This video provides a brief introduction into what life was like in the 1980s, as well as exploring some of the broad pop culture trends of the decade.
You must have grown up in the 80s. I've found that people who favor a particular decade tend to be children of that decade. I think it embeds itself into your development or something.
the 1980s were a great time to be a teenager. We never missed all of the technology because we spent time socializing and talked face to face with people .
Movies were better; TV was better; and those "Valley Girls"... every girl was trying to be a "Valley Girl" even though you're not a valley girl or valley guy unless you grew up in the San Fernando valley (which I did; during the 80's). Everybody else saw a MOVIE about kids growing up on the SFV and tried to act like us. It pissed me off when I went to Texas and saw them trying to copy our styles but they were always two years behind.
Wow. I didn’t know ALL teenagers stopped talking face to face. I guess all of these teens I see chatting with their friends at my local mall, don’t exist
80's were the best... Saturday morning cartoons, 80's rock, outside playing with friends, hanging out at malls with friends.... I miss all that stuff !!
Born in 71, making me 9 years old at the start of the 80's and 19 at the end. I lived every year of it just like you see in the movies and it really was as great as it sounded. I feel lucky every day for getting to experience it, it was the best decade of all time
@@mishkinmoller2066 Excellent! You can help me sneak my mom's beige Dodge Aries out of the driveway and we'll be on our way as soon as the others arrive!
BMX was also big! I had a beautiful Pk Ripper I was 15 in 1987 I loved skateboarding too I had numerous boards my 1st a Og 1st caballerro and then a Robskop and hosoi and a nice Jason Kendall nuclear bomb I miss my trips to Go Skate in Santa Cruz I’m a Bay Area California kid great times 20 years later my parents are great friends with the Caballero family they met them at church back in the 90s I have a few boards autographed by Steve and his first Thrasher magazine that he was on autographed and in mint condition! Man what a decade
@@thisisagreataccount7536 it was all about having fun outside with your boys riding bikes, skateboards, burning fireworks and playa shitload of sports little league, pop Warner football? Freestyle wrestling and 3 on 3 hoop it ups. 80s and 90s where the best!!!!!!
@@thisisagreataccount7536 oh and when high school came around it was crazy! Bad ass music! Metallica, and my favorite band of all time PANTERA I went to over 40 shows when Pantera toured best times of my youth! A few 40oz of Mickeys malt liquor and some INDO chronic Joints and it was on!!! Damn what a great fuccn time!!!!!!
I was 54 years old in 1980, I used to be a typewriter author back in the early 60's, I retired in 1989, now I am a healthy 95 year old indivual, can't wait to be one of the oldest indivuals on the planet, Thank you!
@@jeremysloop8906 my favourite decade was the 1960's, it was fun and enjoyable, i used to ride my bike back to work every morning, i loved it back then. Wish i could revisit it sadly.
@@Paul-gk8wk Thanks for sharing. I love watching tv shows that was in the 60's. Looking at how people were back in the 40's, 50's and 60's it seamed as if life was so much easier and enjoyable. Stay healthy and enjoy life Paul.
Damn...I miss this era so much. I could go to a concert for less than $20, be out playing until the street lights came on, and so much more. My kids will never experience this 😭
Same. Ride bikes everywhere as long as you're home before dark. Society is not a friendly place for kids doing that now. Like that girl recently rode her bike around the campground and was kidnapped. Unheard of to us and rarely ever happened elsewhere in the 70's. Honestly I'd give up the internet and cell phones to go back to those simpler far more safe times.
I graduated high school in 1983..the 80’s bar and dance scene was a blast. Great times ..no cell phones, no Facebook or all that crap..you wanted to talk to a gal you had to man up and go up and talk to her, offer to buy a drink or dinner..talk on the phone after..awesome times
@@martynicole3337 Yes i know we were and i wish every kid these days could have the same.And i think pressure's of social media today and trying to keep up with everyone else has a lot to do with it.
1980s, 1990s, even 2000s were great times. I think from 2010 onward, life quality started to drop significantly, and people are becoming shallow minded and superficial.
I WANT MY 1980s BACK!!! The hands-down greatest decade of ALL TIME!!! The toys, the shows, the food...sigh. Thank you, God, Mom, and Dad for such a great childhood!
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This made me happy and sad at the same time. I'm really thankful for being a teenager in the 80's. Those were very magical and special times and I guess I'll always think about how much I miss it.
I was born in 86 and the glimpse of the 80s ai had I still remember as the best times of life. It’s obvious how much better the world was back then. The 90s was great, but I can tell the 80s were better.
@@chickenmuffin it's okay we all die but at least you had fun while you're still alive, you enjoyed life to the fullest,you die with those happy memories with you 🤗
Magical is definitely the word. I was born in 81' but I can definitely remember how magical it seemed. And I have acute memories from ever since I was in diapers.
I remember the following from the 1980s: parachute pants, mullets, Swatch watches, Benetton clothing, Cabbage Patch dolls, Duran Duran, Jem dolls, HBO, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Solid Gold TV series, acid washed jeans, mopeds, and the Yugo.
The 80s were so much fun! I would love to go back to 1984 for awhile!!!!!😆💟 People were nice & did not dwell on politics, religion & celebrities like they do now.
XXthekingofyouXX You folks talk about the 80s like it could do no wrong, lol. What people tend to forget is mass unemployment, AIDS, the cold war, inequality, etc etc...
@@GilbertSyndrome - Well, you can find a lot of those same problems and others in different eras. But it tells you a lot when so many people can look back on a specific period with fond memories regardless.
XXthekingofyouXX That's what the notion of rose-tinted lenses is all about. People look back fondly on a preferred era, usually the one of their youth, and it seems that nothing negative ever took place, yet we know this is untrue.
The 1980's was, and still is the best decade ever..we had.. 1)The Best Music 2) The Best Movies 3) The Best TV shows 4) The best friends 5) The Best Times in highschool 6) Arcades 7) we played OUTSIDE all day 8) Everyone got along 9) people talked to each other ...I could go on forever. Technology has helped, but ruined the world we live in today. I'd give anything to go back!
@@buddcarcook4655 hell yeah! Back when someone the game you were playing was yours until someone beat you. Same goes for the pool tables. I'd stay on the tables for hours. No fighting. No poor sportsmanship. God life was so Great.
The best era ever…great movies, cartoons, educational programming (PBS), music, and clothing fads! I was 4 years old in 1980 and that whole era shaped me in so many ways! A time when recess as truly “recess” in elementary school; tag, kickball, dodgeball, snow and mud fights were very much a thing daily. We would all run home when the street lights came on after our many mini-versions of our own “Goonie”-like adventures! 😁 I loved my childhood. *sigh*
I was a freshman in HS in 1980 so i got the very best of the late 70's and 80s and i like you miss my childhood very much. Im afraid that U TUBE is the only "time machine " were gonna get though enjoy the memories, I know i will.
Yep, I'm whatchu on that queen. I was 2 years old in 1980 and got to witness everything this video talked about. Hide and seek, o-u-t OUT, anybounce, and those legendary street football games💯. Yea, greatest era ever
Problem with growing up in awesome times like the 70's and 80's.... having to live in today's screwed up world as adults knowing how much better off the world would be if " progress" didn't happen so fast.
I was 10 in 1980 and my grandparents would talk about the 1940s like it happened the week before but to me was so far before my time I couldn't imagine what it was really like. Now I know, I remember the 1980s very well, from playing AA pee wee hockey in grade 5 in 1980 to playing drums on a cover of Pink Floyd's Time as a group project while a student at Columbia Academy of Recording Arts in December, 1989, hours and hours at video arcades, lots of heavy metal concerts, going to NHL games when tickets were under $15, getting drunk on 3 beers in 1982, smoking my first joint in 1984, losing my virginity in the summer of 1985, Cliff Burton's death in 1986, Annihilator's first album Alice In Hell in 1989...I miss the 1980s.
So cool that now we can watch all the videos we want on CZcams - sure beats staying up late to watch Friday Night Videos - in my 50's now and I love watching all the 80's band videos!
80s were great childhood and teen years. Mtv,HBO and cable were just getting started. Great movies in theatres were popular. Renting movies in video stores were big. I was getting my drivers license in 87. Hanging out all day outside with friends. Playing Atari and going to roller skating rink. I could go on and on hahaha..what a great time to grow up🙂
I was born in 1970 so of course I love the 80’s. This video shows why we are so nostalgic of that time. It was hella fun. I’m so glad I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s.
THAT TIME WAS MADE THE WAY IT WAS BECAUSE PEOPLE MADE AND WANTED IT THAT WAY.THINGS DON'T CHANGE PEOPLE DO.PEOPLE WANT TO SEE WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE.LOOK AROUND AND LOOK AT PEOPLE TODAY THEY WANT TO BE THIS WAY THEY CAN CHANGE IT IF THEY WANT TOO.
born in 72. you did a good job covering life and culture in the 80s. took me back to my teenage years. thanks for that trip back memory lane. it was a great time to me.
Wish I could go back to 1987, was such an amazing year for me. Crazy how times have changed, todays kids/teens wouldn't know what to do with themselves.
That was the year I decided to be successful. And I was. But many times I fantasized about going back to that room I rented for $130/month. When life was simple.
One thing I remember about the 80’s was how many people were still around that were old enough to remember the Great Depression and WWII. They had a way of putting things into perspective when younger people wanted to complain about how hard and scary things were in the eighties.
This was true. My grandparents were alive at the time and from that generation. WW2 stories told by my grand dad (what little he want or could tell) and stories told by my grand mother about how they lived day to day in acute poverty during the depression humbled the young ones. They had seen a lot and could bring things down to earth in a unique way that was unlike the generation who grew up in the 50's and early 60's (our parents for the most part.)
True. My dad was born in 1929 (9 months prior to the Wall Street Crash that precipitated the Great Depression) and my mom was born in 1933 (a year after FDR's election in 1932). Both were born in the hills of KY, and I wouldn't wish their childhood on anyone. I grew up in the 70s, but my little sister grew up in the 80s and has very fond memories of that decade. Arcades, malls (which I'm surprised didn't get a mention here) and more than three major TV channels....
You know. That is A very good point. I often think about growing up in the 80s and how great it was because of the stuff that we had or that was around at the time. And really If I want to be honest the 80s were great because of WHO was around. Grand parents and their friends , Parents and their friends. They seem so much wiser than I am at this point in my life.
Very true. I have one relative still living who is a WWII vet. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to visit for a few years, and I hope I can sometime this year.
That is correct. Virtually everyone over 55 in the mid-1980s would have remembered World War II and probably some of the Depression years as well. Parents AND Grandparents could tell them about how rough that era was (heck, the 80s were LITERALLY the first decade for the United States without a major war since '30s, the 1950s had Korea and the 60s and 70s of course had Vietnam).
I loved the 80’s and had the time of my life. I couldn’t afford to dress like the most popular kids but my Levi’s jeans and Chuck Taylor’s were great for my personality and style. I was in the CAP that made me decide the military would suck so I needed to study and get smart fast. You could buy cool cars for cheap and movies and food were super cheap. Going to the mall was an adventure and you always met kids your age (girls). Fun fun fun. The Cold War was going on and we knew the Soviets we’re poor and hungry the Chinese just recovered from famines.i was lucky to be an American and free.
I was a child in the 1970s and a teenager in the 1980s so I got to live through both decades and I love them both for different reasons. Both produced awesome music and just freedom to do anything without all the worries we have today. I wish Gen Z and those after could at least go back in time and observe for a few hours but I’m afraid if they did they wouldn’t want to come back. I just can’t believe how dismal today seems by comparison. It really feels like we’re on a different planet from what I remember. I’m glad I got to be young and vibrant during that time even if it means I’m older now. There’s just a lack of intimacy and closeness and warmth and kindness today ...and man, we had awesome music!
I'm one of the older Gen Z's and my dad rubs in the glory days :,) During my childhood technology was still kinda primitive but seeing how it's advanced so quickly and how depressed all the younger kids are now it makes me sad If I ever have kids I'll raise em like it's back then, they'll know all the best bands, old games, and they'll have fun goddamnit And they'll have freedom most importantly, I never got that as a kid but I stg they will
@@tentacledaddy It's funny but many of the Gen-Z's today (like my niece and nephew -- and half the ones here on CZcams) do know a lot about the 20th Century (music, pop culture, historical events, etc.). Things don't look so good going forward with the planet environmentally and the world politically. But yes, technology keeps advancing.
I think you’re right. They would not want to come back to this waste land we are in today. So I could go back I certainly would never want to come back here. I could live forever without another electronic device of any sort except maybe an answering machine and the things that were in existence then LOL.
LOL OMG YES! Always fun to get home from school as fast as possible to catch favorite shows in time to record with the VCR and still to this day I never did figure out how to set the clock on those things.
I grew up in the 90s but damn man you guys had Michael Jackson Thriller Album, Queen, amazing one hit wonders, Back to the Future movies, SEGA, 1986 world Cup... You guys had it all but we weren't too far behind with how amazing it was in the 90s 😉
I was born in 1988 and I love see videos and movies about the 80's trends cuz I can see like my parents life's at that years, additionally asked to my mom about that years and she told me they was the best. I usually dedicated to explore this timeline by my own then look of the deference on 80's and now and Is a big nice trip 🥰🤗
Timmy Turner it was the coolest, yeah sleepaway camp is a great movie with a fantastic OMG ending, it’s refreshing for someone who wasn’t alive during the 80’s to love the 80’s it’s what I am teaching my youngest son who will be just 5 years old in few weeks he loves 80’s music and movies
(born in 1970)....Personally, I'd say both the 70's & 90's had better music. The 90's had better movies too. TV shows were better in the 90's also. That's when the Simpsons was actually funny. The 80's really wasn't as "totally awesome" as people would like to remember. But out memories tend to re-paint the picture. I was a teen in the 80's, and for a teen in any decade, everything sucked. That's just how many teens see the world. But in the 90's I was in my 20's, finally free from parental restrictions. Music in the 80's was kinda gay, even metal with that whole embarrassing "glam rock" phase. But the the 90's took over with bands like Sepultura & Pantera. 80's rap was still trying to find itself, but then got serious in the 90's. 80's movies were good, I'll admit that, but when Jurassic Park & Independence Day came out int he 90's, we were blown away with the special effects. But like I say, memory re-paints the picture. In the 80's, I was always getting in trouble, getting grounded, and angry that I had to do homework all the time, and suffering from he general teenage angst. But I'm sure that for those of you who were still little kids in grammar school, it was an idealized wonderland. But you have to be honest, the clash between pastel colors and neon colors with bad haircuts everywhere, that was quite nauseating. And people liked Reagan a LOT more after he was out of office. While he was in office, he was a senile joke. The only "good" thing about the 80's was that I could smoke wherever the F I wanted to.
I was. It was truly awesome. Say what you want, eat what you want, fight who you want, dress how you want, listen to what you want... Really, I just wrote an 80s song in my last sentence! Billy Idol or Boogie Down Productions could sing/rap it. If I was younger than 16, I'd be cranking it up on my JVC ghetto blaster or if I was older than that, it would be bumping on my Cerwin Vega woofers in my Mustang. No guns in fights. Fists and bruises.
Yes it was. Little kid in the 70s, teen in the 80s and young college age in the 90s. By the turn of the century it went down hill fast. And now I'm pushing near 50. You have no idea how much this world has changed and for the worst . I feel sorry for you kids and young people..you missed out on paradise. Tragically for those of us who lived it, we didn't know what we had untill we realized it was gone.
I was born in 1970 yeah it was great growing up they had this thing called Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid and there was this guy called Evel Knivel. 😆 then when I was a teenager I almost electracuted myself trying to get the playboy channel it was awsume times. Oh man the music 🎶 look up Slade runaway I'm sure you never herd of it before lol 😆
I was a little kid in the 80s. The cartoons were my jam, like Transformers, He-Man, Thundercats and SilverHawks being some of my favorites. Ninja Turtles were just starting by then too, but I saw them more as a 90s staple. I had a lot of the toys from those shows as well. I played lots of arcade games and Atari as well as computer games. I remember the music and movies as well.
Born in 1982... being a kid in the 80s was the most amazing thing imaginable.. Gi Joe, He Man, Transformers, Ninja Turtles, Nintendo, Goonies, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Karate Kid, Bmx, VCR, etc.. what an amazing Time!!!!!
The surviving archival footage does not give that decade the justice it deserves in how it felt back then to be alive . You had to have lived it to know what it really was like. I miss that decade soo much. We truly had it great and thought it could go on forever. Really had no idea what we had until it was gone. Truly was the best of times.
@@garrettvcayer ok then get rid of your internet & cell phone. Get a land line phone with no features. Go to the bank and pay your bills with the teller, or you can write cheques & mail it. Get rid of your gps if you have a car & buy maps. Get a crt tv...Get rid of your hd or 4k tv. Get rid of your pvr and get a vcr for your crt tv...Get rid rid of your digital camera & buy camera with film inside.
It was Golden. If you didn't live it you'll never understand. It was a world without internet and no one had a computer. ✊🏻❤️ There was so much love and happiness between people. So much wonder and excitement all the time.
History is one of my favorite subjects and I love studying different eras. The 1980s will always be the greatest decade ever and pinnacle era of pop culture, trends, historical events etc. This was an insightful video.
I grew up in Germany and was a teenager in the early 80s, so yeah my daily life was very much how it was presented. The lifestyle, fashion, entertainment, toys and culture in the 80s does not apply in the USA only. It was widespread globally.
nintendo, arcade games, calculator watches, swatch watches (!), cute girls in junior high school you wanted to talk to but had too many butterflies!, yummy school lunch of chicken sandwich breaded and warmed up corn with chocolate milk, i can go on
I was around 7 in 1985 and a teenager in the 90's I tell my kids the two best decades I got to live in. the 80's best t.v line up saturday morning cartoons and MTV music videos.the 90's best R&B and hip hop music 🇺🇸
I'm 42 and I just can't get over the 80s...it's like that dog that passes away that you don't get over. BUT the 80s really were weird. For those that say you wish you were alive in the 80s...owner of a lonely heart much better than a owner of a broken heart.
I was a teenager throughout the 80's, it was the best time of my life and I really do miss it. It was pretty simple, no computers, mobile phones etc. Just a coloco vision gaming system, friends and bmx bikes. Awesome movies, cool music and awful tv shows. Mike Tyson in his prime. Men were men, women were women and everyone got along with each other. Looking at the shit show we live in now I would give anything to jump in a DeLorean and travel back there !
Tito Altimari There was still gay pride in the 80’s, idiot. Gay pride started in the 19th century, and women in the 80’s started becoming more independent! Men were also becoming themselves. I’m sorry if your little right-winged world sheltered you from this, but it was already a movement.
@@iixstarshinexiixoxo1778 What I meant was that traditional gender roles were still in place (they have worked throughout human history and have gotten the human race where it was till that point). My parents generation (born in the early 50's) still were very traditional, out of all my family and friends only one family went through divorce, all the rest (probably about 20 families) are still married or were married until they died. Its my generation (45 years old now) that were polluted by the left's, cultural marxist agenda that has caused the shit show that we are living in now. From my generation, again family and friends, of a group of approximately 40 or so people who were married, only 4 of them are still married, the rest are all divorced, the results speak for themselves. Its a biological, objective fact (not lefty, subjective, "I identify as a bullfrog, therefore I am one") that mens and womens brains are different. Men are more logical and rational based in our thinking (up until milllenials at least) because of how we had to evolve throughout human history (solving problems to feed, shelter and protect our partner and offspring). Women however are more emotional based in their thought process (this is one of the main things the womens lib movement was founded on by the way) and are more suited to nurturing and emotionally supporting their husband and children (when they behave in a non dysfunctional manner). Unfortunately because these roles are being reversed (forcibly by the marxist left) we have a very dysfunctional, delusional and degenerating society. Sorry for the long explanation but it seems that sometimes, some folks require somebody to draw them a picture, which they will reject anyway, based on their distorted belief system.
Messville I understand where you come from, especially with all the Tumblr posts about random genders that don’t exist, but my friend’s family, a really left sided family, gets along very well, despite the occasional argument. The eldest son is at college getting a medical degree, the next is becoming a band teacher, and the three youngest are all getting A’s in their classes. In this family, the wife and husband share responsibilities, but the wife gets into more physical housework while the husband cleans around the house and takes care of the children. If you ask me, it all depends on the person. Not gender rules. But feel free to correct me on anything I missed.
The 80's were a HAPPY and OPTIMISTIC timeframe. People enjoyed technology but weren't as unhealthily OBSESSED with it as we are today. Moms taught kids to "not stare at screens too long each day, b/c it would rot your brain"..... WOW they were so correct on that !
Mom's didn't have to tell us not to stare at screens all day. We had so many other things we did like hang out in arcades and go skating. We watched TV at night with our families because we didn't always have TVs in our rooms.
The 80's was the Greatest most revolutionary Decade. Everything changed, Now this world is like living in utter HELL compared to the 80's. There was something just so very different about the 80's.. even the smells were different, it was like Happy. Pleasant spell or something was in the air, it's hard to explain but I'm sure those who grew up during then know what i'm talking about.. It's weird, like Nothing very bad really happened, as far as nationally or globally, or if it did, it was nothing you really remembered. hmm. strange. it's almost like it was a different sort of dream world now that i think about it. not making any connection, but you can kind of see why it is middle age men now committing suicide at the highest rate. going from that to this. It's truly mind blowing how the world can change soo very drastically in just a generation or 2. Ok..this is making me depressed. lol.
Definitely the most random and colourful decade I have been alive for. Glad I experienced growing up with those movies and able to play as a kid without technology being such a big thing really. I guess the fast moving 80s laid the groundwork for what was to come in the end but it was a hell of a time to be alive.
i'm glad my parents got to live through the 80s with a good income, they had a comfortable and relaxed life in a time with lots of exciting innovations
All my great memories come from the 80s:) the music, movies, shows, toys, cartoons, people, heck even commercials were epic!! Long live the 80s the greatest decade of ALL time👍🏻
I was an 80's kid. Born in late 1980. Even if you weren't actually a spoiled brat you felt like one. We had everything! The best toys, the greatest video game console, the best cartoons and shows to watch and we grew up with some of the most iconic movies ever. Everyone talks about being a teenager in the 80's, which I'm sure was fantastic, but being a kid in the 80's was incomparable.
I was born in the 00s and I honestly wish I grew up in the 80s... all the music,Tv shows, friends... it didn't have cellphones, cars actually looked really cool, things were cheaper back then... and the hair and clothes! Right now I would love to go back in time and see what the 80s was like...
@@julieb3996 That's what made the decade so great. You learned how to deal with it yourself and not bitch and moan to every bleeding heart liberal to solve your problems for you. We didn't look for a shoulder to cry on and we became harder because of it. Eat or be eaten.
I’m afraid if you did you wouldn’t want to come back. In a way it makes me more sad today to see how different the world is. If you never knew any better then you can’t miss it.
Yes, I was a teen in the 80's and I can honestly say that it was the end of 'normality' in kids. Life was easier; less complicated...because we kept it that way.
i really hate my generation and decade :/ it makes me really sad because i would definitely enjoy life without a bunch of social media, politics, and huge expectations
Cable television and harder music created this decline in society and the brainwashing from media. Basically as soon as medium came into the household it all fell apart. It was just really getting started in your generation. And every generation after that it got worse, much worse. We are where we are now not because of the people but the influences.
I was a teenager in the 80’s and loved it, we could actually hide from someone because we didn’t have cell phones.... it sounds boring now “but we had a blast 💥 drinking beer and racing cars just for fun
Jwb52z oh shut up!! No one care about your safe space LBGT loving self in the 80’s!! It was a perfect time! Love your 2000’s you guys rule this decade! So be happy! Leave us the heck alone in our time!!
I hear ya DJ Ronnie. Greatest decade of my life. All you other youngsta haters go a head and hate. Better then the fucked up era ya'll grew up in. You even have a stupid name for your generation The millennials bunch of fuckin pamper pussies. Shit music and all ya'll do is stare at your stupid iPhone. No life having punk ass'es.
I remember in the early 80s as a child action figures were around 5 dollars and in 2000 action figures at Wal Mart specifically were only 6 dollars which was awesome. Then like 5 years later or less that doubled! Pretty trippy. The 80s had magic and soul and were actually exciting, and these days it may seem we have more, but we have such trouble connecting with people, you get lost in the shuffle online even if you do write something interesting, it's sad. All the 80s cartoons you named, nothing has been that good in the past 20 years. Sad but true. Bella L
Sedition Metal didn't dominate the 80s, it wasn't anywhere near mainstream, (except maybe "glam metal" like Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and Aerosmith who aren't really metal at all), it got no radio play and only a handful of tv shows like Headbanger's Ball and Pepsi Power Hour featured metal videos once a week. Metal was villainized by religious groups like the PMRC claiming it caused suicides and turned people gay, they wanted it banned but settled for censored with a rating system thanks to great speeches like Dee Snider's made to Congress. (The whole thing's on YT and is an excellent watch) Fans were ostracized by pretty much everyone who thought we were drug addicted anarchists who murdered babies in satanic rituals. I laughed when people called Iron Maiden satanic because their drummer Nicko McBrain is an ordained Catholic minister.
If you were born in the late 60s, then being a teen in the 80s, you have the distinct appreciation of understanding the range of 20 and 21st century pop culture: from the Honeymooners, and Lucille Ball, to Eight is Enough, to Carly B, we understand it all.
How true. Born in 72, but knew history of every subject. From The Chiffons to Shirley Temple, JohnnyWeissmuller as Tarzan to Bo Duke. Leave it to Beaver & Andy Griffith. We knew past generations as much as we knew our own. No so much anymore.
@@bosshogg659 Yeah,I don't get the newer generations at all. I've even met some who say "I don't watch films made before 2008 or 2000". Goofy stuff. I'm 53 and was even watching Blondie and Dagwood,Bowery Boys and Abbott and Costello as a kid and loving it. The idiotic snobbery of newer generations is so absurd I can't even talk about without insults. One of my favorite comments from Harlan Eliison was one about college students of today when he said " ..not only are they bone stick dumb and stupid,they're arrogant about it".
I was born in 92 as the youngest sibling, my oldest brother was born in 82. Man, that time period was fantastic. Grew up in typical upper-middle class suburban America. I remember getting an N64 for Christmas one year, rewinding VHS tapes before returning them to Blockbuster, my dad getting a "self-proppelled" lawn mower. One of my favorites was getting a brand new PS2 in 2000 when I was 8, man that thing rocked.
Yup the 2000's might have been a different type of era had it not been for 911, but after that chaotic unreal event things definetly took a turn for the worst, because during the 90's alot of good things started taking shape toward the end setting the stage for something new, optimistic, and vibrant for the new millennium.., but things didn't quite workout the way they seemingly felt they would.
@@chrispacheco8590 I gotta comment on your comment bro. I was born in 77 so the 80s was my time. And you're so right. It's like everything went to hell in the 2000s and 911 seems like it was a catalyst for what has been so far, a century of complete and total shit. In the 80s, things were black and white. We knew where we stood and what was good and what was evil. And our western ideas about freedom and capitalism seemed to be winning the whole f'in show. The wall came down...the Iron Curtain fell...democracy seemed to be an unstoppable force where the liberal values championed by western society would reign in a new era. Nations and peoples seemed to be getting closer and it seemed at least like world peace might actually be possible. When you look at popular music in the 90s, sure there were always the shallow, phony acts...but there were also sincere forms of artistic expression. It was almost like a renaissance of new styles with singer-song writers dominating the charts with their own creations. I really believed that the world was getting better. Then the late 90s happened and it started to go wrong, and then 911. The unreal and horrific became not only possible, but factual. And since then, the climate of politics domestic and foreign became cruel and savage. And the artistic renaissance turned into a corporate produced nightmare of artificial, drum-machine manufactured beats and platitudes placating to sycophants who don't even bother to question why the music they absorb is so superficial, heartless, pointless and insulting. It really is like the kids today can't even defend the crap culture they cling to because they don't even really care about it. They're not looking for anything new or to change, they just don't give a fuck. I know this is silly, but I look at today as what Obi-Wan may have called, "the dark times."
Each decade has its own unique and special things. I wasn't born until 1992. I do enjoy history, though, so I love videos like this. The space shuttle also flew for the first time in 1981. HIV/AIDS was first discovered in 1981 as well. The Apple Macintosh was introduced in 1984. Ronald Reagan was the president of the United States for almost all of the decade, though he ended the middle class in the country. The remote control also became a thing in the 1980s. Cassettes were a thing to listen to music then, with no Internet to listen to any song you wanted.
god damnit, the 80s seemed like it was amazing! People knew how to take jokes, social media wasn't a thing, people went outside and had fun, and it just seems amazing overall
Just the arcades and video game systems were a lot better. As far as tv watching goes.... It was garbage. Cable wasn't even invented in 1980 and if it was it was to expensive to get so nobody had cable. Colored tv.s were a huge deal if you had one.... You know how tv's were like?? black and white with the 2 knobs on them... Antenna rabbit ears. About 4 channels you would only pick up. The channels weren't all clear. You would watch stuff snowy which meant the reception wasn't great.
the best decade, everything was big that's when girls were girls and big hair was in and aqua net hairspray was your best friend mostly all girls kept a can of hairspray in their purses
My uncle was a painter who was born in 1960 (my grandpa and his dad was also a painter that picked up the trade painting ships while he was in the Navy. He passed it on to his sons, several grandkids, and even a couple nephews over the years), started painting in the 70s as a teenager, and was a pretty good painter by the time the 80s rolled around (even my grandpa said hed never see anyone take to something like my uncle did painting). He used to tell me that he did better financially in the 80s than he ever did. He said he made 8 bucks an hour and lived like a king. I make $27 an hour and struggle at times. Crazy how much times change.
I was just talking about this with my young crew. We never heard of school shootings. Of course, half the students carried shotguns and rifles in their vehicles, too. Although, we were scared of the Soviet Union and nuclear war.
I don’t care what anyone says...the 1980’s was the GREATEST decade of all time.
It was a great one to be a kid. I lived it.
Ronnie Thomas, I agree with you 100% it was the greatest decade ever!!!
Amen to that. Damn i miss that era
Ronnie Thomas I wasn’t even born at that time and watching these videos from the 80s makes me agree with you! 👍
You must have grown up in the 80s. I've found that people who favor a particular decade tend to be children of that decade. I think it embeds itself into your development or something.
the 1980s were a great time to be a teenager. We never missed all of the technology because we spent time socializing and talked face to face with people .
Movies were better; TV was better; and those "Valley Girls"... every girl was trying to be a "Valley Girl" even though you're not a valley girl or valley guy unless you grew up in the San Fernando valley (which I did; during the 80's).
Everybody else saw a MOVIE about kids growing up on the SFV and tried to act like us. It pissed me off when I went to Texas and saw them trying to copy our styles but they were always two years behind.
America was definitely better
👍👍very,very true!!!
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Wow. I didn’t know ALL teenagers stopped talking face to face. I guess all of these teens I see chatting with their friends at my local mall, don’t exist
80's were the best... Saturday morning cartoons, 80's rock, outside playing with friends, hanging out at malls with friends....
I miss all that stuff !!
You forgot arcades, and roller rinks!
At least there were families. Most women now are single moms. Most women are also nutcase feminists who think all men are out to get them.
I remember that also,and it will NEVER be replaced!!
@@user-or6yn8pm3c spend less time on the internet. That’s where you find the most “feminists”
@@amuroray9115 Spend a year in a big coastal city and tell me how it went.
Born in 71, making me 9 years old at the start of the 80's and 19 at the end. I lived every year of it just like you see in the movies and it really was as great as it sounded. I feel lucky every day for getting to experience it, it was the best decade of all time
Also born in '71. I'd go back there in a heartbeat and stay there.
@@lumabi25 same here 71’
Same born in 71 and the 80s were everything!
Amen to that! Born in 71 also!
Born in ‘67. Graduated HS in ‘85. What a time!
Later dudes and dudettes; I'm going BACK to 1985!
Who's with me?
@@mishkinmoller2066 Excellent! You can help me sneak my mom's beige Dodge Aries out of the driveway and we'll be on our way as soon as the others arrive!
@@mishkinmoller2066 Bitchen! I'll check the junk-drawer
Time machine.
Yo got the jiggawatts to get there?
I am.....
I remember thinking how great it was to have a VCR.
Michael Alguire I remember my parents buying our first VCR and how fun it was to go to the video rental store .
And that they cost $1100! That was half the price of a new Toyota. It was a status symbol before cable tv.
We were that family that bought a Betamax 😑
Wooooow! You must've been so rich!
Me too
I was 16 in 1980 so I was able to see the best of the 80's at the prefect age. I miss the 80's so much the nostalgia hurts.
BMX was also big! I had a beautiful Pk Ripper I was 15 in 1987 I loved skateboarding too I had numerous boards my 1st a Og 1st caballerro and then a Robskop and hosoi and a nice Jason Kendall nuclear bomb I miss my trips to Go Skate in Santa Cruz I’m a Bay Area California kid great times 20 years later my parents are great friends with the Caballero family they met them at church back in the 90s I have a few boards autographed by Steve and his first Thrasher magazine that he was on autographed and in mint condition! Man what a decade
What was teenage life like before the internet?
@@thisisagreataccount7536 it was all about having fun outside with your boys riding bikes, skateboards, burning fireworks and playa shitload of sports little league, pop Warner football? Freestyle wrestling and 3 on 3 hoop it ups. 80s and 90s where the best!!!!!!
@@thisisagreataccount7536 oh and when high school came around it was crazy! Bad ass music! Metallica, and my favorite band of all time PANTERA I went to over 40 shows when Pantera toured best times of my youth! A few 40oz of Mickeys malt liquor and some INDO chronic Joints and it was on!!! Damn what a great fuccn time!!!!!!
@@svtkilr I love 80s hairstyles, fashion, films, culture. Its so cool
I was 54 years old in 1980, I used to be a typewriter author back in the early 60's, I retired in 1989, now I am a healthy 95 year old indivual, can't wait to be one of the oldest indivuals on the planet, Thank you!
Hello Paul, What was your favorite decade? and why?
@@jeremysloop8906 would love to hear the answer too! Greetings
You are amazing!
@@jeremysloop8906 my favourite decade was the 1960's, it was fun and enjoyable, i used to ride my bike back to work every morning, i loved it back then. Wish i could revisit it sadly.
@@Paul-gk8wk Thanks for sharing. I love watching tv shows that was in the 60's. Looking at how people were back in the 40's, 50's and 60's it seamed as if life was so much easier and enjoyable. Stay healthy and enjoy life Paul.
I would totally go back to the 80's if I could and never leave.
I CAN GET YOU THERE
@@resistORserve44 How?
@@felixlechner3014 --- their are several methods of time travel but only the open mind cam access its not meant for the massess
Yes he's right we are traveling back in time but only a few people at a time...no mass travel
@@zooknutt oh, so there exists a time travel machine?
Being a kid in the 80s was the best time to be a kid.. I still have scars from this decade man
It was the greatest.
Michael Carter very cool. man
Same here and we brushed it off and went on with life.
I have a Devil Scar I got in 1980.
@@D33Lux Now kids will cry for days if offended and get emotionally scarred.
Damn...I miss this era so much. I could go to a concert for less than $20, be out playing until the street lights came on, and so much more. My kids will never experience this 😭
Go to my channel for your 80s fix
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Same. Ride bikes everywhere as long as you're home before dark. Society is not a friendly place for kids doing that now. Like that girl recently rode her bike around the campground and was kidnapped. Unheard of to us and rarely ever happened elsewhere in the 70's. Honestly I'd give up the internet and cell phones to go back to those simpler far more safe times.
I'm 58 and I miss that era too. Just remember "You never know what you had until it's gone forever."
Monsters of Rock 1988 VanHalen,Scorpions,Metallica,Dokken,Kingdom Come... $25.
That's 2 beers and a shtty tip at a show these days.
The 80s felt like a whole entire lifetime, I have so much good memory of it.
I graduated high school in 1983..the 80’s bar and dance scene was a blast. Great times ..no cell phones, no Facebook or all that crap..you wanted to talk to a gal you had to man up and go up and talk to her, offer to buy a drink or dinner..talk on the phone after..awesome times
I’d rather talk to boys. Pass.
I lived my teenage year's in the 80's and boy did we have fun back then, i couldn't wait to wake up every morning because every day was an adventure.
Wow must’ve been so nice
Well consider yourself lucky, there’s a large portion of today’s teen population that is miserable :(
@@martynicole3337 Yes i know we were and i wish every kid these days could have the same.And i think pressure's of social media today and trying to keep up with everyone else has a lot to do with it.
@@planb2306 yes exactly
God, Im jealous ;_; sometimes I just dont wanna wake up for a long time anymore cause its the same depressing shit every day nowadays
I was born in 1979. The 80's was a great decade to be a kid. Everything was just so chill.
1980s, 1990s, even 2000s were great times. I think from 2010 onward, life quality started to drop significantly, and people are becoming shallow minded and superficial.
2010s is good but idk about 2020s
2010 things got weird. It was like the party was over. No more fun tons of crime
It went wrong about 2000. Even the early 2000's had TONS of economic problems
I WANT MY 1980s BACK!!! The hands-down greatest decade of ALL TIME!!! The toys, the shows, the food...sigh. Thank you, God, Mom, and Dad for such a great childhood!
I would TRADE the REST of my ENTIRE FUTURE for 1 day in the 1980's.
@GodConsciousness The food, the shows and the toys are stiII good today. l don’t know what you’re taIking about
@John Nichols What do you mean by ‘’gone’’? You stiII can Iive a happy Iife no matter what, no matter what decade it is!
@Katherine McDonnell For your information, l happen to have a good Iife. l was just trying to caII peopIe out on their negative thoughts/comments and heIp them out. Weather they´re joking or not, not having *one singIe* positive thing to say about the present is incredibIy unheaIthy! Even comparing oId food to modern food. lt´s siIIy and a waste of energy. lt depends on peopIe´s tastes.
And another thing; When somebody is more unIucky and Iess fortunate than you, the best thing to do is showing some support and compassion, being openminded and doing everything you can to make this right. Like they say, lf you don’t have anything positive to say, don´t say anything at aII. lf there was a miserabIe handicapped person in front of you, wouId this give you a smirk on your face and even cause you to say ‘’l´m gIad *i´m* not handicapped’’ right in their face? Because that´s not cooI. at aII. This can be seen as a IeveI of *harassment* and BULLYlNG. *Too many* peopIe (especiaIIy on the internet) state that they *regret* being born in the 2000s. Are you gonna make fun of them too? FIat-out teIIing others they weren´t born in times that were, quote unquote, ‘’better’’ than the present can easiIy drive them to suicide even further. lt´s common sense! No offense!
This is a Iong post, l apoIogize, but this is extremeIy important. Thank you for you patience!
@@voiceofreason2691 party pooper. Get lost
Grew up in the 80's. Skating rinks, bowling alleys and arcades were Always what you did in Jr high early 80's
Drive in and amusement parks
Great time growing up in the 80's. Music, sports, movies, people you talk to in person instead on the internet, made it so much better more enjoyable.
You guys are so lucky. I wish I grew up in the 80's instead of the stupid 2000's
Hung out at the mall too- people actually interacted
My brother and I were too little to have that kind of fun in the 1980s.
This made me happy and sad at the same time. I'm really thankful for being a teenager in the 80's. Those were very magical and special times and I guess I'll always think about how much I miss it.
I was born in 86 and the glimpse of the 80s ai had I still remember as the best times of life. It’s obvious how much better the world was back then. The 90s was great, but I can tell the 80s were better.
Well at least you've experienced it you're very lucky unlike me 🙂
@@samanthabelle6013 True but now I’ll die sooner.
@@chickenmuffin it's okay we all die but at least you had fun while you're still alive, you enjoyed life to the fullest,you die with those happy memories with you 🤗
Magical is definitely the word. I was born in 81' but I can definitely remember how magical it seemed. And I have acute memories from ever since I was in diapers.
I remember the following from the 1980s: parachute pants, mullets, Swatch watches, Benetton clothing, Cabbage Patch dolls, Duran Duran, Jem dolls, HBO, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Solid Gold TV series, acid washed jeans, mopeds, and the Yugo.
Yugo the car from my country
A little sad that It doesn't exist anymore
Culture club and Wham!
Don’t forget top of the pops!
there is a guy in my neighborhood who drives his Yugo around occasionally!
loved the wine coolers
Makes me feel nostalgic and depressed at the same time
Exactly how I feel!
I feel exactly the same
Carlos Ayala good point 🌈 I’m 57 in 2020.
That's what the internet is for to make you depressed
@@themadrapper101 and to reminisce at the same time
Hall & Oates sitting on a Fiero @ 2:09 is the most 80’s thing I’ve ever seen.
I am shocked that The Goonies was not mentioned as one of the most popular movies of the 80s. It is a classic!
The 80s were so much fun!
I would love to go back to 1984 for awhile!!!!!😆💟
People were nice & did not dwell on politics, religion & celebrities like they do now.
Id go back to the 1980s and just stay there. Not visit, but stay.
Even 80s hip hop was more upbeat. It really seemed like a different planet.
XXthekingofyouXX You folks talk about the 80s like it could do no wrong, lol. What people tend to forget is mass unemployment, AIDS, the cold war, inequality, etc etc...
@@GilbertSyndrome - Well, you can find a lot of those same problems and others in different eras. But it tells you a lot when so many people can look back on a specific period with fond memories regardless.
XXthekingofyouXX That's what the notion of rose-tinted lenses is all about. People look back fondly on a preferred era, usually the one of their youth, and it seems that nothing negative ever took place, yet we know this is untrue.
@@GilbertSyndrome - Indeed. That's what fond memories are all about!
Hip Hop was WAY BETTER back then!! They told life stories or it was fun to listen to. It's unrecognizable now.
The 1980's was, and still is the best decade ever..we had..
1)The Best Music
2) The Best Movies
3) The Best TV shows
4) The best friends
5) The Best Times in highschool
6) Arcades
7) we played OUTSIDE all day
8) Everyone got along
9) people talked to each other
...I could go on forever. Technology has helped, but ruined the world we live in today. I'd give anything to go back!
patrick mcglone arcades....Wasted many a lunchtime there LoL! With metal on the jukebox!
@@buddcarcook4655 hell yeah! Back when someone the game you were playing was yours until someone beat you. Same goes for the pool tables. I'd stay on the tables for hours. No fighting. No poor sportsmanship. God life was so Great.
patrick mcglone so the AIDS outbreak and crack epidemic was the best decade
3 Hotz N a Cot ...Nice try shit-bag
New houses built was rare, but built good with a timeless style that resulted in no need to remodel and keep up with the jones.
I was 6 years old in 1980 and a teenager at the end of the decade. Greatest time of my life.
I Wish I grew up in the 1980s.
@@sundayolelewe1965it truly was magical
The best era ever…great movies, cartoons, educational programming (PBS), music, and clothing fads! I was 4 years old in 1980 and that whole era shaped me in so many ways! A time when recess as truly “recess” in elementary school; tag, kickball, dodgeball, snow and mud fights were very much a thing daily. We would all run home when the street lights came on after our many mini-versions of our own “Goonie”-like adventures! 😁 I loved my childhood. *sigh*
I was a freshman in HS in 1980 so i got the very best of the late 70's and 80s and i like you miss my childhood very much. Im afraid that U TUBE is the only "time machine " were gonna get though enjoy the memories, I know i will.
Yep, I'm whatchu on that queen. I was 2 years old in 1980 and got to witness everything this video talked about. Hide and seek, o-u-t OUT, anybounce, and those legendary street football games💯. Yea, greatest era ever
Problem with growing up in awesome times like the 70's and 80's.... having to live in today's screwed up world as adults knowing how much better off the world would be if " progress" didn't happen so fast.
Ursula Dixon at least you lived at 70’s and 80’s ..
Hating change isn't helpful. Not liking the specific changes that happen is even less so.
Amen! I seriously sometimes wish I was Amish! Technology is moving ridiculous fast.
Ursula Dixon ok boomer
Ursula Dixon Progress is literally what enabled you to watch this video. People live their lives looking back through rose-tinted lenses.
I was a teenager in the 80s. Everywhere i looked something new and cool was happening.
Yeah I felt the same way,always something cool and exciting happening.
I was 10 in 1980 and my grandparents would talk about the 1940s like it happened the week before but to me was so far before my time I couldn't imagine what it was really like. Now I know, I remember the 1980s very well, from playing AA pee wee hockey in grade 5 in 1980 to playing drums on a cover of Pink Floyd's Time as a group project while a student at Columbia Academy of Recording Arts in December, 1989, hours and hours at video arcades, lots of heavy metal concerts, going to NHL games when tickets were under $15, getting drunk on 3 beers in 1982, smoking my first joint in 1984, losing my virginity in the summer of 1985, Cliff Burton's death in 1986, Annihilator's first album Alice In Hell in 1989...I miss the 1980s.
13 years old in 1980 and 22 and graduated college in 1989. Best time to grow up.
Born in Dec 1989. Time fuckin flies 😵💫
80's MOVIES WERE CLEARLY THE BEST EVER..
THAT'S WHY THEY TRYNA REMAKE THEM ALL NOW DAYS..!!
And ruining great movies doing it.
Music was also on the top of its game in the 80s.
@@supaidaman9750 yea especially with Michael Jackson taking the spotlight
1980s music was great.
Lol the music was shit and the movie was shitter the styles where shit 1980s is shit
80's music is still the best along with the entire decade !
80's movies are the best but 70's music is better
@@darkairlord 70's and 80' music were the best, together...
Don't forget the films too
Micheal jackson!
It was very fun being a teenager thoughout the 80's and I still love the music!
So cool that now we can watch all the videos we want on CZcams - sure beats staying up late to watch Friday Night Videos - in my 50's now and I love watching all the 80's band videos!
80s were great childhood and teen years. Mtv,HBO and cable were just getting started. Great movies in theatres were popular. Renting movies in video stores were big. I was getting my drivers license in 87. Hanging out all day outside with friends. Playing Atari and going to roller skating rink. I could go on and on hahaha..what a great time to grow up🙂
I was born in 1970 so of course I love the 80’s. This video shows why we are so nostalgic of that time. It was hella fun. I’m so glad I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s.
Same here man! I was in a military family so it was even better!
Chrisser
Me too. I will be 50 this year. Crazy how fast time goes.
Yep. Born 1970. Lived the 80s. Everything seemed possible. Miss those times everyday.
I betcha you remember the Brady Bunch👍
I miss the 80's and I know that that time is over... This was a fun time to be a kid
don't ever forget it people made things happen back then and were alot happier with the simple things
lucky bastard, im jelous... i had to be born in 1997 :(
THAT TIME WAS MADE THE WAY IT WAS BECAUSE PEOPLE MADE AND WANTED IT THAT WAY.THINGS DON'T CHANGE PEOPLE DO.PEOPLE WANT TO SEE WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE.LOOK AROUND AND LOOK AT PEOPLE TODAY THEY WANT TO BE THIS WAY THEY CAN CHANGE IT IF THEY WANT TOO.
@@stevehenrichs5091 more tech
The best
born in 72. you did a good job covering life and culture in the 80s. took me back to my teenage years. thanks for that trip back memory lane. it was a great time to me.
Wish I could go back to 1987, was such an amazing year for me. Crazy how times have changed, todays kids/teens wouldn't know what to do with themselves.
That was the year I decided to be successful. And I was. But many times I fantasized about going back to that room I rented for $130/month. When life was simple.
the 80s was SO special! you had to really live in the time to fully understand😎
Yes, can't really appreciate it unless you lived it.
True. You can't explain it.
Boomers LOL
agreed....
That’s right!
One thing I remember about the 80’s was how many people were still around that were old enough to remember the Great Depression and WWII.
They had a way of putting things into perspective when younger people wanted to complain about how hard and scary things were in the eighties.
This was true. My grandparents were alive at the time and from that generation. WW2 stories told by my grand dad (what little he want or could tell) and stories told by my grand mother about how they lived day to day in acute poverty during the depression humbled the young ones. They had seen a lot and could bring things down to earth in a unique way that was unlike the generation who grew up in the 50's and early 60's (our parents for the most part.)
True. My dad was born in 1929 (9 months prior to the Wall Street Crash that precipitated the Great Depression) and my mom was born in 1933 (a year after FDR's election in 1932). Both were born in the hills of KY, and I wouldn't wish their childhood on anyone. I grew up in the 70s, but my little sister grew up in the 80s and has very fond memories of that decade. Arcades, malls (which I'm surprised didn't get a mention here) and more than three major TV channels....
You know. That is A very good point. I often think about growing up in the 80s and how great it was because of the stuff that we had or that was around at the time. And really If I want to be honest the 80s were great because of WHO was around. Grand parents and their friends , Parents and their friends. They seem so much wiser than I am at this point in my life.
Very true. I have one relative still living who is a WWII vet. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to visit for a few years, and I hope I can sometime this year.
That is correct. Virtually everyone over 55 in the mid-1980s would have remembered World War II and probably some of the Depression years as well. Parents AND Grandparents could tell them about how rough that era was (heck, the 80s were LITERALLY the first decade for the United States without a major war since '30s, the 1950s had Korea and the 60s and 70s of course had Vietnam).
I was born in 1980 I love that I got to enjoy this beautiful decade throughout my childhood how lucky!☺️
I feel the same way. Was so fortunate to have lived that whole era.
I loved the 80’s and had the time of my life. I couldn’t afford to dress like the most popular kids but my Levi’s jeans and Chuck Taylor’s were great for my personality and style. I was in the CAP that made me decide the military would suck so I needed to study and get smart fast. You could buy cool cars for cheap and movies and food were super cheap. Going to the mall was an adventure and you always met kids your age (girls). Fun fun fun. The Cold War was going on and we knew the Soviets we’re poor and hungry the Chinese just recovered from famines.i was lucky to be an American and free.
I was a child in the 1970s and a teenager in the 1980s so I got to live through both decades and I love them both for different reasons. Both produced awesome music and just freedom to do anything without all the worries we have today. I wish Gen Z and those after could at least go back in time and observe for a few hours but I’m afraid if they did they wouldn’t want to come back. I just can’t believe how dismal today seems by comparison. It really feels like we’re on a different planet from what I remember. I’m glad I got to be young and vibrant during that time even if it means I’m older now. There’s just a lack of intimacy and closeness and warmth and kindness today ...and man, we had awesome music!
I'm one of the older Gen Z's and my dad rubs in the glory days :,)
During my childhood technology was still kinda primitive but seeing how it's advanced so quickly and how depressed all the younger kids are now it makes me sad
If I ever have kids I'll raise em like it's back then, they'll know all the best bands, old games, and they'll have fun goddamnit
And they'll have freedom most importantly, I never got that as a kid but I stg they will
@@tentacledaddy It's funny but many of the Gen-Z's today (like my niece and nephew -- and half the ones here on CZcams) do know a lot about the 20th Century (music, pop culture, historical events, etc.). Things don't look so good going forward with the planet environmentally and the world politically. But yes, technology keeps advancing.
I know you all are lucky I'm jealous
SWLinPHX we all miss the days of our youth.
I think you’re right. They would not want to come back to this waste land we are in today. So I could go back I certainly would never want to come back here. I could live forever without another electronic device of any sort except maybe an answering machine and the things that were in existence then LOL.
I wish I could time travel back to the summer of 1987 and just stay there
Me too
1983 for me and i wouldn't have move from where I lived.
You and me both!
Yes....
Me 1979 1985 wish i could go back going to to the best days of my life .
Omg I miss the 80s! Running home from school to turn on MTV to catch Bon Jovi videos to record em on my VHS to rewatch 24/7 lol
LOL OMG YES! Always fun to get home from school as fast as possible to catch favorite shows in time to record with the VCR and still to this day I never did figure out how to set the clock on those things.
If a time machine existed, I would gladly go back and live the rest of my days in that decade. I would be so happy.
I agree and I sure as heck did my best to create a way to go back with the 80's work i do lol :)
You wouldn't be happy as an adult thats for sure
and this is why everyone wants to go back to the 80s..it was the turning point of everything we know today.
Graduated HS in 1984. I miss those years and still hold their values.
Old school
You guys had it good so good. I am so jealous
I was born in 84.. but it was the best year ever imo
1989.
I graduated in ‘88
I grew up in the 90s but damn man you guys had Michael Jackson Thriller Album, Queen, amazing one hit wonders, Back to the Future movies, SEGA, 1986 world Cup... You guys had it all but we weren't too far behind with how amazing it was in the 90s 😉
I was born in 1988 and I love see videos and movies about the 80's trends cuz I can see like my parents life's at that years, additionally asked to my mom about that years and she told me they was the best. I usually dedicated to explore this timeline by my own then look of the deference on 80's and now and Is a big nice trip 🥰🤗
Two things you should know about the 80’s: we had the best music and we had the best movies
Yup Raiders of the lost Ark, The Road Warrior, Conan , Nightmare on Elm Street, New Wave English rock music to Heavy Metal to RUN DMC and L.L.cool J.
Timmy Turner it was the coolest, yeah sleepaway camp is a great movie with a fantastic OMG ending, it’s refreshing for someone who wasn’t alive during the 80’s to love the 80’s it’s what I am teaching my youngest son who will be just 5 years old in few weeks he loves 80’s music and movies
(born in 1970)....Personally, I'd say both the 70's & 90's had better music. The 90's had better movies too. TV shows were better in the 90's also. That's when the Simpsons was actually funny.
The 80's really wasn't as "totally awesome" as people would like to remember. But out memories tend to re-paint the picture. I was a teen in the 80's, and for a teen in any decade, everything sucked. That's just how many teens see the world. But in the 90's I was in my 20's, finally free from parental restrictions.
Music in the 80's was kinda gay, even metal with that whole embarrassing "glam rock" phase. But the the 90's took over with bands like Sepultura & Pantera. 80's rap was still trying to find itself, but then got serious in the 90's.
80's movies were good, I'll admit that, but when Jurassic Park & Independence Day came out int he 90's, we were blown away with the special effects.
But like I say, memory re-paints the picture. In the 80's, I was always getting in trouble, getting grounded, and angry that I had to do homework all the time, and suffering from he general teenage angst. But I'm sure that for those of you who were still little kids in grammar school, it was an idealized wonderland.
But you have to be honest, the clash between pastel colors and neon colors with bad haircuts everywhere, that was quite nauseating.
And people liked Reagan a LOT more after he was out of office. While he was in office, he was a senile joke.
The only "good" thing about the 80's was that I could smoke wherever the F I wanted to.
Right
And the best fashion!!
I wish i was born in 1970. So, my teenwould have been in the 80s, and my youth would have been in the 90s. it would have been the perfect life.
I was. It was truly awesome. Say what you want, eat what you want, fight who you want, dress how you want, listen to what you want... Really, I just wrote an 80s song in my last sentence! Billy Idol or Boogie Down Productions could sing/rap it. If I was younger than 16, I'd be cranking it up on my JVC ghetto blaster or if I was older than that, it would be bumping on my Cerwin Vega woofers in my Mustang. No guns in fights. Fists and bruises.
It was awesome. Total freedom. No social media, no surveillance, you had to go places and meet people. A great time to be young.
Yes it was. Little kid in the 70s, teen in the 80s and young college age in the 90s. By the turn of the century it went down hill fast. And now I'm pushing near 50. You have no idea how much this world has changed and for the worst . I feel sorry for you kids and young people..you missed out on paradise.
Tragically for those of us who lived it, we didn't know what we had untill we realized it was gone.
Born in 1973, great kids tv, BMX arrived in UK when I was 10, Rave scene happened just when I tuned 18. Great times.
I was born in 1970 yeah it was great growing up they had this thing called Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid and there was this guy called Evel Knivel. 😆 then when I was a teenager I almost electracuted myself trying to get the playboy channel it was awsume times. Oh man the music 🎶 look up Slade runaway I'm sure you never herd of it before lol 😆
I was a little kid in the 80s. The cartoons were my jam, like Transformers, He-Man, Thundercats and SilverHawks being some of my favorites. Ninja Turtles were just starting by then too, but I saw them more as a 90s staple. I had a lot of the toys from those shows as well.
I played lots of arcade games and Atari as well as computer games. I remember the music and movies as well.
my mom was born in 1978 and i always asked her what the 80s were like, this is probably one of the most accurate videos out here
Born in 1982... being a kid in the 80s was the most amazing thing imaginable.. Gi Joe, He Man, Transformers, Ninja Turtles, Nintendo, Goonies, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Karate Kid, Bmx, VCR, etc.. what an amazing Time!!!!!
December 81 here. I feel you so much! We are brothers ✊🏻
Yes,yes,yes,yes,heck,yes! That is the 80's check list right there man :)
As long as you have born before the invention of internet your childhood was gold.
The surviving archival footage does not give that decade the justice it deserves in how it felt back then to be alive . You had to have lived it to know what it really was like. I miss that decade soo much. We truly had it great and thought it could go on forever. Really had no idea what we had until it was gone. Truly was the best of times.
Graduate of 86’ and yes the 80s were the best! Please take me back..❤️
Class of 86 baby!
Class of 87' Graduate.
Class of 2019, and jealous of you guys. I hate that technology has taken over everything and it’s all anyone cares about
@@garrettvcayer ok then get rid of your internet & cell phone. Get a land line phone with no features. Go to the bank and pay your bills with the teller, or you can write cheques & mail it. Get rid of your gps if you have a car & buy maps. Get a crt tv...Get rid of your hd or 4k tv. Get rid of your pvr and get a vcr for your crt tv...Get rid rid of your digital camera & buy camera with film inside.
Class of 88! Looking for a time machine😩
I wasn’t alive in the 80s but I wish I was. It seems like such an awesome decade to have lived in
No school shootings and no terrorist attacks and no 911 no pandemics or recession. I hope things would get better
I was born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s and early 2000's. I wish the same thing you do, abandoned account.
@@theonlyonestanding6832 no SJW teachers...
It was Golden. If you didn't live it you'll never understand. It was a world without internet and no one had a computer. ✊🏻❤️ There was so much love and happiness between people. So much wonder and excitement all the time.
@@Baneslayer No..life was hard then too. It jus was better than it is today.
History is one of my favorite subjects and I love studying different eras. The 1980s will always be the greatest decade ever and pinnacle era of pop culture, trends, historical events etc. This was an insightful video.
I grew up in Germany and was a teenager in the early 80s, so yeah my daily life was very much how it was presented. The lifestyle, fashion, entertainment, toys and culture in the 80s does not apply in the USA only. It was widespread globally.
Ich hätte diese Zeit so unglaublich gerne erlebt. Die Welt ist so lieblos und unpersönlich geworden.
I picture Dieter from Sprockets..
“Want to Touch my monkey?”🐒
Mr T,Michael Jackson, Hulk Hogan/wrestling,movies,NBA,Mike Tyson,what a great decade..
It was!
prince and purple rain
Wrestle Mania 3 was the best one ever! What great memory's.
nintendo, arcade games, calculator watches, swatch watches (!), cute girls in junior high school you wanted to talk to but had too many butterflies!, yummy school lunch of chicken sandwich breaded and warmed up corn with chocolate milk, i can go on
So glad I grew up in the 80s. Life has definitely changed for the worst.
IKR? Here it is 2019 and I feel the whole world has gone to pot!
I agree Russell
Same thing people who grew up in the 50's & 60's said about the 80's
I'm jealous 😭
Kevin Kelley it’s a beautiful time to be alive.
I was around 7 in 1985 and a teenager in the 90's I tell my kids the two best decades I got to live in. the 80's best t.v line up saturday morning cartoons and MTV music videos.the 90's best R&B and hip hop music 🇺🇸
I'm 42 and I just can't get over the 80s...it's like that dog that passes away that you don't get over. BUT the 80s really were weird. For those that say you wish you were alive in the 80s...owner of a lonely heart much better than a owner of a broken heart.
was born in 75 so i grew up in the 80's ! cartoons was the best then and MTV back then they actually played music
I miss the 80s so much.
As someone from generation Z i find this era interesting 🤔 things have radically changed
And apart from technology, NOT for the better.
@@thunderbird1921 l'm reaIIy sorry if you don't Iike the Iife you have now
There was no Smartphones & Social Media.
Are gen z babies allowed phones ? Lmao
I lived the 80s through out my teenage years and it was the best entertainment of the 20th century...🥋🏈⚾️🥊🕹🎮 🏕 👺🤖👽🍺🍻🥃📺
I was a teenager throughout the 80's, it was the best time of my life and I really do miss it. It was pretty simple, no computers, mobile phones etc. Just a coloco vision gaming system, friends and bmx bikes. Awesome movies, cool music and awful tv shows. Mike Tyson in his prime. Men were men, women were women and everyone got along with each other. Looking at the shit show we live in now I would give anything to jump in a DeLorean and travel back there !
Men were men and women were women?? Please elaborate.
+IixStarShinexii Xoxo No Femi nazis and no Gay pride on our faces!, like he stated!
Tito Altimari There was still gay pride in the 80’s, idiot. Gay pride started in the 19th century, and women in the 80’s started becoming more independent! Men were also becoming themselves. I’m sorry if your little right-winged world sheltered you from this, but it was already a movement.
@@iixstarshinexiixoxo1778 What I meant was that traditional gender roles were still in place (they have worked throughout human history and have gotten the human race where it was till that point). My parents generation (born in the early 50's) still were very traditional, out of all my family and friends only one family went through divorce, all the rest (probably about 20 families) are still married or were married until they died. Its my generation (45 years old now) that were polluted by the left's, cultural marxist agenda that has caused the shit show that we are living in now. From my generation, again family and friends, of a group of approximately 40 or so people who were married, only 4 of them are still married, the rest are all divorced, the results speak for themselves. Its a biological, objective fact (not lefty, subjective, "I identify as a bullfrog, therefore I am one") that mens and womens brains are different. Men are more logical and rational based in our thinking (up until milllenials at least) because of how we had to evolve throughout human history (solving problems to feed, shelter and protect our partner and offspring). Women however are more emotional based in their thought process (this is one of the main things the womens lib movement was founded on by the way) and are more suited to nurturing and emotionally supporting their husband and children (when they behave in a non dysfunctional manner). Unfortunately because these roles are being reversed (forcibly by the marxist left) we have a very dysfunctional, delusional and degenerating society. Sorry for the long explanation but it seems that sometimes, some folks require somebody to draw them a picture, which they will reject anyway, based on their distorted belief system.
Messville I understand where you come from, especially with all the Tumblr posts about random genders that don’t exist, but my friend’s family, a really left sided family, gets along very well, despite the occasional argument. The eldest son is at college getting a medical degree, the next is becoming a band teacher, and the three youngest are all getting A’s in their classes. In this family, the wife and husband share responsibilities, but the wife gets into more physical housework while the husband cleans around the house and takes care of the children. If you ask me, it all depends on the person. Not gender rules. But feel free to correct me on anything I missed.
The 80's were a HAPPY and OPTIMISTIC timeframe. People enjoyed technology but weren't as unhealthily OBSESSED with it as we are today. Moms taught kids to "not stare at screens too long each day, b/c it would rot your brain"..... WOW they were so correct on that !
yes,yes you are so right! people today are just plain lazy too much junk food
Lol you obviously dont know jack shit about the 80s bud. Technology was everywhere and people were hooked on it. It was just slower. Nice try tho
Mom's didn't have to tell us not to stare at screens all day. We had so many other things we did like hang out in arcades and go skating. We watched TV at night with our families because we didn't always have TVs in our rooms.
Remember your parents saying "don't touch the tv screens. Don't get too close" now we have touch screens.
The 80's was the Greatest most revolutionary Decade. Everything changed, Now this world is like living in utter HELL compared to the 80's. There was something just so very different about the 80's.. even the smells were different, it was like Happy. Pleasant spell or something was in the air, it's hard to explain but I'm sure those who grew up during then know what i'm talking about.. It's weird, like Nothing very bad really happened, as far as nationally or globally, or if it did, it was nothing you really remembered. hmm. strange. it's almost like it was a different sort of dream world now that i think about it. not making any connection, but you can kind of see why it is middle age men now committing suicide at the highest rate. going from that to this. It's truly mind blowing how the world can change soo very drastically in just a generation or 2. Ok..this is making me depressed. lol.
Definitely the most random and colourful decade I have been alive for. Glad I experienced growing up with those movies and able to play as a kid without technology being such a big thing really. I guess the fast moving 80s laid the groundwork for what was to come in the end but it was a hell of a time to be alive.
i'm glad my parents got to live through the 80s with a good income, they had a comfortable and relaxed life in a time with lots of exciting innovations
I'm proud that I grew up and experienced the 80s as a child.
How old are you ?
All my great memories come from the 80s:) the music, movies, shows, toys, cartoons, people, heck even commercials were epic!! Long live the 80s the greatest decade of ALL time👍🏻
The 80s were awesome. Cable TV, music on MTV, great hair and fashion, great economy, good jobs.
I was an 80's kid. Born in late 1980. Even if you weren't actually a spoiled brat you felt like one. We had everything! The best toys, the greatest video game console, the best cartoons and shows to watch and we grew up with some of the most iconic movies ever. Everyone talks about being a teenager in the 80's, which I'm sure was fantastic, but being a kid in the 80's was incomparable.
And been a teen during the 90's, even better. Better consoles, games, golden era of anime for us, in the west.
You're a 90's 2000's kid
@@Biker65 If you consider being a kid up until you're 29, I suppose you're right.
I was born in the 00s and I honestly wish I grew up in the 80s... all the music,Tv shows, friends... it didn't have cellphones, cars actually looked really cool, things were cheaper back then... and the hair and clothes! Right now I would love to go back in time and see what the 80s was like...
It was as great as the Gen-Xer's say it was. I know I was there.
there was a LOT more racism and bullying then
@@julieb3996 That's what made the decade so great. You learned how to deal with it yourself and not bitch and moan to every bleeding heart liberal to solve your problems for you.
We didn't look for a shoulder to cry on and we became harder because of it. Eat or be eaten.
@@julieb3996 yah but it was the best decade to be young and alive with no school shootings
I’m afraid if you did you wouldn’t want to come back. In a way it makes me more sad today to see how different the world is. If you never knew any better then you can’t miss it.
Yes, I was a teen in the 80's and I can honestly say that it was the end of 'normality' in kids. Life was easier; less complicated...because we kept it that way.
Yeah
i really hate my generation and decade :/ it makes me really sad because i would definitely enjoy life without a bunch of social media, politics, and huge expectations
What would you guys do all day?
@@Kingsombra21 crack
Cable television and harder music created this decline in society and the brainwashing from media. Basically as soon as medium came into the household it all fell apart. It was just really getting started in your generation. And every generation after that it got worse, much worse. We are where we are now not because of the people but the influences.
I was 11 to 20 from 1980-1989. I loved the 80s and my teen years!! I also loved the 70s for my childhood.
I was a teenager in the 80’s and loved it, we could actually hide from someone because we didn’t have cell phones.... it sounds boring now “but we had a blast 💥 drinking beer and racing cars just for fun
I wish there was a time machine so I could go back in time to the 1980s
Well there actually is one and it was invented in the 80s and looks super cool. Look for a crazy old man named Doc Brown.
@@stardustsimulation sign me up 😂
80’s was simple living, I will never forget my teen years growing up in the 80’s
Yes, "simple", but only if you, in general, were a straight, white, rich, religious, cisgender man.
Jwb52z oh shut up!! No one care about your safe space LBGT loving self in the 80’s!! It was a perfect time! Love your 2000’s you guys rule this decade! So be happy! Leave us the heck alone in our time!!
I hear ya DJ Ronnie. Greatest decade of my life. All you other youngsta haters go a head and hate. Better then the fucked up era ya'll grew up in. You even have a stupid name for your generation The millennials bunch of fuckin pamper pussies. Shit music and all ya'll do is stare at your stupid iPhone. No life having punk ass'es.
Was class of 1980 80s best times of my life. The crazy things we did
I remember in the early 80s as a child action figures were around 5 dollars and in 2000 action figures at Wal Mart specifically were only 6 dollars which was awesome. Then like 5 years later or less that doubled! Pretty trippy.
The 80s had magic and soul and were actually exciting, and these days it may seem we have more, but we have such trouble connecting with people, you get lost in the shuffle online even if you do write something interesting, it's sad.
All the 80s cartoons you named, nothing has been that good in the past 20 years. Sad but true.
Bella L
I was a late 80s kid and action figures were $8 in the 90s. I use to go to toys r Us or kb toy store here in LA ca USA.
And they completely ignore Metal music that dominated the 80s.
Sedition I remember popular stuff like Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Scorpions, Motley Crue and much more.
Iron Maiden
I was a trashy white kid the listenEd to metal. Then a few years later I was the same trashy white kid but was listening to rap
Rap has to be the worse genre ever created 90s were alright tho
Sedition Metal didn't dominate the 80s, it wasn't anywhere near mainstream, (except maybe "glam metal" like Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and Aerosmith who aren't really metal at all), it got no radio play and only a handful of tv shows like Headbanger's Ball and Pepsi Power Hour featured metal videos once a week. Metal was villainized by religious groups like the PMRC claiming it caused suicides and turned people gay, they wanted it banned but settled for censored with a rating system thanks to great speeches like Dee Snider's made to Congress. (The whole thing's on YT and is an excellent watch) Fans were ostracized by pretty much everyone who thought we were drug addicted anarchists who murdered babies in satanic rituals. I laughed when people called Iron Maiden satanic because their drummer Nicko McBrain is an ordained Catholic minister.
If you were born in the late 60s, then being a teen in the 80s, you have the distinct appreciation of understanding the range of 20 and 21st century pop culture: from the Honeymooners, and Lucille Ball, to Eight is Enough, to Carly B, we understand it all.
Lucan. The Phoenix. Misfits of Science. Bad News Bears TV show. The Master. Family. Man from Atlantis. Otherworld. James at 15.
How true. Born in 72, but knew history of every subject. From The Chiffons to Shirley Temple, JohnnyWeissmuller as Tarzan to Bo Duke. Leave it to Beaver & Andy Griffith. We knew past generations as much as we knew our own. No so much anymore.
@@bosshogg659 Yeah,I don't get the newer generations at all. I've even met some who say "I don't watch films made before 2008 or 2000". Goofy stuff. I'm 53 and was even watching Blondie and Dagwood,Bowery Boys and Abbott and Costello as a kid and loving it. The idiotic snobbery of newer generations is so absurd I can't even talk about without insults. One of my favorite comments from Harlan Eliison was one about college students of today when he said " ..not only are they bone stick dumb and stupid,they're arrogant about it".
To put that in perspective I feel this way as someone born in the late 80s Except that to me, my American culture "lexicon" reaches to about the 50s
So true!!..was born ‘69 ..teen in ‘80s..right in the thick of it…what a glorious decade!!!….
@2:37 -- My dad had an '83 El Dorado... White with dark blue interior.
I miss you every day, dad (1942-2009)😢
I was born in 92 as the youngest sibling, my oldest brother was born in 82. Man, that time period was fantastic. Grew up in typical upper-middle class suburban America. I remember getting an N64 for Christmas one year, rewinding VHS tapes before returning them to Blockbuster, my dad getting a "self-proppelled" lawn mower. One of my favorites was getting a brand new PS2 in 2000 when I was 8, man that thing rocked.
Best era of all time.
Screw the 2000's !
Life in the 80s were so awesome as a kid. Stuff was much cheaper than compared to now.
Yup the 2000's might have been a different type of era had it not been for 911, but after that chaotic unreal event things definetly took a turn for the worst, because during the 90's alot of good things started taking shape toward the end setting the stage for something new, optimistic, and vibrant for the new millennium.., but things didn't quite workout the way they seemingly felt they would.
@@chrispacheco8590 I gotta comment on your comment bro. I was born in 77 so the 80s was my time. And you're so right. It's like everything went to hell in the 2000s and 911 seems like it was a catalyst for what has been so far, a century of complete and total shit. In the 80s, things were black and white. We knew where we stood and what was good and what was evil. And our western ideas about freedom and capitalism seemed to be winning the whole f'in show. The wall came down...the Iron Curtain fell...democracy seemed to be an unstoppable force where the liberal values championed by western society would reign in a new era. Nations and peoples seemed to be getting closer and it seemed at least like world peace might actually be possible. When you look at popular music in the 90s, sure there were always the shallow, phony acts...but there were also sincere forms of artistic expression. It was almost like a renaissance of new styles with singer-song writers dominating the charts with their own creations. I really believed that the world was getting better. Then the late 90s happened and it started to go wrong, and then 911. The unreal and horrific became not only possible, but factual. And since then, the climate of politics domestic and foreign became cruel and savage. And the artistic renaissance turned into a corporate produced nightmare of artificial, drum-machine manufactured beats and platitudes placating to sycophants who don't even bother to question why the music they absorb is so superficial, heartless, pointless and insulting. It really is like the kids today can't even defend the crap culture they cling to because they don't even really care about it. They're not looking for anything new or to change, they just don't give a fuck. I know this is silly, but I look at today as what Obi-Wan may have called, "the dark times."
Andy Appleton Amen brother.
@@andyappleton3353 I was born in 71. I look back in time and agree with everything you said 100% The 80's was the best decade ever.
"A family could view a movie on vcr just months after it left the theatres." I remember it was more like years.
Yeah, it all depended on how well the movie did at the theaters. The better it did the longer it took to get to VHS.
Remember waiting for it to come on TV, years…
I remember it being around four to six months. At least until it came to blockbuster or movie gallery.
And it was low quality VHS pan and scan. It wasn't until DVD that the quality really started to get good (most people didn't have LaserDisc).
It's ok those movies may've taken seemingly forever to get to home viewing cuz everybody had social lives
One of the best decades ever! I miss it dearly!!
Each decade has its own unique and special things. I wasn't born until 1992. I do enjoy history, though, so I love videos like this. The space shuttle also flew for the first time in 1981. HIV/AIDS was first discovered in 1981 as well. The Apple Macintosh was introduced in 1984. Ronald Reagan was the president of the United States for almost all of the decade, though he ended the middle class in the country. The remote control also became a thing in the 1980s. Cassettes were a thing to listen to music then, with no Internet to listen to any song you wanted.
Reagan saved the country
god damnit, the 80s seemed like it was amazing! People knew how to take jokes, social media wasn't a thing, people went outside and had fun, and it just seems amazing overall
they didnt "take a joke", they didnt know they could do anything about it like tell people to fuck off and stop being racist.
@@BetaDreTV We didn’t treat each other like that. We could take jokes, focusing on race was not a thing like it is today. Relax.
No we could take and give a joke and roll with the punches.
Just the arcades and video game systems were a lot better. As far as tv watching goes.... It was garbage. Cable wasn't even invented in 1980 and if it was it was to expensive to get so nobody had cable. Colored tv.s were a huge deal if you had one.... You know how tv's were like?? black and white with the 2 knobs on them... Antenna rabbit ears. About 4 channels you would only pick up. The channels weren't all clear. You would watch stuff snowy which meant the reception wasn't great.
@Kevin Stone exactly, everyone here with rose-tinted glasses lol
Sorry but the 1980s was the most epic decade.
the best decade, everything was big that's when girls were girls and big hair was in and aqua net hairspray was your best friend mostly all girls kept a can of hairspray in their purses
How old are you? You look like you were too young to experience the 80s.
@@jramirez9834 I think they are about 12 in age
The 80s was the most upbeat decade. I didn't care for the 90s.
steve henrichs Yes, I believe 80s women killed the ozone. Some women would use a whole can of hairspray.
My uncle was a painter who was born in 1960 (my grandpa and his dad was also a painter that picked up the trade painting ships while he was in the Navy. He passed it on to his sons, several grandkids, and even a couple nephews over the years), started painting in the 70s as a teenager, and was a pretty good painter by the time the 80s rolled around (even my grandpa said hed never see anyone take to something like my uncle did painting). He used to tell me that he did better financially in the 80s than he ever did. He said he made 8 bucks an hour and lived like a king. I make $27 an hour and struggle at times. Crazy how much times change.
I would love to go back to the 80'and90's if I could put those years on a loop so they would repeat over and over again.
In the 80's we didn't have any school shootings or race wars or terrorist attacks. Life was good to be young and old.
I was just talking about this with my young crew. We never heard of school shootings. Of course, half the students carried shotguns and rifles in their vehicles, too.
Although, we were scared of the Soviet Union and nuclear war.
Uh, i'm pretty sure all of that happened. It's just not as emphasized as it is now
Actually that did happen just not as much
Yeah y’all had it just not as much or common as today it wasn’t until Columbine was the the very first common school shooting
we had terrorists in the 80s. And we did have school shootings but it was very rare.