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25 Photos Of Nostalgic Things That Will Be Instantly Recognizable To Anyone Over The Age Of 35

I can still hear the "Forrest Gump Suite" from the Forrest Gump soundtrack in my head.

1. This exact alarm clock in your parents had in their bedroom and gave a bright red glow:

old chunky alarm

2. This VHS edition of the Star Wars trilogy:

vhs box set

3. And the wild amount of The Phantom Menace toys that were on the shelves when the movie was released:

4. These water bottles that had the thick plastic straws that made everything taste plasticky:

5. Cherry Coke that came in this can design:

6. Vending machines that had the large buttons to push:

old vending machine options

7. The Forrest Gump soundtrack, which was a double-CD and your boomer parents listened to on repeat:

8. Anne Geddes books, which your mom or grandma would display on their coffee table:

9. These acrylic cube photo frames that usually sat on your parents' dresser and had photos that were at least a decade-plus old in them:

10. Pizza Hut when it was a sit-down restaurant:

11. The massage chairs inside of The Sharper Image store at the mall:

12. KB Toys and their distinctive blue checkout counters:

someone at the cash register

13. When the homepage of iTunes looked like this:

chunky website design

14. The bike aisle in Toys "R" Us and the strong smell of rubber that you would get if you walked through it:

aisle of bikes

15. When Subway restaurants had subway maps as wall paper:

inside of a subway

16. The giant toaster that would warm up your subs at Quiznos:

large oven

17. NES, SNES, and N64 cartridges that were usually grey and would give out a warm plasticky smell after you played with them:

pile of the game cartriges

18. Boomboxes that looked like this and made you feel like you had the HEIGHT of technology:

large boombox

19. The phenomena that was Wonderbra and seeing billboards for it everywhere:

store with a large wonderbra ad

20. Spacemaker pencil boxes, which would literally explode if you accidentally dropped it:

plastic container box

21. The neon lights at the back of Target stores:

inside of a target

22. The microwave popcorn you'd get while checking out your videos at Blockbuster:

popcorn package

23. School milk that came in those always hard to open paper cartons:

opened carton of milk

24. Lunchables, which made you feel so gourmet whenever you brought one to school:

lunchable

25. And lastly, TVs that were like 18-inches, had terrible resolution, and somehow weighed 35 pounds:

large chunky tv