35 Very Specific ’90s And 2000s Things Millennials Forgot They Remembered
Sometimes I see something and forgot I even remembered it. Like it wasn’t gone exactly, just sitting somewhere in the back of my brain collecting dust until a picture of a Dunkaroos packet or a CD binder pulls it right back up and suddenly I’m twelve years old again standing in a Blockbuster trying to pick a movie before my parents get impatient.
That’s the whole thing about growing up in the ’90s and 2000s. There was so much specific stuff that you stopped actively thinking about most of it a long time ago. The Pogs. The plasma ball at Spencer Gifts you weren’t supposed to touch. The Minesweeper game you played to avoid doing anything real. It’s all still in there. These things that are about to remind you of that.
1. “This orange Rugrats vhs tape”
2. “Early days of the iPhone 3G: when apps were more novelty than necessity.”
3. “Blow-Up Furniture”
4. “The most popular faucet”
5. “Who remembers having their cd collection in a cd wallet? Before Mp3 players and smartphones.”
6. “The Millennium 2000 notebooks were fun to scratch lol”
7. “Dunkaroos I found in Kroger today. I remember these from late 90s.”
8. “Eyewitness Books”
9. “Did you ever get your hands on one of these sweet Hercules Plates from McDonald’s?”
10. “Little Hug Fruit Barrels”
11. “School PE equipment room”
12. “Yellow Wendy’s was the best”
13. “90’s Robot Dog. I had one, you had one, we all had one… maybe”
14. “Do you remember the Kik-Step step stool?”
“We had these in our elementary school library. Only adults were allowed to use them which only made me want to use it more.”
15. “Mouse Trap board game. Always wanted but never played. Anyone else?”
16. “Treasure MathStorm!”
17. “If you didn’t have one of these end tables you probably knew someone who did”
18. “Downloading a song from LIMEWIRE to find out its Bill Clinton”
19. “Perfection ‘Board’ Game :)”
20. “Mechanical pencil shots to pass the time in class…”
21. “Starburst Berries and Cream Commercial”
22. “Toontown Online (2003)”
23. “Mesmerizing Plasma Globes”
24. “March 2001 Nickelodeon magazine. Signed while at a live taping of Slime Time Live”
25. “My favorite pencil when I was in school”
26. “Putt Putt Saves the Zoo”
27. “Texas Instruments school issued calculators”
28. “Never really understood how to play Minesweeper and just randomly clicked around/guessed.”
29. “Lemmings!”
30. “N64 at McDonald’s”
31. “Oh, don’t mind me. I’m just playing 3D Pinball Space Cadet for Windows 95/98/Me/XP.”
32. “Millsberry.com — when General Mills thought giving kids a free online game would increase their cereal buying power”
33. “Nothing like playing a game of Snood after school”
34. Harry Potter: Adventures Through Hogwarts Electronic 3D Game (2001)
35. “Anyone else play Waffle Boy Jungle Adventure or any of the other Post Cereal games growing up?”
