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While many eras quietly go down as parts of broader historical contexts, some carve themselves a special, distinct place in people's memories.

The Facebook page '90s Flashback' shares nostalgic posts about all the things that made the decade so special, and it has earned 533K followers by doing so.

We covered it earlier this year, but the page has released a lot of new content since then, so we decided to do a follow-up on it. Continue scrolling to check it out and teleport yourself to the good old days. Even if for a few minutes.

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It's very easy to fall into the nostalgia trap. You click on an article like this, and the next thing you know it, you're trying to find more '90s memes. But don't worry—it's natural.

"Consuming nostalgic media of all types gives us a way of thinking about who we are, and helps us make sense of our purpose in life," said Krystine Batcho, a psychology professor at LeMoyne College and longtime nostalgia researcher.

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Batcho has been studying nostalgia since, surprise, surprise, the 1990s, even developing a Nostalgia Inventory that assesses how prone one is to nostalgia.

She says she's seen an explosion of research into nostalgia in recent years as scientists increasingly want to piece together what makes it so powerful.

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Not sure why the world isn't a Richard scary book complete with the word above each object

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"Nostalgia is one way of coping with things like social isolation or disconnectedness, loneliness," Batcho said

"Times of adversity can trigger nostalgia because remembering who we were helps with our identity continuity."

That's why people indulged in it so much during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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According to Batcho, nostalgia serves several important psychological purposes, Batcho asserts.

One is the need to feel in control. Even if our circumstances are largely out of our control, nostalgia can help us believe that we have at least some of it over our own personal development.

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The second is social connection. This may sound counterintuitive since nostalgia typically involves private reflection on our personal history, but nostalgic memories remind us of our relationships with others.

Batcho thinks nostalgic recollections can encourage us to seek social and emotional support because they frequently feature important people from our past.

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This is a timeless and universal thing. It isn't even restricted to any age group. As long as kids/people are required to take turns reading aloud, they will not listen to what KS being read so they can practice. When I was teaching, I never went around the room, but a!ways asked for volunteers. There was always one who just kept reading and wouldn't give anyone else a chance.

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Batcho said there's a reason our memories become fonder over time, why the negative bits tend to fade away faster.

"Remembering things as better than they were serves an evolutionary purpose. If people were to remember things faithfully to the original, most women would never want to have more than one child," Batcho explained while laughing. "It's a function of species survival that we can gloss over the bad portions of the past."

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1 month ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And endlessly fiddling with the options/screensavers in After Dark! XD (I still miss you, Flying Toasters.)

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Yep! My mom cut away my ex-husband's face and just left mine in the frame.

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So in general, nostalgia is a healthy, even vital component of the human experience. At its core, nostalgia helps guide us back to our authentic selves and reminds us of who we were always meant to be.

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

The problem here is that this song came out in 1977. An awesome, amazing rock anthem that still resonates today, but hardly '90's kids' related. Hell, those kids weren't even born when this was released!

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

Tonya told her stupid husband to "get the fancy cardigan I need for Lillehammer" not "hit Nancy Kerrigan in the knee with a little hammer." It was all a misunderstanding, I swear!

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Parts inside the tv would make cracking sounds randomly as they expanded or contracted with room temperature changes. This happened especially at night when they had been powered off for a while and was most noticeable when your parents had left you home by yourself.

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I ruined at least three of my parents computers thanks to that damn site!!!

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iPod, filled with music that you own, until YOU choose to remove it. iPhone....filled with apps that give you access to music you don't own, until THEY choose to remove it.

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I died a little inside when the "oldies" station in my area (KRTH), which used to play "hits of the 50s, 60s, and 70s" when I was growing up in the 80s, to "hits of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s". I think now they include the 90s in their repertoire. The fact that music from the decade I was born in is considered "oldies" is just.... depressing XD

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In a (probably) 99 corolla. Base model didn't have a cd player. Put 230k on mine and sold it 3 years ago. It is still in action, I saw it a couple weeks ago lol.

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

That kid is not crying because he's afraid of losing a leg. He's crying because he's heard that joke 1,000 times already and is sick of his dad's c**p.

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I had a mad crush not on Hercules but on his friend Iolaus. For some reason I thought that actor was cuter XD And I REALLY loved Xena as a teenage girl. Didn't have many "strong/powerful" female action heroes in those days.

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I used to buy 15 for £1 for my cat. She'd diligently carry them to the top of the stairs and then watch them bounce on the stairs as she dropped them one by one. Especially at 2am.

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I grew up with no volume bars. Had knobs to use for the volume. Also knobs to turn the TV on and off and to adjust the tv for vertical and horizontal screen/picture.

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Then there are those of us who remember having to call long distance after 7pm because it was cheaper.

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I went to a rural school and some older students from the city visited and were wearing these with socks - we weren't mean, but we were just confused

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I go back and watch old movies or TV shows every once in a while and I am horrified when characters are "supposed" to be 18, or 20, or even 25 or so and they look like they're 40 XD I took it as a matter of course when I was a kid ("Ah, all grownups look like that. Of course.") but now that I'm 42 and I remember being 18 years old, and 20, and 25, it's absolutely insane to me XD

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I remember Push Pops. I know we were *supposed* to lick them to make them last longer, but I always crunched them instead XD I would crunch Jolly Ranchers too; my friends thought I was psychotic. I can't seem to lick lollipops or suck on hard candies - I've always been a cruncher XD Am I the only one?! Do most people have the restraint to lick/suck on hard candies?

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

Kazaam with Shaquille O'neal and it just shows how prone white kids in the '90s were to confusing POC.

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I'm black and I fully remember a Sinbad movie called Shazam. I got found out it wasn't real because of a meme I saw THIS year. Kazaam had the kid Shaq and the kid from A Bronx Tale. I remember BOTH. They were not even close to the same movie in my head. Sinbad had the 90's on lock.

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Hmm, rolling onto that fun theory that one of the dimensions that's slightly different merged with ours and this is one of the things that disappeared but some folks still remember? I love this stuff!

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

I think back to elementary school and I realize that I ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on white bread (my mom usually bought Weber's bread, in its blue tablecloth-pattern bag) for lunch, every single school day, for probably 4 or 5 years. The jelly flavor changed (my mom would sometimes buy concord grape, or boysenberry, or blackberry) but the bread and the peanut butter (ALWAYS Jif) stayed the same. I never got tired of it. I still eat PBJs regularly to this day. Still love them. I use slightly healthier bread these days (Dave's Killer Bread), but choosy wolves choose Jif!

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I miss ours. Those weird-shaped fish filets, the hushpuppies of the gods, the amazing coleslaw, the pile of weird batter-bits that were so deliciously crunchy and greasy... mmm.

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I hated going through the gaming sections with my siblings because I would be stuck waiting for them to finish playing for ages!

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I still refer to my husband as being "the Pepsi version of signs" and tell him that I hope all of his half-cans of Diet Pepsi (and bottles of beer) are going to save us from the alien invasion one day, because right now all they are is a f*****g pain in the a*s 🤣.

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Maybe some people. Paying for tv was still unrealistic for many people back then.

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Dizzy isn't a woman in the book, Dizzy is a man XD but despite the movie being absolute trash, it was DELIGHTFUL trash and I loved it.

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You got them because they looked cool and then realised they didn't even bounce well. One of my dogs tried eating it and it just crumbled, from memory.

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And it was AWESOME! I caught a few episodes in my 20s and Courage the Cowardly Dog was amazing for my, theoretically, grownup a*s.

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

I used to rinse out the bottles and keep them. I thought the labels looked SO cool. Plus there was a lizard on the logo and I loved lizards and had them as pets XD

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