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Waiting for the dial-up tone to finish, then your mum picks up the landline and the connection drops. You sit on the stairs holding the cable like a lead you've been walking for an hour.

You rent the good game on Friday. By Monday it must be physically carried back to a shop, in daylight, by you. There is no pause button on this, and no one to blame but your own legs.

You burn a new album from a file that took four hours to download. The disc skips on track three, and the next thing you hear is your sister picking up the phone line again.

Half past nine, the Game Boy is under the duvet, and the little green screen is lighting up the ceiling. Then comes the call from downstairs: "Are you still awake?" You hold your breath. The batteries die anyway.

Why it caught on: the picture shows a young man in a pale blue collared shirt, his face crumpled in mid-cry against a blurred green background. It was captioned as "90s Problems" and paired with minor, very specific complaints of the era: a busy phone line, a scratched CD, a film you already know the ending of. It spread because anyone who grew up then remembers having these problems and treating them as tragedies, and anyone who didn't can still enjoy how small they were.

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