25 Things From '90s Movies You Don't See Anymore

Nostalgia for the Talkboy.

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The movies are the best time capsule of an era, giving you access to the music, the dress, the tech trends, the social/political climate. As '80s and '90s babies grow up, we find ourselves more compelled to a nostalgic POV, that perspective that blends—to quote writer Samuel R. Delany—"the first, the best, and the youthful gaze."

So, whether or not Home Alone is a good movie (though it is), for many it's the first holiday movie you can remember seeing, one of the first movies to have a protagonist that didn't seem much older than you, and you wanted to be like him, like Kevin (or at least have his stuff)—and thus it remains powerful.

This nostalgia becomes even more powerful because of how many of things contained within these films are no longer around. We start to have soft feelings for things we didn't like in the first place, like dial-up Internet.

Don't believe it? Just check out these 25 Things From '90s Movies You Don't See Anymore—and tell us how they make you feel.

Dial-up Internet

Movie: You've Got Mail (1998)

Payphones

Movie: Die Hard: With a Vegenance (1995)

Answering Machines

Movie: Swingers (1996)

Sinbad

Movie: Houseguest (1995)

Girls Who Dress Like This

Movie: Never Been Kissed (1999)

Boys With Hair Like This

Movie: Wild America (1997)

Bullies With Dumb Haircuts, Leather Jackets, and Surfer Drawls

Movie: Hocus Pocus (1993)

Rob Schneider with Orange Hair

Movie: Surf Ninjas

Scrunchies

Movie: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Nike Air Command Force

Movie: White Men Can't Jump (1992)

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Movie: She's All That (1999)

Rollerblades

Movie: Brink (1998)

Kids Playing Pick-Up Games Outside

Movie: The Sandlot (1993)

Pagers

Movie: Clueless (1995)

Casper Van Dien

Movie: Starship Troopers (1997)

A Dance Sequence That Feels Like a Very Long Chips Ahoy! Advertisement

Movie: Flubber (1997)

Whatever the Hell These Things Are

Movie: Warriors of Virtue (1997)

Yasmine Bleeth

Movie: BASEketball (1998)

Game Gear

Movie: Surf Ninjas (1993)

Choreographed Dancing to Boy Bands

Movie: Smart House (1999)

Talkboy

Movie: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

Big Cell Phones