If we're going to wax all nostalgic about things, let's not even compare the way things used to be to the way things are now. Let's instead lament how HORRIBLE it would be if things from the past were invented today.
Here's a handy list of stuff from the 90s, in this video from musical sketch comedy group Pop Roulette. Dunkaroos, pogs, 'Dawson's Creek' -- it's all there. (Really it's about one 'Pete & Pete' reference away from being the Buzzfeed handbook.) ...