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

    Tropical island or the fish

    Never
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The spooky house on the hill. All my halloweeners represent

    James016
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The castle. Had to be the castle.

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

    My faves were the castle,the rose,and the palm tree.

    Nora12
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The one at the end (the hand with cards) was fun since it was animated and periodically an extra Ace would come out of the sleeve

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

    I mostly used number 10.

    Ozymandias73
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The castle card backing every time!

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

    Seems like the Castle/ Halloween house/ House on the hill is the favorite!

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

    The fish or the haunted house and the bat flapped it's wings

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

    Tropical island, the castle or the clownfish :)

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

    I went back and forth and used the majority of them. But my favorite one was the tropical island one and the fishes. This totally brought me back to my childhood days😂!

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

    Another spooky castle user here.

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

    Solitaire was cool, but Minesweeper was everything!

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

    Black roses or the conch shell

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

    That isn't that old, just "sort of" old. But yes to the castle

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

    Turquoise background fishies! I'm a Pisces.

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

    Spooky castle or the light blue fish usually

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

    I would play one deck until I lose then swap decks and circulate through them all

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

    The haunted castle was my favorite.

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

    I always chose castle at night

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

    Castle with bats that flap.

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

    Beach & the rose (for obvious reasons).

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

    cand with cards. card came out the sleeve sometimes..

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

    I still play on my phone almost daily. Back then it had to be the robot.

    aZZy_d3Lta (they/them)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i've never had this, but i wouldve totally chosen the roses, my namesake!

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

    All of them at one point. My favorite was the vine in the black background.

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

    I think I just stuck with the tropical island.

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

    black flowers or the fish on blue background

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

    Switched between the tropical island and the scary castle

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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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