39 Very Specific Things From The '90s And 2000s That Millennials Haven't Thought About In Decades

    Oh, to be sitting on your Britney Spears blow-up chair playing with your robot dog...

    Hannah Marder
    by Hannah Marder

    BuzzFeed Staff

    If you're in your 20s or early 30s, you, my friend, were born during a very specific time. You grew up during the early days of the internet, the golden era of Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, and the middle of the shift from VHS to DVD. It was a time before smartphones, social media, and even things like iPods.

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    We had it good back then. If you're as nostalgic for that time as I am, then you *might* enjoy talking a little walk down memory lane to these incredibly specific things that might awaken memories you didn't know you had.

    1. First, I gotta bring up this orange VHS of The Rugrats Movie. Incredible film, incredible packaging.

    2. But it still wasn't as good as Rugrats: All Grown Up. No, I'm not talking about the series. I'm talking about the special Rugrats episode BEFORE the series' inception. The hype leading up to it...unparalleled.

    3. Although the Passover episode was also pretty hype.

    4. Speaking of Nickelodeon and hype...Nickelodeon magazine was truly THE kids' publication of the early 2000s. You simply HAD to have a subscription.

    5. There was nothing like settling down on this exact Britney Spears blow-up chair to read the magazine...

    6. ...or flipping through your CD book to find the perfect album to jam out to.

    7. Most likely while munching on Dunkaroos.

    8. Or eating off Hercules plates.

    9. And sipping on a Hugs fruit barrel.

    10. Or maybe you'd play with your robot dog.

    11. Perhaps you'd admire the other awesome stuff in your room, like your plasma globe.

    12. Board games were just built differently back then. My personal favorite was the Harry Potter Adventures Through Hogwarts game where you literally had to build the castle and trade money.

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    13. Literally everybody had a game of Mouse Trap that was missing pieces and they were always too lazy to assemble.

    14. The Perfection board game was every perfectionist's first brush with anxiety.

    15. And its commercial will forever be burned into my mind.

    16. Another commercial I have to mention? The Chia Pet commercial. I can literally hear, "Ch-ch-ch-chia!" just from looking at this image.

    17. And of course, the classic "Berries and Cream" commercial.

    18. Even better than board games were computer games! Putt Putt games were literally unparalleled.

    I can't even decide which is better: Putt Putt Saves the Zoo or Putt Putt Goes to the Moon.

    19. Even educational games were fun!!!

    20. Ah, the high of rushing home to play Lemmings on the home computer.

    21. You didn't even need a disc for some games! The world's best version of pinball was right in the computer.

    22. As was Snood.

    23. I didn't know how to play Minesweeper, but I sure had fun trying.

    24. And of course, you could waste hours on Microsoft Paint.

    25. And then, of course, there were online games. I still think I could waste hours on Toontown a day.

    26. And I don't know what the point of Millsberry.com was, but darn if that wasn't the most fun cereal-based virtual world.

    27. Though the most fun cereal-based game remains Waffle Boy's Jungle Adventure.

    28. You could also spend your time on the internet burning CDs from LimeWire songs.

    29. Though this sometimes led to the ultimate disappointment — spending a ton of time to download a song and then finally clicking it and hearing Bill Clinton say, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

    30. Even school was fun back then. You could spend your days drawing that one specific S in your textbooks.

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    31. Giving yourself a "shot"...

    32. ...rearranging these babies...

    33. ...mowing down on pizza on these blue trays...

    34. ...and typing "B00BS" on these calculators.

    35. If you were unlucky, it was physical testing day.

    36. After school, you might stop my Mickey D's.

    37. The coolest McDonald's were the ones with video games. I still remember a McDonald's we only went to on road trips that had this thing where you could take photos of yourself with different hairstyles.

    38. Remember when Happy Meal toys used to be good? They literally gave out mini handheld video game consoles!

    39. And finally, I have to mention the most specific, most nostalgic thing from our youth that simply doesn't get enough attention...these delicious torture devices:

    Bring them back!!!

    Did this jog any other super-specific memories for you? Let us know in the comments!