35 Nostalgic Posts From This Online Community That Perfectly Encapsulate Years Gone By
Interview With ExpertEver felt, smelt, seen or heard something and been instantly transported back to “the good old days”? I know I have. Memories of the past can make us feel sad, or warm and fuzzy inside. They might even make us wish we were still little... living in a carefree time, unbothered by the stress of adulting, and the chaos of social media.
“Nostalgia is often triggered by something reminding you of a happier time,” reads the description of the r/nostalgia online community. It’s a place where 1.4 million people come to laugh and cry about days gone by. If you find yourself missing your childhood, fear not. We’ve lined up an epic trip down memory lane with a few blasts from the past that are bound to stir up all the nostalgic feels.
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Anybody Old Enough To Remember Being Taught With An Overhead Projector And Writing On These Transparencies?
The Magic That Was The Scholastic Book Fair
Flipping Through These As A Kid Trying To Find Your Favourite Bands Poster
Wooden Playgrounds
The Labels That Came With Vhs Tapes
i always take off the border too and let on the page only the usable labels :D
The Ge Alarm Clock That Everyone Seemed To Have
Who Remembers This [ice Cream] From School?
Remember Watching The Pipes Screensaver?
90s PC Speakers
Drawing Your Sun In The Corner
The Smell Of Opening A Brand New Can Of Play Doh
Cross-Section Books From The 90's
I still love this sort of illustrations. They are informative and help your imagination actually get in the subject.
Mechanical Pencil Sharpener- Sharpened Many Pencils In School Using One Of These. Always A B***h Whenever You Had To Sharpen An Unsharpened Pencil
The Family Computer
Pencils With Cartridges
So today, I accidentally broke my autistic brother’s favorite dragon tales plate and I can’t find it anywhere online. If someone finds one like or similar to it (online or in your basements) I’d pay you for it and you’d be really helping us out! Thank you, internet folk! :)
Update: Daniel has received the dragon tales plate thank you so much for everyone's support and help
Who Remembers Reading About The Adventures Of These Two?
Old School Pizza Hut
Burning The Sickest Cds In The Neighborhood
Person who made this CD definitely never could have imagined it's picture would be a part of every 90s nostalgia list ever, and that thousands upon thousands of people would witness their childhood taste in music. I wonder if it keeps them up at night.
Working On The Car With Your Dad So You Can Learn How To Fix Stuff. All I Learned Was How To Hold The Flashlight And Get Yelled At
My dad used to ride with Lance Armstrong and I have got a DVD of me jumping over 5 lorries on Blue Peter
Removing The Faceplate Of Your Car Stereo So It Wouldn’t Get Stolen
Wilson From Home Improvement, And How They Always Managed To Cover His Face In Every Situation
Rear Door Ashtrays; Playing With These As A Kid On Car Rides
The fancy ones, like this Lincoln, even had lighters. The cheaper ones has the ashtray in the back of the front seat.
This Velcro Toss And Catch Game
Remember When You Didn’t Have To Enter Your Personal Info Online To Win A Soda?
Ahhh Yes, Square Slices Of Pizza At School
Any Rescue Ranger Fans Out There?
Bristle Blocks, Do These Look Familiar?
Who Remembers Shopping For School Clothes Around This Time Of Year, But Your Mom Not Letting You Wear Anything Until School Started?
Blue light specials and they had a little food deli that served sandwiches.
Those Bright Green Volume Bars
Those Red Pebbled Cups From The Pizza Joint With The Arcade When You Were A Kid
Starving Your Calculator To Death
Remember When Laptops Used To Have That Little Rubber Clit For A Mouse?
Glittery Sand Lizards
I still ha these! But in dragon shape, I give them out to youngsters who are insecure or scared. They help them relax and change their focus. ❤️
I Just Remembered How Much I Loved These Wooden Pattern Blocks
The Motorola Razr. Still The Coolest Cell Phone To Be Produced
The Crinkly Feeling Of Opening These Vhs Cases
Actor Jonathan Hyde, A Staple Of Fun 90s Movies (Pictured: Richie Rich, Jumanji, Titanic, And The Mummy)
The Little Critter Book Series
Turning Markers Into Swords
I wonder what it is about humans that most of us were compelled to make big sticks/swords/lightsabers? Like we all realised ‘hey, we can stick these together, I’m immediately going to make a weapon’. Is it just the monkey part of our brains that goes ‘I can make some kinda tool out of this’?
Brushing Your Teeth In The 90s Was Way More Fun
I MEMORIZED this from hearing it several times a day in commercials: "Crest has been shown to be an effective decay-preventive dentifrice that can be of significant value when used in a conscientiously applied program of oral hygiene and regular professional care.” — Council on Dental Therapeutics, American Dental Association.
i remember having a tube of some brand toothpaste but came out star shaped from the opening nozzle
We had one with three colour stripes that tasted like lollies, but for some reason only used it when staying at the caravan park.
at one point i remember having sparkly strawberry toothpaste... which was good cos as a kid i hated the taste of minty toothpaste.
Coming Soon To Own On DVD & Video, *a Loud Mans Voice That Shakes The Walls*
"We're sorry. The skip & fast-forward buttons have been disabled for this function"
Did Anyone Else Have A Stage In The Cafeteria Of Their School?
90's TV Cabinet. I Remember Needing To Push On The Glass Doors To Open Them
Space Cadet Was My Childhood
Tvs With Built-In Vcrs That Had Like 13-Inch Wide Screens And Were The Coolest Thing You Could Have In Your Bedroom
Is nobody going to comment on the demon on the screen? Nobody at all?
The Old Cartoon Network
Anyone Else Remember The Weird, Course Texture These Bouncy Balls Had?
See-Through Electronics
Math In The 90’s
Also math in the early 2010's for me. All through elementary, I can remember these
The Fury I Would Experience At The Mall Kiosk…
Anyone Remember Corduroy The Department Store Bear?
When Mom Made Kool-Aid In This Pitcher And You Drank It From The Matching Cups
90's Big Screen TV
Rectangle Pizza Was The Heavy Hitter Of School Lunches In The 80s And Early 90s
Now That All The Stores In Alaska Closed, This Is The Last Blockbuster In The United States. It Is In Bend, Or
Who Remembers These Switchblade Combs?
Did Anyone Else Watch Unwrapped?
Skip-It
Torture Device Known As The "Sit And Reach" Test
These Cereal Bowls I Used To Eat Out Of As A Kid
Mango Sour Altoids...miss You Bro
The Creepy Movie Known As James And The Giant Peach
Anyone remeber Jacob two two and the hooded fang? Loved that movie
The Green Turtle Sandbox
Couches In The 70s Were Serious Business
These Disney Read-Along Tapes And Books That Basically Sliced Your Hand Open When You Tried To Get Them Out Of The Packaging
I liked them, but my sister LOVED them. She listened to them every night before bed for years. I can still hear the jingle to turn the page.
Those Food-Shaped Chairs From The Mcdonalds Kids Playrooms In The Mid 90s
Being A Kid And Eating This. (Cup Of Dirt)
I Wanted This Room So Bad
I wanted this room as a kid, but as an adult, I'd hate to have to clean that ceiling.
Super Mario Bros 3 Mini-Games
Anyone Else Get These Plastic Chests When They Lost A Tooth In Elementary School?
The Best Snack You Could Have At Recess
Tissue Ghosts
The "Good" Ice
Trying To Catch A Glimpse Of The Scrambled TV Channels
Bow-Chicka-Wow-Wow! Everyone in the later 80s, basically! 🤣
I Know You All Remember The Spacemaker Pencil Box!
Who Else Had This Toy Sword?
The Rugrats Movie! With The Awesome Orange Vhs Tape
Anyone Remember The Jack In The Box Antenna Topper?
Flintstone's Lucky Egg Machine
Those Nylon Lunch Sacks That Always Smelled Like Old Sandwiches After A Few Months Of Use
Toys R Us Bag From The 90s My Mother-In-Law Has Had For Years
No Fear T-Shirts In The ‘90s
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, N64. The Warehouse
Life Savers Holes That Were Essentially Candy Tic Tacs
Jackie Chan Adventures (2000-2005)
The “2001 Bedroom Pic” That Goes Viral All The Time
Scooby Doo Gummies Anyone Remember The Blue Ones
This Rainbow Art Set That — Thanks To The Commercials Playing Nonstop — You Ended Up Begging Your Parents To Order For You
yep. and it did not work out like this because the sponge brushes would just fall apart....
Paper Toss - The First App I Downloaded On My iPod
Kelloggs Star Wars Spoons
i had lightsaber chopsticks at one point. but I prefer wooden chopsticks over plastic ones so i gave them to my cousin.
The Plastic Tag Protectors You'd Get For Your Beanie Babies To Make Sure You Kept The Tags Perfect And Not Affect The Value
Modern Warfare 2. Not Too Long Ago But Dearly Missed
I Had Forgotten About Chuck E. Cheese Carpet
These Glow-In-The-Dark Blocks That You Never Saw Anyone Have Irl
I'd wish to see such compilations for the rest of the world. Outside the USA that is. Like some European countries, or Australia, or Countries in Africa, Asia, South- and Central America. There IS life there. We EXIST!
These posts are always mostly: a pic of *that* alarm clock, other slightly outdated tech, late-1990s / early-2000s screenshots, a post like "if your under 30 than you've never seen an etch-a-sketch before", and a post like "so sad that kids today are safer, darn all those super-common tracking apps on phones"
I'm sorry, I usually enjoy these but this is the worst nostalgia compilation Ive ever seen - most of these things still exist today.
Really annoying article, so much of this stuff still exists, play doh, radio alarms, etc.. why do people call it nostalgia
I'd wish to see such compilations for the rest of the world. Outside the USA that is. Like some European countries, or Australia, or Countries in Africa, Asia, South- and Central America. There IS life there. We EXIST!
These posts are always mostly: a pic of *that* alarm clock, other slightly outdated tech, late-1990s / early-2000s screenshots, a post like "if your under 30 than you've never seen an etch-a-sketch before", and a post like "so sad that kids today are safer, darn all those super-common tracking apps on phones"
I'm sorry, I usually enjoy these but this is the worst nostalgia compilation Ive ever seen - most of these things still exist today.
Really annoying article, so much of this stuff still exists, play doh, radio alarms, etc.. why do people call it nostalgia
