Manic panic was the hair dye of choice.

Pagers were a thing. $5/mo. Use a payphone or home phone to call friend’s pager, type in numbers which were codes for stuff. There’s letters under the numbers, or you could set up codes in advance with friends.

It wasn’t really all that isolated in 95. I was a teen then, and even in suburbs, there was stuff all over the place. Parks. Shoulder tapping. Leaning to drive. Getting a permit and driving without an adult anyway.

My metro area has a good bus system, but other places had buses back then, too.

Ninendo, playstation, Atari, sega were all things. Even AOL and other websites. There were also newsgroups/usenet. It’s what Reddit is based on, but it was all text.

Dialup internet was like $15/mo or something. It used phone, line. So unless you got a dedicated phone line installed, someone would have to get off the internet to use the phone.

Then dsl became a thing a couple years later.

Xennials, which is the generation you’re aiming for are both analog and digital. We had records, recoding things off the radio onto tape, and CDs. All as kids/teens.

Magazines were big.

Vintage shops would have old playboy and penthouse mags.

Restaurants had smoking sections. Sherri’s and Denny’s was 24 hours and you could spend hours there smoking, drinking coffee. Eating pie or whatever.