55 Things To Induce Millenial Nostalgia

By: Dani Kessel

I’m feeling a bit nostalgic right now. While I am not against change, there are some things that I really miss. (I might have a touch of rose colored glasses, though I don’t think these things are innately better just because they were from my childhood.) If you’re younger, you might recognize some of these things. If you are Gen X or older, you’ll remember them from the perspective of an adult. But for Millennials, here are 55 good, bad, and hilarious elements of nostalgia to look back on.

1. Ask Jeeves
2. Zynga
3. Dogpile search engine
4. Crystal Pepsi
5. Using a pencil to fix a VHS
6. Blockbuster nights!
7. Mapquesting everything before a road trip
8. Chuck Norris jokes. ALL. THE. TIME. And they weren’t even that funny!
9. Clippy, the Microsoft Office assistant
10. Discmans and walkmans
11. Cheers, Friends, Seinfeld, and the original run of Full House
12. Cootie catchers
13. Fun “away” messages on AIM and MSN Messenger
14. DollzMania
15. Neopets
16. The Y2K scare (scary at the time–HILARIOUS now)
17. Dying of dysentery in the Oregan Trail game
18.  Coolmath
19. The Game (you just lost)
20. Tamogatchis
21. Typing class
22. The red ring of death on the XBOX 360
23. Slap bracelets and pogs
24. Hot Topic back when it was super gothic and niche
25. The sarcastic bunny stickers
26. Bedazzlers
27. Parachute day in gym class
28. Stamp cards in library books
29. The “indestructible” Nokia 3310
30. Taking film to get your photos developed
31. Bonne Bell Lip Smackers
32. Heelys
33. Trying to burn the best CD mix with Napster or Limewire
34. Minesweeper
35. Folding notes into tiny triangles to pass them during class
36. Pagers
37. Soda cap lottery
38. Carrying around an address book and memorizing phone numbers 
39. Making PowerPoints just for fun
40. Making a slinky walk down every flight of stairs.
41. Collecting Beanie Babies
42. Dreaming of being on Legends of the Hidden Temple or Double Dare
43. Being asked A/S/L by creepy people on chat boards
44. “It’s morphin’ time!”
45. Getting a computer in your house for the very first time
46. Popcorn shirts
47. Putting the stick-on earrings on the corners of our eyes
48. Reading R.L. Stein books and Are You Afraid of the Dark? even if they gave you nightmares 
49. Kid Pix!
50. Looking in the newspaper to find out what movies are showing
51. Reading Zoobooks
52. 10 color retractable pens
53. Feeling like a pro artist with an etch-a-sketch
54. Bop It
55. Going to a birthday party at laser tag

I hope this article gave you a good chuckle and brought back memories for all you Millennials out there. Yeah. Your Neopets are all starving. Jeeves is retired. And there is only one Blockbuster left in existence! Can you believe it has been 30 years since the 90s and Nirvana is now considered classic rock? It’s so strange.

What was your favorite Millennial childhood memory? Drop it in the comments below!