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

Littlefoot, Cera, Petrie, Ducky, and Spike were the original 5. I don't remember the name of the baby T-Rex, cuz that wasn't in the first movie, I only watched the second one like twice in my life, and I haven't watched any of the ones after 2. My faves of this type were the American Tail pair (American Tail and Fievel Goes West)

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

Saw it in the theatre. Traumatized me. 😂 Still loved it though.

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

Where kids with normal families learned about death and trauma, and where the rest of us found escape due to dirtshit 80s parents

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

Where's Little Foot? I think that baby Sharp Tooth was in Land Before Time II.

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

Yeah, but they should have stopped at like number 3 or 4. Not 14 movies and a series 😵

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

My first-born grandson watched these so many times, my Mom had all of them memorized. Still have her VCR tapes, and he now has two children watching them. Sheeeeesh... someone pass the Geritol.

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

My brother still has his stuffed Littlefoot. He sent a picture of his toddler sleeping with it. SO CUTE!

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

This movie is how I learned to cry. How to make friends and how to believe that even I can fly

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

I have a plushie of Spike (the baby Stegasaurus) that I got on holiday when I was about 8 years old. He's now very worn and threadbare, but he's been on every trip with me since then, basically as a good luck charm, and had his own shelf by the bed even now, in pride of place.

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

my stuffed dinosaur became my nephew's when his eyes lit up light fireworks when he saw it

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

I also remember the terrible smelling plastic/rubber hand puppets that pizzahut gave out as a promo for it lol

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

What about 2016 The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave?

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

So many quotes! I recently turned on for my friends kids 😎 poor little ducky! I FOOOOUNNND ITTTTT!!! Tree star 🙂

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

When this first came out, my oldest son pointed out the this movie was unrealistic because these dinosaurs would never get together. I responded true, but remember we're watching a movie about talking dinosaurs.

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

The Christmas my daughter was 18 months old, our local McDonald's had a video tape giveaway. The choices were Spiderman or Land Before Time. I figured Land Before Time was more appropriate (had no idea Littlefoot's mother would die in minutes). I'm pretty sure we watched that video about eight times on Christmas day. I also had no idea that it would become a hit series, and we would end up with seven or eight different tapes lol think they are still around here somewhere.

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

Friends for dinner...don't want to have friend for dinner. We owned them all

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

We had to watch this in high school French class. Je m'apelle Ducky. Oui, oui, oui

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

I was in hospital for 6 weeks when I was 5 and I would watch this on repeat every single day for those 6 weeks

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

I always wanted to try eating the tree star leaves when watching this movie

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

Judith Barsi was born the same year as me but was murdered by her father at the age of ten.

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

Not only do I remember the movie, I still remember the pizza commercial at the start of the tape, with Jerome following all his mother's rules at the birthday party..."And I was even nice to a girl"

Aisling O'Grady Hills
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The voice actor for Ducky was killed by her father...I think it was the same year the movie came out.

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

I watched this as a child,then my children watched it and now my Grandon loves it.such a good movie

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

I have all the stuffies I picked up at a thrift shop, they were all inside a cat play house for $5. They were going to be cat toys until I figured out what they were.

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

I'm a teen and that was still somthing I had as a little kid!

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

Nostalgia overload! I swear I burned a hole in the tape of the first movie watching it so much..

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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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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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Mad Dragon
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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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