow my electric scooter. It sent a formal mobility-aid request to a 136-year-old mansion—and the museum had receipts.

September 18, 2026 · 5 min · 1056 words · Justin