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Nostalgia, as we all know very well, is a powerful and bittersweet emotion. It's like a time-machine that brings us back to simpler times. And so, perhaps no group is as vocal about their sentiments towards nostalgia as those who grew up in the '80s, '90s, and early noughties.
From memories of the iconic Walkman CD players that didn't fit into any pocket to the legendary Tamagotchis that we lovingly cared for (but occasionally forgot to feed), many of these relics are hard to come by today. If you listen carefully, you can still hear the 1991 Sonic "Segaaa" soundbite in your head. It's a good thing then, that online communities such as 'The Nostalgic 80s, 90s & 2000s', step in with nostalgia-fueled memes as a way of keeping these memories alive. So scroll down and see which retro-nostalgic memes we handpicked for your journey down memory lane today.
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Peanut butter and jelly. Batman and Robin. Nostalgia and memes. If you're like us, these two things go so well together that you can't help but let yourself indulge in memes from the eras we miss so much. Whether it's reminiscing about the sweet sounds of dial-up Internet, the TV shows we used to be obsessed about, or the fashion we used to rock - having a little laugh about how cringe everything was is a rare joy.
Then again, why do we love nostalgia so damn much? Well, for one, it gives us a sense of belonging. When we make fun of cringy things from our childhood or teenage years - those baggy shorts, my god - we are tapping into a shared cultural experience that connects us to others who grew up in the same era. It's a way of feeling like we're part of something bigger than ourselves. It's a way to collectively pick on "MTV" for showing how great and punk-rock a TV channel can be and then suddenly turning its back on us.
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Twin brothers were born in an American family in 1978. The brother, who was five minutes older, had a healthy heart, and the younger one also suffered from cardiomyopathy and cerebral palsy. However, this tragic circumstance only brought the boys closer. The "older" brother always took care of the "younger", helped him, motivated him. And even when a sick boy at the age of 13 needed the heart of a voluntary donor, a healthier brother wanted to commit suicide so that his heart could be transplanted to his brother. The vital organ was found on time, and the "older" boy went to the studies of a biochemical engineer after school to invent a cure for the disease for his brother and other people. But fate determined otherwise. He became an actor and even a Hollywood star. And the younger brother became a lawyer who defends the rights of children with cerebral palsy. Today, Ashton and Michael Kutcher are active in charity work together.
The '90s, for example, were a time when access to pop culture was limited, making everything feel more valuable and exciting. Unlike today, where you can binge-watch a series in a few days and stream music instantly, you had to wait and work for it back then. Missing an episode of your favorite TV show was a disaster of the highest scale, and you'd spend the whole week obsessing over it until the next one came out.
On the other hand, this '80s, '90s & 2000s nostalgia can be cringeworthy for the current generation. Looking back, it's easy to see how inconvenient and frustrating it was to have to wait so darn long for entertainment. It's hard to imagine being excited about listening to a song on a tape that you'd recorded off the radio, or having to quote movie lines from memory because you didn't have access to it whenever you wanted. In other words, the perfect fodder for memes.
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Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
As someone who has struggled with addiction, RDJ is proof that we can come out on the other side. I’ll be happy with just surviving and being happy, though, I don’t need to become a movie star XD
In order to understand better what makes communities like 'The Nostalgic 80s, 90s & 2000s' tick, Bored Panda reached out to the page's moderators who were kind enough to give us some answers. "We created the page to recreate those lost times," we were told in an email by one of the group's several moderators who all come from the '90s.
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The Doom Song 2 years ago
I refuse to acknowledge there is any other scooby Doo. The original series is the only series
Besides trying to meme some of their most beloved childhood memories, the founders of the page, who are also responsible for the 'Like 'siriusly'' page with more than 200,000 followers, wanted to make a community of like-minded individuals who enjoy looking at nostalgia with humor. "And it totally worked out. It's a delightful experience to moderate a page that brings out vintage experiences and memories from childhood. Each and every meme is related to our [personal] childhood in one way or another."
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Jill Bussey 2 years ago
Dementia of all types is a cruel and heart breaking disease. I wish only the best for him and his family.
Of course, moderating a page with almost 700,000 followers and memes flowing in each day is not an easy task - especially considering how nitpicky Facebook can get. "We make sure that [our memes] are what the members are expecting to witness in the group before giving approval to each and every post," the representative of 'The Nostalgic 80s, 90s & 2000s' explained.
"Anything against the rules," like 'Post in English only' (rule number 5), "will be taken down." Just in the last month, the group's moderators have successfully enriched their already stunning collection of nostalgic memes with over 1,600 posts. We can't help but wonder how many of them didn't make it to the cutting room.
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Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
Hell, I named our family business after something out of Spaceballs (my favorite movie.) 20 years later, my family STILL has no idea our business name is a Spaceballs reference XD
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Take me to dinner first 2 years ago
Isn't it funny how they developed every logo and yet the saving icon is still a diskette
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Pink Princess 2 years ago
I love record stores. The problem is that all the vinyls cost $60 and I like saving money
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Take me to dinner first 2 years ago
Well tbf many movies could be narrowed down to one single scene
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Craftsman 64 2 years ago
There was a tab there. If the tab was in place the cassette was recordable. If the tab was missing, you couldn't press down the record button. When you made your ultimate mix tape, you broke out the tab so it couldn't be recorded over. If you got a bunch of pre-recorded tapes, had a mix tape from an old girlfriend, etc. then you put tape over the hole thus making it recordable again.
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Garfield 2 years ago
It's worse than that: I do remember doing it, I just don't remember why...
Nadine Bamberger 2 years ago
Oh the pain of accidentally taping over the song you recorded from the radio after suffering through 6 hours of the happy breakfast show.
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
Or pausing the recording until the DJ on the radio stops yapping, so you can record the song. Pirating, the early years
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I'm definitely old as I also remember rewinding with a biro or a pencil by spinning the cassette on the end
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
You snapped off the tab to write protect the cassette as the player/recorder had a mechanical switch that would detect if there was a tab or not. Tab=recordable, No tab=Record button could not be pressed
Load More Replies... Just_for_this 2 years ago
I didnt know this trick, but i had many tapes stuck back together after being chewed up.
Ariadne Toms 2 years ago
I thought I was so clever getting the music for free. So many mixed tapes!
Liubliana Puh Calmet 2 years ago
We used to put small paper balls instead of tape on the corners to re record on a cassette
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
I used to fold up a small bit of paper and shove it in the hole
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Riley Quinn 2 years ago
I must be as old as dirt because I remember when cassette tapes replaced 8 track tapes, and when 8T replaced radio.
Johnny Rodriguez 2 years ago
You know I was actually making very good progress on suppressing a lot of those old memories..... now I have to start over!
mystico627 2 years ago
Today's kids would never figure this out. But then they wouldn't have to cause their parents (who did this back in the day) would just buy unlimited numbers of new tapes so the kid wouldn't have to fret.
Jeffrey Labiak 2 years ago
Just realized there is a computer program on this tape for the Commodore 64/128. Yes I am that old.
Jeffrey Labiak 2 years ago
Just realized something else about this pic. Bottom left. Computer program on this tape for the Commadore 64/128
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minnieslave0 2 years ago
And the Mother (who has been up since 4am cooking all that) never goes berserk and makes them sit down and eat.I woul give an Oscar to any film Mum whose response is "get the f**k back here and eat this NOW!!!"
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Anna Stephenson 2 years ago
Yeah- the day my friends 15 year old daughter called TMMT's "vintage" I knew I was old!
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Nadine Bamberger 2 years ago
Bless her heart and make sure to hand these precious heirlooms down from generation to generation.
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Janice Strickland 2 years ago
I told my mom(57) that I (33) was naming my son(4) Brantley so he could grow up and say it's Brant ma (it's Brand ma from the movie) she was not impressed
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July 16, 1988: Michael J. Fox married Tracy Pollan. Happy 34th Anniversary to the couple!
Jill Bussey 2 years ago
Her face appears to say that she has successfully persuaded MJF to drink from the poison chalice!
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nobodyever 2 years ago
A long time ago in a Galaxy far, far away. * music* DUNDUNDUNDUN- (music continues) -long as heckll paragraph that you need to read- (music drifts off) *mysterious bg music kicks in* (spaceship/planet) *MOVIE OFFICIALLY STARTS*
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Nadine Bamberger 2 years ago
We had to hunt down a newspaper from the town the cinema was in lol.
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Foffy Skrimshaw 2 years ago
From what I have heard, this was supposed to be a parody of party Anthems, not celebrated as one.
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Dawn Marie 2 years ago
Yippers, and don't forget my 1974 brown Nova that I inherited from my grandma 1976. I was a junior in high school. When she bought the car, she asked them to take the radio out so she wouldn't be distracted. SMH!!!
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Gandalf the Pink 2 years ago
Hmm... Champion was really hot in the late 90's and early 00's and all the popular kids sported the logo if I recall correctly
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Mabelbabel 2 years ago
Swizzels double lollies. You can get a giant version of them which is about three times the size but they aren't as powdery.
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Ariadne Toms 2 years ago
Oh...my...gosh....I had completely forgotten my fake finger ends cos I loved long nails....fms that is full on nostalgia there
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Nadine Bamberger 2 years ago
You had to insert 25 cents per pixel, that's why the pictures from that era look like 8 bit characters.
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The Doom Song 2 years ago
And then you would spends hours circling all the things you wanted but knew you were never going to get
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Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
My dad used to put them in the freezer before he ate them! It made the cream inside almost like ice cream XD
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Will Cable 2 years ago
Our TV when I was younger was a wireless single button remote and there were 3 channels
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Pink Princess 2 years ago
I could never make those when I was little. I just watched other people make them instead
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BannedFromABoatShow 2 years ago
Loved those books! I reread a couple. Jessica was a sociopath.
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Harlan Bleiler 2 years ago
I have this princess diana bear. And yes I was hoping I’d be a millionaire by now.
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Billy Harrelson 2 years ago
The fact that the whole plot of the third movie was of a rich guy spending all his time and resources to berate an old man and his teenage friend. Actually puts off important meetings just to gaslight poor Daniel.
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Demi Moore on David Letterman's sh0w in the 9Os
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Lolly Gagger 2 years ago
Well, upon seeing this one, I started a discussion on my family chat about the long lineage of names our local supermarket had and in what order they were. Well, the conversation got so heated, I think I may have been disinherited, so thank you very much, BP.
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Markus He/It/E/Cloud/Ti 2 years ago
Several of these were around not that long ago and are barely nostalgic? (Others are because my family aren't the wealthiest and we rarely got new things. I still know cassettes and the n64 well, born 2006)
Kissy Nuggett 2 years ago
We just gonna act like Stephen Spielberg cartoons didn't run rampant and slay?
WFH Forever 2 years ago
Where's Gallagher and his sledge-o-matic? Or the Donny and Marie show? Wouldn't mind seeing an 8 track tape player in a car dashboard either!
Markus He/It/E/Cloud/Ti 2 years ago
Several of these were around not that long ago and are barely nostalgic? (Others are because my family aren't the wealthiest and we rarely got new things. I still know cassettes and the n64 well, born 2006)
Kissy Nuggett 2 years ago
We just gonna act like Stephen Spielberg cartoons didn't run rampant and slay?
WFH Forever 2 years ago
Where's Gallagher and his sledge-o-matic? Or the Donny and Marie show? Wouldn't mind seeing an 8 track tape player in a car dashboard either!
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