40 Photos Of Things Millennials Haven’t Thought About In 20 Years But Will Recognize On Sight
1. Pierre Escargot sitting in his bathtub and saying,"hon-hon-hon":
2. This yearly flexibility test that was part of the Presidential Physical Fitness Test and was truly the most painful thing ever:
3. These pencils that were an absolute status symbol, but also just useless if you lost a couple of cartridges:
4. These poster displays you'd find in the back of the store, and the satisfying "cluck-cluck" sound they would make whenever you'd flip to the next one:
5. The oh-so-cool-for-like-a-week 3D posters that you could hang on your bedroom wall like artwork:
6. All the extra labels that came with blank VHS tapes that no one would ever use:
7. The 75 folders you'd have to open up in Windows just so you could play solitaire:
But are you this old? from 90s
8. The animated underwater screensaver that came with Windows 98 that you thought was so realistic and felt like you could stare at forever:
9. The Kids' WB programming block — that arguably had the best lineup of cartoons — back when it was still the WB:
10. The promotional Pocahontas glasses you could get at Burger King:
11. The Burger King Kids Club characters that were featured on the Kids Club Meal cups:
12. The Crossfire commercial that made it seem like it was the most intense board game ever:
13. Creepy Crawlers and the distinct plasticky smell that would come from the molding oven anytime you made something:
14. The coupon dispensers in the aisles of the supermarket that were essentially used just by kids as a toy:
15. Butterfinger BB's candy, which was the perfect Butterfinger candy:
16. These brushes that your mom would have in her purse:
I had completely forgotten about these collapsible brushes until I stumbled across one on the sidewalk today from 90s
17. The Spacemaker pencil box, which would always explode open if you accidentally dropped it:
18. These mouses that always felt awkward to use:
90's Status Symbol from 90s
19. The turtle sandbox, which would turn into a cat toilet if you forgot to put the shell back on it:
20. Having to set your TV to Channel 3 whenever you played video games or wanted to watch a VHS tape:
21. And the green volume bar that would display across the bottom quarter of your TV whenever you raised or lowered the volume:
22. These blocks that, like Legos, also hurt to step on barefoot:
23. These Garfield glasses that every family seemed to own:
Who else had these? from 90s
24. The ashtrays that were built into seats in older cars and were fun to play with (if you managed to pry one open):
25. The fishing game that sounded like it was grinding ice whenever you played with it:
26. Tiger handheld games, which really made you strain your eyes anytime you played with one:
27. Brain Quest games that truly made learning fun:
Brain Quest from nostalgia
28. Kool-Aid Bursts, which were the coolest drinks you could have in your lunchbox:
29. And these Pringles chips cases that actually did a job protecting your chips in your lunchbox:
30. These chocolates that you would sell for school fundraisers:
31. The plain cafeteria chicken burgers that you would eat doused in ketchup:
32. The holes in the school's outdoor lunch tables:
33. The hip-hop Looney Tunes T-shirts that all the cool kids wore:
That weird period in the 90s when Warner Bros. were selling shirts with "hip" characters from nostalgia
34. The McDonald's Halloween buckets that actually held very little candy:
35. KitKats when they came wrapped in foil:
36. Looking up movie times in the newspaper:
37. These watercolor sets that really didn't paint shit and just turned into a watery mess:
38. These floppy disk storage boxes, which nobody really ever used and just sat next to the family computer:
39. The Eyewitness Books series that you would 90% of the time never read and just flip through the pages to look at the cool photos:
40. And lastly, the scrambled adult channels, which would sometimes come into focus for a split second and you could also definitely hear:
H/T: r/90s and r/nostalgia.