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Do you know why we love to be nostalgic about the past so much? Well, as you know, everything used to be much better, bigger and more interesting. There used to be Tetris, slot machines and Internet Explorer, and now... now there is only a light sadness for those wonderful times when we were younger.

And we will be taking just this fascinating journey into the good old days with you, thanks to Bored Panda and this collection of absolutely wonderful vintage memes, lovingly collected by a dedicated Instagram account. So fasten your seatbelts, put your favorite cassette into that old Sony Walkman, here we go!

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Amberlie Mikelsen
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2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was about 6 when I opened my Angel Tree present and received the AUTHENTIC Crayola 256 Box Set (I knew how much it cost, something like $25) and not 1, not 2, not even 5, but 10 whole coloring books all for just me! My parents swear they thought I had won the lottery!

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    Mad Dragon
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These are still around! Last Christmas I bought one for my husband and one for my daughter (and one for myself).

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    The most interesting thing is how our perception of "good old days" changes over time. As someone whose teen years were in the 90s, I remember very well how the adults resented these newfangled Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls, comparing them to the great rock classics - certainly not in favor of the youth. And now, nearly thirty years later, we're shedding tears watching the reunited Spice Girls on YouTube, and this time their hits are in our hearts somewhere between Stairway To Heaven and Under Pressure. So tell me what you want, what you really, really want... and I'll tell you, we want to go back to our childhood again.

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    Trash Panda 🦝
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And wherever they're all at, I guarantee most of them still work

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    Thegoodboi
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why are you doing this to us?

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    Psychologist Alan R. Hirsch in his report, “Nostalgia: A Neuropsychiatric Understanding,” defines nostalgia as a yearning for an idealized past - “a longing for a sanitized impression of the past, what in psychoanalysis is referred to as a screen memory - not a true recreation of the past, but rather a combination of many different memories, all integrated together, and in the process all negative emotions filtered out."

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    And indeed, the more we live in this world, the more value we attach to things and phenomena from our youth. Often downplaying what we have now. Although, you know, I personally would probably sell my soul if I had my current smartphone somewhere in the late nineties!

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    FabulousMari
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know if I can throw mine away. It's like saying good bye to a faithful friend. When Spotify is down or my music is so obsolete that it doesn't exist in digital form, my faithful compact disc's will always be there to sing to me. Now, I just don't know what to play them on...

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    Em
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My favorite movie growing up!

    actaeon cross
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's on Netflix now! I just rewatched it :)

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    Carlos
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    R.I.P. Judith Barsi a.k.a. Ducky

    JD Cass
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only the first one counts.

    BOO
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i love little foot and ducky and petri and cera and spike and chomper

    Iffydust
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This picture is from the second movie not the first.

    rat
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay, I'm 13 and grew up on this-

    Amberlie Mikelsen
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Littlefoot, Cera, Petrie, Ducky, and Spike were the original 5. I don't remember the name of the baby T-Rex, cuz that wasn't in the first movie, I only watched the second one like twice in my life, and I haven't watched any of the ones after 2. My faves of this type were the American Tail pair (American Tail and Fievel Goes West)

    Nikole
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Umm I remember it so much that I had a rubber Littlefoot puppet from Pizza Hut that I got with my Book It meal.

    Sammy boy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember seeing it in the theater.

    Mr.G86
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Please don't remind me. 😢 😭

    Cassi Lyris
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Saw it in the theatre. Traumatized me. 😂 Still loved it though.

    mooshoflove
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do kids not watch this now?! 🥺

    Greg D
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of my earliest traumas

    Nimitz
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where kids with normal families learned about death and trauma, and where the rest of us found escape due to dirtshit 80s parents

    Analyn Lahr
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where's Little Foot? I think that baby Sharp Tooth was in Land Before Time II.

    René Sauer
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, but they should have stopped at like number 3 or 4. Not 14 movies and a series 😵

    Jungle Empress 85
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But why's Chomper there? And where's Littlefoot? Did Chomper eat him?!

    Old Roadie
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My first-born grandson watched these so many times, my Mom had all of them memorized. Still have her VCR tapes, and he now has two children watching them. Sheeeeesh... someone pass the Geritol.

    B.Nelson
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My brother still has his stuffed Littlefoot. He sent a picture of his toddler sleeping with it. SO CUTE!

    Xavior TheLycan
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You should have gone older...like Secret of Nimh older

    Erica Politica
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Super cute as a kid. Super annoying as an adult.

    Cali Rodger
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This movie is how I learned to cry. How to make friends and how to believe that even I can fly

    Bent Screw (she/her)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you didn't cry when Little Foot's mom died, you have no soul

    Laughing Orc
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a plushie of Spike (the baby Stegasaurus) that I got on holiday when I was about 8 years old. He's now very worn and threadbare, but he's been on every trip with me since then, basically as a good luck charm, and had his own shelf by the bed even now, in pride of place.

    Vicki Perizzolo
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my stuffed dinosaur became my nephew's when his eyes lit up light fireworks when he saw it

    Janice Seagraves
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My daughter loved that movie. Yup, yup.

    Katie Rodgers
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Puff up, they hate that! 😂🤣

    Marina M.
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Had it on VHS for my kids, they LOVED it!

    Toni Carroll
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My kids watched these as kids. I'm old

    Amy Chirman
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Still have the original vhs. Great series.

    Sesilee Wolfe
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where the hell is Little Foot?!?!

    Matt W.
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This film is not that niche. Everyone knows it.

    LapCat
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Awww this was my favorite. Poor Judith Barsi 😢

    Ruby
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    scariest movie of all time

    Ashley Harrold
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is one of the sequels. Loved the original

    BatPhace
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I also remember the terrible smelling plastic/rubber hand puppets that pizzahut gave out as a promo for it lol

    JalaPeno
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I smell...I smell...Duckie!

    kschepps
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What about 2016 The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave?

    Mona Vine
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I watched this with my children

    S
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So many quotes! I recently turned on for my friends kids 😎 poor little ducky! I FOOOOUNNND ITTTTT!!! Tree star 🙂

    Lemon
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I own all of them lmao

    Booker
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When this first came out, my oldest son pointed out the this movie was unrealistic because these dinosaurs would never get together. I responded true, but remember we're watching a movie about talking dinosaurs.

    Scott Kincade
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Three horns don't talk to loooongnecks.

    Mary Mosher
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Christmas my daughter was 18 months old, our local McDonald's had a video tape giveaway. The choices were Spiderman or Land Before Time. I figured Land Before Time was more appropriate (had no idea Littlefoot's mother would die in minutes). I'm pretty sure we watched that video about eight times on Christmas day. I also had no idea that it would become a hit series, and we would end up with seven or eight different tapes lol think they are still around here somewhere.

    Dawn Joyce
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Friends for dinner...don't want to have friend for dinner. We owned them all

    Jody Whitmarsh
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We had to watch this in high school French class. Je m'apelle Ducky. Oui, oui, oui

    David
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have it on DVD (grandkids)

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was in hospital for 6 weeks when I was 5 and I would watch this on repeat every single day for those 6 weeks

    Marley Nachi
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always wanted to try eating the tree star leaves when watching this movie

    Aidan Campbell
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Judith Barsi was born the same year as me but was murdered by her father at the age of ten.

    David Martin
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not only do I remember the movie, I still remember the pizza commercial at the start of the tape, with Jerome following all his mother's rules at the birthday party..."And I was even nice to a girl"

    Mr.Li
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hahaaha watched it last week on netflix

    Stary_cat
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still have this on disc may I mention, great movie!

    Thomas Santiago
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You should not eat talking tress nope nope nope!

    Death’s Entropy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    First movie that I ever watched in the cinema.

    DustTea
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was my whole childhood!!

    MadOrca99
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh I still watch this occasionally

    Val!
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    played the gameboy game all the time :C

    Aisling O'Grady Hills
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The voice actor for Ducky was killed by her father...I think it was the same year the movie came out.

    Ziggyc
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I watched this as a child,then my children watched it and now my Grandon loves it.such a good movie

    Camilla Peacock
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I may be born in 2010 but I LOVE this movie

    BoredGrandma
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have all the stuffies I picked up at a thrift shop, they were all inside a cat play house for $5. They were going to be cat toys until I figured out what they were.

    Itz-Nova
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh my gooooooosh I want to watch it againnnnnn

    Abigail Dysart
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Omg watched it so many times whenever I was a kid

    LadyJaye
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm a teen and that was still somthing I had as a little kid!

    Thegoodboi
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nostalgia overload! I swear I burned a hole in the tape of the first movie watching it so much..

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    And, of course, the Internet and social networks come into play, literally fixing every step of any more or less famous person. For example, would we be so categorical in adoring Michael Jordan as the greatest basketball player of all time if we were guided not only by old VHS tapes of his games and Space Jam? Or would we vehemently discuss each of his missed shots and failed interviews like we do with LeBron James? Okay, okay, the second Space Jam really wasn't even half as good as the first one! Or is this where nostalgia kicks in again?

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember listening to conversations on a party-line, 😆

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had this scratch and sniff one that I was really proud of

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    Haru
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And there were these extra curricular teachers that would hand them out if you did good or smth like that

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    Be that as it may, memes are a great excuse to take a little trip back in time, recharge with the energy of our youth, and return again to the crazy, fast contemporary world that has become so incredibly small with the development of all these technologies. Okay, let's digress for a couple more minutes - just scroll this list to the very end, point out the memes you like best and just share your own viewpoint on whether nostalgia is really that cool.

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    of blurry pictures. Remember flash cubes?

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    Val!
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i can hear the sound of the plastic UUGHHHH

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had the clear phone in my room, and the ringer was LOUD! I would turn off the ringer and it would still light up when it rang, so my friends could call me late at night and not wake up my parents (I had my own phone line in my room paid for by my babysitting money).

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And peeling your legs off the pleather seats.

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    Carole G.
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah, Tales From The Crypt, one of the good ones.

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    It's just me
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm 43 years old and I take my metal "Yellow Submarine" lunch box to work every day 😁

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah. Well. Have you ever had one slip out of your grasp only to give you a minor knuckle fracture?!!!!!

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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They are easy to throw and catch, and the sound they make when you catch one is the same as their name (Koosh!),

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    Karen Krause
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was after my time. We had cards on clothes pins.

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yooo my grandma had them and let us eat golden ghrams in front of the tv on saturday mornings, probably one of my favorite memories

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    Glengoolie Blue
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Were all of those in your junk drawer at the same time?

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    dean tirmizi
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This isn’t nostalgic, the first movies was 2010. The first iron man movie is older than this, wouldn’t call that nostalgic, and this pic is from the 2019 movie

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ranch is obviously a serious business in Wisconsin.

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