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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

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Ladies and Gentlemen
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Coming from a non-English background, these really helped understand the lyrics.

Dan H
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same feeling with English as my first language

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Karen Woodruff
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And being so mad when there weren't any!

Jetches
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do that with my vinyls when I listen to them—just read off the sleeve

Juana
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep the album sleeves were so much easier to read than cassette liners. Fun times.

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Diane Herman
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't even need reading glasses back then!

Christina Sersif
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every once in a while you'd get an album that didn't have the lyrics. Those were all disappointments.

Val
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And who remembers hating the inserts without lyrics?

Sue Clasen
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And before that the vinyl long-play albums!

Sveta Smirnova
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was booklet for CD, the cassette was a long piece of paper

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Sarah
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2 years ago

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Timea Talitha Kumi
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That was a part of how i learned english (without english-class) 😍😁👍🏻 Love to see it 😃

Anne Jarvis
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

aaaaltijd! en..op je mooist meezingen (dacht jezelf)

Linda Christian
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Being hard of hearing and now almost deaf I seek out anything with captions and they are amusing there are so many mistakes you have to guess what they mean, love seeing lyrics I had my own words to songs it surprises me when I see the actual words.

Catharina Geerts
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5 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm from that time and yes I did this too

Catharina Geerts
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I surely did, when available (that was not always the case

Sarah
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2 years ago

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Tom
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

https://www.memestar.de/

Melody Nani Diessner
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a few of these still. Can't part with them.

Max L.
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

depeche mode 101 anyone ?

Tracey Wing
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cassettes were invented in the early 60s, & mainly big in the 70s & 80s, they are not a 90s thing really. CDs had already become more popular by the early 90s.

Arda Balaban
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aaaand who remembers being unable to fold them again :)

kjukju
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this is how I learn english...

Kostas Papadakis
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always loved to read the lyrics inside of the cassete case!

Sharon Vaughn
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still have some even though I don't have a player anymore.

Kiki
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Half the time they didn't have lyrics.

Leah Juhlke
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

More compact than a record, didnt need batteries, could be signed by artist and came with lyrics.

Michael Brown
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

back when I could read something that small

Michael Brown
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

back when I could read something that small

Donna O
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, and needing a magnifying glass to do so haha

Isabel Rimondi Houwing
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i really miss this, was great to be able to know from day one exactly what was sang, now i make half of the song up ...

ChickyChicky
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The smell of a brand new cassette...

BusLady
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Better than the 8 tracks which were horrible!

Master Markus
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Weirdly I didn't really grow up with casettes. My parents had a fair amount of vinyl and CDs but only a few casettes.

Kelly Horrigan
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think I am too old for these 'remember when's"

Katinka Min
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Casette inserts? You had to grow up in the 80s and earlier to still see those. :-D

Bence Szabó
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

damn i wish i had known this back than :D

Ambidextrous
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I did this anyway... (I was born in 2005, but all my siblings are 1990's kids)

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

2000s babies grew up this way without siblings as well lol. The 90s and 2000s are close in years

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Biana Weatherford
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's the Depeche Mode cassette! I think I might still have it.

Gabby
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was unaware that there were lyrics even though I was always staring at them. I secretly think I was illiterate despite going to schooo until I was sentient enough to be an adult. Lol

Karen Louise
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always loved the Prince inserts...so strange and cool to me lol

Cherie O
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my gosh....I totally forgot about this until now!!! And the tiny, tiny print....

diane a
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i learned them alll by heart - from Bay City Rollers to Bat Out of Hell in the space of 2 years

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    Music and cartoons such as... Daria! ♥

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    Ladies and Gentlemen
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    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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    what was the last movie you remember renting from blockbluster?

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    And a universal birthday present was...stickers.

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

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    #25

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    Lenora Hefley Rice
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    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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