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While many eras quietly go down as parts of broader historical contexts, some carve themselves a special, distinct place in people's memories.
The Facebook page '90s Flashback' shares nostalgic posts about all the things that made the decade so special, and it has earned 533K followers by doing so.
We covered it earlier this year, but the page has released a lot of new content since then, so we decided to do a follow-up on it. Continue scrolling to check it out and teleport yourself to the good old days. Even if for a few minutes.
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MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
Stick a "Bobby pin" into a wall socket; oh yea it will light your world; never tried that again either, LOL.
Cooking Panda 1 year ago
Ranaway from home, anyone? Went back home after a few hours because I felt hungry
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Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
1994 : "In 2024, people will not vaccinate, half will worship an Orange God, believe the earth is flat and birds are not real, believe cell phone signals are dangerous, will think political opponents control the weather and space lasers, there are WAY more than these examples". "No way"..."Way"
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
I was 24 in 94' and we had no delusions about how f****d up things were gonna get. Especially from us punks and grungers, rastas and skinheads. We gave it a good go though and we had fun doing it.
Bec 1 year ago
Yeah, 1994 was not that great. Gen-X was always told that our future was going to be a wasteland and to not expect social security
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SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago (edited)
I only miss 1994 for the music that was coming out and that I was listening to 🙂
It's very easy to fall into the nostalgia trap. You click on an article like this, and the next thing you know it, you're trying to find more '90s memes. But don't worry—it's natural.
"Consuming nostalgic media of all types gives us a way of thinking about who we are, and helps us make sense of our purpose in life," said Krystine Batcho, a psychology professor at LeMoyne College and longtime nostalgia researcher.
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Kat 1 year ago
No, she doesn't 😊 they have the Food-a-rac-a-cycle! Any meal you want, at the touch of a button!
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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 1 year ago
Did you know Crayola makes a 100 count colored pencil set!?!
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Sue User 1 year ago
I didnt but am looking at these pictures and going " when did he get goodlooking?"
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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 1 year ago
His hair isn't grey, it's silver, and it makes him look awesome. One of the original SNL members. King Tut is still one of my favorite skits
JL 1 year ago
He was never a member of SNL. He made a ton of appearances but never part of the cast.
Load More Replies... MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
wish I could play my banjo like he plays his, awesome picker for sure!!
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Secret, but not much now! Crush!!! I've loved him from watching "The Three Amigos" on TV as an early teen! Silver haired fox in the late 80s, early 90s!
The voice of reason 1 year ago
Thought that about teachers in high school and most were a few years out of college so 8-10 yrs older.
Batcho has been studying nostalgia since, surprise, surprise, the 1990s, even developing a Nostalgia Inventory that assesses how prone one is to nostalgia.
She says she's seen an explosion of research into nostalgia in recent years as scientists increasingly want to piece together what makes it so powerful.
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Michelle Seasor 1 year ago
Not sure why the world isn't a Richard scary book complete with the word above each object
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I suppose AR glasses/goggles could make this a reality someday XD
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cj be like 1 year ago
Busytown isn't actually busy, if anything it should be called 'calm town'
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Kris 1 year ago
I was just thinking I would love to have one of these as wall art
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Nonna_SoF 1 year ago
I was in school in the 90s-2000s. Some of the maps still had the Soviet Union.
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Among the things my grandad gave me from his teaching stash when I became a qualified teacher was maps. I didn't have the heart to tell him many of them were useless because they included countries that didn't exist or statistics like populations that were no longer relevant.
Pernille 1 year ago
Maps are never useless, you can learn history from old maps.
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Katherine Forrestall 1 year ago
In Canada we had maps with Nielson's chocolate bars floating in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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Barong 1 year ago
I was more curious about the file. It’s about 23993.564 Terabytes and 21.31 pebibytes. Were they trying to download the entirety of the 1990’s internet?
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Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago
Then 10 seconds left would be all "10...9....8....54 min left.... 24 seconds left.... 5 hours.... 1 minute.." to this day I'm shocked ANY thing fully downloaded 😂
Load More Replies... Paul V 1 year ago
My guy, your trying to download a 23 PETAbyte file!!! Even on today's broadband, at 200 Mbps, that is going to take 29 years. I do get the point though... I can still hear that dial up screech :)
Certainly not Dan 1 year ago
Thanks for working that out for me! 23 petabytes is a lot of a lot.
Load More Replies... Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Somebody at Apple has a sense of humor - or did many years ago. One time I was downloading a system update that took a couple days to complete. At one point, my computer had a message that read "Estimated time remaining: infinity".
Evagating Beewolf (she/they) 1 year ago
23 petabytes for the internet? for reference, today, meta needs 300 petabyte storage centers (https://engineering.fb.com/2014/04/10/core-infra/scaling-the-facebook-data-warehouse-to-300-pb/), and text is generally not super large.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
I'm sure that my old dial up computer is still waiting on a download... With the grrrr screeee bzzzz noise!!!
Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago
If you notice also lol, the file size is 23 Petabytes. I don't even think the entire internet back them was 23 Pb. Hell, we had vid games equivalent to today's AAA Games that were easily a massive 124 kb in size 😂 yes kb. Memory cards were GIANT when they got to a kind blowing 16mb..insane storage size. No way anyone could possibly fill it even in 100 years lol
Load More Replies..."Nostalgia is one way of coping with things like social isolation or disconnectedness, loneliness," Batcho said
"Times of adversity can trigger nostalgia because remembering who we were helps with our identity continuity."
That's why people indulged in it so much during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago (edited)
People talk about Boomers being bad at technology but my grandparents, who were the generation before that, had one of these that was so good, my siblings fought over it 15 years later. They knew how to use all the functions, including copying music from one cassette to the other. Doesn't sound high tech now but at the time it was better than I could do.
SmooshyFries 1 year ago
Ah yes, the stacked stereo system- this thing kept my escaped 5ft boa constrictor warm for days while we looked for him
WinterLady 1 year ago
My first CD player looked like a VCR and only held one disc. Had to be connected to a stereo. I had it connected to an ancient cabinet stereo
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Well, potato chip sandwiches weren't really healthy...
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Cat Chat 1 year ago
That was my first thought. Who thought this was a 90s thing. Fast food existed long before then in most places. I do remember the headlines in the 90s like "Russia gets its first McDonald's".
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Linda van A. 1 year ago
I'm from the generation only two people in the street had a telephone.
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
You know, I was never a fan of Nokias, so my first mobile phones were by Siemens.
Alison Hobbs 1 year ago
Oh, the old Nokia 😍. Charge it once a month and even drive over it with a tank and it would still work
My O My 1 year ago
That what we had as teens. Our first mobile phones. Where an SMS would cost you 1,19€
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On the right side of the turf 1 year ago
Scotland. Village library, checked out books like this in the 90s. Fact.
Diane Tucker 1 year ago
Hmm. Maybe at school? I was a library clerk in the eighties and we were checking out books with barcodes in 1987.
Wendy Hamilton 1 year ago
Nope. The several libraries that I went to, you had to put your name on the card.
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Duane Ringlein 1 year ago
I live in a small town, and until they built the new library, this was how you checked out books in the 90s
Lene 1 year ago
This is how the school library worked all through the 1990s in my experience. I loved it!
SugarBoogies 1 year ago
Getting excited when you saw an older family member checked out the same book years before you ❤️
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Felix Quinones 1 year ago
That system goes back way before the 90's. I graduated high school in 79 and all through school I checked out books and try to guess if I knew the person that checked out book before me.
According to Batcho, nostalgia serves several important psychological purposes, Batcho asserts.
One is the need to feel in control. Even if our circumstances are largely out of our control, nostalgia can help us believe that we have at least some of it over our own personal development.
The second is social connection. This may sound counterintuitive since nostalgia typically involves private reflection on our personal history, but nostalgic memories remind us of our relationships with others.
Batcho thinks nostalgic recollections can encourage us to seek social and emotional support because they frequently feature important people from our past.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
They had to stop the whole "30m or free" thing because drivers kept getting into accidents. Domino's was literally charging their drivers for that pizza if they were slow. It's one of the worst cases of worker abuse in US history.
LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
And nowadays if I have to talk to someone on the phone, I'm simply not doing it.
Sensitive Issues 1 year ago
My sister used to hand write out all the directions to peoples houses for her kid to deliver the pies....he still can't do it on his own.
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ThisisEngland 1 year ago
I have a pair and wear them regularly. Yes the hems get wet. It's part of the aesthetic. This is the hill I die on.
Maggie Mae 1 year ago
Nope Wrong Era!! This was in the 1960's when Bell Bottoms were first out!!
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ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
I was born in the 2000s and I did everything except drawing the coins.
TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
we still do this today with the erasers(or is it just where i am?)
That Persistent Lint 1 year ago
The argentinian coins... you can hardly buy anything with 500pesos now, they tell me... but back in the days 50cents was my break money. I could have a ham and cheese french bread sandwich!
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G Bono 1 year ago
This is a timeless and universal thing. It isn't even restricted to any age group. As long as kids/people are required to take turns reading aloud, they will not listen to what KS being read so they can practice. When I was teaching, I never went around the room, but a!ways asked for volunteers. There was always one who just kept reading and wouldn't give anyone else a chance.
Ms.GB 1 year ago (edited)
When my dad was in school he had a teacher that would go around the room and make all the kids read the same paragraph. This was her way of teaching them to read apparently but by the time they got to my dad he had memorized it. It was the end of the school year before my grandma realized that my father couldn't read. I'm willing to bet my father wasn't the only one in that class that just repeated the paragraphs by memory and never actually learned to read that way. My grandma had to spend that entire summer teaching my father to read herself. I'm not sure what happened to the teacher but knowing my grandma I'm sure she gave her a dressing down. I would have loved to see that actually because my grandma was a tough lady, she didn't let things like that slide.
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zovjraar me 1 year ago
i always got in trouble for reading so far ahead i didn't know where we were at. so the teachers thought i wasn't paying attention. b***h, i done read this and the next 3 chapters...
Learner Panda 1 year ago
I was the fast reader who was three chapters ahead. Never knew where we were when it came to my turn.
Tommy DePaul 1 year ago
I was that guy. I became more sharing by the time we were reading aloud in AA.
Sensitive Issues 1 year ago
It was the ONLY way to do this!!! who ever remembered what we were reading??? it was worry only!
D. Pitbull 1 year ago
Sadly, this is where I started wanting to be a voice actor. I LOVED reading out loud from whatever book we were all supposed to read at the time. I'd do the voices, I'd narrate, I loved it. Aaaaand also got significantly bullied and made fun of for liking it............but strangely no one ever raked me over the coals for doing it poorly.
Anxiety Panda 1 year ago
As a teacher this is an outdated and taboo practice today just for this reason. None of us ever listened to anything that was read to us because we were to busy having a panic attack before our turn!
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
Its still donw where im at unfortunately
Load More Replies...Batcho said there's a reason our memories become fonder over time, why the negative bits tend to fade away faster.
"Remembering things as better than they were serves an evolutionary purpose. If people were to remember things faithfully to the original, most women would never want to have more than one child," Batcho explained while laughing. "It's a function of species survival that we can gloss over the bad portions of the past."
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MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
I still have one installed in my 1978 Malibu now, great feature really!!, but mine has a CD slot instead of cassette
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Last time I owned a car, about 20 years ago, I took a pair of medium sized PC speakers that ran on 12V, wired a plug for the cigarette lighter and used an mp3 player. Total cost minus the mp3 player at the time, about $20. It was an '85 Toyota and the original sound system was completely rotten.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago (edited)
And endlessly fiddling with the options/screensavers in After Dark! XD (I still miss you, Flying Toasters.)
taarna23 1 year ago
If it's still there, somebody on itch made a fan flying toasters screensaver. Probably doesn't have the conga line though, and definitely doesn't have the song.
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Kirsty 1 year ago
The number on the square is how many mines are around that square (diagonals count). You use the numbers to figure out where all the mines are (you also get told how many mines are on the board total or how many squares left to clear, can't remember which)
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Wendy Hamilton 1 year ago
Yep! My mom cut away my ex-husband's face and just left mine in the frame.
On the right side of the turf 1 year ago (edited)
I still do this. Ex boyfriends face out.....pics of my dog in his place. Not throwing away a perfectly good photo of me 😂
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Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Or leave it on, and 'delete browsing history and cookies' as well as disc clean up.
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So in general, nostalgia is a healthy, even vital component of the human experience. At its core, nostalgia helps guide us back to our authentic selves and reminds us of who we were always meant to be.
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Laura Lawson 1 year ago
The problem here is that this song came out in 1977. An awesome, amazing rock anthem that still resonates today, but hardly '90's kids' related. Hell, those kids weren't even born when this was released!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I wonder if it rose in popularity as a stadium anthem/song played at sporting events in the 90s and that's what they're referring to. I know it was ubiquitous when I was growing up in the 80s/90s (I got my first Queen CD in the early 90s) but I don't remember for sure when it started being commonly played at sports events.
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Renée Parry 1 year ago
I think it was popular again from all the team sport movies. Mighty ducks?
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 1 year ago
I graduated in 1983. We played that song at every football game
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Nea 1 year ago
Didnt hve these walls (India), got spanked with hands, badminton rackets and Indian moms’ favorite *chappals* (flip flops). I cant stress this wnough I still had a very happy and loved childhood. My parents are the best.
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Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Never had the ugly panelling, spanking s and beatings for stupid stuff like a 6 yo not being able to get a cast iron frying pan clean or forgetting to sweep under the bed. Belts or switches, we had bloody stripes on our legs more than once. It was in the late 60's early 70's so nobody cared.
Kylie Chapman 1 year ago
Yep. For not eating dinner fast enough,.Hand marks lasted up to a week
Pam McDougall 1 year ago
Of course there was wood panelling in the basement. No spanking doesn't relate to the panelling.
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Damned_Cat 1 year ago
Tonya told her stupid husband to "get the fancy cardigan I need for Lillehammer" not "hit Nancy Kerrigan in the knee with a little hammer." It was all a misunderstanding, I swear!
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Jeff Gillooly is still around. He's running a used truck shop in Clackamas, Oregon. He goes by Jeff Stone now but same dude. Speaking of '90s Oregon, Monica Lewinsky is from here too.
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Despite being a 90s kid, I only know because my dad made me watch iTonya. Between being an Aussie and being uninterested in sport, I never knew about it at the time.
Satirecatsaysno 1 year ago
Same, not from the usa and wasn't into skating but seen the movie.
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Brian Droste 1 year ago
That was such a sad situation. They both were on the USA team. They should have ben supportive of each other. But one was jealous of the other one.
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smithyjones 1 year ago
The way Google Maps acts sometimes, i need to go back to paper directions
Gracie Mae 1 year ago
damn gps always tells me to take a right on one particular section of road where there is ZERO capability to do so, even if I wanted!
Load More Replies... Damned_Cat 1 year ago
Yeah, I think I was. They were driving to Riverside, CA (the most difficult way one possibly could)
Deannamite 1 year ago
I swear, MapQuest always left out something vital. I drove around with a giant Rand McNally road atlas for backup.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
I still do this. I feel more secure having the route planned in advance rather than being guided by GPS.
Rebecca McManus 1 year ago
In the 80s I got the map book out and wrote down the directions by hand
Nancy Lynch 1 year ago
This is from a car rally. About 20 cars would get directions similar to this but without the streets. This was a car race (always follow all traffic laws). First car to get to the end would get a cheap trophy at the after race pizza party.
The Shark 1 year ago
MapQuest directions were such an awful driving distraction! Keeping eyes on the road, while not losing your place on the page, then flipping the page at the right time and not missing a turn... At least a full paper map showed you the entire area when you got lost. Don't miss that 😂
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Mad Dragon 1 year ago (edited)
Parts inside the tv would make cracking sounds randomly as they expanded or contracted with room temperature changes. This happened especially at night when they had been powered off for a while and was most noticeable when your parents had left you home by yourself.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
Mine had a sleep timer. The problem was that if you turned the TV *off* before the sleep timer turned it off, the TV would turn itself on again at the scheduled time. Scared the bejesus out of me the first time!
Load More Replies... Steve Robert 1 year ago
And the sign off, followed by a religious sermon and the national anthem.
Karl 1 year ago
Plus the reminder to lock your doors and windows - especially “for those who live alone” 😳
Load More Replies... SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Oh gosh old TVs... Especially bad for switching off at random times. Our TV was really old and I was watching a BBC film called "Ghostwatch" and right before the end it switched itself off!!! That scared me more than the program did! 😄
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SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Tales from the Crypt!! I've now got a few rare DVDs of some of the older episodes and omg! Cool but yes, freaky as a child!!!
#27
Damned_Cat 1 year ago
Some boxes suggested that you just open the end flaps and slice the ice cream into slabs instead of scooping.
Karl 1 year ago (edited)
On Sundays in the 70s, I would be sent to get a folded cardboard wrapped “brick” of ice cream from the shop and had to run home so it didn’t melt too much. Then, I double wrapped the brick in newspaper, put it inside a tea cosy and placed it in the back yard coal bunker until we’d finished eating dinner and it was time for dessert. Why we didn’t have a bloody fridge until the mid-80s is beyond me!
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Where we are, Family Pax comes in a 1 gal #2 plastic tub. Quart of ice cream are in little tubs made the same as the boxes.
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Rose the Cook 1 year ago
Australia in the 1960s and the box was difficult to open not like the one pictured.
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Bell-icose 1 year ago
I ruined at least three of my parents computers thanks to that damn site!!!
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Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
My cat would rather have the ball of yarn or a regular cat toy. She couldn't care less about laser toys
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Anywherebuthere 1 year ago
Docs but otherwise yes. Now, 35 years later its crocs. My poor tired feet.
Tommy DePaul 1 year ago
In Phoenix we had Nordstrom's Last Call. ($50/pair) I owned 50 pairs of Docs. Quit buying when I read there were 2000 styles.
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Sue Pemberton 1 year ago
Adidas Superstars. I've had them for over 30 years and I still love them.
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Carl Roberts 1 year ago
iPod, filled with music that you own, until YOU choose to remove it. iPhone....filled with apps that give you access to music you don't own, until THEY choose to remove it.
John Dilligaf 1 year ago
which is exactly why I still buy books, CDs, and DVDs.
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Coffeetime2 1 year ago
I still use my iPod for flying so I don't run down my cell phone battery
Richman “Richman” Aust 1 year ago
I had music on my Razor. I still have one of the special headphone connectors I bought.
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
I never had an iPod but know people who did. I had a little device that you put into the USB port of a computer and downloaded. We've come so far though! Gosh bless music downloading and free sites!
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Brian Droste 1 year ago (edited)
I grew up putting playing cards on my spokes using old wooden clothes pins.
The Shark 1 year ago
I keep seeing cars with lights on their rims much like this that are reminiscent of colorful light-up sneakers for 6 year olds 😂 I'm sure these people think they're SoO 🔥
Lori Gibbs 1 year ago
Look up "Tire Flys", they go on the air stem and light up when the wheel rotates.
Load More Replies... Heather Wolmarans 1 year ago
I had a piece of folded over cardboard and a wooden clothes peg for the wheel spokes to hit against and my bike sounded awesome when I pedaled fast😂
Heras buddy 1 year ago
60s we had red white and blue straws that were split and you put them on the spokes.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I died a little inside when the "oldies" station in my area (KRTH), which used to play "hits of the 50s, 60s, and 70s" when I was growing up in the 80s, to "hits of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s". I think now they include the 90s in their repertoire. The fact that music from the decade I was born in is considered "oldies" is just.... depressing XD
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
Even more depressing...I was only 6 when Nirvana released Nevermind, so they were "classic" by the time I was firmly in my teens. Now for the part that will make you cry... I was listening to the "classic" station the other day and they played Snow Patrol!😭😭😭 I don't even know why I go on.⚰︎⸸☠︎︎⸸⚰︎
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Rob Williams 1 year ago
I remember one day in the office a song came on the radio and was described as a golden oldie. I said "Surely that's not an oldie?" and my Clerical Officer said "It's older then I am." That still stings, Karl…
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
"American Graffiti" came out when I was 6. My dad had the soundtrack and I loved to listen to all that old music. Some of it wasn't even ten years old. This year was the 40th anniversary of Zen Arcade and Double Nickels On the Dime
Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
The oldest I have ever felt was when I heard a song released during my lifetime on an oldies station for the first time. It was "Purple Haze." I was 25 at the time...
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Anywherebuthere 1 year ago
In a (probably) 99 corolla. Base model didn't have a cd player. Put 230k on mine and sold it 3 years ago. It is still in action, I saw it a couple weeks ago lol.
Gwen Roxstone 1 year ago
Those skipped less when vertical. Mine between the seat and center console for many years. That is missing power cord to the cigarette lighter.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago (edited)
I so despised those tape adapters. As soon as they started doing those micro FM transmitters I went that route.
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Rick Seiden 1 year ago
That kid is not crying because he's afraid of losing a leg. He's crying because he's heard that joke 1,000 times already and is sick of his dad's c**p.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
My dad used to say "Here, let me hit your big toe, it'll make you stop thinking about how much (other injury) hurts!"
Lori Gibbs 1 year ago
My kids quit complaining about splinters because dad would pull out his pocket knife and say"come here, I'll get it "
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
I saw a guy saying this to a kid just last week, so it was nice to know they're keeping the tradition alive. (It worked; the kid soon stopped being upset and started laughing).
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
When my sisters were little, Dad would tell bedtime stories that ended like "and I got too close to the edge, and I fell off, and I died" and my sisters would cry like they had seen it happen
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I had a mad crush not on Hercules but on his friend Iolaus. For some reason I thought that actor was cuter XD And I REALLY loved Xena as a teenage girl. Didn't have many "strong/powerful" female action heroes in those days.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Too bad Kevin Sorbo has devolved into a complete reptile. But Lucy Lawless is still awesome! Love me some Xena action.
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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 1 year ago
Still have the VHS tapes where we recorded Hercules for my son
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I.. have that tiger blanket. And a wolf one from the same era XD
Ms.GB 1 year ago
I had that patchwork crochet quilt that everyone's grandma had. I wish I still had it actually.
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MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
When I was a kid in the sixties the quilts my grandmother had were so heavy, that whenever you got into bed that was pretty much the position you woke up in, slept like a baby though.
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TribbleThinking 1 year ago
I used to buy 15 for £1 for my cat. She'd diligently carry them to the top of the stairs and then watch them bounce on the stairs as she dropped them one by one. Especially at 2am.
Satirecatsaysno 1 year ago
I think these or similar versions of these have never gone away. You can definitely still get them in Claires accessories and places like that. My nieces have lots like this.
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Brian Droste 1 year ago
I grew up with no volume bars. Had knobs to use for the volume. Also knobs to turn the TV on and off and to adjust the tv for vertical and horizontal screen/picture.
taarna23 1 year ago
Back when the youngest, as soon as they were capable, became the remote.
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Gracie Mae 1 year ago
OK, BP...K**B is a censorable word??? how about doorknob? k******d I could understand...
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Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
Wow. Time travel has been perfected and it's used for door dash!!
Rudy van Disarzio 1 year ago
This one isn't true. This is a special giant Bug Mac next to regular one.
Janos Schumacher 1 year ago
Think of all the extra bread! When I want a Big Mac, it's the bread that makes my mouth water. I want so much bread. Seriously, the patties and other ingredients are the same. I don't want a giant pile of bread. Also, both are missing all the shredded lettuce, and the left one is missing the cheese it would seem. Also, in constant dollars, the current Big Mac is 2 bucks cheaper than the old one. It should be $7.29 if you just account for straight inflation.
Ripley 1 year ago
Except that it wasn't any bigger. Back in 1986 there were 10 patties to a pound - honestly, you'd be hard pressed to make them any smaller than that. The burgers haven't changed, just the prices.
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Sue User 1 year ago (edited)
Then there are those of us who remember having to call long distance after 7pm because it was cheaper.
yellowphantom 1 year ago
And some of us who remember only writing letters because long distance was too expensive!
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I went to college in Alaska in the 80s and my mom lived in New Jersey and Dad lived in Maine, so we had to figure cheap long distance hours plus a four hour time difference, and the dorm hall phones wouldn't make outgoing long distance calls
Steve Robert 1 year ago
And both parties had to pay for the same call if you called before then.
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Bec 1 year ago
I went to a rural school and some older students from the city visited and were wearing these with socks - we weren't mean, but we were just confused
Satirecatsaysno 1 year ago
These monstrosities have come back around. They seemed to have snuck back in with sliders.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Nice. I always appreciate a good Steve Buscemi reference.
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
If anybody is dumb enough to think that worked they needed to get either their eyes or head examined.
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LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
I now have exactly 5 minutes to get back indoors or I'm in trouble. Gratefully my dad wasn't staring at the lights either so I had some leeway.
Kayleigh haigh 1 year ago
We had to be back in our street ready to play Jack jack shine a light (hide a seek use a torch to seek once light was on you then u were found basic)
featherytoad 1 year ago
I grew up in the country. I only know this because I've seen it here a million times.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I go back and watch old movies or TV shows every once in a while and I am horrified when characters are "supposed" to be 18, or 20, or even 25 or so and they look like they're 40 XD I took it as a matter of course when I was a kid ("Ah, all grownups look like that. Of course.") but now that I'm 42 and I remember being 18 years old, and 20, and 25, it's absolutely insane to me XD
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
The worst was 90210. I was a teenager whan that was on and Jason Priestly is 11 years older than me. By the last episode he was almost 30yo.
cecilia kilian 1 year ago
I was in the same class in HS as Gabby Carteris (Andrea). She was 30 when the show started.
Load More Replies... Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
Look at the cast of "Grease". OMG - most of those actors were in their late 20s, early 30s.
Tabitha 1 year ago
Even worse is when you look at the people playing parents—-especially when you look at much older movies. Not always, but sometimes they’d have people who looked like grandparents playing the parents of small kids, and people who looked like great-grandparents playing the parents of teenagers. Yes, I know some people have children into their forties, but honestly, just because you’re in your forties or fifties doesn’t mean you have to look like the Grim Reaper is tapping you on the shoulder.
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Ladedah 1 year ago (edited)
Unfortunately, my work is keeping this skill kind of relevant. We all laugh, but the hospital I work at (a large, urban, Level I trauma) still uses phones and IV pumps that use this method for letter selection. Obviously, we all call each other's zone phones (vs text).
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I remember Push Pops. I know we were *supposed* to lick them to make them last longer, but I always crunched them instead XD I would crunch Jolly Ranchers too; my friends thought I was psychotic. I can't seem to lick lollipops or suck on hard candies - I've always been a cruncher XD Am I the only one?! Do most people have the restraint to lick/suck on hard candies?
cj be like 1 year ago
I can see the resemblance (but of course he has not yet blossomed into the miracle of mankind he currently is)
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Kazaam with Shaquille O'neal and it just shows how prone white kids in the '90s were to confusing POC.
Alex Mosby 1 year ago
I'm black and I fully remember a Sinbad movie called Shazam. I got found out it wasn't real because of a meme I saw THIS year. Kazaam had the kid Shaq and the kid from A Bronx Tale. I remember BOTH. They were not even close to the same movie in my head. Sinbad had the 90's on lock.
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Surly Scot 1 year ago
Hmm, rolling onto that fun theory that one of the dimensions that's slightly different merged with ours and this is one of the things that disappeared but some folks still remember? I love this stuff!
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
KAZAAM not Shazam. Though that would have been a better name.
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Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
As a mid-late 20's Dad, Wonder Years was one of my faves. Along with Dinosaurs.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Alright, you got me with Topanga. Boy Meets World was seriously good TV. The episode where Shawn's dad disappeared and never came back was FR heavy.
David Martin 1 year ago
Three out of four there, I can confirm. I don't recognize the woman in black, but the others all got me for sure. Also, side note: Samus Aran without her suit at the end of Super Metroid, because I was a video game nerd
MotherRobinson 1 year ago
The lady that played Kitana in the Mortal Kombat movie.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
Really? I'm 42 and know three of them. Kelly Kapowski from Saved by the Bell; the pink ranger from Power Rangers; Topanga from Boy Meets World.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I think back to elementary school and I realize that I ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on white bread (my mom usually bought Weber's bread, in its blue tablecloth-pattern bag) for lunch, every single school day, for probably 4 or 5 years. The jelly flavor changed (my mom would sometimes buy concord grape, or boysenberry, or blackberry) but the bread and the peanut butter (ALWAYS Jif) stayed the same. I never got tired of it. I still eat PBJs regularly to this day. Still love them. I use slightly healthier bread these days (Dave's Killer Bread), but choosy wolves choose Jif!
Occam's Chainsaw 1 year ago
Mmm, Dave's Killer Good Seed and JIF All Natural. Perfection.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I miss ours. Those weird-shaped fish filets, the hushpuppies of the gods, the amazing coleslaw, the pile of weird batter-bits that were so deliciously crunchy and greasy... mmm.
Sue User 1 year ago
I found a Long John Silver / Taco Bell (?) combo store. Got a fish basket. The fish batter was super sweet, the coleslaw was watery and yellowish, and the hush puppies were oily and dried out. No wonder they died.
Load More Replies... LittleWombat 1 year ago
I am in this society!! Every time my kid and I stop there to eat in the restaurant, it's mostly old people there. I hope there's a new generation that are still supporting them... maybe they just have the shame to get their deep-fried golden treasure through the drive through.
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On the right side of the turf 1 year ago
Glasgow uses to have the Jolly Giant which waved as you approached the toy shop
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
I was born in '80 and I never got to go to one. I think the nearest one was about 6hr away and my parents could never justify the trip.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
We had a Kay-Bee in the mall. My mom could confidently leave me in the store and go shopping at the departments/rest of the mall for hours and she'd know that I'd still be in the Kay-Bee XD It also worked to drop me off at the Waldenbooks or whatever electronics store had a console game display demo set up XD
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
I hated going through the gaming sections with my siblings because I would be stuck waiting for them to finish playing for ages!
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
All of the Riddick Chronicles movies have been pretty good, IMO!
#57
Ladedah 1 year ago (edited)
I still refer to my husband as being "the Pepsi version of signs" and tell him that I hope all of his half-cans of Diet Pepsi (and bottles of beer) are going to save us from the alien invasion one day, because right now all they are is a f*****g pain in the a*s 🤣.
Schteinrick 1 year ago
The aliens couldn’t tolerate water, yet still run around in cornfields in the middle of the night? Had no one on the set heard of dew?
Mariele Scherzinger 1 year ago (edited)
That film had such promise! It had two or three more scenes of the like in it. Yet its ending was so remarkably bad. I left the cinema stunned. Its ultimate failure was epic.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Wendy's is currently shutting down hundreds of stores nationwide. They may be going under soon so get 'em while you can.
MaryHadaLittleLamb 1 year ago
It's because they changed their fries. They were my favorite fast food fries until they changed. The new ones are c**p. After that, I stopped going there as often.
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Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago (edited)
I liked their old fries WAY better. The "natural cut sea salt" whatever-the-hell fries they sell how are nasty and greasy. Burgers are still great, though.
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Lsai Aeon 1 year ago
That's science class, specifically the one where we dissected things on those tables. Pretty sure you don't want to use it for Home Ec
Load More Replies... Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Classrooms like this still exist. Our local high school has a couple of them. (I haven't been in the other local schools).
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Maybe some people. Paying for tv was still unrealistic for many people back then.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Dizzy isn't a woman in the book, Dizzy is a man XD but despite the movie being absolute trash, it was DELIGHTFUL trash and I loved it.
Lost Panda 1 year ago
Still one of my favorite movies. "Put your hand on that wall!"
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago (edited)
You got them because they looked cool and then realised they didn't even bounce well. One of my dogs tried eating it and it just crumbled, from memory.
XenoMurph 1 year ago
The 90s are a long time ago, lots of things have crumbled from my memory too.
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Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
Always liked the '89 witch face and the original three pumpkins
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Australia in the 90s, we barely knew what Halloween was, and I was fine with that.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
And it was AWESOME! I caught a few episodes in my 20s and Courage the Cowardly Dog was amazing for my, theoretically, grownup a*s.
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Kathleen Stiles 1 year ago
Thank you!! I got: It eggs count elements. Knew that was wrong.. lol
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I used to rinse out the bottles and keep them. I thought the labels looked SO cool. Plus there was a lizard on the logo and I loved lizards and had them as pets XD
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
Gotta take it back further. There were a few versions where the lizard guy was a hot dude. I'm not sorry, that lizard-man was fit.
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Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
"What part of the 1990s do you miss most"? - being 30 years younger
Anywherebuthere 1 year ago
Lol. The fact that my back didn't hurt. And I could sleep literally anywhere.
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Lists like this are why I followed Australian 90s 00s Nostalgia on Facebook- to many that come up on here are not relevant for non-Americans.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I would like to see what things were like in other countries in the 90's. That would be I interesting.
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Sand Ers 1 year ago
As usual, this “ ‘90s nostalgia” list is a “if you were a child or teen in the ‘90s” list. I don’t have the slightest idea what half this stuff is, never mind having nostalgic feelings about them.
Yellow dot 1 year ago
Agreed. Born in '97, I have less idea of what these are than my husband, born in '86.
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Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
Xbox Labs is allowing custom see-through plastic for their controllers right now and the temptation is something. Very 90s. Fortunately, I'm broke and I have the controller I want.
RufffiesWithRidges 1 year ago
Bored Panda sucks now, what with AI stopping you from commenting, and now they want money 🤑
Ace 1 year ago
Yeah, the poll needs another answer - being up to date with music, technology and popular culture.
Trillian 1 year ago
It definitely needs the answer: The bit of hope I had for the future back then.
Load More Replies... Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
"What part of the 1990s do you miss most"? - being 30 years younger
Anywherebuthere 1 year ago
Lol. The fact that my back didn't hurt. And I could sleep literally anywhere.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Lists like this are why I followed Australian 90s 00s Nostalgia on Facebook- to many that come up on here are not relevant for non-Americans.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I would like to see what things were like in other countries in the 90's. That would be I interesting.
Load More Replies... Sand Ers 1 year ago
As usual, this “ ‘90s nostalgia” list is a “if you were a child or teen in the ‘90s” list. I don’t have the slightest idea what half this stuff is, never mind having nostalgic feelings about them.
Yellow dot 1 year ago
Agreed. Born in '97, I have less idea of what these are than my husband, born in '86.
Load More Replies... Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
Xbox Labs is allowing custom see-through plastic for their controllers right now and the temptation is something. Very 90s. Fortunately, I'm broke and I have the controller I want.
RufffiesWithRidges 1 year ago
Bored Panda sucks now, what with AI stopping you from commenting, and now they want money 🤑
Ace 1 year ago
Yeah, the poll needs another answer - being up to date with music, technology and popular culture.
Trillian 1 year ago
It definitely needs the answer: The bit of hope I had for the future back then.
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