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

    Just your earlobes? Amateurs.

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

    I was not an “it girl” and yet everybody in my elementary school had these!

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

    Nah, the moon went on the forehead because Sailor Moon! And so did all others when you ran out of moons.

    Rose Button 🇺🇦
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There where also candy ones. I got one stuck in my ear... every doctor in our clinic was called in... everytime I go back I have to hear the story all over again smh

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

    OH MY GOD i forgot about these

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

    Being Mexican I had my ears pierced as a baby so these were of no value to me

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

    A pairs for everyday of the month. 👍

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

    They would alway end up in my hair by the end of the day lol

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

    I bought these for my daughter...she was so excited you'd think I gave her diamonds 💎

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

    They stuck where they weren't supposed to better than to anyone's ears

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

    OMG!!!!!!!! I want to find these again!

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

    I stole my sister's. I'm an it boy

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

    or your face if you wanted to be Extra XD Is it weird that i loved the sting of peeling them off?

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

    Umm...these still exist. And I have used them on my 5 yo..And I am 53.

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

    I REMEMBER THESE. I would always try to stick as many as I could on my ears. I now have 3 piercings in my left ear. I'm not a girl though.

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

    Oh I had these because I was too scared to get a piercing lol

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

    Oh I loved these. Was never an it girl though XD

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

    They fell off after like two seconds

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

    While also wearing jellies on our feet!

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

    Yeah and I thought I was so cool for having "earrings"

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

    And then stick used pairs together to hoard like treasure in my sock drawer.

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

    Yeah, wear once and then discard. And boomer parents providing them cause they're cheap... C**p like this is why there are so many modern day Karens and Richards

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

    lol I was a 10yr old it girl in 2018

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

    I was already a trend setter and used to stick them to the outer corner of my eyes :')

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

    Does that mean that I was cool at some point of my life?

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

    I had these when I was in 5th grade. My mom wouldn't me pierce my ears until I was 13 and most all my friends had pierced ears, so these were my attempt at an alternative. Also, pretty sure I was not an "it girl", whatever that means.

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

    Def not only it girls

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

    And my forehead. Yeah.... so I didn't know what a Bindi was and I was going for a magical girl thing, but looking back I'm glad it was only in private. lol.

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

    I had these, but my little pony (I dunno why)

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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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