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Memes about the 1990s have become increasingly popular in today's digital culture, as nostalgia for this decade continues to resonate with people of all ages. These memes often reference iconic movies, music, fashion, and events from the era, capturing the essence of what made this decade unique. With the rise of social media platforms, sharing these memes has become easier than ever, allowing people to bond over their shared love for the era's pop culture, humor, and distinctive style.

One such platform where these memes have found a dedicated audience is the Facebook group called "80s & 90s Memes." This group has attracted a large community of people who share a passion for the pop culture and nostalgia of this decade (as well as the 80s).

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    As the '90s slip into the past, the '90s fascination seems to be getting stronger and stronger. This can be attributed to a number of factors, including a desire to remember simpler times, the influence of 90's pop culture on current trends, and a desire to connect with others who share similar memories.

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

    I’m pretty sure only 0.5% of 8 year olds are asking for the newest iPhone. And even teenagers these days still love those multicolour pens

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    In many ways, the 1990s represent a unique historical period marked by significant technological, political and social changes. These changes have left an indelible mark on the collective consciousness, making them perfect topics for memes and online discussions.

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    The popularity of '90s memes also stems from the fact that many of those who grew up during the era are now adults with a disposable income, driving the market for nostalgia-inspired products and experiences. For this generation, memes are a way to relive their youth and connect with others who share the same background.

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

    And there were little games on the back, because the manufacturers knew that.

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    The sense of nostalgia evoked by these memes can also be a solace in escaping the challenges and complexities of modern life, allowing people to briefly revel in memories of a more carefree and innocent life.

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    That said, '90s memes not only serve as tools to remember the past, but also serve as bridges between generations to appreciate a bygone era that shaped modern culture. promote.

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

    I am always suprised, that they usually let you scroll down to the year 1920 or even 1900.

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

    Well...you did not really take a ton of pictures. You took maybe 5 at Easter, 5 at your birthday, and 10 during summer vacation, so that with the 4 you took at Christmas, the film was full and you could get it developed finally. Then, and just then, you would find out what was on the film. Made the pictures just more valuable, IMHO.

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

    Maybe a polemic opinion, but I'm always a bit sad when kids don't dress like kids, because that usually ends up with an adult missing their childhood :( I enjoyed my childhood as hell, played with toys until I was 14, still carry my harry potter's backpack... you should wear whatever you want, that's true, but idk, just slow down on growing up, it won't get a lot better

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

    I really hate this meme, I know so many boomers who share this, I grew up in the first one, and wasn't always so peachy. It's a different time and different generation, and I bet if we had phones in the 90's we would have been the same.

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

    We call these "schwicky suits" because that's the sound you made while moving.

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    Take me to dinner first
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Omg my teacher once got one of my notes where my friend and I were complaining about a mutual friend... he was laughing and judging us so hard that we started laughing as well

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

    Cera was my first role model. Until I had to face the sad reality that I would never be a Triceratops. Still have the plushy somewhere.

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

    But the teens know. I loved these when I was little. My favorite one had cats on it. I lost it in the 3rd grade. So sad :’(

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

    teenage mutant ninja turtles teenage mutant ninja turtle turtles in a half shell turtle power

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

    I remember when the push handle was above my head. And using a log splitter when I was about 10... I can't believe I survived my childhood sometimes

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

    Being a mermaid, she was probably illiterate... at least that's my explanation.

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

    I miss blockbuster. We don't even have a local video rental place anymore. Just Redbox 😭

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

    Champion was always an inexpensive but quality brand. I still have a still very black champion t-shirt with embroidered logo from 1999. It shows no sign of deterioration and has no bad smells even after being used as work out ahort for 24 years.

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

    Undeniably, the '90s heralded the end of an era. If you grew up in the '90s, you had no internet and no gadgets growing up. Then you got to experience the Wild West of the internet - Napster, SomethingAwful, all of the shock sites, etc. And now you get to watch your elderly parents fumble through Facebook and try to dab.

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

    I guess I understand why people tend to romanticize the past so much, but damn, I'm 40 and I get really tired of this "the good old days" and "kids today" stuff. Just because kids today aren't doing the exact same things we did as kids doesn't mean anything is over. Also, tons of kids still go outside. Sure, phones and social media are a legit concern, but kids still play outside and their parents still do dumb, dangerous stuff with them, so...

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

    My mom just passed, 100 years old. Every generation, it seems, talks about the old days. The stories are just interesting. Imagine rationing, if you ran out of gas ration cards you couldn't go to work, if you had a job. Or waiting for the ice truck so you could keep things cold in the "ice box". Having to have a garden if you wanted fresh veggies, supermarkets? Ha. BUT both my folks enjoyed their good old days. I had no reason to change their minds.

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

    15 years ago a truck accident in my city killed 5 children riding in the back. The good old days could also be dangerous, racist, sexist, etc.

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

    That sucks. The good old days weren't good then either: my dad was witness to one of his friends getting bounced out of the back of a truck and expiring, and that was in the '60s. I am 40, and have only been in a road vehicle without a seatbelt a couple times, and certainly not just chilling in the back.

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

    Every time I see people spouting this nonsense, I'm reminded of the moral panic in the 1500s where The Elders were agonizing over kids and their love of the latest technology: books. Not kidding, they really were saying the exact same thing 500 years ago... over books...

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

    Humans have been saying the same thing about later generations ever since there WERE later generations: "Those cave paintings are just shocking! Kids today - who draws animals so real they could come off the wall and trample us? Back in my day, we were content with symbols and nothing else!" It's a human condition to both look back in fondness and look ahead in horror. 😁

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

    That backwards seat in the station wagon was the best! We always fought about who got to sit there.

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

    No idea what this mean memes. Does everyone have absolutely perfect childhoods or something? My life didnt even begin til I was 30.

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

    When you are very poor you have no life or not much enjoyment in life sadly.. My parents had no car, no internet, no heat in the house. No money so no school trips, no sports, no vacations. Only work and being hungry for memories

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

    Yup I remember riding in the back of a Pinto station wagon. We didn't realize how close we came to certain death.

    DigiGirl02
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    9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What? The 2010's rocked! It's just the 2020's that are lame.

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

    I wasn’t allowed to do this. My grandfather was an executive at Ford and insisted we sit in the earliest car seats. I was so jealous of everyone who didn’t have to use car seats.

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

    This was not my life growing up in the 90s. I prefer to have internet connections, thanks.

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

    If kids lived like this in the 1990s, why are all the photos from the 1970s and 1980s?

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

    My sister and I used to sit in the way back of the station wagon back in the 60s. Some of the other posts are also this old.

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

    My 4 awful daughter's once wrote help us on paper and a on a long journey stuck it in back of car window .. yea we got stopped but my worst thoughts now is my god 4 kids in back of a normal car no seat belts needed

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

    These were illegal to do long before the '90s, at least in my state. I remember these from the '70s, though.

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

    We used to "State Line Surf" in the backs of trucks in Texarkana back in the 80s!!! Pix are all over Facebook. So glad my son never saw them when he was younger. He still hasn't seen them. I may have to show him now. He'll be 21 in two weeks. Haha

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

    I blame it for all generations of serial killers since its release. No one survived after 1984. Fact!

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

    Ahh Dorothy... such a sarcastic b***h but f**k I love her. RIP to all the golden girls. One of the best RV shows ever

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

    I was at Kroger one evening and they were playing all Disney animated sound track songs! I sure as heck was singin' along to Hakuna Matata!

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

    Every wednesday, friday and saturday at Granby halls skate rink, Leicester!

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

    I really miss video shops, I used to spend ages browsing. I wish they were still around, there is nothing more exciting than picking out a new movie.

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

    At least he could afford a stay-at-home ditsy Peggy, a 'fun' daughter, a loser son, a real Dodge and a house! On his shoe store salary.

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

    On a side note, dozens of those phones (or pieces of them) keep washing ashore on a beach in Bretagne (France) since more than 30 years, after a ship lost a container full of them during a storm.

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

    I used to go to the library to print off guides and cheat lists from GameFAQs!

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

    Anybody seen the Nic Cage movie with those furries in the abandoned restaurant?

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

    "This is the operator, you have a collect call from "Heymompracticeisovercomepickmeup".....will you accept the charges..?" (mom): *click

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

    RIP Sam..."we don't need to feed the starving folks...we need Uhauls...TO TAKE THEM WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!!!!! A_A_AAAAAAA!"

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

    This pentagram is ALL WRONG. No wonder they can't summon the 90's. How embarrassing.

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

    I didn't have Nintendo, Nintendo or Nintendo but I still have Nintendo, Nintendo and Nintendo! :D

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

    "We from the school / the school of hard knocks. Who's ready to rock? (ready to rock) / Are you ready to rock? (ready to rock) / Round'n up suckaz, knock'em, knock'em out the box"

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

    I’m a teenager and when I watched this show they were still using the notebook. And this was in like 2017.

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

    Toad! Also during the kart making in the Mario movie, I really loved Toad coming out with the biggest wheels, because I did that!

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

    i am sooooooooo looking forward to this show! hope it's as good as it's hyped!

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

    Bob from La Bamba made my buddies and I laugh so much, especially the party scene where he's covering his face with the collar of his jacket. I'll be shocked if anyone knows what I'm talking about.

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