 Good morning everyone. I am Sandra Okuduha and welcome to my Pectureture presentation. My topic for today is through back Thursday, hashtag TBT. Today we're going to be going down memory lane as we look at some interesting trends, lifestyles and technologies in the late 90s and 2000s. A couple of years back, making phone calls wasn't as easy as picking up your phone from the bedside table and calling a friend. You'd need to go to a distant pay phone owned by nightail, join a queue to make a call to a friend. This wasn't as cheap and convenient. As time passed on, it got easier to make phone calls. If you were a big boy or big girl back in the days, then you most likely owned a Motorola Flip Razer, a Nokia 3310 or 1100, Sony Ericsson Walkman, most of which had antennas. Kids of these days wouldn't understand what it meant for TV stations to close, that is having a scrambled screen or a screen showing the colours of the rainbow. Aside from that, you may have also experienced your TV heating up or trying to adjust your antennae severally just to pick up signal. I know I experienced that. When it comes to TV shows, we had absolutely some of the best TV shows from Fuji House of Komoshon to Papa Ajatko, in the foreign scene we had Paloma and Diego, Second Chance and many more. These shows had you glued to your TV screen for several hours, up onto the TV station's closes. Hit music, killer beats, dynamic artists would be my description of the music in the 2000s. From Tony Tetsula to Too Faced, P-Square, Michael Jackson, Chris Brown and Beyoncé, there was never a dull moment in the music scene, as form was definitely guaranteed. Listening to music personally required some manpower, because you literally have to roll the tape of the cassettes just to get to the exact song you'd like. These cassettes also got damaged easily and so you need to be very careful in handling them just to enable them last longer. Radios were a big thing back then. In fact, most families had a radio but never had TVs. However, these radios were not as potable as they make them these days and so you hardly see people moving about with them as they were price positions for most families. If you think typing with a laptop is work, then you probably didn't experience typing with a typewriter. Talk about some tedious work. I actually learned to use a typewriter in secondary school. However, nothing prepares you for when you make a mistake and you have to start typing a document from scratch. Talk about disappointing. Imagine if we were using a marking torch in our virtual kidneys in D Brown. The CPU may heat up and the entire computer will go off. Desktop computers were a great introduction after the use of typewriters, but they were not potable and were quite slow. A great upgrade, however. Blackouts and NEPA failures were constant in the 90s and 2000s as well and so this required that you owned a lantern. I have a very vivid memory of this kerosene lantern in my household. It was a staple in most households as well. This lantern could burn for hours, however, it usually smokes. For those that were privileged enough, they could afford to buy a small tiger gen to keep their lights on. This brand of gen was so popular and common back in those days that I thought it was distributed for free by the Nigerian government. Well, I guess that is quite impossible. Another household staple was the kerosene stove. Cooking food was a long thing, if I may say. However, it was better than the firewood stove. This kerosene stove required it to constantly dismantle it to pull it out of, pull out the ropes and fill it up with kerosene. It also smoked and blackened pots. Do you remember the one litre glass coke bottle? Well, I do. It was a family favorite and once every month my family will share a bottle with our lantern on whilst playing Monopoly. They don't make this in glass anymore and they also do not make matzah, crush, crest, thumbs ups and sitra. Almost every parent's nightmare in the 2000s was cabbage goji goji. You may ask why? That is because this caramel delight was so addictive, but can give you some bad cavities. This was one of my favorite sweets. I also love the Oxford cabin. They do not make those anymore. How can we do a throwback and not talk about fashion? Fashion was a statement from synthetic wigs which were cheap compared to human hair, to lined lips, boots called jeans and abortion belts. There was nothing subtle about our fashion style back in the days. For most moms, their gillies had to be larger than life itself. Your lipstick, your eye shadow, drawers and everything, even down to the shoes had to be color coordinated. Almost everyone went around wearing platform shoes and dressed to impress. It was almost a competition. Even the kids back in days dressed to impress. You most likely got clothes that were at least two times your size, with the explanation that, and I quote, you grow into it. There was always a special Christmas outfit each year, and that was really something to look forward to. Around the mid 2000s, baggy clothes actually became a trend. Almost every child wanted to dress like their favorite rapper, like Tupac, Biggie, Fat Joe and many more. Children would dress up just to imitate these rappers and feel swapped out, most especially in secondary schools. It is so amazing to see how times have changed and looking back, the lesson for me is that we really do evolve. In fact, everything around us does. I hope that through this presentation, you've been able to think back and relieve some interesting moments of your life in your head. Thank you very much for listening and I am open to taking your questions and feedback. Thank you very much.