Steve Urkel of Family Matters. I had no TV in the 1990's, but you probably did.
This intriguing and massively important decade of human history is responsible for, among other things, the very method of instantaneous worldwide connection that is connecting author to reader right now. Bill Clinton presided over America for most of this decade, which made us financially prosperous (and later, entertained (see Monica Lewinsky). For a lot my life, the 90's have been recent enough to be safe from rampant nostalgia, criticism of styles, mockery of colloquial speech, etc., but now that we're a decade removed from this era that reared the fellows of my generation, it's officially become a fun enterprise to mock away.
This era brought us cloning, the internet, the first Gulf War and the Hubble Telescope, and took away Princess Diana and Soviet Russia in the process. We can be resentful towards the 90's about some of these trade-offs. Without others, I'd either be faxing this to your office or calling you on your car-phone to tell you about it. For those people that would contest the idea that one decade may be more important to our development than another, I invite you to read about the 960's (snooze).
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