Looking back on my childhood is like looking back at a whole different world. The coolest technology we had was our Gameboy Color, but today it would just be considered old junk. Nothing is the same and there were so many things in my childhood that kids today would never understand. Here is just a few of those awesome things.

1. The utter sadness and disappointment you felt when your beloved tamagotchi died.

2. The excitement of getting a new movie on your weekly trip to blockbuster.

3. Getting completely frustrated when you couldn't put all the colors down at once, only succeeding in actually breaking the pen.

4. The struggle of having to wait for dialup.

5. How Aaron Carter was every tween girl's celebrity crush.

6. The struggle of having to blow in to the Nintendo cartridge in order for the game to work.

7. Tom, the one friend everyone had.

8. MASH basically predicted everyone's future.

9. How cool you were if you had one of these.

10. All the best shows of your childhood in one single picture.

11. The fear of getting caught passing notes in class.

12. It wasn't really a fight if you had these.

13. Those weird Gushers commercials that thought it was a good idea to turn kids' heads into fruit.

14. Relying on a ring to tell you what mood you were in.

15. What it felt like to carry one of these around all day.

16. Begging your mom to buy you one of these just for the toy inside.

17. You had AT LEAST one container full of Beanie Babies sitting in your room.