Photos That Have Us Feeling Nostalgic About the Past

8. People Who Loved These Are Now Into Crypto

Recall the good old days of the late 1990s and early 2000s when you would open a bag of chips and pray to the snack gods to discover a shiny Tazo inside? For those who know nothing, Tazos—small plastic discs sold in chip packets—were the currency used on your primary school playground. Should you have a rare one, you were essentially among the hippest young people in town. If you were a Tazo-loving child who was always trading and gathering them, it's not surprising if you are now sitting at your computer fixingly monitoring the value of your bitcoin. Though they involve knowledge of market worth, rarity, and trading dynamics, Tazo collecting and bitcoin trading have remarkably similar parallels. In schoolyards, Tazos developed their own micro-economy using specific designs that demand more values and natural trade systems developing among the pupils. Finding a rare Tazo in your chip packet was like seeing the value of your cryptocurrency rise. Skills that would later be useful in the digital money era, these collectibles educated a whole generation about supply and demand, investing strategy, and the need of timing in deals.