"There's been a recent trend on Instagram targeted towards millennial moms. As I scroll through my social media feed, videos pop up with a familiar, slightly unfocused grain. I see posts with NERF guns, small TVs with built-in VHS players, and landline phones. The messaging begs women my age to give their kids a 90's childhood, just like the ones we had."
"The Federal Procurement Data System - Next Generation serves as a time capsule dedicated to the form and function of a tool built in the Spice Girls age. From the classic static navigation to the search bar where you have to delete the prompt to use it ("Google-like search to help you find federal contracts..."), the look and feel of this primary source of contract information leaves a lot to be desired."
Instagram nostalgia trends urge millennial parents to recreate 1990s childhoods through grainy videos featuring NERF guns, VHS TVs, and landline phones. FPDS.gov exhibits a 1990s aesthetic with static navigation and a search bar that requires deleting a prompt to use. The interface is outdated and unattractive, yet the system stores millions of contract-related subpages presented in familiar tabular fields. Fields include Transaction Information, Document Information, Dates, Amounts, Purchaser Information, Entity Information, Socio Economic Data, Contract Data, Legislative Mandates, Principal Place of Performance, Product or Service Information, Competition Information, and Preference Programs. Navigating requires avoiding obsolete prompts and knowing how to use advanced search tools and filters to extract useful procurement data.
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