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50 Memes From The ’90s That Might Take You On A Wild Nostalgia Ride
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Say what you want, but it is a fact that '90s kids memes often tap into a deep well of nostalgia, often offering a humorous and heartwarming reminder of much simpler times. These memes frequently feature iconic imagery and references that only those who grew up in the 1990s could really truly appreciate. Images of floppy disks, dial-up internet sounds, the struggles of rewinding VHS tapes, or the colorful, plastic choker necklaces girls would wear often make appearances.
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Bored Panda reached out to Alex, the page owner of the page "90s Kids Only" on Instagram, to get an insider scoop on the nostalgic memes that take us back to a beloved era!
When asked, about the meme selection process for the page, Alex shared, "Oh, it’s a fun process! I usually dig through the goldmine of the 90s, picking up stuff that instantly takes you back, you know? I love things that are universally relatable to all 90s kids – like the pain of dial-up Internet or the joy of Saturday morning cartoons. Sometimes followers send in their own nostalgic finds too, and if it gives me a good laugh or hits me right in the feels, it goes up!"
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Phoebe Bean 2 years ago
It's official. The song will stay in my head for a while (two posts about Mambo No. 5)
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
$10 Chinese food still exists, though $15 is more common. Petrol price jumped from $40 to $100 a full tank in the year 2022.
In response to the question about the uniqueness of the 90s nostalgia, Alex explained to Bored Panda, “The 90s were just a magical time, man! We had the best of both worlds – awesome cartoons, epic toys, and we were the last generation to enjoy a childhood without being glued to smartphones. It was a simpler, carefree time, and who wouldn’t feel nostalgic about that?”
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Jiska Veldhuizen 2 years ago
We had something called a ''phone tree'', the one whom had to leave home earliest was on top, and so on.. and they had to call the next one on the list to tell school was cancelled.
Discussing the connection followers have with the content, the page owner mentioned, "People absolutely love a trip down memory lane! I get DMs all the time from followers sharing how a meme made their day or reminded them of a precious childhood moment. It's all about spreading those good vibes and shared experiences that make us smile, you know."
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When it comes to keeping the 90s spirit alive for younger generations to enjoy as well, Alex shared with us, "It's a bit tricky but also fun! I try to choose memes that are funny on their own, even if you might not catch the reference right away. And it's super cool to see younger folks getting curious and learning about the 90s culture through the page."
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Bored something 2 years ago
Back when a batman movie was sill in colour, not just shades of black.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
Can confirm XD I’m 41 and my bedroom at my childhood home still has them on the ceiling.
When commenting on the romanticization of the past, the page owner humorously reflected, “Haha, well, not everything in the 90s was perfect – I mean, those dial-up sounds still haunt me! But seriously, I think every era has its highs and lows. Perhaps we do romanticize it a bit, but that’s the fun of nostalgia, right? And hey, I think the 90s snack game was seriously underrated – bring back all those discontinued treats!”
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Heather Resatz 2 years ago
Oooooh these made the tub so dangerously slippery! But smelled sooooo good!!
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
That hits hard. ::goes back to playing Baldur’s Gate III with NPCs she wishes were her friends::
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Jumping Jellyfishes 2 years ago (edited)
I didn't recognize him under all the make-up and prosthetics until he smiled. That smile is iconic
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Alex G Wellington 2 years ago
Oh my god I had no idea he voiced Nigel Thornberry but thinking back of COURSE he did!!
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Paul Pienkowski 2 years ago
Always Rocky Horror. Then Home Alone and Fern Gully. He was the sexy oil slick in the cartoon.
SheDeM 2 years ago
Fern Gully!! Loved that one. Didn't know he was Hexus!
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Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago (edited)
HE'S JUST A SWEET TRANSVESTITE~ FROM TRANSEXUAL, TRANSILVANIAAAAA~ (ps, hope this doesn't offend any trans friends, but its such a catchy song from the movie ;-;)
Dustin Miller 2 years ago
If you don't know Tim Curry then something is wrong with you, and you shall be subject to A Clockwork Orange style marathon of his movies
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
I know who he is, but may I still receive the punishment?
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Linda James 2 years ago
He's just a little put out...because, when you knocked....he thought you were the...Candyman
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
I won't say where I first saw him - leaving you all in an-ti-ci-pa-tion!
Amelia Jade 2 years ago
I'm always so happy when people mention this movie. It is such a fun movie and it seems like so few people know of it.
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Nancy Marine 2 years ago
My first time seeing him in a movie was at the midnight showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show. We would throw this gs during it like toast, water, and yell different things! Such a great memory! My bestie and I were just talking about this the other day!
Claire Cotts 2 years ago
I kept scrolling down to see if anyone put “Three Men in a Boat”, one of my favorite movies. I’ve watched the tinned pineapple scene over and over again
Kristie French 2 years ago
Fern Gully, rocky horror, IT, color of magic, and labyrinth. Love them all!
PenguinQueen 2 years ago
Literally can hear Nigel Thornberrys voice just by looking at his face
Stephanie Goadsby 2 years ago
It's a great tragedy, how he was injured by a stroke. So unfair.
Joshua David 2 years ago
The worst Witch starring Fairuza Balk. It's a children's show and I'm obsessed with it to this day. I think it's on YouTube. It's from 1986.
Rahb in Oz 2 years ago
What is this "off of" s**t? You know who this is based ON from where you know this person, or not. Please try to speak proper English!
Conny Klimas 2 years ago
Rocky Horror and IT; I honestly can't remember which of these I saw first.
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
Legend, Rocky Horror Picture Show, It, Annie, Clue, Fern Gully... a lot of movies come to mind, most of which most people don't actually realize it's him without seeing the credits...
Sharon Vaughn 2 years ago
I first saw him in Rocky Horror, but felt his best performance was in Hunt for Red October. He was truly vile in the TV version of Titanic, which helped when he played It. Very versatile actor.
What's being said today 2 years ago (edited)
He's the reason why I'm scared of clowns! He nailed that role
Magnifico Giganticus 2 years ago
Man do I love me some Tim Curry. I remember him from all of it!
Megan McFarland Estepp 2 years ago
Oh so many things: Annie, Clue, Rocky Horror, Legend, take your pick.
BoiMom4Life 2 years ago
Someone finally mentioned The Shadow. That's also when Alex Baldwin was actually hot.
LacyLady78$ 2 years ago
Rocky Horror! I have an almost 23 year old and she wouldn't know him from anything but Rocky Horror.
devotedtodreams 2 years ago
My earliest memories of him are Fern Gully (Hexxus), The Pebble and the Penguin (Drake) and Muppet Treasure Island (Long John Silver)
BoiMom4Life 2 years ago
FINALLY!!!!!! I mean, yes to Fern Gully, IT, and Annie, but I loved loved loved The Shadow! That was when Alex Baldwin was hot!
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Tom Kerruish 2 years ago
RHPS, of course, but I haven't found any mentions of King Chicken from Duckman.
Janet Howe 2 years ago
He was just so good in Rocky Horror Picture Show. You've never seen Rocky Horror Show until you've seen a LIVE PRODUCTION. So awesome!! They let you bring in everything but squirt guns. And passed out toilet paper to the audience.
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 2 years ago
Congo. I was about 10 at the time & had no idea who he was. Then I saw a movie he was in prior called Oscar. Tbh, I saw him in more of his subdued roles before I finally saw RHPS for the first time about 5 years later. Completely blew my mind it was the same guy lol Now that I'm older & have seen more of his films and how incredibly versatile an actor he is, it makes perfect sense.
Sian Edwards 2 years ago
Annie 1982, The Worst Witch 1986, Home Alone 2, 1992. My childhood experience of Tim Curry in 3 films. And then I discovered Rocky Horror and It as an adult.
Amelia Jade 2 years ago
Clue. But I love him in the episode of Psych he did as Nigel St. Nigel.
Ruth Harper 2 years ago
First thing I saw him in was Muppet Treasure Island. But he's amazing in everything. Everything.
Winnie the Moo 2 years ago
The Three Musketeers, as a girl I found him absolutely creepy as the Cardinal Richelieu!
Alyssa Phillips 2 years ago
Not my immediate thought, but one that was missed -- Pebble and the Penguin...also with Martin Short and Jim Belushi
Pferdchen 2 years ago (edited)
Rocky Horror, obviously, but my favorite was seeing him star as Mozart in the Tony award winning play "Amadeus" at National Theater (DC). Shortly before that, also saw the stage adaptation of Rocky Horror (without Mr. Curry); made for an interesting month of theater! The thing about the Rocky Horror reference is that it was released in 1975, though I didn't see it until the early 80's.
Elizabeth Brown 2 years ago
I don't recognize him. I have apparently seen stuff with him in it though, so I think I broke that scale?
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Christina Applegate is totally unrecognizable. Just googled it and she went through breast cancer, ovarian cancer and is suffering from MS. My god what a crappy hand. Totally wish her the best. Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.
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Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
McDonalds designers are astonishingly clever. Whatever design they come up with for the seating, it's ALWAYS a design which is so uncomfortable that it's impossible to stay seated in it for more than fifteen minutes.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
The Incredible Journey! Depending on whether you saw the movie or read the book, that’s Luath, Bodger, and Tao (book), or it’s Shadow, Chance, and Sassy (movie)!
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Jude Corrigan 2 years ago
That's because she used to pin the phone between her ear and shoulder.
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xolitaire 2 years ago (edited)
Pfff snakes. Our biology teacher was a falconer, he regularly brought hawks, weasels and a gaggle of hunting dogs to work. When our class trip had to be cancelled because of terrible weather, he just said "no problem, meet me in the biology room" and then he brought this gigantic hawk that he let fly in the room. "Don't worry he's very old, he just wants pets." We spent our rainy "class trip" watching comedy movies while an old hawk flew from desk to desk.
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Elizabeth Brown 2 years ago
I really wish I learn about this brand as a kid and not an older teen lol, I love the style. Think I still have a sticker pack somewhere
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
It had extra table bits that you could slide apart and slip in to make it bigger for big dinners.
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Molly Whuppie 2 years ago
yeah that only ended September 29 of 2023. Its only been just over a week!
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Mac is doing so well these days. He's living his best live and has no Fs to give.
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Julian Slate 2 years ago
There's no bigger power move than smirking for you mugshot. Trump wishes he could pull this off
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Alex Davis 2 years ago
The lyrics to this song in the new film just break me. Can not get through it without crying
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The 0roburos 2 years ago
Yess indeed, funny thing, I tried to type in " you big dummy" on facebook & Insta and an anti bullying pop up came up.. where are we?
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Marley Nachi 2 years ago
That was a pretty fun story. I think we saw the movie/ listened to the book in primary school
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WoodChuckCouldChuck 2 years ago
Wait what?? Where was this?? Were there decent games like Goldeneye or Cruisin USA?? Waverunner? MARIO?!
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Alex Davis 2 years ago
I got a British happy meal a few months ago and it came with a board game inside that myself and my friend (both very much adults) turned into a drinking game on holiday. Even had others around us asking where we got it from! UK happy meal toys really seem to have gone up in value in recent years, plus they're all fully recyclable once you're done playing with them. I found one from when I was a child in the 90's and it's just a lump of plastic with 2 tiny wheels on the bottom. Think it's more the nostalgia of the time, then the actual toy for this meme.
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Alex Davis 2 years ago
Trying to play in the car on a long car trip, at night- straining to get enough light from each passing lamp post. Then hitting a part of the motorway that didn't have lamp posts and losing. Obviously you couldn't have the light on inside the car, as we all know that was illegal! The struggle was real!
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Hope Cows&Chickens 2 years ago
Too bad one is dead and another is a conservative Republican
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Phoebe Bean 2 years ago
Movie The Outsiders (1983). From left to right: Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze and Tom Cruise.
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Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I only saw Arthur. Caught some of Telletubbies and did not like it.
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berry_baby 2 years ago
it looks like a pain in the a*s to clean ngl, no wonder my mom didnt want me to get silly straws
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Where do I have to go to get pizza with stretchy cheese like I was a kid? Seriously, something happened to cheese about 20 years ago and it doesn't stretch out like it used to.
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Moxitron Jazz 2 years ago
sh-sh-shaa!!! (RIP) I will use my pocket sand in honour of his passing...
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WoodChuckCouldChuck 2 years ago
I made chili for a friend yesterday. It was over $50 to get the beans and beef. Thank god I already had everything else.
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WoodChuckCouldChuck 2 years ago
Asking my son what he wants to watch “Cars!” “Oh you wanna watch the first Toy Story? Okay buddy” “Cars! No, Cars!” “lol okay buddy Toy Story 1 it is!!!”
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Purplescales 2 years ago
.... impoverished povvos like myself are unreal.And even when we had money my dad insisted that we never have anything with brands or decorations on it.
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Alex Davis 2 years ago
Gosh I don't, I'm deaf now and I can still hear the awful noise these made when they were moved. Not to add, how awful they are for the environment. Luckily they're now banned from being used as a takeaway option in the UK
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featherytoad 2 years ago (edited)
Consider yourself lucky. Back in the 80's, we had Jean Nate. And, if you liked skin care, we had 10-o-Six and Sea Breeze. Burned like HELL but, that meant it was working.
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Alex Davis 2 years ago
That was usually paid for by their own wages, when they're already chronically underpaid. Teaching is the only profession where you steal from your own home to bring it into work. Even in schools (in the UK) I worked at where we actually got a budget to do treats like this once a year I probably still spent about £30-35 a month on my students out of my own pocket. Plus in the UK we get money to buy stuff we actually need for our classroom, which is much more than teachers in the USA seem to get! I'm glad students didn't know we did this. We didn't do it for that reason, we do it because of why you do the job- for the love of it. Also because we know many of the students won't get that at home and it put everyone at that moment on an even playing field.
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Purplescales 2 years ago
MATILDA , Specifically when Bruce Bogtrotter is going to be forced to eat the rest of the cake he stole a slice from.
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Shina Kohana 2 years ago
I’m a kid of a single dad with a brother. They played with me but didn’t wear the jewelry. Considering the times, I’m thankful they even played 🥰
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Paul Moore 2 years ago
What was Paris Hilton the founder of? Spending Daddies money? The original entitled influencer?
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WoodChuckCouldChuck 2 years ago
OnLy ThE ReAL OnEs So AI is pumping out memes in edgelord speak now.
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WoodChuckCouldChuck 2 years ago
Can we stop this ReAL OnEs and if YoU Get it YoU GEt iT because it’s so stupid it gave me a headache.
VonBlade 2 years ago
Ah "90s kids only", as if 70s and 80s kids didn't live through those moments, and 50s and 60s kids didn't have kids/grandkids who lived through those bits so absorbed them. I do love gatekeeping nostalgia, particularly with blinkers on as if anyone older wouldn't be aware of your secret language. "Only 50s kids remember The Beatles!" is how this list sounds.
Julian Slate 2 years ago
I got most of these and I was born at the crack of y2k (literally the beginning of the 2000s) to be fair that's not that much of a difference but it still shows how silly this is
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Micah<3 2 years ago
A lot of these work for us early 2000s kids as well! Especially the portage DVD players, God I loved mine
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Why am I the only one who loved the Carmen Sandiego series of computer games? :-(
Mary Peace 2 years ago
I'm in the UK and enjoy 'nostalgia' now I'm in my 60s but most of this I didn't get because I'd never seen it before. One or two exceptions but most of it lost on me.
afia kooma 2 years ago
I was a 90 kids even if I didnt have half this list. Elitist gatekeeping, negative and insecure c**p titles
FoodieHuntress 2 years ago
Have fun with the list! It's a nostalgia trip. Some could be better done. There's enough negative energy out there already peeps. Just move on and look for a better thing to do. And smile! Learn to enjoy the silliness of stuff. We don't have time to be upset. Wishing all who happen on this peace in your heart.
Briahna Keith 2 years ago
I was literally born in 2002 and have seen/used/heard of 90% of this "90s" stuff
ScaryTerry 2 years ago
What are the girls in the beginning before the article actually starts?! Such a flashback but I cannot remember the name!
WoodChuckCouldChuck 2 years ago
Can we stop this ReAL OnEs and if YoU Get it YoU GEt iT because it’s so stupid it gave me a headache.
VonBlade 2 years ago
Ah "90s kids only", as if 70s and 80s kids didn't live through those moments, and 50s and 60s kids didn't have kids/grandkids who lived through those bits so absorbed them. I do love gatekeeping nostalgia, particularly with blinkers on as if anyone older wouldn't be aware of your secret language. "Only 50s kids remember The Beatles!" is how this list sounds.
Julian Slate 2 years ago
I got most of these and I was born at the crack of y2k (literally the beginning of the 2000s) to be fair that's not that much of a difference but it still shows how silly this is
Load More Replies... Micah<3 2 years ago
A lot of these work for us early 2000s kids as well! Especially the portage DVD players, God I loved mine
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Why am I the only one who loved the Carmen Sandiego series of computer games? :-(
Mary Peace 2 years ago
I'm in the UK and enjoy 'nostalgia' now I'm in my 60s but most of this I didn't get because I'd never seen it before. One or two exceptions but most of it lost on me.
afia kooma 2 years ago
I was a 90 kids even if I didnt have half this list. Elitist gatekeeping, negative and insecure c**p titles
FoodieHuntress 2 years ago
Have fun with the list! It's a nostalgia trip. Some could be better done. There's enough negative energy out there already peeps. Just move on and look for a better thing to do. And smile! Learn to enjoy the silliness of stuff. We don't have time to be upset. Wishing all who happen on this peace in your heart.
Briahna Keith 2 years ago
I was literally born in 2002 and have seen/used/heard of 90% of this "90s" stuff
ScaryTerry 2 years ago
What are the girls in the beginning before the article actually starts?! Such a flashback but I cannot remember the name!
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