Tue, Jun 5, 2018
Lisa Frank's signature aesthetic-rainbows, unicorns, puppies-defined childhood for kids in the '90s. But as her empire grew, Lisa Frank withdrew. Until now. See what life is like as Queen of the Rainbows.
Tue, Jun 5, 2018
Remember laser tag? The sweaty, pizza and soda-fueled birthday parties. The fog-filled, dark room with flashing lights. Since its birth in 1984 with the release of the Photon toy, laser tag evolved into an iconic game. Meet its inventor.
Tue, Jun 5, 2018
Remember the childhood hours of fun spent blasting your friends with neon-tinged water cannons? You can thank a NASA scientist for that. In 1982, Lonnie Johnson designed the Super Soaker. But that wasn't Johnson's only invention. The award-winning scientist came up with everything from the Nerf gun to a thermoelectric energy converter, and now he's got even bigger aims.
Tue, Jun 5, 2018
If you're a child of the '90s, chances are you know R.L. Stine's "Goosebumps" books. You remember-the spooky young adult novels that made you check under your bed before lights out. Well, get this: before Stine was scaring innocent children, he cut his teeth on bizarre comics and funny stories. Find out how he went from jokes to jitters.
Tue, Jun 5, 2018
If you logged onto the internet circa 1997, chances are you heard this guy, Elwood Edwards, greet you with a warm "Welcome! You've got mail." Edwards scored his place in internet history back in 1989, after submitting a handful of recorded phrases to a company that would soon be known as America Online. Thirty years and hundreds of millions of logins later, the rest is history.
Tue, Jun 5, 2018
Mike Gray knows a bit about the tween psyche: Among his greatest games are "Mall Madness" and "Dream Phone." We caught up with Gray to get the story on the first crushes of your youth.