Lol the clock in the corner of the old family PC had one job, and somehow you still checked the microwave. Change it for daylight saving time, then spend the rest of the morning wondering if Windows already did it and you’d personally invented a new time zone.

Meanwhile AOL was open and somebody’s away message said “back in an hour.” An hour according to what? The computer, the kitchen, or the VCR that had been blinking 12:00 since Christmas? Nobody knew what time it was, but everybody knew you’d been online too damn long.

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