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Sitting at home in Pennsylvania, reading some of the things I left behind in my childhood bedroom.

First off, Gen13. Wow, was that ever the ‘90siest '90s that ever '90sd. Also, even though I knew well that Image comics were poorly plotted cheesecake knockoffs, for some reason I had thought this one wasn’t that bad.

Second off, Spin magazine from June 1997. The writing actually holds up well, and there’s some really good photography and layout. But the ads, oh man. Pentium MMX! Protease inhibitors! Cigarettes! Waterproof AM/FM Walkmans! Geocities! Like, Geocities! I really wish I had a scanner here, but in lieu, capitalization and oddly precise imprecision (33+ ?) intact:

Geeks,
Nerds,
Hackers
[hard to explain image of motherboard-as-city]

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