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3 months

They just don't make the movies like they used to.

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4 months

@stillgray Looks like a clear case of self-defense. Maybe he shouldn't have been there, though, but why'd they gang up on him?

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@stillgray Can’t say I feel sorry for her when he throws her out of the car at the end.

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@stillgray So this guy basically lied to the other people at the creek, and then to the police. Why isn’t he on trial instead?

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@stillgray This woman has some serious issues.

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What happened to her?

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4 months

@stillgray He looks like a Disney villain.

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8 months

A restoration of an antique Tonka truck.

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6 months

An outdoor party in the 1990s. What changed?

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7 months

Data was stored very differently back in the 1980s.

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6 months

Does anyone else miss big box PC games?

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5 months

Remember when cartoons were educational? In 1967, Scrooge McDuck explained inflation, and why printing tons of money is disastrous. They made this just four years before Nixon ended the gold standard.

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6 months

Remember the good old days?

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5 months

John Candy portraying Orson Welles is one of the greatest moments of television.

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4 months

San Francisco in 1955. The city by the Golden Gate used to be so safe, clean, and beautiful. It perfectly encapsulated California in its heyday.

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London's Oxford Street in the 1980s.

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5 months

This is one of the greatest moments of 80s TV.

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5 months

Who remembers listening to MP3s on this?

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I'm this old.

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7 months

90s kids with internet access will remember this sound.

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6 months

Are you old enough to remember what these are for?

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This is how Coca Cola used to be served, the old fashioned way. Tastes great, too.

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7 months

Does anyone else miss Brittany Murphy?

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4 months

Old McDonald's was a better place.

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6 months

Here’s how they used to open cans.

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7 months

Who remembers how satisfying it was to insert a cartridge into the console after a long day at school?

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6 months

Who else watched this growing up?

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How good espresso is made… if you have a lot of time on your hands.

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4 months

Anyone else remember having physical contact with the friends you gamed with?

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7 months

What do you miss most about the 1980s?

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6 months

Imagine paying upwards of $10,000 for a personal computer. Back in 1982, this was how it was for anyone looking for a top-of-the-line machine. This 1982 report tries to explain PCs to an audience who'd never even heard of one.

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4 months

This is what high school looked like in the 1980s.

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6 months

Zoomers wouldn’t understand the connection.

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6 months

Man looks like a side character straight out of a 1980s movie.

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8 months

Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (1987) features some of the best animation in history.

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5 months

Who else misses that '80s look?

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Buying electronics in 1996. The good old days.

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6 months

Did you have one of these growing up?

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4 months

We wish we could wake up.

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6 months

Wonder Woman only aired for three seasons, from 1975 to 1979. But the iconic show lasts forever.

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London in the 1950s.

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4 months

You had to be there.

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An old work training video. Has this ever happened to you?

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Retrogotchi

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6 months

The 1980s were something else. Home workout videos were all the rage back then. What happened to this trend?

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Apart from the use of whipped cream at the end, this is an authentic use of an antique 1890s milkshake mixer. They made things differently back then.

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3 months

Movies used to be good once upon a time. (📷 @JackPosobiec )

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5 months

Times were tough for internet users back in the day.

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Before he was a Hollywood superstar, Jack Black made one of his first appearances in an advertisement for Activision's Pitfall for the Atari 2600 way back in 1982.

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Japanese company JVC produced some of the weirdest, most innovative designs in the 70s and 90s including the Pyramid Video Capsule TV & Radio. It didn’t take off, but imagine if it did.

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6 months

Pure 80s aesthetic.

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4 months

This is what Christian Bale's room looked like in the 1980s. A gamer, Bale had an Amstrad CPC 464. The tape drive loaded the software and games took 15 minutes to load. But the wait was worth it.

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This is what it was like to go shopping for video games back in the day.

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5 months

High school was different back in the 2000s.

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You’re never alone in the liminal spaces of the past.

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6 months

This is what the classic Windows XP shutdown theme would sound like on a variety of different instruments. (🎶 by joeportermusic)

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8 months

The '80s summed up in one photo.

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5 months

Burger King ad from 1987. Better times. Simpler times.

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POV: You wake up and it's June 2006, and the past 18 years were all just a dream.

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It’s hard to believe but the movie 300 is now 17 years old.

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7 months

This aged poorly.

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4 months

It’s been exactly 30 years since Kurt Cobain took his own life.

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7 months

Home workout videos used to be a big thing in the 80s and 90s, and there were even national aerobic championships.

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6 months

In Star Wars: Rogue One, director Gareth Edwards had a wild idea: he told the main cast and even the extras to rock moustaches and sideburns. Why? To infuse the flick with that nostalgic, retro-futuristic charm, channeling the original trilogy's aesthetic.

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Retrogotchi

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5 months

The creator of Dragon Ball and the characters in one of the most iconic video games of all time, Chrono Trigger, has passed away. Akira Toriyama. 1955-2024.

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What was your first phone?

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6 months

Life was so much simpler a decade ago.

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4 months

This is what the London Underground looked like in the 1960s. What do you notice?

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This was what the club scene in France looked like in the early '90s. Different times.

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How to send an email, 1980's style. First shown on Thames TV's computer program "Database" in 1984.

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Young Jack Black, age 23, looks a lot like Ben Shapiro.

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It’s so empty now.

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“Finally, a computer for women.” This is a skit from the 2003 British satirical show Look Around You, which satirized English educational science and technology programmes of the 1980s.

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4 months

"In space no one can hear you scream." Ridley's Scott's original sci-fi masterpiece Alien was almost not made, but the success of Star Wars made 20th Century Fox change their minds. The movie would later come to serve as the foundation for modern sci-fi horror.

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Apple’s PowerBook Duo had a dock long before the Nintendo Switch.

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Burger King back in the day.

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Do you remember unboxing your first gaming console?

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A historic interview with Tupac from when he was in high school.

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Water graphics looked brilliant in the 90s. It’s all about the power of imagination.

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Did you know that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had their own, now-discontinued cereal at the height of their popularity in 1989?

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Rest in peace, Akira Toriyama.

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Terminator 3 (2003) on the launch of Skynet: “Skynet is operating at 60 teraflops.” A single RTX 4090 can deliver more than 100 TFLOPs of compute performance.

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Paris in 1965. What do you notice?

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The past is a foreign country. Here’s what a plus size model looked like back in the day.

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"Arnold Schwarzenegger wages an all-out war against an unseen enemy, a force more powerful and deadly than any on Earth-because the Predator is not of this Earth." Predator (1987)

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This is the assembly of a high end lighter. Hypnotic to watch.

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Akira Toriyama worked on these video games. Many of them are classics.

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Gmail launched 20 years ago on April 1, 2004. How time flies.

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In the year 1495, Leonardo da Vinci drew up engineering blueprints for and designed one of the world's first robots, the Automa cavaliere, or "Automaton knight." Leonardo's automaton was fully built, and capable of performing rudimentary movements, such as sitting, standing,

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Will corduroy pants ever get back in style?

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The Real Ghostbusters toy line was released by Kenner in 1986, two years after the first Ghostbusters movie, and ran until 1991.

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@stillgray Why is he like this?

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Long before laptops and desktops existed, secretaries used these not-even-remotely portable typewriters like this IBM Selectric typewriter from 1978. It's hard to beat a good Selectric.

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Winona Ryder, circa 1989.

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It’s the 90s and Nickelodeon is trying to sell you something on an infomercial.

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“Unreal! (Yes, this is an actual PC game screenshot).” Remember back when this was considered state of the art graphics?

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Marc Andreessen was robbed on a computer quiz show in 1998 because the tech journalists at ZiffDavis have no idea what transistors are.

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Friendly reminder to take a step back from social media when you need to!

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Old reliable.

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Evolution of the Coca-Cola bottles -- what's your favorite?

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@stillgray Well, let's just hope they don't try to turn these good men into further examples like Daniel Penny was.

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On this day in 2000, Maxis released The Sims following years of development. The series has gone on to become one of the best selling games in history, with three sequels and countless expansions.

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