If you’re a person who is over 25 and are out on the internet looking for a little nostalgia, there’s good news – the internet is full of old school throwbacks for Millennials and younger GenXers everywhere.
If you grew up between the late 80s and sometime in the 2000s, there’s a good chance you’re going to be able to actually smell, feel, and/or taste these photos.
13. This is our comfort food.
Double bonus that it’s easy to make.
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Image Credit: Twitter
12. Slip and slide days were the best.
Grass and rocks and all.
you just had to be there pic.twitter.com/1qsjShpdvS
— caleb🃏 (@cxlxbbb) February 28, 2021
11. We didn’t need no stinkin’ alcohol.
Or maybe that was the issue…
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Image Credit: Pleated-Jeans
10. All of those old logos.
Can’t you just hear that click?
Big puffy chunky buttons on the vending machine, 80s / 90s
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9. We didn’t have a ton of entertainment, ok?
We had to make our own.
8. Remember the days when it was VHS tapes instead?
Like a portal to another universe.
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Image Credit: Pleated-Jeans
7. Why did our parents act like these balls cost more than $3?
I guess they just figured we’d break something at home.
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Image Credit: Pleated-Jeans
6. If you know, you know.
I’m so happy that I know!
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Image Credit: Pleated-Jeans
5. Who on earth thought a metal slide was ideal?
People who like to torture kids, obviously.
4. I think my parents still have this alarm clock.
Dust gathered on the top and all.
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Image Credit: Pleated-Jeans
3. This was the big time.
The place to be, as it were.
You had to be there. On a Friday night. pic.twitter.com/JGYm5JXnAe
— Garlic Butter Papi (@RGT_Thoughts) February 27, 2021
2. Why did we never have towels?
A question for the ages.
1. What was it we were supposed to be building?
Walls everywhere? Was that some kind of lesson?
Those red cardboard bricks in kindergarten
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Ahhh, the old days – not always good, but nice in their own ways.
Which one of these pictures really took you back? Tell us in the comments!