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Mathew writes: Fox has announced the first of its mid-season replacement series: “That 90’s Show”, A family comedy set in a simpler time.

The father works as an accountant-turned-web-programmer, whose antics in struggling to understand HTML before his 26-year-old boss realizes that he doesn’t deserve his 120,000 salary is rich fodder for humor. The mother, also a web-programmer but for a different company, delights the audience with her constant attempts to describe her employers business model. Their discussions are peppered with period business jargon you may remember, such as “synergize”, “paradigm”, and “extreme”.

The older brother is hysterical with his constant period lingo, offering to “rip mp3s”, “burn CDs”, and use his “mad skillz” to break into computers over the Internet, which was not illegal at that time.

Background humor such as the television reporting on a sex-crazed happy-go-lucky President who has no significant problems to deal with rounds out the period setting.