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Toys, sounds, shows, and even the user interface of an old phone can all bring back a rush of memories from the past. Sometimes it feels like these recollections were buried somewhere until the right trigger brought them out again. And now through the magic of the internet, we can share these pictures with everybody. 

The “Nostalgia From Your Childhood” Twitter account gathers images that might take you right back to your childhood. We got in touch with the people behind the account to learn more. So get comfortable and prepare for a blast from the past as you scroll through. Be sure to upvote your favorites and comment if any of these posts felt right from your childhood.

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

    This has DVD. We had those not. Only VHS.

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    Irish woman abroad
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kids Still do this, so there's still hope for humanity 😁

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    Bored Panda got in touch with the people who run the "Nostalgia From Your Childhood" account to get their insights into nostalgia and what draws people to it. First, we wanted to know what prompted the creation of the group. "I wouldn't consider myself someone who is necessarily "stuck in the past", but I love all things nostalgia. Looking at old photos from my childhood, being reminded of all cartoons I used to watch, or snacks I used to eat after school."

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    "I figured it would be fun to create a nostalgia-themed Twitter account to reminisce and connect with others who grew up experiencing similar things. Additionally, it allows me to almost create a place where I can preserve collective memories and create a virtual haven where people can come together and spark conversations about their cherished memories as a child."

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

    Putting Elmer's Glue on the bricks then peeling it off.

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    We also wanted to hear their insights into why the content was so popular. "Nostalgia content is popular because it's like a time machine that takes you back to cherished memories and simpler times. It's relatable, and comforting, and sparks a sense of belonging as you connect with others who shared similar experiences."

    "I think nostalgia also has a powerful emotional impact on people. Whether you're looking at old childhood TV shows, classic games, or throwback foods, it often evokes positive feelings such as happiness, comfort, and joy as you reminisce about pleasant memories from the past. In a world filled with constant information overload and stress, nostalgia simply offers a retreat to simpler, happier times. There's also nothing like the feeling of seeing a photo or video of something from your childhood that you haven't thought of in over 15 years."

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

    How do people turn them on now? I still do this

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

    My trust in all videos was broken at this moment

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    The origins of the word “nostalgia” are surprisingly violent. Likely coined in the 17th century by Johannes Hofer, it was used to describe the “Swiss Illness” which referred to the homesickness felt by Swiss mercenaries traveling and fighting around Europe. Reportedly, not being around Alpine pastures and mountains caused the soldiers to develop fevers, faint, and even just drop dead. 

    While this explanation is not exactly verifiable, as most of us aren’t falling dead weeks after going off to college, scientists at the time did try to figure out what was causing this emotion. They searched, improbably, for a bone responsible for nostalgia, and, for example, US Civil War soldiers could be diagnosed with it after spending time away from home. 

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

    We bought my son of these. My parents still have mine from when I was a child. It's in their eaves storage being used as a carpet

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

    Granny candies. Somehow the old people always had a bowl of them out when we visited.

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

    predicting a phone call when they they start clicking

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    In some ways, the popularity of nostalgia can, unfortunately, be seen as a result of increasingly uncertain times. Some studies suggest that the more people report feeling uncertain about things or having disruptions in their lives, the more nostalgic they feel about the past. It’s no surprise that in many cases, this sort of content gets ideas of “yearning for a simpler time” attached to it. 

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

    I could chew a. pound of juicy fruit--the most delicious flavour not found in nature

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    This mechanism isn’t random, our brains do try to soothe and self-comfort when we feel under duress. While nostalgia by itself is triggered by generally negative feelings, it does have the ability to improve our mood. Among other effects, it reminds us that at a time, at least from our current point of view, times were better. Ever the optimists, as humans this makes us feel like times could get better again. 

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

    I can smell this picture.

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

    Yeah but don't forget that every foam item in here always had a bite taken out of it for some reason

    not your average weirdo
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember this vividly, plus those giant parachutes! Good times

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

    Go get us some tennis balls from the ball room. They're in back.

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

    All of this still exists in elementary health and physical education,

    Irish woman abroad
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, none of this is nostalgia if it's still in use all over the world!

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

    Nah i thought you had a picture of my old school for a second. where are the big weird red blue and yellow frisbees that they never let us use?

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

    I always got the deflated or crappy ball. Or both. Only the popular students got the new balls.

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

    still have this at the school I work at.

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

    THE LIL SCOOTERS ARE THE BEST PART

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

    this is actual footage of the school gym closet.

    Marvin HeartofGold (she/them)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stairwell to the stage and under the stage. I used to hide under the stage, swear I'd smell rubber still when I went to bed. Still not sure where they kept everything when they cleared out the stairwell for an assembly.

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

    I can still feel the pain of running over my fingers with the booty scooters

    Nice Beast Ludo
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you had a fun PE teacher not ones obsessed with the scores of the presidential national fitness book camp- I mean program. The trauma of that body fat measurer and being forced to just hang off the chin up bar until my hands couldn't take it anymore and I plopped on the mat. Humiliating

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

    Where is the parachute?

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

    I remember playing dodge ball with those squishy, foam balls, that always seemed to have chunks missing out of them, and hiding in the back, only to be the last left and the sole target 😂

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

    That school is f****n stocked! I'm so jealous

    cartoon.ghostss
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everyone was going mad over the boards lmao. I think they're part of the reason I like skateboarding

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

    You knew it was gonna be a fun gym class when you walked in and the parachute was spread out on the floor...

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

    That is one well-stocked games' cupboard!

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

    those little scooters were the absolute best

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

    So much fun except my foot got caught under it once and I lost my big toe nail.

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

    Yeah but it stayed this tidy for about an hour tops and then it was a a tangled mess of skipping ropes, hoops, mats and balls. And whatever you wanted was right at the back.

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

    I can confirm from working in primary school that their p.e cupboards still look like this now

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

    Trying to become proficient at it is really good exercise on its own.

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

    That old dusty, mud, rubber smell

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

    I used to love those little scooters in primary school. You always ran the risk of scooting over your fingers, but it was so worth it.

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

    To bad they stopped making those things that you can scoot around with

    Take me to dinner first
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We had one of those and it had a capoeira instrument (completely forgot the name rn) that had a part made of leather, so my teacher used to say that if you went there at midnight you could hear the cow mooing lol

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

    I still recall one of the toys I bought using the money my grandma sent me for Christmas when I was six.

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

    I wahsn´t allowed one!!!!! Need to ask my mom why... (am 37 now, could just get fone but my actual dog is jealous)

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

    I still have mine from 1961. Stopped getting them when they dumbed them down.

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

    wait …wendy’s ISNT yellow anymore ??? when the hell sis this happen ???

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

    Luch ladies celebrating their Independence for a whole week.

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

    Yo quiero Taco Bell !… In the future all restaurants were supposed to be Taco Bell according to Judge Dredd lol

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

    Oh wow, finally something from MY childhood! Kindergarten in the 70's lol

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

    Rooby-Roo Ruit racks? Re rever rad rose!

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

    Does anyone remember team umizoomi? I swear it exsisted and none of my friends remember it

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

    No idea what this even is. Someone enlighten me, please.

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    Evan not Hansen
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was in a production of Matilda the Musical and in one scene (when I grow up), I got to scooter across the stage on one of those with a cape. It was so much fun. :D Then for the bows all of the cast came onstage on scooters (not all at once but in one song), and it was such a pain because we had to organize and distribute scooters to 60 kids, half of which were under 11. I definitely hit my shins a few times.

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

    Poo-chi sounds like some scatalogical twist on tai cih

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

    I can't fppppt understand fpppppt your accent fppppt

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

    Nyan cat is now considered nostalgic? I'm old.

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

    Too modern. My childhood phone had a dial :P

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

    Late 2000 is nostalgic? It's not that long ago.

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

    This is a current animated movie with roles reversed from Pixar, Elemental.

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

    When you didn't realize you needed a memory card and had already played a game for hours... PS2 didn't get turned off 😅

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

    My son had all these when he was a kid, they were really fun lego toys

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

    I love the xbox, I had the original, and the menu was awesome, the games awesom, and such a good music interface to use as a music player

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

    Kingdom hearts birth by sleep. Still have my psp but the battery casing crumbled. If you have one check immediately.

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