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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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    Mr.G86
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't tell you how many times I died of dysentery or something in that game. I can still remember it like it was yesterday.

    Mantis_Shrimp🦐_123
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let's face it- has anyone ever FINISHED there Oregon Trail?

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

    I actually made it all the way to the Willamette Valley with my entire party... TWICE! Yeah, two of them were sick, one had a busted leg, and we were all in rough shape from hunger, but I did it!

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

    I present the past, recently found in my loft after 30+ years. Only a smidge of what was up there, unfortunately no PC1512 anymore to look at them. The-past-6...a2ca69.jpg The-past-644197ea2ca69.jpg

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

    Who remembers the first "big" games that you'd actually have to swap disks from time to time?

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

    I played the game once, my family all died 💀⚰

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

    PLAY IT NOW! https://www.visitoregon.com/the-oregon-trail-game-online/

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

    You know it was way more fun to watch the characters named after your classmates die of dysentery

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

    My parents bring this game up all the time

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

    Actually, I beat the game as a farmer. Get gud

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

    (Still a high schooler) I love this game so much! It is one is the best things in the world! I have passed it so many times!

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

    I done died of dysentery and I live in Oregon, for petes sake.

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

    I played this in my social studies class like two days ago

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

    I was too little to understand anything that was going on with it. I'm sure you can download an original-ish one on your phone now

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

    Dawg my fam made it to Oregon and brought peace upon the alliac bay from war

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

    I hated this game. But I loved "below the root" quest game.

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

    I have the books and I'm a pro at it

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

    So did I! In real life tho XD

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

    My daughter did! And she named all the characters after Firefly characters. Walsh pushed Jayne into the river.

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

    The thing is, they probably would, having gaming being even more common now than it was for us

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

    And if you knew what you were doing you could make these 2 sided!

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

    Children in the UK still play this in school, apparently it's educational nowadays

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

    I always got a kick out of the end of the game. It announced you have reached the Willamette valley. I'm playing the game in the willamette valley!

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

    LMAO. Good old game

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

    I actually played this on the internet once. I got robbed and gave up ;-;

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

    I remember playing that via dial up to MECC

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

    There is a game loosely based on this called Organ Trail which is pretty cute.

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

    you can still play this game online in several websites. Some are more accessible than others. Just search for it, for a blast from the past. I play it a few times every couple of years.

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

    That was when we actually encouraged our children to play on the computer.

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

    For people who love Oregon Trail as much as I do, there's a game available on several different consoles called Death Road to Canada. It follows the same basic idea as Oregon Trail, BUT WITH ZOMBIES.

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

    https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/game/other/1990/oregon_trail/

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

    Does anyone else remember AMAZON Trail?

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

    I never got to play enough to do anything but die.

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

    Didn't even know what dysentery was back then I just knew I died from it.

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

    You have died of Dysentery

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

    I recently found the game on an archive website and I did make it past (twice even)

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

    I'm a trail master!

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

    I never played OT very much but I did play just enough to die from dysentery.

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

    I am in high school and have, in fact, finished Oregon trail and crossed that river.

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

    i played the oregon trail a few times. never won, died about 4 days in

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

    i love it. i played this with my history teacher today.

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

    Now we play that game on our computers in history class

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

    I miss hunting buffalo, but Hate when I break an axle! Grr!

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

    Chucky Cheese still uses floppy disks to run their animatronics ! They are unhackable!

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

    Woah, someone 3d printed the save button! (It's a joke, we used floppy disks at school, ah nostalgia:))

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

    I just got the version for Nintendo Switch the other day.

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

    13 yr old here beat the game in 3 hrs with losing two people as a carpenter

    Danielle El-Menawy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This game was the best! Definitely died from dysentery 😂

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

    I can get to the end in under an hour. Computer lab was only 1 hour and it was either this or "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego."

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

    This game is still popular, it's just played on a website

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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