
Things that live rent-free and hidden in your mind.
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The Jamster commercial that featured the super annoying singing rabbit:
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Blank CDs that were made to look like 45 rpm vinyl records:
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Printed out track lists for mix CDs you would make for your friends:
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CD label applicators:
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Catherine Zeta-Jones as the spokesperson for T-Mobile:
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The Windows Media Player that had different skins and the most mesmerizing screensavers:
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This photo everyone on Myspace took at some point in order to make more friends:
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Mirror selfies with the flash going off:
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Target stores that had red carpet almost everywhere:
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Slim camera cases that not only protected your camera, but also allowed you to carry the charger and extra memory cards in it:
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The blonde wooden bookshelves inside of Borders:
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Talk Sex with Sue Johanson — which you had to watch with one finger on the remote control in case your parents walked in:
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Cellphones that had the “chirping” feature:
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The CD kiosks inside the Virgin Megastore and Tower Records:
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The kids section at the Apple Store with the giant iMacs:
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And iPods that came in those giant cube boxes:
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The screensaver section on Windows XP:
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The warning that aired before Jackass episodes:
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The questionable photoshop job you would do to photos whenever you fixed “red eye” (usually it resulted in just two giant black dots instead of pupils):
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The mini-TV-DVD combos that would play infomercials on the end-caps at Bed Bath & Beyond:
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And the collector box sets and big nature sounds CD displays inside of Bed Bath & Beyond:
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The random original programming that would air on the TV Guide Channel:
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Pepsi’s iTunes free music giveaway:
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FunnyJunk, which was your pre-YouTube video source:
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The original ’50s TV set–inspired YouTube logo:
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Blockbuster’s microwave popcorn (which you and your family would always end up getting a bag or two of when renting videos):
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The TiVo mascot:
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Madonna as a children’s book author (she wrote The English Roses):
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Vince saying “everyone loves my nuts” *cringe* in the commercial for Slap Chop:
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The mutant Quiznos hamsters that were just horrifying:
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Jessica Simpson as the spokesperson for Proactiv:
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Nintendogs — which made you feel so responsible:
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And finally, the scary AF anti-DVD piracy PSA that played before movies that basically made you feel like you were going to jail if you just saw a bootleg DVD on the street:
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