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

    What artists want : prismacolours, electric eraser, notebooks, - What we got for birthdays/Christmas :

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

    I had that! It was horrible! Only one of the markers worked, somehow the crayons didn’t work, the watercolor was garbage, the eraser just ripped up the paper, and the pencil crayons kept breaking whenever you sharpened them

    Roan The Demon Kitty
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had this, and none of the pens worked after like.. 0.0001 seconds of use.

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

    Kit always looked so impressive but so cheaply made, never colored right.

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

    and everything in that is worthless c**p

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

    I had that exact set but avengers themed

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

    Somebody brought this in the school bus and we painted nails with the questionable paint.

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

    Yup, and it still looks exactly like that. All those unrealized dreams.

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

    I had a Prang one... might actually still have it in storage...

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

    apparently you were supposed to put water into the markers.

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

    I am 13 and these were everything to me when I was younger!

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

    You were supposed to fill the bottom of the markers with water (I only recently learned this) but the crayons were great for one thing, melting for other projects. I tended to replace the crayons with my Crayola ones and the eraser with one that actually worked.

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

    I was so darn jealous of my peers who did have those when I was a kid!!

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

    I have one, it's old though lol

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

    Yes! I wasn't very artistic, but I had to have it.

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

    I don't know why but it was always given to me.

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

    I'm an adult with real supplies, and I want it.

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

    WAIT- THAT IS THE EXACT ONE THAT IHAD

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

    Bought one for my daughter when she was little. It was the most useless piece of trash. Nothing worked the way it should. Way too cheaply made.

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

    looks awesome, till you realised it was all garbage

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

    I still want one!

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

    I had this and loved it

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

    I bought one at the dollar store for my granddaughter just last summer

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

    Responsible for so much creative angst. And jealousy! And fights! And making up with friends.

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

    Omg so disappointing

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

    Omg I currently have that exact set I got many years ago! The “oil pastels” are the same as the crayons lol

    The voice of reason
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can still get this. Of course originally made 30 + yrs ago.

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

    I have 3 of those sets!! The markers suck though

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

    Remember the crayon paint things.. what where they called? Always left a clayish glob and had peel down paper on them..

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

    I had this. Completely useless as nothing really worked the way it was supposed to, but damn what a treasure it was.

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

    The quality was so bad! Even the watercolours weren't great. Good stocking filler though, since as kids it was often more about quantity over quality.

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

    And they all were cheap and barely worked!

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

    I used to have one in the second so I gave it as a gag gift to my boss

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

    My birth father got me one of these before he passed… I still have the colored pencils from it. I also still draw. A lot.

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

    My teeth instinctively hurt just looking at those markers

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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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    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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