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Yup

How else can you play your music from your zune?

what the frog is this?

Pure magic that’s what it was.

Just when you thought your MP3’s couldn’t sound anymore bootleg. The cassette to CD Player adapter showed up.

Discman 😂

My Discman would sit on the passenger seat and I’d have a CaseLogic full of Alice In Chains and Soundgarden CDs that I’d play through the in-dash tape player. Good times!

Hey I actually liked my Zune. That unlimited download subscription was ahead of its time

now i just feel like I am at my grandparents place, and hearing them remind their good old days

Let us have this planet!

This was the phone that changed my life. When I realized, holy shit!

I can be more productive than my boss and work from the pool in the sun with a beer three days a week.

Yep.

I’ll go one generation earlier - I had this 8-track converter to play cassettes in my second truck.

My first truck only had AM radio…and we had a rotary phone (which I took to college) on a party line where my neighbor would always listen in on my calls with girlfriends…

Good times!

Yes, but did you own a VHS tape rewinder?

Be Kind

Rewind.

🙃

overdosing on nostalgia rn

I had MC Hammer on cassette

I think we had Manowar and other stuff like that, which was recorded from radio by my parents

Manowar is from 20 minutes outside my hometown!

NJ?

Upstate New York, the area closer to Canada.

Oh damn, never been there, sounds nice 💜

OK, but do you know what this is?

A bottle opener.. duh

🤣

No idea

It’s an adapter for playing 45 RPM vinyl records on a 78 RPM phonograph.

Okay I’m not that old lol 😂

Oh god.

Converts 45 to a 33 rpm.

I actually couldn’t remember if it was 33 or 78. Memory fails.

No, I had this to listen to Green Day at band camp 😌

One time at band camp?

It went down at band camp..

The Hello Kitty edition. 😸

I was hoping for a Lisa Frank edition but it will fly.

…with Bass Boost specifically designed for Big Willy Style and Chumbawumba

Bass boost into your flimsy headphones with the foam covers that would wear out and fall off in 3 months.

They would rot off your crusty ears

Picking ear wax flakes off them on the school bus.

Anti-skip was key while rollerblading…

🛼

It was anti skip until you dropped it and it looked like a yard sale on the sidewalk.

Or if you drove a Dodge K-car with negative shock absorbtion.

Oh sh#t lol

🤣🤣

I actually felt this note.

Actually saw her live recently. She still rocks. And I was stunned at how many songs I knew. 😂🤣

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WHY THE FUCK in the 1990s did every American carmaker have two or more identical cars with completely different names?

Dodge Aries / Plymouth Reliant

Ford Taurus / Mercury Sable

Chevy Cavalier / Buick Skylark

And on and on…

They still do…

They just hide it better now.

Yeah but i still don’t really get it. Probably to maximize the life of the tools/molds.

I think it was because they had established brand loyalty segments by age categories and didn’t want to lose any elderly customers while still acquiring younger ones who wanted more…style!

Hell yeah!

Took my girl to prom in the Dynasty! Backseat was plush.

That was the all-grown-up K-car!

Wait...what were you doing in the backseat? 🤔

I kept my stickers on my notebook, ser.

Lol 😆

How very punk goth of you

Instant swipe

🤣🤣

Also Red Hot Chili Peppers.

And obviously Tupac.

Nirvana

Silverchair

BushX

Green Day

Rage Against the Machine

Tell me you were born in 83?

Close bit later

I had to be close with those bands and then the Tupac pfp 😂

💯

Silverchair…

Frog stomp

Good song.

My first Green Day show Billy whatever , the singer shoved a stuffed animal up his butt on stage & the cops pulled him off & took him to jail.

Wtf never saw them live

Can I add the Cranberries and Smashing Pumpkins?

👆

Also yes.

And Alanis Morissette.

Had the cassette haha

My first CD was Ace of Base 🤣

I was raised on Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder 🤷‍♂️💜

Onyx and Dr Dre were mine

Ace of Base and Cracker I got from Columbia House mail in

Try to cancel early without paying and they send you straight to collections!

😳

Dear lord, I’m sorry.

**QW unfollowed 2Pac Stackur**

🤣🤣🤣

💀

You already said something way more profoundly disturbing.

#[10]

I had no idea who they were just knew my older sibling mention them. If I knew what it was I wouldn’t have got it.

😂🤣 it’s ok. Kids make mistakes.

Don’t go chasing waterfalls

please stick to the rivers and lakes that you're used tooo.. i know that you wanna have it you're way or no way at all.. but i keep lalalla myselfff 🎶

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*your. i am shame.

Nostalgia

Ace of Base is still dope.

Yea Paul

Yall have now got Nickleback and Ace of Base stuck in my head.

You’re welcome 😇

How about Ozzy & Ace of Base?

https://youtu.be/GZpp0aCBK6I

Wasn’t one of the members a Scandinavian skinhead?

Lol, really!? 😂🤣

Yes!

Lol, I has no idea of this…

Yeah it’s kind of insane.

Now I’ll have this image in my brain forever

Oh well

I just blew my wife’s mind, haha

#[12]

I like to think I do that often

Yes you may

🫵

IFL the Smashing Pumpkins!

I Mother Earth

Limp Biskit

NIN

Keep goin…you’re doing great…but if you somehow slip up and say Nickleback so help me God

Well now I just want to say it to upset you but I won’t cause I don’t like them.

Fun fact: You can overlay any two Nickelback songs and they will line up perfectly.

Heard that they are gonna rename their band and call it Satoshiback

Just leaving it here to annoy everyone

https://youtu.be/DmeUuoxyt_E

It’s now stuck in my head.

Mission complete 😈

👏 👏 👏

Love this tune 😂 😈

You have no soul. 😭

He’s a top notch therapist tho

🎶Cause we all just wanna be big frogstars…🎶

Live on swampy warm marshes, and have frog war scars.

Ugh goddamnit planet.

I hate you.

🤣🤣

😂😂💜

They rock so hard tho 😂

stopppp, just look at him

I’m just going to

Look at this photograph

They’re still living rent free in our heads though 😂

They’re fucking legends

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Mind virus

🤣

Deleting my account now.

Look at this pager app

Where in the geriatric fuck is my pudding and hard candies planet?!?

😂

The caramel ones are 👌

Those are 🔥, but I don’t like it when they get stuck in my uppers.

It sucks you have to take the whole denture out and hit it with a hammer

Mostly because I don’t see good and end up hitting my foot instead.

Had to google “hard candies” as they sound odd

Grandma candies. They always had a crystal dish of them, individually wrapped in colorful plastic, by the sofa. The one with the plastic covers on it.

No idea what you are talking about honestly 🤔

I see that and can smell the nursing home.

we know it smells like home to you 💜

I mean…I deserve that.

Ohhh, I love these. I can eat them all day. One of my all-time favourites 💜

Just wait

My grandpa gave a packet of them to me everytime we met, ever since I was like 3 years old, so it’s a habit already 💜

You’ve really missed a lot, #[11]​

Yep absolute fire!

I loved these

Don’t think we had that kind of them at granny’s place, but we sure did have some. First time ever hearing them being called “hard candies”

Can we make a pact to all go to the same home? That way we can throw down massive zaps at the bingo table…. And share hard candies!

I’ll probably be the young kid visiting you lot, but absolutely 💜

Citadel Assisted Living for Senior Nostriches

🤝 It’s gonna be a shit nursing home though.

Our grandchildren will not forgive us for the reckless⚡️ing.

Don’t worry, I’ll deal with them 💜

They will stamp on our graves

The strawberry ones slap!!

😋

Fuck yeah. Nobody ever knew where they were sold except your grandma.

Always got them by the pound at a farmer’s market 👀💜

What kind of farmers market sells strawberry hard candy?

Fresh hard candies from China!

You’re goddamn right!

Triggered

Bro, my grandma used to have those strawberry candies whenever I would visit during my childhood. Talk about an addiction. 7 minutes and they’re all gone from the bowl.

Never had them 😅💜 That good, huh 🤔

They were filled with - my best explanation - strawberry goo. I don’t know what FDA regs allowed back then, but that sweet center was what kept you coming back.

Wish I could try these 💜 Sound amazing

I think I found my birthday wish for the year 💜

We’re getting #[13]​ Strawberry Bon Bons for a birthday present 🎁

Y’all can do it for Earth Day 😂💜

You’d think Happy Trails could throw some more money at the candy jar.

It takes me 3 soaks to remove them from my dentures

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I’m holding them right now, they taste amazing, out of this world honestly 👀💜

I love a Werther’s Original.

Sh#t

My grandpa always gave them to me 💜 Absolute legend he is

Whenever I eat them, I get so happy, reminded of good memories and everything

Speaking of pagers, this is how we bought our drugs before the Silk Road.

I used that model for work. 😂🤣

If you had one in the 90s you were either a surgeon or a weed dealer.

I wasn’t even alive then

You literally missed the best decade in human history.

You really think so? 👀💜

I know for a fact.

#[10]​ is right.

don’t think I missed much honestly 👀

Umm...that was the 80s...at least when it came to music.

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lol, I was just going to say that 🫂

Lol, I was just going to say that

wait actually????

🤣🤣

😂

lmao

https://youtu.be/1cQh1ccqu8M that reminds me of something

😂

Dr Dre

Snoop Dogg

Easy E

Biggie

Jay Z

Andre Nikatina

Brotha Lynch Hung

Tech N9ne

Ice Cube

WC

Westside Connection

Bone Thugs N Harmony

Xzibit

DMX

Ronald Dregan!

Thizzele Washington

🤝

This a solid list. +1 for Andre Nikatina. Loved him and Mac Dre and that Bay Area hyphy scene

I wore an Andre Nikatina shirt yesterday.

Wu the day before. Nas the day before that.

I seem to be on a hip hop shirt kick. 🤣

Nice choices oh shit yea Wu Tang forever 👐

Dope

Oh yea Mac Dre good call

rawr, that’s hot

Remember downloading ringtones? I had Green Day Boulevard of Broken Dreams. #goodtimes

Remember entering in all your friends’ names and numbers manually using the number keys?

T9 !!😭

First time I’ve ever heard it being called T9 😂🤯

Yep! It was a thing. Short n sweet tie days cause took so long to write

All the abbreviations also 😂💜

“Text on 9 keys” origin

Oh absolutely, makes sense

I was bloody fluent at it, that’s for sure 💜

I had my friends on speed dial. Click 2, press call. Easy as that

Remember busy signals?

😝 memory lane

🤔🤔 what’s that?

Noooooo

whaaatt?? 😂

Oh FFS…

When you called someone and they were already on the phone and there was no such thing as voicemail.

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.

Hang up, try again a minute later…

Repeat.

ohhh, right 😂 i’m not native, so i’m just thinking of all of these in my native language, sorry for that 🫶😂

Speaking of voicemail, remember when we had to call in to check our messages?

huh? what?

Um…

That doesn’t sound familiar at all 🤔

We had a phone number to call that would tell you how many voice messages you had waiting and let you listen to them. You could even respond to them by recording another message and sending it back.

I’ve never ever sent or received a voice message on my phone, wasn’t ever a thing 🤷‍♂️💜

Bruh.

Did you know we use to call a number to find out the movie times as the movie theater?

“Helllllo… and welcome to moviefone! If you know the name of your movie… press 1 now”

You could also call for the time and date, sometimes even the weather.

stoppp this is a meme right?

No seriousness

Absolute truth. This happened in the 90s before the Internet.

We didn’t even have 911 yet. You had to KNOW the phone number of the local fire department or call the operator to connect you in an emergency.

Facts. God,,, how did we survive?

Many didn’t. It was a wild time.

Parents didn’t know where their kids were, like ever. If you were out late you had to call your parents at home and let them know where you were or there would be trouble…!

That’s were meme comes from, cause it’s real

Doesn’t feel real 🤣💜

Not a meme. The reality of my childhood. 😂 moviefone and checking the movie times in the newspaper.

This sounds so crazy to me, I was born in 99 😂💜

To be honest, it was awesome. Meeting friends was an adventure every time. You’d call (on the landline) decide when and where to meet, and then venture out into the world with no means of communication until you returned home, unless you count the odd pay phone (which you never had change for anyway).

Sounds amazing honestly, I didn’t have a phone before 1st grade, and that’s what I can really compare it to 🤷‍♂️💜

1st grade?! 🤣🤣 I can’t relate

hahahahaha stoppp

Kids these days 😂

Hahahahaha 😂💜

Omg… Kids.

The movie.

Nope not today 💀

My son saw a pay phone on a street for the 1st time a few months ago and was super excited for me to show him how to use it, unbelievable 🤣

🤣🤣 did you troll him with a fake walkthrough of how it works?

Got him to call my mobile from it 🤣

Man, that was a movie.

So true

WAIT WHAT????

Movie times were in the newspaper or you would call that number 😂

Remember TV Guide? How else would you know what was on your four channels?

“Hello, and welcome to Moviefone!”

YES🤣🤣

No wayyyy

Yesss wayyyyy

🤯🤯🤯

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In Canada you could press *69 to figure out the number that just called you, instead of call display.

That was in the states too.

Same in the US but you could also dial another code to block that before you called someone.

*67 duh

R.E.M. had a song called Star 69 about that.

Hahahahahahahaah this is soooo goofy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Times were simpler then.

There was no caller ID on a house phone.

So someone like you would thrive.

You couldn’t screen the call or make people text you. People would have to answer to see who it was 🤣

I would’ve been the best salesman ever then 💜😂

I loved doing all the prank calls 🤣

Go listen to the Jerky Boys. NOW #[8]​ !

Same response. Lol. Nice

“I’ll bring all my shoes, and my glasses. So I have them.”

Hahahahah, who in their right mind calss themselves Jerky Boys 🤣💜

They weren’t! It was awesome.

Wasn’t Radiohead’s album called Pablo Honey a tribute to them?

Okay don’t kill me for this

What’s Radiohead?

👁️👄👁️

🫣

He diddddiiinnntttt

😅🫣

It was! I knew it!

How on Earth do you not know the band Radiohead?! 🤯

Oh, they’re a band? 💜😅

Never headd

OMG that’s blasphemy here! Don’t let Jack hear you say that you don’t know them or else he will banish you out of here! 🤣

😂😂😂

Listen to Creep right fucking now!

https://youtu.be/XFkzRNyygfk

Do it!!

Yep, 100% it’s my first time hearing it 💜

I wish I were special…

I wish I was special..

1. In rainbows

2. Ok computer

3. kid a

4. A moon shaped pool

5. The bends

@me bitches

Radiohead. Creep. U must kno radiohead

Don’t think I’ve ever heard of it 🤷‍♂️💜

Alright, my brain can’t take any more of this. It’s almost 2 am here. I need sleep. 💤

Pv 🤙

gn 💜

GN🫶

Night friend 🫂

Night night 💜

The other one, haha… STP was 🔥

Such a shame about Scott Weiland.

Well, at least now I know what I’m listening to all day. 😅

🤯

🫣🤐

🫥

stoppp, it’s not that bad 😂💜

The laughter I’ve bellowed from this thread could’ve alarmed my neighbors. My word. 😆

Stopppp 😂😂😂😂

The jerky boys

Good times.

Or if you were fancy you could pay extra for the phone company to "call you" to tell you that the person you were trying to reach finally got off the phone.

The struggle was real 🤣

If it was an emergency you could dial 0 and ask the operator to interrupt them.

Not in Oz you couldn’t 🤣

Lame! What did you have to do, stick a note in the pouch of a kangaroo and send it off to deliver it?

Yep you guessed it along with a boomerang 🪃 and with the cockatoo’s 🤣

Just play the digerido really loud.

I have no idea if that’s spelled right.

didgeridoo* but close enough 💜

The operator would legit get on the line about Gigi being down to the hospital 🏥

Wait huhh???

🤯

I walk a lonely road

I’ll never forget. It’s imprinted in my brain

I worked at blockbuster in high school and when I started we had one rack of DVDs everything else was VHS. We had a fleet of rewinders 😂

…and rewind. Gotta finish it for the Millennials and Gen-Z. Hah, my oldest grandson just turned 10, so you don’t need to pipe down…I’ll just turn my hearing aids down.

Seriously, these things are great…even comes with Bluetooth to take calls or stream music!

Past my bedtime, folks…got pickleball in the morning!

Swear y’all are just making all of this up

Pipe down, kid, we’re having a nostalgia moment. 🤣

HAHAHAHA 😂😂😂

Senior citizens having the time of their lives 💜

Truman?

You are Truman. We are not making this up. It’s your imagination doing it.

That’s true, man

Yep - and we also had reel-to-reel movies. VHS was new-fangled when I was about 10 or so. Oh, and only had 3 channels on the TV and rabbit-ears.

Remember LaserDiscs?

Remember LightScribe?

Oh dude!! I remember those. 😴😂

Never had that, old timer! haha

Haha brilliant. Had one of these back in the days 🤣

How else do you play music on your iPod while driving?

iPod? We still had the Discman!

With the “anti-skip”

Used it for years in my first car (RAV4 '99)... Great car 🚗 and great "accessory" 😆

Yep, for my Chevy Chevette

Still do