“I wrote that book ‘Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs,’ which came out 20 years ago now, and that was in many ways a ’90s book too, except that it was purely my personal experience,” he says. “The Nineties” came to Klosterman partly out of a desire to complement or correct an earlier book on the decade, he says. “I looked at that thing like 40 times.” A second look “I put a lot of effort into that,” Klosterman says, laughing when complimented on his close scrutiny of a 32-second YouTube video of the AOL sign-on. And, of course, Klosterman deals with the rise of the internet in several essays including one that opens with the best-written description you will ever read of the sound of a dial-up modem connecting to America Online.
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