Hey, I want it back! :)

Dude, splinters of not... this is the BEST vanilla ice cream on the planet. I feel like it's incomplete when I find the same taste and I don't have the paddle-spoon.

Kids always do this. It hasn't gone away.

We studied the handmaids tale book in English at high school (this was before the tv series with Elizabeth moss) and the teacher wheeled in one of these so we could watch an older movie version. It had a sex scene, the teacher panicked and hit ffwd....but this was one if those vcrs where if you ffwd, the movie plays really fast (ie the people were...ahem...with great speed!) Teacher stood in front of tv and said don't look omg we were laughing so hard! )

these made painting cartoons on your bedroom way easy

... but all it did was sand off a layer of paper!

They still exist, mostly at Wal-Mart

I have some old-fashioned people around me, and still get to burn CDs for them from time to time. I must say it's really satisfying when you eject it from the computer, freshly burnt, and play it on a good old Hi-Fi for the first time. Screw those new generation laptops that don't even have a CD player.

I had that game boy with Pokemon red ^-^

Still do, a model with a cassette reader to wake up to my favorite band.

In Germany "Was ist was"

Lose one, and the whole thing was ruined.

Today the companies just buy all your personal info directly from Mark Zuckerberg. He knows more about you than your parents do.

Ed edd and Eddie, courage....oh this was a great time for cartoon network. I want to live in this entire thread, everything here is my nostalgia zone

My six year old brother is still doing that.

We still do that.

DEE-DOO-BE DOO-BE DOO, chrrrrrrrsssss..........

He was great as Van Pelt and Peter's Dad in Jumanji! Still my favorite performance to this day :)

Yep. Now they just go for your catalytic converter.

And the fun of emptying them.

There is an insidious logic behind this. It's also to do with Casinos. To give you respite from playing Casino games your response is to look elsewhere, i.e. the floor. But because of the design, you can't relax looking at it, therefore you continue spending money on slots, blackjack etc.

Nokia blue though! We all went mad for it because....the backlight was blue! Not green! Simple times :) still have mine, it still works but is so old it can't be connected to any network where I live (also, as the above phone is a Motorola - Hello Moto!)

And having to boil an egg for a new ball...

My sons school still has book fairs. He’s got one coming up next week.

Pizza day was AWESOME

That burned your arm if it was sunny ...not cool

oh yeah. my elementary school teachers did this because grades didn't really matter.

My kid (10) plays this on the old desktop! He challenged me a while back, I tried but couldn't resist pulling out all the stops (Wait, mum, how did you change the colour of the bumpers? What is refuelling?) Young padiwan has much to learn ^-^

'THIS COMPUTER IS NEVER OBSOLETE'. Seriously, where do I start. Okay, 566 MHz processor? Rocks think faster than that.

Wouldn't be complete without that "Friends" shot :P

I still have to do that

How is this obsolete? You can still buy them in toy shops.

sprite really did taste different in those cups

Back when I was a kid everything was made of steel and concrete.

I missed them, they changed a park near my grand-parents to plastic while I was still a kid and I just stopped going there, it became smaller and a lot less fun.

Isn't this a new thing?? Especially with the wood chips to cushion a fall. We played on concrete and fell from REALLY high slides. Survival of the fittest..

We still have these.. A new one was just installed a few blocks down

Wait, there were wooden playgrounds? My parents have some explaining to do. What was with the metal torture devices.

That's still more advanced than what I had growing up. This was more my era. 70s-slide-...41fbe9.jpg

They still make these but use the composite or recycled plastic lumber now. No more splinters! Playgrounds by Leathers. :)

One word: splinters

We had one of these but it was the city next to where I was raised at.

Still have this in Northumberland at Alnwick Castle (look it up)

Treated wood, splinters. Looks like fun.

it's coming back again - new playgrounds usually are made from wood here

we used have a ginormous thing like that near where I lived, until some yuppy parent from the city next door sued over their kid getting a splinter, and it getting infected. (dumbass kid left it in.) Dumber the lady that sued over fast food making her fat.

The one in Alamogordo New Mexico just burned down about 2 or 3 years ago.

i- I have literally been to that exact same playground in Utah, last year, its not very old at all

that looks awesome but since i've been in school there steel :(

I got a splinter from this playground equipment.

McKinley Park in Sacramento, California has one of these structures.

wooden playgrounds are so much fun. I always would dig underneath them and make tunnels/