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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...

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

Mine was stolen in high school, I was going through that Celtic and new age music phase that some white girls went through it the early 2000s, so it was all Pure Moods, Yanni, Enya, Lorraina McKenna, and stuff. Jokes on the thief lol.

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

Case logic! I mowed lawns and saved up the $40 to get the 100 disc case... Good times

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

Ha ha my "itunes" were 45rpms and when u lifted the lid the record player stopped. I had the deluxe one, it had an outlet cord OR, u could use 2 D batteries n take it to slumber parties!

Upstaged75
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have one of these damn things. It houses my Broadway cast recording collection. And it weighs about 100 pounds!

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

I used to LOVE my CD case! As long as I had my CDs and my flip phone, you couldn't tell me nothing. 😎

Dawnieangel76
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have mine AND a CD player! Those took a LOT of time to make, so I'm not just throwing them away.

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

I have a small on still. I even just recently got the Undertale soundtrack on disc

mehran79
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No update. No Wifi sh*'t. No registration. No reset password. MY MUSIC. Just put in and play. So good.

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

yeah i'm too lazy to upload all the songs of my past on my devises so they are just sleeping in their tombs for iturnity collecting dust

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

I love my various downloaded playlists that are conveniently on my phone that goes with me whenever I leave the house.

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

I still have a case under my passenger seat, just in case the Bluetooth fails.

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

When Steve Jobs decided to create the iPod, his statement to his daughter was, you're carrying a brick around with you. This was the suitcase of music in that era.

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

I have a lot of my PlayStation one and two games in one of these. Mostly just ones that I don’t have boxes for.

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

I had two collections that were stolen out of my car in 2003 😭

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

Used too? Lol. I have one full of CDs and one full of DVDs.

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

I actually grew up listening to these even tho I was a 2000s kid. Put them into the radio and enjoyed. Fav album has to be from the Imagine Dragons :>

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

The bane of CD collectors everywhere. Throwing away CD artwork is a sin.

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

I just went through and ripped half of mine, going to do the rest soon. Making a new collection that only has my CDs and a few newer songs and keep it on my phone as my happy music. Well, a lot of it is 90s music and wasn't all that happy... But it makes me happy to have it in one place! I'm also going to rip my DVDs and scan important documents and put all of that and my photos on one drive that I can keep with me in the zombie invasion. I'm not buying guns or food, so I probably won't survive, but I'm going out with all my stuff and a good soundtrack!

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

Mine had cassettes. Get offa mah cyberlawn, ya damn punk kids!

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

I have my disc player and cds, I may be gen z but I was brought up on all the good “old time” stuff

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

Lost one of my favorite ps3 games because someone accidentally donated the case without taking it out…that sucked

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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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Betta Fish
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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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