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40 Memes Which Roll Back Time To The Good Old-Fashioned Past, As Posted By This Instagram Account
Do you know why we love to be nostalgic about the past so much? Well, as you know, everything used to be much better, bigger and more interesting. There used to be Tetris, slot machines and Internet Explorer, and now... now there is only a light sadness for those wonderful times when we were younger.
And we will be taking just this fascinating journey into the good old days with you, thanks to Bored Panda and this collection of absolutely wonderful vintage memes, lovingly collected by a dedicated Instagram account. So fasten your seatbelts, put your favorite cassette into that old Sony Walkman, here we go!
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Amberlie Mikelsen 1 year ago
I was about 6 when I opened my Angel Tree present and received the AUTHENTIC Crayola 256 Box Set (I knew how much it cost, something like $25) and not 1, not 2, not even 5, but 10 whole coloring books all for just me! My parents swear they thought I had won the lottery!
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Mad Dragon 1 year ago
These are still around! Last Christmas I bought one for my husband and one for my daughter (and one for myself).
The most interesting thing is how our perception of "good old days" changes over time. As someone whose teen years were in the 90s, I remember very well how the adults resented these newfangled Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls, comparing them to the great rock classics - certainly not in favor of the youth. And now, nearly thirty years later, we're shedding tears watching the reunited Spice Girls on YouTube, and this time their hits are in our hearts somewhere between Stairway To Heaven and Under Pressure. So tell me what you want, what you really, really want... and I'll tell you, we want to go back to our childhood again.
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
Schools still use these for counting. I tutored 1st grade a few years ago and the kids all had them.
The Numerator 1 year ago
I count all day, anything and everything. Always have, always will. I'd love to count all of these.
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ThisisEngland 1 year ago
Tiddlywinks. We all had them but don't remember anyone playing with them ever. I think kids used to choke on them or end up having to go to A&E to get them removed from their nostrils. So they got a bad rep for a while.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
We had my mum's old set and tried to play it a couple of times but were never successful.
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Long-Haired Tanjiro 1 year ago
I would steal those from my teacher and show them off at recess, got caught and was forced to count every single one I stole, at the time I had trouble counting to 20..there were 50 or so.
BeepBoop the Single Pringle 1 year ago
oh and the base ten blocks! saw those the other days and got flashbacks lol
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*¤° ᎷᎧᎧᏁᏕᏂᎥᏁᏋ °¤* 1 year ago
i would always put this ontop of each other creating a different color,
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I remember what they sounded like going through the beater brushes of the vacuum.
Ruby Richards 1 year ago
I just played the home game of Bingo last night. They had these in miniature!
Krista Yanik Langdon 1 year ago
Happy memories - Grandma supervising my play with these - 1963/4
Mary Tonningsen 1 year ago
Those are 'modern' Tiddly Winks! The ones I played with were not see-through. That was back in the late '50s or early '60s.
Marleina Hershberg 1 year ago
For bingo cards, I was just thinking about these a couple of days ago
Alice Teasdale 1 year ago
And they're identical to the lollies they gave out at Bertie's 24 hour pancake kitchen so always make me think of sugar in my teeth. Yum
ghostFluff 1 year ago
those were projectile weapons about 1 hour before naptime when the war would begin
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Zoey Rayne 1 year ago
We use them as counters for math lessons with elementary schoolers at our tutoring center. I told two little girls that they were from an old game my mom played called tiddlywinks. They thought the word was so hilarious that after a good giggle over it, they asked me to write it down so they could remember it and share it with others.
Emma Boston 1 year ago
I played with those in elementary school and I’m a Senior in high school now! I LOVED those!
Disinforminationalisticalities 1 year ago (edited)
Yep, there was always a Tupperware container full of them, no matter whose house you were in. I don't think anyone knew what they were for, bur we all had them, just incase. 🤣🤣🤣
Psychologist Alan R. Hirsch in his report, “Nostalgia: A Neuropsychiatric Understanding,” defines nostalgia as a yearning for an idealized past - “a longing for a sanitized impression of the past, what in psychoanalysis is referred to as a screen memory - not a true recreation of the past, but rather a combination of many different memories, all integrated together, and in the process all negative emotions filtered out."
And indeed, the more we live in this world, the more value we attach to things and phenomena from our youth. Often downplaying what we have now. Although, you know, I personally would probably sell my soul if I had my current smartphone somewhere in the late nineties!
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FabulousMari 1 year ago
I don't know if I can throw mine away. It's like saying good bye to a faithful friend. When Spotify is down or my music is so obsolete that it doesn't exist in digital form, my faithful compact disc's will always be there to sing to me. Now, I just don't know what to play them on...
And, of course, the Internet and social networks come into play, literally fixing every step of any more or less famous person. For example, would we be so categorical in adoring Michael Jordan as the greatest basketball player of all time if we were guided not only by old VHS tapes of his games and Space Jam? Or would we vehemently discuss each of his missed shots and failed interviews like we do with LeBron James? Okay, okay, the second Space Jam really wasn't even half as good as the first one! Or is this where nostalgia kicks in again?
Be that as it may, memes are a great excuse to take a little trip back in time, recharge with the energy of our youth, and return again to the crazy, fast contemporary world that has become so incredibly small with the development of all these technologies. Okay, let's digress for a couple more minutes - just scroll this list to the very end, point out the memes you like best and just share your own viewpoint on whether nostalgia is really that cool.
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Mad Dragon 1 year ago
I had the clear phone in my room, and the ringer was LOUD! I would turn off the ringer and it would still light up when it rang, so my friends could call me late at night and not wake up my parents (I had my own phone line in my room paid for by my babysitting money).
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Mad Dragon 1 year ago (edited)
They are easy to throw and catch, and the sound they make when you catch one is the same as their name (Koosh!),
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Betta Fish 1 year ago
yooo my grandma had them and let us eat golden ghrams in front of the tv on saturday mornings, probably one of my favorite memories
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dean tirmizi 1 year ago (edited)
This isn’t nostalgic, the first movies was 2010. The first iron man movie is older than this, wouldn’t call that nostalgic, and this pic is from the 2019 movie
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What do you think ?
§~ Rainbow Panda ~§ 1 year ago
Im 12. I know of half of these. I was born in 2010. What does that mean?
1 year ago
same, im also 12 i think some of these are just more recent than you'd think :)
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ОльхаКинг(AlderKing) 1 year ago
i was born in st. petersburg, russia, in 2005, and i have never been more confused in my life
Adam Zad 1 year ago
I went to your city, 20 years before you were born. It was named Leningrad, then.
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Easily Excitable Panda 1 year ago
I never know what to think of these posts. On the one hand, it's fun to see silly stuff from my childhood. But on the other hand, a LOT of this still exists, and the "Kids will never know "X" kind of bothers me. But I'm a Gen X'er, so what do I know?
BeepBoop the Single Pringle 1 year ago
the kids will never know also bothers me. Not everything you grew up with has completely disappeared. It's such a strange thing imo
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Kevin J. Henning 1 year ago
At the rate things are going actually owning a house (much less anything in it) will count as nostalgia.
Dorothy Cloud 1 year ago
I'm 80 and most of those apply to my kids. So, in my way, I still remember them.
Donna Ballenger 1 year ago (edited)
You want to play 'I remember"? Try the 1940's and 50's. This stuff is all super new!
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
Just a thought here: I know the articles about „big bad/ stupid USA“ are going on everyones nerves, but consider this: THIS article is also about the US! Yes there are some things that you could find in many other countries, but mostly it is US centred. And there are lots of similar articles like these on here. Just FYI
Ronnie Cutshall 1 year ago
Toys in my day you pulled back so spring push car forward. Shesh younging
§~ Rainbow Panda ~§ 1 year ago
Im 12. I know of half of these. I was born in 2010. What does that mean?
1 year ago
same, im also 12 i think some of these are just more recent than you'd think :)
Load More Replies... ОльхаКинг(AlderKing) 1 year ago
i was born in st. petersburg, russia, in 2005, and i have never been more confused in my life
Adam Zad 1 year ago
I went to your city, 20 years before you were born. It was named Leningrad, then.
Load More Replies... Easily Excitable Panda 1 year ago
I never know what to think of these posts. On the one hand, it's fun to see silly stuff from my childhood. But on the other hand, a LOT of this still exists, and the "Kids will never know "X" kind of bothers me. But I'm a Gen X'er, so what do I know?
BeepBoop the Single Pringle 1 year ago
the kids will never know also bothers me. Not everything you grew up with has completely disappeared. It's such a strange thing imo
Load More Replies... Kevin J. Henning 1 year ago
At the rate things are going actually owning a house (much less anything in it) will count as nostalgia.
Dorothy Cloud 1 year ago
I'm 80 and most of those apply to my kids. So, in my way, I still remember them.
Donna Ballenger 1 year ago (edited)
You want to play 'I remember"? Try the 1940's and 50's. This stuff is all super new!
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
Just a thought here: I know the articles about „big bad/ stupid USA“ are going on everyones nerves, but consider this: THIS article is also about the US! Yes there are some things that you could find in many other countries, but mostly it is US centred. And there are lots of similar articles like these on here. Just FYI
Ronnie Cutshall 1 year ago
Toys in my day you pulled back so spring push car forward. Shesh younging
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