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Dylan Drew points to a live reenactment of level one of the original Super Mario Bros. game.

My first question: What can't you find on the Internet today?

My second question: Who thought of the fireball bit towards the end?

I think the Sports Guy says it best (speaking about finding some old clips of 1980's WWF wrestling shows):

So here's my question: In a million years, did you ever think this would happen? One decade ago, I didn't even have an e-mail address or know what the Internet was ... now I can watch Piper slam a coconut against Snuka's head whenever I want? What will the world be like 10 years from now? Is it possible to procrastinate for 24 hours a day? Are we headed that way?

If that's the case, I'm in trouble.

What I really find amazing is the crowd at this thing. They are going WILD. Did people actually pay to go to this? Was this part of some booze-filled "Spring Weekend" where everyone is either too drunk or too stoned (or both) to know any better?

Of course, who am I to judge? When I was a sophomore, we entertained ourselves by faking fire alarms in our fraternity house, even going as far as to let off the extinguisher (we were a responsible bunch) before waking people up at 3AM to "evacuate". And yes, we taped the whole thing. But dammit if we weren't five years before our time. We could've been online celebrities!