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

    let it hit the corner

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

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ws0QtAiiXQ You need to know about this song, my man, it captures the feeling of waiting for the logo to hit the corner just right :P

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

    If DVDs are considered old-fashioned, I’m ancient😱

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

    Even though they were kind of a pain in the butt to carry around, I wish they still had these. Because laptops nowadays don’t have a place to insert a disc, and watching a movie on your phone sucks up the battery life, making it to where you can’t finish the movie, and there is nowhere to plug in your phone when your seated for your flight 🤦🏻‍♀️. WOW! I just sounded like a 10 year old child complaining about it 😵‍💫😆

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

    We still have one; my son (in his 30s) brings it along if we have a long car journey.

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

    They used to hand these out in Business Class on long flights

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

    felt so cool when kids asked me to watch it with me

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

    HA we brought my tv complete with power inverter with my N64. Had to lay all the seats down.

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

    Now they're built into the headrests.

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

    Mine had a harness to hang it from the headrest of the front seat.

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

    I took one of those on a flight years ago - thank goodness I did .... boring flight

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

    those were great. Too bad they weren't around when I was a kid

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

    I have two portable DVD players and one portable Blu-Ray player.

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

    Hoping the battery would last as long as the movie.

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

    Those things and individual over-ear earphones - how we got our kids to wherever we were going.

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

    I still want one now. What's good FINGERHUT?

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

    Still have one, hacked to play UK DVDs (I'm in the US).

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

    I still have one. Must charge it up.

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

    Remember getting one for Holidays. But a scratched CD in it to play music and it never worked again :(

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

    Long after my childhood, but first thing in the car when I took my family on a road trip.

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

    we had one that got strapped to the back of the seats and we'd get a movie from Redbox

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

    I used one while traveling weekly for work. Rent 2 snail mail RedBox dvd's and I was set.

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

    I had an early one, and was watching the movie Dreamcatcher with headphones on a plane. I turned it off after the bathroom scene, thinking "might be a bit too much on the plane." Guy in seat behind me had a look of horror.

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

    LOL. We still have one. And it still works.

    Huddo's sister
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Weren't around when I was a kid, but my little brother and sister had one. Only time I remember watching it we watched Miss Potter.

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

    Dude, back when I was a kid, we actually had to have CONVERSATIONS on long road trips! Either that or we were stuck listening to whatever our PARENTS decided to play on the radio! We didn't even have a tape deck in the car until I was 10!!!

    BeepBoop the Single Pringle
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd rather sit in a quiet car for hours than have a conversation. Last time I drove a long ways was an hour and I just *gasp* looked outside the window and *second gasp* didn't even look at my phone!

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

    I still have one and I don't regret it, so useful

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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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