Brother, I am 55 years old. I graduated High School in 1986. You have no idea the memories that flooded back into my head watching this video. It was a time full of innovation and technological advancement, and the one thing we didnt have that you did was the knowlege that ther was something more advanced. So for us kids back then, all of this was the cutting edge of technology. When I got my first PC (in 1991) it had a hard drive capable of holding a whopping 350 megabites...lol. Thanks for this video dude, it really took me down memory lane to a time that I really hold dear. Rock on bro!
350 megabites = 350 million bites, wow, what an elaborate meal. Okay, I get it, it's megabytes. My first computer, the ZX Spectrum, used cassettes as storage devices. A 48 kB program loaded in roughly 5 minutes so a 90 minute cassette could hold 860 kB of data. Not bad back then. In 1988 IIRC I got a hard disk for the Amiga 500, SCSI and generous 80 megabytes of storage capacity. In 1990 I split that up in two partitions of 40 MB each, one for the Amiga and one for the DOS PC inside it (vortex ATonce). Operating systems, several utilities, development environments and games stored on that space and guess what: I never got close to remotely filling either partition. The setup is still here and every once in a while I have to check whether it's still working.
@@SechsFluegel That's funny, I was just about to comment that my first experience with storage was my ZX Spectrum (without any storage and the terrible keyboard) followed by an Amiga with an 80MB SCSI drive! Of course, I also still have my Amiga and yes, it's still running (though now equipped with a compact flash drive adaptor).
It looks amazing for an 80s camera, too. I've recorded footage that looks *way* worse than this in the 2000s. Phone cameras in those days were especially bad.
My brother (born 1969) was an early computer hacker. He used to have that very computer. His claim to fame is one time he figured out how to make all of the phones in our town (landlines) ring at the same time.
I just love the joy he shows as he participates in these challenges he creates himself. He seems like such a positive and fun person and it makes these videos so wholesome to watch
I'm amused that he thinks everyone in the 80s had all this tech. It was the 90s before we got the VHS player. I never had a walkman, though I wanted one, most kids in my neighborhood didn't have all of that tech. I had a cellphone in the 90s but even then they were only common among people who needed them for work.
How hrs he works? Also I agree good stuff but I'm sure finding all that tech and then learning how to use it and properly edit old film probably took to long for this video 😂
This man went out and beyond, the fact he filmed it all on an old camera makes it an infinity times better and the fact he was sad to leave the 80s shows that they really were good times.
He can stay there. At least for a part. In the end we can all decide how we live. I have to say, I have such a love hate relationship with my phone and when I didn't had it after a week it was so nice. Less stressfull. Now you always have the feeling to miss something on TH-cam or else where. And guess what you you do. But it's less stressful and more chill to just cherish the moment
@@Sophie-vw5ol i still live like we are back in the 80's as i do not own or want to ever own a stupid smart phone...i reject all smart tech crap. do not do social idiot media, TH-cam is as close as i will go to social media. yes, i have a PC....but i had them back in the 80's. modern day stuff sucks!
@@Sophie-vw5olCompletely true. I think people forget this as they feel the need to take part in every silly trend. You can live how you want. That's the beauty of the modern world. I enjoy using VR and having to actually move my body to play games, which is more accepting of modern tech than most people, but I also only use paper books, I prefer physical shops and actually looking around them, and the only social media I use is TH-cam. You don't have to use all the latest tech, but you also don't have to reject it all. You can just think independently and use what is useful to you.
Yeah, a good time if you were rich! Most people did not have all this high tech stuff in the 80's, I certainly didn't know anyone who had a home computer, and maybe just one guy who had a cell phone, and only because he needed it for work.
Dude, cassette tapes are cool again! Thanks to videos by Techmoan and others, I rediscovered how fun it is to make mix tapes. Quality really isn't bad, either- I need to listen back-to-back to tell a difference in quality in original vs recording.
I use to have good hard sex with my sister but unfortunately she is married now and she doesn’t want to have sex any more ….. tears running down my face
@@justpaul899 they are! I'm 30 and i got to use tapes and walkman in my early childhood. Recently I got one again and a bunch of tapes to listen to and it brought back memories!
I'm 64 yo and retired IT. I remember the 80s as being absolutely joyful because the new tech was such an improvement over the Old Stuff. (Carbon paper is of Satan. And, there's only so much White-out one page can carry. And, typing up mimeographs is psychological abuse, especially when your boss likes to edit stuff at the last minute.) I remember how big a deal it was when I got the upgraded memory typewriter at work that had 100 PAGES of memory rather than 50! And having two disk drives so you didn't have to keep swapping your program and storage disks? HEAVEN!
@@cantgetright742we live in an era where tech is locked down and cheap but overflowing with ads and a major privacy concern as far as national security is concerned, tech was once more expensive but more free and there wasn't a surveillance state yet! We overpay for food now
As someone who grew up in the 80s, I found your enthusiasm for my generation's technology to be both amusing and heartwarming. The Macintosh SE, VCR with analog TV (mine was much bigger), and push-button office phone (I never had a first-gen cellphone; too expensive and inefficient). These were the things I grew up with. Seeing them again is like encountering someone who looks like an old friend I haven't seen in many years. Thanks for the nostalgia! You're a good kid. 😎👍
@@j.elizabeth4621you know now that you meantion it I have not been bored since I was a kid. I didn’t grow up in the 80’s but I grew up in a rural small town that didn’t even get DSL internet till late 2001 so we had dial up before that. While looking back at time can have some charm I still wouldn’t want to go back either. Working from home wouldn’t be a viable thing for example which I enjoy personally. Modern medicine is also a miracle of its own, we have come a very very long way medically speaking. Pros and cons though I suppose
I actually forgot how much slower life used to be. If you wanted to find something out you'd hit up the encyclopedia, and you'd have to actually read and remember stuff as the information was never at hand like it is now. Watching movies used to be so much better in some ways, like you'd check out the TV guide and if something good was coming on then the family would watch it, Home Alone would show up around Christmas time. Now everything is instant and on demand, nothing feels special anymore really, it's kinda sad
I guess nowadays we can make moments and things special with consciousness. Than we can really cherish and be grateful about them. Moments had always pass and will always pass. Sometimes it's sad. That feeling just goes to show how it is nowadays that we want to have it all at the same time. But we can't ever. We can give that slowness to ourselfs. By saying that I now close TH-cam and trying to get some work done and just live
The thing about that Mac is that while it's a massive downgrade from a modern PC, it's also massive upgrade from using a typewriter. The ability to actually edit your work without retyping whole sections or physically cutting it up and taping the pieces together was an earth-shattering advance. My mother started writing her PhD thesis on a manual typewriter and switched to a Mac halfway, it saved so much time. The ability to see on screen what the page layout was going to look like when she printed it out on the university's Laserjet was also a godsend. For her anyway, bit of a nightmare for me as the tech support, that Mac would grind to a halt if the files got beyond a certain length, we had to have each chapter in a separate file (and some of the longer chapters had to be split in two) and I had to come up with various schemes with a RAM disk to make it usable. Floppies were tolerable for storing the files but too slow for working on them and a hard drive was unthinkably expensive.
@@AmazingStudios01I don't think he's gonna find anything to record with, even if he used his modern camera it still would be boring, what is he gonna do all day... Read books idk. Imo going forward is more entertaining..
@@alvhawk4461that you guys actually think "there aren't any cameras to get" when you go backwards shows how hilariously confident y'all believe your imagination. My brother in Christ, Cameras are not a modern invention of the past 50 years. We have literal video footage of both world wars. The oldest video that still survived to that day is from fcking 1888. And yes, you can buy functional cameras. But already he has at least 3 decades (50s, 60s, 70s) going backwards where this isn't a huge problem and not more financially burdening that buying a Mac from the 80s. One could also ask why it's more intersting in going forward when literally everything that happens is that several pieces of technology become one as much as asking what's so interesting about seeing a 60s style TV. That you want to make it like Books where the only piece of tech is also hilarious. You can't he that ignorant about something your parents haven seen with their own eyes, man.
yall got to be kidding, he can just (probably alot of work) but record on film, then record the film on his normal camera like dang, cameras arent new the first photo is soon gonna turn 200 years old
Really interesting, yes!! That's what I asked my dad a couple of years ago whilst watching a Pink Floyd documentary: "did the 70's really look like that?" His answer: "of course not!! Yes, those cars and phones; etc did, but apart from that and fashion-wise, nothing's changed really." What he meant (of course) was that, in the 70's, a tree didn't really look like it's filmed with a VHS cam/recorder. :P
It's interesting to think of how our perception of the past got shaped by the ability to document we had available at the time. Of course the world wasn't in black and white in the 30's, and ancient Egyptians weren't actually stick people doing funky dance moves all the time. But it does seem to be how we collectively remember it. I wonder if in a century, we will be remembered trough a snapchat filter or something
@@mariomaniac581 I didn't even think about how we'll be perceived. I assume we'll be perceived through our 2D videos. Obviously, we aren't living in 2D, but it's the only way most people can currently record their lives.
It's not filmed with an old camera. The rolling shutter is obvious and 80s camera's didn't have those.type of sensors. Also 80s video camera's were seriously bulky. No way the in-car shots could have been made with a 80s camera. This video is largely fake, presumably to make a point. But it is fake. For instance the smoke on top of the tv is just stock smoke and the mozart music is taken from a digital source, not a walkman.
You reading through the Macintosh manual kindof proves a point for me. If someone is bored enough, they'll read through that manual back to front and maybe even learn to code.
I can't tell you how many video essays there are that talk about how boredom is actually a good thing because it brings us to do things we normally wouldn't or encourages us to complete things we were actively avoiding.
Facts i sucked in school but dam i got good at mechanical things and fixing crap when i was 8 i tore my dads rotatilar motor apart to see how it worked and put it back togetherandit ran
I worked as a secretary for Price Waterhouse from 1986 - 1989 and THIS computer is exactly what I worked on. Editing spreadsheets. Typing letters with earphones on while pressing a pedal with my foot to hear the correspondence which had been recorded by the boss on a very small tape. WOW. This brings back memories!
@@Robyamdam I make zero apologies for celebrating the positive aspects of my own lived experience that was also shared by vast numbers of other people around the world during the same window of time. There may be less racism now (which is what your statement implies) but there is a helluva lot more narcissism, disrespect, disregard for community, laziness, depression, hopelessness, nihilism, dissension, and technocratic overreach in today's Western democracies, IMHO. Utopia is impossible. In the meantime, I will unashamedly revel in nostalgia with gratitude that I got to live through a vibrant cultural epoch.
@@foreignparticle1320 It's best to ignore people like him, who just spout random nonsense with no reasoning, logic or rebuttal to show how there was "helluva lost more racism". I highly doubt he lived through anything near the 1980's.
@@Robyamdam Funny thing is, back then LOTS of media actually made it a point to have ethnic minorities in them (& largely in normal/positive roles, though of course there were exceptions), as well as having strong women with major or starring roles that everyone enjoyed (Alien/Aliens, Terminator 2, etc). And all this was largely accepted without anyone even thinking about it. Nowadays when that came back, suddenly half of everyone gets all angry & accuses the producers of pandering or political correctness or "wokeness", they publicly rant about it, & they angrily go out to vote down the rights of those portrayed. 🤔 I know there's a LOT of devils in the details & there's more to the subject than attitudes... but imagine classic 80s media coming out today instead of the 80s, & how modern audiences would criticize them, vs back then & the 90s. Different times indeed.
@@ZaCloud-Animations___she-her It felt less forced back then is why. Literal racists in the '70s hated that Sesame Street showed whites and non-whites intermingling but if you watched it, it's just blacks, Latinos, and other races living in a neighborhood with whites and monsters; the most normal thing in the world (bar the monsters of course), and everything was chill. The values weren't perverted. Everything was just wholesome.
It's good but one point missing is you simply can't return to the 80s. Movies were great, okay it sucked you had to wait 18 months to get them on VHS, but you could always see them at the theater for a reasonable price. His clock radio? The one I had often put me in a good mood with great new music waking me up putting me into a good mood. You would have had a lot of meetings with friends, you could even just knock on one's door. Okay some people were antisocial back then too, so you either called first or got other friends, but still friends culture was much more lively. Sometimes it sucked not being able to google and prove some bser wrong, but it also stretched your brain and made for some fun conversation as to why they were full of it. Safety in the 80s was not good. I had several concussions, I don't know if I've escaped the effects of them or not, but that was definitely something that was worse back then. I guess if you had some rare forms of cancer and a few other medical mysteries that have been solved that was bad back then. But most people live to a good age without all that. AIDS was scary, but the idiot box seemed to talk about it every night, so eventually you kind of got over it. The cold war? Not scary at all. Although to hear the Soviet Union fell was shocking. Books are generally more fun than reading. I would even listen to radio dramas which I'm pretty sure was a dying art even then, but it really used your imagination. Even if economics were the same I would still go back in a second.
He had the experience of living a life without notifications. Incredibly, we never realized how cell phone notifications make us sick and living in an anxious society.
@@alobosk, true, it is amazing. Untill you realise that everyone you know/work with use ONLY Whatsapp (or any other way of contacting others online) to contact each other and/or notify of something important. If only everyone at once said "no" to being glued to the phone...
@@Nobodyknowsme-n4j People are not better or worse today than they were in the 1980s. There are plenty of problems in the modern day, but there were issues back then too. Aside from that, probably the most toxic element of modern technology are certain forms of social media, which are specifically designed to be addictive. Otherwise, technology has offered a great deal of good.
I really wish he included the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), one of the most revolutionary pieces of technology in the 80s and what would pave down a path for every home console made after it
I grew up in the 90's but most of my family kept everything from the 80's (hell even the 70's) and let me tell you, some of the wonky "pre-internet" age tech was a joy to behold. Simplicity perfected. Music unmatched. Everything had an aura about it that can't quite be put into words, but Liam here came pretty damn close! Please put this into a series and do 90's next :D
I grew up in the 90s and we where still using the TV that my dad grew up with. And he was born in the 50s. My parents said if it's not broken don't replace it. Eventually around 2000 we had to buy a TV because our TV repair man could no longer fix it.
@@parkmallbabyIt seems like every first half of a decade is like that. Early 2000's felt like the 90's. It's 2023 now but my tech is all from pre-2020.
@@BrianIsWatching The early 2000s was different for me though because I was a teenager and we really tried to be "cool" and hip with the times 😄 but I see your point. Techwise it was still all very much an extension of the 90s.
I feel like the tech of every decade had an individual aura: - 80s: tech is the real businessmen business - 90s we're making everything smaller and more practical, all the cool kids gonna have all the gadgets! - 2000s: the era of decorative tech with that playful future space time vibe. Every gadget getting microscopic. - 2010: you know what, we actually want it to look cool and simple, and bigger is better! - 2020: actually it was nice to have smaller clap phones back in the days. But guess what, still gonna make it a smartphone! Tech is everywhere, you breath it, you live it, don't even notice it.
A few years back there was a great BBC documentary called "Electric Dreams" where they took a modern family and had them adopt the lifestyle of 70s, 80s and 90s households. It was a great series full of this kind of clash of the eras and old tech. Looks like there's copies of it floating about on TH-cam.
Such vintages might prove too difficult to replicate. You can't just install a coal stove and start a farm for a TH-cam video. Well, you technically could, I guess.
I’m 43 and I remember playing a lot of board games and all kind of card games in the 80s. Visits to the video rental stores to pick my movies for the weekend were awesome too. Also, I read a LOT of magazines… and I remember people smoking everywhere, even on planes and cars with the windows shut. Oh, man, nostalgia is kicking in…
A couple things - First having a landline phone would have been the more common 80s experience. Second, this video reminded me how quiet and empty time alone felt back then. I have ADD and found it very hard to entertain myself, often attempts at reading just led to starring at the wall, I was however able to sit through movies, often the same few repeatedly (I never rewatch movies now) but I would usually get up and just walk or drive around aimlessly to fill the time. I was extremely antsy and agitated which led to heavy drinking, which provided the relief of an overactive, but unfocused mind. I had to go out all the time because the silence of my home was at times unbearable. I'm 50 now and absolutely love the convenience and diversion that modern technology has brought. A lot of people my age romanticize their youth, but although I'm grateful social media wasn't a thing when I was a kid, I don't see the 80s or 90s as the glory days. Being young is in itself the glory. Honestly, I would hate to go back to a world without streaming, TH-cam and smartphones. The internet has both exacerbated my ADD and also provide the cure. I don't miss having to drive all over town to take care of things, I especially don't miss having to physically go into the bank or remembering to write checks to pay bills and the late fees that compounded the debt thanks to my horrible time-management skills. Thanks to the internet I've not missed a payment in 20 years.
As a kid born in 2010, its cool to see someone who has been around for much longer than I still enjoy modern technology, and not put me down for enjoying what I like. I have ADHD and Autism, and although the internet can be a tad overstimulating for me sometimes, it typically just flicks the right switch in my brain for me to actually not be stressed 24/7. This comment genuinely made me smile, it's super cool seeing someone not put modern tech and the people who use it down because it's convenient.
This is such a great perspective on ad(h)d in earlier times.. Me (30) and my dad (62) both have add, and this comment really makes me wonder how he experienced this time. I know he struggles immensely with all the distractions life now gives, he locked his laptop for example so he can only use it during office hours. I'm curious if he experiences some positive sides of nowadays technology as well though.
I'm pretty sure you could pay stuff via internet in the 90s, but yeah, I get it. I'm a 90s kid, I love technology, but I don't like depending on it too much. Streaming WAS great, Netflix was a blast on it's early years, but now there are like 999 streaming services, and none has all your favorite movies, they all take them out of the catalog without notice. I would collect physical media if I could, Blu-rays specifically, but living in third world country that's kinda hard to get. What I do is I download all my movies and music, store them in my PC (that has an absurd amount of storage). Except for movies, which I used to rent in the 90s on video rental stores, I could download my music online in the 90s, it would take ages, but was doable. hahah I kinda miss visiting the local Blockbuster, I would usually rent some movies and a game for my Nintendo 64 every week. I remember they also sold popcorn, sweets, soda, etc, so you could really have a "cinema" experience at home. haha For someone in the US and Canada that could be a bummer because of suburbia, where you need a car to go anywhere, but that's not really a problem anywhere else on the planet. Right now, I have clothes stores, hair saloons, a supermarket, 2 hardware stores, 3 restaurants, and much more at 1-2 blocks of distance away, so no need to go "downtown" for anything, nor I need to order simple stuff from the internet. Back then it wasn't different, there was a video rental store like 50 meters from my house lol Banks are also at walking distance to this day, I don't miss the lines though. If technology just kept improving, that's one thing, but now it seems to be specifically designed to keep us apart. As I mentioned, I had a nintendo 64 in the 90s, I would invite friends and neighbors to play, 4 player LOCAL multiplayer? That basically doesn't exist anymore. If I'm a 2023 kid, and wanted to play with friends and neighbors, I would need to play online, even if they live next door. That's just sad. Social media was the worse thing technology has brought, I must say, that was the nail in the coffin that cemented the trend of keeping everyone apart. We had messengers and we could chat online with everyone in the 90s, but we would still meet friends and family on a very regular basis. Now it seems everyone is too busy to do anything with anyone, or just lack the social skills to do it. Depression has raised to sky high levels, never before seen. I've fell ill from that myself. I'm not against technology, I have all the latest gadgets, I just wish it wasn't specifically designed to be so cold.
@@Sugurain I didnt get a computer till 2004. I did like going to independent video stores and record stores. I still have a large VHS collection and all my old cassettes and CDs. When streaming services started censoring everything I made a point of buying physical copies of every movie or TV show that I thought might be in danger. I'm definitely a physical media collector. I do believe the internet has it's draw backs for a lot of people and maybe on a societal level, but for my personal use its been a net good. I have thought that if all social media was outlawed for five years it might do everyone a lot of good but I still really enjoy it myself. Its certainly complicated issue and everyone has to figure out the right balance of usage for themselves and their children.
Honestly, we lived like the 80s right up until the early 2000s and then the internet really started to become more powerful. But it was when TH-cam, Social Media and Smart Phones came about when people’s lifestyles started to change dramatically. I’d say until about 2005 at the latest we still lived relatively simple. I think the future of vacations should be going to small towns that live like the 80s. Just so people can get the experience and take a break from the excessive technology, social media and inter-connectivity.
I recently took a 2 week holiday up in regional Queensland. Swapped my iPhone for a basic Nokia dumbphone and avoided all news outlets like the plaugue. Loved it.
@CRITTERBUSTERS I disagree, it wasn't until 1996 when the internet was the norm and people started buying computers, the late 90s practically felt like a whole new world was coming.
This was so much fun! I am 52 and I was 17 in 1987. I didn’t have a computer in those days, but I learned programming at school, ( Basic, MS Dos, Pascal) but forgot everything. Because I never used it afterwards. I learned to type on a typewriter, a computer was very unpractical in those days. Something for games. In my work as a nurse we didn’t use a computer at all. The Walkman was really the thing in the 80’s, aearobics was in the early ‘80’s very popular. We listened to Madonna, and Depeche Mode, OMD Etc. We read books, and wrote in our diaries. And hang out with friends or watched movies indeed. In the cinema or VHS 😊
@Luke5100 YES everybody did that, except me, I never liked it and thought it was gross. At work they smoked constantly and you were stupid if you say something about it. Even when my colleagues were pregnant they kept smoking!
@Luke5100 true, I was born in 1970, everybody smoked. When my mom was in labor of me, ( in the Netherlands home birthing was normal) the doctor smoked a cigarette when I came out my mom. Those were the days 😵💫. I actually never saw my grandfather, he smoked heavily and I only remember him sitting in his chair with smoke all around him. Arguing with everybody.
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I love this. It's shot as an 80s VHS of a lonely teenager messing around in his house with a camera he shouldn't be using, but he has Gen Z energy. You look like a time traveler, this is so great LMAO
I may show this to my students in a Media Literacy class. The only two things I would add as a 1981 baby is that we wouldn't have used a cell phone even if it was available, we would have used land lines for everything, and second, that in the 1980s we didn't sit in a house by ourself all day like we do today. We would go out and meet friends because that was more interesting that sitting in front of a smoking TV.
Speak for yourself. Just because you were fucking lame and had lame parents, that doesn't mean we all missed out on being horrifically bullied to a point we hid inside with our VHS's and game consoles, until school saw our parents with their brick cell phones and realized we were wealthy, and took on sucking up to us but it was too late because the trauma was set, so we kept locked inside with Labyrinth and other frightening 1980s materials in our formative years. I'm completely normal and my parents had the brick goddammit.
We spent our summers at the public pool or rode our bikes to the lake. Both parents were at work and didn't have a clue where we were, but they trusted that we'd be home at the end of the day. lol
Why do I feel nostalgic about a time I never lived? (Born 2001) But I did have a walk-man that could play CD's and I had a huge radio/CD/Casette player station. My first phone I got at 12, I think, had buttons. It was passed down from my dad, my sis had one from my mom that could slide open (not a blackberry though). I liked the time back then, I would ring my friends doorbell to ask if they wanted to come out and play, we'd stay out till it got dark running around unsupervised in a small forest. I had no obligations, no job, no anxiety about my performances in that job, no bills to pay, no hard decisions to make. Life was good. Unfortunately, I am unable to be without my phone nowadays, it sucks sometimes
It's called cyclical consumption. Nothing is built to last anymore, just to keep the money consistently flowing. Everything is built with the cheapest parts by the lowest bidder. We had my grandmothers washer and dryer up to about four years ago. Only thing I ever had to replace were the belts. The washer and dryer we bought four years ago is already starting to break. Everything now is electrical nothing is mechanical so it gives out faster and is almost impossible to fix. It was a simpler time back then. Times didn't change for the better.😢
I feel like usually TH-camrs are either really talented (when it comes to videography and editing) or have a banging personality. How does it feel to tick all the boxes?
10:51 oh Mozart Quartet No.19!❤ Been binging his quartets after a long while of not listening to them, what a joy to spot it in a vid! Also, beautiful work on this video Liam, congrats
"This is the first time I've bought a newspaper in my whole life...." "It's making a sound...do I just dial a number?" As someone who experienced the 1980s firsthand as a teenager, this was fascinating. P.S. I think younger people are getting "cell phones" confused with "cordless phones" that they're seeing in the films of the era. In the 80s, cell phones were super rare and seen as toys for rich corporate executives. I didn't use one myself until well into the 90s. Best wishes, L
Coverage was also poor. I remember phoning (using my landline) someone who was using one - must have been late 80s - and it was frustrating as the quality of the sound was so rubbish and his signal was dropping in and out
Indeed , we had cordless phones back then , usually with the telescopic aerial you pulled up , and initially there was just one base set and one cordless handset ; later you had one base set and several cordless handsets . Cellular ( or mobile as they are called here in Scotland ) phones didn't really exist here in Scotland ; there were VHF radio carphones for corporate use, such as Air Call , where you called an operator and they connected you ( my father had one for his business back then ) , but it really was the very late 80s before cellular phones became a thing here , and it must have been the early 90s before I got my first one , the Motorola MR1 on the Orange network ( known as the Star tac flip phone in the US ) , before moving on to a series of Nokia handsets , and eventually to a Handspring Treo 600 , and then a Palm Treo 650 , which were my first smartphones , and which i still have in a drawer somewhere . I remember going on holiday to italy with the Treo 650 and being able to access the internet whilst on a boat going down Lake Garda , thinking this is cutting edge !
As someone who graduated college in 1981, it was heartwarming to see someone, of a similar age but 40 years into the future, make a foray into the not-too-distant past. The Macintosh hadn't been invented when I left college (we used typewriters and manually fed each sheet of paper into it), nor had portable phones (my sister had a car phone that operated via radio signal to an operator). I have a few VHS tapes if you'd like them (LOL). All in all, a very enjoyable movie. Nice job.
Probably from all the millennials/gen-y doing whatever they can to keep some of the 80's/90's vibes alive (the music alone still holds up). Now you have zoomers bringing back the baggy retro attire of the 90's.
I'm from 1994, but as a poor guy from a third world country, I had the CRT TV, watched some Video K7 in my cousin's house and I even had an ATARI videogame. So I feel the nostalgy by myself. I even had a walkman in early 2000s, that really was really good.
First time viewer here. A friend sent me the link, and I'm glad he did. As someone who grew up in the 80's, I can honestly say that the stresses and anxiety of the time was definitely a LOT different compared to today. It "wasn't a simpler time," but it was definitely a time that thrived via in-person exchanges. I feel as though things were a bit more magical then. More mechanical. Maybe kids that grew up in the 2000's feel the same magic with there childhood as well. It IS crazy to think that the 1980's are the equivalent of 1940's for teenagers now. Time is weird, and nostalgia is more addictive than any hardline drug. Wonderful work here, mate. Looking forward to more.
02/2001. You're correct; I reminisce about the noughties probably a lot more than I should, all the things we used to do, but don't anymore, at least not for many, many years.
@Luke5100you really painted a picture with your description of the 80s , that's exactly how i picture the 80s to have looked like. Mostly I know about the 80s fashion ,colourful maximalist makeups and hair dos ,mullets and punk music. Lots of cool things originated from the said era.
Nostalgia as a phenomenon is actually one of my greatest interests in life. I wonder why the things we had in the childhood hit so different. Is it something about the childhood development itself, or will everything look equally nostalgic when enough time has passed? Also, it's super interesting how they use nostalgia in marketing, especially lately.
Please can someone tell me what song was playing from 16:14? Great video! The whole thing was put together so well. Makes me want to downgrade some devices like possibly getting a dumb phone and some sort of walkman.
People will say this about our lives in 40 years... I remember growing up with people making remarks about kids always listening to their walkmans, kids watching too much TV instead of playing outside, then when aol and MSN came around, kids are always on the computer. Every generation people complain about the current generation and their technology and reminisce of previous generations.
@@ness7342 You nailed it. Life in the '80s had a different feel, for sure. I think every decade does. Although I was just becoming a teen in the mid-80s, it felt less stressful and more relaxed-natural, like you said.
it was simple if you only consider the tech aspect, however for me life was "fuller" back then. u had to get your ass up to go do things and not everting was a touch away. i grew up in the 90s but still have a feeling like most of my days now is just clicking, scrolling, tapping. back then u actually had to interact with people, go places, sacrifice time and effort to get something done.
It really wasn't. The internet, the cell phone and the GPS completely changed everything, mostly for the better. Much more time wasted back then. Meeting with friends at some unknown place meant preparing well in advance to make sure we would find the others easily. There was no way to communicate if there was a delay on the road. Everything took longer and was subject to more randomness. It is easy to have the advantages of the 1980s without the inconvenients: turn off the notifications, delete all your social media, and you are basically done. Having no internet meant less access to basic information like the train timetable. Preparing a vacation required you to go to a travel agency for them to book a flight and an hotel for you. It was not necessarily easier than doing it yourself with an internet connexion, but it meant you had little choice, and prices were higher because that service wasn't free. Very low cost flights didn't exist back then. If you travelled abroad (which was less common), everything was more difficult for the same reason. The fastest way to get information was by phone, but some calls were costly. There was, of course, no TH-cam, no wikipedia, no discussion forums, etc, so learning new skills was much slower, or involved hiring a teacher.
Hello! Born after the 90s person here, I always found the 80s tech interesting and the arcades and showbiz pizza. And I always loveedd the idea of 50s diners. I wish i could experience it:( is it ok if ylu gave me some things yall did that were fun?:DD
@@Beetle-y2k the arcades were so fun in the 80s. I always got so excited when I saw one. We had loads at the seaside in Belgium and I'd spend hours there
Bro, 80s video recording relied soo much more on story telling, that's why it was more quality. None of this gimmick stuff. Pure entertainment. Good job
Only clicked to see what 80's car you picked but turns out you didn't.. The comfort of an 80s sedan is unmatched. I will drive nothing else as long as I live.
I love seeing how happy he is throughout this challenge. It really shows how as we have technologically advanced, our expectations have gotten so high, that we don’t appreciate the small things like he does during this challenge anymore. If I had the money, I would love to do this challenge one time!
If you didn't do it quite as extreme or didn't necessarily have a *need* to use things like the internet or texting, you could. Cheaply too. Most things from the era, or 90's instead, can be had cheaply at thrift stores or online. Estate sales, the VHS recorder was probably the most costly thing next to the phone and macintosh.
Eu desejo desenvolver uma relação melhor com a tecnologia,acho interessante tem equipamentos separados para as tarefas s não gosto muito da ideia de ter tudo conectado,ter apenas as informações necessárias dos aparelhos.
Honestly as someone who has lived thru all the change, the biggest improvement is typing a term paper on a computer. Really SUCKED to do assignments on a mechanical typewriter with having to use white-out or start the whole page over! I had to do a report in the Army weekly and used my own Radio Shack Coco-2 to avoid having to re-type the entire header paragraph each week. This was mid-80s and the S2(intelligence officer) had to examine it to make sure it was not a spying device. LOL I guess understandable during the Cold War era.
the videos, the commitment, the patience, the risk, the time, the cost, the creativity, the activity, the storytelling, litteraly everything, u deserve way more subs
@@chickentothedip3308 risk of getting scammed, the risk of buying something dangerous, the risk of the video not doing well even with all the time took to make it
07:00 The reason the TV started smoking is most likely because of dust inside the TV on some parts that create heat. This was actually an issue with "old old" tvs back in the 80s as well. So if a TV had been off for a year or so this was seen as a risk since you would "burn off" the dust on the parts that otherwise would be clean and would stay clean if the TV was used often enough. Yes, it is a fire hazard, but you would technically just need to remove the dust and it should work fine.
Growing up poor in the early 2000s (I was born in 95), we pretty much lived like this. Didn’t have internet at home until 2010. No cellphone until about that same time. And here I am in 2024 cutting the cord. I turned the cable and internet off. I have internet on my iPhone if I need it (and aside from TH-cam and Facebook market place I really don’t need it) and the channels I usually watch on cable TV are all available over the air via one of those big old mile high antennas. I’ve never really cared for things like Netflix because they just suck and cost too much. I’m considering living without TH-cam and just getting a flip-phone. My life has already gotten more peaceful just by cutting some of this crap out. I daily drive a 1981 Chevy pickup truck and the headache of a problem cropping up on a new car being gone is awesome. My 1981 has a problem? The part is probably $20 at Autozone and I can change it myself in under 10 minutes. Restaurants? They’re expensive. My wife makes everything at home, from scratch, and we grow a good amount of what we consume ourselves. Technology has progressed too far. It’s time we get back to living a human life rather than a digital life. We are carbon based complex beings, not bits in a complex system of electronics.
I grew up semi-poor, about close to middle class. A lot of me growing up with old technology was both us being late bloomer and old souls. Raised by dad and granny since birth (late-2007). The only modern tech we had when I was a kid was Xbox 360, iPad, Windows 7, and shitty Android phones. Every thing else was old as shit. I still need TH-cam to make videos, but I can do that shit with a computer. I did get a flip phone and it’s made a big difference in my life. I don’t have a car yet, but I wanna get a car from around the 70’s and 80’s. The main TV I have is an ‘86 Mitsubishi and I use a digital converter box to get over the air channels like PBS and Buzzr so I can watch some Arizona Stories and Match Game. For food, I never liked going out to eat and I try to eat strictly organic foods at home. I may be using old technology, but its limited capabilities help me appreciate life more.
Put away your cell phone, your internet, your flat screen TV. We are living in the land of landlines, ancient personal computers, boxy TV's with 5 channels, radio and library cards As a Gen X, can I say the 80's was still amazing and we had a GREAT time.
Man, even as a gen Z (saying that hurts lmao), I can say most of this stuff is as good or equally as good as ours. It has a great charm to it, and I love it. I own an apple II+, an SNES, and some other collectibles. All bangers.
I'm born in 1972 and grew up in the 80s. My memory is that the Walkman and VHS player (VCR?) were the things that brought me the most joy. That is whenever I could get a physical copy of the music or film I was interested in. The computer and mobile phone didn't impress me much. That totally changed when Internet came. Today I find it hard to explain to my kids how we managed to get around back then. Can't even remember myself. Applying for a job, finding the bus timetable, paying for stuff etc. Everything just had to be physical and you always needed a bag and a wallet. And change to call home!
The computer fascinated me from the first time I saw one at school (a C64). Mobile phones didn't become a part of our lives before 1999, before that it was way too expensive and only for business people. When I discovered the internet and that you could chat with the entire world from your bedroom, I was amazed. I guess my first internet connection was in 96 or 97. Dial up of course. We would meat up at spedific times we agreed on on the landline phone. If someone did not show up at the bus we agreed on, we assumed that the person had missed the bus and we waited just for the next one that came 30 minutes later. Now if someone is 3 minutes late, people get annoyed. We would have some magazines at the toilet to kill time there. I recently saw tv recordings from the 80's talking about the future and how we would save so much time with computers etc. We actually do save a lot of time, but we waste it on watching tik toks, doomscrolling and facebook. Is that progress?
People had pagers, not mobile phones for the most part and would use codes to give a clue what was up. Computers? For games it was okay, to do work, I hated them. Make sure you keep saving to the hard drive, save on your floppy, every hour at least print out what you're working on. Yes, I found them that unreliable. I never used a mac though, so maybe that would have been better.
@@D.D.-ud9zt Plus the extreme fragility of Floppy discs too and their lack of space. Paper and either pens or typewriters were still better options at the time.
I wasn't born until the 2000's but this made me quite emotional. The whole time I was thinking "man, life must be so more enjoyable when you're not distracted. I should do that" and then was hit with anxious feelings at the thought of being disconnected to the online world. I know my quality of life would improve if I lowered my technology consumption but it makes me nervous.
I lived in the 80's. I feel anxious thinking about being disconnnected, but I remember the peace of mind I used to have, yet I am unwilling to reduce my technology consumption. I did it once for a week and felt great. Try it. Maybe try to read more like he did. I stopped reading, once the computer and internet took over my life and I used to be a great reader. It is totally different reading a paper book. I had forgotten how relaxing it can be. Best of luck!
just gotta do a bit at a time. get rid of social media, then soon lessen your time online, fill your time w hobbies & spending time with people/family. then less time on your phone and soon maybe just use your phone for calls and emergency texts. etc etc u dont have to get old tech but just lessen your time and live life more slowly and be more present. its way healthier
Just get rid of Social Media to start. That is toxic already. I was only on FaceBook but left in 2016 because my neurologist said it was not good for my mental health. I have actually had clinical depression and chronic anxiety since the 80's and in a way I wish I could go back, not to being a child, but go back as an adult because "adulting" right now, sucks.
Being born in 1980, I have some insight on this .If you had a question in the 80's the place to go was usually the library or someone who knew more then you. Pretty much no one had cell phones, just land lines. At 6pm the tv would be on the news, for one it was of the few way to get the weather report. The newspaper was vital, good for finding upcoming events, yard sales, tv guides, ect. Want to invest in stocks, the wall street journal was a must. Friday was a common time to run down to the video store. 7pm you are likely watching whatever the hit show was. FYI, that camcorder is more like 90's tech then 1980's. 1980's camcorders took full size vhs tapes.
I well remember full size VHS cameras, I was the proud owner of a Panasonic M7. It came in its own handy dandy suitcase for your convenience and you couldn't record long enough to fill a three hour VHS tape without a spare battery that was big enough to run a motorcycle lol. On the plus side you could stick your favourite tv channel logo on the side and look like a news camera man
My dad rented a camcorder in 1985, it was just the camera, you needed to hook up your vcr to it to record it to tape, so we would have to drag the vcr around on a rolling table with chords hooked up to the handheld camera to film anything. In 1988 he bought camcorder that had the vcr built into it. That was really cool to play with. Me and my sisters would make movies with it. Lots of fun. The 80s was the golden age for video games too. We had Atari, Collecovision and eventually a Nintendo Entertainment System. It came with the zapper (for duck hunt) and the robot for gyromite. I still have it and it works and my nieces and nephews love playing with it, but it only works on a CRT tv so I keep one around just for that purpose. Our first computer was a Tandy 1000 my Dad bought in 1987. It came with "The Black Cauldron" a 1986 Sierra game based on the 1985 Disney film no one remembers. This was one of the old Sierra graphical adventure games (like King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest and Leisure Suit Larry). Those games were Dark Souls hard before Dark Souls and the narrator would make fun of you for dying. The internet was around, but we didn't get hooked up to it until 1994 when my Dad subscribed us to prodigy. So we basically had to rely on our own brain power to solve some of the most logic defying puzzles you could think of, and often you'd unknowingly wind up in a loss state by missing a crucial item earlier in the game, or crossing a bridge one too many times. My dad didn't let us call into the sierra hint line because it was a 900 number that costed a fortune and I didn't start buying hint books and strategy guides until I was older and had bit more money to spend in the 90s. I didn't beat The Black Cauldron until I got the hint book over five years after getting the game. Another fun thing to do in the 80s was make mix tapes. We would try to record off the radio, but this was imperfect as we'd often miss the beginning of the song. My family had a decent record collection so we would record off of those, but sometimes the records would skip or have too many "crackles". So when we bought a new record, we would often record it to tape immediately so that it would capture the sound before the record got worn down and we could play it in the car or our walkmen. In 1988 we got a Compact Disc Player. This was much better as CDs had a much cleaner sound and didn't skip as much. I had a lot of fun making all sorts of crazy mix tapes using CD's and was doing it well into the 90s until I got my CD burner and started making mix CDs instead. MP3's kind of killed the artform though. Sure you could create playlists, but you couldn't really give it to someone the same way you could give a mix tape or mix CD to someone. And giving your mix tape to a friend was sort of the whole point of making them.
One thing people forget to mention is there would be the morning gazette, the afternoon gazette, and the evening gazette, and that was in a small city. In a larger city more editions and even specials for something huge. I find internet news is often repetitive or they don't want us to know. Like is Russia really winning or losing? Who knows? Someday they'll either retreat or take over the country and I guess we'll know then.
The outro about bagel holes was probably the most 1980s part of this- without google you had to really think and wonder about the reasoning behind things, have conversations, ask around, learn things from other people. A lot of rumours and misinformation too but at least it was more interpersonally connected. Something is somewhat lost when googling true facts replaces wondering and communicating together…
I was born in 1948, so I was around when all of this was new and exciting. No Walkman, but we had transistor radios with AM/FM and ran on 9 volt batteries. Desk phones with rotary dialing. The first computer I used was an IBM 370/155 that had 256K and took 10 tons of A/C to keep it cool. Cool video! Oh, and I was around in the 50s when "cool" first started being used. Thanks! Subscribed.
@@alastairhewitt380 If only there was a way to look up such things. If only there were some fantastical tool that contained all of humanity's collective knowledge and that knowledge was somehow accessible through something simple like a keyboard. If only...
Not only was life less stressful in the 80’s , in hindsight , not being reachable at all times via tech , personal interactions were more exciting and much more fulfilling .
Well… that depended really on who you were and what country you’re living in. Heard communist Eastern Europe wasn’t so nice… and being gay was practically a death sentence…. And being black in South Africa (apartheid).
@@gammatheprotogen2185 Also if you were politically active, it was easy to get stressed over the possibility of nuclear war or an environmental catastrophe like acid rain or a depleted ozone layer.
Even though I'm a 2000's kids, both my parents were teens in the 80s and so much of their technology I grew up with in my childhood. Most of my first movies were on VHS tapes, and my first songs were from prime 80's. Thanks for the nostalgia. : )
I was born mid nighties, most things were still VHS even in 2004-2005... Most of us born after the 80s were still using 80s tech because it was still about for quite a while before we moved on to higher tech.
The only thing that had changed in the early 2000s, were smaller cellphones and the beginning of the internet (56k, nobody really used it, so pretend it didn't exist) the rest of the widespread technologies were the same as in the 80s... (I'm from '87 so I remember it well, this is the stuff I grew up with) obviously I'm talking about Europe (maybe it was different in the United States, but I don't think so...) as pc my father had an amiga, sometimes he made me play with it (with the knob joystick, like the knob of an arcade station but only two buttons, one on each side, probably to allow use by a left-handed person as the second button was impossible to use) Q-bert, pac-man,another world, and much more games...(real social change came with smartphones and tablets,and above all social networks) this has changed the priority in the very young, growing them totally addicted to the internet, today tablets and social networks are the new babysitters
This always makes me feel so weird, also being a 2000s kid but my parents are from the 60s 💀💀 I was always jealous of everyone as a kid, having cool young parents while I had grumpy fossils
As an American (you nailed the accent) teen who adores the 80's, your living the life my dude, wish I had the funds to get all that cool stuff in working condition. Also the editing on this video and the use of storytelling was nothing short of exceptional. Very well done.
I grew up in the 80s. Most people just didn't have a computer. Most cost about $5000 in those days dollars. Walkman was ubiquitous, everyone had one. We had a color TV with VHS in the loving room, while my brother and I had black and white TVs. Mine was portable, about a 5" screen. Mine could pick up radio also! We didn't have mobile phones or PCs. We could go into almost any house in the neighborhood and use their phone because we knew them. Ordering food for carry out or delivery was a rare thing. We had records, tapes and books. The technological revolution of the 90s changed more than just the things we use. It changed us, and not neccessarily for the better. Things may be easier now, but I miss knowing the people in my neighborhood. Today, people stick their nose in their phone and ignore life happening all around them.
Actually, a lot of people had a computer in the 80s, more in the latter half, most likely. The Commodore 64 was quite common; our family had our Atari 800XL 8 bit PC, along with a very noisy printer and diskette drive. The PC itself was ~$200; later on, we were gifted with an Atari 400 pc. Not everyone had a walkman, I didn't. So, you see, there were a lot of variation in people's experience in the 80s. What you, and maybe your friends, had and experienced was not the same for everyone.
I'm an 80s kid and we played on the street every day. I live in a former communist eastern Europe country so there were very few cars on the streets in the 80s. All the kids in the neighbourhood would stay out on the street and we would play football (soccer), street games made with chalk (games like hop scotch), hide and seek, "country country give us soldiers" and other popular team games that actually promoted kid fitness. We would go in parks and play in jungle gym sets and slides and the kids that had rich parents would even get bikes (yes, kid bikes were expensive). Most parents would work 8-10 hours a day so they put the house key around the kids' neck and send them out to play all day. There was no fear of crime and the street kids would take care of each other. We didn't really use phones, people had land line phones that would sit in the house on a coffee table with a notebook with people's phone numbers written in it and we would rarely use them, maybe once a day. Kids just went to the other kids' houses and yell their name to come out and play. We had large radio-cassette players and we would trade each other various cassettes to listen to. Then in the 90s we discovered video games and street games were doomed. Me and my frends spent a lot more time indoor playing games on the SNES and Sega Genesis. Sometime we would go to a cinema in groups to see a famous movie. On weekends we would stay at home because they showed good movies on TV friday and saturday evening. I spent most my childhood outdoors playing street games, riding my bike and going to parks so i guess i was pretty lucky. A couple years ago i saw some kids playing soccer on the street and i was almost moved to tears of nostalgia. That thing very rarely happens anymore (seeing kids playing on the street), but i appreciate parents that still take their kids to parks so they can play in jungle gyms and stay fit. Nowadays i have very few frends, but i still like to go for long walks in my city and maybe stop at a random pub and get a beer or go to a theater and enjoy a play (i dont really like the cinema of our current decade).
That Motorola phone with 30 min talk time, was not designed for chit-chat and gossip conversations like today. It was designed for work, and if it took you two minutes for a business call, you didn’t have your ducks on a row. Glad to see someone your age is experimenting with technology I had in my 20s and really enjoy it. Some of those things are still doable today. We just got spoiled and used to having things done yesterday. Unfortunately, you couldn’t test a pager, or a 14.4/33.6 modem, because there’s no service for the pager, and analog phone lines have disappeared, except on real fax machines. Great job.
I'm Brazilian, I'm 49 years old, and I spent my childhood and teenage years in the 80s and early 90s. I grew up with cassette tapes, VHS, computers, vinyl records, and the coolest "mobile phone" back then was the cordless one. Of course, in Brazil, things took a bit longer to catch up due to the history of a long dictatorship, so we didn't have (usually) Macintosh computers, but we had those PCs with a keyboard, mouse, and if you had the money, a dot matrix printer. Your video brought back memories that I had tucked away for so long, and I can only express my gratitude. I'm not one of those people who think my time was better - no way! The best moment is now because we're alive, but it's so nice to reminisce about times when my only worry was the radio alarm clock... to make sure I woke up on time and didn't miss classes. Thank you very much, and greetings from Brazil.
Olha Junior, Jr... De Junior pra Junior... Durante a reserva de mercado nós estávamos nem 5 anos atrasados com relação à ponta tecnológica mundial. Hoje, estamos com mais de 40 anos de defasagem pois só nos restou importar. Hora de rever conceitos.
Love that this was recorded on an old camera. Fun fact: In the '80s there was this thing called money. It's little pieces of paper that you can exchange for goods and services (such as a pizza). You can place an order over the telephone, and then pay for that order with money when you pick up the pizza or when the driver delivers the pizza to your door. You also deprived yourself of the authentic '80s experience of a horrible buzzing alarm clock. Probably exceptionally hard to find since I'm guessing the fate of almost all of them was being angrily flung against a wall.
@@shoelacedonkey Exactly. That's not a horrible buzzing '80s alarm clock. He should have bought something like this: th-cam.com/video/gORMzB1Wl6w/w-d-xo.html
The 80s were an amazing time to be a teenager. We look back at this tech as ancient, but in its day, it was cutting edge, and nothing like it existed before. I remember when my family bought our first VHS player, and we rented our first movie. Before that, you could either see a movie when it came to a theater, or watch a heavily edited version if it came on TV. That was it. Now, we could go to the video store and get any movie we wanted, and watch it when we wanted. It was glorious! Cell phones, as crude as they were, were a similar phenomenon. Before they existed, people called you at your house. If you weren't home, you missed their call. When you went out, there was no way to contact you.
Man, I miss those days... I grew up in a household with a piano, but when I got my first portable Casio keyboard in the early '80s, I was blown away "You mean I can just put batteries in it and play songs in the back seat of our car??" Sometimes, instead of calling, friends and family would simply show up at your doorstep, and that perfectly fine and acceptable. These days, if one of my friends knocked on my door without calling or texting me first, I'd get a split second of anxiety before answering the door. It's weird how social norms and technology screw with our brains.
Not being contactable when out was so under-rated when I was a teen in the 80s. I can remember losing a gang of friends in the city centre and my only option would be to try every bar in town or, instead, go and watch Gremlins on my own in the cinema. Chose the latter and then got a cab home. Went on holiday with the gang for a week at a beach camping. Knew nothing about the world apart from having a great time, getting drunk, high, whatever. We've gained so much with technology, but along the way we lost "being present" in the moment. I do wonder whether this is messing with younger generations heads and driving bad mental health? I know I need to get away from tech more and I'm 57 years old. I can feel how it drains me and I'm not dealing with TikTok or whatever the latest "crack" social network is popular this month or year. I don't envy the current generation - you have a lot to deal with in every aspect of your lives and the world is going to hell in a hand basket.
14:20 "The complete works of Shakespeare? Probably wipe that out in a weekend" Having just come from his video where he actually read it, that's some pretty intense foreshadowing and dramatic irony right there. Shakepeare himself would have loved that.
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Delighted by how delighted you are at all the old tech! Honestly just seeing everything in that hazy VHS format was nostalgic as hell. The Walkman was truly the pinnacle of 80s construction, LOVED the one my mama used to have and miss it every day. THE BUTTONS!!! CLICKABLE PERFECTION!!!!
I’ve seen a lot of videos about outdated tech where people didn’t know what a VCR was or how to use a Thomas Guide, but what shocked me was when you stated that you’ve never bought a newspaper in your entire life. Something about that statement speaks volumes about the generational shift in technology.
@@hughmungus5686 Before GPS and Google maps, we had these things called paper maps. A Thomas Guide was a paper map, but in book form. I never used one myself, but my dad, who drove a lot for his job, used them extensively. Every week he would sit at the dining room table with several Thomas Guides, and plan out his routes for the week.
Got no idea what a Thomas Guide is. Um, an atlas. I became an electrical engineer in 1993. We very purposely targeted newspapers, and especially television news programs for destruction. They've always been garbage. They NEVER vetted their stories, it's always been garbage they always promoted government narratives. Took YOU guys another 30 years to start to realize it. Now Google is doing this, we'll destroy them too, and much more quickly.
@@D.D.-ud9zt took you until 2014 to recognize that newspapers only carry opinion and propaganda? I thought it was pretty obvious by 2002, when not a single newspaper pushed back against the Bush administration's lies about Iraq. That war could have been prevented, if we had a press at that time. 800,000 Iraqis dead. Same has been true of every war since then.
I'm impressed with your video editing skills. This was put together well. Sad to see the brick phone not working but that's not surprising. I'm also very impressed that you were able to able to find so much 80s stuff that still works.
A couple of things from someone who was back there in the day - firstly no one had mobile phones in the 1980s, unless they were rich. Secondly, no one had a Mac either unless they were rich - we all had Commodore 64s.
a rich friend bought me a Mac 128k. The system with software, external floppy drive, printer and modem was about $4500 in 1984 dollars, or $16,000 in 2024 dollars. then again, a new 2024 SUV is $100,000 - $25,000 in 1984 dollars
@@vap0rland You also have to take into account cost of living and salaries. Using those inflation calculators online doesn't give you accurate results because it doesn't take into considerations too many variables.
I had an Apple II at work in 1978 , just used it for keeping a database . Oh , I had a Commodore 64 , then an Amiga 500 and finally an Amiga 1200 , before eventually getting an iMac G3 sometime in the early 90s .
This was awesome. The fact that he filmed this on an old video camera was true dedication. Growing up in the 80s and 90s with Blockbuster video, this brings back some good memories of a different time.
As a Gen-Xer, I love everything about this! Home computers were uncommon, and pretty much no one had a mobile phone in 1987; however, we all had shelves full of VHS tapes. About half of which were recorded off the TV. Absolutely loved my Sony Walkman. Always had to keep a pencil handy to wind loose tapes! Don't get me wrong, I love my smartphone and modern tech, but damn it all, the 80s were the best decade to be alive (okay, the 90s were alright, too).
@@ness7342 actually, in 1985, only around 8% of households had home computers (today it's around 80%), which seems about right from what I remember. For what they could do at the time, the average cost of around $1,000 (approx. $2,850 in 2023) wasn't justifiable in most households. I grew up middle class, yet I knew maybe two or three families who had home computers. And these were pretty much off limits to us kids. Kind of a shame. I see nostalgia videos all the time about great computer games from the 80s, which I never heard of, let alone got to play. Still, I had my NES, and later SNES, so I was very fortunate there. ☺
@@ness7342 It also depends on your country. In the UK and Europe overall, videogame consoles were not a big thing at all until the early 90s, with the 3rd gen. Instead, home computers were huge, particularly in the UK. It was mostly the Speccy and the C64 in the UK until the late 80s/early 90s, when the Amiga and Atari ST perhaps became dominant, at least among the more affluent.
I grew up in a pretty good area, but we weren't rich. Back then you could actually buy a "fixer-upper" house in a good school district. My parents worked hard and wanted us to be exposed to current tech, so my dad got us an Atari 400 around 1980, and then I got a job at a computer store at 15 and an 800. Most of my friends had computers, and we'd hang out at each other's houses and play games and even write little programs. But we spent just as much time riding bikes, looking in the alleys for discarded Playboys, and collecting and listening to records. Nobody had mobile phones. Even on TV. And look at all the plot complications that were possible because of that. Today you have to set everything in the past. Stranger Things is fun nostalgia, but it's also the last time you can actually have a kid get lost on his bike in the woods (give or take the '90s). VHS tapes were expensive! The best ones (Maxell Gold) were $16 each for a while. I didn't care about video, only audio... until I got a job at a video store that sold, among many other things, LaserDisc players. After that, nothing else was good enough. Today I write mobile (and other) apps, but wow I'm glad I grew up in the '80s and enjoyed my 20s in the '90s. Really the perfect time of having and understanding technology, but not being ruled by it.
It was well put together but as someone who lived through this time period, watching someone say they "survived" a day in the 1980s... I mean this was normal everyday life. I didn't say, "Boy if only I had a streaming service" because no one knew what that was. I know the video is entertainment but this was real every day life for most of my childhood.
That's the strange thing about technology; it can either seem futuristic or way out of date, depending on your point of view. At one time in the 1980's all this stuff seemed very modern ( and I can say that with certainty, being a teenage in that decade ). Now it looks like belongs in a museum, and we wonder how exactly we survived using those old gadgets.
Brother, I am 55 years old. I graduated High School in 1986. You have no idea the memories that flooded back into my head watching this video. It was a time full of innovation and technological advancement, and the one thing we didnt have that you did was the knowlege that ther was something more advanced. So for us kids back then, all of this was the cutting edge of technology. When I got my first PC (in 1991) it had a hard drive capable of holding a whopping 350 megabites...lol. Thanks for this video dude, it really took me down memory lane to a time that I really hold dear. Rock on bro!
350 megabites = 350 million bites, wow, what an elaborate meal. Okay, I get it, it's megabytes.
My first computer, the ZX Spectrum, used cassettes as storage devices. A 48 kB program loaded in roughly 5 minutes so a 90 minute cassette could hold 860 kB of data. Not bad back then.
In 1988 IIRC I got a hard disk for the Amiga 500, SCSI and generous 80 megabytes of storage capacity.
In 1990 I split that up in two partitions of 40 MB each, one for the Amiga and one for the DOS PC inside it (vortex ATonce).
Operating systems, several utilities, development environments and games stored on that space and guess what:
I never got close to remotely filling either partition.
The setup is still here and every once in a while I have to check whether it's still working.
@@SechsFluegel That's funny, I was just about to comment that my first experience with storage was my ZX Spectrum (without any storage and the terrible keyboard) followed by an Amiga with an 80MB SCSI drive!
Of course, I also still have my Amiga and yes, it's still running (though now equipped with a compact flash drive adaptor).
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woah only 350 megabytes?? i guess back in the day files were not as big as they are nowadays
Ok boomer
Liam has the Pizza hut phone number memorized, I just want everyone to acknowledge that.
The funny thing is, this number also exist in germany but it‘s not Pizza Hut.
Doesn’t everyone?
I am the 500th like on this comment lol.
@@CallMeJoy_wastakenno cuz it tastes like a$$
im the 547th like on the comment
The fact that this was filmed on an old camera is amazing 😂
shows a effort to detail that not a lot of other creators have
He forgot to rank his camera...😂
IKR!!
Fr
It looks amazing for an 80s camera, too. I've recorded footage that looks *way* worse than this in the 2000s. Phone cameras in those days were especially bad.
My brother (born 1969) was an early computer hacker. He used to have that very computer. His claim to fame is one time he figured out how to make all of the phones in our town (landlines) ring at the same time.
what
How did he do that ?!?!?
"Back in the future" ahh brother xd
bro thats literally the plot to lawnmower man
That sounds phreaking cool.
I just love the joy he shows as he participates in these challenges he creates himself. He seems like such a positive and fun person and it makes these videos so wholesome to watch
I know what you mean! His laugh is sooo infectious!
He’s so bubbly and happy it’s hard not to be in a good mood watching this 😂
I'm amused that he thinks everyone in the 80s had all this tech. It was the 90s before we got the VHS player. I never had a walkman, though I wanted one, most kids in my neighborhood didn't have all of that tech. I had a cellphone in the 90s but even then they were only common among people who needed them for work.
He is a GOD!!!
The fact that it takes him a month or two to create a video shows how hard he works, also this video was very aesthetically pleasing 😌
How hrs he works? Also I agree good stuff but I'm sure finding all that tech and then learning how to use it and properly edit old film probably took to long for this video 😂
I hate you
@@Dan-Dman my keyboard rlly hates me sometimes 🤦♀️
aesthetically pleasing indeed
@@Dan-Dmani think he has other work? He can go his pace he wants
This man went out and beyond, the fact he filmed it all on an old camera makes it an infinity times better and the fact he was sad to leave the 80s shows that they really were good times.
He can stay there. At least for a part. In the end we can all decide how we live. I have to say, I have such a love hate relationship with my phone and when I didn't had it after a week it was so nice. Less stressfull. Now you always have the feeling to miss something on TH-cam or else where. And guess what you you do. But it's less stressful and more chill to just cherish the moment
@@Sophie-vw5ol i still live like we are back in the 80's as i do not own or want to ever own a stupid smart phone...i reject all smart tech crap. do not do social idiot media, TH-cam is as close as i will go to social media. yes, i have a PC....but i had them back in the 80's. modern day stuff sucks!
@@Sophie-vw5olCompletely true. I think people forget this as they feel the need to take part in every silly trend. You can live how you want. That's the beauty of the modern world. I enjoy using VR and having to actually move my body to play games, which is more accepting of modern tech than most people, but I also only use paper books, I prefer physical shops and actually looking around them, and the only social media I use is TH-cam. You don't have to use all the latest tech, but you also don't have to reject it all. You can just think independently and use what is useful to you.
Yeah, a good time if you were rich!
Most people did not have all this high tech stuff in the 80's, I certainly didn't know anyone who had a home computer, and maybe just one guy who had a cell phone, and only because he needed it for work.
That Sony Walkman is something i would happily use even today.
Editing 10/10, Vibes 100/10, Effort 1980/10 All in all a fantastic video. Round of applause for Liam👏
Wooow so funny hahahaha
Why's this comment so underated?
@@aryz_kfc_fr wym underrated, overrated asf
@hoihuman1003 the wonderful magic of *Sarcasm!*
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It's amazing how filming using an old camera makes everything look 80s, even modern scenes.
The video recorder and vhs tape were made for a crt tv which were displaying round pixels and gaps between them, not for a 1080p or 4k lcd or oled tv.
@@joelpichetteyes, so?
@@aceman0000099 so it looked much better on a crt tv...
@@razhorblahd everything does, but the VHS quality looks cool on digital as well
@@razhorblahd or plasma tv
I'm 40 and I shed a tear on the nostalgia. I used cassettes till 1998, VHS till 2004, and didn't get my first flat screen till 2012.
Dude, cassette tapes are cool again! Thanks to videos by Techmoan and others, I rediscovered how fun it is to make mix tapes. Quality really isn't bad, either- I need to listen back-to-back to tell a difference in quality in original vs recording.
@@justpaul899 I was thinking about giving my friend a mix tape for the nostalgia.
My family didn’t get our first flat screen until 2012 either😂
I use to have good hard sex with my sister but unfortunately she is married now and she doesn’t want to have sex any more ….. tears running down my face
@@justpaul899 they are! I'm 30 and i got to use tapes and walkman in my early childhood. Recently I got one again and a bunch of tapes to listen to and it brought back memories!
I'm 64 yo and retired IT. I remember the 80s as being absolutely joyful because the new tech was such an improvement over the Old Stuff. (Carbon paper is of Satan. And, there's only so much White-out one page can carry. And, typing up mimeographs is psychological abuse, especially when your boss likes to edit stuff at the last minute.) I remember how big a deal it was when I got the upgraded memory typewriter at work that had 100 PAGES of memory rather than 50! And having two disk drives so you didn't have to keep swapping your program and storage disks? HEAVEN!
What was the price tag
@@cantgetright742we live in an era where tech is locked down and cheap but overflowing with ads and a major privacy concern as far as national security is concerned, tech was once more expensive but more free and there wasn't a surveillance state yet!
We overpay for food now
As someone who grew up in the 80s, I found your enthusiasm for my generation's technology to be both amusing and heartwarming. The Macintosh SE, VCR with analog TV (mine was much bigger), and push-button office phone (I never had a first-gen cellphone; too expensive and inefficient). These were the things I grew up with. Seeing them again is like encountering someone who looks like an old friend I haven't seen in many years. Thanks for the nostalgia! You're a good kid. 😎👍
It really was so nostalgic. I miss my mind be bored and having the space and time to let it wander. The Walkman in particular was fantastic!
Exactly. Especially the Nokia phone was insane expensive. Still wanted it as a kid tho. Fast forward 30+ years and id pay to be rid of my phone.
@@j.elizabeth4621you know now that you meantion it I have not been bored since I was a kid. I didn’t grow up in the 80’s but I grew up in a rural small town that didn’t even get DSL internet till late 2001 so we had dial up before that.
While looking back at time can have some charm I still wouldn’t want to go back either. Working from home wouldn’t be a viable thing for example which I enjoy personally. Modern medicine is also a miracle of its own, we have come a very very long way medically speaking. Pros and cons though I suppose
It would’ve been hilarious to watch him figure out how to use a rotary phone
@@angusrumplemeyer1791 i suppose there are tutorial videos on TH-cam. But if you have to wait a dialtone for a long distance call... :D
this video is a work of art. it made me feel nostalgic for a time when i didn’t even exist. the 80s seem like they were so simple
Yep, I agree. I just wanna go there :(
Real 😭
It was my childhood - I'd happily have that level of calm and peace back again if I could.
same
yea, i think this was mostly due of the camera
This should be a series, 90s and 2000s would be awesome. Liam being amazed by a payphone working is definitely what I needed.
It should be a series, but he should go back in time, to the 70's, 60's, 50's and so on
No
@@marcusfridh8489 Disneyland already did it, not sure if it's still running.. carousel of progress...
Could not agree more.
Cant watch, my Tamagotchi needs me right now
I think this could be a cool series. You could do this for the 90’s, 2000’s, and 2010’s
I love how the old camera really made it seem like the ‘80s😄
It seemed more 90s than 80s. 🤷🏻♀️
He's used a filter on a modern camera. No way he would have fit a chunk 80s camcorder on the dash. It suits the video but it IS a bit of fakery.
@@Rosie82333How so?
@@planetofthegapes You'd be surprised at how small they could get. Also, he may have angled it.
@@planetofthegapes No? No modern filter can achieve this level of VHS degredation. Please do research before posting something like this.
I actually LOVE how the camera and VHS tapes make the video look
This!
I actually forgot how much slower life used to be. If you wanted to find something out you'd hit up the encyclopedia, and you'd have to actually read and remember stuff as the information was never at hand like it is now. Watching movies used to be so much better in some ways, like you'd check out the TV guide and if something good was coming on then the family would watch it, Home Alone would show up around Christmas time. Now everything is instant and on demand, nothing feels special anymore really, it's kinda sad
I guess nowadays we can make moments and things special with consciousness. Than we can really cherish and be grateful about them. Moments had always pass and will always pass. Sometimes it's sad. That feeling just goes to show how it is nowadays that we want to have it all at the same time. But we can't ever. We can give that slowness to ourselfs. By saying that I now close TH-cam and trying to get some work done and just live
People don't realize that the effort to acquire something is part of what makes it valuable
Mainstream is dead, but spdcific niche communities are flourishing!
@@renatocorreaarriechethis so much this. Some people do not even realize that youtube videos could be unconcievable in some decades ago!
Perfect summary. I miss how slow things were when I was younger back before smart phones, etc.
The thing about that Mac is that while it's a massive downgrade from a modern PC, it's also massive upgrade from using a typewriter. The ability to actually edit your work without retyping whole sections or physically cutting it up and taping the pieces together was an earth-shattering advance. My mother started writing her PhD thesis on a manual typewriter and switched to a Mac halfway, it saved so much time. The ability to see on screen what the page layout was going to look like when she printed it out on the university's Laserjet was also a godsend. For her anyway, bit of a nightmare for me as the tech support, that Mac would grind to a halt if the files got beyond a certain length, we had to have each chapter in a separate file (and some of the longer chapters had to be split in two) and I had to come up with various schemes with a RAM disk to make it usable. Floppies were tolerable for storing the files but too slow for working on them and a hard drive was unthinkably expensive.
I say do every decade from the 1990s next. Why not? It would be a great series. Great video.
No. Go backwards. It would be more interesting
@@AmazingStudios01I don't think he's gonna find anything to record with, even if he used his modern camera it still would be boring, what is he gonna do all day... Read books idk. Imo going forward is more entertaining..
@@AmazingStudios01 technology did not change as much as it does recently
and as mkdeath said, theres not really cameras and stuff going backwards
@@alvhawk4461that you guys actually think "there aren't any cameras to get" when you go backwards shows how hilariously confident y'all believe your imagination.
My brother in Christ, Cameras are not a modern invention of the past 50 years. We have literal video footage of both world wars. The oldest video that still survived to that day is from fcking 1888.
And yes, you can buy functional cameras. But already he has at least 3 decades (50s, 60s, 70s) going backwards where this isn't a huge problem and not more financially burdening that buying a Mac from the 80s.
One could also ask why it's more intersting in going forward when literally everything that happens is that several pieces of technology become one as much as asking what's so interesting about seeing a 60s style TV.
That you want to make it like Books where the only piece of tech is also hilarious. You can't he that ignorant about something your parents haven seen with their own eyes, man.
yall got to be kidding, he can just (probably alot of work) but record on film, then record the film on his normal camera like dang, cameras arent new the first photo is soon gonna turn 200 years old
The scene of going to get pizza from pizza hut convinced me that anything can look nostalgic if you film it with an old camera.
Really interesting, yes!! That's what I asked my dad a couple of years ago whilst watching a Pink Floyd documentary: "did the 70's really look like that?" His answer: "of course not!! Yes, those cars and phones; etc did, but apart from that and fashion-wise, nothing's changed really." What he meant (of course) was that, in the 70's, a tree didn't really look like it's filmed with a VHS cam/recorder. :P
It's interesting to think of how our perception of the past got shaped by the ability to document we had available at the time. Of course the world wasn't in black and white in the 30's, and ancient Egyptians weren't actually stick people doing funky dance moves all the time. But it does seem to be how we collectively remember it. I wonder if in a century, we will be remembered trough a snapchat filter or something
@@mariomaniac581 I didn't even think about how we'll be perceived. I assume we'll be perceived through our 2D videos. Obviously, we aren't living in 2D, but it's the only way most people can currently record their lives.
@@Wilmer778 your dad is right, even the architecture is the same, It would be a big change to go to 1920, not the 70's or 80's
It's not filmed with an old camera. The rolling shutter is obvious and 80s camera's didn't have those.type of sensors. Also 80s video camera's were seriously bulky. No way the in-car shots could have been made with a 80s camera. This video is largely fake, presumably to make a point. But it is fake. For instance the smoke on top of the tv is just stock smoke and the mozart music is taken from a digital source, not a walkman.
You reading through the Macintosh manual kindof proves a point for me. If someone is bored enough, they'll read through that manual back to front and maybe even learn to code.
I can't tell you how many video essays there are that talk about how boredom is actually a good thing because it brings us to do things we normally wouldn't or encourages us to complete things we were actively avoiding.
Oh gawd I used to avoid those massive manuals like the plague!
Facts i sucked in school but dam i got good at mechanical things and fixing crap when i was 8 i tore my dads rotatilar motor apart to see how it worked and put it back togetherandit ran
I worked as a secretary for Price Waterhouse from 1986 - 1989 and THIS computer is exactly what I worked on. Editing spreadsheets. Typing letters with earphones on while pressing a pedal with my foot to hear the correspondence which had been recorded by the boss on a very small tape. WOW. This brings back memories!
The 80s: No notifications, and pizza.
Yep, that was pretty much my experience growing up.
It was the best.
and a helluva lot more racism
@@Robyamdam I make zero apologies for celebrating the positive aspects of my own lived experience that was also shared by vast numbers of other people around the world during the same window of time.
There may be less racism now (which is what your statement implies) but there is a helluva lot more narcissism, disrespect, disregard for community, laziness, depression, hopelessness, nihilism, dissension, and technocratic overreach in today's Western democracies, IMHO. Utopia is impossible.
In the meantime, I will unashamedly revel in nostalgia with gratitude that I got to live through a vibrant cultural epoch.
@@foreignparticle1320 It's best to ignore people like him, who just spout random nonsense with no reasoning, logic or rebuttal to show how there was "helluva lost more racism". I highly doubt he lived through anything near the 1980's.
@@Robyamdam Funny thing is, back then LOTS of media actually made it a point to have ethnic minorities in them (& largely in normal/positive roles, though of course there were exceptions), as well as having strong women with major or starring roles that everyone enjoyed (Alien/Aliens, Terminator 2, etc). And all this was largely accepted without anyone even thinking about it. Nowadays when that came back, suddenly half of everyone gets all angry & accuses the producers of pandering or political correctness or "wokeness", they publicly rant about it, & they angrily go out to vote down the rights of those portrayed. 🤔
I know there's a LOT of devils in the details & there's more to the subject than attitudes... but imagine classic 80s media coming out today instead of the 80s, & how modern audiences would criticize them, vs back then & the 90s. Different times indeed.
@@ZaCloud-Animations___she-her It felt less forced back then is why. Literal racists in the '70s hated that Sesame Street showed whites and non-whites intermingling but if you watched it, it's just blacks, Latinos, and other races living in a neighborhood with whites and monsters; the most normal thing in the world (bar the monsters of course), and everything was chill. The values weren't perverted. Everything was just wholesome.
No one would have known that the '80s would become a film aesthetic. You've created a nostalgically beautiful video, bro.
It's good but one point missing is you simply can't return to the 80s. Movies were great, okay it sucked you had to wait 18 months to get them on VHS, but you could always see them at the theater for a reasonable price. His clock radio? The one I had often put me in a good mood with great new music waking me up putting me into a good mood. You would have had a lot of meetings with friends, you could even just knock on one's door. Okay some people were antisocial back then too, so you either called first or got other friends, but still friends culture was much more lively. Sometimes it sucked not being able to google and prove some bser wrong, but it also stretched your brain and made for some fun conversation as to why they were full of it. Safety in the 80s was not good. I had several concussions, I don't know if I've escaped the effects of them or not, but that was definitely something that was worse back then. I guess if you had some rare forms of cancer and a few other medical mysteries that have been solved that was bad back then. But most people live to a good age without all that. AIDS was scary, but the idiot box seemed to talk about it every night, so eventually you kind of got over it. The cold war? Not scary at all. Although to hear the Soviet Union fell was shocking. Books are generally more fun than reading. I would even listen to radio dramas which I'm pretty sure was a dying art even then, but it really used your imagination. Even if economics were the same I would still go back in a second.
He had the experience of living a life without notifications. Incredibly, we never realized how cell phone notifications make us sick and living in an anxious society.
Right which is one reason why my notifications have been off for 2 years now. Ppl have to literally work to reach me now lol
Technology ruined us
My phone gives me no notifications. I turned them all of several years ago. I live happier. I'm back in the 80s. Try it. It's amazing.
@@alobosk, true, it is amazing. Untill you realise that everyone you know/work with use ONLY Whatsapp (or any other way of contacting others online) to contact each other and/or notify of something important.
If only everyone at once said "no" to being glued to the phone...
@@Nobodyknowsme-n4j People are not better or worse today than they were in the 1980s. There are plenty of problems in the modern day, but there were issues back then too. Aside from that, probably the most toxic element of modern technology are certain forms of social media, which are specifically designed to be addictive. Otherwise, technology has offered a great deal of good.
I really wish he included the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), one of the most revolutionary pieces of technology in the 80s and what would pave down a path for every home console made after it
Atari for the win! Missed opportunity
Just to think that in the 2060s there will be similar videos like "Spending a week using 2020s technology" was a reality shock for me
Even in the 2030s... because look, the 2000s was just 20 years ago but people already using it for videos like this
Omg
then ill be there reminiscing at age 53 on how iphones used to be a thing 😂
it might be a video of a robot telling how it is like to live like a human
You've got more than one huge assumption in that realization of yours. ;)
I grew up in the 90's but most of my family kept everything from the 80's (hell even the 70's) and let me tell you, some of the wonky "pre-internet" age tech was a joy to behold. Simplicity perfected. Music unmatched. Everything had an aura about it that can't quite be put into words, but Liam here came pretty damn close! Please put this into a series and do 90's next :D
I grew up in the 90s and we where still using the TV that my dad grew up with. And he was born in the 50s. My parents said if it's not broken don't replace it. Eventually around 2000 we had to buy a TV because our TV repair man could no longer fix it.
Heck our 90s was basically the 80s. 1990s finally came to me in 1996.
@@parkmallbabyIt seems like every first half of a decade is like that. Early 2000's felt like the 90's. It's 2023 now but my tech is all from pre-2020.
@@BrianIsWatching The early 2000s was different for me though because I was a teenager and we really tried to be "cool" and hip with the times 😄 but I see your point. Techwise it was still all very much an extension of the 90s.
I feel like the tech of every decade had an individual aura:
- 80s: tech is the real businessmen business
- 90s we're making everything smaller and more practical, all the cool kids gonna have all the gadgets!
- 2000s: the era of decorative tech with that playful future space time vibe. Every gadget getting microscopic.
- 2010: you know what, we actually want it to look cool and simple, and bigger is better!
- 2020: actually it was nice to have smaller clap phones back in the days. But guess what, still gonna make it a smartphone! Tech is everywhere, you breath it, you live it, don't even notice it.
This was such a cool idea. Storytelling was elite. Would be cool to see more videos like this on TH-cam. Subscribed!
YO MR AMONG US WHATTUP
but fr i used to love you in 2020
LOL!
Wow! I’ve been into Zmde and Liam for a long time, so it’s good to see you here!
😢
My brother watches you
I love how the old analogue look blends with the modern style of cutting. The result is a very own, excentric, but beautiful aesthetics.
Amazing work!
I think this is a really funny idea. Imagine a whole series of these kinds of videos. Life in the 1920s, 30s, 40s etc...
A few years back there was a great BBC documentary called "Electric Dreams" where they took a modern family and had them adopt the lifestyle of 70s, 80s and 90s households. It was a great series full of this kind of clash of the eras and old tech. Looks like there's copies of it floating about on TH-cam.
Such vintages might prove too difficult to replicate. You can't just install a coal stove and start a farm for a TH-cam video. Well, you technically could, I guess.
Nah nah
90s
@@CountScarlioni Thank you for the referral! Looks like a great series!
I’m 43 and I remember playing a lot of board games and all kind of card games in the 80s. Visits to the video rental stores to pick my movies for the weekend were awesome too. Also, I read a LOT of magazines… and I remember people smoking everywhere, even on planes and cars with the windows shut. Oh, man, nostalgia is kicking in…
wait ) "smoking everywhere, even on planes" what ? )
@@tapikoBlends Yes. You could smoke on planes, trains, busses and even in movie theaters.
@@johnl1685 Pregnant women smoked and drank in the 80s. The Tobacco companies hid data that smoking was bad for you from the 60s onward.
@@tapikoBlends Yup! There even used to be little ash trays built into the armrests.
@Luke5100 i am from post -soviet Georgia . it's weird to read this )
A couple things -
First having a landline phone would have been the more common 80s experience.
Second, this video reminded me how quiet and empty time alone felt back then. I have ADD and found it very hard to entertain myself, often attempts at reading just led to starring at the wall, I was however able to sit through movies, often the same few repeatedly (I never rewatch movies now) but I would usually get up and just walk or drive around aimlessly to fill the time. I was extremely antsy and agitated which led to heavy drinking, which provided the relief of an overactive, but unfocused mind. I had to go out all the time because the silence of my home was at times unbearable.
I'm 50 now and absolutely love the convenience and diversion that modern technology has brought. A lot of people my age romanticize their youth, but although I'm grateful social media wasn't a thing when I was a kid, I don't see the 80s or 90s as the glory days. Being young is in itself the glory. Honestly, I would hate to go back to a world without streaming, TH-cam and smartphones. The internet has both exacerbated my ADD and also provide the cure. I don't miss having to drive all over town to take care of things, I especially don't miss having to physically go into the bank or remembering to write checks to pay bills and the late fees that compounded the debt thanks to my horrible time-management skills. Thanks to the internet I've not missed a payment in 20 years.
As a kid born in 2010, its cool to see someone who has been around for much longer than I still enjoy modern technology, and not put me down for enjoying what I like. I have ADHD and Autism, and although the internet can be a tad overstimulating for me sometimes, it typically just flicks the right switch in my brain for me to actually not be stressed 24/7. This comment genuinely made me smile, it's super cool seeing someone not put modern tech and the people who use it down because it's convenient.
This is such a great perspective on ad(h)d in earlier times.. Me (30) and my dad (62) both have add, and this comment really makes me wonder how he experienced this time. I know he struggles immensely with all the distractions life now gives, he locked his laptop for example so he can only use it during office hours. I'm curious if he experiences some positive sides of nowadays technology as well though.
Interesting perspective. Thank you for sharing. 🙂
I'm pretty sure you could pay stuff via internet in the 90s, but yeah, I get it.
I'm a 90s kid, I love technology, but I don't like depending on it too much.
Streaming WAS great, Netflix was a blast on it's early years, but now there are like 999 streaming services, and none has all your favorite movies, they all take them out of the catalog without notice.
I would collect physical media if I could, Blu-rays specifically, but living in third world country that's kinda hard to get.
What I do is I download all my movies and music, store them in my PC (that has an absurd amount of storage).
Except for movies, which I used to rent in the 90s on video rental stores, I could download my music online in the 90s, it would take ages, but was doable. hahah
I kinda miss visiting the local Blockbuster, I would usually rent some movies and a game for my Nintendo 64 every week. I remember they also sold popcorn, sweets, soda, etc, so you could really have a "cinema" experience at home. haha
For someone in the US and Canada that could be a bummer because of suburbia, where you need a car to go anywhere, but that's not really a problem anywhere else on the planet.
Right now, I have clothes stores, hair saloons, a supermarket, 2 hardware stores, 3 restaurants, and much more at 1-2 blocks of distance away, so no need to go "downtown" for anything, nor I need to order simple stuff from the internet. Back then it wasn't different, there was a video rental store like 50 meters from my house lol
Banks are also at walking distance to this day, I don't miss the lines though.
If technology just kept improving, that's one thing, but now it seems to be specifically designed to keep us apart.
As I mentioned, I had a nintendo 64 in the 90s, I would invite friends and neighbors to play, 4 player LOCAL multiplayer? That basically doesn't exist anymore. If I'm a 2023 kid, and wanted to play with friends and neighbors, I would need to play online, even if they live next door. That's just sad.
Social media was the worse thing technology has brought, I must say, that was the nail in the coffin that cemented the trend of keeping everyone apart.
We had messengers and we could chat online with everyone in the 90s, but we would still meet friends and family on a very regular basis. Now it seems everyone is too busy to do anything with anyone, or just lack the social skills to do it.
Depression has raised to sky high levels, never before seen. I've fell ill from that myself.
I'm not against technology, I have all the latest gadgets, I just wish it wasn't specifically designed to be so cold.
@@Sugurain I didnt get a computer till 2004. I did like going to independent video stores and record stores. I still have a large VHS collection and all my old cassettes and CDs. When streaming services started censoring everything I made a point of buying physical copies of every movie or TV show that I thought might be in danger. I'm definitely a physical media collector.
I do believe the internet has it's draw backs for a lot of people and maybe on a societal level, but for my personal use its been a net good. I have thought that if all social media was outlawed for five years it might do everyone a lot of good but I still really enjoy it myself. Its certainly complicated issue and everyone has to figure out the right balance of usage for themselves and their children.
3:40 “Thank GOD they had showers in the 80’s am i RIGHT guys *knee slapper wheeze*”
Honestly, we lived like the 80s right up until the early 2000s and then the internet really started to become more powerful. But it was when TH-cam, Social Media and Smart Phones came about when people’s lifestyles started to change dramatically. I’d say until about 2005 at the latest we still lived relatively simple. I think the future of vacations should be going to small towns that live like the 80s. Just so people can get the experience and take a break from the excessive technology, social media and inter-connectivity.
I recently took a 2 week holiday up in regional Queensland. Swapped my iPhone for a basic Nokia dumbphone and avoided all news outlets like the plaugue. Loved it.
You should have way more upvotes you're deadass
@CRITTERBUSTERS I disagree, it wasn't until 1996 when the internet was the norm and people started buying computers, the late 90s practically felt like a whole new world was coming.
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To each their own.
I’ve been wondering about this too. A 90s retreat or something. Where the only available tech is only like back then 😂
As someone that grew up in the 80’s I appreciate you getting Pizza Hut for watching movies. Quite accurate.
What about little ceasers?
If you weren’t partying with the Hut you were getting Dominoes because Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
@@fuji302 Ok. In that scenario Pizza Hut is best.
Nah... you couldn't avoid the noid unless you ordered from Dominos!
He could have pulled up to a Wendy's and asked them "where's the beef" as well.
yes me too THey were really big during my childhood, this was before Dominos and papa johns arrives on the scene
This was so much fun! I am 52 and I was 17 in 1987. I didn’t have a computer in those days, but I learned programming at school, ( Basic, MS Dos, Pascal) but forgot everything. Because I never used it afterwards. I learned to type on a typewriter, a computer was very unpractical in those days. Something for games. In my work as a nurse we didn’t use a computer at all.
The Walkman was really the thing in the 80’s, aearobics was in the early ‘80’s very popular. We listened to Madonna, and Depeche Mode, OMD Etc. We read books, and wrote in our diaries. And hang out with friends or watched movies indeed. In the cinema or VHS 😊
@Luke5100 YES everybody did that, except me, I never liked it and thought it was gross. At work they smoked constantly and you were stupid if you say something about it. Even when my colleagues were pregnant they kept smoking!
We are Gen X! 😊
@Luke5100 true, I was born in 1970, everybody smoked. When my mom was in labor of me, ( in the Netherlands home birthing was normal) the doctor smoked a cigarette when I came out my mom. Those were the days 😵💫. I actually never saw my grandfather, he smoked heavily and I only remember him sitting in his chair with smoke all around him. Arguing with everybody.
its so nice when you have memories of something fun, TELL ME HOW PLEASE I BEG YOU I WANT TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING RAFNEWFNENFAENFEWNFNAEFN EFPEALSE PELAS
EPLEASE
omg my mom was 21 in 1987!
7:54 "Theres only one place!" *Goes to several stores*
I love this. It's shot as an 80s VHS of a lonely teenager messing around in his house with a camera he shouldn't be using, but he has Gen Z energy. You look like a time traveler, this is so great LMAO
Yeah his videos are cool
why he can't use it?
Gen Z × energy??
@@SadAlicateJanelaDespedaçada he said he has "gen z energy"
I actually thought he had 80s kid energy! A certain happiness we grow up with until the internet beats it out of us. Lol.
This was so nostalgic, but I admit I was laughing and loving it right up until you said "40 years ago," upon which point I was like SH*T I'M OLD.
Lmaoo😂❤
Me watching my early gen z stuff:
1:53 _"That's a problem for future Liam"_
I give my future self soooo much unnecessary issues.
😄😄😄😄
1987 is 40 years already?
I may show this to my students in a Media Literacy class. The only two things I would add as a 1981 baby is that we wouldn't have used a cell phone even if it was available, we would have used land lines for everything, and second, that in the 1980s we didn't sit in a house by ourself all day like we do today. We would go out and meet friends because that was more interesting that sitting in front of a smoking TV.
Speak for yourself. Just because you were fucking lame and had lame parents, that doesn't mean we all missed out on being horrifically bullied to a point we hid inside with our VHS's and game consoles, until school saw our parents with their brick cell phones and realized we were wealthy, and took on sucking up to us but it was too late because the trauma was set, so we kept locked inside with Labyrinth and other frightening 1980s materials in our formative years.
I'm completely normal and my parents had the brick goddammit.
back when our cities were walkable
@@dylanshimmi851 the cars were smaller, one could jump over them.
We spent our summers at the public pool or rode our bikes to the lake. Both parents were at work and didn't have a clue where we were, but they trusted that we'd be home at the end of the day. lol
Sitting in front of a smoking TV while smoking* 🤣
Why do I feel nostalgic about a time I never lived? (Born 2001)
But I did have a walk-man that could play CD's and I had a huge radio/CD/Casette player station. My first phone I got at 12, I think, had buttons. It was passed down from my dad, my sis had one from my mom that could slide open (not a blackberry though).
I liked the time back then, I would ring my friends doorbell to ask if they wanted to come out and play, we'd stay out till it got dark running around unsupervised in a small forest. I had no obligations, no job, no anxiety about my performances in that job, no bills to pay, no hard decisions to make. Life was good. Unfortunately, I am unable to be without my phone nowadays, it sucks sometimes
the most incredible thing is, after 30 years or so, those devices still work. Actually they were produced to last.
It's called cyclical consumption. Nothing is built to last anymore, just to keep the money consistently flowing. Everything is built with the cheapest parts by the lowest bidder. We had my grandmothers washer and dryer up to about four years ago. Only thing I ever had to replace were the belts. The washer and dryer we bought four years ago is already starting to break. Everything now is electrical nothing is mechanical so it gives out faster and is almost impossible to fix. It was a simpler time back then. Times didn't change for the better.😢
It's also the survivor bias - you only know about the things that still work,. none of those that broke down.
"Produced to last" cough unintelligible VHS cough cough
Some people blame the fall of the gold standard.
@@markmuller7962 Thank you. Magnetic tapes suck balls compared to digital storage.
I feel like usually TH-camrs are either really talented (when it comes to videography and editing) or have a banging personality. How does it feel to tick all the boxes?
Please make this a series! I’d love to see 90s or 00s. I know things aren’t greatly different but it’s still cool to watch and it feels nostalgic
Just go thru all the decades. 1910s 1920s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 00s.
Skip the 00s
@@Bumbaclot213 Is that because it's from the 21st century?
@@Bumbaclot213Nooo the 00's are cool
@@bluefungiI don't even know if any decade later than the 40's/50's would be possible! But that would be really cool.
10:51 oh Mozart Quartet No.19!❤ Been binging his quartets after a long while of not listening to them, what a joy to spot it in a vid! Also, beautiful work on this video Liam, congrats
I love how Liam tried to make his week as similar to his normal routine as possible.
"This is the first time I've bought a newspaper in my whole life...." "It's making a sound...do I just dial a number?" As someone who experienced the 1980s firsthand as a teenager, this was fascinating. P.S. I think younger people are getting "cell phones" confused with "cordless phones" that they're seeing in the films of the era. In the 80s, cell phones were super rare and seen as toys for rich corporate executives. I didn't use one myself until well into the 90s. Best wishes, L
Very true. You might see a tycoon use a cell phone in a movie, but no "normal" person had a cell phone in the 80's. It was all land lines.
Coverage was also poor. I remember phoning (using my landline) someone who was using one - must have been late 80s - and it was frustrating as the quality of the sound was so rubbish and his signal was dropping in and out
Indeed , we had cordless phones back then , usually with the telescopic aerial you pulled up , and initially there was just one base set and one cordless handset ; later you had one base set and several cordless handsets . Cellular ( or mobile as they are called here in Scotland ) phones didn't really exist here in Scotland ; there were VHF radio carphones for corporate use, such as Air Call , where you called an operator and they connected you ( my father had one for his business back then ) , but it really was the very late 80s before cellular phones became a thing here , and it must have been the early 90s before I got my first one , the Motorola MR1 on the Orange network ( known as the Star tac flip phone in the US ) , before moving on to a series of Nokia handsets , and eventually to a Handspring Treo 600 , and then a Palm Treo 650 , which were my first smartphones , and which i still have in a drawer somewhere . I remember going on holiday to italy with the Treo 650 and being able to access the internet whilst on a boat going down Lake Garda , thinking this is cutting edge !
Honestly, that was an amazing video! It made me feel nostalgia even though I did not exist back in the 80s
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As someone who graduated college in 1981, it was heartwarming to see someone, of a similar age but 40 years into the future, make a foray into the not-too-distant past. The Macintosh hadn't been invented when I left college (we used typewriters and manually fed each sheet of paper into it), nor had portable phones (my sister had a car phone that operated via radio signal to an operator). I have a few VHS tapes if you'd like them (LOL). All in all, a very enjoyable movie. Nice job.
As someone who experienced the 80s as futuristic (it was all new at the time), this was a fun video to watch.
I was born in 2000 but this retrowave content makes me feel kind of nostalgic for something I never saw.
Probably from all the millennials/gen-y doing whatever they can to keep some of the 80's/90's vibes alive (the music alone still holds up). Now you have zoomers bringing back the baggy retro attire of the 90's.
Early 2000 belongs to 90s
I'm from 1994, but as a poor guy from a third world country, I had the CRT TV, watched some Video K7 in my cousin's house and I even had an ATARI videogame. So I feel the nostalgy by myself. I even had a walkman in early 2000s, that really was really good.
2003 here,still somewhat feels nostalgic
1998 same dude
First time viewer here. A friend sent me the link, and I'm glad he did. As someone who grew up in the 80's, I can honestly say that the stresses and anxiety of the time was definitely a LOT different compared to today. It "wasn't a simpler time," but it was definitely a time that thrived via in-person exchanges. I feel as though things were a bit more magical then. More mechanical. Maybe kids that grew up in the 2000's feel the same magic with there childhood as well. It IS crazy to think that the 1980's are the equivalent of 1940's for teenagers now. Time is weird, and nostalgia is more addictive than any hardline drug. Wonderful work here, mate. Looking forward to more.
02/2001. You're correct; I reminisce about the noughties probably a lot more than I should, all the things we used to do, but don't anymore, at least not for many, many years.
@Luke5100you really painted a picture with your description of the 80s , that's exactly how i picture the 80s to have looked like. Mostly I know about the 80s fashion ,colourful maximalist makeups and hair dos ,mullets and punk music. Lots of cool things originated from the said era.
Nostalgia as a phenomenon is actually one of my greatest interests in life. I wonder why the things we had in the childhood hit so different. Is it something about the childhood development itself, or will everything look equally nostalgic when enough time has passed? Also, it's super interesting how they use nostalgia in marketing, especially lately.
Please can someone tell me what song was playing from 16:14? Great video! The whole thing was put together so well. Makes me want to downgrade some devices like possibly getting a dumb phone and some sort of walkman.
Sometimes I am envious of how much more simple life must have been back then.
People will say this about our lives in 40 years... I remember growing up with people making remarks about kids always listening to their walkmans, kids watching too much TV instead of playing outside, then when aol and MSN came around, kids are always on the computer. Every generation people complain about the current generation and their technology and reminisce of previous generations.
@@ness7342 You nailed it. Life in the '80s had a different feel, for sure. I think every decade does. Although I was just becoming a teen in the mid-80s, it felt less stressful and more relaxed-natural, like you said.
it was simple if you only consider the tech aspect, however for me life was "fuller" back then. u had to get your ass up to go do things and not everting was a touch away. i grew up in the 90s but still have a feeling like most of my days now is just clicking, scrolling, tapping. back then u actually had to interact with people, go places, sacrifice time and effort to get something done.
back then was awesome, im a 90´s kid and was the best era.
It really wasn't. The internet, the cell phone and the GPS completely changed everything, mostly for the better. Much more time wasted back then. Meeting with friends at some unknown place meant preparing well in advance to make sure we would find the others easily. There was no way to communicate if there was a delay on the road.
Everything took longer and was subject to more randomness.
It is easy to have the advantages of the 1980s without the inconvenients: turn off the notifications, delete all your social media, and you are basically done.
Having no internet meant less access to basic information like the train timetable. Preparing a vacation required you to go to a travel agency for them to book a flight and an hotel for you. It was not necessarily easier than doing it yourself with an internet connexion, but it meant you had little choice, and prices were higher because that service wasn't free. Very low cost flights didn't exist back then. If you travelled abroad (which was less common), everything was more difficult for the same reason.
The fastest way to get information was by phone, but some calls were costly.
There was, of course, no TH-cam, no wikipedia, no discussion forums, etc, so learning new skills was much slower, or involved hiring a teacher.
As someone who was alive in the 80's, I'm hella jealous that you got to go back.
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Hello! Born after the 90s person here, I always found the 80s tech interesting and the arcades and showbiz pizza. And I always loveedd the idea of 50s diners. I wish i could experience it:( is it ok if ylu gave me some things yall did that were fun?:DD
@@Beetle-y2k the arcades were so fun in the 80s. I always got so excited when I saw one. We had loads at the seaside in Belgium and I'd spend hours there
@@barbpoe1.258 cool:D
And you can too. Just copy him.
Bro, 80s video recording relied soo much more on story telling, that's why it was more quality. None of this gimmick stuff. Pure entertainment. Good job
Only clicked to see what 80's car you picked but turns out you didn't.. The comfort of an 80s sedan is unmatched. I will drive nothing else as long as I live.
I love seeing how happy he is throughout this challenge. It really shows how as we have technologically advanced, our expectations have gotten so high, that we don’t appreciate the small things like he does during this challenge anymore. If I had the money, I would love to do this challenge one time!
If you didn't do it quite as extreme or didn't necessarily have a *need* to use things like the internet or texting, you could. Cheaply too. Most things from the era, or 90's instead, can be had cheaply at thrift stores or online. Estate sales, the VHS recorder was probably the most costly thing next to the phone and macintosh.
@@Stargun-vj1uhOn saying that, I got my player for $10, unless we're talking about a particular one.
Eu desejo desenvolver uma relação melhor com a tecnologia,acho interessante tem equipamentos separados para as tarefas s não gosto muito da ideia de ter tudo conectado,ter apenas as informações necessárias dos aparelhos.
Honestly as someone who has lived thru all the change, the biggest improvement is typing a term paper on a computer. Really SUCKED to do assignments on a mechanical typewriter with having to use white-out or start the whole page over! I had to do a report in the Army weekly and used my own Radio Shack Coco-2 to avoid having to re-type the entire header paragraph each week. This was mid-80s and the S2(intelligence officer) had to examine it to make sure it was not a spying device. LOL I guess understandable during the Cold War era.
Don't forget in 2050 you will be laughed at with today's technology..your turn is coming😂😂😂
the videos, the commitment, the patience, the risk, the time, the cost, the creativity, the activity, the storytelling, litteraly everything, u deserve way more subs
what 'risk'? lol
And surely people know this was all shot in a day, and make him more than most would earn in a year. Say it's all pretty smart!
@@chickentothedip3308 risk of getting scammed, the risk of buying something dangerous, the risk of the video not doing well even with all the time took to make it
ah okay fair enough @@hristinacetkovic4386
07:00 The reason the TV started smoking is most likely because of dust inside the TV on some parts that create heat. This was actually an issue with "old old" tvs back in the 80s as well. So if a TV had been off for a year or so this was seen as a risk since you would "burn off" the dust on the parts that otherwise would be clean and would stay clean if the TV was used often enough. Yes, it is a fire hazard, but you would technically just need to remove the dust and it should work fine.
Mine has heaps of dust and it still works good
I suppose it may need a cleaning though 😂
Also smoke could be from the capacitors no longer working in the electronics. They tend to degrade over time and cause damage to the other components.
@@junknspam3 Yeah, but then your screen will also be black if those pop.
@@Lobos222 it was black
Or when you turned on the heater the first time each winter. ;-)
Growing up poor in the early 2000s (I was born in 95), we pretty much lived like this. Didn’t have internet at home until 2010. No cellphone until about that same time.
And here I am in 2024 cutting the cord.
I turned the cable and internet off. I have internet on my iPhone if I need it (and aside from TH-cam and Facebook market place I really don’t need it) and the channels I usually watch on cable TV are all available over the air via one of those big old mile high antennas. I’ve never really cared for things like Netflix because they just suck and cost too much. I’m considering living without TH-cam and just getting a flip-phone. My life has already gotten more peaceful just by cutting some of this crap out.
I daily drive a 1981 Chevy pickup truck and the headache of a problem cropping up on a new car being gone is awesome. My 1981 has a problem? The part is probably $20 at Autozone and I can change it myself in under 10 minutes.
Restaurants? They’re expensive. My wife makes everything at home, from scratch, and we grow a good amount of what we consume ourselves.
Technology has progressed too far. It’s time we get back to living a human life rather than a digital life. We are carbon based complex beings, not bits in a complex system of electronics.
I grew up semi-poor, about close to middle class. A lot of me growing up with old technology was both us being late bloomer and old souls. Raised by dad and granny since birth (late-2007). The only modern tech we had when I was a kid was Xbox 360, iPad, Windows 7, and shitty Android phones. Every thing else was old as shit. I still need TH-cam to make videos, but I can do that shit with a computer. I did get a flip phone and it’s made a big difference in my life. I don’t have a car yet, but I wanna get a car from around the 70’s and 80’s. The main TV I have is an ‘86 Mitsubishi and I use a digital converter box to get over the air channels like PBS and Buzzr so I can watch some Arizona Stories and Match Game. For food, I never liked going out to eat and I try to eat strictly organic foods at home. I may be using old technology, but its limited capabilities help me appreciate life more.
As an 80s kid, I found this so nostalgic. I was smiling the whole time 😝 💕
Finally someone from the 80’s who can testify 😂😂😂
I laughed when I felt emotional nostalgia about the video cassette inserting sound!
Haha! I will also have to show my mom, she’s from the 80’s as well!
Put away your cell phone, your internet, your flat screen TV.
We are living in the land of landlines, ancient personal computers, boxy TV's with 5 channels, radio and library cards
As a Gen X, can I say the 80's was still amazing and we had a GREAT time.
Man as a Gen Z I can only DREAM of being raised during the 80's. Looked like a blast ngl
Five channels? Bruh, I was born in 1997 and we only had four channels 😅 I am South African though
id rather not
Man, even as a gen Z (saying that hurts lmao), I can say most of this stuff is as good or equally as good as ours. It has a great charm to it, and I love it. I own an apple II+, an SNES, and some other collectibles. All bangers.
L take, anything before the 2010s seems like a horrible time period, you just miss your childhood, stop lying to yourself.
love how the sony walkman still holds up to this day. honestly a genius invention.
Maybe you shoud try living a week with 2000’s technology too! It will be so nostalgic for a lot of us!
I'm born in 1972 and grew up in the 80s. My memory is that the Walkman and VHS player (VCR?) were the things that brought me the most joy. That is whenever I could get a physical copy of the music or film I was interested in. The computer and mobile phone didn't impress me much. That totally changed when Internet came. Today I find it hard to explain to my kids how we managed to get around back then. Can't even remember myself. Applying for a job, finding the bus timetable, paying for stuff etc. Everything just had to be physical and you always needed a bag and a wallet. And change to call home!
And something to take notes on will I add.
The computer fascinated me from the first time I saw one at school (a C64). Mobile phones didn't become a part of our lives before 1999, before that it was way too expensive and only for business people.
When I discovered the internet and that you could chat with the entire world from your bedroom, I was amazed. I guess my first internet connection was in 96 or 97. Dial up of course.
We would meat up at spedific times we agreed on on the landline phone. If someone did not show up at the bus we agreed on, we assumed that the person had missed the bus and we waited just for the next one that came 30 minutes later. Now if someone is 3 minutes late, people get annoyed.
We would have some magazines at the toilet to kill time there.
I recently saw tv recordings from the 80's talking about the future and how we would save so much time with computers etc. We actually do save a lot of time, but we waste it on watching tik toks, doomscrolling and facebook. Is that progress?
People had pagers, not mobile phones for the most part and would use codes to give a clue what was up. Computers? For games it was okay, to do work, I hated them. Make sure you keep saving to the hard drive, save on your floppy, every hour at least print out what you're working on. Yes, I found them that unreliable. I never used a mac though, so maybe that would have been better.
@@D.D.-ud9zt Plus the extreme fragility of Floppy discs too and their lack of space. Paper and either pens or typewriters were still better options at the time.
@@D.D.-ud9zt Nobody had pagers in the 1970s and 1980s son.
I wasn't born until the 2000's but this made me quite emotional. The whole time I was thinking "man, life must be so more enjoyable when you're not distracted. I should do that" and then was hit with anxious feelings at the thought of being disconnected to the online world. I know my quality of life would improve if I lowered my technology consumption but it makes me nervous.
I lived in the 80's. I feel anxious thinking about being disconnnected, but I remember the peace of mind I used to have, yet I am unwilling to reduce my technology consumption. I did it once for a week and felt great. Try it. Maybe try to read more like he did. I stopped reading, once the computer and internet took over my life and I used to be a great reader. It is totally different reading a paper book. I had forgotten how relaxing it can be. Best of luck!
Just do it. I went tech free for a year as an adult, was nice. Back to basics.
just gotta do a bit at a time. get rid of social media, then soon lessen your time online, fill your time w hobbies & spending time with people/family. then less time on your phone and soon maybe just use your phone for calls and emergency texts. etc etc u dont have to get old tech but just lessen your time and live life more slowly and be more present. its way healthier
Just get rid of Social Media to start. That is toxic already. I was only on FaceBook but left in 2016 because my neurologist said it was not good for my mental health. I have actually had clinical depression and chronic anxiety since the 80's and in a way I wish I could go back, not to being a child, but go back as an adult because "adulting" right now, sucks.
Even then people were beginning to become concerned with "information overload" oh if only more of us had the foresight into what would be.
Being born in 1980, I have some insight on this .If you had a question in the 80's the place to go was usually the library or someone who knew more then you. Pretty much no one had cell phones, just land lines. At 6pm the tv would be on the news, for one it was of the few way to get the weather report. The newspaper was vital, good for finding upcoming events, yard sales, tv guides, ect. Want to invest in stocks, the wall street journal was a must. Friday was a common time to run down to the video store. 7pm you are likely watching whatever the hit show was. FYI, that camcorder is more like 90's tech then 1980's. 1980's camcorders took full size vhs tapes.
I well remember full size VHS cameras, I was the proud owner of a Panasonic M7.
It came in its own handy dandy suitcase for your convenience and you couldn't record long enough to fill a three hour VHS tape without a spare battery that was big enough to run a motorcycle lol.
On the plus side you could stick your favourite tv channel logo on the side and look like a news camera man
...and if one is fortunate enough, a Betamax VCR.
My dad rented a camcorder in 1985, it was just the camera, you needed to hook up your vcr to it to record it to tape, so we would have to drag the vcr around on a rolling table with chords hooked up to the handheld camera to film anything. In 1988 he bought camcorder that had the vcr built into it. That was really cool to play with. Me and my sisters would make movies with it. Lots of fun.
The 80s was the golden age for video games too. We had Atari, Collecovision and eventually a Nintendo Entertainment System. It came with the zapper (for duck hunt) and the robot for gyromite. I still have it and it works and my nieces and nephews love playing with it, but it only works on a CRT tv so I keep one around just for that purpose.
Our first computer was a Tandy 1000 my Dad bought in 1987. It came with "The Black Cauldron" a 1986 Sierra game based on the 1985 Disney film no one remembers. This was one of the old Sierra graphical adventure games (like King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest and Leisure Suit Larry). Those games were Dark Souls hard before Dark Souls and the narrator would make fun of you for dying. The internet was around, but we didn't get hooked up to it until 1994 when my Dad subscribed us to prodigy. So we basically had to rely on our own brain power to solve some of the most logic defying puzzles you could think of, and often you'd unknowingly wind up in a loss state by missing a crucial item earlier in the game, or crossing a bridge one too many times. My dad didn't let us call into the sierra hint line because it was a 900 number that costed a fortune and I didn't start buying hint books and strategy guides until I was older and had bit more money to spend in the 90s. I didn't beat The Black Cauldron until I got the hint book over five years after getting the game.
Another fun thing to do in the 80s was make mix tapes. We would try to record off the radio, but this was imperfect as we'd often miss the beginning of the song. My family had a decent record collection so we would record off of those, but sometimes the records would skip or have too many "crackles". So when we bought a new record, we would often record it to tape immediately so that it would capture the sound before the record got worn down and we could play it in the car or our walkmen. In 1988 we got a Compact Disc Player. This was much better as CDs had a much cleaner sound and didn't skip as much. I had a lot of fun making all sorts of crazy mix tapes using CD's and was doing it well into the 90s until I got my CD burner and started making mix CDs instead. MP3's kind of killed the artform though. Sure you could create playlists, but you couldn't really give it to someone the same way you could give a mix tape or mix CD to someone. And giving your mix tape to a friend was sort of the whole point of making them.
Dewey decimal system! Know it, love it, rifle through the many many index cards!
One thing people forget to mention is there would be the morning gazette, the afternoon gazette, and the evening gazette, and that was in a small city. In a larger city more editions and even specials for something huge. I find internet news is often repetitive or they don't want us to know. Like is Russia really winning or losing? Who knows? Someday they'll either retreat or take over the country and I guess we'll know then.
The outro about bagel holes was probably the most 1980s part of this- without google you had to really think and wonder about the reasoning behind things, have conversations, ask around, learn things from other people. A lot of rumours and misinformation too but at least it was more interpersonally connected. Something is somewhat lost when googling true facts replaces wondering and communicating together…
I was born in 1948, so I was around when all of this was new and exciting. No Walkman, but we had transistor radios with AM/FM and ran on 9 volt batteries. Desk phones with rotary dialing. The first computer I used was an IBM 370/155 that had 256K and took 10 tons of A/C to keep it cool. Cool video! Oh, and I was around in the 50s when "cool" first started being used. Thanks! Subscribed.
When you wanted to know what someone was up to, you just asked the switchboard operator.
from before cool was cool.
@@profquad It is hard to even imagine what people said colloquially before cool
@@alastairhewitt380 If only there was a way to look up such things. If only there were some fantastical tool that contained all of humanity's collective knowledge and that knowledge was somehow accessible through something simple like a keyboard. If only...
@@daveidmarx8296 The 90s internet?
Not only was life less stressful in the 80’s , in hindsight , not being reachable at all times via tech , personal interactions were more exciting and much more fulfilling .
Well… that depended really on who you were and what country you’re living in. Heard communist Eastern Europe wasn’t so nice… and being gay was practically a death sentence…. And being black in South Africa (apartheid).
@@gammatheprotogen2185 Also if you were politically active, it was easy to get stressed over the possibility of nuclear war or an environmental catastrophe like acid rain or a depleted ozone layer.
@@gammatheprotogen2185 this was clearly about the west
Go outside more!@@gammatheprotogen2185
Honestly, i feel like back in the day people where outside way more, because we didnt have high tech screen back then :)
Even though I'm a 2000's kids, both my parents were teens in the 80s and so much of their technology I grew up with in my childhood. Most of my first movies were on VHS tapes, and my first songs were from prime 80's. Thanks for the nostalgia. : )
I'm the same as you, but 90s/ mid 2000s as well as 80s. I don't think I really interacted with post-2005 media until i was 10 or so.
I was born mid nighties, most things were still VHS even in 2004-2005... Most of us born after the 80s were still using 80s tech because it was still about for quite a while before we moved on to higher tech.
You are officially a human being!!!
Unlike these 2010 kids
The only thing that had changed in the early 2000s, were smaller cellphones and the beginning of the internet (56k, nobody really used it, so pretend it didn't exist) the rest of the widespread technologies were the same as in the 80s... (I'm from '87 so I remember it well, this is the stuff I grew up with) obviously I'm talking about Europe (maybe it was different in the United States, but I don't think so...) as pc my father had an amiga, sometimes he made me play with it (with the knob joystick, like the knob of an arcade station but only two buttons, one on each side, probably to allow use by a left-handed person as the second button was impossible to use) Q-bert, pac-man,another world, and much more games...(real social change came with smartphones and tablets,and above all social networks) this has changed the priority in the very young, growing them totally addicted to the internet, today tablets and social networks are the new babysitters
This always makes me feel so weird, also being a 2000s kid but my parents are from the 60s 💀💀 I was always jealous of everyone as a kid, having cool young parents while I had grumpy fossils
1:27 seeing this quality instandly flashes me back to the memories watching malcom in the middle and liviin in the 80's/90's
As an American (you nailed the accent) teen who adores the 80's, your living the life my dude, wish I had the funds to get all that cool stuff in working condition. Also the editing on this video and the use of storytelling was nothing short of exceptional. Very well done.
I am 55, graduated high school in 1987. Thanks for the memories. The 1980s were totally rad...so much fun.
wow he used it for a whole week
I used 80's technology for...10 whole years
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@@timburr4453 wtf i only use modern technology
Totally Tubular, how do that even come up with words like this
I grew up in the 80s. Most people just didn't have a computer. Most cost about $5000 in those days dollars. Walkman was ubiquitous, everyone had one. We had a color TV with VHS in the loving room, while my brother and I had black and white TVs. Mine was portable, about a 5" screen. Mine could pick up radio also!
We didn't have mobile phones or PCs. We could go into almost any house in the neighborhood and use their phone because we knew them. Ordering food for carry out or delivery was a rare thing. We had records, tapes and books.
The technological revolution of the 90s changed more than just the things we use. It changed us, and not neccessarily for the better. Things may be easier now, but I miss knowing the people in my neighborhood. Today, people stick their nose in their phone and ignore life happening all around them.
The loving room! Love it😅
AGREED with everything you said.
@damsen978he means Living Room
Actually, a lot of people had a computer in the 80s, more in the latter half, most likely. The Commodore 64 was quite common; our family had our Atari 800XL 8 bit PC, along with a very noisy printer and diskette drive. The PC itself was ~$200; later on, we were gifted with an Atari 400 pc. Not everyone had a walkman, I didn't. So, you see, there were a lot of variation in people's experience in the 80s. What you, and maybe your friends, had and experienced was not the same for everyone.
I'm an 80s kid and we played on the street every day. I live in a former communist eastern Europe country so there were very few cars on the streets in the 80s. All the kids in the neighbourhood would stay out on the street and we would play football (soccer), street games made with chalk (games like hop scotch), hide and seek, "country country give us soldiers" and other popular team games that actually promoted kid fitness. We would go in parks and play in jungle gym sets and slides and the kids that had rich parents would even get bikes (yes, kid bikes were expensive).
Most parents would work 8-10 hours a day so they put the house key around the kids' neck and send them out to play all day. There was no fear of crime and the street kids would take care of each other. We didn't really use phones, people had land line phones that would sit in the house on a coffee table with a notebook with people's phone numbers written in it and we would rarely use them, maybe once a day. Kids just went to the other kids' houses and yell their name to come out and play. We had large radio-cassette players and we would trade each other various cassettes to listen to.
Then in the 90s we discovered video games and street games were doomed. Me and my frends spent a lot more time indoor playing games on the SNES and Sega Genesis. Sometime we would go to a cinema in groups to see a famous movie. On weekends we would stay at home because they showed good movies on TV friday and saturday evening.
I spent most my childhood outdoors playing street games, riding my bike and going to parks so i guess i was pretty lucky. A couple years ago i saw some kids playing soccer on the street and i was almost moved to tears of nostalgia. That thing very rarely happens anymore (seeing kids playing on the street), but i appreciate parents that still take their kids to parks so they can play in jungle gyms and stay fit.
Nowadays i have very few frends, but i still like to go for long walks in my city and maybe stop at a random pub and get a beer or go to a theater and enjoy a play (i dont really like the cinema of our current decade).
That Motorola phone with 30 min talk time, was not designed for chit-chat and gossip conversations like today. It was designed for work, and if it took you two minutes for a business call, you didn’t have your ducks on a row. Glad to see someone your age is experimenting with technology I had in my 20s and really enjoy it.
Some of those things are still doable today. We just got spoiled and used to having things done yesterday.
Unfortunately, you couldn’t test a pager, or a 14.4/33.6 modem, because there’s no service for the pager, and analog phone lines have disappeared, except on real fax machines. Great job.
Liams American accent is amazing and makes me grin every time.
same lol
He’s from New Zealand lmao
@@pepsman9139Yeah, I'm sure the person you're replying to knows that Liam is from New Zealand, but he kept doing an American accent during the video.
I'm Brazilian, I'm 49 years old, and I spent my childhood and teenage years in the 80s and early 90s. I grew up with cassette tapes, VHS, computers, vinyl records, and the coolest "mobile phone" back then was the cordless one. Of course, in Brazil, things took a bit longer to catch up due to the history of a long dictatorship, so we didn't have (usually) Macintosh computers, but we had those PCs with a keyboard, mouse, and if you had the money, a dot matrix printer.
Your video brought back memories that I had tucked away for so long, and I can only express my gratitude. I'm not one of those people who think my time was better - no way! The best moment is now because we're alive, but it's so nice to reminisce about times when my only worry was the radio alarm clock... to make sure I woke up on time and didn't miss classes.
Thank you very much, and greetings from Brazil.
Olha Junior, Jr... De Junior pra Junior... Durante a reserva de mercado nós estávamos nem 5 anos atrasados com relação à ponta tecnológica mundial. Hoje, estamos com mais de 40 anos de defasagem pois só nos restou importar. Hora de rever conceitos.
Love that this was recorded on an old camera.
Fun fact: In the '80s there was this thing called money. It's little pieces of paper that you can exchange for goods and services (such as a pizza). You can place an order over the telephone, and then pay for that order with money when you pick up the pizza or when the driver delivers the pizza to your door.
You also deprived yourself of the authentic '80s experience of a horrible buzzing alarm clock. Probably exceptionally hard to find since I'm guessing the fate of almost all of them was being angrily flung against a wall.
Alarm 10:36
@@shoelacedonkey Exactly. That's not a horrible buzzing '80s alarm clock.
He should have bought something like this: th-cam.com/video/gORMzB1Wl6w/w-d-xo.html
My grandparents still have their 80s alarm clocks. I’m sure everyone who was alive back then has one hidden away somewhere lol
@@pickledkool-aid Hidden away? I use mine every day! (General Electric)
This was still quite normal around 2000 in the Netherlands.
Thanks for the video , mate. Was really joyful to see you having fun😄 cheers!
The 80s were an amazing time to be a teenager. We look back at this tech as ancient, but in its day, it was cutting edge, and nothing like it existed before.
I remember when my family bought our first VHS player, and we rented our first movie. Before that, you could either see a movie when it came to a theater, or watch a heavily edited version if it came on TV. That was it.
Now, we could go to the video store and get any movie we wanted, and watch it when we wanted. It was glorious!
Cell phones, as crude as they were, were a similar phenomenon. Before they existed, people called you at your house. If you weren't home, you missed their call. When you went out, there was no way to contact you.
Man, I miss those days...
I grew up in a household with a piano, but when I got my first portable Casio keyboard in the early '80s, I was blown away "You mean I can just put batteries in it and play songs in the back seat of our car??" Sometimes, instead of calling, friends and family would simply show up at your doorstep, and that perfectly fine and acceptable. These days, if one of my friends knocked on my door without calling or texting me first, I'd get a split second of anxiety before answering the door. It's weird how social norms and technology screw with our brains.
I held off getting a mobile phone until 2006 for that very reason
Not being contactable when out was so under-rated when I was a teen in the 80s. I can remember losing a gang of friends in the city centre and my only option would be to try every bar in town or, instead, go and watch Gremlins on my own in the cinema. Chose the latter and then got a cab home. Went on holiday with the gang for a week at a beach camping. Knew nothing about the world apart from having a great time, getting drunk, high, whatever. We've gained so much with technology, but along the way we lost "being present" in the moment. I do wonder whether this is messing with younger generations heads and driving bad mental health? I know I need to get away from tech more and I'm 57 years old. I can feel how it drains me and I'm not dealing with TikTok or whatever the latest "crack" social network is popular this month or year. I don't envy the current generation - you have a lot to deal with in every aspect of your lives and the world is going to hell in a hand basket.
Edited version on TV? Fortunately we did not have that. Here video versions were sometimes edited. The law was strictest n video and TV had no rules.
14:20 "The complete works of Shakespeare? Probably wipe that out in a weekend"
Having just come from his video where he actually read it, that's some pretty intense foreshadowing and dramatic irony right there. Shakepeare himself would have loved that.
Omg it wasn’t just me who remembered it from this video both videos are works of art tho
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From those of us who were your age in the 80's, thanks. It was exciting to live it as much as it was to see it re-lived through you.
Delighted by how delighted you are at all the old tech! Honestly just seeing everything in that hazy VHS format was nostalgic as hell. The Walkman was truly the pinnacle of 80s construction, LOVED the one my mama used to have and miss it every day. THE BUTTONS!!! CLICKABLE PERFECTION!!!!
I’ve seen a lot of videos about outdated tech where people didn’t know what a VCR was or how to use a Thomas Guide, but what shocked me was when you stated that you’ve never bought a newspaper in your entire life. Something about that statement speaks volumes about the generational shift in technology.
Fr wtf even is a Thomas guide
@@hughmungus5686 Before GPS and Google maps, we had these things called paper maps. A Thomas Guide was a paper map, but in book form. I never used one myself, but my dad, who drove a lot for his job, used them extensively. Every week he would sit at the dining room table with several Thomas Guides, and plan out his routes for the week.
Got no idea what a Thomas Guide is. Um, an atlas.
I became an electrical engineer in 1993. We very purposely targeted newspapers, and especially television news programs for destruction. They've always been garbage. They NEVER vetted their stories, it's always been garbage they always promoted government narratives. Took YOU guys another 30 years to start to realize it. Now Google is doing this, we'll destroy them too, and much more quickly.
That shocked me and I'm "only" in my mid 40s. I can't remember when I last bought a newspaper though. Probably 10 years ago, maybe more.
@@D.D.-ud9zt took you until 2014 to recognize that newspapers only carry opinion and propaganda? I thought it was pretty obvious by 2002, when not a single newspaper pushed back against the Bush administration's lies about Iraq. That war could have been prevented, if we had a press at that time. 800,000 Iraqis dead. Same has been true of every war since then.
I almost felt like I was watching a document of a time traveler from 2023 who traveled back to 80's. Loved every second of it!
You were.
I'm impressed with your video editing skills. This was put together well. Sad to see the brick phone not working but that's not surprising. I'm also very impressed that you were able to able to find so much 80s stuff that still works.
A couple of things from someone who was back there in the day - firstly no one had mobile phones in the 1980s, unless they were rich. Secondly, no one had a Mac either unless they were rich - we all had Commodore 64s.
a rich friend bought me a Mac 128k. The system with software, external floppy drive, printer and modem was about $4500 in 1984 dollars, or $16,000 in 2024 dollars.
then again, a new 2024 SUV is $100,000 - $25,000 in 1984 dollars
@@vap0rland You also have to take into account cost of living and salaries. Using those inflation calculators online doesn't give you accurate results because it doesn't take into considerations too many variables.
I had an Apple II at work in 1978 , just used it for keeping a database .
Oh , I had a Commodore 64 , then an Amiga 500 and finally an Amiga 1200 , before eventually getting an iMac G3 sometime in the early 90s .
Yes and no... I had a ZX81 in 1982!
Amstrad cpc464 in Spain
This was awesome. The fact that he filmed this on an old video camera was true dedication. Growing up in the 80s and 90s with Blockbuster video, this brings back some good memories of a different time.
As a Gen-Xer, I love everything about this! Home computers were uncommon, and pretty much no one had a mobile phone in 1987; however, we all had shelves full of VHS tapes. About half of which were recorded off the TV. Absolutely loved my Sony Walkman. Always had to keep a pencil handy to wind loose tapes! Don't get me wrong, I love my smartphone and modern tech, but damn it all, the 80s were the best decade to be alive (okay, the 90s were alright, too).
I was waiting for someone to mention the pencil 😉
@@ness7342 actually, in 1985, only around 8% of households had home computers (today it's around 80%), which seems about right from what I remember. For what they could do at the time, the average cost of around $1,000 (approx. $2,850 in 2023) wasn't justifiable in most households. I grew up middle class, yet I knew maybe two or three families who had home computers. And these were pretty much off limits to us kids. Kind of a shame. I see nostalgia videos all the time about great computer games from the 80s, which I never heard of, let alone got to play. Still, I had my NES, and later SNES, so I was very fortunate there. ☺
You nailed! All you mentioned is perfectly accurate 👍
@@ness7342 It also depends on your country. In the UK and Europe overall, videogame consoles were not a big thing at all until the early 90s, with the 3rd gen. Instead, home computers were huge, particularly in the UK. It was mostly the Speccy and the C64 in the UK until the late 80s/early 90s, when the Amiga and Atari ST perhaps became dominant, at least among the more affluent.
I grew up in a pretty good area, but we weren't rich. Back then you could actually buy a "fixer-upper" house in a good school district. My parents worked hard and wanted us to be exposed to current tech, so my dad got us an Atari 400 around 1980, and then I got a job at a computer store at 15 and an 800. Most of my friends had computers, and we'd hang out at each other's houses and play games and even write little programs. But we spent just as much time riding bikes, looking in the alleys for discarded Playboys, and collecting and listening to records.
Nobody had mobile phones. Even on TV. And look at all the plot complications that were possible because of that. Today you have to set everything in the past. Stranger Things is fun nostalgia, but it's also the last time you can actually have a kid get lost on his bike in the woods (give or take the '90s).
VHS tapes were expensive! The best ones (Maxell Gold) were $16 each for a while. I didn't care about video, only audio... until I got a job at a video store that sold, among many other things, LaserDisc players. After that, nothing else was good enough.
Today I write mobile (and other) apps, but wow I'm glad I grew up in the '80s and enjoyed my 20s in the '90s. Really the perfect time of having and understanding technology, but not being ruled by it.
9:29
"Oh it works!"
"Oh it doesn't works..."
*"Oh it works!"*
congrats my guy, you’ve just made one of the most well-put together and entertaining videos on youtube
It was well put together but as someone who lived through this time period, watching someone say they "survived" a day in the 1980s... I mean this was normal everyday life. I didn't say, "Boy if only I had a streaming service" because no one knew what that was. I know the video is entertainment but this was real every day life for most of my childhood.
Liam is the kinda guy to use products from the 1980s at a modern day party and be like:
Wdym? isn’t this AMAZING?
That's the strange thing about technology; it can either seem futuristic or way out of date, depending on your point of view. At one time in the 1980's all this stuff seemed very modern ( and I can say that with certainty, being a teenage in that decade ). Now it looks like belongs in a museum, and we wonder how exactly we survived using those old gadgets.
I'm so amazed by the fact you somehow managed to buy most of that old equipment in great condition (except the burnt TV lol)!!
I used 1980s technology for a decade - and it makes me feel so old.
Underrated comment! 😉
I used my Mac SE/30 well into the 2000s I still miss the MIDI sequenser I had in it.
Me too, except the old part, i'm experienced at worst
I still use an axe.
Sweeties