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Kellogg’s Ensemble · 1999 Kellogg’s was a familiar name in the cereal aisle. Its pasta, bread and frozen meals are less well remembered. #Kelloggs

Black-and-white studio photograph of several en·sem·ble branded food packages arranged with plated food and ingredients. Visible labels include Sour Cream & Onion Baked Potato Crisps, Carrot Cake Mini-Loaves and Fettuccine Pasta.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 10/10/2026

📺 Forgotten TV & Film The National Lottery Big Ticket arrived on BBC One in 1998, hosted by Anthea Turner and Patrick Kielty. Its £2 TV Dreams scratchcard let viewers play from home or qualify for the studio. #ForgottenArchive #BritishTV

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 09/10/2026

🍔 Forgotten Food & Drinks Lyons Maid Haunted House put a coloured horror picture directly on the ice cream, hidden beneath its wrapper. Lyons Maid’s product chronology lists it in July 1973 at 4p. #ForgottenArchive

Tall purple Lyons Maid Haunted House label with a black crooked house silhouetted against a pale moon, flying bats, yellow window figures and red-and-yellow title lettering above the words “Ice cream contains non-milk fat.”

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 08/10/2026

💾 Forgotten Technology Amazon Dash Buttons turned shopping into a physical action: press a branded Wi-Fi button beside a household product and its configured order was placed. #ForgottenArchive #AmazonDash

A Tide-branded Amazon Dash Button attached to a white washing machine above its controls, with a hand turning the programme dial.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 07/10/2026

🍔 Forgotten Food & Drinks Extra Thin Ice put a translucent peppermint strip on your tongue, where it dissolved instead of being chewed. Launched in January 2003, it was Wrigley’s first UK non-gum product.

An open translucent plastic dispenser on a blue ice-textured background, containing a stack of turquoise rectangular strips. Its blue label reads “Wrigley’s Extra Thin Ice” and “24 Peppermint Strips.”

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 06/10/2026

💾 Forgotten Technology BT Touchpoint brought colour touchscreens, printers and telephone links into indoor public spaces around London. People could browse guides and news, print maps, vouchers or coupons, and use Freefone links to businesses.

A woman operates a tall BT Touchpoint kiosk while a man stands beside her with one arm around her shoulders. The kiosk has a small color screen, a keyboard-like ledge, a telephone handset on its left side, and vertical TOUCHPOINT branding.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 05/10/2026

🧸 Forgotten Toys At first glance, it was just a mounted fish. Then its head swung towards the room and it started singing. Big Mouth Billy Bass arrived publicly in 2000, turning a familiar trophy plaque into a mechanical gag people could perform again and again.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 04/10/2026

🛒 Forgotten Shops The Gadget Shop was the sort of place where browsing was half the fun. Pocket electronics, novelty lights, clocks, toys and joke gifts all shared the same glass-fronted displays, mixing affordable silliness with technology you could stop and inspect.

Glass-fronted gadgetshop.com store in an enclosed shopping corridor, with illuminated blue signage, merchandise displays and shoppers passing the entrance.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 02/10/2026

📣 Forgotten Adverts Pot Noodle’s Terry and John reached British television in late September 1995 with a gloriously odd pitch: mock fibre and healthy “faffy food”. Peter Baynham played moustachioed Terry, with Martin Ellis as John, turning “too gorgeous” into the punchline.

Low-resolution video still of a man in a green shirt reclining on a sofa while holding a white Pot Noodle cup and a fork; a digital timestamp reading “14:07:09” appears at bottom right.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 30/09/2026

🚗 Forgotten Vehicles & Transport You could hand over your car, settle into a seat or sleeper, and collect it again at the other end. Motorail joined the family car and the train in one holiday journey, taking the long trunk-road drive out of trips across Britain.

A row of cars loaded onto railway wagons beneath a large glazed station roof.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 30/09/2026

🎮 Forgotten Games Wireplay gave PC players a new way to find someone to play against over an ordinary phone line. Compatible games could call BT’s managed network by modem, where players found opponents, issued challenges and launched multiplayer matches.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 29/09/2026

💎 Forgotten Collectibles Tiger Tokens turned a stop at Esso into the start of choosing a reward. From November 1986, participating stations generally gave motorists one token for every £6 spent on fuel. Those paper vouchers could be saved and exchanged for gifts from The Esso Collection.

Several Esso Free Gift Tiger Token cards arranged in rows, showing tiger emblems, printed conditions and identifying numbers.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 29/09/2026

🍔 Forgotten Food & Drinks Wotsits without the curls: Wafflers used big, curved waffle-grid cheese snacks. Golden Wonder launched them in 2000, giving the familiar snack a thicker, crunchier shape.

Close-up of a crumpled purple, orange and yellow snack packet printed with “Golden Wonder,” “Wotsits Wafflers,” “Cheesy Flavour,” “Cheesy & Crunchy” and “NEW!”, plus an illustration of a square lattice-shaped snack.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 29/09/2026

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 28/09/2026

🍔 Forgotten Food & Drinks In 1996, shoppers in selected Sainsbury’s and Safeway stores found tomato purée tins openly labelled as made with genetically modified tomatoes. These were separate own-brand products, not fresh GM tomatoes, and conventional alternatives sat beside them.

Tightly cropped, low-resolution photograph of a tomato purée tin label with red “TOMATO PUREE” lettering, “DOUBLE CONCENTRATE,” and a yellow panel reading “MADE WITH GENETICALLY MODIFIED TOMATOES”; narrow parts of adjacent tins appear at both edges.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 28/09/2026

📣 Forgotten Adverts Pillsbury Toaster Pockets promised UK teenagers a hot savoury snack from the toaster. By late January 1997, Kevin the Teenager was inspecting one on television with characteristic suspicion.

Close-up of a person with chin-length orange hair, sunglasses on top of their head, a striped tie and a fleece-lined jacket, examining a small rectangular toasted pastry held near their mouth.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 07/09/2026

🎮 Forgotten Games A £1 scratchcard asked players to uncover a temperature lower than the one shown. Cool Cash used wintry artwork, but negatives caused confusion: against −8, −6 and −7 are higher and warmer, not lower.

Front of a pale-blue £1 National Lottery “Cool Cash” scratchcard. Large white-and-purple title lettering appears above a cartoon penguin wearing a green scarf. Scratched play areas show “Today’s Temp” as −08°C and four “Your Temp” rows with temperatures, prize amounts and black pen marks.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 06/09/2026

💾 Forgotten Technology ClubCall put club news at the end of an ordinary telephone. Supporters rang club-specific premium-rate lines for recorded updates, interviews and match coverage, paying by the minute.

Blue-and-white Leeds United Clubcall card on a textured dark surface, with the club crest and large text reading “LEEDS UNITED CLUBCALL — PHONE NOW — 0898 12 11 80.”

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 04/09/2026

🛒 Forgotten Shops The Jolly Giant made toy warehouses memorable with its bearded mascot, large displays and price-led advertising. At Crow Road, former customers recall an oversized entrance giant that appeared to move.

Low-resolution television frame showing a cartoon giant in red and green winter clothing beside large green words reading “The Jolly Giant Toy Superstores,” against a snowy blue landscape.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 01/09/2026

🚗 Forgotten Vehicles & Transport AA members could ask for a paper route made for their journey long before directions appeared on a screen. The AA Prepared Routes Service began with handwritten cards around 1912, then grew to include directions, strip maps and town plans.

A fan of worn yellow and brown stapled route booklets laid on dark blue textured fabric. Visible cover text includes “Your Route,” “Recommended,” “Alternative,” “Lochgair – Oban,” and “Hull – Oban,” with line drawings of buildings and cars; an AA emblem appears on the front booklet.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 01/09/2026

🕸️ Forgotten Internet LimeWire made a song search feel like opening a door onto strangers’ computers. You chose a result without knowing what would arrive. The Java desktop client searched Gnutella, then transferred files directly between peers.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 31/08/2026

🍔 Forgotten Food & Drinks Freekee Soda made you look twice: it was fizzy, fruity and made with skimmed milk. Britvic launched it in February 2003 for children and young teenagers, in Strange Strawberry and Odd Orange.

A hand holds a small red Tango drink bottle in front of a person wearing a dark jacket and a badge reading "TANGO." The bottle label shows the Tango name, a strawberry illustration and a cartoon face.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 30/08/2026

🔥 Forgotten Trends From the late 1980s, independent payphone operators challenged BT on Britain’s streets. Mercury, Interphone and New World had their own kiosks, tariffs and payment systems—until the mobile era changed everything.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 29/08/2026

🕸️ Forgotten Internet StickDeath.com turned violently comic stick-figure cartoons, Flash games and recurring series into a site made to explore. Rob Lewis’s menus and small interactive detours were part of the entertainment.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 28/08/2026

🛒 Forgotten Shops Rumbelows brought televisions, hi-fi and appliances to high streets across Britain, often with credit offers in the window. It grew from Sydney Rumbelow’s Hatfield music-and-electrical shop, opened in 1949.

Colour photograph of a Rumbelows high-street shopfront with yellow lettering, appliance-filled windows, large credit and interest-free posters, and several pedestrians passing outside.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 26/08/2026

🏚️ Forgotten Places In 1994, part of Morecambe’s Happy Mount Park became Noel Edmonds’ World of Crinkley Bottom: a paid TV attraction with Mr Blobby as its biggest draw.

A pink, yellow-spotted costumed character with a bow tie stands with arms raised in the road outside the entrance to Noel Edmonds’ World of Crinkley Bottom. The large entrance sign reads “CRINKLEY BOTTOM,” with open gates and a green park area behind.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 26/08/2026

🎮 Forgotten Games The Amiga CD32 put Amiga technology in a keyboardless CD-ROM console for the television. Unveiled at London’s Science Museum in July 1993, it reached Europe that September.

Blue-toned promotional image of an Amiga CD32 console viewed from above with its controller in front; large text below reads “AMIGA CD32” and “HAVE YOU GOT WHAT IT TAKES?”.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 23/08/2026

📣 Forgotten Adverts Virgin Cola arrived in UK shops in late 1994. Its £4 million paid campaign followed in 1995, casting the newcomer as a challenger in the cola wars.

Screenshot of an Independent UK Culture article headed “Hardsellingbrandpluggingwarfighting,” with the subheading “PETER YORK ON ADS; No 80: PEPSI/VIRGIN,” by Peter York and dated Sunday 21 May 1995. The visible article text begins, “COLA WARS are here again,” and describes Virgin as a new contender.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 23/08/2026

📣 Forgotten Adverts Reebok’s 2000 Belly’s Gonna Get Ya advert sent a runner fleeing an enormous beer belly down a city street. It made the familiar wish to get fitter into a very literal chase.

Low-resolution still of a man in a white T-shirt running toward the camera on a city street, with a large flesh-colored rounded object behind him near double yellow road lines.art.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 22/08/2026

🔥 Forgotten Trends Tesco Computers for Schools turned qualifying shopping into paper vouchers for registered schools. Launched in 1992, the vouchers could be saved for computer-related and educational equipment.

Full-page Tesco advertisement headed “Tesco announces free chips for school kids.” Two children seen from behind use a desktop computer displaying an aeroplane; text below promotes Computers for Schools ’93 and free Acorn equipment.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 21/08/2026

💾 Forgotten Technology VideoPlus+ turned a TV-listings code into a shortcut for setting a recorder. Instead of entering the date, channel, time and duration, you copied the code beside the programme.

Retail package for the black VideoPlus+ Instant Video Programmer, UK Version, photographed on a red-and-white checkered cloth. The package window shows a handheld keypad device with a small display and numbered buttons, surrounded by printed television-listing columns. Text includes “Enter the Video.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 21/08/2026

📣 Forgotten Adverts Reg was Embassy Regal’s recurring comic advertising character. By 22 October 1992, he was leading Regal’s billboard campaign. Each advert paired a deliberately daft line with a familiar face and the cigarette pack.

Blue Regal cigarette advertisement with the headline “Reg on smoking.”, a black-and-white portrait of a smiling bald man, and an illustrated hand holding a white cigarette pack with a blue stripe. Text reads, “I smoke ’em because my name’s on ’em.” A white strip along the bottom gives tar and nicoti.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 20/08/2026

📺 Forgotten Television Stressed Eric made pressure literal: Eric Feeble’s stress vein could emerge and strangle him. Carl Gorham’s BBC Two adult animated black comedy arrived in 1998, with Mark Heap as Eric’s original voice.

Animated image of Eric, a red-haired cartoon man with bulging eyes and clenched teeth, standing with both hands raised against a cloudy grey sky; coloured triangular bunting appears at right.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 20/08/2026

🕸️ Forgotten Internet Boxxy was Catherine “Catie” Wayne’s deliberately stylised webcam persona: heavy black eyeliner, a side-swept fringe, fixed-camera vlogs and breathless greetings to online friends.

Screenshot of a video page showing a smiling young woman with long brown hair and heavy black eyeliner holding a hand near her mouth; visible text includes “FOAR EVERYWUN FRUM BOXXY,” “boxxybabee,” “369K subscribers,” “228K,” and “25M views 17 years ago.”.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 19/08/2026

🎮 Forgotten Games Skitchin' was a 1994 inline-skating racer. You dodged traffic, fought rivals and grabbed passing cars for speed.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 19/08/2026

💾 Forgotten Technology Rabbit was a UK public Telepoint service: a halfway step between the home phone, payphone and mobile. It captured Britain still working out what “portable” should mean.

Black-and-white Rumbelows newspaper advertisement for the Rabbit cordless digital phone, showing a handset in a charging cradle beside a ribbed base unit and a small inset photograph of a person holding the handset. Large text advertises a price of £199.99 and a free extra handset. Image source: ian. Image source: ianVisits.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 18/08/2026

💎 Forgotten Collectibles The Tetley Tea Folk were familiar faces from the tea adverts, and their collectable figures brought the characters into people’s homes. Boxed examples still turn up today with the original character artwork intact.

Five boxed Tetley Tea Folk collectible figures displayed side by side in red packaging marked ‘Collect’ and ‘The Tetley Teafolk’. The characters include figures holding a rose, a cup of tea and a microphone. Credit: Photograph by SmallBearVintage, via Etsy.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 18/08/2026

📺 Forgotten Television A short-lived Kids’ WB horror anthology credited its warning voice to “R.L. Stine”. It was James Avery. The Nightmare Room ran for 13 episodes in 2001–02, with a new supernatural threat in each story.

Dark brown paneled door with the white and red title text “R. L. Stine’s the Nightmare Room” and a small skull-headed key graphic. Image source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxlQOWgh980.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 17/08/2026

📣 Forgotten Adverts Metz made its 2000 Judderman campaign feel like a Gothic warning, not a drinks advert. In a dark forest, a lone traveller is lured towards the Judderman and a bottle of Metz.

A pale-faced, pointed-eared figure in a dark glove holds a bottle labeled “METZ” in front of its face against a dark wooded background. Image source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-VUlXl0wUQ.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 17/08/2026

🍔 Forgotten Food & Drinks McPizza was McDonald’s attempt to make pizza work at fast-food speed. Development began in 1985, with the recipe refined over roughly five years.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 16/08/2026

🔥 Forgotten Trends For years, a Wednesday cinema trip could begin with a text message. Orange Wednesdays offered two tickets for the price of one at participating cinemas, using an SMS reference number.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 15/08/2026

🧸 Forgotten Toys Mattel’s 1991 Attack of the Killer Tomatoes toys had a simple gag: squeeze the big soft tomato and its mouth opened wide enough to hold the little human figure.

Front view of a sealed Attack of the Killer Tomatoes blister card in a clear protective case, with green-and-red splatter artwork, three snarling tomato illustrations, a large red tomato creature with green limbs, and a smaller blonde human figure labeled Tara Boumdeay; the lower card names Missing. Image source: Collector Archive Services.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 15/08/2026

🕸️ Forgotten Internet Getting online could begin with a CD-ROM picked up while shopping for a television or computer. Launched by Dixons Group plc in Britain on 22 September 1998, it was a subscription-free dial-up internet service rather than internet access with no cost at all.

Orange and white Freeserve promotional cover reading “get into the Internet,” with a “Free CD Inside” circle and signpost-shaped panels advertising AnyTime Half Price and No Ties rates. Image source: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/64448/Freeserve-Get-Into-The-Internet-CD/

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 15/08/2026

💾 Forgotten Technology The BBC Microcomputer System, usually called the BBC Micro, was built by Acorn in 1981 as the BBC’s microcomputer for its Computer Literacy Project.

Colour photograph of a beige BBC Micro beneath a CRT monitor displaying green text, with a book resting on the monitor and two external disk drives positioned to the right. Image source: Archives of IT

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 15/08/2026

🍔 Forgotten Food & Drinks Orbitz looked like a bottle that had forgotten how a drink was meant to behave. Clearly Canadian’s clear, non-carbonated fruit drink held coloured edible gel spheres in suspension, turning every turn of the bottle into part of the experience.

Three clear glass Orbitz beverage bottles against a black background, arranged with one pink-labeled bottle in front and orange- and green-labeled bottles behind; colorful suspended pellets are visible in the liquid. Image source: https://preview.redd.it/orbitz-soda-was-introduced-in-1997-by-the-cle. https://preview.redd.it/orbitz-soda-was-introduced-in-1997-by-the-clearly-canadian-v0-7qdv5pcofs791.jpg?auto=webp&s=132a7616c0841587f007bb036e6be86f5d6d5b70.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 14/08/2026

🛒 Forgotten Shops Index began as The Catalogue Shop in October 1985 and was formally launched by Littlewoods in 1987. Its catalogues brought toys, electricals, jewellery, furniture and DIY into one place.

Blue and yellow Index catalogue cover advertising jewellery, gifts, leisure, audio, DIY, electrical, furniture and toys, illustrated with a stereo, Game Boy, toy vehicle, watch and jewellery. Image source: Wales Online

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 14/08/2026

💎 Forgotten Collectibles A dessert run at Hardee’s could also mean taking home a tiny California Raisin. In 1987, four plastic figures, about two inches high, were offered at 99 cents with any dessert purchase—one different figure each week. #CaliforniaRaisins #ForgottenArchive

Four California Raisins figurines on a white background: one holds a saxophone-like horn, one raises both hands and wears blue shoes, one wears orange sunglasses and orange shoes, and one holds a microphone with a bow tie. Image source: Antique Trader.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 05/08/2026

Joe 90. A forgotten British science fiction series from 1968. A young secret agent, the BIG RAT machine, and a pair of iconic brainwave glasses made it one of Gerry Anderson's most distinctive creations. #ForgottenTelevision #GerryAnderson #ClassicTV

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 05/08/2026

Gak. The stretchy Nickelodeon toy that turned slime into a 1990s childhood memory. Released in 1992, Gak became famous for its strange texture, bright colours and messy style of play. #ForgottenToys

Original Nickelodeon Gak toy packaging showing the colourful stretchy slime-based toy from the 1990s.

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Forgotten Archive @forgottenarchive.ai · 04/08/2026

Before AI assistants, Joe 90 imagined glasses that could transfer expert knowledge straight into a young secret agent’s mind. Gerry Anderson’s 1968 Supermarionation series blended spy fiction, futuristic technology, and puppetry. www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenA...

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