50 Obsolete Things To Show Just How Much The World Has Changed (New Pics)

Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, is a very common and highly social-emotional experience. It is centered around the self, important social connections, and meaningful life events. In other words, when our mind drowns itself in these sentimental memories, it makes us revisit the precious moments we shared with friends and loved ones.

So to invite you on a new trip down memory lane, we at Bored Panda are continuing our series on the popular subreddit r/Nostalgia, and have once again compiled its best recent posts. Continue scrolling to check them out, and if you missed our earlier publications, catch up here, here, and here.

#1 Who Remembers Making Textbook Covers From Grocery Bags In The Late 1970s And 80s?

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#2 Erasers That Never Erased Anything

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#3 Manual Credit Card Machine. You Know The Sounds It Makes

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#4 A Top 10 Gift If You Were A Kid In The 90’s, I Present To You, The Ultimate Surround Sound Audio, Complete With The Option To Extend The Speakers 2 Feet While Simultaneously Having A Glow-In-The-Dark Solar System On Your Ceiling

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#5 Rear Door Ashtrays; Playing With These As A Kid On Car Rides

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#6 Who Remembers The Parachute Guy. Would Always Get Stuck Up A Tree Or On A Roof

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#7 Getting To Play With The Parachute In The 90s Was Peak “Life Is Good”

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#8 Back When I Was Growing Up, Ice Cream Came In A Box!

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#9 Image Transferring With Silly Putty

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#10 The 64 Pack Of Crayons With A Built In Sharpener

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#11 The Clear Craze Of The 90s When Almost Everything Was Clear

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#12 Leather Phone Cases Used By Some Dads In The Early 2000s

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#13 Anybody Else Have Parents Who Saved National Geographics And Included Them On The Family Bookshelf?

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#14 Weekend Nights At The Skating Rink Were As Close To A Nightclub Scene As Us Pre-High Schoolers Got Back In The Day

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#15 The Original Mouse Trap

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#16 Windows 95 Themes

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#17 The Original Facebook

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#18 Pre 9/11 When A Kid Was Able To Visit The Cockpit Of An Airplane

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#19 Pizza Hut Glasses

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#20 Highlights Magazine

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#21 Cd-Rom Games

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#22 The Most Relatable Rugrats Quote: “It’s Four O’clock In The Morning! Why On Earth Are You Making Chocolate Pudding?” “Because I’ve Lost Control Of My Life” 1993

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#23 Eating Mac N’ Cheese By Arranging A Single Noodle On Each Fork Tine

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#24 Taking Flintstones Vitamins Growing Up

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#25 The Way The Sanford King Size Permanent Marker Smelled

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#26 Styrofoam Airplanes

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#27 Nothing That Wasn’t Candy Ever Tasted More Like Candy That Ludens Cough Drops

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#28 An Ancient Memory. Busytown Mysteries

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#29 Short Circuit

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#30 Came Across My Game Boy Earlier Today While Cleaning Out Some Old Boxes

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#31 A Favorite Show From Childhood. Anybody Remember Muppet Babies?

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#32 Whistle Pops (1970’s)

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#33 Wendy’s Sunrooms

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#34 I Found These McDonald’s Transformer Toys In My Parents’ Attic Recently

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#35 Og Goosebumps (1992-1997)

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#36 Tale Spin (1990-1991)

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#37 Aim (1997-2017)

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#38 Who Watched “Are You Afraid Of The Dark?” Growing Up? What A 90s Masterpiece

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#39 “The Hologram Store” That Sold Beauties Like These At The Mall

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#40 Different Decade, Same Spooky Family

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#41 Apple Computers In Late 90s/ Early 2000s

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#42 Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark. Nightmares For A Kid In The 90’s

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#43 For My First Father’s Day My Incredible Wife Bought Me My Favourite Toy From My Childhood So My Son And I Can Play Together. She Even Re-Did All The Stickering

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#44 Rollercoaster Tycoon 🥹

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#45 McDonald’s Packaging From The Early 90s

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#46 Hybrid Theory And Meteora Were Big Parts Of My High School Years. Linkin Park

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#47 The Old Taco Bell Packaging (Also The Easy Button)

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#48 Gameboy, American Girl Dolls, Blockbuster, Beanie Babies, Longaberger Baskets, Boom Box, And A Bowl Cut. The Dream Of 1998z

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#49 Malcolm In The Middle

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#50 Lost (2004)

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