If you weren't around for it, I can describe the 1990s in a single word...
In the era of neon colors, Walkman, and Zima, American culture was highly saturated and blurred with a nostalgic glow of the rock-and-roll era that preceded it.
Boy bands... Rollerblades... Zack Morris phones... everything popped in the 1990s. And everyone was ready to party. Even the U.S. Treasury Department.
Yeah, that's right, even the Treasury Department decided to ride the radical wave and introduce a financial sidekick that could keep up with the times.
They rolled out the red carpet for the new Series I bonds (or inflation bonds), a sleek and modern upgrade to those traditional savings bonds your folks might've stashed away.