MTV Spring Break will forever be a shining beacon of hope for kids of the 90's and 2000s. Even though the special has been around since the late '80s, it didn't really reach maximum potential ...

And while Spring Break MTV-style isn't really an all-caps THING anymore, its memory will live on in our hearts forever. And um, there will always be these completely harrowing photos to look back on.

If you haven’t seen MTV’s Spring Break, which was brought onto the network in 1986 and lasted well into the 2000s, there were quite a few people to grace the stage and party during the break.

But back in the early 2000s, spring break was so much more than an opportunity for creating Instagram content. It was a giant party that went down in Cancun every year hosted by MTV.

For many years, Panama City has been MTV's home base for spring break coverage, and partiers spend $170 million during six-week period, according to a 2004 study. Sounds like quite the stimulus.

Spring Break was an annual staple on MTV until 2005. It then moved to MTVU, where it aired until 2014. The event has hosted artists from Lil Wayne to P!nk, along with thousands of young people ...

“MTV Spring Break 1999”: As big, brash and brainless as ever, MTV’s annual three-day festival of fake IDs, incipient skin cancer and academic underachievement kicks off Friday (2:30 p.m ...