{"id":3526,"date":"2009-10-19T07:10:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T12:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2012-04-16T12:53:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:53:32","slug":"homecoming-the-90s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/3526","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming: The &#8217;90s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/marketingandmedia\/news_releases\/2009_10_homecoming_2009.php\"><span style=\"color: #5f1880\"><u>Homecoming Week<\/u><\/span><\/a> @UWW!<\/strong> &#8220;The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1990s\">&#8217;90s<\/a>: Lived &#8217;em, Loved &#8217;em, Never Left &#8217;em.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/friendsdvd.jpg\" alt=\"Friends DVD set photo\" class=\"alignright\" \/>So get into a &#8217;90s mood! Some Andersen Library resources might help, such as the DVD set of the complete <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friends\"><em>Friends<\/em><\/a> series (2nd-floor Browsing DVD&#8211;Features, call no. Fri). You can spend a whopping 4800 minutes watching this television series that premiered in September 1994. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/physbuff.jpg\" alt=\"The Physics of the Buffyverse cover\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>Or read about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_%28TV_series%29\">Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/a>, a television series that first aired in March 1997. A search of <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/searchBasic\">HALCat<\/a>, the Library catalog, would find titles such as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=dpCFAAAAIAAJ&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>Fighting the forces: what&#8217;s at stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, PN1992.77.B84 F54 2002) and <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=uhHXYr-mTZAC&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>The physics of the Buffyverse<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, QC75 .O84 2006).  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/magiceyes.jpg\" alt=\"Magic Eye I, II, III covers\" class=\"alignright\" \/>I was among many who bought some &#8220;magic eye&#8221; art. You can see three books on this in Andersen Library (<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=XqsIDuY9rx0C&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>Magic Eye<\/em><\/a>, <em>Magic Eye II<\/em>, and <em>Magic Eye III<\/em>, all in the 3rd-floor Main Collection, N7430.5 .M24)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/clonedolly.jpg\" alt=\"Clone cover\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>The &#8217;90s were years of many scientific and technological wonders. Who can forget <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dolly_%28sheep%29\">Dolly<\/a>, the cloned sheep born on July 5, 1996? Read all abaaaaaaht it in <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=q-dzHAAACAAJ&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>Clone: The road to Dolly, and the path ahead<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, QH442.2 .K65 1998). And think about the &#8217;90s this week as you search the Internet, watch DVDs, play video games, and take pictures on your digital camera&#8230;the World Wide Web, HTML, digital cameras, and the DVD format all started during the &#8217;90s. And in the 1990&#8217;s video games underwent a major explosion, fueled by the advent of optical storage and 3-D. Games like <em>Final Fantasy<\/em>, <em>Mortal Kombat<\/em>, and <em>Pokemon<\/em> started during this decade. Andersen Library has the video games <em>Final fantasy XII<\/em> (PlayStation) and <em>Mortal kombat vs. DC Universe<\/em>, among others (2nd-floor Browsing Video Games). So, you see, we haven&#8217;t left the &#8217;90s, we&#8217;ve just improved upon them.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance in finding additional Library materials, such as the Reference book <em>Day by day: The nineties<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Homecoming Week @UWW! &#8220;The &#8217;90s: Lived &#8217;em, Loved &#8217;em, Never Left &#8217;em.&#8221; So get into a &#8217;90s mood! Some Andersen Library resources might help, such as the DVD set of the complete Friends series (2nd-floor Browsing DVD&#8211;Features, call no. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/3526\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[2346,2345,178,203,231,2344,132,2280,2347,1489,1627],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-campus-connection","tag-1990s","tag-90s","tag-books","tag-dvds","tag-history","tag-homecoming","tag-music","tag-sound-recordings","tag-television-series","tag-video-games","tag-videorecordings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3528,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}