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The sails of the Sydney Opera House are edged with huge coloured neon tubes illuminated by 250 lights which echo the Sydney 2000 Olympic logo on Sept. 23, 1993. Torsten Blackwood/AFP via Getty Images
A simple social media trend earlier this year prompted millions of people to ask the same question: what were you like in the 1990s?
Beneath the nostalgic photos, grainy home videos, and soundtrack of a bygone era lies a deeper yearning for a time before smartphones, 24-7 connectivity, and political correctness, suggests one academic.
