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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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Beeps
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just WHY can’t you get those any more? I even had much more exciting ones with fish and baskets and all sorts of amazing scenery inside.

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Old School Image Projectors

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These things are still being used in schools in South Africa...

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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.”

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Steve Barnett
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apparently, whatever your first choice was, it was never a mine. Never realised that. Just thought I was always lucky.

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School Stuff

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Cassie
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I did! I could fold little paper ninja stars, too! I folded notes like this for my boyfriend and now my kids are old enough that they could fold notes like this to their boy/girlfriends but all they ever do is send texts. Soooo boring!

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Bob Belcher
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nothing like killing a 700 pound buffalo to only carry back 150 pounds and then dying of disantary the next day.

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Annabeth Chase
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At school we had to play the Oregon Trail to learn about the Oregon trail. Me and my friends would name the people strange names so whenever someone died it was hysterical. This was only last year. My teacher was old.

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deanna woods
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hated those stupid pencil sharpeners and how they would jam up.

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Regina Schwab
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I actually got one of those pencil sharpeners for a Christmas gift one year. Ok, it was one of many gifts but I can still remember how disappointed, and I have to admit, a bit angry I was when I opened it and that was probably 55 years ago...the things we remember.

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it's me again
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have my secret folded notes from French class circa 1977 !

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Barn Owl Hedwig
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The food and pencil sharpener are still in the Alton school district.

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mewmew34
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We all fought over Oregon Trail when I was a kid. We didn't have enough copies for everyone to play it at once. I also really miss some of the lunches my school had when I was a kid. There is always that mystery slop stereotype about school food, but everything we had was pretty awesome. Only stuff I didn't like were things I don't eat no matter what, like the soft shell tacos (I hate soft flour tortillas). We never got the little pretzels like in that photo, but the "Reeses" dessert was amazing. Crushed Graham cracker base, some sort of peanut butter cream, and then chocolate pudding on top.

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Katie Allen
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the school lunches when I was a kid were disgusting so I always brought my lunch

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Lauren Bronson
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Oregon Trail!!! 😍😍😍 I don't think I ever finished a game 😂🤣🤣

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Susan Westmoreland
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my God! Why did we look forward to Square, bland pizza? Add chocolate milk and.......

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John Connell
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Still have the pencil sharpener my brother got when he toured the APSCO factory while in kindergarten, 70 years ago

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Jolee Hang
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I recognize two of these. The trays (I think that's what the picture is supposed to be, rather than any of the food) was the standard at my school until third grade, but then I moved schools, and have moved many times since then, and haven't seen one since, so I think it was exclusively that school/district/area/city. And the pencil sharpeners are still all over my old middle school, which my sister goes to, but probably only because it's rumored the last time it was remodeled was in the 50's, which leads to the theory that the boys get actual assigned gym lockers while the girls get locker 'boxes' which are less than a square foot, and are only allowed to use the real lockers during class. We put our gym stuff in the boxes when we are done. My librarian, who was, like, 60, and went to the school, said it was because at the time, far less girls did gym and sports. I kept hoping that they'd remodel while I was still there. No such luck.

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Jaysa Maheem
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i use the pencil sharpening thing at school but the other things...

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Olive Pearcey
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or ember the Oregon trail, but I was born in early 2000s and we had really old games and that was one of them😂😂

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Mark Kelly
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes to all here in Canada except the lunch thing at my school. We had a cafeteria but was small. You could get food but I'm not sure ht they had and went home for lunch.

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Max L.
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Would any angel soul lie me please about that’s not pizza ?

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Jayne Sargent
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I miss the OLD Oregon Trail! I was an excellent buffalo sniper. LOL. Also had lots of tombstones with my name on them :(

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Eagle Girl
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Still have notes, folded, and pencil sharpener. Love the smell

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Kay Becker
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a handheld version of Oregon trail. Couldn’t help myself

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Anna roberts
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Best pencil sharpener, cleaning house after my oldest kid moved out and came across the Oregon trail disk LOL

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Tiffiny
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Macintosh computer and Oregon Trail was my first grade!

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Manuel Pérez
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If someone uses pencil still, as professional cartoonists, using manual or electric pencil sharpener.

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Manuel Pérez
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Slave terminals were the first step for computer registration, previously they were done on direct registration machines.

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Little Lark
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The school I go to has all of those. And yes, my classmates and I used to pass each other notes in class. We played Oregon Trail during history once because our history teacher was being nostalgic.

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Id row
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep to all that. I remember when our school got a Commodore 64 with Zork on it. I was hooked on computers and video games ever since.

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Jeff Diamond
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was old enough to actually appreciate these things. Especially The Oregon Trail. Classic!

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sophia lazzaro
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay so: That computer is ancient. That slop is nasty and my PRIVATE school serves cheese-stuffed pizza, so can't relate. My private school still has those sharpeners on every door. AND THOSE NOTES ARE SOOOO FUN TO FOLD <3

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Mark Johanen
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do people not use pencil sharpeners any more? I'm pretty sure pencils still exist and are still quite useful in many cases.

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Merry Miller Moon
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That pizza was so good! Still have one of those pencil sharpeners in our basement!

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Rob Chapman
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, yes & yes. We used Apple IIe's in 7th grade computer class in 1984.

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Melodie Cook
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a Zenith "portable". Orange letters on the green screen and weighed a ton.

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Kayla Araujo
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My kids still for letters that way and I have a sharpener in the house we just moved into that I had been wanting for 30 years

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Living_Shadow
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They still have those sharpeners at my school, and my school is fairly new

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Useless Panda
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those sharpeners never seem to work. Also, at my schools, why does it feel like the food quality has just gone down over the years? They keep saying they're healthier options, but I don't want pizza that falls apart as soon as I take a bite.

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M Adams
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, all classrooms have pencil sharpeners, especially like art class. Unfortunately, they have opted for disposable trays. Washable, reusable trays were way less wasteful. There will always be notes.

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Analyn Lahr
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*raises hand* except for that computer. My elementary school had newer ones. In color.

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Esca Sav
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

First time I had pizza in school, I was so excited. Then it came out rectangular and for some reason I couldn't handle the fact that it wasn't triangular and next thing you know, you had a five year old in hysteria in the middle of the cafeteria... I refused to order school pizza until like 7th grade

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Shinomi Chan
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think we had the first three in Finland, the fourth one I assume is just a kid thing anyway

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Loki C
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I tried to sharpen my finger in one of those in 3rd grade. It did not go well.

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Nick
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got a tiny Oregon trail handheld game from amazon for nostalgia. It is almost exactly the original but without the references to Indians attacking. Same noises and everything. So much dysentery.

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Water Bottle
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My classes have the pencil sharpener in our classrooms, and my elementary school had the lunch trays

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Jus
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have my pencil sharpener with CARS, because my aunt was sure Barbies would be too sweet for me... She was so wrong.

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dev mehta
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This brings back memories of my junior high years in early 1980`s

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Ila Chakravarthy
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh... we still have those crappy pencil sharpeners in our classrooms...

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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey, those rectangle pizza's were amazing. I can still remember the taste. Sometime in the '90's my high school switched to hexagon pizza. Not the same.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

During quarantine, the school district has been delivering those school lunches to my house for the kiddos. I've been trading lunches with them. I had rectangle pizza last Friday. It still tastes exactly the way I remember it.

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thee1nonlykRiS
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah yes everything pictures brings back so many memories! Except the milk carton, we had milk in a plastic bag that u had to puncture (a little circle was on the bag to show u where) with a plastic straw.

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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.

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varwenea
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The front piece is removable to discourage thieves from breaking into the car to steal it. Classic!

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thee1nonlykRiS
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some ppl have mad skills on these things! It blows my mind. I could barely make anything recognizable! haha

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Daria B
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, and do you remember when you had to play Final Fantasy 8 on 5 separate CDs? (The 5th was the installation disc, PC version)

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Daria B
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This was also useful for old and almost broken cassette players to play mp3 files on.

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Laser Pointers

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varwenea
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Laser pointer with different tips to create different looks. High tech. 😉

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had one with a loaded spring in it so when you reached to get one and pull it out, metal snapped down onto the victims finger or thumb. It was actually quite painful.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is a newer version. I got mine in the late 60's - it had black paper inserts with the patterns :)

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had those too when I was a kid, but with pictures of the looney tunes on them! Flippo's!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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...

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