Essays about the texture of growing up before the phone was in everyone's pocket — the stores, the sounds, the summers, and why they stuck.https://a90ssummer.com/https://a90ssummer.com/articles/going-to-blockbuster-was-half-the-fun-of-watching-the-movie/https://a90ssummer.com/articles/going-to-blockbuster-was-half-the-fun-of-watching-the-movie/Before streaming, choosing a movie meant Blockbuster, video store aisles, employee recommendations, pizza next door and a whole ritual before pressing play.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://a90ssummer.com/articles/millennials-were-the-last-generation-that-had-to-be-bored/https://a90ssummer.com/articles/millennials-were-the-last-generation-that-had-to-be-bored/Millennials had plenty of entertainment. The difference was that it eventually ran out—and we had to figure out what to do next.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://a90ssummer.com/articles/the-things-we-didnt-know-we-were-doing-for-the-last-time/https://a90ssummer.com/articles/the-things-we-didnt-know-we-were-doing-for-the-last-time/From AIM and MapQuest to burned CDs and being unreachable, ordinary parts of millennial life disappeared before we realized they were ending.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://a90ssummer.com/articles/the-time-machine-what-dazed-and-confused-preserved-about-being-young-before-smartphones/https://a90ssummer.com/articles/the-time-machine-what-dazed-and-confused-preserved-about-being-young-before-smartphones/Dazed and Confused preserves a teenage world built on cars, gathering places and word of mouth, when finding the night was part of the night.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://a90ssummer.com/articles/we-used-to-listen-to-the-whole-album/https://a90ssummer.com/articles/we-used-to-listen-to-the-whole-album/We used to buy a CD, press play and live with every track. Streaming gave us almost every song ever recorded. It also changed the way we listen.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT