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As a millennial, I can personally attest to all the memes and reels where people say it feels like the turn of the century was ten, max fifteen years ago. I am the same way, and can still name the addresses to my favorite Counter-Strike 1.5 servers. But it's been more than two decades and that world no longer exists. So to see just how much things have changed, let's take a look at the Instagram account Insta80s90s and all of the nostalgia it's been posting. Just don't be surprised if you get a sudden craving for Fruit Roll-Ups and Capri Sun.

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We contacted the authors of the account and they agreed to tell us more about it. "Our content comes from various internet image sources and social media sites where we can find the particular memory we wish to share with our audience," the people behind Insta80s90s told Bored Panda.

They're trying to keep the feed fresh. "We like to provide our followers with a mixture of memes, questions, and simple pictures of things related to era," they said.

"This makes our page special as we don't focus entirely on comedy. We think the reason for our success is we try to cater to everyone's taste. Some prefer polls and questions that encourage high commenting, and some prefer a childhood meme."

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh yes. The all mighty projector that the teachers loved. This is your homework for tonight.

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However, some of the posts do seem to receive slightly more engagement than others. "We have certainly noticed our followers tend to prefer the posts that ask them to answer questions about their personal experiences, for example: 'What 90’s song will you always turn up when you hear it on your car radio?'" the people in charge of the account added.

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"Also, our followers like posts that highlight how today's kids don't know the struggle we had with things like portable CD players and having phones that only had the game Snake on it."

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I loved these! I loved the smell of them too. My kids played with them in the little guns. I just liked to hit them with a rock.

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Reminiscence of this sort can serve several functions. "Our everyday is humdrum, often even absurd," psychiatrist and philosopher Neel Burton, M.D., writes.

"Nostalgia can lend us much-needed context, perspective, and direction, reminding and reassuring us that our life is not as banal as it may seem, that it is rooted in a narrative, and that there have been, and will once again be meaningful moments and experiences."

Perhaps it's no surprise then that nostalgia often visits us at times of change or uncertainty.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Man I loved those things as a kid ..not to use in a bath but just to play with and squish until it broke open.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! It used to be in all the movies. The last movie I saw it in was The Princess Bride and in The Mummy.

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"It could be argued that nostalgia is a form of self-deception in that it invariably involves distortion and idealization of the past, not least because the bad or boring bits are erased from our memory, leaving only the peak experiences." Burton continues.

"The Romans had a tag for this phenomenon that modern psychologists have come to call ‘rosy retrospection’: memoria præteritorum bonorum, ‘the past is always well remembered.’"

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to have some but got rid of them during a move. My man just surprised me by putting up two packs the other day, because apparently I'm still not too old for glow stars.

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The folks behind Insta80s90s agree that nostalgia is a very powerful emotion. "To us, it creates a happy feeling about the good times that we have experienced, and allows us to look back on the past with fond memories."

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"Whilst we can't turn back time, we see our account sort of like a time machine for people that belong to these generations and wish to do the same."

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those were good candies. You ate them so you weren't running around yelling for your watch. Saved a lot of time.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like the American version it's called Trouble. In the UK it's called Frustration which I think is more accurate!

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have not thought about these for decades! I had one and forgot all about it until just now🤍

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a kid we used to get water-activated stick-on tattoos, officially known as 'transfers' a bit like the ones we used on Airfix models. I think they're still going strong all these decades later.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They still sell these in certain shops in the UK. I've definitely found packs in Home Bargains. They're mine and my daughters favourite sweets

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was the Vampire one. I can still remember how it smelled when you put on. Also all of the slobber all over the place from trying to talk in them. Good Times!

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I recognize two of them! Beavus and Butthead and the The Simpsons. Can I have a senior discount! (im a minor lol XD)

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