Capoeira (it was a 90s thingBairnswear (children’s clothes)
capoeira
chicken Kiev
ciré (the fabric)
desert boots
hysteria about the introduction of computers into workplaces. (They were going to damage people’s health, make them work too hard, irradiate them etc etc.)
jokes about heavy water
language labs
lemon cup cakes
making cutout paper dolls in a long line holding hands
mortadella (it was a horrible kind of Italian sausage)
panic about the radiation emitted by “VDUs”
predictions that “ecommerce” would never take off
radishes cut into florets
ratafias (tiny macaroons)
search engines which told you “Just type in a question in natural language!” and then gave you 1 million unsorted results all containing the word “the”.
smell of Brut
smell of Fenjal
smell of phurnacite
sneering about television
trigonometry
waffle about systems being “transparent to the user”
More here, and links to the rest.
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