THROWBACK

‘National Lampoon’ began as an offshoot of a college humor magazine and developed into one of the most influential voices in American comedy.

You might think of Neopets as nothing more than an internet-based Tamagotchi—but they helped pave the way for Web 2.0.

Who has worse aim than stormtroopers? Probably the heroes and adversaries of G.I. Joe, Hasbro’s never-ending toy story about an elite U.S. combat team facing of

Mad magazine gave us Alfred E. Neuman and Spy vs. Spy and made irreverent, anti-establishment humor a thing. Here's what you need to know about 'Mad.'

In the year 2000, kids could do chores and frustrate their parents at the same time. An addictive video game called 'The Sims' made it possible.

Teens went wild for these ultra-baggy jeans in the 1990s. Parents and other adults feared this wide-legged rebellion could have dire consequences.

In the 1970s and 1980s, everything from 'The Smurfs' to Ronald McDonald were suspected of being in cahoots with Satan. Silly as it was, it had some devastating real-life consequences.

The digital pocket pet captured the attention of millions of children in Japan and the United States in 1996 and 1997. It was one of the hottest toy crazes of the decade, and now it's the subject of our latest video rewind.

In the 1980s and 1990s, computer classrooms across America taught kids about the perils of dysentery and crossing rivers in wagons with 'The Oregon Trail,' an instructive—and rather morbid—text-based adventure game

In the first edition of "Throwback," our all-new YouTube series, we take a deep dive into the bizarre history of Sea-Monkeys and Harold von Braunhut, the man who created them—then funneled the millions he made into illegal activities.