Communications Major

“The internet was coming. The internet was coming. The internet was coming.” But the internet as we know it wasn’t quite there yet.

But this is no elegy for Blockbuster, no lament for how Netflix killed the video star. There were plenty of those when the company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010, shriveled to 300 stores and then mostly closed.

This is about the ability of the Bend store, like sturdy links in other dying chains, to live on and avoid being turned into a pawnshop or a fast-food restaurant.

A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

You know what's ironic? That this song translates perfectly well into today's online culture. Watch, listen and LOL.