It seems like a lifetime ago, but it was an era marked by a cacophony of dial-up modem noises when you tried to use your 1,000 free hours of AOL for the very first time, the sweet sensation of stabbing straws through precariously produced juice pouches, and the rise of Toonami, Cartoon Network’s programming block dedicated to putting anime directly into my eyeballs.
Remember the 1990s? It seems like a lifetime ago, but it was an era marked by a cacophony of dial-up modem noises when you tried to use your 1,000 free hours of AOL for the very first time, the sweet sensation of stabbing straws through precariously produced juice pouches, and the rise of Toonami, Cartoon Network’s programming block dedicated to putting anime directly into my eyeballs. While we, thankfully, cannot go back to the ’90s and stop ourselves from spending a truly preposterous amount of money on Pogs and Beanie Babies, we can relive the glory days of ’90s anime thanks to the plethora of streaming services that have them for our binge-watching pleasure.