17 Pictures That Show How Much S’pore Has Changed

Life in the past was pretty simple: one videotape could keep us occupied for days, and one trip to a shopping centre meant an entire day of window shopping.

The world has changed so much, and things have become complex: catching virtual creatures become a trend and it’ll go off just as fast as it comes, and people are fighting with Instagram Likes instead of fighting fishes.

So when I stumbled across this thread in Hardwarezone, I just couldn’t resist sharing this, because sometimes, we need a reminder that very often, simple is better.

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We all used to be young scientists

Image: Hardwarezone Forums (Nemesis Alien)
Image: Hardwarezone Forums (Nemesis Alien)

All you need to do is just to attend an event.

Only 90s kids will relate this to 7-Eleven

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Image: Hardwarezone Forums (Nemesis Alien)

It’ll freeze your brain.

We used to take this seriously

Image: Hardwarezone Forums (fishbuff)
Image: Hardwarezone Forums (fishbuff)

You took longer to fold it than play it.

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Portable radio! How revolutionary!

Image: Hardwarezone Forums (Nemesis Alien)
Image: Hardwarezone Forums (Nemesis Alien)

To get the correct channel, you had to be very, very precise with the dial.

Admit that you’ve done a silent prayer when you see this

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Image: Hardwarezone Forums (Nemesis Alien)

When you see “Dialing attempt 2 of 5”, your life has just been shortened by a few minutes.

This is the bear that every 90s kid remember

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Image: Hardwarezone Forums (Nemesis Alien)

Catching this is even more difficult than catching Pokemon..

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KFC used to have some interesting stuff. Like this

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Image: Hardwarezone Forums (Nemesis Alien)

Strangely, everyone also used to have this.

I could spend HOURS on this game

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Image: Hardwarezone Forums (Nemesis Alien)

This game required not just patience, but lots of time.

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Not sure whether this is still sold in supermarkets, but it used to be everyone’s favourite

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Image: Hardwarezone Forums (Nemesis Alien)

When kids in the past cooked, this was the result.

Ads like this make us go crazy

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Image: Hardwarezone Forums (Nemesis Alien)

Ads in the past were so simple, yet effective.

Sometimes, I wonder whether this is for sergeants

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Image: Hardwarezone Forums (Nemesis Alien)

Now, Orchard Road looks like a scene from Star Trek.

It might not have air-con, but it has memories

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Image: Hardwarezone Forums (preakshox)

Your life is complete if you’ve once stuck your head out of this MRT LRT monorail.

“Hello, who page arh?”

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Image: Hardwarezone Forums (Ed.YEO)

So towkay. So towkay, man.

The only reason why you went to a mama shop was this

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Image: Hardwarezone Forums (Nemesis Alien)

From 10 cents to 20 cents to disappearance.

When Marina Bay MRT Station = Steamboat or kite-flying

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Image: Hardwarezone Forums (preakshox)

Bugis steamboat is nothing compared to Marina Bay MRT Station steamboat.

The old Chong Pang that looks more like Malaysia

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Image: Hardwarezone Forums (fishbuff)

This was Chong Pang. It isn’t Ipoh.

Plaza Singapura before it was renovated. In fact, before it was renovated-renovated.

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Image: Hardwarezone Forums (xcodes)

I’ve lost count of the number of times they renovated.