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If you’ve ever owned a Tamagotchi, burned mix CDs, and can still recall the unmistakable smell of a Blockbuster floor, congrats—you’re old just the right age to appreciate these memes. They’re a mix of cringe, chaos, and comfort from a time when everything felt just a little less digital.
And if you don’t relate? That’s okay. Stick around anyway—you might just learn how weirdly wonderful the past used to be.
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zububonsai 8 months ago
The sound of dial-up internet: https://youtu.be/gsNaR6FRuO0?si=GXWEbdCyUevOUkaT. You're welcome. 😆😉
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Tams21 8 months ago
I'd rather have the problem of not being able to connect to the internet than have the expectation to constantly be on social media like kids have today. I think we used to have life a lot easier.
Sparkle 8 months ago
It's funny the other day I was looking at pictures for my childhood. I'm a millennial so I found a picture from the summer of me eating ice cream and I wondered how many kids these days actually go out and eat ice cream eat watermelon and play in the pool for a whole day.
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
I was late to the game for internet. My mom banned it from me, fearing perverts and viruses. But I sure do recall this at school and wondered why people were making such a fuss about dial up internet when I could just go to the library and check out a reference book.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
In my house you couldn't use that as an excuse for wanting more time on the computer. We were limited to one hour a day, so this and also the loading screen on The Sims felt even longer!
Science Nerd 8 months ago (edited)
I was able to pick up which baud rate was negotiated, i.e. 300 baud (yes, I’m that ancient), 1200, up to 9600 baud. 19200 and higher was difficult. A truly useless talent.
Tucker Cahooter 8 months ago
My neighbours have a funny sense of humour. Their wifi hotspots are called "28K modem" and "56K modem"
Nostalgia is, in many ways, a romantic concept. It brings us back to moments long gone, experiences we can only revisit in memory. And yet, the feeling it sparks, often a mix of warmth and longing, is hard to compare to anything else. It can also be surprisingly funny, as the memes in this article prove. Or even exciting. Either way, it hits a nerve.
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Magenta Blu 8 months ago (edited)
Nah.. laundry and dishes are ok... But pretending to like socializing??? (Or waking up early??) No. Just no.
Inservio Smurf 8 months ago
Next tier up : the "Please Do Not Turn Off Your Computer" screen with the rotating dots.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
I want a Good Luck Dragon to chase my managers away and all the coworker bullies.
#3
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
We called it 'the bin' because my parents never smoked. Our gum and chocolate wrappers would always go in here on road trips.
Ted Prewitt 8 months ago
I'm.. Car door ashtray old, vent wings old, bench seat old, vacuum powered windshield wiper old, play in the back of the station wagon old, leaded gas old, whitewall tire old and no freaking blinding LED headlights old!
S R Godwin 8 months ago
Me too. I can add gear stick that came unscrewed all by itself just as you were pulling away from traffic-lights at a 4-way junction -old. No need to call the breakdown guys, just screw it back in.....Star Date: 1963
Load More Replies... Damned_Cat 8 months ago
I think I still have the burn scars from the metal ones. Those suckers were flesh-searing after being in a hot car all day.
keyboardtek 8 months ago (edited)
The vinyl upholstery that dried out in the sun and crumbled before the car even had 50K miles on it. By 60K it was burning oil. By 100K the engine was shot. My 2002 Toyota Camry lasted 250K mile before it started to use oil and the interior was still perfect at 20 years old!
Upstaged75 8 months ago
Yup. Our station wagon that had this also had those rear facing seats in the way back. We used to fight about who got to sit there.
Experts argue that nostalgia is much more than just a passing feeling. It’s a powerful emotion deeply rooted in the human experience. According to Krystine Batcho, professor of psychology at LeMoyne College and a licensed psychologist, nostalgia serves multiple purposes in our lives.
In an episode of the Speaking of Psychology podcast by the American Psychological Association, she explained that what ties all these functions together is the way nostalgia unifies us emotionally.
#4
PrettyJoyBird 8 months ago (edited)
"Sanka, ya ded mon?" Feel the rhythm feel the rhyme get on up its bob sleddin time!!!!
Martin Johann Christian Lorentz 8 months ago
Kissing an egg has nothing to do with style.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 8 months ago
This was the movie played on the bus on the way to/from pretty much every school camp!
wayne whitson 8 months ago
1988 Winter Olympics held in Calvary, Alberta, Canada. They left their sled, & now it's a tourist attraction.
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A girl 8 months ago
The sheer idiocy of leaping on them while they were spinning. It's surprising I never broke any bones
Damned_Cat 8 months ago
We used to love it when this one huge Hulk Hogan-looking dad would show up and spin it really fast.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
Our local playground has one of these. It's not old either. I'm surprised they're still allowed.
Jemima Bauer 8 months ago
I’m old enough to remember the original Camel’s Back park in Boise. The best part was the metal tube slide - must have been a couple of stories high and got up to oven temperature on a sunny day. I’d go down and get my thighs scorched and go whizzing out the end and bruise my rear. Then I’d climb back up again by hanging on to the wrong side of the fence like a monkey. Can’t believe the tore that down just because it was a massive safety hazard begging for a lawsuit.
LillieMean 8 months ago
The original yeet carousel. We used to play on one of these when we were teenagers (16) after a few beers. It's a wonder no one got seriously hurt. The playground is still there but for understandable reasons the ouch-carousel is gone.
Rick Murray 8 months ago
Nah, man, the challenge is to get it spinning really fast with some girls on board (because they are smaller) and then run straight through as it is spinning. I've seen lots of screaming, yelling, giggling girls, and limping but I've never seen anybody make it across other than pure momentum and often not the right way up. Me? I was too chicken. I know my limits and coordinating that would be beyond them.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
It took longer for these to be replaced in country towns than in Melbourne, so I loved going to the playground when we went to my pop's place. Also loved those 'swings' that looked like a set of balance scales and went up and down.
Moon Puppy 8 months ago
MrPuppy grew up in Alma, Illinois, and lost a fight with one. Whether he was getting on, getting off, or pushing, I don’t know. Either way he slipped and went under the damned thing. The underside of it was made with angle Iron. As an adult, he still had a huge scar high on his inner right thigh where a piece of angle iron impaled him. And I’m talking 40+ years later, that it was still very noticeable.
“One example of this is it helps to unite our sense of who we are, our self, our identity over time,” Batcho said. “Because over time we change constantly, we change in incredible ways. We're not anywhere near the same as we were when we were three years old, for example. Nostalgia, by motivating us to remember the past in our own life, helps to unite us to that authentic self and remind us of who we have been and then compare that to who we feel we are today.”
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StrangeOne 8 months ago (edited)
I actually have enjoyed discovering new music over the decades. I don't necessarily like it all, and usually the overplayed songs get on my nerves no matter the era, but I think that's just normal for anyone. They key is to expand your auditory horizons. Check out what's out there from different countries around the world, and different genres.
Robert T 8 months ago
I think you mean 40+ and still going to festivals to see the old bands! ;-)
Ace 8 months ago
Research has shown that most people "settle" on a preferred style of music at some point in their twenties, based on what they;v been exposed to by that time. It takes a conscious effort to expand into other styles.
Magenta Blu 8 months ago
Specially when such other styles are reguetton and such horrible noises
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Julia Mckinney 8 months ago
I like a lot of the new music. APT. by Rose and Bruno Mars just makes me want to move! (I'm over 60 by the way)
Marlene Ricker 8 months ago
I'm still listening to the music from the 60's. That was the best decade for music!
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 8 months ago
C'mon! Credence Clearwater Revival, ELO, Fleetwood Mac... That's music!😎
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
Dance your cares away *clap clap* Worries for another day. Let the music play *clap clap* down in Fraggle Rock
UKGrandad 8 months ago
Are you Muffin the Mule, Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men, and Andy Pandy old? No? Then shut up and get off my lawn.
#8
UKGrandad 8 months ago
Having to adjust vertical and horizontal hold buttons to steady the picture.
Catlady6000 8 months ago
Going outside to turn the antenna while mom yelled out the door. "Turn it a little more, alittle more, STOP!" And by the time you ran back into the living room, it was fuzzy again
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The Queen Of France 8 months ago (edited)
Test pattern and horrible noise when the channel went off the air. Oh and the emergency test signal! “If this had been a real emergency…”
Mary Sutherland 8 months ago
A real emergency would have involved a nuclear bomb. I don't think that emergency signal would help!
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Party lines. Flypaper. Saddle shoes. Babysitting for 25-50 cents an hour. 8 year old me walking to school with 6 year old sister (no rides ever). I am a 76F
A girl 8 months ago
The market would sell 5yo me cigarettes without a note from my mom saying they were for her
This emotional connection to our past also plays a role in shaping our future. Nostalgia gives us a sense of who we want to become. But beyond that, it serves as a deeply social emotion, connecting us to others in meaningful ways.
“In the beginning, when we’re very young, it’s part of what bonds us to the most important people in our life, our parents, our siblings, our friends,” shared Batcho. “As we go through life, it can broaden out and extend to a wider sphere of the people we interact with. It’s a social connectedness phenomenon, and nostalgia is in that sense a very healthy, pro-social emotion.”
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S R Godwin 8 months ago
There is an independent restaurant near here with a sun room like this, it's always full! Where? In the middle of nowhere, Perthshire, Scotland (which is actually quite sunny)!
Marie BellaDonna 8 months ago (edited)
It was SO hot under those windows! But you sweated through your kids' meal anyway, because it was so cool to sit there lol! When mom would let you, that is. 😂
#10
StrangeOne 8 months ago
Every time I go to Coles bookstore I get the same high and experience. A lot of cool stuff I want and books, but the price is too high for me to afford a pack of $20 vanilla scented macaron erasers.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 8 months ago
did any of y'all get those puzzle erasers that were shaped like animals, but never used them as erasers but just kept taking them apart then putting them back together
Henry Chitaika 8 months ago
Those days if I happened to be in this room, I'd never want to leave.
Brian Droste 8 months ago (edited)
Ar the time I went to school we didn't have book fairs. We had forms that had different books on them and had to order them.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
I only went to one, the school I went to after that we just had 'book club' where you ordered Scholastic books from catalogues a few times a year. The school I work at still does it and I got a bit of a thrill thinking about how I could order from them again if I had kids :)
Mary Sutherland 8 months ago
I thought everyone had to order from the Scholastic catalogue.
Load More Replies... Moon Puppy 8 months ago
We (a very small town) never had an actual fair. All we got was a booklet that listed the books that were available to buy. Then came the "negotiations" with my parents as to how much I could spend. It weren't very much, lol.
Septixcake 8 months ago
We dont have these in my country (at least I'm pretty sure) but they look pretty cool
MR 8 months ago (edited)
What country? Dolly Parton gives books, but it is limited to USA, Canada, UK, Australia https://imaginationlibrary.com/
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
I have to fight the urge. I don't think anyone remembers this movie that well enough to get it.
Pferdchen 8 months ago
I remember it. If I'm not mistaken, she "played" the flute.
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 8 months ago
I nearly died the other day. I was talking to somebody recently about Buffy, which was a pretty big cultural thing like Friends but with pointy sticks. Eventually she stopped me and said she was well aware of Buffy but hadn't actually watched any of it because "she hadn't yet been born when it was originally broadcast". I swear I got a decade older in the space of two heartbeats. 😭
Inservio Smurf 8 months ago
HAHAHAHAHA SAME!!!! Of course Willow being my first crush does have a lot to do with that.
Nostalgia also helps us reframe difficult experiences. Often, we remember the good parts—the joy, the wonder, the comfort—leaving the rest in softer focus. There’s always a hint of bittersweetness, but nostalgia allows us to revisit the past with gentleness rather than regret.
#12
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
And we memorized phone numbers, and if you had a 'party line' it was not NEARLY as fun as it sounds".
Bettye McKee 8 months ago
I memorized phone numbers, birthdays, anniversaries, car license numbers, Social Security numbers (not just my own), and favorite poems. Now I can't remember why I went into the kitchen.
Load More Replies... Science Nerd 8 months ago (edited)
But do you still have your Blockbuster card in your wallet? Better yet, a coupon for a free rental?
Jemima Bauer 8 months ago
Back in my day, there was a toilet paper shortage. We had to scoot around on the grass just like the dog. Honest.
#13
Science Nerd 8 months ago
Your family actually warned you before picking up the phone? And some of my family were still on party lines so connections were even more fragile.
Load More Replies... Moon Puppy 8 months ago
At least they had disk drives available. (Curses the idiots who decided that CD/DVD drives on computers weren't necessary!)
Inservio Smurf 8 months ago
95 was honestly revolutionary, although 98SE eventually ecclipsed it. 3.11 might just be the only windows version I daily drove, that I do not miss. There was just nothing else available, if you can believe that.
Mary Sutherland 8 months ago
Our first computer ran on DOS. Nothing as fancy as Windows. And I was almost 40 years old when we got it.
#14
Kayci Styles 8 months ago
I watched Dumbo as an adult/wife/mother and I cried on and off for the rest of the day.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
In high school my Spanish class watched it (in Spanish) one day. An entire room full of teenagers was crying.
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
I have to be mentally and emotionally prepared to watch Land Before Time.
Pink kitty 8 months ago
That bit with the black rabbit leaping around in circles (death) traumatized me as a child
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zovjraar me 8 months ago
who tf is letting their kids watch that one?!?!!?
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MR 8 months ago
We watched in school. Tear Fest. Marly in the movie theater was the same. EVERYONE. I looked, EVERYONE was crying.
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Few things trigger that feeling as strongly as physical objects like, say, CD players, toys, or collectible magazines. These familiar pieces can instantly transport us to another time. While we can’t return to the exact moment we first held them, just seeing them brings those memories rushing back.
That emotional pull is something Caylen Belcourt understands well. She runs Nostalgic Episodes, a Canada-based store dedicated to vintage finds and retro treasures. Bored Panda spoke with Belcourt to learn more about what nostalgia means to her and why she decided to turn it into a business.
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
These were fun. One of a few good memories I had was going to the park with these velcro catch ball things with my mom. Can't remember what it's called, exactly. I have seen these in stores to this day.
UKGrandad 8 months ago
Take a look in your nearest Poundland or B&M store.
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chris Cannon 8 months ago
A. Not every kid in the 90s had these, they weren't really popular at all where I'm from (Ohio). B. These are still made. Would've been better showing a baseball glove.
Sunny Night 8 months ago
Baseball gloves were never really popular in Europe. These are still used though.
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Michelle C 8 months ago
Some of us didn’t get one until our middle to late or early adulthood.
StrangeOne 8 months ago (edited)
Almost mid adulthood for me. I was using payphones until 2019, or just waited until I got home. We still have our landline.
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Na Schi 8 months ago
One of my biggest accomplishments: I played snake through (meaning until the screen was absolutely filled with the snake and it had to eventually bit it's own tail). Unfortunately it was not my phone (as I hadn't had one yet) and my friend was pïssed that I'd ruined their highscore.
LillieMean 8 months ago (edited)
First with one and then when the worm grew long enough with both hands to maximize concentration.Edit: I wrote worm because the name of the game in Finnish was matopeli (wormgame), not snake.
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Huddo's sister 8 months ago
They still exist. 80c-$1 in my area. Only two flavours though, orange and cherry.
It all began in 2017, when Belcourt discovered the thrifting side of Instagram.
“I saw people finding items I had as a kid or tween and decided to go to my own thrift stores to see what I could find,” she told us. “Growing up in a small town, I had never really been to one before, so this was all new to me!”
She started posting her nostalgic finds to her Instagram stories, and soon people began messaging her to ask if the items were for sale. That’s when the idea for her store was born. Today, she sources items from local thrift shops and garage sales.
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Beachbum 4 months ago
Oh no, it was in the 80' 90's too, every festivial I ever went to with my kids, we had to do sand art
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Inservio Smurf 8 months ago
If your ashes come out THOSE colours, you had a good life. Or a horrifying illness.
Shelli Aderman 8 months ago
I remember seeing some kick aśs sunset images out of sand as a kid!
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UKDeek 8 months ago
My dad loved Foghorn Leghorn, and with one of my first proper wages I got in the early 90s I bought him a Foghorn Leghorn mug. It never got removed from it's box, and my mother gave it back to me when he died over 12 years ago. Still got it on a shelf in my office, still in its box.
Gracie Mae 8 months ago
still have some of those looney tunes cups from when my kids were little
StrangeOne 8 months ago
I know I had Wile E. Coyote and, I think, I had a Pocahontas cup. It looks familiar.
#20
StrangeOne 8 months ago
Me and my little brother playing, I miss that. Playing Duck Hunt with my dad showing us how to shoot was awesome.
detective miller's hat 8 months ago
Playing Goldeneye in my friend's basement for 5 hours at a time.
Cammy Mack 8 months ago
Absolutely. The best of times. Not this stupid online gaming, there's nothing more depressing.
Belcourt believes these items resonate so strongly because they remind us of a simpler time.
“As kids, we had the freedom of time! Now, as adults, we have so much we have to do each day and different stresses to worry about,” she said. “When I look at my nostalgic objects, I remember how easy and carefree life was. It gives me a moment of calm during my busy adult life.”
#21
Dawn Marie 8 months ago
but, if your really old, you know this setting was first used as the "All In The Family" set.
Barbara Cochrane 8 months ago
No. All in the family was in an older house with wallpapered walls, no brick and no glass patio doors. Also the stairs had wooden bannisters. Might have had the same couch. I just remember Archie's easy chair.
Load More Replies... Inservio Smurf 8 months ago
Al was right. Took me a few decades to see it, but dammit the man was right.
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Upstaged75 8 months ago
My grade school had an amazing one of these playgrounds. My mom's an artist and she did murals all over it in various places. My favorite was the Medusa inside one of the tunnels.
M B 8 months ago
My daughter almost died on one of those. The bridge she was crossing broke underneath her feet...she fell through except for her head...so she hung there like a someone trying to commit s*****e by rope. Luckily someone noticed her and grabbed her feet. May God bless that man for saving both her and my life that day
Mary Sutherland 8 months ago
Terrifying! I guess they were torn down after awhile because the wood rotted and they became dangerous.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 8 months ago (edited)
I still remember the huge splinter I got in the web of skin between my thumb and index finger that wouldn't come out for days. These play structures were so much fun, though. Way more fun than the plastic ones they got now.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
My sister went to ones of the ones we frequented as kids when she was drunk a couple of weeks ago. She couldn't believe it still existed and hadn't changed. There is one in my new town which looks exactly alike.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
We also had a number of playgrounds like this when I was young, but they had all disappeared by the mid 2000s. I was really surprised to find one in a park when I visited Vancouver in 2019. Playground...3-jpeg.jpg 
Rich Black 8 months ago
"the playground apparatus? we removed that when the liaiblity insurance hit $1,500 a month. The see-saw and the swings were the first to go . . . "
Michelle C 8 months ago
There wasn’t one in my area, but there was one more or less in the next town over.
#23
Brian Droste 8 months ago
The school I went to got there first computers the year after I graduated. That was in 1979.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
When The West Was One ( I think Oregon Trail's Canadian version) and Froggy Jump. Froggy Jump was my favourite.
Her perspective feels especially relevant today, as technology evolves faster than ever. With AI entering creative spaces and social media dominating how we connect, there’s a clear line between pre- and post-internet life. And for those who grew up during that transition, that difference feels personal. Still, Belcourt maintains nostalgia is powerful for everyone, no matter when they were born.
“I do a lot of my business with my dad, who grew up in the 60s, and his nostalgia feels just as strong as mine some days,” she said. “When we are thrifting together and he sees an item from his childhood, I see how much it lights him up!”
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Huddo's sister 8 months ago
We usually went to the small family owned movie theatre as it was cheaper. I was pretty amazed when I went to the one in the shopping centre near school with my friends for the first time. Not just because it cost three weeks pocket money, but also the pick and mix lollies and my friends actually bought popcorn instead of taking a packet of chips in their backpack.
joseph legatt 8 months ago
I'm old enough to remember when you could afford to go to the theater and buy snacks.
R1MV4Superleggera 8 months ago
Ahhh! The old days! Buying the biggest popcorn container available, the mandatory drinks and, occasionally, big bar of chocolate for me and the g/f (now wife)
Science Nerd 8 months ago
Wouldn’t know. We only went to the drive-in. Brought in our own grocery-sized bag of popcorn.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
My local theatre is still like this. Even has a big kiddie gamblers-in-training area. It's the only place I know, now, that has air hockey.
PrettyJoyBird 8 months ago
I can smell this picture and hear the shoes walking on sticky floors.
Philly Bob 8 months ago
Running a movie theater in the 80's as a projectionist was more awesome!
Jeanie Deutschman 8 months ago
Growing up , on your birthday you got in the movie for free and they even gave you a cake to take home to share with your family..The highlight of my year !
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Bill Swallow 8 months ago
My thoughts exactly. I wonder if they misspelled 'draught', a/k/a 'Draft', as in 'First Draft'? Whoever made the mirror frame is likely British? EDIT: Just went and looked at screen grabs of Paint from the Windows 3.11 era. The most common top menu bar items are 'File Edit View Text Pick Options Help'. 'NOTHER EDIT: Looking a little further, this is closest match I can find without spending too much time on it. The menu bar reads 'File Edit View Image Colors Help'. The left side buttons match, except the 'A' for entering text has been replaced by a 'D' in the picture above. This makes me think this is some foreign version, with the 'D' referring to 'Draft' ('Drought') and a typo from whoever made the frame. Not worth spending any more time on it. Just repeat to myself, it's just a gag, I should really just relax. Paint-311-...a1e8df.jpg 
Inservio Smurf 8 months ago
Is nobody going to mention that the icons are in the wrong order, two of the icons did not exist, and the menu is a complete fabrication?
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Science Nerd 8 months ago
Guinness is not bitter enough but I appreciate the sentiment. Beer at the end of the rainbow.
“But I do believe there is something special about nostalgia just before the internet,” she added. “We really got to see all the changes—from the toys to the computers to the cell phones. We got to be kids during all those changes.”
“For example, it went from paper diaries to electronic password ones. Cereal box computer games to multiplayer online games. Barbie cassette players to CD players. Dial-up internet in your family’s computer room to having it in your pocket!”
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
I do faintly remember this. It wasn't that often I was taken to McDonalds. Back then, it was more common for parents to bring their kids to a fast food place on their birthday or for a once in a blue moon treat.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
There are a number of the slides in tourist/heritage parks my state in Australia. I also remember there being one at a holiday house on a farm my family used to go to. I'm not sure whether it survived the fire they had there though.
Inservio Smurf 8 months ago
It's so surreal to see literally no POC in the picture. Is that even legal anymore, over there?
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MR 8 months ago
In my teens my sister got a Ren doll that farted. Probably from Spencer's ! But the d**n thing wouldn't fart because the house was too cold, so the plastic/rubber was hard Christmas morning. When we started the wood burner, and it farted, HILARIOUS ! A farting doll. We were young teenagers. It was HILARIOUS !!!
StrangeOne 8 months ago
I only got to watch Ren and Stimpy at a friends house. That was enough for me, either way. I liked Beavis and B******d, though.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
Ffs BP, this censorship is starting to really get on my last nerve.
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Jeanie Deutschman 8 months ago
Now days he'd be doing five to ten for theft of the toothbrush !
“I think it’s hard not to feel the nostalgia when we had access to almost every change at a young age,” said Belcourt. “We weren’t worried about who was liking our posts or scrolling to see what everyone was up to. Our generation was able to invite our friends over and truly live in the moment.”
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StrangeOne 8 months ago (edited)
I asked my mom for a Doodle Bear but she considered it the same vandalism. She was way too strict.
R1MV4Superleggera 8 months ago
My SIL (just like my brother, me and my Wife) we have not a single tattoo, but her brothers and sisters in Australia are another story! Their arms are completely covered with, I got to say, very impressive art! Heck! One of her brothers (crime mastermind), when he saw my big, pale back said to me that If I wanted, I could have one free of charge, my brother immediately said to him that I desperately wanted one (which was a complete lie! I HATE needles!) My Wife and SIL they couldn't help it and burst laughing at my misery...good times
#31
Daniel Atkins 8 months ago
Oh yes I remember them. American Gladiators. Regular people who take on these super fit athletes known as the Gladiators.
#32
Cydney Golden 8 months ago
When did putting TVs above the fireplace start? It's just as absurd.
#33
StrangeOne 8 months ago
We called these Bingo chips. They always reminded me of suckers when they get real thin.
chris Cannon 8 months ago
As a kid I used to take a pocket full of these over to Sears and use them in the gumball machines. They were the same size as a penny.
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Serena Myers 8 months ago
Just out of curiosity, not a criticism, why do many children these days hold their pens etc clutched in their fist? It makes writing really awkward, unlike the easy flowing style when the pen is balanced between index, middle finger, and thumb back in olden days!
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Gracie Mae 8 months ago
my kids were big into them--since i only had 3, i picked Michaelangelo--still have my baseball glove & a bean bag. the boys still have their storage cubes, passed down to their kids
Marie BellaDonna 8 months ago
My sister and I would pretend to be the ninja turtles. We'd always fight over who got to be Michaelangelo, because he was the coolest, lol!
#36
Jenn Smith 8 months ago
Ah yes, the maiden flight that took outta ceiling fan light fixture, to our shock and dismay..lol.
LillieMean 8 months ago
I'm a really terrible person because I still go to YouTube every now and then to laugh at that video where the sky dancer flies straight into the fireplace. Nothing beats the classics.
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sturmwesen 8 months ago
... basic html at 16 helped me start my job 10 years later...thank you Antenne Bayern Chat Forum
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Sniggiw 8 months ago
Wow, look at all the colour! Now everything is tastefully minimalist grey or beige....
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
My mum went through a phase where we could only listen to Christian music on Sundays (though it was really only on the way to and from church) and so instead of Now Cds we had Wow which was Christian rock.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
lol I'm wondering if it was better or worse for you. All you had to do was turn on the radio of any current pop/rock station and listen for an hour to hear anything on a Now cd. Or just watch Much Music/MTV hot 100 hits list.
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Abby Rexroth 8 months ago
The only Apple product I had and would ever have (and miss) was my iPod.
Hell'n Damnation 8 months ago
My Tiger Beats had Donny Osmond, Tony DiFranco and Michael Jackson on the covers.
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
*sigh* another fun place.. denied by overly strict folks... I can smell the plastic, smelly feet and skidmarked underwear.
Cath Rowe 8 months ago
When “ N “ was about three she insisted on entering one of these jungles…She climbed right up to the top and froze in a right panic and her Dad had to climb up and rescue her It did cross my mind that he wasn’t great with heights either but his love for her was greater and I was very proud of him…I was sobbing into the serviette of a ghastly hot dog 🌭 🤮
Mary Sutherland 8 months ago
We took our kids to something like that in the West Edmonton Mall, in the 80s.
persephone134 8 months ago
Those bubble pools were only so deep. Once I passed a certain height, I was no longer allowed to play there. Very disappointing.
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Shelli Aderman 8 months ago
Who? Was he a power ranger? (Is it me, or did the post start out for us Gen-Xers, and turn into millennial huh?)
Huddo's sister 8 months ago (edited)
I always thought he was a jerk personally. My dad had a huge crush on Clare Danes though, probably still does. He's the one who introduced me to My So Called Life. I am still annoyed they didn't make more so there was a happy conclusion for Ricky.
Joshua Moore 8 months ago
I still remember Raeanne being sober, Ricky and Claire’s character waiting in line for something and they were singing the theme to Sesame Street. Someone handed Raeanne a bottle and it was all over, she was off the wagon again. You could just see Ricky’s heart breaking after she had done so well. 💔🥺😢
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 8 months ago
Ah, man, the Chase family. This is one of the few shows I've ever watched where I can name the entire main cast. Just a d**n shame it ended so soon.
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Upstaged75 8 months ago
I still see them in the ice cream area at the grocery store. But they come in huge packs so I've never bothered.
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StrangeOne 8 months ago (edited)
But it would show your age, or prove you're bullshitting. Hold up, Toys R Us is still around.
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Emabelle Backer 8 months ago
🎶so tell me want what you really really want🎶
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Bartlet for world domination 8 months ago
The KFC X account still follows all of them, and seven guys named Herb.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
Girl Power. My favourite Spice Girl was.... Ginger Spice. But I loved them all.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
I can and wish I couldn't. I was never a fan and was really annoyed when my buddy (grade 6 student who is supposed to look after you when you are in prep/first year of school) kept calling me baby spice.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
I wasn't a fan at first, because these posh snobby girls at school were obsessed. But once I heard Spice World I was the one obsessed.
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Emilu 8 months ago
I remember my teacher in primary school writing a message to my mum in my homework book (as we got to pick our spelling words, and of course all of mine were Pokémon) - "It's just a phase, (mother's name), we can get through it!" Thirty plus years later... I still love Pokémon. Fight me.🤷♀️
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Khavrinen 8 months ago
Yes, really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor_of_Love
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MotherRobinson 8 months ago
OMG I actually heard that! When I read your comment.
Load More Replies... Serena Myers 8 months ago
Was watching Mrs Doubtfire again last night. It never gets old, well, not to me.
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
This show ran on for so long it's more my daughter's childhood than mine.
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Theo Blackwood 8 months ago
That’s Irreplaceable by Beyoncé. Not Dilemma.
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Strahd Ivarius 8 months ago
But nobody saw them after the film was out... 66% attrition rate from meating dinos...
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
Space Jam was so cool back in the day. I tried rewatching it recently but it didn't hit the same. I got bored.
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UKGrandad 8 months ago
Not even the groups when they were miming on Top of the Pops.
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Daniel Atkins 8 months ago (edited)
What does momma say about fudgecicles?Stewat: I don’t wanna.
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PrettyJoyBird 8 months ago
"Whatever happend to predictibility? Milkman paperboy evening tv...."
StrangeOne 8 months ago
This house fascinated me. I wanted to explore it all. Something I find peculiar is a lot of sitcoms had large living rooms had all the furniture scrunched in the middle of the living room.
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Emilu 8 months ago
My parents didn't let me get a Tamagotchi as a kid, so I have recently indulged my kid-ness and got ALL the Tamagotchis. My mum thinks I'm a dork but I just tell her this wouldn't have happened if she hadn't ruined my childhood. 🤣
Accedial 8 months ago
I didn't have Tamagotchis, but I DID have like a dozen Giga Pets I was raising at the same time lol! I was the only one in my family who successfully got the frog one to an adult.
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Annik Perrot 8 months ago
I remember those little fûckers. I was the one in charge while my kids were at school. As if having 4 kids wasn't enough. But I can proudly say not à single Tamagotchi diėd on my watch.
Boo 8 months ago
I managed to kìll my youngest's by accidently knocking it off a balcony table 3 flights up. Sorry Debs.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 8 months ago
I remember the teachers having to ban them because the kids were sneaking them into class and having a fit because the "needed" to feed their fake pet.
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Bartlet for world domination 8 months ago
I'm so much older I remember preferring the original. de-Kaboute...4cc79d.jpg 
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
My first bf/ex loved this ride. It was my first and only time on it and I hated it. All it did was make me nauseated.
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Pferdchen 8 months ago
For those of you who are, like me, too old to have seen The NeverEnding Story: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-neverending-story-scene-so-traumatic-it-damaged-generation-legend/
Upstaged75 8 months ago
How can you be too old? Did you spend the 80's in a coma?
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Peter Bear 8 months ago
Some people say 'you can't hear pictures'. This picture is proof they are wrong.
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
What th is happening? This is a prime example of the over-acting in any kids toy commercial.
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Judy Reynolds 8 months ago
In high school, they offered a data processing course, but there were NO computers in the entire school. We learned about punch cards, and used ink to show the holes in the cards.
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
I remember picking out just the marshmallows, then telling my mom we were all out of cereal, despite the plain cereal was left in the box.
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Nadine Lynch 8 months ago
Flintstones jelly jar glasses - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/308567011942508235/
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Huddo's sister 8 months ago
It's interesting meeting new people my age, you can tell by what shows they remember whether they had pay tv or not. No Spongebob, Powerpuff Girls, Blues Clues etc for me.
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This could be from What-A-Mess, Catdog, Rocko's Modern Life, etc. I can't remember them all and associate them to ever show.
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StrangeOne 8 months ago (edited)
I didn't even pay attention that there was an official call center. I thought it was a police headquarters or 911 call center. Imagine, though, calling Unsolved Mysterious for a paranormal story.
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StrangeOne 8 months ago
The girl gangs either wore Phat Cat or head to toe Adidas. But usually it was the teen mom chicks from the North End who wore Phat Cat.
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Huddo's sister 8 months ago
Well, at one point I had my sister in my room, but you can also see stickers from TV hits magazine, a pink and teal digital clock radio, classic Melbourne Zoo poster and fairy windchimes. 1-67f1e6f9...e-jpeg.jpg 
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StrangeOne 8 months ago (edited)
Because Millennials are born in the 80s and 90s, and some of us geriatric millennials have core memories of growing up in both decades. Then you have the youngest Millennials born in the mid 90s who have childhoods in both the 90s and 2000s.
Load More Replies... Annik Perrot 8 months ago
Very US centered. My 4 kids grew up at that time, and à lot of those didn't make it to France.
StrangeOne 8 months ago (edited)
Because Millennials are born in the 80s and 90s, and some of us geriatric millennials have core memories of growing up in both decades. Then you have the youngest Millennials born in the mid 90s who have childhoods in both the 90s and 2000s.
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Very US centered. My 4 kids grew up at that time, and à lot of those didn't make it to France.
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