#School Computer Lab

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Trends 2002–2010 peak

AddictingGames.com

The flash-game portal that gave "I'm bored" a URL. AddictingGames launched in 2002 as a constantly updated grid of free browser games, became one of the sites school IT departments most loved to block — and somehow outlived Flash itself.

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Video Games 1983–1999

Math Blaster

The space shooter your parents wanted you to play: math problems zip across the screen, you fire the cannon at the correct answer, and somehow you're drilling fractions without noticing. Every 90s school computer lab had it, and every kid who touched it felt like an arcade ace instead of a student.

Video thumbnail — Oregon Trail Apple II (1985)
Video Games 1971–2001

The Oregon Trail

The computer-lab game that taught westward expansion through dysentery and desperation. Every 90s kid named their wagon party after friends, overhunted buffalo, gambled on river crossings, and died of unexpected causes while technically learning American history.