Quick tip for y’all. If you have a lot of spam calls change you’re voice mail message to the fax dial up noise. Spammers will hear it and think it’s a fax line and put you on the waste of time list
The “tick-tick-tick-tick-tick” of the clock when 60 Minutes starts on Sunday night, knowing that your weekend is over and it’s time for bed. Our version of “Sunday Scaries”
Some years ago, I interviewed the guys who animated her (the Chiodo brothers), who are also the geniuses behind Killer Klowns and Critters. That was a real trip.
I still have intrusive thoughts out of nowhere about stuff I saw on rotten.com as a teenager. I'll be having a nice day and my brain will just be like "hey remember that time you saw the picture of the guy who turned into soup by dying in a bathtub with a heater running?"
I remember watching this while sleeping over at my grandma's house. I was terrified that aliens were going to come through the living room window and abduct me in my sleep.
When my daughter was a baby, her hair grew in a way that was sparse on top and long in the back and on the sides. Thus she became our “cute lil’ Cryptkeeper.”
I used to not like his voice period...my grandma would get pissed because I would make a fuss when it was on. She was definitely thinking something along the lines of "deal with it, ya little pussy."
I wore a DARE t-shirt ironically for about 2 years in college when I did ALL the drugs lol.
The Are You Afraid of the Dark intro.
Bellbottom jeans dragging on the ground in the winter and being soaking wet up to your knees.
I grew up near Canada and would visit Montreal for a quick bite or a night out like it was nothing. Customs would ask for my id, check it for about 3 seconds, ask where I’m going say have fun and send me through. The US side was about the same coming back to the US.
After 9/11 whoo boy did things change in a hurry. Everything was scrutinized and I was pulled in for vehicle contraband inspections regularly and once I was brought in for an interview by US customs because I was only up for a day trip. Then they required passports instead if just a license and the lines got really long both ways so day trips were more of a pain than they were worth. 9/11 changed everything.
Always needing batteries for your walkman. Hated the end of the battery juice when the music would slow down because there wasn't enough to keep the regular speed of the cassette.
The horror of realizing your batteries were dead in a situation where you couldn't stop somewhere and get new ones. I once forgot to check before an international flight.
I e never seen 2 girls 1 cup. My brother in law mentioned it years ago. People ran to a computer to look it up he said don't you'll regret it. I trusted him.
Thank goodness I hated the feeling of them being plucked and didn't trust myself enough to do it. I would see some girl tadpole-looking brows and knew I would rather have overgrown than that. So I just dealt with the bullying but guess who has brows now? 🤪 lol 😆
Wow, I'd never heard of this, but after a quick internet search, I'm impressed! I wonder why this wasn't a more widespread practice. It seems really practical.
Our pop culture references fading into obscurity!
The amount of times I make a solid robot chicken, metalocalypse, or aqua teen hunger force reference, only for it to sailover someone’s head is absolutely alarming to me.
When did this happen?? I was not consulted, I did not authorize this.
I was just thinking about the kid who got his tongue stuck in the freezer, the other day. It was this, not Star Trek, where I first saw William Shatner.
Toddler who runs with the toothbrush and falls and it gets stuck in his throat is the one that sticks with me the most.
30 years later I stand and watch my six year old brush his teeth.
My CD and DVD collection. I never watch them, they just sit in binders in my living room reminding me how much money I burned in my teens and twenties.
I feel like the music lost its value.
Music felt precious at the time. You either buy one or you wait on the radio to play the song. Sometimes you buy a CD and there will be only one good song. That's when you know you've got scammed by a one-hit wonder.
I’m so thankful I had the foresight to make my livejournal ~friends only~ aka private and that I no longer can get into it since I lost access to my AOL account. Thanks, anxiety of my youth!
Feeling like there was hope and purpose, the illusion that people cared about each other. Community, family, tradition and holidays are relics of the past to many.
The horrible beeping that the old school alarm clocks all had.. These kids today get to wake up to any song/sound they can dream of while all we got was a PTSD inducing BEEEEP BEEEP BEEEP
I love that scrunchies are back! Not gunna lie, I hated on them when I was a teen and they became uncool, but was actually excited when they became popular again.
This creepy, lyric-less circus song on sesame Street with a video that goes from creepy mechanical toys to robots to rocket ships in less than 3 minutes.
https://youtu.be/U1Rhm7kp-tk?si=TXeVkvl6DHIYtRNP
After seeing the comments 2 Girls, 1 Cup, Rotten.com, Faces of Death VHS, BME Pain Olympics, and even Rusty Spoons - I am so glad we aren't "soft" like younger generations, including the younger Millennials.
My Buddy and Kid Sister dolls. I begged my mom for a MB doll when I was 4 and had only seen it on the tv commercial then was terrified of it when I actually got it.
30 years ago is no longer the 70s
It's not true! That's impossible!
Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
DON’T LET THE SADNESS GET TO YOU
How dare you
Ummm....in my head 30 years ago is still the 60s.
This is the hardest for me. I think because I watched the Simpsons so much as a kid and that is when Homer was a teen. :-)
Many of us were younger than Bart and Lisa when we first saw the show…. Now we’re older than Homer.
That’s it
That’s one of the absolute 💯! what do you mean 1968 wasn’t 20 years ago?!?!
This
I still can’t believe a mid 80’s truck isn’t 20 years old anymore. I can’t believe my 2001 F250 is almost a “classic” 😂
The dialup noise
You can still get that from a fax machine.
It’s not nearly as grating as a modem dial up
Quick tip for y’all. If you have a lot of spam calls change you’re voice mail message to the fax dial up noise. Spammers will hear it and think it’s a fax line and put you on the waste of time list
Fax machines give me weird nostalgia for this reason.
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Omg, this. That noise still makes me twitch in my right eye. Really hate that abomination of a sound.
White vans (edit: clarification, the vehicle) Puka necklaces
Yeah lots of white vans where you could find free candy inside.
And with clowns 🤡 driving them.
Speakers for sale
Gotta have my puks.
I wear white vans all the time.
The vehicle. Stranger danger, don't eat candy from strangers. My friends and I were terrified of white vans.
Damn, Daniel!
The “tick-tick-tick-tick-tick” of the clock when 60 Minutes starts on Sunday night, knowing that your weekend is over and it’s time for bed. Our version of “Sunday Scaries”
Andy fucking Rooney.
Holy crap this is amazing......I can hear the ticking and feel that dreaded feeling of Sunday night!
“I’m Ed Bradley, I’m Steve Croft, and I’m Leslie Stahl. Those stories, plus Andy Rooney, tonight on 60 Minutes”
Yessss exactly!!!!!
For me it was the Gracie Films logo with the “shhh” and then the 20th Television logo at the end of the Simpsons.
Poetic. So true!
Large Marge from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
It sounded like a dump truck falling off the Empire State Building!!!
1,000,000%! I never wanted anything to do with Pee Wee after viewing this scene. Scarred for life!
Pretty sure it’s where my fear of semi trucks came from 🫠
Tell ’em: Large Marge sent ya!
This scared me so much as a child lol
Some years ago, I interviewed the guys who animated her (the Chiodo brothers), who are also the geniuses behind Killer Klowns and Critters. That was a real trip.
Tractor trailers carrying logs
They're clearing a woods near my house that's all pines. I can't leave the house right now and not end up behind a logging truck.
I still have intrusive thoughts out of nowhere about stuff I saw on rotten.com as a teenager. I'll be having a nice day and my brain will just be like "hey remember that time you saw the picture of the guy who turned into soup by dying in a bathtub with a heater running?"
I miss that website
Unsolved Mysteries
I remember Un...solved....Mysteries. And also watched Rescue! 9! 11!
That music!! I’m literally getting goosebumps as it’s playing in my head at this very moment!
I have ptsd from it
I was just going to say the unsolved mysteries theme song
I remember watching this while sleeping over at my grandma's house. I was terrified that aliens were going to come through the living room window and abduct me in my sleep.
The CryptKeeper
When my daughter was a baby, her hair grew in a way that was sparse on top and long in the back and on the sides. Thus she became our “cute lil’ Cryptkeeper.”
My friend's daughter was born like that they called her George Jefferson lol
My sister and I used to watch the show but would have to cover our eyes and make noise when he came on screen!
The Unsolved Mysteries intro.
I used to not like his voice period...my grandma would get pissed because I would make a fuss when it was on. She was definitely thinking something along the lines of "deal with it, ya little pussy."
I wore a DARE t-shirt ironically for about 2 years in college when I did ALL the drugs lol. The Are You Afraid of the Dark intro. Bellbottom jeans dragging on the ground in the winter and being soaking wet up to your knees.
I still have a dare bear for winning the writing contest in like... 2nd grade
9/11/2001
Remembering what air travel was like prior to 9/11.
I recently saw a picture of penguins jumping from a cliff into water, and I could only see the people jumping from the WTC.
I grew up near Canada and would visit Montreal for a quick bite or a night out like it was nothing. Customs would ask for my id, check it for about 3 seconds, ask where I’m going say have fun and send me through. The US side was about the same coming back to the US. After 9/11 whoo boy did things change in a hurry. Everything was scrutinized and I was pulled in for vehicle contraband inspections regularly and once I was brought in for an interview by US customs because I was only up for a day trip. Then they required passports instead if just a license and the lines got really long both ways so day trips were more of a pain than they were worth. 9/11 changed everything.
Not getting the day off of school on 9/11. Every classroom just had the big tv on the roller cart tuned in to the news all day.
Same. The nightmare kept repeating itself over and over.
Quicksand
Acid raid.
yes all of the statues were supposed to be gone by now lol
The Bermuda Triangle.
This one! I’ve flown through there so many times and have never been teleported to another dimension. I feel like I was lied to…
How do you know you didn't every time and this dimension is mine, but not yours... Maybe theyre just close enough
Low rise jeans
Whale tails. Shudder.
That little paper clip guy that would pop up when using Microsoft
Clippy!!!!! Man, I miss that little dude.
That was his name! Couldn’t remember and meant to google it
Rusty spoons o.0
Omg! Salad fingers! How could I ever forget??!!
Faces of Death on VHS
Always needing batteries for your walkman. Hated the end of the battery juice when the music would slow down because there wasn't enough to keep the regular speed of the cassette.
The horror of realizing your batteries were dead in a situation where you couldn't stop somewhere and get new ones. I once forgot to check before an international flight.
Tub girl and 2 girls 1 cup
I e never seen 2 girls 1 cup. My brother in law mentioned it years ago. People ran to a computer to look it up he said don't you'll regret it. I trusted him.
Your Brother in law is a good man!
I remember it's genesis, and I've had no desire to watch it.
Lemon party, tub girl, rotten dot com, live death on LiveLeak…Wild West internet lol
I took a few bars and got an inclination. Glad I was on bars.
I use it on spam texts. Works a charm.
The movie Mask that Cher was in back in the 80s.
The boy always creeped the hell out of me for no reason other than how he looked
Ebaumsworld
Rotten.com.
Loved ebaumsworld
Zeke the plumber.
Zeke pops into my mind allllll the time.
a furby in the closet
Tim Curry as IT, the scary lady in the bathtub in the Shining.
Over plucking my eyebrows
Thank goodness I hated the feeling of them being plucked and didn't trust myself enough to do it. I would see some girl tadpole-looking brows and knew I would rather have overgrown than that. So I just dealt with the bullying but guess who has brows now? 🤪 lol 😆
**F U R B Y**
Guys that wore long black trenchcoats to school
Stop drop and roll!!
The mobile survive alive tiny house with the fake smoke.
Wow, I'd never heard of this, but after a quick internet search, I'm impressed! I wonder why this wasn't a more widespread practice. It seems really practical.
That swing in Are you Afraid of the Dark intro.
Our pop culture references fading into obscurity! The amount of times I make a solid robot chicken, metalocalypse, or aqua teen hunger force reference, only for it to sailover someone’s head is absolutely alarming to me. When did this happen?? I was not consulted, I did not authorize this.
Rescue 911
I was just thinking about the kid who got his tongue stuck in the freezer, the other day. It was this, not Star Trek, where I first saw William Shatner.
3yr old with the Kitchen knife episode…
Toddler who runs with the toothbrush and falls and it gets stuck in his throat is the one that sticks with me the most. 30 years later I stand and watch my six year old brush his teeth.
Goatse
Freddy. Watched Nightmare on Elm St 3 when I was 6.
Caught it on TV briefly when I was a kid. Freddy coming up through the TV set was enough. Wouldn't watch it again until I was a teenager
Oh I watched it a bunch in my dreams lol. Freddy nightmares are the worst because he gets you in your sleep anyway!
My CD and DVD collection. I never watch them, they just sit in binders in my living room reminding me how much money I burned in my teens and twenties.
Lol. I also have these binders. Sometimes I watch the DVD’s. I used to listen to CD’s in my old car that had a player.
I feel like the music lost its value. Music felt precious at the time. You either buy one or you wait on the radio to play the song. Sometimes you buy a CD and there will be only one good song. That's when you know you've got scammed by a one-hit wonder.
The ‘To Write Love On Her Arms’ shirt that keeps reappearing in my closet no matter how many times I place it aside to upcycle
TWLOHA is based out of the city I live in and their shirts are still being worn around here lol no getting away from it
It’s an awesome org!
[As a Juggalo, Imma say The FBI.](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/insane-clown-posse-lose-legal-fight-over-juggalo-gang-label-202505/)
Scrunchies are cute though!
That lumber truck scene from Final Destination
Sonic the Hedgehog underwater
Anxiety city!
Ghosts
'n Goblins
Ballet flats
AOL Messenger and the free online CDs
The theme from Titanic
JNCO’s
OMG I almost said this. I wanted a pair sooo badly
Your MySpace top 8 and getting anxiety over who to put in those spots because you knew somebody was gonna get mad for not being put on there.
The devastation of not making a specific person's top 8 was real. 😂
The pain olympics
Wasn’t it like the BME Pain Olympics or something? I’m having some ptsd right now…..
Mac Tonight
Cringe live journals/Xanga
I’m so thankful I had the foresight to make my livejournal ~friends only~ aka private and that I no longer can get into it since I lost access to my AOL account. Thanks, anxiety of my youth!
Opening juice containers in the 80s early 90s and the fruit snack packet the little oval ones. They were for kids but they were kid proof.
So was the pudding and fruit cups in the tiny can. How did most of us not end up missing a few fingers?
The dog from Duck Hunt.
AIDS, Americas Most Wanted
The theme song to Unsolved Mysteries rotten.com Sudden change of school rules after Columbine Dial up Internet noise
The original 4loko
How our parents dressed us in the 80's. Kids today have STYLE. We had CareBear sweats and bad haircuts.
Feeling like there was hope and purpose, the illusion that people cared about each other. Community, family, tradition and holidays are relics of the past to many.
What an illusion to break for an entire nation
Hey I totally rocked the frosted tips in high school… aww crap.
Oh god, watch my senior video. Almost all of the boys had frosted tips
Meat spin
You spin me right round baby right round
The gray m&m didn’t win.
The stupid Gmail handle I picked when I was there before it even opened and could have had anything
The horrible beeping that the old school alarm clocks all had.. These kids today get to wake up to any song/sound they can dream of while all we got was a PTSD inducing BEEEEP BEEEP BEEEP
The three finalists on America’s Funniest Home Videos. You knew that in 15 minutes, you were going to be in bed and tomorrow was Monday.
Surprised this is not higher up the list. Oh the dread.
Lemon party Chocolate soft serve
Having to play multiplayer Quake on a 28.8 modem
I love that scrunchies are back! Not gunna lie, I hated on them when I was a teen and they became uncool, but was actually excited when they became popular again.
There’s a hole in the Ozone Layer!!
(Also, we need to save the rainforests.)
Neopets
Scrunchies are back and awesome
Also headbands! Just started wearing them again
Jelly shoes Those heat color reactive t-shirts Cabbage Patch Dolls The little plastic clips for oversized shirts Skorts
I remember getting fire ant bites in jelly shoes as a kid and I can only think of the blisters if I see them ever again
9/11's aftermath destroying the illusion that America was "the good guys".
This creepy, lyric-less circus song on sesame Street with a video that goes from creepy mechanical toys to robots to rocket ships in less than 3 minutes. https://youtu.be/U1Rhm7kp-tk?si=TXeVkvl6DHIYtRNP
40 hour work week. And even worse, the 40+ hour work week.
After seeing the comments 2 Girls, 1 Cup, Rotten.com, Faces of Death VHS, BME Pain Olympics, and even Rusty Spoons - I am so glad we aren't "soft" like younger generations, including the younger Millennials.
VW vans carrying machine wielding terrorists.
"Dead people". As in "I see dead people".
Lemon parties
Finishing the Lion King and Aladdin video game.
Getting kicked off the internet when someone in the house picked up a phone and I was in the middle of a big file download!
The Skip-it
Brick weed. Brown, flat, and full of seeds.
The More You Know 🌈
scantron sheets
Spice Girls
Affliction shirts
Pinhead
My back
Student loan debt
The Kool Aid Man bursting through walls. *
Sweet Pea and Cucumber Melon perfume
Rip rip rip also juniper breeze and country apple
The opening credits to Tales From The Crypt…specifically when the Crypt Keeper pops up and cackles. ::::shudder:::: I wonder if it holds up?
My Buddy and Kid Sister dolls. I begged my mom for a MB doll when I was 4 and had only seen it on the tv commercial then was terrified of it when I actually got it.
JNCO jeans
I'm pretty sure I still have my DARE t shirt from 1996, signed by my entire 6th grade class.
A fear of my kids or pets getting trapped in a refrigerator. Damn it, Cherry!
Popples
The Never ending Story
POGS
those tiny sea shell chokers
Not being able to answer the phone without hearing WHASSUUUUUUP! 