Indra Kupferschmid 💙💛1d ago
Mitch Wagner
Apr 3 at 9:30pmWeb
Show threadDaniel1d ago
@mitch @cstross I agree.
Show threadWalt Mankowski1d ago
@mitch @cstross It explains why so many people at Tower Records were dressed so oddly!
Show threadScott Jenson1d ago
@mitch And back in 1993, all people could talk about was how time travellers went to 1972 where milk was delivered to your door and people weren't slaves to fashion.
Show threadOleksii1d ago
@mitch All true, but why the hell gluten is there? Does not make any sense. It’s like saying it’s great to go back to 1900s - No border controls, no passport checks, freedom of travel, and nobody knows what Penicillin is…
Show threadAngus McIntyre1d ago
@mitch @cstross There are still time travelers who choose to come to 2026, but they're basically these guys.
Show threadKilla Koala1d ago
@mitch I was getting divorced in 1993, I don't miss it at all.
Show threadHighlandLawyer1d ago
@mitch
TV programmes were being recorded at home in the '80s, let alone the '90s. Those time travellers in Tower Records presumably don't recognise what the VHS cassettes are.
Show threadTim1d ago
@mitch and Star Trek: The Next Generation was still being made. Sigh.
Show threadVarx1d ago

@mitch
The matrix: 1999 was chosen because it was the peak of humanity

Me in 2000: what? Lol that's so silly.

Me in 2026: the machines had the right idea.

Show threadMidgePhoto21h ago

@mitch
(In 1975 I was measuring the effect of Gluten on a small proportion of small children's intestinal linings.

Upstairs was a chap separating the Alpha-Gliadin fraction which is the damaging bit IIRC.

Across the way there was a doctor taking biopsies of those linings to directly observe the effect.

I know what you mean, but ...)

Show threadJon PENNYCOOK19h ago

@mitch Most of the concerts I went to around 1993 were probably nearer £5! And band t-shirts were £7.

Also, coeliacs knew what gluten was.