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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A Burnt CD of 2000s Nostalgia for an MTV Cribz Tour Down Memory Lane
We are the last of a dying breed. We are the first of a new generation. We are the ones to watch technology grow into a sentient monstrosity and the last to have a Tamagachi. We are… Millennials. There’s something to be said about the generation that straddled the dawn of the Internet. Growing up, …
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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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‘My boyfriend’s armpits’: 20+ Smelly smells that smell smelly but everyone secretly enjoys
Smells can evoke the strongest memories in the human brain. Weirdly enough, and even though it’s a human’s weakest sense, a smell can make you have the heaviest flashbacks and the strongest emotional response to something. For example, if you grew up somewhere that gets summer rains but now you live in the desert, you …
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Nostalgic People Share the Things They Miss From Pre-Internet Times
Remember when the screen in our lives that everybody was so worried about was the TV? If you do, it’s safe to say that you’re probably pretty old. It’s easy to paint the past as a better or more innocent time, precisely because it isn’t whatever we’re living through right now. However, it undeniably had …
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15+ Anxiety Memes to Laugh About With Your Therapist This Week (April 28, 2023)
Have you ever had a brief moment of inner peace and then realized how overly chill you were? Well, as an anxietician, a professional anxious person, you’re obligated to shut that down right away. If your brain starts lulling into a calm state, you MUST start digging up memories of the past that will completely …
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‘There was a lot more boredom’: People Discuss What Daily Life Was Like Before Smartphones
I didn’t own a cell phone until 2006. I was late to the smartphone game as well, receiving my first iPhone in 2015 at the ripe old age of 27. Before cell phones, things were different. The only distractions I had on my commute, if I was lucky, were a walkman or my homework. Netflix …
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People Share Nostalgia For Things That Were Normal in the ’90s But Are Now Obsolete
As a millennial born in the late 1980’s, I had the pleasure of witnessing some major cultural shifts, the most prominent being the advent of the Internet. While my early childhood was internet-free, as I got older I was introduced to both the wonders and horrors of the world wide web. And at first, I …
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People List the Golden Ages That Have Passed Us By
Nobody thinks it will happen to them, but everyone eventually gets to an age where they start reminiscing about the Good Old Days. It happens earlier than we might expect, too, not least because of the lightning speed of change in our current times. What used to be great when we were kids might not …
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People Get Nostalgic About Things That Were Normal in the ’90s But Are Now Obsolete
As a millennial born in the late 1980’s, I had the pleasure of witnessing some major cultural shifts, the most prominent being the advent of the Internet. While my early childhood was internet-free, as I got older I was introduced to both the wonders and horrors of the world wide web. And at first, I …
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