45 Things Millennials Haven’t Thought About In 15 Years But Will Recognize On Sight

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1.The delightful lady from the Honey Bunches of Oats commercials:

A middle-aged woman wearing a hair net with a hardhat on top
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2.The creepy Chips Ahoy! commercial where the singing chocolate chip cookies got eaten one by one:

3.The comfy — super well-worn — chairs that Barnes & Nobles used to have:

A man relaxing and chatting with someone while sitting in an old chair in Barnes & Noble
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4.The three- or five-disc DVD changer that was the ultimate luxe — being able to put several of your favorite movies in at once truly felt like the peak of technology:

A DVD changer with its tray ejected to show how many discs it could hold

5.DVDs that were basically screensavers and played several hours of a reef or aquarium scene:

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6. The coupons that came inside DVDs, which sometimes were legit great coupons:

7.The whole Tickle Me Elmo mania:

A Tickle Me Elmo doll in its package with a yellow background
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8.The 1-800-COLLECT commercials that were part of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer contest:

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9.The Jerry Springer Too Hot for TV! VHS tape that they would show commercials for late at night:

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10.Old-school arcade change machines that had the giant metal fronts and the big red button:

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11.The Old Navy commercials that starred Tia and Tamera Mowry:

12.Emeril Live and his "bam!" catchphrase:

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/ ©Food Network/Courtesy Everett Collection

13.And the original Japanese Iron Chef series, which was the most dramatic cooking show ever:

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14.The Michael Graves section at Target, which was full of home accessories that were just so chic:

The home section of a Target with an entire shelf displaying Michael Graves products
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15.And the clothing sections of Target having red carpet:

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David Butow / Corbis via Getty Images

16.Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" single, which everyone owned a copy of:

A CD of Candle in the Wind 1997, which features a white rose with a blue background on the cover

17.TLC's Clean Sweep (which was like a hoarders version of Trading Spaces)...

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Analog Memories/ TLC/ youtube.com

18....and Discovery Channel's The Christopher Lowell Show, which were daytime TV shows you'd always watch reruns of if you stayed home sick:

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Christopher Lowell/ Discovery Channel/ youtube.com

19. McDonald's gift certificates that you would get from relatives who had no idea what to get you as a gift:

20. And the N64 players inside McDonald's that were just germ collectors:

21.VH1's Divas Live, which was truly an EVENT and MOMENT:

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Kmazur / WireImage / Getty Images

22. The giant stuffed animal pile (that you just wanted to jump into) in the back of Disney Stores:

23.The old Comedy Central logo:

A planet with three skyscraper on top and Comedy Central wrapped around it
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24.MTV's 10 Spot programming block:

Screenshot of MTV 10 Spot lineup
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25.Fox's criminally underrated stop-motion TV series, The PJs, which starred Eddie Murphy:

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Touchstone Television / ©Touchstone Television/Courtesy Everett Collection

26.Walmart's catchy rollback cowboy-themed commercial:

27.The old logo for Boomerang — and also all the old pre-1990 cartoons that they used to show:

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Cartoon Network

28.The giant and heavy TVs they would put on display endcaps inside stores:

A bunch of kids playing the original PlayStation in a display at a Best Buy
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29.The yellow video game tickets you'd give the cashier at Toys "R" Us in order to buy an item:

A giant price tag for a green GameBoy Pocket

30.Restoration Hardware stores that were light and bright (painted with mint green walls) and sold kitschy throwback stuff:

Woman shopping in a Restoration Hardware
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31.TBS's delightful Dinner & A Movie:

32.Brandy's CoverGirl commercials:

33. Columbia House, which everyone would order CDs from and then never pay for them:

34.Rebecca Romijn as the host of MTV's House of Style:

Rebecca Romijn lying on a bed with a green cover
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35.Dolly the sheep (the world's first cloned mammal):

Photo of a sheep
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36.Those :08 Min. workout videos:

A VHS copy of 8-minute abs and 8-minute Arms

37.The Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, which were a legit awards show:

Vanessa Williams backstage at the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
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38.Real California Cheese commercials (that featured this logo):

Screenshot of cheese spelling out "It's the cheese"
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39.The games Rosie O'Donnell would play with the audience on The Rosie O'Donnell Show:

Rosie with a member of the audience as a timer ticks down in the corner of the screen
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40.Rosie's house band, John McD and the McDLT's:

John McDaniel and Rosie O'Donnell during A Tribute to Kander and Ebb at The Supper Club in New York City
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41.When record stores would arrange their singles and albums based on chart placement:

Girl pointing to CDs in a shelf organized in chart order
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42.Sam Goody with its so-late-'80s store designs:

Two woman looking for CDs at Sam Goody
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43.Chuck E. Cheese's late '90s/early '00s makeover (where he was supposed to be some sort of skater):

An animated Chuck E. Cheese mascot wearing a backward hat
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44.The green carpet inside Chuck E. Cheese that you would crawl all over and was definitely much grosser than you realized:

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45.And lastly, the Kidz Bop 2 commercial that played nonstop and ruined some of your favorite songs: