Every generation has an invention that their kids won’t believe they once lived without. I think that my future children will be shocked to learn that iPhones and iPads were introduced when I was in elementary school. I remember a kid in my 4th-grade class talking about getting an iPad and thinking it was the …
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16-year-old photoshops a picture of her 6-year-old brother with Daniel Radcliffe, finally tells him the picture was fake after 14 years: ‘His memory of the fake meeting felt so real to him that it became one of his proudest stories’
It’s unbelievable how easy it is to have a false memory. My family and I were recently discussing two disparate memories regarding my little sister, taxi cabs, and Broadway musicals. Everyone else remembers her saying, «Where’s my taxi?» after we saw Beauty and the Beast on Broadway when she was four. I remember her telling …
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‘It feels like I robbed him of a real childhood memory’: Sweet 16-year-old photoshops 6-year-old brother meeting Daniel Radcliffe thus implanting a false memory, brother freaks out when he finds out it’s not true 14 years later
Memory can be a slippery thing. They say that whenever you remember something, you’re not actually remembering the thing itself, but rather the last time you remembered it. So by this logic, the quality of the information slowly degrades with time– a photograph of a photograph for years and years until it’s just fuzz. So …
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32 Nostalgic Childhood Memes to Heal Your Inner Kiddo
Are you feeling melancholic this week? Do you miss when your biggest problem was deciding which face paint design you wanted at the county fair? Correct answer: Spiderman, always. Those were the days, weren’t they? Instead of paperwork, we had multiplication worksheets. Instead of a 9-5, we had a 7-3. Nobody, not even children, enjoyed …
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25+ 90s Memes to Remind You to Feed Your Tamagotchi
Ah, the 90s. A time for dial-up internet, AOL chatrooms, getting way too into flannel, and hurting your ankle with a Skip-It. A time when many of us were kids. And things tend to seem simpler back when you didn’t have a job or a mortgage or an addiction to YouTube shorts. No, the only …
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‘It was warmer the sun now is more of a cool tone’: Millennials claim the sun was different in the 90s, others argue that these memories are skewed by ads and being 8-years-old in 1995
It’s no mystery that some things have changed since the 90s. We’ve gotten older, prices have gone up, and the Vengaboys are not releasing as many songs. A lot of people might say that the 90s were clearly a better time to be alive, but most of the people who say that were children during …
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29 Unforgettable Memes for the Awesome but Often Forgotten Middle Children
We see you, you’re not invisible!
25+ Cousin Memes to Giggle Over at the Next Family Function
Cousins are an essential part of the family network, but they occupy an interesting space between siblings and not siblings. They can also range in age from could-be-your-twin to old enough to be your father. Some folks are inseparable from their cousins, others may never meet them, and most of us have a weird once …
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Nostalgic 2000s Kids Memes For True Gen Zers Who Don’t Remember The 90s
I am willing to admit I harbor nostalgia for the 2000s. It’s only natural for someone to look at the decade where they were under 12 years old for the whole of it with some rose-colored glasses. I’m aware that for most adults, the 2000s were not the most peaceful and fun time of their …
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90s Memes For Children of the 90s
I cannot claim to be a child of the 90s, but there have been points in my life where I identified as a «90s kid.» Let me explain: as a graduate of the high school class of 2018, half of our grade was born in 1999, and half was born in 2000. I was one …
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