I was born in 1997 but I still feel like a '90s kid.

1. We all wanted these but none of us ever got them:

2. These held the secrets to your future:

3. This virtual pet basically dictated your life:

Admit it, you fed your Tamagotchi before you fed yourself at lunch.

4. Speaking of lunch...

This was a gourmet meal.

5. And this meant MOVIE TIME:

6. We all sniffed markers once (or twice) in our lives...

7. Ring Pops made us cool:

Oh yes, look at my 14K Sugar my mom bought me yesterday. It's better than yours.

8. Lava lamps also made us cool:

I begged my mom for one of these. She never bought it for me. Still bitter.

9. JT's hair:

10. This big 'ole block of fun:

11. You never listened to them, but you knew their TV ads way too well:

Because "Kidz" is way cooler than "Kids"

12. And if you were like me, you owned a ton of CDs (not Kidz Bop though) and listened to them on this magical device:

13. And when you weren't jamming out to *NSYNC, you were obviously watching Saturday morning cartoons:

14. And when you got too old for cartoons, you acquired your first phone:

15. And you opened it like this:

Sassy.

16. And when you weren't chatting with your BFF on the phone, you were chatting online:

My username was lilstevens2. No shame.

17. If you had this gum everybody wanted to be your friend:

They ran out of flavor in two seconds but those were the greatest two seconds ever.

18. And best of all:

Dunkaroos. You may disagree, but I thought these were the greatest things ever.

Did anybody else notice how colorful everything was back then?