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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!

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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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    Carole G.
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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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    Haru
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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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    Vermonta
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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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    Mad Dragon
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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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    A girl
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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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    Carlos
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "you are old", ouch

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

    You know what? I'm going to count this as a language. HAHA MULTILINGUAL

    2x4b523p
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to send a text from my ancient Nokia after my smartphone died, glad to report thumb memory is still active, I just typed as easily as I left off 12 years ago.

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

    i once used my Nokia to hammer a nail into the wall. a few days later I lost it. found 2 days later in a snow bank. worked perfectly.

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

    I'm not old, I just own a nokia

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

    "you are old" lol actually im 13 but...

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

    Me, entering the 7th level of hell when my deaf brother would text me. Finally moving to a smart phone was SUCH an upgrade.

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

    Some of my classmates could type lightning-fast on these babies! Me, I was a bit slower, but preferred that over typos ;) (and man, Nokia takes me back - my first cell phone ^^)

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

    And don't even get us started on how to figure out when someone paged you an actual "message" and how each number corresponded to three letters, then test out all the combinations and hope you got the right one

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

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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

    Ugh, that wasn't a nice thing to write. Now I'm really feeling it.

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

    I’m in my early 30s and I feel very old now!

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

    I'm so old I have absolutely no idea what you're on about with this one.

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

    I used to play with my dads old nokia so I understand

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

    T9Word made it much easier. My father never got the hang of it and thus would take ages to reply. He still takes a while, but not nearly as long with the Gboard.

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

    Who actually knows how this works and if you do did u put the time into finding out what it said

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

    But I'm only 22... Is that considered old now? (My first phone had this kind of keypad)

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

    I think this is why I hated texting for so many years. I could not be bothered to try and type out something in this fashion.

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

    cant fool me,i can decipher this code.no other,only nokia

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

    I might be “old” (33) but your name is mud!

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

    Knew what it was going to say before I translated it.

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

    I READ IT AND I WAS BORN IN 2007! 😌😌

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

    I am. Better to be old than dead.

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

    I may be old but I was a pro with my texting game back in the day lol

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

    I read this so quick 😭

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

    Gosh, I miss it. I could text without looking and I was SO fast!

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

    99966688027773306665553 is technically the correct translation for this…

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

    And that's a POUND KEY, not a damn hashtag

    Must Be Bored Again
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I watch a made up contest on Jay Leno one night. Two teams of two each. First team was teens with smart phones, other team was older gentleman using Morse code telegraph. Each team handed same exact statement written on paper to sent to their team mate. Morse code telegraph team won! It was awesome!!!

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

    I don’t know what these specific codes do but I’m old enough to remember why we memorised them

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

    Gen Z here. ' You are old.' my first phone was a keypad phone.

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

    Loves it. Texting was an art form and you could text without looking.

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

    Anyone else remember the divide between taking the extra time to use proper grammar vs "u rdy" texting?

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

    I was so good at writing this way that I turned off T9 cause I was faster

    Amber.exe(She/They)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me who had a flip phone trying to read this and still getting it wrong

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

    I liked it because I could text without having to look at my screen.

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

    Right! Even when the phone was in your pocket.

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

    Oof. I felt this in my arthritic back, and knees, and shoulders...

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

    I'm not that old but it was easy to decode

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

    Ahhh Yes.. T9. The good ol days

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

    T9 was weird and funny. Oh those mistypes, miss them. Mostly funny.

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    Raylan Van De Water
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    im getting one of these and i am still a baby

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

    this keyboard is why l33t shortcut language existed

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

    And a limited number of characters in sms text. Funny though why anyone uses these obsolete abbreviations having a full keyboard at their thumbs? Lazy? Not cool anyway.

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

    Yes I'm old. Only because I could figure out what that meant. Not my mental state.

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

    that´s not very nice

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

    The only time when I preferred calling vs texting. 🙃

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

    1st of all, rude. 2nd I just realized I know an entire coded language

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

    When texting sucked worse

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

    Im not old! It took me longer than it should’ve but I did it

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

    I refuse to get a smart phone, so I still text this way lol

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

    I’m honestly getting tired of the “let’s confuse the kids!” things. I understand them all and i’m 15 smh

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

    I’m 15 and know how that works

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

    Three didn't have keypad locks so pocket dialing the emergency services was a common thing.

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

    This feels harsh, I guess because I'm a snowflake

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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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    Andy Resh
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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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    Mad Dragon
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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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    Betta Fish
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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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    Quarkbeast
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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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