Nostalgia is a powerful substance. And everyone carries it within themselves. It can take us to a distant time and place in a heartbeat. All we need is the right trigger. Luckily, the subreddit of the same name has plenty of them.
Whether we're talking about multicolored pens, Tamagotchis, or having to manually turn off your computer, this online community shares pictures that make you feel old and hit right in the feels.
We at Bored Panda have already covered r/Nostalgia in our older publications here and here, but with 1 million members, its collection of sentimental gems keeps expanding really fast, so we thought we'd release an update to send you down memory lane once more. Safe travels!
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Robin Williams
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Even though we all feel nostalgia, it's not entirely clear what psychological purpose it serves. Is this longing feeling for the past good or bad?
Krystine Batcho, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at LeMoyne College, said the word was coined or invented a long time ago, over 300 years ago, and originally designated homesickness.
"Semantic drift over the centuries has broadened that to the notion of longing for or missing aspects of a person's personal lived past," Batcho explained.
In The 2000's Everyone Had A Cd Case In Their Car Half Full Of Burned Cds, And It Was Better Than What We Have Now
Old Stereo Cabinets
Remember When You Didn’t Have To Enter Your Personal Info Online To Win A Soda?
"Most of the research available today including my research argues that nostalgia serves a number of functions," Batcho said. "The thing that ties them all together is that nostalgia is an emotional experience that unifies."
In other words, it helps to unite our self, our sense of who we are, and our identity over time. This can be valuable because over time we change in incredible ways.
"We're not anywhere near the same as we were when we were three years old, for example," Batcho added. "Nostalgia by motivating us to remember the past in our own life helps to unite us to that authentic self and remind us of who we have been and then compare that to who we feel we are today." This also gives us an image of who we want to be in the future.
The Time When Transparency Was All The Rage
Multicolor Pens
Having To Manually Roll Down/Up Your Car's Windows
In the US, the average new car is $47K, average annual income $53K. We wouldn’t mind manually rolling down the windows in affordable vehicles.
Is It Me Or Did You Guys Have Those Temporary Trailers Attached To You're School That Were Only Meant To Stay Up For Like 3 Years But Ended Up Staying For Like 30?
I spent all of grade five in a portable. It was so cold in the winter. :(
Nostalgia also serves an essential psychological function in that it's a highly social emotion. It connects us to other people.
"In the beginning, when we're very young, it's part of what bonds us to the most important people in our life, our parents, our siblings, our friends. As we go through life, it can broaden out and extend to a wider sphere of the people we interact with. It's a social connectedness phenomenon and nostalgia is in that sense a very healthy pro-social emotion."
Before Cell Phones… Here’s How You Found Your Friends
Solitaire Card Backs
I know if you choose the one at the end sometimes an ace would shoot out of his sleeve. And if you choose the one with the castle the bats will move and the one with the robot some of the dials would move
The Art On The Back Of The Little Golden Book Series
Who Else Remembers Cigarette Vending Machines That Had No Way To Check A Persons Age And Operated On The Honor System?
75 cents at the pizzeria. You had to run in quickly while the guy was busy or lie & say it was for your mom
We didn't have age certification for loose packs, either. I'd just say they were for my Dad's girlfriends because everyone knew they smoked. Never had those until after I was 18!
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When these went away, an art group in Boston bought a bunch and put them in the subway system as "Art-O-Matic" machines. You'd put in your coins and GET A PIECE OF ART!!!!!! They were the best subway installations ever (up there with the Kendall Band!).
I don't even think there was age restrictions for smoking back then. I always felt very satisfied when I pulled the k**b and you heard the 'thunk' and the pack of smokes fell out. :) I miss smoking :(. **** BP edited out the word "k**b" very strange****
Congratulations on quitting. It must’ve been extremely hard. I definitely wouldn’t start again if I were able to quit. I’m in counseling now and use lozenges but I still smoke up to 10 cigarettes a day but most days between 4-7. 10 is a BAD day. You might’ve forgotten how miserable you felt when you first quit but I’ll remind you, the anxiousness the just plain feeling ill and the headaches and stomach aches no fun at all the risks to your health and family member’s health definitely aren’t worth smoking either. Like I said congratulations but it seems you have no idea what most smokers would give to be able to quit. I would clean out my savings account if there was a guarantee I would never smoke again.
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I remember being 8, maybe 9 and walking to the corner store with a note from my mother and coming home with a 12 pack of beer, 2 packs of smokes and a gallon of milk in my wagon. The 80's were a magical time...
Was going to say the same thing. We would go to 7-11 with a note and they let us buy smokes and beer. Of course, we'd get Slurpees and play a few games of Excitebike before heading home.
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They had one at the local bowling alley (remember THOSE?) where anyone could buy cigarettes as long as the employees weren't watching. They also used to let you buy them at the grocery store with a note from your'parents'. And that's the story of how I started smoking at 13. 2 years quit now
Good for you! The hardest addiction to overcome.
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I’m old enough to remember when there simply wasn’t an age requirement to buy cigarettes. When I was a kid, I always got sent to the corner store to buy smokes for my mom.
👋 Or you go in a store, at least in small towns, and say they were for your parent....
I used to take change out of the fountain at the mall to get a pack from the machine.
The national gallery in DC has one of these that they modified to dispense tiny art from current working artists
My family owned a restaurant. Daddy had them stop filling the machine when my sister (4years old? at the time) bought a pack & ate them. She was sick for weeks. He broke the lock & filled it with candy boxes. Think Lemonheads & Spree. This was 1988 or 89. We renovated & tossed out all the old vestibule machines in 91.
Poor baby your sister that is. Must’ve been horrible for her stomach. That’s the problem I have with the nicotine gum and lozenges they will tear your stomach up. Not like smoking at all.
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My parents would give me the change to buy the cigarettes from the machine for them when we were eating out. And then smoke at the table. Way to go mom and dad!
..cause no one cared how old you were. I was buying smokes for family members starting at 3-4 years old. Seriously. Sometimes, you needed a note from the adult, mostly not.
Yeah, I once stole quarters from my grandma (maybe half-dollars) for cigarettes and candy at the local grocery store. Turned out, they were solid silver. My grandma found out and we tried to get them back, but there were only a few left in circulation.
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And for cigaretts, but with age check. Don't ask me how that works... 😅
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Or when they malfunctioned and a group of kids could keep pulling the handle and walk away with a cartons worth of packs and no employee ever saw or stopped us. I'm pretty sure my uncle gave them back to the restaurant when we all ran up excited to give him free cigarettes 😆
We still have these in hole in the wall bars... My fave! The bars not the smoke
In 1978, they were 65 cents from the machine upstairs in Sears at Sunrise Mall. Nobody ever paid attention to us kids as we nervously inserted 13 nickels (time-consuming). I'm happy to say that I finally quit smoking in February of 2021. I have no idea how, but I did it!
Worked at a department store as a stock clerk as a teen in the 1960's. One of my jobs was to go to the drug store across the street with $5 given to me by the office manager and purchase two cartons of Winston cigarettes for the Store Owner. He'd already lost a half a lung to cancer, but still smoked like a frieght train. And, if I didn't bring back the 50 cents change, there was hell to pay. The joker lived into his eighties - somehow!
I used to be the cigarette runner for my mom's league bowling team. Got to keep the change for the arcade and candy vending machines.
In the 80s my Mother would send me too the gas station with a note and cash for 2 packs of smokes. I got a piece of bubble gum with the change. I was 8 years old.
There was one at Liberty Drug (a bar) in Norman Oklahoma as late as 1992 or 93
My grandmother sent me to the restaurant down the street to get her smokes a few times. Also the convenience store letting me buy them with a note from her, i was like 8.
They were $3.00 when Newports were 1.60 at the store but we snuck in to the auto repair shop to buy them xD as if the mechanics were going to bust us!
When I was stationed at MCAS New River, NC in 1985 there was one in our barracks.
When I moved to a really rural area when I was younger there were still three different places in town that still had these in use.
In 1989 when I started working in a hospital, there was a machine next to the cafeteria.
I remember my mom sending me to go buy her cigarettes out of these things.
Nah! 25 cents a pack and 25 cents a gallon of gas in the first VW bug
I remember being about 9 on vacation with my folks, and my dad sending me down to the hotel lobby to get cigarettes from a machine just like that one!
I remember when the price went from 20 cents to 25 they knew a 25% price rise wouldn’t be taken kindly so they added 2 or 3 pennies inside the pack’s cellophane wrapper.
My mum would send me to the newsagents to buy her f**s when I was a child and you could just buy them with no one even a little bit bothered that you weren't even ten yet!
I saw one in Ireland about 6 years ago... Had to pick my chin up off the floor! I took a pic to prove it to friends back home.
Yep, I remember sneaking into the side door of a place called Poncho's and going to a machine like this to get cigarettes for my friend
Most were clearly posted that you had to be 18yo or older to purchase. So happy when I turned 18.
25 cents everywhere, 35 by the time I was in college. Everybody smoked everywhere except the sanctuary at church.
We kids were used to run down to the corner bar and pick up a 6 pack of beer and a pack of cigarettes from the machine for my stepdad when we were younger, like elementary school young.
My mother used to send me across the street to the fire station to get her a pack of cigarettes from their vending machine upstairs. All the firemen knew who we were.
When I was a kid, people would sell cigarettes and beer to me as long as I said it was for my mom...nobody hassles me about using the cigarette machines, either.
That's how I bought my first pack, out of a machine in a nursing home across the street from the apartment complex I lived in.
They had one in a bar near my apartment until 2015. Of course the bar didn't let anyone under 21 in bar.
I'm evidently younger than I thought- first time I saw one of these was on Degrassi Junior High, never in real life :)
Still buy from the bar near me lol but they're 10.50 now instead of 2.75
Cigarettes were$.23 a pack. There were two pennies inside the cellophane when you bought them from the machine.
I'd rather have that than the systematic control of everything nowadays.
Being elementary school age, and we could buy these for daddy, his beer, at the bowling alley, was normal.
Bought my first pack in the hotel lobby for $1.00 and it came with a free pack of matches!
Yup. I remember the night I met my future hubby at this club, and I was shocked that they had the audacity to charge $4.50 for a pack of smokes!
I quit smoking at a vending machine! Back at work after a flu, I put in $.35 (!!!) and was about to get a pack when I realized I hadn’t smoked in 5 days. I hit the coin return and haven’t had a puff since that day in 1966. 😎👏🌈🥂
These still exist in some places. Although I've only ever seen them in 21+ businesses
Actually , here they has a ley , and u had to así for It. Then the owner of the place would judge if u are ocer 18
35 cents a pack and right there in the office not just the break room or cafeteria.
Local bowling alley where I grew up. I feel like I’m there again just looking at this 🙃
Oh yeah or have someone distract him and they were twice the price at $2.00 a pack
Saw one at a casino not long ago. A bit more hi tech and $15 a pack.
There is Winston Lights in there. That was what I smoked until I quit.
those were the days when you could run into a gas station and buy cigs for your grandma
I loved to pull the handles on these when I was a kid (the "buttons" pulled out, not pushed in. Neve bought any, just pulled the handles, lol
Yep. 75 cents a pack when I started smoking and over $8 a pack when I quit. I don't think I could afford to smoke these days.
You can find these with small pieces of art in them. I bought a few of them in Las Vegas! They are called art-o-Mat machines.
These still exist at a couple of places, only bars where no one underage is allowed, but you get IDed by the bartender before you can use it.
There are still cigarette vending machines in Europe but you need a driving licence to use them now.
These vending machines don't have any age verification system. It didn't say that they don't have cigarette vending machines in the US at all anymore.
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These were amazing and I miss them, almost as much as I miss being able to smoke inside anywhere including my own house or car.
In itself, nostalgia is somewhat of a conflict because it is a bitter-sweet emotion. But that also has a hugely positive effect because it helps us to unify what otherwise would be felt or experienced by us as conflicts.
"The bitterness comes from the sense that we know for sure that we can never really regain them, they're gone forever. The irreversibility of time means that we absolutely cannot go back in time so it helps us to deal with the conflict of the bitter longing for what can never be again together with the sweetness of having experienced it and being able to revisit it and relive it again," Batcho said.
Teacher's Pulldown Maps
Silly Erasers That Never Worked
Defragging Your Hard Drive
Having To Manually Turn Off Your Computer
Haha I had forgotten that. One thing I won't forget is the absolute paranoia my dad had about computer viruses in the 90s
According to Batcho's research, nostalgia can be a stabilizing force and comfort us during times of transition.
"It's very difficult to grasp change, because in some sense, at a very deep psychic level, change threatens us," the psychologist explained. "It's a little frightening because we're not 100% sure that we can control it. One of the most important aspects of being a healthy human being is having a sense that you are in control of things. When things start to change, either very substantially, such as major events in a person's life, getting married or getting divorced, getting a new career, going back to school or graduating from school, it's comforting to have a nostalgic feeling for the past that reminds us that although we don't know what the future is going to bring, what we do know is that we know who we have been and who we really are."
Movie Theater Carpeting
Teacher's Grade Book
Magic Mitt For The 90s Kids Out There
This Ride That Almost Killed Us All In The 90's
Nostalgia brings things back. It stimulates memories of the times when we were accepted and loved and this phenomenon is very comforting. Knowing that at some point in life we didn't have to earn our love can be very powerful. Nostalgia helps us realize that our parents, our siblings, or our friends simply loved us unconditionally. And these thoughts can work miracles on us when we're undergoing turmoil in our personal lives.
Magic Slate Paper Saver
Family: Why Do You Love Pizza So Much? My TV As A Kid
Visiting Your School After Dark If You Were Attending A Performance Or Exhibit. The Eerie Type Of Feeling You'd Experience
Wait, school performances and exhibits aren't a thing anymore? Why not?
Mr. Sketch. Our First “High”
Batcho believes nostalgia might even have an element of infectiousness and wishes it was even bigger. To understand what she means by that, think of a group of people who have some shared experience.
"The best example of that is when a group of friends are reminiscing about their antics, the things they did as either teenagers or children or what have you. There it's a bonding experience. Another example of that is we know from current research that sports fans love to do that. They talk about the games that they enjoyed and when their team was victorious. When you have a common bond, it can be very infectious and it's like a domino one memory triggers another."
A Complete Fisher-Price Medical Kit
Wood Grain Pull Out Vhs Storage
Candy Powder Filled Fruit
Winamp. Did You Have It?
And the reason why she wishes it was more infectious is that this, let's call it, collective nostalgia can break down when you have a group of people who do not have shared experiences to be nostalgic about. Suddenly if you have one individual wanting to reminisce about their past but no one else in that group remembers those things or lived through those things, you might get things like a generation gap. Someone is talking about the 1950s and a teen says they can't even imagine it.
So when you think about it, r/Nostalgia is doing a beautiful public service. The subreddit is bringing together those who might not have anyone to daydream about the past with.
Countertop Popcorn Machines
The Mac And PC Commercials
The Computer Section Of A Public Library In 2006
The Classic Rectangular Garfield Comic Books
I Never Had A Pair Myself, But I Recall Quite A Few Childhood Friends Having The 80s Style Fisher Price Roller Skates…
Robinhood Men In Tights (1993)
Their once was a man from Nottingham who tried to cross a river. What a dope. He stepped on a rope now look at him shiver
Cd Holders That Strap Onto Your Sun Visor
My Daughter. Playing With Her New Tamagotchi
😳 my granddaughter has that same flannel nightgown…. now i know 💯 i am old 😢
California Raisin, 1987, You Heard It From The Grapevine!
Kit Kat With Foil Wrapping
3D Pinball For Windows - Space Cadet Gif
Old Disney Store
Limewire
Turn Off Computer
Cootie!
Mcdonald’s Burger Seats. I Can Still Feel Them - The Hardest Substance Known To Man
Bedding Sets From The 90s
The Old Comedy Central Logo. The 90s To Mid 2000s Were Peak Comedy Central
I remember turning it on and seeing actual stand up comics being funny. Not just sitcoms.
Celebrating A Merry Birthday In 1997
Aww! I have a Merry Birthday Too! Only upside to one present is when your mom is struggling, sometimes you get something good like a Nintendo.
Ringtone Commercials
It was Jamster in the UK with the Crazy Fog... still trying to forget that noise
Connecting With The World In Aol Chat Rooms
Then leaving the chat room when everyone notices a predator is in the chat ruining everyones conversations. Soon enough it was impossible to chat without people wanting to "talk dirty" maybe I just had bad experiences but I remember it being so cool at first
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Spirograph. Lite Brite. See and Say with a pull string. Jarts-- lawn dart game responsible for many serious injuries and even death. The original Underoos. Rubik's cube. Books on how to solve Rubik's cube. Mr. Whipped. The Tidy Bowl man. The original Walkman.
I still hate rubik's cube and feel super stupid whenever I look at one. Like, WHY AM I SO DUMB I CANT FIX IT???
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This isn't to you Eagle Girl. But I've never seen so many down votes in my life! 60!!!
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I'm gen z and now I feel I didn't even have a childhood
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Please change the post's title to something like "nostalgia" instead of "obsolete things". It doesn't fit the list at all and it's very disturbing.
Yeah, about half these things are still on the market. They may not be as popular as they once were, but you can still find those pens at almost any toy store, those "medical kits" are probably even more popular now (not original FP, but basically the same thing), n64 is now a premium subscription on Switch, and as a concept consuls are absolutely still popular, and if you don't shut your computer (or even smartphone) down all the way at least occasionally you are running a lot of garbage that is slowing you down and using up more power than you need to.
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I found that oddly ironic considered that BoredPanda is an European site.
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Do some people understand the definition of "obsolete"? As in, no longer useful? No longer available?
Remember trying to go fast enough to slide? I'll just put this right here. Big-Wheel-...ce4fc1.jpg 
And I'm surprised no one brought Beanie-Babies to the party....
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Sad to not see JOLT cola on the list. “All the sugar, twice the caffeine!”
When whole listicles are nostalgic for things that came out after you finished high school, you're old. I'm old
I was just thinking this. Or, more sarcastically, “What, no photos of a cotton gin”
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Max Headroom, Choose Your Own Adventure books, Slip and Slide, Rubik's Snake, Hoppity Hop, Intellivision, ColecoVision, Commodore 64/128, having to get up and go to the TV to change the channel, audio cassettes
My family were talking about Max Headroom recently, because my step-dad reckons my sister's old high school principal looks like him! moo_2020-6...501ee3.jpg 
The connection between a number 2 pencil (or pen) and an audio cassette. Also the cassette to CD adapter for older cars.
I only heard of that a few years ago when I began teaching kindergarten and I couldn't work out how to play lol!
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I'm smiling as I see most of these I remember them, but as an adult You folks wouldn't have a clue how to use some of the technology I had as a child Also the games, toys and pastimes were way different Virtually devoid of any electronics. We played outdoors, rode tricycles or bikes and played mostly with little or no safety equipment. We had very little processed food. A coke was a treat. Most moms were at home and took pride their homes and families. We prayed in school and never had to worry about being shot because we were protected by God whom most people trusted and respected. No perverts would have ever dared try to hurt one of us and if they did the law dealt them a swift just penalty. The toys were simple but realistic. Children grew up as children not mini adults or drug dealers. We loved each other, hugged and appreciated what we had. I'd love to go back to those days...when people cared and loved
Anyone else's feelings get hurt seeing your childhood while in the antique store?
I remember saving up to buy a sky pager. Just to have to find a payphone and call my friend or moms when summoned. Was the ultimate 90s accessory.
All these wonderful memories came flooding back! Thank You Bored Panda!!!
i know just about all of them - i coulda' bought a fully automatic bb gun powered by a can of freon off the back of a comic book cover when i was a kid.
This article made me think of this song: ("Unbelievable" by Owl City and Hanson, if you don't trust me to follow the link! I have never Rickrolled anyone and never will, I swear). https://youtu.be/PTWaiwb5QnE
#5 I learnt quick nothing was free, u needed the deposit money in Canada. Kept a couple of dimes on me. I won a lot
Speak & Spell. Speak & Math. Commodore 64. Hot Wheels. Barbie with her Afghan hound in the US and Cindy in the UK. The Muppet Show. Sesame Street. Bagpuss. Swap Shop. Will o'the Wisp. Original Bugs Bunny cartoons. Blue Peter. Bicycles with streamers from the handlebars. 99p's. Metal roller skates.
The LaserDisc. The predecessor to the DVD and BluRay. They looked just like a DVD but we're the size of a 33 1/3 LP and almost twice as thick. Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, and Cliff Hanger were LaserDisc video games. There were quite a few others but those are some that come to mind.
This list did nothing but make me feel even older and closer to death than normal. Thanks, Boredpanda.
I liked the article, but many of these still exist. Plus, like most of these, it is so US-centric. I know they can only use the things that are online, but it would be nice if they featured some from other countries.
Spirograph. Lite Brite. See and Say with a pull string. Jarts-- lawn dart game responsible for many serious injuries and even death. The original Underoos. Rubik's cube. Books on how to solve Rubik's cube. Mr. Whipped. The Tidy Bowl man. The original Walkman.
I still hate rubik's cube and feel super stupid whenever I look at one. Like, WHY AM I SO DUMB I CANT FIX IT???
Load More Replies... This isn't to you Eagle Girl. But I've never seen so many down votes in my life! 60!!!
Load More Replies... I'm gen z and now I feel I didn't even have a childhood
Load More Replies... Please change the post's title to something like "nostalgia" instead of "obsolete things". It doesn't fit the list at all and it's very disturbing.
Yeah, about half these things are still on the market. They may not be as popular as they once were, but you can still find those pens at almost any toy store, those "medical kits" are probably even more popular now (not original FP, but basically the same thing), n64 is now a premium subscription on Switch, and as a concept consuls are absolutely still popular, and if you don't shut your computer (or even smartphone) down all the way at least occasionally you are running a lot of garbage that is slowing you down and using up more power than you need to.
Load More Replies... I found that oddly ironic considered that BoredPanda is an European site.
Load More Replies... Do some people understand the definition of "obsolete"? As in, no longer useful? No longer available?
Remember trying to go fast enough to slide? I'll just put this right here. Big-Wheel-...ce4fc1.jpg
And I'm surprised no one brought Beanie-Babies to the party....
Load More Replies... Sad to not see JOLT cola on the list. “All the sugar, twice the caffeine!”
When whole listicles are nostalgic for things that came out after you finished high school, you're old. I'm old
I was just thinking this. Or, more sarcastically, “What, no photos of a cotton gin”
Load More Replies... Max Headroom, Choose Your Own Adventure books, Slip and Slide, Rubik's Snake, Hoppity Hop, Intellivision, ColecoVision, Commodore 64/128, having to get up and go to the TV to change the channel, audio cassettes
My family were talking about Max Headroom recently, because my step-dad reckons my sister's old high school principal looks like him! moo_2020-6...501ee3.jpg
The connection between a number 2 pencil (or pen) and an audio cassette. Also the cassette to CD adapter for older cars.
I only heard of that a few years ago when I began teaching kindergarten and I couldn't work out how to play lol!
Load More Replies... I'm smiling as I see most of these I remember them, but as an adult You folks wouldn't have a clue how to use some of the technology I had as a child Also the games, toys and pastimes were way different Virtually devoid of any electronics. We played outdoors, rode tricycles or bikes and played mostly with little or no safety equipment. We had very little processed food. A coke was a treat. Most moms were at home and took pride their homes and families. We prayed in school and never had to worry about being shot because we were protected by God whom most people trusted and respected. No perverts would have ever dared try to hurt one of us and if they did the law dealt them a swift just penalty. The toys were simple but realistic. Children grew up as children not mini adults or drug dealers. We loved each other, hugged and appreciated what we had. I'd love to go back to those days...when people cared and loved
Anyone else's feelings get hurt seeing your childhood while in the antique store?
I remember saving up to buy a sky pager. Just to have to find a payphone and call my friend or moms when summoned. Was the ultimate 90s accessory.
All these wonderful memories came flooding back! Thank You Bored Panda!!!
i know just about all of them - i coulda' bought a fully automatic bb gun powered by a can of freon off the back of a comic book cover when i was a kid.
This article made me think of this song: ("Unbelievable" by Owl City and Hanson, if you don't trust me to follow the link! I have never Rickrolled anyone and never will, I swear). https://youtu.be/PTWaiwb5QnE
#5 I learnt quick nothing was free, u needed the deposit money in Canada. Kept a couple of dimes on me. I won a lot
Speak & Spell. Speak & Math. Commodore 64. Hot Wheels. Barbie with her Afghan hound in the US and Cindy in the UK. The Muppet Show. Sesame Street. Bagpuss. Swap Shop. Will o'the Wisp. Original Bugs Bunny cartoons. Blue Peter. Bicycles with streamers from the handlebars. 99p's. Metal roller skates.
The LaserDisc. The predecessor to the DVD and BluRay. They looked just like a DVD but we're the size of a 33 1/3 LP and almost twice as thick. Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, and Cliff Hanger were LaserDisc video games. There were quite a few others but those are some that come to mind.
This list did nothing but make me feel even older and closer to death than normal. Thanks, Boredpanda.
I liked the article, but many of these still exist. Plus, like most of these, it is so US-centric. I know they can only use the things that are online, but it would be nice if they featured some from other countries.
