It's a rainy Wednesday afternoon in second grade. With outdoor recess all but canceled for the day, you and your pals find yourselves sitting in your classroom, thinking of something to pass the time. After several minutes of pretending to shoot up with your mechanical pencils, feeding your Neopets, and flipping through the latest issue of Nickelodeon magazine, your teacher finally says those hallowed words. 

"If anyone wants, you can use the classroom desktop to play Oregon Trail!" While your turn clicking away on the giant beige Mac may have only lasted five minutes — you, of course, died of dysentery — it was an indoor recess to remember, even 30-odd years later. 

From the sweet scent of Ditto sheets in the morning memories of watching Arthur on VHS, here are 30 nostalgic photos of the '80s and '90s.