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What’s something that was popular when you were 18 that would give away your age?

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AtBat3 Mar 28, 2026 +1046
Wouldn’t it be wild if your iPod was also a phone
1046
happymemersunite Mar 28, 2026 +147
And an Internet communicator.
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Brahminmeat Mar 28, 2026 +69
You get email on that thing?
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ouralarmclock Mar 28, 2026 +46
An iPod. A Phone. An Internet communicator.
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the3rdtea2 Mar 28, 2026 +23
I rember seeing my first iPod at a music camp, it was the one with the tracking circle instead of buttons so I guess it was a second generation one. I was so impressed. I also tried to save enough money to buy a zune so I could be different. Never did....still kinda sad about it lol
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SavionWilliamsLover Mar 28, 2026 +17
stop talking nonsense
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TurkVanguard Mar 28, 2026 +1603
Burning CDs and waiting 10 minutes for one song to download
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mclobster Mar 28, 2026 +338
10 minutes? Damn, you had some crazy fast internet then!
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catman_steve Mar 28, 2026 +123
I remember it taking hours sometimes.
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Travwolfe101 Mar 28, 2026 +79
And then the phone rings and its all gone.
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StockQuestion0808 Mar 28, 2026 +33
Thats why you'd start it after everyone went to bed and set your alarm to get up before everyone else.
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catman_steve Mar 28, 2026 +19
My man. Definitely did that with some questionable material to say the least.
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TheUtopianCat Mar 28, 2026 +33
Mixed tapes, for me.
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DavosLostFingers Mar 28, 2026 +91
Ah Napster and Limewire. And feeling smug when you got a T3 download connection. Good times
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Weak-Differences Mar 28, 2026 +44
Kazaa, as well
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DavosLostFingers Mar 28, 2026 +14
Never used that one to be fair. I'm sure it also flooded your pc with viruses like the other two did
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Weak-Differences Mar 28, 2026 +16
Absolutely.
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Farsydi Mar 28, 2026 +7
Kazaa Lite, however...
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Dr-Mumm-Rah Mar 28, 2026 +14
Our internet virus riddled Dells and Compaqs suffered so that our mix CD tracklists could grow.
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Bustinhodd Mar 28, 2026 +5
Way worse. I replaced at least 3 hard drives with bad sectors
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CommanderSpleen Mar 28, 2026 +7
eDonkey and later eMule.
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Puzzleheaded-Sea4885 Mar 28, 2026 +18
Ahh…but remember when you didn’t know about bit rates and got a terrible version of the song?
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smitty046 Mar 28, 2026 +13
Or when you got “House of the Rising Sun - The Doors”
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dvoecks Mar 28, 2026 +10
"Gin and Juice - Phish"
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time2comment Mar 28, 2026 +14
The oh No feeling when you notice the file size is wildly different
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xDaBaDee Mar 28, 2026 +12
>Ah Napster and Limewire. kazaa
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feel-the-avocado Mar 28, 2026 +10
The day I got 128kbit ADSL was like a dream come true.
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liquidddd Mar 28, 2026 +5
What was the download speed of t3
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DavosLostFingers Mar 28, 2026 +6
Christ knows. I haven't a clue, it was a long time ago. I just remember it being fast
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TheLonelyTesseract Mar 28, 2026 +14
So do you turn 44 or 45 this year?
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happyfatbuddha Mar 28, 2026 +5
Ugh, 43.
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MiraaSagen Mar 28, 2026 +11
And praying nobody picked up the phone and killed the connection.
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LorinGare Mar 28, 2026 +7
And then it downloads.. just to realize it is the wrong song.
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SilentFlames907 Mar 28, 2026 +534
Buying ringtones
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restckvrflw Mar 28, 2026 +87
And ring back tones so anyone calling you had to suffer through a song every time (mine was Remember the Name lol)
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anidnmeno Mar 28, 2026 +49
Please hold while the subscriber you are trying to reach is located...
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kingneptune88 Mar 28, 2026 +13
Omg I heard it in her voice, too
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SavionWilliamsLover Mar 28, 2026 +81
soulja boy made bank off of that
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Juiced4SD Mar 28, 2026 +17
I so gave into the commercials for the Green Day Holiday ring tone.
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burnt_mummy Mar 28, 2026 +8
Buying caller tunes, so when you called me you heard Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too by Say Anything until I picked up.
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ApprehensivePanic757 Mar 28, 2026 +249
Walkman. The real one. Using tapes. And recording songs off the radio
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ronchee1 Mar 28, 2026 +66
Damn DJ would start talking before the song finished all the time !
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ApprehensivePanic757 Mar 28, 2026 +19
We are old!
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tracyrae71 Mar 28, 2026 +28
Or wouldn’t stop talking and the opening line would be all screwed up!
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ABrandNewNameAppears Mar 28, 2026 +7
This was actually taught in broadcast journalism at the time. Stations would teach their dj’s to mess up the opening or ending of the song so people would keep tuning in to record it again.
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void_which_binds00 Mar 28, 2026 +15
Did you have the orange foam covered headphones?
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Deacon_Blues1 Mar 28, 2026 +8
Putting tape on the end of the tape so you couldn't record over it, remember that too.
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piscikeeper Mar 28, 2026 +5
Tape let you record over, removing the tab saved it.
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uiouyug Mar 28, 2026 +4
I had the Discman. Stop skipping!
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Darbro Mar 28, 2026 +409
I wore an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time!
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dottmatrix Mar 28, 2026 +81
You couldn't get green onions, 'cause of the war.
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Brahminmeat Mar 28, 2026 +27
How many bees for a nickel?
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TallEnoughJones Mar 28, 2026 +42
So, 19 dickety 2?
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Helerdril Mar 28, 2026 +28
Yeah, the Kaiser had stolen our word for "twenty".
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Rudeboy67 Mar 28, 2026 +5
Dickety? Highly dubious.
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Dan__Glesak Mar 28, 2026 +9
Hahaha dickety. Highly dubious!
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Far_Neighborhood4781 Mar 28, 2026 +7
This is the biggest giveaway. When people ask me why I have an onion on my belt, I spit and glare at them.
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whitewolfdogwalker Mar 28, 2026 +102
Talking about what number we were in the selective service draft, and Vietnam, who we knew that was there.
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truck_robinson Mar 28, 2026 +4
Respect
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Middle_Evil Mar 28, 2026 +201
Nirvana. Pearl Jam. And the rest.
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staplesgowhere Mar 28, 2026 +114
Make sure to book that colonoscopy.
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Eric12345678 Mar 28, 2026 +11
Protip: Also ask the pills NOT the Colyte, only $20 without insurance. Worth every penny
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skeetszn2 Mar 28, 2026 +11
Would argue that’s pretty cool with 18 year olds now, to be fair
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NoBlock3682 Mar 28, 2026 +267
I was legally buying cigarettes at 18. Also, everyone had a Motorola Razr.
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JSteigs Mar 28, 2026 +55
The razor is the real answer here
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Dedotdub Mar 28, 2026 +20
The legal drinking age went from 18 to 21 3 months before my 18th birthday.
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Mr_Witchetty_Man Mar 28, 2026 +9
I bet you were delighted lol.
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Dedotdub Mar 28, 2026 +19
Needless to say, I ran afoul of the law.
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theSikx Mar 28, 2026 +29
wait you can't buy cigarettes at 18 anymore? quit a long time ago
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Flashy-Brain Mar 28, 2026 +36
Nope, gotta be 21 to buy tobacco in the US.
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infinitum3d Mar 28, 2026 +14
I would go to the store when I was 11 to buy my parents cigarettes. Small town midwestern was something else back in the day.
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MemeInBlack Mar 28, 2026 +9
I remember cigarette vending machines just sitting in the open, anybody could buy if they had the right change
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Euphoric-Coffee-2905 Mar 28, 2026 +5
Yup. That’s how I bought them in high school. There was one outside a bar across the street from my high school job. One pack cost $2.25 and it only took quarters. Mind you, that price was much higher than in stores but the price you pay at 16.
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tracyrae71 Mar 28, 2026 +19
Seriously!? That changed without my old ass knowing. I haven’t smoked since the 90s tho…
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landon10smmns Mar 28, 2026 +7
I think it got changed to 21 a few years back Edit: in the US
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PostMatureBaby Mar 28, 2026 +10
19 in Canada but as soon as you got facial hair in high school a lot of the nearby convenience stores didn't care suddenly lol
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time2comment Mar 28, 2026 +6
I'm not much older, 16 and the Sony walkman w810, It had enough memory for 1 and 3/4 MP3 songs. (Gravel pit & sandstorm) If I remember correctly.
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NightMgr Mar 28, 2026 +4
Alcohol at 18 but I generally didn’t get carded once I was 16.
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Rogue_Hedgie Mar 28, 2026 +156
Hanging out at the mall.
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the3rdtea2 Mar 28, 2026 +50
I'm so mad at "developers" ruining malls.
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Rogue_Hedgie Mar 28, 2026 +26
I know right! Ours has sat nearly empty for decades because the owners were some firm in a different state charging outrages prices no one could afford. A local guy just bought it and has plans to revitalize it with some pretty cool concepts. The community is hopeful.
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Noccalula Mar 28, 2026 +12
Ours totally transformed over the last two decades or so. JCPenney turned into a 16 screen movie theater that just underwent a multi-million dollar renovation. Sears turned into a bowling alley/laser tag/trampoline place, sports bar, and a great grocery store. Morrison's turned into Planet Fitness. They have a wrestling arena and mini golf. Only two traditional anchors are left (one replacing JCPenney 2.0) but they always have customers. Still a lot of empty storefronts on the inside, but by God they're doing their best to make it a destination center again.
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ICBPeng1 Mar 28, 2026 +30
How dare people hang out in the mall? Hey, where did all the customers go?
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SavionWilliamsLover Mar 28, 2026 +21
i miss the christmas season in the malls
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eugeneugene Mar 28, 2026 +11
Where I live the kids still hang out at the mall. My favourite pastime is watching security chase them while they skateboard around
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detekk Mar 28, 2026 +137
Ska and swing
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UncleRicosStache Mar 28, 2026 +32
Pick it up, up, up!
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Cambot1138 Mar 28, 2026 +27
And here I am still fully convinced that that was the most fun music has ever been. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy played at our local high schools PAC last year.
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kingneptune88 Mar 28, 2026 +9
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones just popped up on my Spotify smart shuffle yesterday, lol
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Stumbling_Corgi Mar 28, 2026 +8
I go see LTJ every couple years. Still love those guys.
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repo_code Mar 28, 2026 +14
I GET KNOCKED DOWN
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EricHill78 Mar 28, 2026 +5
I wouldn’t consider Tubthumping ska or swing.
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AlastairMeowley Mar 28, 2026 +67
Milli Vanilli
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TheUtopianCat Mar 28, 2026 +37
Girl, you know it's true!
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subwooferofthehose Mar 28, 2026 +12
Ooh ooh ooh
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LittleMush Mar 28, 2026 +11
I love you
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The_RagingMisfit Mar 28, 2026 +13
Fellow Gen X
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Jinxybug Mar 28, 2026 +87
flip phones and MySpace
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Certain-Schedule-198 Mar 28, 2026 +18
You are younger than me. For me, it was using a pager...😊
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LittleMush Mar 28, 2026 +5
You guys had pagers??? 😄
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Hempresssss Mar 28, 2026 +72
JNCO jeans
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Juiced4SD Mar 28, 2026 +29
Not anymore. The kids like them again.
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the-effects-of-Dust Mar 28, 2026 +10
I just saw an advert for JNCO jeans coming “out of the vault” 😭 I’m so old (she says at 36)
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Stumbling_Corgi Mar 28, 2026 +4
I felt the same way. I had those in middle school. Very nostalgic seeing the ad. (41)
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LadyInAllPower Mar 28, 2026 +32
Shoulder pads
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LittleMush Mar 28, 2026 +5
Recently bought some with the intention of sewing Velcro straps on them, just like the ones I had back in the day. They did make a sweater hang so much better
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PacRimRod Mar 28, 2026 +32
Grunge music from Seattle
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tracyrae71 Mar 28, 2026 +6
Lived it… it was pretty effing fun.
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NastyLittleBagginses Mar 28, 2026 +33
Jolt Cola
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PastafariAtheist Mar 28, 2026 +5
Loved me some Jolt!
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ronchee1 Mar 28, 2026 +6
All the flavour Twice the caffeine
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uwillnotgotospace Mar 28, 2026 +34
There was a war in the Middle East.
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bilateralunsymetry Mar 28, 2026 +54
So you're anywhere from about 3000 years old to 18. Got it
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yeet_cannon_larry Mar 28, 2026 +192
We hated nazis
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pro-bidetus-rasputin Mar 28, 2026 +22
Of my calculations are correct, you must be in your late nineties.
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baybot10 Mar 28, 2026 +31
Yeah, in case you missed the memo we still hate nazis
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KikiDKimono Mar 28, 2026 +67
I'd like to introduce you to the US in 2026.
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MagicPistol Mar 28, 2026 +7
I dunno, some people seem to be offended now if you mention hating Nazis.
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throwawaycasun4997 Mar 28, 2026 +18
Sigh…some of us, yeah.
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CelticDK Mar 28, 2026 +28
The world was gonna end
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stjnky Mar 28, 2026 +25
Purple Rain
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Rabbit_of_Caerbanog Mar 28, 2026 +26
Dad: go to the gas station get me cigs, beer and a gallon of gas and I better have change off that 10
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CharlotteTheSavage Mar 28, 2026 +27
Ricky Martin was straight.
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Ismaelharo Mar 28, 2026 +12
Ricky Martin was in Menudo
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thurstonrando Mar 28, 2026 +23
Smoking cigarettes inside a 24 hour diner
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Asleep_Sherbet_3013 Mar 28, 2026 +4
Yep. I used to smoke inside of Dennys at 18. Good times
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ApprehensivePanic757 Mar 28, 2026 +24
TRS 80 computer!
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Plan2LiveForevSFarSG Mar 28, 2026 +11
Intellevision Atari Vic-20 !
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SHADOWJACK2112 Mar 28, 2026 +5
TI-994A
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StrangeSteve05 Mar 28, 2026 +23
Labubus, people saying 67 after reading other people’s responses, I’m practically an infant
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Fluffy-Entry-1559 Mar 28, 2026 +20
ASL?
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while_we_work Mar 28, 2026 +5
18/f/Cali
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cuzzlightyear269 Mar 28, 2026 +83
Planking. People just laid on shit for no reason
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SavionWilliamsLover Mar 28, 2026 +13
also tebowing
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EconomicsAfraid7880 Mar 28, 2026 +18
GTA IV
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LostCube Mar 28, 2026 +9
GTA Vice City
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pheneyherr Mar 28, 2026 +17
PlayStation. I would say PlayStation 1, but it didn't have a number. Just PlayStation.
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Suspicious_Fail_2337 Mar 28, 2026 +15
Grunge
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The_RagingMisfit Mar 28, 2026 +9
Gen X 🤘🏼
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darinhthe1st Mar 28, 2026 +13
Big hair 
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bratwurst1704 Mar 28, 2026 +13
Bell bottom pants😂
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Three-Legs-Again Mar 28, 2026 +4
Had to tie off the right leg so it wouldn't get caught in the bike chain -- oh how we suffered for fashion.
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fat_then_skinny Mar 28, 2026 +12
Plugging a portable cd player into car stereo via cassette adapter. Seems crazy, but sounded good. Skipped a lot though…
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acousticsking Mar 28, 2026 +10
Iroc z28
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PristineCheesecake1 Mar 28, 2026 +10
Livestrong bracelets followed by livestrong style bracelets for every cause under the sun then just any random thing they wanted them to be for.  But the yellow Livestrong band worn on your wrist was EVERYWHERE  
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spiralreading Mar 28, 2026 +9
This dude had just created a website called TheFacebook for college students to connect with other college students. Anyhoo, the thing blew up and now boomer grandmas love to use it but for a short time it was intended for college students.
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DuffMiver8 Mar 28, 2026 +21
Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill Wine, and the drinking age still being 18
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philosophic14u Mar 28, 2026 +9
Boom boxes, Oakleys, ocean pacific, beta max,
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Automatic_Job_8270 Mar 28, 2026 +8
Pac-Man
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Exhail1138 Mar 28, 2026 +8
Twin Peaks
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1107rwf Mar 28, 2026 +4
For me it was Dawson’s Creek
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UltraSoundMind Mar 28, 2026 +8
Pagers
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the_last_hero Mar 28, 2026 +8
2Pac and Biggie. Both were still alive.
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smoovymcgroovy Mar 28, 2026 +7
POGs
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ronchee1 Mar 28, 2026 +8
Remember Alf? He's back. In POG form
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DovahBeats Mar 28, 2026 +7
Skyrim
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butter_lover Mar 28, 2026 +7
spuds mckenzie
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SmokinHotNot Mar 28, 2026 +7
Hey Jude
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Suspicious_Lynx_4580 Mar 28, 2026 +7
The world was supposed to end that year in accordance to the Mayan calendar.
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Dracekidjr Mar 28, 2026 +8
Sideways keyboards on phones were sick as hell
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porkchop_d_clown Mar 28, 2026 +8
Meat Loaf.
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tungelcrafter Mar 28, 2026 +6
south park
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Head_World_9764 Mar 28, 2026 +6
Hmm… Pet Rocks and Mood rings
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javawong Mar 28, 2026 +6
Having a pager
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Fit_Minute5036 Mar 28, 2026 +6
Streaking
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Forever4211 Mar 28, 2026 +6
The Bee Gees
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Turd_Wrangler_Guy Mar 28, 2026 +7
Four Lokos. The original recipe.
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mormonboy666 Mar 28, 2026 +4
Heh, heh, heh. IYKYK...
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karzire Mar 28, 2026 +8
Vine
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DangerousGrocery9697 Mar 28, 2026 +6
My clear phone with colorful insides.
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SWM50 Mar 28, 2026 +1
When on the World Wide Web and hearing someone walking to the phone shouting "DON'T PICK THE PHONE UP" 😭🤣
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ElegantSilver1375 Mar 28, 2026 +4
Dot com boom
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GoingFishingAlone Mar 28, 2026 +4
The Cars
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Kyadagum_Dulgadee Mar 28, 2026 +4
Going to the internet cafe on a Wednesday to read new articles on TheOnion.com and check emails.
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wncexplorer Mar 28, 2026 +5
Lollapalooza 😂 I made it to #1 and #2
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shipwreck73 Mar 28, 2026 +5
MTV
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nightmares999 Mar 28, 2026 +4
My high school’s smoking lounge
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Odd_Bodkin Mar 28, 2026 +4
Patchouli incense
4
Successful-Key-6078 Mar 28, 2026 +5
“Sleeping out” for concert tickets.
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Regnes Mar 28, 2026 +5
LEEEEEEEEEROY JENKINS!!!
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aReelProblem Mar 28, 2026 +5
A small brick called a Nokia had this snake game on it that I was glued too for months. Texting someone took about 5 minutes to type out a sentence and cost you ten cents. Then we got these f****** walkie talkie phones that people could literally turn your phone into a shit show speaker at 4am and there wasn’t much you could do about it besides press a button to interrupt them for a few seconds. If you had degenerate friends the Nextel was a dangerous piece of equipment with almost no warning besides a quick double beep. It caused me a lot of problems and as soon as the razor dropped I f****** shot that Nextel.
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musicjunkee1911 Mar 28, 2026 +4
Smells Like Teen Spirit
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verysmallhat Mar 28, 2026 +11
Mean Girls dropped when I was 18.
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RetiredHappyFig Mar 28, 2026 +8
Disco
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NSFWMeghan Mar 28, 2026 +3
RDR2
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RubTheFleebMorty Mar 28, 2026 +3
Putting the the loudest Speakers we could find in our lifted trucks
3
JimHeckdiver Mar 28, 2026 +3
Cherry Poppin Daddies.
3
Quatre_Kat Mar 28, 2026 +4
Britney Spears 
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Sea_Public_3208 Mar 28, 2026 +4
i haven't turned 18 yet , donno man
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TheLeathal13 Mar 28, 2026 +3
The Macarena
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strawberryrazzjuice Mar 28, 2026 +4
Covid-19
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Difficult-Emu7343 Mar 28, 2026 +4
Y2K
4
Forward_Rate8735 Mar 28, 2026 +3
45s
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Key_Positive_9187 Mar 28, 2026 +4
I guess it's still popular, but I'd say Tiktok.
4
TraumaMama11 Mar 28, 2026 +4
AOL Messenger
4
tehweave Mar 28, 2026 +4
Emo music
4
Egaroth1 Mar 28, 2026 +4
The dress
4
bwidow22 Mar 28, 2026 +5
9/11
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notanAMsortagal0 Mar 28, 2026 +4
Legal alcohol consumption
4
lungbuttersucker Mar 28, 2026 +5
Titanic. I hate that damn movie.
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