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“Spraying Axe”: 82 Memes From The ‘90s That’ll Remind You Of Many Of The Best Things Long Forgotten
Today's kids will never know... It may sound cliché. Unless, of course, you lived through the '90s. Telephones were attached to the wall, the internet screeched at us like an angry aunt, we mastered the art of rewinding a VHS tape before returning it to the store, and our Tamagotchis sometimes got more attention than our actual pets.
It was a time of slow living and carefree fun. Riding bikes, running through sprinklers, and waiting for the next episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air were all the order of the day. Instant gratification wasn't a thing. We painstakingly developed film to finally see what photographs we'd taken (sometimes none) and we listened for hours until our favorite songs came on the radio.
Many a millennial's favorite decade may be long gone but the memories live on in the form of nostalgic memes. Bored Panda has put together a few of the best from an Instagram account called 90snostalgiagirl86_. It has more than 258,000 followers and is a wall of posts that might have you feeling like the 90s never left.
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Today's kids will never know the struggle (or joy) of looking up facts using physical books, home encyclopedias, or browsing the school library. They have Google, Wikipedia and fun fact listicles carefully curated by Bored Panda.
They'll probably never experience dial-up internet, VHS tapes, cassette tapes, landline phones, and having to wait an entire week to watch a new show episode on "appointment” tv.
It goes without saying that you won't find them looking through the TV guide in a magazine or newspaper, to double-check what day and time a movie or show will air. Nor will they painstakingly page through a massive telephone directory of alphabetical surnames to find someone's number or address.
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Roman Arendt 2 weeks ago
And WinRar still waits for its first paying customer. The real good guys!
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Tobias Reaper 2 weeks ago
if you remember this coming out you probably have a bad back or bad knee
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Brenda Lobb 2 weeks ago
they don't mention this is actually 08:00AM Wednesday and 08:00PM Sunday
Kids of today will never know what it's like to have a pen pal. To hand-write letters in perfect cursive, place them in an envelope with the correct postage stamp, and set off to the nearest post office to send them on their merry way.
They (sadly) might not experience the joy of receiving matching stationery sets as a birthday or Christmas gift. And they probably won't pass folded notes around in class, hoping not to be caught before their friend reads what they're itching to say...
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Roman Arendt 2 weeks ago
And no matter what, everything sounded way better than anything "created" with autotune. No disrespect to our queen, but thanks Cher! 🙄
Kids of today communicate via texts, social networking, instant messaging, online gaming, and get lost in virtual worlds (like Minecraft).
Kids of the 90s got lost in the real world. We explored the neighborhood on our bicycles, walked to visit our friends, roller-skated to the park, and used paper maps to find our way around. Screen time wasn't even a thing for us...
We had hide-and-seek, hopscotch, puzzles and board games. We built treehouses, scraped our knees, and had hours of fun with nothing but our imaginations and a few pebbles we'd found in the garden.
"90s kids had the golden age of toys: Tamagotchis, Beanie Babies, and action figures. Board games like Monopoly and Uno were family games. The simplicity of toys brought time to spend with family," reads a column in The Sun.
"By the 2000s, toys had gone high-tech. Kids moved from Tamagotchis to virtual pets and from Game Boys to gaming online games like the PubG and Free Fire. Even physical toys often came with digital add-ons," it adds.
Kids of today will never know the love and effort that went into making a mix tape for your crush. It often meant first getting a blank cassette tape, then either carefully timing tracks on a 60- or 90-minute tape using a dual-deck stereo player, or recording straight off the radio. That, of course, meant waiting for certain songs to come on. Or calling in to request them...
We made sure to cut out the DJ talking, and we carefully curated our songs so that they told the perfect love story.
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Kelly H. Wilder 2 weeks ago
I am so nostalgic for a bicycle! It is my biggest "want", but unfortunately adulthood means needs come before wants and my bicycle is out of reach for the immediate future.
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Roman Arendt 2 weeks ago
I was sooooo jealous of anyone who could afford this, even though my experience with PCs in the nineties was limited mostly to MS Paint, Minesweeper and Solitaire.
"Unfortunately, sending someone a link to a playlist just doesn’t have the same charm as giving them a physical mixtape with a cute label on it. And while you can easily play your playlist with high-quality audio while driving, there is still that nostalgic feeling of flipping through a cassette case while trying to focus on the road," writes Milo Denison, the host of The 80s and 90s Uncensored podcast.
"Despite the benefits of modern technology, those of us who remember the old days will always miss that sense of nostalgia that goes along with the days of making mixtapes," the mix tape expert adds.
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Auntriarch 2 weeks ago (edited)
I can taste the Ice cream (cardboard). I used to eat the colours separately, once I tried it with my eyes shut, most confusing
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Laszlo Larthlanc 2 weeks ago
Not if you put it on a steady surface and never touch it while it's playing a CD.
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Laszlo Larthlanc 2 weeks ago
Had one. Started turning itself off and on and adjusting brightness with no user input about 2 months after I bought it. Cool when it worked right, though. Easy to turn the bedside lamp on in the middle of the night without knocking it over while fumbling for the switch on the socket.
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James016 2 weeks ago
Mine was UK daytime tv and MTV Europe. I got very sick when I was 13 and no-one could actually diagnose what it was. All they could say was that it was a glandular fever type virus. I missed half a term of school and could barely get round the house due to having no energy to move.
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Elladine DesIsles 2 weeks ago
I was the one who started them for everybody. I had one going - the spiral version - with 16 strands at one point. Totally useless skill, but it looked cool. And I hadn't learned to knit yet (I suppose I've always had an affinity for strings and knots).
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Geoffrey Scott 2 weeks ago (edited)
My mom once had a brain fart and removed the entire top of the Hershey's syrup can instead of using the church key to poke triangle holes in it. She poured it into one of these. Got some ice cream and poured some on it, not realizing she also put her homemade BBQ sauce in one as well....not a great taste sensation :(.
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Roman Arendt 2 weeks ago
🎶ain't nothing but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.🎶 Thanks for the earworm, BP. That's what I needed right now and for the rest of the day... 😐
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nottheactualphoto 2 weeks ago
As a kid, I'd never heard of Walmart. We lived nowhere near Arkansas, and it hadn't yet metastasized.
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Bored Jellyfish 2 weeks ago (edited)
Ringtones… how nostalgic! Who knew it would it would all turn to “bzzzt”.
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driedgrapes 2 weeks ago
It's just occurred to me that this was to mimic the tobacco chew they used. Remember those bubblegum cigarettes too?
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nottheactualphoto 2 weeks ago
I imagine Disney still licenses their characters to product manufacturers.
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Elladine DesIsles 2 weeks ago
I don't think we had these in Canada. Either that, or they weren't up to my mother's obsessive nutritional standards. Either way, I think I'm grateful.
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Elladine DesIsles 2 weeks ago
And hopefully, queer girls today don't experience the confusion of randomly selecting one of these heartthrobs to fake an obsession over, in order to fit on, while not quite grasping yet why they don't.
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Kaydenn Locklear 5 days ago (edited)
Omg!! I absolutely loved these when I was pregnant with my son in 95 I ate a bag a day
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Bored Jellyfish 2 weeks ago
Never really thought about that before. I guees, there was a particular scent. You really only noticed it stepping on the bus on the first day after summer break.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 weeks ago
The only console I owned as a child was a SEGA Master System.
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Bored Jellyfish 2 weeks ago
These are always interesting to go through. There’s always a few where they’ll say, “only a person from ** generation will understand this” not realizing that sometimes those things actually go as far back to Boomer and X generations. Still, there were a few I didn’t recognize, and worse- stuff I DID recognize because my own kids grew up with them. 🫤
Bored Jellyfish 2 weeks ago
These are always interesting to go through. There’s always a few where they’ll say, “only a person from ** generation will understand this” not realizing that sometimes those things actually go as far back to Boomer and X generations. Still, there were a few I didn’t recognize, and worse- stuff I DID recognize because my own kids grew up with them. 🫤
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