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

Surely I am not the only one who looked for the Care Bears when I'd be above the clouds in an airplane. Right???

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

Care Bear stare! Oh, to be 5 again when all problems could be fixed by magic rainbows.

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

I remember dreaming as a kid I could use the Carebear Stare to banish my evil parents

Astrius
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1 year ago

this comment was an accident but i don’t want it to look like i said something stupid so i’m not deleting it

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

Just no! Think it was my 14th or 15th birthday. I had friends around and we were going to watch videos we’d rented. My parents thought it’d be hilarious to switch out one of the films with the Care Bears Movie. I’m not sure I’ve forgiven them yet and I’m now 50 😂

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

is that a monkey with pencils stabbed through its heart?

BeepBoop the Single Pringle
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it's something to do with it's personality. Grumpy bear has the storm, rainbow bear has the rainbow and is happy, etc. No idea what the friends ones are ngl

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

From today's perspective, I have to ask myself whether this was not a subliminal attempt to train us to be little resuscitators.

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

I have the stuffed animals, new and old, working on getting whole collection

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

The movie was way scarier than it needed to be, but they all were back then.

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

Wait there were other animals other than bears?! I swear I'm not young I just didn't know that! I freaking love care bears.

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

The Care Bear Cousins! Led by Brave Heart Lion :) I still have my Swift Heart Rabbit and Bright Heart Raccoon plushies!

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

I've got the theme tune stuck in my head now. "I wanna be a care bear". You're welcome 😁

Mr.G86
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I F*****G HATED THESE LITTLE MFs! I couldn't stand it as a kid. I tried showing kids to see if they'd like and to my surprise they hated it too. 🤣

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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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