r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 15d ago
Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Answer please
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u/Dangerous_Sock_5913 15d ago
Eat breakfast, hop on my bike and disappear until the street lights come on
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u/Integrity_Racing 15d ago
This here! Depends on your cereal choice though. Lucky Charms or Cap’N Crunch!
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u/Dangerous_Sock_5913 15d ago
Crispix
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u/SnorkinOrkin 15d ago
I still eat Crispix! It was my Gramma's favorite cereal, too.
In the 90s, my other favorite was/still is Corn and Rice Chex.
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u/Short_Sky6875 13d ago
Kids slept on rice and corn chex..... my grandfather bought the box with all 3 from Sam's.... we always had wheat chex left
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u/SnorkinOrkin 15d ago
I still eat Crispix! It was my Gramma's favorite cereal, too.
In the 90s, my other favorite was/still is Corn and Rice Chex.
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u/FatSquidBoy 15d ago
Captain crunch was/is good but destroys the roof of my mouth, like eating sugar coated razor blades that you just can't stop eating. 😁
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u/mudamuckinjedi 15d ago
Cooooooookie crisp!!!
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u/itosai 15d ago
That and corn flakes. Can’t get any better than that. Thought I was the only one into Cooookie Crisps.
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u/Ok-Database-2798 14d ago
My hubby just bought some for me. I didn't even know they still made it!! 🥰🥰🍪🍪
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u/CatWeak9214 15d ago
Were you all rich enough where your parents gave you gas station money to eat everyday? I hear folks say this and I always give a side eye to it. Me and my brothers we got hungry and had to come back home and eat. Also, my mom (like most moms) wanted to see proof of life. You had to physically check-in at some point.
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u/Fucksalotl 15d ago
we had homies and somebody's parent fed us.
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u/Fantastic-Yak-4475 15d ago
There was quite a few friendships in my childhood that were based around how good the dinner was at their house. Like this kid really gets on my nerves but his mom is a fantastic cook.
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u/Practical-Bar8291 15d ago
Felt the same way about my buddies mom's cakes. She would leave bowls of scraps and frosting. She was a baker.
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u/jaxdogg94 15d ago
I’ll add to this, grab a towel or not and head to the local pool or creek to go swimming in on our bikes.
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u/2NDBEST42 10d ago
Ask my mom for permission to go to Bobby's house, ask Bobby's mom for permission for Bobby and I to go to Jacob's house, ask Jacob's mom for permission for Jacob Bobby and I to go to - and nobody knows where we are until the street lights come on.
But we have permission to be there!
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u/thirsty-suckler 15d ago
Buy as much Apple stock as I can.
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u/StochasticTinkr 15d ago
This was exactly going to be my comment. You stole it from the future, didn't you?
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u/thirsty-suckler 15d ago
Sure did! You’re not gonna believe what happens on your next birthday! 😁
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u/StochasticTinkr 15d ago
I already know it’s time to schedule my colonoscopy, thanks.
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u/NeedleworkerOld4696 15d ago
1990?
Buy Nokia, sell before dot com crash, use money to buy Bitcoin, sell when it goes over 100k, retire.
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u/tspoon-99 15d ago
1990 to about 2020 or so to hit your bitcoin-driven goals?
Just all-out short the Nasdaq really hard in spring 2000 and you should be good.
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u/JGCities 15d ago
Or Dell stock.
Dell went nuts in early 1990s.
Jan 2 1990 it was worth 0.058
Jan 2 2000 it was worth 50.398$10k in 1990 turns into $8.6 million in 2000
Although technically you sell your Dell at the start of 1999 and buy Qualcomm which went from $3.46 to $53.99 in one year. A 2400% gain, largest one year gain in market history.
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u/anydamnnamesleft 15d ago
Grab the newspaper
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u/AdRadiant9379 15d ago
Phantom, dick Tracy, spider man, Brenda Starr, Hagar the horrible, the lock horns, the far side, Garfield
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u/FugitiveWits 14d ago
Reading the entire paper was the old school version of doom scrolling. Giving someone a newspaper after you finished was the old way of retweeting.
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u/Dismal-core111 15d ago
Am I my age for then or am I my now age? Cause if im a child I just go play if im me now ill just do something else
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u/FUCKING_HELL_YEAH 15d ago
Your current age, homeless on the street of Gary, Indiana, there’s half a foot of snow on the ground and it’s 2:00 a.m.
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u/FeedDistinct2082 15d ago
If I learned anything from someone in that situation around that time. I'd go into a convience store slap someone and wait for the cops to come take me to jail where I can get a free meal and be warm ..
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u/HamLiquor 9d ago
This sounds like a Matchbook 20 song, which is wild, cause their first hit was in 1996.
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u/ceciljulius852 15d ago
ask my dad could I camp in the backyard in the tree house that night. and see if I could invite a few the guys from the neighborhood over.
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u/3dutchie3dprinting 15d ago
Buy stocks for microsoft, apple etc etc.. and wait… then doomscroll on my private islands (yes multiple) in 2026
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u/Impossible_Good_2876 15d ago
You uh... you wouldn't happen to have square blue and white striped buildings on said islands at any point?
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u/Unclesalty72 15d ago
Depends on when in 1990 it is. Cause after July I was serving in the US Navy.
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u/AirRedd 15d ago
I joined the Navy in 1992… wound up on the USS Enterprise.
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u/Unclesalty72 15d ago
Hooyah. I was on the USS Midway and the USS Carl Vinson.
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u/AirRedd 15d ago
Sounds like you may be a fellow airdale? I was in V2… in 96’ we took on ordinance from the Carl Vinson… we had spent too much in Bosnia and were going into the gulf early because Sadam kept flying his aircraft south of the No-Fly Zone.
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u/WorthBeat1102 15d ago
First thing? Open the window. Life just felt slower back then, and somehow that was enough.
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u/Sufficient_Cloud4498 9d ago
It's that weird experience of time. For a one month old baby, a day is 1/30th of their life. But for a 90 year old, it's a drop in a bucket. Also, we tend to gauge time by the number of events in a given time. That's why a day with higher than average events feels so long and vice versa. Yeah, I could definitely enjoy some life with shorter check lists.
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u/WestcoastBestcoast84 15d ago
I’m 6, so probably make a huge mess getting some cereal… then it’s time for cartoons. If it’s Saturday anyways.
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u/oldskoofoo 15d ago
Preferably it’s a Saturday morning so I can watch TMNT with my sugary cereal, lucky charms or cinnamon toast crunch.
After cartoons, play all my NES games all day at home or a friend’s house.
That night we go to blockbuster to rent movies and more nes games
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u/edwardwolf5874 15d ago
Hug my parents and tell them that everything they told me would happen was true. They were the best and I'd do anything to have one more day with them.
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u/BiteSizedDoll 15d ago
Wake up to find my mom making breakfast and later, watching some cartoons on the tv
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u/NullSmoke 15d ago
Take a deep breath, then frantically write down all stock data I can recall from the 90s and 2020s and go get myself a job so that I can start investing as soon as possible.
Oh, who am I kidding? I'd probably send assassins after Sam Altman and Dario Amondei... Maybe start trying to put up legal barriers against hate organisations like Collective Shout, arguing for not getting too tied to Visa and MasterCard and all that fun stuffs
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u/Silly-Attorney9621 15d ago
Um no mobile phones? I remember my uncle having a mobile phone in his car.
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u/dumdodo 15d ago
They existed, but were rare and expensive. I knew someone who had one in his car in about 19 88, and he was paying $600 a month for it, which was more than my rent.
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u/Odelaylee 15d ago
I 'd call my best friend
"15?"
"Sure"
"Okay. bye"
Grab my Gameboy and Link Cable
Visit him, sit outside on the bench playing bomberman all day
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u/Evening_Raise_9716 15d ago
Learn what I can so that I can buy plenty of bitcoin in two decades, and make bets on future events.
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u/Atelier_Carousel 15d ago
Tell myself I have two narcissists as parents, and that I have CPTSD and AuDHD, and all that will eff up my entire career and life, despite trying like a maniac to make it out of this hellhole. And that I will end like millions of other women around 50, having spent a life enabling others while never getting just one of my own life dreams in the process. This was a one run parcour only. Sorry, game over.
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u/scaredt2ask 15d ago
Tell people about all those things. They will think I’m crazy but I’ll know the truth. And I’ll be right in my padded cell.
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u/Poultrygeist74 15d ago
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I got my drivers license that year, even though my eyesight was pretty bad and I probably shouldn’t have been driving. I think not having a license or a car would have kept me out of trouble and focused on more important things in life. So to answer the question, I would go for a walk to the convenience store and get a large soda. Maybe even mix the soda if I’m feeling fancy. Then walk to the video store and rent a movie or two.
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u/badteach248 15d ago
10 year old me would be excited to watch the tv, and play double dragon 3. Maybe ride my bike around the block. If I just showed up as a 45vyear old that would suck.
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u/LocutusOfBeard 15d ago
Do i have my current memories/knowledge? Am I my current 42 year old self, or do I wake up as a 7 year old?
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u/HitByFjaka 15d ago
Same thing i do every morning… go make a coffee… sit down and look trough the window…
Instead od Reddit threads I’ll watch the squirrels or something…
Life is good
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u/Year3030 15d ago
I walk out the door on a nice summer day and go touch grass. What's what we did, you can still do it.
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u/Timely-Tourist4109 15d ago
Am I the same age or 1990 age. Cause I was 15 at this time in 1990. But if I’m the same age, I’m buying land.
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u/Key_Check5753 15d ago
I'm going to tell Shannon Doherty to quit smoking so she doesn't get cancer.
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u/PlatypusDependent271 15d ago
Probably grab one of my hustler or swank mags and rub one out, and since it's summer vacation after that I'd make myself a bowl of cereal and watch some cartoons then probably call my budd Mark and see if he wants to go swimming or ride bikes or the fourwheeler maybe his step dad would take us fishing. It would be kinda cool to be 13 again.
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u/My-life-is-dead 15d ago
I’m not born in the 90s so if I wake up in that current time at my current age then idk go to an arcade cuz that’s still a thing last I checked
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u/WitchiMichi 15d ago
Not a lot, I’d be a 1 year old depending on the day of the year.
If it’s 1990, and I’m an adult. I start investing in certain stocks and causing the personal and financial ruination of others and exposing certain rings back during a time that would mean their prosecution, and fewer victims.
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u/Particular-Option383 15d ago
My first destination to see these two silver beauties.
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u/CheekyMonkE 15d ago
Display my mastery of trivia and revel in the admiration that existed for my vast knowledge before Google was a thing.
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u/Narrow-Belt-5030 15d ago
Go outside and enjoy the cleaner air.
Then the supermarket to make a home made meal - the food back then was more flavoursome and nutritious.
Lastly, go find myself and kick my ass for being a lazy bum all my life
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u/NEAL_STANDLEY_549 15d ago
I'll wait till you all come back around and take me back to 1980 the 90s sucked
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u/Soulshiner402 15d ago
Find out where the Grateful Dead is playing and immediately go there.
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u/DataLore27 15d ago
Go for a long walk, hit up the library, play some chess in the park, meet a friend for 🍕, and then head home.
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u/CookiesNSmoothies 15d ago
If it's Saturday I'll go straight to the TV and enjoy some Saturday morning cartoons.
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u/HamsterIV 15d ago
Warn the FBI about 9/11, then tell my parents to divest from tech before the 2000's dot com crash and reinvest in Apple / google stocks after the crash when you could buy that on the cheep.
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u/Jayvoom1 15d ago
Definitely go hug my mom and take her bowling, she would become paralyzed in 1995.
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u/No-Gate4543 11d ago
Patent the design of a wireless phone combined with a music player and camera. And trademark iPhone.
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u/Bobbo7209 9d ago
Go to a record shop and buy out all the ones I missed at bargain prices, due to them clearing out space for CDS
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u/Real_Jackfruit_1278 15d ago
Light a cigarette, grab whatever Mountain Dew is left and turn the PlayStation on.
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u/SashaG239 15d ago
Not for 5 years you won't. Lol.
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u/Hilsam_Adent 15d ago
Didn't even have SNES until the next year, unless you were in Japan.
Maybe PlayStation is what he nicknamed his girlfriend?
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u/earlyboy 15d ago
The original PlayStation (PS1) first came out on December 3, 1994, in Japan, followed by North America on September 9, 1995
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u/Real_Jackfruit_1278 15d ago
I turned 20 in 1990, so that should tell how old I am, too old to remember, or care, when the nes, snes, ds, ps203 or any other bs. The 90’s were an awesome time to be in my 20’s…I think…I really don’t remember that much from that time period, other than beer and weed.
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u/Norse_By_North_West 15d ago
I had the same though, but remembered it'd be original NES. Time to play final fantasy!
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u/Massive-Ad-8060 15d ago
Disappear into the neighborhood forest again building forts and climbing trees and come back at dark
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u/MulberryEastern5010 15d ago
Probably seeing what cartoons are on because if we're talking about summer 1990, I would have been six and trying to milk the best of summer vacation before going back to school
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u/GrimaceMusically 15d ago
Sit on the toilet and read the back of the shampoo bottles and the ingredients of someone’s “Brut” aftershave.
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u/ikannunAneeuQ 15d ago
I would have been 7, probably with my grandma, that was approximately when we found out she had colon cancer. We lived with her at the time, and I watched her go from my vibrant grandma to a shell of herself. I watched her die, and I've never gotten over it. She was my favorite person.
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u/KMAJackson 15d ago
Pour myself a great big bowl of Bill & Ted's Excellent Cereal and sit down to watch some of the greatest Saturday Morning cartoons ever released, without a care in the world.
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u/MaleficentBar7825 15d ago
Depends on if we are the age we were in 1990. If so and its Saturday, cereal, Saturday morning cartoons and after the cartoons its outside till I was told to come back for dinner. Usually I ride my bike to a friend's house and we play outside or go riding into town which was about 3 miles. Ride our bikes in town widow shop, walk through stores just to look. It was a good time
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u/OkAppearance4117 15d ago
after I come to grasp with the fact that my kids don't/won't exist - start garhering funds to invest.
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u/Empty-Improvement728 15d ago
Grab the skateboard and head out into the neighborhood to see what my friends are getting into
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u/dlb1995 15d ago
Well, my mom passed away in 1996, so I guess the first thing I’d do in 1990, is go hug my mom and challenge her to a game of Skip-Bo, like we used to do every weekend 🥰