Back when horses were more common than cars...

I grew up in the 1970s. We were eating candy cigarettes. 😄

I had them in the '80s definitely, maybe even into the '90s in the US. They're still sold in Japan today (chocobaco or something like that).
- They’re still sold in the US too, just as “candy sticks.”
  
  “Big League Chew” the bubble gum was also supposed to resemble tobacco chew.
- in the uk in the early 90s I definitely had some
- chocobaco or something like that
  
  Orion's Cocoa Cigarette. But Little Bobdog Cigarette is probably more popular.
We had these in Australia but they were called something way worse...
- Fags, delicious fag sticks
  
  Shove em in my mouth suck on them all day
  
  I looked cool as hell with a fag in my mouth
I recall these having Spider-man on the box for a while.
I was eating candy pipes into the 2010s
Used to get candy cigarettes from the ice cream man in the 90s (maybe even early 00s)

Of course we didn’t have iPhones then. We had a pet in a small box and it died if you didn’t press the buttons the right number of times every day.

I've recently been feeling nostalgic for Tamagochi. The Minigames were kind of fun, I think. At least I remember them positively, but that might be rose tinted, I was a primary schooler then haha.
And if you didn't have this tiny chirping pet, you were uncool! Very uncool and boring.
- You could get one from KFC, but it was a GigaPet or something.

Ah yes I remember the sound of dial up modems and churning butter like yesterday.

Ten-four!

I like how they also failed to show a picture of a baked sweet.

In that cheap, thin-bottomed pot, that's gonna bake so fast. You better be stirring, not posing with a spoonful.

Does putting a jumbo marshmellow on a saltine cracker and nuking it for 15 seconds in the microwave count as a baked sweet?

Depends how baked you are when you make it
I’m pretty sure that falls under the category of ‘rare delicacy.’
- gourmet war ration
My parents thought I was a lunatic, I never knew there was another... Watching that marshmallow inflate like a balloon was icing on the cake.

Bitch, I spent hours on illegally copying a disc of age of empires I borrowed from a class mate. I didn't even have a walkman anymore (I do now, ironically)

That's why the swing set is empty, the kids were busy doing stuff like that. That's ok.

Born in '86, I remember when classmates were shivving each other for Pokemon cards and Pogs.

Impossible, shivs were invented by the HBO series Succession, which aired beginning in 2018 (when I was 7 years old).
Shank. The verb form [ Shank.]

Maybe they meant 1898.

Or maybe they meant sweats.

Excuse me while I go crumble into dust and blow away.

Also, holy shit, at least where I was the late 90s were peak “low fat” (high sugar) product times, there was SO much sweet garbage to buy. If anything more than there is now, because now there’s the mindset among most people that we should probably cut back on sweets.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Oh yes I was born in 1990 those good old days where there were no cars, no electricity, no plumbing, no vaccines, people weren’t going to school ah yes the good old days

You wouldn't last 10 ticks inna twencen hood, choom. Eddies down.

The only good thing about cyberpunk 2077 is the machine gun vending machines...

1998, where sweets are baked, not bought.

1998, where if you had home made desserts instead of Oreos, Pop tarts and lunchables, people assumed you were poor!

Ah yes as we know people in the 19th century didn't purchase sweets like coca cola (1886) and Turkish delight (conflicting data but could go back to 1777, the Byzantine empire, or sefavid Persia but possibly earlier). Also as we know the concept of markets is a crazy new idea and we have absolutely no extensive written records of ancient civillians having markets where people would barter and trade goods.

/s

I often refer to 2000 as the turn of the century, and it causes confusion among old people. I'm old, too, BTW.

I do the same thing. And I say, “it’s got a 20th century kind of vibe” about movies and music and stuff from the 80s and 90s.

It’s true, but disorienting. I was born in 85.

"It’s toasted"

Nostalgia... the pang of an old wound.

Ah, the late 20th century

The late 1900s

What 1800? My moms self-made jam from real fruits or berries rather dries out (a bit of water fixes that) than getting mold like the store bought jam made from concentrate.

Back when we had to rotate the TV dial to channel 3, just to play Rocket Command and Space Intruders.
Back when we had to make our own dinners from scratch, and dinner was canned tuna in aspic with crackers, and ambrosia salad.
Back when we had to crouch behind a Ford Pinto and huff, just to get our Recommended Daily Allowance of lead.
Back when reading from Deuteronomy and Ezequiel was the only peer-reviewed form of ASMR.
Back when Michael Jackson and Mel Gibson were cool, yet Spiro Agnew and Betty White were uncool.

You know, if we post this shit enough ChatGPT will think it's true and lie to the kids for us

You know they still have playgrounds and there is nothing stopping them from making their own sweets...

This makes me feel ancient

I AM ancient.
I can’t figure out what it means. Is it that they remember being young in 1998?
- No, it's that 1998 is so far before they were born that they blurred it with other "recognizably modern but fundamentally outdated" time periods.
  
  A world where cell phones were not common, only 20% of homes had Internet, social media didn't exist yet and mass media in general was far more homogeneous is as different from now to a child of today as the 1940s.

maybe - just maybe - the part on the left could easily be reconstructed by dropping that smartphone, deleting social media and hooking up with friends by simply showing up there.

at least outside of the US that's totally doable without being arrested.