This Week In Weird: The 90s Kids’ Guide To The Internet

It seems my obsession with the 90s has found its way into the realms of the surreal. I know there were plenty of weird 90s TV shows like Ren and Stimpy and Round The Twist, but having aged with the onslaught of technology, I can only now view 90s instructional videos as weird. By that I am referring to: The Kids’ Guide To The Internet.

I discovered this very strange PSA on YouTube this morning through an episode of ‘Teens React To...’, where children from the age of 13-18 were shown how the internet came into our homes in the 1990s. All you have to do is watch the video to see just how freaked out these noughties children are by the PSAs of yesteryear.

And now for the video itself.

The colours, clothes and bad acting is enough to make you wonder where the hell this video came from. But the strangely catchy and quite disturbing theme song will stick in your head forever to remind you just how different things were back in 1997. If you fancy another nostalgia trip full of pudding basin haircuts and terrible puns and the ideal nuclear family talking about how many cooking magazines they’ve accessed online, here’s the film for you.

I also think casting the family with the name ‘Jamison’ certainly reflects just how intoxicating this job was for the film makers. 

And I just wonder if the writers of Avenue Q ever watched this video as inspiration for their classic tune ‘The Internet is For Porn’.

This Week In Weird: Microwave Porn

Greetings internet. I know it ‘s been a couple of weeks since my last instalment but I’m still alive and writing for myself and anyone out there who needs a scribbler.

One segment I am keen to continue here is ‘This Week in Weird’. And this week’s instalment is on the funnier side of the surrealism that inhabits the internet. By that I am referring to webseries: Microwave Porn.

The title alone is enough to make you go, ‘What the fuck?’ But trust me, you won’t be left disappointed when you tune into it. Microwave Porn was a webseries posted on YouTube around 2009/2010 by independent production group: Cancelproof. The theme song will summarise the entire series for you so there’s no need for me to ramble on here.

You’ll find all 12 episodes on Cancelproof’s channel. This, I have to say is the only sitcom which has made many great laughs out of the kooky world of urban dating. All that’s left to say, is why the hell did they stop? If only more episodes of this show existed. And it would have done well on some cable channel for independent comedy shows.

With that said, enjoy your Microwave Porn.