Digital Life

<p>Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/madrob1983/status/882283628843208708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.someecards.com%2Fparenting%2Fchildren%2Fkids-end-of-the-world%2F">Rob </a>asked asked the site to share the things that felt like the apocalypse as children, when we assumed may before we knew that the apocalypse was actually 2017.</p><oembed>https://twitter.com/madrob1983/status/882283628843208708</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>It&#39;s a trip down traumatic memory lane.</p><h2>1. The Spice Girls themselves sang &quot;FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS!&quot;</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">THAT TRAITOR GINGER SPICE. <a href="https://t.co/lWypC9TXdZ">https://t.co/lWypC9TXdZ</a></p>&mdash; Geoo-oo-oo-oorgia In Excelsis Deo 🎄❄️ (@UpAndGeorgia) <a href="https://twitter.com/UpAndGeorgia/status/882581637405585409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">DON&#39;T EVEN TALK TO ME ABOUT GERI LEAVING. JUST DON&#39;T.</p> &mdash; Georgia Sanders (@UpAndGeorgia) <a href="https://twitter.com/UpAndGeorgia/status/882581294852472832">July 5, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><h2>2. Reunited and it feels so good.</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Losing my teddy bear when out for a walk. Posters were put up, searches were made. Teddy was brought home safely to me. I still have him ?</p> &mdash; Dragonette (@Tengis65) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tengis65/status/882304568838803457">July 4, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><h2>3. Y2K was tough for everybody.</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">When the clock struck 12 for the year 2000. ?</p> &mdash; Bambie (@Ambernofetari) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ambernofetari/status/882613610190655488">July 5, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">The year 2000, everyone thought computers would have a meltdown bc supposedly they couldn&#39;t change the dates to 2000(?) lmao</p> &mdash; KELLY ?❤ (@loveoutloud) <a href="https://twitter.com/loveoutloud/status/882770489864851456">July 6, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Giphy" data-attribution-url="" height="270" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/giphy-3-u6rXhF.gif" width="480" /></div><div class="image-attribution">Giphy</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4. Well, that&#39;s Theo&#39;s loss.</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Passing a note to Theo Williams asking him to my 13th birthday and him saying no.</p> &mdash; Fancy Nancy (@ClareMBrown1) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClareMBrown1/status/882311770274238465">July 4, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><h2>5. That would be convenient.</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">1 summer I swallowed a ?seed &amp; panicked because I thought a ? would grow in my stomach. I ran to my mom crying to get it out! LOL! ??&zwj;♀️</p> &mdash; Caligirlsunday (@septemberbleu) <a href="https://twitter.com/septemberbleu/status/882864356383379456">July 6, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><h2>6. Living on borrowed time.</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <h2 dir="ltr" lang="en">Crying to my parents aged 8(ish) because my life-line looked short and I felt death was imminent. <a href="https://t.co/IPKVw9ZN3w">pic.twitter.com/IPKVw9ZN3w</a></h2> &mdash; Chris Ironside (@ChrisIronside) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisIronside/status/882991923417448448">July 6, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><h2>7. Obama&#39;s coming for our GAMES.</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <h2 dir="ltr" lang="en">When i tried to play a game 13+ my sister said obama would find me and tell on my parents (was 10)</h2> &mdash; abbbbby (@smileforabby) <a href="https://twitter.com/smileforabby/status/882613707464994818">July 5, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><h2>8. Laughter is the best medicine.</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <h2 dir="ltr" lang="en">Me and my brother shouted at a cow. It slipped and fell over and we thought we had killed it.</h2> &mdash; Madame Jojo (@MadameJo_Jo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MadameJo_Jo/status/882286548443648000">July 4, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="&quot;Oh my god&quot; is right." data-attribution="Giphy" data-attribution-url="" height="318" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/giphy-2-996xtw.gif" width="400" /></div> <figcaption>&quot;Oh my god&quot; is right.</figcaption> <div class="image-attribution">Giphy</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. Cruel and unusual punishment.</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">When I cut a chunk out of my hair so my Mum stopped me from watching Fame that week.</p> &mdash; Helen Holdsworth (@helholds) <a href="https://twitter.com/helholds/status/882333037509447683">July 4, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><h2>10. He&#39;ll be right...here...</h2><oembed>https://twitter.com/HallyGolightly/status/882583991030865921</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11. You Dumb Babies!!</h2><oembed>https://twitter.com/alefe6/status/882768300014436353</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="Angelica would be proud." data-attribution="Giphy" data-attribution-url="" height="360" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/giphy-1-uLMGQA.gif" width="480" /></div> <figcaption>Angelica would be proud.</figcaption> <div class="image-attribution">Giphy</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12. Great Scott!</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Heading to my grandparents&#39; for the weekend, I dropped and broke my VHS copy of Back to the Future Parts II and III.</p> &mdash; Russ Burlingame (@russburlingame) <a href="https://twitter.com/russburlingame/status/882666346567405568">July 5, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><h2>13. Pure imagination.</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">when i learned the hard way that violet beauregarde is fictional and sticking gum behind your ear in real life does NOT END WELL</p> &mdash; Emmy Griffiths (@emmyfg) <a href="https://twitter.com/emmyfg/status/882614242544898049">July 5, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><h2>14. It&#39;s the circle of life.</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">When mufasa died in the lion king</p> &mdash; Lauren (@ljohnson2006) <a href="https://twitter.com/ljohnson2006/status/882630687987204096">July 5, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt=" disney scar mufasa long live the king GIF" data-attribution="Giphy" data-attribution-url="" src="https://media4.giphy.com/media/NwqYuIp1K3wDC/giphy.gif" /></div> <figcaption>Still not over it. Never will be.</figcaption> <div class="image-attribution">Giphy</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15. Still the greatest.</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">I idolised Mohammad Ali so much, I was ridiculously bereft when he lost to Leon Spinks. Inconsolable.</p> &mdash; Whydidhessfly (@whydidhessfly) <a href="https://twitter.com/whydidhessfly/status/882286127553630209">July 4, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><h2>16. Takes your breath away.</h2><div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Failing to land on the aircraft carrier <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nintendo?src=hash">#nintendo</a> <a href="https://t.co/v62PnZ3k4F">pic.twitter.com/v62PnZ3k4F</a></p> &mdash; Eric Matheny (@EMathenyBooks) <a href="https://twitter.com/EMathenyBooks/status/882725659646230528">July 5, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><h2>17. On the right track.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We put a penny on the train tracks &amp; I worried the train would derail &amp; had to tell. 😳 <a href="https://t.co/GzXWWORlD0">https://t.co/GzXWWORlD0</a></p>&mdash; Kim (@hvkimberley) <a href="https://twitter.com/hvkimberley/status/882314048234283009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

17 little things that definitely traumatized you as a kid.

Twitter user Rob asked asked the site to share the things that felt like the apocalypse as children, when we assumed may before we knew that the apocalypse was actually 2017.https://twitter.com/madrob1983/status/882283628843208708It&#39;s a trip down traumatic memory lane.1. The Spice Girls themselves sang &quot;FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS!&quot;THAT TRAITOR GINGER SPICE. https://t.co/lWypC9TXdZ&mdash; Geoo-oo-oo-oorgia In Excelsis Deo 🎄❄️ (@UpAndGeorgia) July 5, 2017   DON&#39;T EVEN TALK TO ME ABOUT GERI LEAVING. JUST DON&#39;T. &mdash; Georgia Sanders (@UpAndGeorgia) July 5, 2017 2. Reunited and it feels so good.  Losing my teddy bear when out for a walk. Posters were put up, searches were made. Teddy was brought home safely to me. I still have him ? &mdash; Dragonette (@Tengis65) July 4, 2017 3. Y2K was tough for everybody.  When the clock struck 12 for the year 2000. ? &mdash; Bambie (@Ambernofetari) July 5, 2017   The year 2000, everyone thought computers would have a meltdown bc supposedly they couldn&#39;t change the dates to 2000(?) lmao &mdash; KELLY ?❤ (@loveoutloud) July 6, 2017 Giphy4. Well, that&#39;s Theo&#39;s loss.  Passing a note to Theo Williams asking him to my 13th birthday and him saying no. &mdash; Fancy Nancy (@ClareMBrown1) July 4, 2017 5. That would be convenient.  1 summer I swallowed a ?seed &amp; panicked because I thought a ? would grow in my stomach. I ran to my mom crying to get it out! LOL! ??&zwj;♀️ &mdash; Caligirlsunday (@septemberbleu) July 6, 2017 6. Living on borrowed time.  Crying to my parents aged 8(ish) because my life-line looked short and I felt death was imminent. pic.twitter.com/IPKVw9ZN3w &mdash; Chris Ironside (@ChrisIronside) July 6, 2017 7. Obama&#39;s coming for our GAMES.  When i tried to play a game 13+ my sister said obama would find me and tell on my parents (was 10) &mdash; abbbbby (@smileforabby) July 5, 2017 8. Laughter is the best medicine.  Me and my brother shouted at a cow. It slipped and fell over and we thought we had killed it. &mdash; Madame Jojo (@MadameJo_Jo) July 4, 2017  &quot;Oh my god&quot; is right. Giphy9. Cruel and unusual punishment.  When I cut a chunk out of my hair so my Mum stopped me from watching Fame that week. &mdash; Helen Holdsworth (@helholds) July 4, 2017 10. He&#39;ll be right...here...https://twitter.com/HallyGolightly/status/88258399103086592111. You Dumb Babies!!https://twitter.com/alefe6/status/882768300014436353 Angelica would be proud. Giphy12. Great Scott!  Heading to my grandparents&#39; for the weekend, I dropped and broke my VHS copy of Back to the Future Parts II and III. &mdash; Russ Burlingame (@russburlingame) July 5, 2017 13. Pure imagination.  when i learned the hard way that violet beauregarde is fictional and sticking gum behind your ear in real life does NOT END WELL &mdash; Emmy Griffiths (@emmyfg) July 5, 2017 14. It&#39;s the circle of life.  When mufasa died in the lion king &mdash; Lauren (@ljohnson2006) July 5, 2017  Still not over it. Never will be. Giphy15. Still the greatest.  I idolised Mohammad Ali so much, I was ridiculously bereft when he lost to Leon Spinks. Inconsolable. &mdash; Whydidhessfly (@whydidhessfly) July 4, 2017 16. Takes your breath away.  Failing to land on the aircraft carrier #nintendo pic.twitter.com/v62PnZ3k4F &mdash; Eric Matheny (@EMathenyBooks) July 5, 2017 17. On the right track.We put a penny on the train tracks &amp; I worried the train would derail &amp; had to tell. 😳 https://t.co/GzXWWORlD0&mdash; Kim (@hvkimberley) July 4, 2017 

Twitter user Rob asked asked the site to share the things that felt like the apocalypse as children, when we assumed may before we knew that the apocalypse was actually 2017.    It&#39;s a trip down traumatic memory lane.  1. The Spice...