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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.

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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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By no means am I saying that I am old, but when I talk to people and they don't know what these things are, I feel like I should be at home with my cats and in bed at like 8:30 PM.

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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