The year is 2022, and my mom’s throwing a 90s-themed birthday banger back home in Milwaukee (pictured above).
Naturally, us ex-90s kids went all in. Windbreakers, gold chains, disposable cameras, the whole nine.
At some point that night, I looked around and realized something: It wasn’t just nostalgia we were feeling. It was relief.
For a few hours, nobody was doom-scrolling, or arguing about politics, or talking about AI. We were just, there...laughing, using 90s slang, hitting the Kid ’n Play, remembering what it felt like when the world wasn’t chronically online.
That’s what ThrowbackBuys is about. It's a nostalgia marketplace for memories: the throwbacks we grew up with, laughed at, played with, and never really stopped caring about.
Stay fresh,
- LeMarc Johnson, TBB Founder
