‘Color TV, Rolling Luggage, Ranch Dressing’: Old people share inventions that didn’t exist when they were kids

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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90s Kid Nostalgia Pics Drinking a Can of Surge and Playing Pokemon Blue

Picture this: it’s 1999. You’re between the ages of 7 and 14. It’s a Friday night after a long week of school. You have no plans tonight, but your mom is ordering Pizza Hut. You take your cheese slice to the basement where your Nintendo 64 is hooked up to an incredibly boxy but substantial …
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‘The kids yearn for 2014 Tumblr’: Algorithms ruined the original intention of social media and left us uninspired

Though, to many of us, 2014 feels like yesterday, some young internet users are already nostalgic for that not-so-bygone era, one of indie pop, American Apparel, and reblogging moody gifs. It’s called «Tumblrcore» since the axis on which that nostalgia revolves is Tumblr, a social media platform that ruled a certain side of the internet …
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25+ Wallace and Gromit Memes Tucking Into a Bit of Wensleydale

If you grew up in the early 2000s, odds are you’ve wanted to go to the moon just so you could take a slice of it and see if it was actually cheese. Wallace and Gromit was one of those oddball DVDs that we all somehow had in our TV consoles as a kid. Like …
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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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27 Throwback Toys That’ll Make Every 90s Kid Feel Young Again

For the elder millennials who fondly remember dial-up noises and begging our parents for the latest neon monstrosity, here’s a journey through 27 nostalgic toys that’ll take you right back to when Tamagotchi deaths were a daily tragedy. Who could forget Furbys, those little gremlins that’d say things like «me hungry» and «me love you»? …
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’24 hour shopping at Walmart’: 20+ Discontinued products we wish would come back

You learn quickly in life that nothing lasts forever. The beautiful thing about life is that it’s fleeting. Just like the Shamrock Shake. Here one day, gone the next. You may pray for its return, but there are no guarantees in life. There are so many products I grew up with that magically vanished at some point, never to return. Getting a sandwich …
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25+ 2000s Memes for Kids Who Chewed on Polly Pocket Clothes

I can’t believe we’re already nostalgic for the 2000s, but here we are. The kids like me who grew up playing Webkinz and dressing up Stardoll characters are now fully functioning adults. And though we may still feel like the young kids on the block, plenty of the stuff we grew up with now staunchly …
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‘They Caused $100,000 In Damages’: High School Incidents Serving Nostalgia On a Plate

Reminiscing about the good old days brings about a lot of memories; some good, some bad, some ugly, but all very memorable. High school was a wild ride, one we’re not likely to forget any time soon. Kids went about vandalizing teachers’ cars, teachers were doing questionable things with seniors, and one kid was caught …
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2000s Memes For People Who Actually Remember Y2K

A considerable portion of the young population thinks Y2K is only a clothing style. While Gen Z teens love claiming the early 2000s as an aesthetic, they are utterly clueless about the historical events that defined the early aughts. For those of you who remember the 2000s but not New Year’s Eve 1999, I will …
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