One of the best ads ever. Beautifully blended the young generation vibe to the old Indian culture. Hamara Bajaj ♥️

How many of you have seen this or still own this ? Do share pics ..

I’ve been feeling super nostalgic after finding my old sticker from the old Cadbury Dairy Milk Wowie bars. Does anyone else remember these? It was the ultimate childhood treat. My favorite part was always the Disney character embossed right in the middle—I used to be so careful to eat around the chocolate just to save the Mickey Mouse (or other Disney characters) for the very last bite! And let's not forget the free stickers that came inside the wrappers! I still remember the excitement of trying to collect them all and sticking them everywhere on my old bedroom furniture. Does anyone else have any of these stickers left, or am I just romanticizing a total relic? What’s that one discontinued snack you’d kill to have back on the shelves for just one day?

Guys remember this desi & pocket friendly phone brand which was introduced in 2005 & gave a tough fight to almost all super expensive mobile brands till 2015. It existed from the phone market in 2017.

Found these while cleaning the store room of my house in my hometown. Also found a bunch of other stuff like comics, handheld games, music CDs and original copy of encyclopedia. This one is however, going to be a long post in itself.

My collection starts from around 2002 in these pics. I had more, but it was jointly owned by one of my friends (we co-paid) so he kept those. Later ones in mid 2000s and after that, I bought with my own money. I don't buy them anymore sadly due to time constraints to even read them. But they all have special place in my heart and memories. In the pics shared above, you can also find a bunch of CDs/DVDs that came with these magazines. I have more CDs than magazines themself because over the years many of them got torn/lost etc.

Let's start with a story about this collection :)

Year was 2001. I had just gotten my first PC which was a Pentium 3 733MHz, 128MB RAM, 20GB hard disk drive and a 48x CD drive. Mind you this is still dial-up era when most households didn't have internet and those who had incurred massive phone bill if you didn't use it outside of free hours (12 AM to 6AM). Mobile phone were virtually non existent. Those who had them, had a brick sized one which costed as much as this PC did and the network coverage was practically 0 outside of big cities. Not to mention that incoming calls used to cost money too.

Me and my friends got PCs almost at the same time since we chose Computer Science in school and we needed one for "study". Back then the legit game market was not there at all so your best chance was the local CD dealer (yes there existed those guys) who sold you a burnt CD for 200 odd rupees or more. It was completely on your luck if that CD worked at all and even if it did, that the game was actually on it. It was complete random with no returns accepted. Of course we didn't have that kind of money to spend on random CDs anyway. So on the first of every month when we would get pocket money, 6 of us would pool cash in groups of 2 each and buy Magazines like Chip, PC Quest, Digit etc. They always came with CDs having game demos which we lent out to other students in our class for spare change. We ran the show, baby. We had the stash and if you wanted it, you gotta pay.

People born in internet/smartphone era won't understand how this was a lifeline for us PC gamers back then. We would get software trials, articles and even movie and game trailers on the magazine CD along with game demos. We lived and breathed technology back then. Always day dreaming about buying gadgets when we grew up and what not. Some fancied the cover girls more than the magazine itself. It was our coming of age story. Game demos on these CDs that I played, I would go on to buy and complete whole game later (thanks GOG). I distinctly remember, reading about Warcraft 3 in Aug 2022 Digit magazine and playing the demo. I would complete the game in college along side its expansion "The Frozen Throne". This is just one example. There are countless others like Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Heretic, Age of Empires/Mythology, Empire Earth, No One Lives Forever, Delta Force etc

Anyway, after I moved on to college, I still kept buying these. Along with Digit and CHIP, PC Quest still was there in circulation. Later, EFY (Electronics for You) and LFY (Linux for You) would also launch. Which is how I learned linux and system administration. Although I never worked professionally on it but it is a skill I still have an I am proud of. I opened a small library in my college room and people would borrow magazines. My college was in a very backward area so we didn't have internet in hostel. I would rip the DVDs and share the software and games on hostel LAN. Life was simple and uncomplicated back then.

Now only memories remain. Of the good times shared with friends. Of hopes and dreams of a teenage me. And of how the world has come this far in barely 20 years that now I am able to share those memories (or what is left of them) on internet with random strangers.

I have rambled on too much. Would like to humbly ask for your experiences and memories. Kindly share/post pics if you have them. I would love to read and see all of them.

aaj to Sunday hai but kal Monday hai ...

Here poet remembers his childhood

those days when every moment was filled with memories and joy !

1.bhai mere math ki ex 5.2A reh gyi hai , register dede yaar !

2.unit test me mere bagal me baith jaiyo bhai yaar !

3.aaj lunch me kya laya hai ..

4. science ke period me lunch kr lete hai abhi lunch me time hai , hahaha (seat ke neeche khool le )

5.may I go to toilet, may I go to water (mandatory in every period)

6. ground me ladai hogi Aaj (jaldi chal bhai)

7. work incomplete or I haven't bring book of perticular subject (madam: go out of my class !, goooo! )

meanwhile after some time dost bhi aa gya bahar (bss ab ander kya ho rha hai koi matlab nhi apas me bckcdi chaluu)

and as every 5mins passes (class me peek krke , me :"sorry ma'am " my friend: "ma'am sorry" )

8. oping go!, batin gooo , all time .

9.game period me class lagane wale master ko koi maafi nhi milegi !

10.paper ke aeroplane or naav, tic-tac-toe , frog

11.if you took a mobile with u (they came into existence when we were in class 10th (jio 4g))

(no mobile,no insta, real world , real breath)

#lie in the grass, watching the wind blows, those clouds floats on clear blue sky , is no means a waste of time ~lovetiwari

I love you my childhood and I will come back to you when my children were born

timeless melody this ​song stills hits different.

I always remember and feel nostalgic on sundays, about old doordarshan serials and other stuff

I used to watch Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai on TV all the time as a kid, and it brings back so much nostalgia.

It starred Riteish Deshmukh and Jacqueline Fernandez, with a fun alien-human love story concept that felt really unique back then. I know it wasn't a big hit, but there's something so charming and comforting about it that always makes me smile whenever I remember it.

Did anyone watching this on childhood? Let's share ...

I have celebrated many of my birthday’s in Pizza Corner , Nungambakkam !
Best part of celebrating a birthday there was they had a ball pit there & they used to serve us fresh hot pizza directly from the oven & they used to even organise games .

This was one of the batches I got from there.

Anyone have more memories from there

I don't know how many of you remember that, back then, most cell phone users had this as their MP3 ringtone? This was one of the most downloaded ringtones in India in 2002. 🫠🥹

I found this today but couldn’t recall these freebies. They used to come free with some chips back in 90s to early 2000s.

Found this last weekend when cleaning store room of my house in my hometown. I remeber back when I got my first PC in 2001, every PC vendor used to provide an encyclopedia CD along with it. Usually it was Microsoft Encarta or Encyclopedia Britannica.

It was the first multimedia experience for most of us kids back then. The internet was still dialup and free only at night after 12 till 6am in the morning. The articles even used to have small videos and gifs. We would spend hours searching articles and going through them. It was the best of the times. 25 years have gone by since then. Time moves on, memories remain. They too will fade away one day.

Please share your own memories and experiences if you have. I love to read all of them.