Y2K-Superhighway

The Sony sports Walkman WM-FS1 was released in 1997. It was built to be water resistant and had a new contemporary look that many electronics were adopting in the late 1990’s.

Love inc was a Canadian Eurodance group from Ontario that was active from 1997 to 2003.

Orbitz was a failed non carbonated beverage from The Clearly Food & Beverage Company of Canada which also made Clearly Canadian. This beverage had edible gelatin jelly beads giving a distinct lava lamp look. Orbitz was discontinued in 1999 because of low demand.

The apple eMate 300 was released on March 7, 1997 at the affordable price of $799 dollars ($1662 dollars today). This laptop might be the earliest example of translucent tech.

Wired Magazine advertisement for sending ads through digital files from 1997.

Somehow the 3Dfx post got marked as mature content? Lol wut. 1990’s CG chrome Anubis is too sexy for Tumblr XD

NBC’s The Site was one of the first televised programs that specifically focused on the growth of the World Wide Web. This ad was featured in Internet Underground May 1997

Various PS2 covers that had a Y2K aesthetic.

SHARP Electronics ad from 1998. My first post for the blog.