The links to those library books are a problem since it's a blog, and the links seem to point at pages other than the one the linker intended as new pages are added. I got a prostate-gland textbook. It's ironic considering the blog is run by a librarian...
But yes, 1990 is not that long ago. There were actually cars, and TV, and micro-computers! The first web-site went on-line in 1991 and in 1992 you could even surf the internet with Mosaic! In 1990 I was a little girl in Shanghai, entirely oblivious to all of this, but it can't be that long ago because I remember it, and I'm not old!