Unlocking Nostalgia: How ‘Seinfeld’ Hilariously Predicted the Rise and Fall of Outdated Tech
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Among (many) other things, the stress of selling desktop computers out of his garage necessitates Frank Constanza’s constant invocation “serenity now!”—a calming mantra he learned from a set of self-help cassette tapes.
Now our computers are in our pockets, following us around everywhere we go—and with the constant pinging and ringing we all endure daily, he’d probably need that “serenity now” even more today. Self-help content, for its part, has basically transferred over from individual books and tapes to wellness influencers and get-rich-quick scammers on social media.
“The Frogger,” Season 9
You know this one: When Jerry and George find out their old high-school hangout, Mario’s Pizza, is closing down, George—with, of course, Kramer’s help—hires two shady electricians to help him move the shop’s Frogger machine to a new location without losing power and, thus, his high score. Gameplay imitates life when George crosses a busy street, strategically darting between cars, until a semi comes along and ruins his two-decade reign by way of total decimation. While pizza shops like Mario’s are still around, arcade games are a rarity.
“The Slicer,” Season 9
George is excited to take a new job at a poorly-managed company (he figures he can slack off)…until he spots himself in the background of a photo in his new boss’s office, taken during a beach outing that ended with George yelling at the guy’s kids.
This results in an elaborate plot to steal the photo, airbrush himself out, and return it with his boss none the wiser. (Even more ‘90s is that George tossed the kids’ boombox into the sea in anger; launching a JBL speaker just wouldn’t have the same effect.) This episode is so packed with ‘90s tech and techniques, it’s practically an audio-visual time capsule.
Some of it’s still around today: removing yourself from a photo is now made even easier thanks to a wealth of apps that can quickly and seamlessly edit images. The organizing of a phony cancer screening so you can take a photo of your boss shirtless to paste back into the photo, though? Still hard.
“The Maid,” Season 9
While Jerry navigates a relationship with his house cleaner and George attempts to give himself a nickname, Elaine comes home to find scores of messages on her answering machine that are nothing but a grating screeching sound.
It turns out Kramer signed up for a food delivery service and is having the orders faxed to Elaine’s home phone: faxing being a now-archaic method of transferring images over the phone to a printer, a practice incompatible with landlines. It also results in Elaine being issued a new area code, much to her irritation. While area codes still exist and are still strongly linked to a person’s identity, these days they wouldn’t result in long-distance charges.
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