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Remember when you needed like seven CD-ROMs to install one game onto your PC?
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Walking into a Hot Topic and having the entire front half of the store be filled with Twilight merch:
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When you’d install a game onto your PC and it required four or more discs for just ONE basic game:
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Crossing Over With John Edward — which would always creep you out whenever he’d communicate with a dead relative of someone in his audience:
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The flat EarPods that came with iPods:
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iPod socks, which always seemed like the flimsiest protection for your precious player:
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iPod transmitters that never really ever worked:
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Hilary Duff’s Stuff clothing line, which she sold through Target:
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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s clothing line that they had at Walmart:
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The two or three “Geek Squad” Volkswagen Beetles you would always see parked in front of Best Buy whenever you’d go there:
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Linens ‘n Things, which was the other store your mom would go to when she couldn’t find what she was looking for at Bed Bath & Beyond:
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Microsoft’s Zune player, which your one friend who owned one would always tout ’cause you could share music through “tapping”:
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Cellphones that supported iTunes — which was a big sell before the iPhone existed:
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Abercrombie & Fitch’s upscale sister store, Ruehl No. 925, which — aside from managing somehow to be darker inside than both A&F and Hollister — sold basically the exact same clothes:
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Sarah Jessica Parker as the spokesperson for the Gap, and the delightful commercials she did for them:
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P. Diddy as the spokesperson for Proactiv, and claiming that it would “moisturize my situation and preserve my sexy”:
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How EVERYONE was doing Sudoku puzzles:
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Da Vinci Code mania and all the History Channel specials it inspired:
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When 7-Eleven stores around the country were converted into Kwik-E-Marts to promote The Simpsons Movie…
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…and the food products seen on The Simpsons that you could buy inside them:
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Emeril Lagasse and the “BAM!” catchphrase he would say on Emeril Live:
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Those portable DVD players that you would attach to the backs of car seats:
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The tickets you would have to get and take to the front counter in order to buy a video game at Toys “R” Us:
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The branded microwave popcorn that Blockbuster had in its checkout line (that everyone ended up buying):
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Livestrong bracelets in this plastic packaging — that were usually put in large, clear bowls at the checkout counters of Foot Lockers:
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And, finally, those Girls Gone Wild commercials that played at midnight (usually on MTV, E!, and Comedy Central):
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