We all like to think that age is just a number. And it kinda works until you come across a relic from the old times. Your heart starts pumping, and you gotta tell yourself "I ain’t a kid no more."
So when someone started the "I’m this old" Twitter challenge, it blew up in an instant. People started sharing pictures of old-school stuff that best represents how old they’ve gotten. From Myspace accounts and floppy disks to Accelerated Reader and Yogos Bits, there’s a relatable thing for virtually everyone. So let’s go down memory lane, where everything feels so much more recent than it actually is.
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Ring-Toss
Old School Image Projectors
CD Collection
If any of these objects seem familiar, there’s a great chance you belong to the millennial generation, which covers anyone born from 1981 to 1996. That being said, the youngest millennials are now fully-grown adults. That means we can clearly spot the generational differences in comparison to to Generation X (born from 1965-1980) and baby boomers (born from 1946-1964).
According to Pew Research Center, millennials make up the 2nd largest generation in the US electorate, “a fact that continues to shape the country’s politics given their Democratic leanings when compared with older generations.” In general, this demographic group is “more educated but there’s a sharp economical divide between those with a college education and those without it.”
Class Journals
Minesweeper
Apparently, whatever your first choice was, it was never a mine. Never realised that. Just thought I was always lucky.
School Stuff
To compare with their predecessors, millennials tend to be more conscious about their health and general well-being. A 2013 Aetna poll showed that “baby boomers were likely to define 'healthy' as not falling sick.” Meanwhile, millennials consider healthy eating habits and physical activity as the definitions of healthy. That explains why we have seen such a rise in food preferences like vegan, gluten-free, organic, and other natural alternatives.
On the other hand, there’s a steady tendency of decline in millennial homeownership. Business Insider suggests that this is due to the fact that as a whole “they have less money than their parents did at the same age.” According to this report titled “Are Millennials Different?” by The Federal Reserve: millennials have lower earnings, fewer assets, and less wealth compared to baby boomers.
Car Radio With Removable Front Piece
VHS collection
Etch-A-Sketch
Some ppl have mad skills on these things! It blows my mind. I could barely make anything recognizable! haha
Watching Movies On VHS
Can Phone
Cassette Adaptors
TV/Game Computer Switch
Laser Pointers
Practical Jokes
Lite-Brite
Movie Classics
Tetherball
Pogs
So Old School It's Vintage
Posted from username 90skid is questionable bc the stuff pictured was much older than the 90's.
I remember these and I am not THAT old! Does anybody remember the fountain pens with the rubber bladder inside and you filled up at the communal ink bottle by inserting the pen nib down and flipping the lever on the outside up and down to pump the bladder and fill with ink. Messy things those pens. Ink blots on papers and notebooks and most of us went home with blue inked fingers. We loved our pens.
FYI, Items pictured above were still in use in India back in the 1980s along with their newer versions. I have even seen tooth powder and the light switch being in use even in the late 90s.
In India yes because they aren't a developed nation like Canada and the US so we had more advanced packaging.
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You beat me. At an arts-and-crafts fare, a soapmaker once sold me a ''shampoo bar'', which was supposedly what people used before plastic bottles. Stay away from this nasty stuff: your hair will feel like hay until you wash it with some real shampoo.
The first house I lived in had some light switches like this one ,but they didn't work.
Yep...close, this was just before my time, I only saw half of the 50's.
Nah, not yours. Left to you by your grandad huh? I have stuff from my Dad's childhood, 1902. These are all true treasures, well except you may want to check out the wiring on that flip switch...LOL
My grandparents had a couple in their medicine cabinet when I was little.
I loved going to my grandmother's house and using her tooth powder! :) Haven't seen that in so many years!
Yes, but you are still able too live in the computer age! Great for you!
What country are you from that this stuff is from the NINETIES??? I'm from the 70s and this is stuff my grandparents would have grown up with o_O
At last! Something I don't remember! Thought I was the oldest one scrolling.
Okay, I've seen a lot of objects here that I don't recognize because they date back to, like, yesterday. But these go back quite a ways.
Would like to see packaging returned to these types, getting rid of all that PLASTIC!
Snap Bracelets
Cherry Bombs
Skydancer Barbie
Robo Pets
Juice Bars
Cheating Prevention
I had to use these when I was in 1st-3rd grade and i´m 13. They may be old but their still in use today so...
Colorful Macs
Golden Oldies
Ankle Skipper
Invisible Ink
Note: this post originally had 69 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
Same, I'm 14 and came to see the things I wouldn't recognize. The vast majority I do.
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Ah, this takes me back. Who remembers using these? hand-axe-5...777a0d.jpg 
"Omg, I'm so old I remember my little kid toys from 2007!!" - Look, I'm 36, older than a lot of people on here talking about how 'old' they are, but I admit that I'm not really that old yet. A lot of you little latter-Millennial and first wave 'Gen-Z' babies have a long, long way to go before you can talk about this stuff without sounding absurd to actual old people. I sort of do too. Let's be glad for that, enjoy it while it lasts.
Easy there. The post just asked how old they are, the item didn't have to be very old.
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Ok I'm a gen z and I have seen all of these in my life. It might have been that I went to a broke christian private school but these really arent all that old.
My brother had a bunch of these books. I stuck to Calvin and Hobbes.
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New name for the thread lol: People in their 20's and 30's post nostalgic pictures, pretend that they're "old", and don't realize that 90% of the things are still in use, and kids still know about most of the rest of the stuff haha. Also do people know that gen z started in the mid to late 90's, so many of the older gen zers grew up with millennials and in the 90's?
Millennials started in the late 90s. A lot of gen-z people aren't even adults yet.
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As a Gen-Xer I kind of resent photos and comments that suggest stuff I am perfectly familiar with from my childhood is a hallmark of the next generation! Hey, I'm not THAT old..! :P
"Millennials on Twitter post about how "old" they are" (except for the guy with the glass coke bottle)
I'm 19 and seen it all. It took even 15 years for those things to get to eastern Europe.
Meh. Most of these are not that old. Many are still in use & currently available today.
I liked/commented on all the ones I remember or actually used... I was a teen in the 80s, so I remember quite a few!
I had all but #20 at some point, and I know about #20 because my grandma had the old containers from when she used them. Heck, I have one of her tins of "100% pure MSG" that's empty but is cool looking around here somewhere.
I'm seeing most of these items for the first time and I'm an 80's baby. This is because most of these things did not come to my country and maybe shipping wasn't that prominent back then
I know all of these and i am 14, i remember going to my grandparents house and wanting to watch a movie but the VSH tapes were trouble to figure out
These comments are comforting. I mean, I AM old but this stuff seems awfully recent.
LOL is it bad that I look at some of those and am like that is way too new!
Popples. I had every single one. I also had all of the G.I. Joe action figures. That’s how old I am.
a lot of this stuff is gen z stuff I believe (that's born i the 80's, right ?) so the title's bogus. Also, some of that stuff is typically american, rather than generational.
I haven't seen a single pack of "cigarette gum" since...never mind. ;-)
What about these. I used to collect these in Middle School. SNS-sticke...28f083.jpg 
Not sure I understand the competition for remembering the things that are unimportant.
Same, I'm 14 and came to see the things I wouldn't recognize. The vast majority I do.
Load More Replies... Ah, this takes me back. Who remembers using these? hand-axe-5...777a0d.jpg
"Omg, I'm so old I remember my little kid toys from 2007!!" - Look, I'm 36, older than a lot of people on here talking about how 'old' they are, but I admit that I'm not really that old yet. A lot of you little latter-Millennial and first wave 'Gen-Z' babies have a long, long way to go before you can talk about this stuff without sounding absurd to actual old people. I sort of do too. Let's be glad for that, enjoy it while it lasts.
Easy there. The post just asked how old they are, the item didn't have to be very old.
Load More Replies... Ok I'm a gen z and I have seen all of these in my life. It might have been that I went to a broke christian private school but these really arent all that old.
My brother had a bunch of these books. I stuck to Calvin and Hobbes.
Load More Replies... New name for the thread lol: People in their 20's and 30's post nostalgic pictures, pretend that they're "old", and don't realize that 90% of the things are still in use, and kids still know about most of the rest of the stuff haha. Also do people know that gen z started in the mid to late 90's, so many of the older gen zers grew up with millennials and in the 90's?
Millennials started in the late 90s. A lot of gen-z people aren't even adults yet.
Load More Replies... As a Gen-Xer I kind of resent photos and comments that suggest stuff I am perfectly familiar with from my childhood is a hallmark of the next generation! Hey, I'm not THAT old..! :P
"Millennials on Twitter post about how "old" they are" (except for the guy with the glass coke bottle)
I'm 19 and seen it all. It took even 15 years for those things to get to eastern Europe.
Meh. Most of these are not that old. Many are still in use & currently available today.
I liked/commented on all the ones I remember or actually used... I was a teen in the 80s, so I remember quite a few!
I had all but #20 at some point, and I know about #20 because my grandma had the old containers from when she used them. Heck, I have one of her tins of "100% pure MSG" that's empty but is cool looking around here somewhere.
I'm seeing most of these items for the first time and I'm an 80's baby. This is because most of these things did not come to my country and maybe shipping wasn't that prominent back then
I know all of these and i am 14, i remember going to my grandparents house and wanting to watch a movie but the VSH tapes were trouble to figure out
These comments are comforting. I mean, I AM old but this stuff seems awfully recent.
LOL is it bad that I look at some of those and am like that is way too new!
Popples. I had every single one. I also had all of the G.I. Joe action figures. That’s how old I am.
a lot of this stuff is gen z stuff I believe (that's born i the 80's, right ?) so the title's bogus. Also, some of that stuff is typically american, rather than generational.
I haven't seen a single pack of "cigarette gum" since...never mind. ;-)
What about these. I used to collect these in Middle School. SNS-sticke...28f083.jpg
Not sure I understand the competition for remembering the things that are unimportant.
