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If Your Latest Crush Doesn't Know About These 12 Things, They Are Too Young For You

The late 90s and early 2000s is where it was at.

Leah Alfaro

Jul 09, 2018

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If Your Latest Crush Doesn't Know About These 12 Things, They Are Too Young For You

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These things were literally staples in growing up in the early 2000s. My friends and I still have sleepovers and play on our PlayStation 2 and watch all of our Mary Kate and Ashley movies on VHS. Just thinking about people who don't know these things makes me sad for them, it just means that they are stuck in the New Age of technology and having everything you could ever think of.

1. Barbies

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I'm not talking the ones grandma gets you that have to stay in the box. I am talking the ones you played with inside, in the pool, in the tree house, literally anywhere you and your friends went, they went with you.

2. The Amanda Show

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If I can't reference 'Totally Kyle' or 'The Girls Room' something is wrong.

3. Memory Cards for the Play Station

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The pure horror of not remembering which card you saved your game on.

4. Phones that NEVER Shattered, or Died

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And when snake was the only game that you could play.

5. Having to actually REWIND the tape to watch from the beginning

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If you were cool enough, you had a machine that did if for you and you didn't have to hold down the button and close your eyes so you didn't see the movie in reverse.

6. The STRUGGLE of having to make your own ankle sock

Literally, what were ankle socks?

7. The struggle of Blockbuster

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Just imagine, you FINALLY pick the one movie you want to watch only to find out that all of the copies have been rented.

8. The awesomeness that is Mr. Feeny

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Principal. Teacher. Neighbor. So many times he was able to give us the best words of advice.

9. The heartbreak of forgetting to feed your first pet

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You cry and get a new one all in the same week. And then forget about it again in a couple of days. Maybe this is why all of our parents were reluctant to get us pets...

10. Having to know ALL of the songs on the CD in order

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You knew which track your favorite song was so you could skip to it and listen to it first.

11. Making sure you downloaded the RIGHT song the first time

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And trying to hide your illegally downloaded music from your parents.

12. Where 'The Rock' got his name from

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I literally had somebody ask me, "Have you ever noticed that Dwayne Johnson and 'The Rock' look identical?"

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If Your Latest Crush Doesn't Know About These 12 Things, They Are Too Young For You

The late 90s and early 2000s is where it was at.

In This Article:

1. Barbies

2. The Amanda Show

3. Memory Cards for the Play Station

4. Phones that NEVER Shattered, or Died

5. Having to actually REWIND the tape to watch from the beginning

6. The STRUGGLE of having to make your own ankle sock

7. The struggle of Blockbuster

8. The awesomeness that is Mr. Feeny

9. The heartbreak of forgetting to feed your first pet

10. Having to know ALL of the songs on the CD in order

11. Making sure you downloaded the RIGHT song the first time

12. Where 'The Rock' got his name from

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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