Relive the Glory Days With These 30 Throwbacks Every 90s Kid Will Love

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John Summers • Contributor
May 13, 2025 8:00 PM EDT

Let's rewind the clock to the late 80s and early 90s—a time when everything felt a little simpler, a little rougher around the edges, but somehow just right. TVs were bulky, and the remote was practically another family member. The internet? It sounded like a robot trying to sing, and you'd hope no one picked up the phone mid-login. But honestly, we wouldn't have had it any other way.

Life tasted like sugary cereal on Saturday mornings and that weird powdered drink mix that somehow made everything better. We were the generation that scraped our knees playing outside until the streetlights came on, made collect calls from payphones, and used cassette tapes to make the ultimate mixtape. We stayed up late trying to beat impossible NES games, and our wardrobes were full of neon and questionable fashion choices.

Sure, we've grown up now, but there's a part of us that will always belong to that era of jello molds and crimped hair. Ah, those were the days!

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    The 90s version of emojis Bruynzeer pla
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    WHEN MOM BRUSHED YOUR HAIR WITH THIS, SHE ALSO BRUSHED YOUR EARS, FOREHEAD, NECK, AND BRAIN.
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    DON'T BE SO HARD ON YOURSELF THE MOM IN E.T. HAD AN ALIEN LIVING IN HER HOUSE FOR DAYS AND DIDN'T NOTICE
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    The consoles I owned growing up, according to Mom. SEGA Master System SELA mean DRIVER NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO
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    When I was 15 I was out all night at sketchy houses I shouldn't be at with even sketchier people My 15 year old is afraid to order their own food at a restaurant
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    DILL-IGHTFUL "GRAPE STUFF cadet blue 313 ww.croyola.com POPPIN GOOD HOT STUFF SCENTS WE WILL NEVER FORGET... clean Play-Do MODELING COMPOUND Kenner DE 10 Colors AREM DRIES IN FUL INSTRU TO KEEP MATERIAL back in its air-tight FOR PERMANENT ished object to dry at 2 or 3 daya. When h be colored with crayo paints. For best use IMPORTANT-DO WATER. YIPES IN ACTION TATTOOS ruit Stripe Kenni GTERGENERAL M 5 JUICY FLAVORS LAVORED WEEN WILD NANGE EASY SMASHE eightiesgirls
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    The Street Fighter Tiger Knee position is the best way to sleep
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    "We still talk about you" SCOOBY-DO Stooks DAY!
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    TODAY'S KIDS WILL NEVER KNOW WHERE THIS MAN LIVES THAT BOJ 90s PALE
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    How every text message looks unless you put lol at the end
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    Ok but why was there always a bite taken out of these? TURBO FOOTBALL Lety
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    My young coworkers asked me to show them pictures of me in high school. I said I'd go home and dig some out. They said "can't you just look on your phone?" And I laughed and laughed and laughed and then cried.
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    BEFORE AND AFTER... COCAINE ALCOHOL 40 CRACK CAFFEINE
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    Matt Winning @mattywin85 Sharpening a pencil at the bin was the childhood equivalent of taking a cigarette break
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    Kids these days will never know how serious field day was. St 3rd Lat PLACE Zed PLACE 4th PLA PLACE FIELD FIELD FIER FIELD DAY FIELD DAY DAY DAY DAY
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    Dear MTV... THAT 80s 901 PAGE HAPPENED TO THE MUSIC
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    6 words that messed you up I love you all. Class dismissed.
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    1998 just felt right III 1988 1998 2001 2006 2009 2012
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    POV: You're 12 years old, swimsuit is dripping wet, and you're freezing cold. 801 901 PARE And you don't remember what floor your room is on.
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    Sit, Ubu, Sit Instagram.com/That80sAnd90sPage UBU PRODUCTIONS Good Dog!
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    We didn't know it back then, but your teacher was definitely hungover when this thing rolled into class. BILL NYE
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    These can't be the same knees I used to jump out swings mid air and land with.
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    THAT All these years later and I'm just now realizing there are no pockets in the pool tables in Michael 80s Jackson's "Beat It" music video. gos PAGE
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    I'm from the generation that is still too traumatized to drive behind a truck with any type of logs on it.
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    I FEEL LIKE WILLIE NELSON HAS BEEN THE SAME AGE MY ENTIRE LIFE THAT 80 gos PAGE
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    Hi! We're the Shinseki's! We remodeled this bathroom Summer 1995 If you're reading this, that means you're remodeling the bathroom again. What's wrong with the way we did it ??
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    I'm glad I grew up in the '80s and '90s. I did so much stupid sh#t, and there is no record of it anywhere.
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    I can tolerate most people.. This long 100 made with mematic
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    Today's kids will never know the struggle of finding the right CD to listen to 110 78413
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    WE REALLY THOUGHT WE WERE SOMETHING WHEN WE WENT FROM... ONS THAT 80 go PAGE 0000 From This To This
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