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Sometimes all it takes is hearing a song that you loved back in school or stumbling upon a favored childhood toy while looking for something in your parents’ garage for a surge of nostalgia to sweep you off your feet. That often results in listening to the forgotten musician for weeks on end or spending the next three hours going through childhood pictures at your folks’ place.

Browsing pictures of items and phenomena quintessential of a certain period can also evoke nostalgic memories, which is why many people follow accounts, such as ‘Flashback 90’s’ and reminisce about the good old days. With over 785k followers, the Instagram account brings back bits and pieces of the ’90s that ought to make one feel sentimental about the iconic time or curious about what it was like for those representing a younger generation. So, whether you would like to take a trip down memory lane or familiarize yourself with the ins and outs of a time you didn’t get the chance to experience, scroll down to find some ’90s flashbacks on the list below and enjoy.

Below you will also find thoughts shared by the creator of the Instagram account, who was kind enough to answer a few of Bored Panda’s questions in a recent interview.

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Iris Engler
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2 years ago

I wanna have back the prices from the 90ies back in general. Rent, insurances, taxes and the list goes on

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    Bear Hall
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I'm "put the tape recorder on piled up furniture in front of the TV to record songs at midnight" old.

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    Hume
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I agree. It was the dawn of a new era. Away with the old dictators and wars, it's time for the new generation. Ya and then 911 happened and here we are today seemingly on the brink of a World War and we even repeated a global pandemic, while our generation is not in charge of anything anyway.

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    Tee Rat
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Didn't they have a hit in the 70's? "Crikey little clouds in your neighborhood"

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    Kel_how
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Okay, but that's the most accurate thing I've ever seen

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    Christian Fuller
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    But without the mishandling of toxic chemicals, we wouldn't have the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    RIP

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    Rebelliousslug
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    This bothered me a lot longer than I care to admit

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Still the worst Batman movie ever.

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    Chintan Shah
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Me in my 30s without any reason... I hope I never stop being a kid :D

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    Xenon
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Howdy neighbor.

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    DennyS (denzoren)
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I always liked the way Mojo Jojo introduced himself lol

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    Richard Ross
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    But they smelled lovely 😂

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    Corvus
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    My grandma and grandpa have one. Still in use :P

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    Little Wonder
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I'm DOS old, so yes. Yes I am old enough to remember windows 98.

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    James016
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Cheese graters made such great nightclub scenes

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    giku T
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    and it is still working with %70 charge remaining i bet!

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    Chintan Shah
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    This accurately predicts where we are headed as a society

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    BrownTabby
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    The one occasion on which I am a hollaback girl

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    kelly
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I can smell this picture.

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    Annabel Wood
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    i felt like a king. do not underestimate the powers of the all mighty plastic chairs.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    It was real and there was a contest to own that house. It was a huge thing back then. The inside was completely styled and furnished like the cartoon show.

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    Charl Marx
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I'm so old that I remember being very excited because my new phone had polyphonic ringtones! My first camera phone had a detachable camera. It was VGA quality and I walked round pretending that the pathetic grainy photos I took of my friends were the best thing ever.

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    NapQueen
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I used to like the sound of the 'click' when you switched it on and off!

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    Canandelabra
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Shk shk shk shk the sound was so bad

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    Firstname Lastname
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I always thought I was cool when I added sunglasses, because he was too bright for even himself.

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    Settled for Infamy
    Community Member
    Premium
    2 years ago

    Loved limewire

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    CaptainFluffy
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    They seem pretty well off to me…

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    Praea Kitten
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    This is what the Predator sees looking at me sitting in my chair doing nothing

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    Xenon
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I am supremely tired of this same damned meme showing up everywhere.

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    Xenon
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Don't watch the show but clever advertisement.

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    DC
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    ... every motorcyclist should avoid driving behind any load if possible. A lawn-collector-box once took of from the trailer in front of me, and not hitting it only is a result of luck including aerodynamics - it REALLY took off and thereby gave me the time I needed to avoid contact.

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    Will Cable
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    These days, scan the QR code, input your name and email, the name of your firstborn, how many pets you have, do you own your home, how many children do you have, does my bum look big in this....

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    ….gray. (She/Her)
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I guess I'm old cause these made my childhood. I'm a teen rn.

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    Multa Nocte
    Community Member
    Premium
    2 years ago

    Some of us remember the 1961 version. ;-)

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    Jrog
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    It's still around and still having much success in primary schools...

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    Robert T
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Ha! By the 90's I was working in a REAL supermarket!

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    Annabel Wood
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    R.I.P. olivia newton-john :(

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    Little Wonder
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    So apparently, those markers were always dry because you're supposed to add water to them. Who knew??

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    Multa Nocte
    Community Member
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    2 years ago

    Who knew what a moron he would turn out to be?

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    Agfox
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Oblina from Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, it's on late night (yeah, I don't know why, either) free-to-air TV at present where I live. It's still an excellent show

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    Will Cable
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Did anyone else hate E.T.?

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    SilverSkyCloud
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    do people not do this anymore? i thought it was something every parent did

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    NapQueen
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    OR, he actually left his children Home Alone, and we can see how children of this generation would defend their house.

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    NapQueen
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I still sleep like this haha!

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    cadena kuhn
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    How about jelly jar cups or if you're classy the Batman glass ones from McDonald's

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    PFD
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    One of life's great mysteries is that literally everyone* would love to dress like Neo but no one sells the clothes. *I am not taking questions on this.

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    Jason Boyd
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Oh, you were mid-90s...

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    The Original Bruno
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I'm "who's that robot dog, and why is there a police box in the backyard" old, but I never actually got to go to the year 3000. It's kinda cool that my son is also police-box-in-the-backyard old, now.

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    David Leick
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    UMK3 still rules.

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    AJay
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Technology was just so much cooler when you could see the electronics inside.

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    NapQueen
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Usually meant our teacher was hungover!

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    Upstaged75
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Oh lord, I totally did that first hairstyle a few times!

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    Canandelabra
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    The 00's was brown sugar vanilla

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    AJay
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I honestly thought this was true witchcraft as a kid. Then I grew up and took Physics and lost my will to live 🥲

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    Jeremy Yuri Russonovitch
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    If I remember correctly, both versions (classic and Rides Again) had an episode where they did, indeed, wind up in someone's äss.

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    TheNewJenBrady
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Yes! I can still smell all of these in my mind. My fave was watermelon and the mint one actually tasted minty. Also, kids always getting marker on their noses from smelling these too closely(⁠◔⁠‿⁠◔⁠)

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    Chintan Shah
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I hate to say it but I bought a bike just so I could look like cloud strife one day...

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    Jason
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    That was over 20 gallons of gas. Now it's less than 4.

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    Kevin the Manager
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    They play White Zombie here on the Classic Rock station at work...

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    Momifer
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Back when unfriending meant no one asked you to go to the park or to hang out.

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    Justme
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Today we live 2 hours from work due to housing costs. We’re lucky to just get home by 6:30!

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    The Darkest Timeline
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Ask some people and they’ll say it was the 50s or 60s. Nostalgia is a powerful drug.

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    AJay
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I still have one of these!

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    BeeBee Buni
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    All of the fun looking buildings in the 90s are “modern” now (modern obviously being a code word for “depressed middle aged man”)

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    Jasmijn
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    2 years ago

    When I was 9, I kept my tamagotchi alive for ages, then when I was going on vacation to Spain, my mum convinced me to leave it at home. I entrusted my tamagotchi to my granny, with a list of instructions of how to care for it. Yeah, it died.

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    SilverSkyCloud
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    kids still do this now you know

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    Christian Fuller
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Gotta hand it to the ad exec that listened to "Mack the Knife" and heard "Big Mac tonight." Or institutionalize them. One or the other.

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    Pheolei
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    20 more years friends!!

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    AJay
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    WHAT

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    Hi
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    So, in your thirties? Wow ancient.

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    AJay
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Pretty sure there is an Instagram account that still does this but I could be wrong

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    shanila.pheonix_
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    2 years ago (edited)

    my friend got this as a goodbye gift when she was moving away!

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    Leviathan
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    this movie taught me about dew, many times in the orphanage {it was s**t and bad and is shut down now}, they wouldn't let me get a drink and i had to wait and get dew from leaves and grass to wet my mouth.... I said it was horrible there...

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    Corvus
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Cow & Chicken was soooo weird.

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    The Original Bruno
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Judging from his shirt, I doubt he used green screen.

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    Firstname Lastname
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    2 years ago

    Saw a woman who colored her hair using this fish as inspiration yesterday and had to look him up to prove it to a coworker.

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    Xenon
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Attractive couple, have no idea who they are.

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    Jason
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I mean I loved and still love reading. The smell of the used book store. I read too much to ever get new books

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    Rebelliousslug
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I’m intrigued by the use of lower and upper case letters in their handwriting. So chaotic.

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    Juli Bird
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Which they didn't have

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    Crystal Spencer
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    2 years ago

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    I was a teen when blues clues came out..a mom by 98..I started a MySpace group "moms who secretly wanna f@ck Steve" and moms who secretly wanna f@ck Manny (electric company on PBS) they were both successful groups. Moved to Facebook years later. Pages are now inactive but the thoughts are still very much alive.

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    Pheolei
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    That movie did something to me on a deep emotional level.

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    Xenon
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I know the show but still don't really get this one.

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    Castles
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Not the 90’s though

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    Rebelliousslug
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I had actually forgotten all about this. After walking through the nature trail covered in poison oak then through the several feet high mid walk, your lunch was trash if you had run out of foil and just had warm cooked to drink.

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    Agfox
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    2 years ago (edited)

    Angela Anaconda (in orange) with Gina, Gordy & Johnny

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    Emerald Joanna
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Um, today years old

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    PattyK
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Oops — wrong headline.

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    Leviathan
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I remember going to the small arcade in Smitty's {closed in 99} when my grandma would get her checks, and she would buy me a Cinnabon {before they were big} and money to play it, I would spend 5 hours there playing as she just shopped talked to friends and let me do as I pleased {my aunt/mom worked across in the candy area in the same store and she would visit with my mother}

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    Fabian Bernard
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    2 years ago

    For, it was more drinking at 14 and having to go to rehab at 27 😬 43 and still sober yet

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    Jason
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    2 years ago

    Hah uh what about us over 40

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    I_imagine_even_worse_w***s
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Oh one of the kids I babysat had these and she was always tripping over herself when wearing them!!!

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    SH Holmes
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    BTAS is a great cartoon.

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    CooperDooper81
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Wtaf is that?

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    KDS
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    2 years ago

    I guess Chucky got to relax after all the killings he did.

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    2 years ago

    How to make her mad…

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    Bored Birgit
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I want one now!

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