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Nostalgia has a place in everyone's hearts, but no one floods the internet with their sentiments about the past as much as 90s kids. The 90s, after all, were a magical time when playing silly games outside all day met the development of modern technologies that have shaped and molded us into who we are now. And proud about it we are. However, since no age group spends online as much time as we do, cut us some slack, why don't you?

Many things made our childhood special — the CD player that wouldn't fit into any pocket, the legendary Tamagotchi, and hilarious 90s fashion that seem to have re-born nowadays quite seriously and not in the form of hilarious memes (much to our dismay). Most of these 90s nostalgia relicts are hardly available now, so we have to keep their memories alive. And what better way to do so than creating funny memes? Scroll down to check out the nostalgic selection of 90s trend that will instantly send every kid of the decade down the memory lane and upvote your favorites.

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Cassette Inserts

Cassette Inserts

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Pocket Cameras

Pocket Cameras

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Before Smartphones

Before Smartphones

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Efia
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still do this, when i forgot to take my phone with me to the toilet :-D

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Life Before Google

Life Before Google

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Janine B.
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hours, days and months spend at the library. Liked it so much.

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Kids Now vs. Then

Kids Now vs. Then

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The Struggles Of 90s

The Struggles Of 90s

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Zanthe
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I miss the weird robotic noises of dial-up Internet.. We all had our own R2-D2 back then.

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M O'Connell
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Back in my day, there was only ONE handle, you had to pull it off and hand it to your passenger if they wanted THEIR window open too.

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Calypso poet
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cars still come with manual windows. My moms 2015 Sonic does not have power windows. A lot of the smaller cars still have them because it helps keep those cars more affordable to younger or older people. Kia Soul = college student or still working senior.

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Lady Lava
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our car from 2012 has powered windows at the front, but still manual ones at the back, and it still has a cd player! It is a simple model with no fancy extras, and therefore affordable.

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Jessica Gunn
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Be careful how you put that disc-man in your pocket, it might start skipping....

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Sveta Smirnova
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, better model had an anti-shock for a few seconds but didnt help much. I missed my recordable mini disk where the it wasnt popular in the market.

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PeachPossum
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Only geeks of the 1990s and earlier will get this "Baud-y" joke: What goes "Pieces of seven! Pieces of seven!"? A parity error.

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Karen Louise
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am probably older than most of you on here but can someone please explain the second one, top right? Don't recognize that, ty

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Hans
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

97 KB/s? Impossible in the early 90s, unless you were using a University network.

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Janine B.
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ahhh, I can still hear the sweet log in sound of my internet modem.

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Nika Strokappe
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Top left, still the same if you are a woman and try to put your phone in you pocket... (Bottom left, my car still has them...)

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aussieguy6
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i like wind up windows much better than eleactric ones, mainly because you can open them when the engine is off.

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Steven Rundle
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

97KB/Sec was pretty dope download speed back in the 90's. That's over 10x faster than a dial-up modem.

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Trevor Punt
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

thats downloading super fast for the 90's... 5.7kb/s if i was lucky on kazaa

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bob
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

97 KB/Sec? Not very realistic in the 90s... At least, not in my country.

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Kikka io
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do not miss the crank of the window. It was really a hassle slipping into her side, in some cars like the 500 at that time, the little one that the Smart in comparison is a parade ground.

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Alex K
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

97kb/sec is great! i remember downloading mp3's with 4-5kb /sec

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Agnieszka Nowak
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

wow 97kb/s I wished I had those speeds, I was starting from 56kbps cable modem so a top speed was about 4-5kb/s took 30min for 1 mp3 to download or almost days for some nice game demo (mdk2 for example). At least there were demo games back then so you knew what you're going to buy.

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Dobromir Georgiev
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The bottom right picture is from the 2000s I think. I dont think Windows 98 had "Documents and settings" directory.

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Joe Gray
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Manual windows are still sold on cars today, and electric windows came out before 1990.

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Anastasia W
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My truck still has manual windows. make me smile every time i have to roll down the window

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Nostalgic Hyena
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I knew the 3rd thing. My grandparents had a car like that when I was younger and I distinctly remember rolling up the window while my hand was in it.

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Nikolai Nilsen
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

97,0 kb/Sec. That was like NASA. Nobody had anything close to that with a ISDN.

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KK
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

omg the car window things are so annoying but i wasnt born in the 90s

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Ruby & Meem
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well.. the manual car window handle I still have it. I don't trust automatic stuff at 100%. I still drive manual.

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Origami Chik3n
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had quite a few funny times with dial-up modem when i would set up a new connection and put the wrong number in by accident. "Hello? Hello? Who is this?!" coming from the PC tower was so funny.

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Kay Bee
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How are any of these indicators of any kind of "struggle" ??? ... these things were all still luxuries back then

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Samantha Robinson
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember I used to make pictures whenever the dialog box got frozen like that. Good times.

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Al Goff
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

97k would be frigging amazing! I remember when 3k was a very good speed with 33 600 dialup..

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Pandas C Kitchen
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Too true. It's amazing that you don't even need to wait to get home in order to access files on your computer. We have come an unfathomable distance. *High five world*

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Analyn Lahr
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah, when you could roll up and down the window without having to turn on the car. I miss those days.

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Mixedupste
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Window winder handles are still common on basic cars. Best for bicep work!

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Guacharaco
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The first walkmans were with cassettes; you could carry only a couple with you!

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Dan H
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Growing up in the 90's (ok I was reaching 30 then), the "struggle was real"

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Daria B
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

1 sec. left for download? Pffffffff try 100 years, then you will know the true meaning of the word "struggle".

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Anna Lourie
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember vomiting in my fathers car (he locked me in the car, because I wanted to). I wasn't fast enough winding down the pane.

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Lenora Hefley Rice
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a '95 Dodge Neon that had those window cranks in the back seat. My son still misses that car specifically because of those! He had never seen them before I got that car.

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Kiahna
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was born in 2004 and I know the struggle. Especially the first and third one.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aaaaaand to prove my point from #1 where I bitched that it was idiotic to have "I grew up without internet" when the internet was a thing in the mid 90's, you now have at #3 a picture of a computer getting on the internet. Downvoted both, the first one for being an outright lie (I was downloading P2P MP3's in the 90's) , and the second one for proving my point.

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#9

Personal CDs

Personal CDs

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Savant
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

SOME BODY ONCE TOLD ME THE WORLD WAS GONNA ROLL ME THAT I AINT THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED SHE WAS LOOKING KINDA DUMB WITH HER FINGER AND HER THUMB IN THE SHAPE...

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#12

Affordable Housing

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Music On Cassettes

Music On Cassettes

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Ladies and Gentlemen
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the pain of tape coming out, and then you have to put the reel in through clocking in via pen or pencil.

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Old Playgrounds

Old Playgrounds

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The real issue was what little boys did at the top of the slide after dark. Also, how the hell are playground slides a "90's" thing?

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Blockbuster

Blockbuster

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Sticker Collection

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Old Computer Games

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Ladies and Gentlemen
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still play this game as on my office machines we cannot install any other gaming stuff.

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Ball Mouse

Ball Mouse

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Lenora Hefley Rice
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gah! I used to open this and clean the inside all of the time. It drove me up a wall if the little rollers inside got caked with gunk and my cursor wouldn't move smoothly.

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Tamagotchi Pets

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GlassOfWater
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My sister had one and then some random kid stole it when we were at a caravan park. It was the end of the world for her.

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Phone Time

Phone Time

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Phone Cords

Phone Cords

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Rakshya A Bhujel
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i used to get so damn irritated about this that i spent most of the time making it go one direction rather than concentrate on my phone calls.. XD

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Taping Music

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Ladies and Gentlemen
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I grew up we didn't had such money to afford SONY. But there came another brand which copied sony and made these things accessible to many people - "AIWA". Does anyone else remember that brand ?

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Poster-Clad Walls

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Cactuar Jon
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Worse with the ones that fall really slowly. The start of it wakes you up, then you spend the following 10 mins frozen in bed, trying to distinguish what the sound was and if you were actually still asleep or not lol

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Everything Was Scary

Everything Was Scary

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Daria B
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But Toy Story is pretty old now too. The first one anyway. Feeling even older now? ♥

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Multiplayer

Multiplayer

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Daria B
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was 3 of us playing Bomberman on a SNES emulator. Only one keyboard....

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Butterfly Clips

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Ladies and Gentlemen
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ouch! stepped up, stepped on another, Ouch again. Every Damn time. Ouch Ouch Ouch.

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Funniest Videos

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Craft Set

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Rakshya A Bhujel
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well there was a time when i got a whole set of colors ( bear headed crayons, markers, water colors, pencil colors) and that was the happiest day of my life since that was my very first time I started my journey as an artist.. but one of my classmate stole it.. he freaking stole it.. -_- and this was back when I was in 1st grade and he didn't admit he stole it and i never saw my own art kit again..

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Nostalgic Things

Nostalgic Things

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Things We Used To Know

Things We Used To Know

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Hamlets twin
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I work at an IT company and there are still some people who use pagers. They get mad if you try their cell first...

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Boybands

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Ladies and Gentlemen
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nsync, Back Street Boys, U2, Nirvana, Metallica, Guns n Roses, The Verve, Savage Garden, Santana and hundreds of such more awesome bands. Thousand times better then todays crappy EDM and other techno nonsense. Glad to be born in that era. And Sorry how can I forget BRYAN ADAMS.

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