If you Google each year in the last quarter of the twentieth century, you’ll find that each successive one has an increasing number of mentions online, as you would expect given the growth of the internet during this period. The only exception to this upward trend is the period between 1991 and 1994, when the number of mentions declines. The age of John Major and George Bush Sr, it seems, does not attract our attention. Our cultural narrative skips from the Stock, Aitken and Waterman late eighties to the Britpop and The Spice Girls mid-nineties quite happily.
