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

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

    These are still around! Last Christmas I bought one for my husband and one for my daughter (and one for myself).

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

    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...

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    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?

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    Carole G.
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember listening to conversations on a party-line, 😆

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

    If you unscrewed the mouth piece (traditional model of phone) the mic dropped out so nobody could hear you. and no, I didn't listen a lot. I was a bored little kid thinking I was being creative.

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    Jestinna Welch
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    😂😂😂🤣🤣 I used to do that when my sister was waiting on a phone call. She got to have a phone in her room and I was jealous so whenever I knew she was waiting on a call I would take the one in the kitchen off the hook. She busted me one day tho. I got in trouble. It was worth it! 😂🤣🤣

    Riley Quinn
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I kept a loud, piercing whistle next to the landline for those special calls that generally came around suppertime.

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    Daft Mosquito
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    90s? Same technique I used in late 60s. And I'm pretty sure I wasn't the one who invented it. The phones had dials though. The one in the picture wouldn't have the mic "fall out," it was soldered.

    Christina Keenan
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When we first got married, my husband and I had a party line. This was in 1990.

    Lacia Lew
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My childhood is during the early 2000s, but I do remember my mom did this on our house for whatever reason

    Dorothy Cloud
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh I wish I could do that now...........I am so tired of "spam" calls!!!!

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

    But only leaving the receiver slightly off so that "I didn't see that the phone wasn't hung up correctly" didn't feel like too much of a lie.

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

    Last time, somebody will call in the middle of the night to make a funny noise or tell you it is time to go toilet.

    Tim Gearing
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Remember when you could slam the phone down and it meant something? Ah, the good old days l😆

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

    And the EXPERTISE used to press down the extension EXACTLY as it was being lifted, so you could eavesdrop...

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

    Gotta unplug the handset so it doesn't make that off-the-hook buzz-beeping noise.

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

    Not factual. You just unplugged the phone from the jack if you didn't want a call. If you left the phone off the hook it would start playing a loud annoying tone - whose purpose was to get you to hang up the phone.

    Daft Mosquito
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kid, you'd be surprised. There were phones you couldn't "unplug," as they had no plugs. Just a cable out of the wall. Tho disconnect this phone you'd have to half disassemble it. 60s.

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

    And there were these extra curricular teachers that would hand them out if you did good or smth like that

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

    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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    Andy Resh
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah. Well. Have you ever had one slip out of your grasp only to give you a minor knuckle fracture?!!!!!

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

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

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

    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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    Note: this post originally had 42 images. It’s been shortened to the top 40 images based on user votes.

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