25 Things ’80s Kids Could Do That Today’s Kids Can’t
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- Did you know there are a many things '80s kids could do that today's kids can't? Technology and culture has radically altered the way we do things. What once was pretty normal is now either old fashioned, taboo, out-dated, or weird. Get ready to travel back in time!
Here are 25 things '80s kids could do that today's kids can't.
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Keeping a blank tape in the cassette player to record songs off the radio.
And the DJ talks into the end of the song. Noone needed that 😉
More 70ies though I’d say. But still YEAH.
@Kate Jagger my husband is still astonished that I know so many 80th songs and the bands name. I lived for the music when I was a teenie. Did you made your best friend a tape, too?
@@marvincosby7060 or the worst case scenario, we in Germany called it "Band Salat" I don't know how you would call it in English, the moment your tape was in the player and it was out of the tape box and totally messy. Do you know what I mean. Everytime when that happened I had to pray that I could wind it back and it worked again and wasn't totally damaged.
maggiesue35 hahaha genau band salat und dann ne stunde mit nem kuli wieder aufwickeln - just talking about using a ballpen to wind back tape once it got loose.
As an 80s kids we did this cool thing called talking. To each other. In person. As in face to face. W no distractions.
And, when we send text or email, people can't read your emotion. Unless you insert emoticons. More than a few times, people have thought I was being short with them or they didn't get my sense of humor.😂
Except for jukeboxes.;)
And fought each other outside, and not in video games!
I remember almost every neighborhood kids played outside...I don't see that anymore 🏌️🏋️🤸⛹️🤾🚴🚵🤽🤹🤼
😂 True
1970s stuff ❤ We went outside and came back when it started getting dark. No computers, we had to go find something to do, like every kid before us.
We had rules, and punishments when we broke them. We respected our elders.
I didn't. 😎
Nah. The 80s had all that without the inflation and economic problems of the 70s. Plus, the 70s had the Vietnam War and the cold war. Yes, the cold war was going on in the 80s but relations with the USSR began to thaw. The 80s were way better
You should of been a kid in the 50's, Heaven on earth for us !!!
@@hellskitchen10036 You lucky b*******
@@Styxswimmer I think you're right, the 80s were way better than the 70s. More prosperous and cooler stuff in the stores, plus the energy crisis was mostly over.
I can remember seeing Jimmy Carter making his speeches on TV. We all had a sense that he was this namby-pamby fool who couldn't get the hostages free. Everything on the radio was this soft rock, over produced, chick-singer BS.
By the time Reagan came along we had punk, new wave, MTV, reggae, rap, and National Lampoon. It all seemed to exciting and fresh. Growing up in the bourgeois UES of New York we felt like characters in a John Hughes movie.
Born in '69,I spent my childhood in the '70's and my teenage years in the '80's couldn't have been better.
With you there man ! Born in 70 !
69'er here too. It was great
Kids today will never recognize the phrase "Be Kind, Rewind."
Blockbuster baby!
Show them a casset tape and a pencil, and watch the look of confusion spread across their faces
@@lionsroar2512 Ahh, yes, that good old secrete - until you only have a circular-shaped pencil. Thanks for reminding me that!
@Fremont Jablonski and they will never have the pleasure of hearing that particular warble the songs took on when you listened to that cassete so much that the tape started to stretch!
Lol at my video store they charged 50¢ if u didn't rewind! 😂 My mom was always sayin Rewind that tape!
Crank calling random numbers because no one had caller ID.
Lol so true
You still can Just dial *67
Joshua Crispin that wasn’t a thing until the mid nineties.
Or calling 867-5309 and asking for Jenny!
"Is your fridge running?"
80s were the best time to live in. The best products, the best music, and freedom as a young one to not have to worry if someone was going to take you or do bad things to you. We could stay out all night and play ditch em down our whole block, which was basically hide and seek, and you had all the neighbors yards to hide in ❤️🇺🇸
But kids did get abducted back then. They always did. Someone even tried to lure me into his vehicle when I was a young child.
Yup, we had the permissiveness of the 70s, with the politics and prosperity of the 50s. And AIDS hadn't yet killed the party. AND no political correctness yet. At college you could yell the n-word at the top of your lungs and nobody gave a shit.
@@Laidengizer011 - parents just weren't ridiculously paranoid about it back then. Thing is, it still happens now so parents' attempts at preventing their children from playing outside, etc are hardly working, are they?
@@mattylamb9194 But are they happening in the same numbers??
I miss making mixed tapes, after school cartoons like Thundercats & He-Man, early morning cartoons like Robotech, and Saturday morning cartoons like Thundar The Barbarian, Dungeons & Dragons, & The Smurfs. I miss 80's TV ads and most of all, I just miss being a kid. Paying bills sucks.
What about knowing 175 different phone numbers by heart?
Or use a address book.
I still remember my childhood phone number and my best friend's number from the time.
How about using a telephone with a rotary dial?
Lol you nailed it with that one! So many numbers memorized
Not that many, but I still remember the number we had when I was in high school- and now the area code for that town is changed!
How many ever rode in back of a pick up truck? On the highway.
Troy Purnell We did , they'd hit a bump you'd all go flying up in the air lol...it was great till someone would fly out but it never happened so awesome.....
I did! Was a fun experience! Good Times!
I did and it was awesome!!!
Yup!😂
I did! We rode in the back sitting on lawn chairs drinking cocktails on our way to see the tall ships! Hey who saw the tall ships
One of my favorite memories of the 80's (born in 1977 here) was going to a Video Game Arcade and losing yourself in hours of beat'em up and adventure games...and then realizing you spent your entire allowance on video games lol but MAN IT WAS WORTH IT!!
"I got a pocket fulla quarters and I'm headn to the AR-CADE!"
Summer of `83 I got totally addicted to the game "Tutankhamun", which is the formal egyptian name for King Tut. That game had me hooked like it was crack!
I was born in 1971 and one thing i completely remember as a 70's/80's kid that you don't hear about much anymore are sleepovers. I know my best friend back then would come over for a sleep over and we'd get into all kinds of mischief and in turn i would go to his house and we'd have a grand ole time.
I lived in the country, so I had to walk about 2 miles to my best friends place. We played Intellivison all night. Intellivision was state of the art back then. a big step up from TV tennis.
Getting mad at the radio DJ for talking over the beginning of your favorite song while you're trying to record it with the built in cassette player. D'OH!!
OH Yea!!! That pissed me off greatly.
Ahh yess I remember that your Totally right.. Did you ever use that Cassette to play in the Car
Wonderful...thats made me chuckle...😍😜😜😜
Oh yeah! 😂😂
I hated that. They would cut in at the end of the song too. It made us so mad!
Kids today will never know the feeling of being the remote for the TV
Or holding the aerial in just the right position.
Lol I was going to say "being the remote control and TV aerial". I also remember being sent to the shops in the middle of ur program, and ur parents got u to do it by saying "I'll time u". I've tried it with my kids, and my friends with theirs, but kids are SOOOO different now. Pre Millennium was definitely better.
OMG the absolute funniest/truest comment. I would get called from downstairs by my mom just to go change the channel... and thought nothing of it. At least until I was a teenager. :)
God I hated being the remote for adults. The other thing I hated, at least when it came to us kids, is if you left the room the next kid who came into the room got to choose what to watch. I'd sit there till I damn near had to pee myself before getting up to finish The Dukes of Hazard, The Incredible Hulk, or Knight Rider. House full of girls. So go figure. On the bright side. It was better than the voting my parents implemented at first. Because I never got to watch anything I wanted with 3 girls outvoting me on a regular basis.
D@mn, forgot about that! :-D. And like someone else said, moving the antenna around.... :-P
Born in 75, Grew up during the 80s and loved it. Saturday Mornings were the best time to be an 80s Kid. I remember everything mentioned on this list. I used collect Garbage Pail Kids cards. Sadly I wish I still had them to just look at. Kids today have no clue what many of had. I am still aiming to find all 80s Cartoons to own. Very hard to find most of them.
Man. Watching all these videos of the 80s and Gen X has made me realize how much times have completely changed.
It's fun giving a kid something we had in the 80s and asking them to use it.
Have you ever seen the look on one of these kid's face when you show them a rotary dial phone?
Lmao.. I showed one to my daughter and her friend, when I was clearing some stuff outta my grandma's house after she passed, and their reactions were BEYOND EPICALLY HILARIOUS 🤣🤣🤯🤯😱😱😭😭😵😵
@@jennifermoody6987 There's a video on TH-cam where it takes a kid 5 or 10 minutes to figure out how to use a rotary dial phone.
😆
@@firestream93 Well you could easily mess up the dial. I always hated them.
@@Laidengizer011 True
@@Laidengizer011 Just spray it with DW40, it'll work jus fine
People would also take photos of other people rather than themselves.
It's true...it was more fun to take photos of others than of yourself.
I don't think a single person took a picture of themselves! Ever!
Blackavar WD you know why because many phones didint come with front facing cameras at the time and people would ask others to take photos of themselves still making it a selfie
@@souljahkin2017 WHAT!? There was no such thing as " front facing cameras" HAHAHA If you had someone take your pic you were usually with someone. (You wanted a pic with them) Maybe someone took a pic in front of something by themself, but I never saw one IRL. Usually OTHER people made you stand somewhere and took your pic. Not a selfie.
Ah the good old days!!
A lawn full of bikes let you know which house everyone was at, and who was there.
So true. And no 2 were ever the same
Ride to “the Barrens”
I spit taked my coffee
And you knew which kid was which because of their bike.
😁yep
How about it
Playing manhunt into the dark, sitting on mailboxes, slip and slide, birthday parties at peoples yards, rollerskate rinks, biking everywhere and pure FREEDOM
I remember High Top Fades, Rat tails hairstyle, Bucket Hat's, Punky Brewster, New Kids on the Block, Snow, Chico sticks, leaving to get lunch on Lunchbreak starting Middle school, Food Stamps currency, rope climbing, 25 cent chips, penny candy, and ACTUALLY playing outside through ALL seasons. I use to come in after playing in the 🌨️ from hours w my friends. I use to run my hand and feet under water to unthaw them! My kids hardly EVER go out side.
When MTV actually played music.
And having to practically wait all day just see a video you've been looking forward to seeing. 🙄🙄😊
Lol and then it became a maternal channel.
First time seeing thuggish ruggish bone was on mtv
I remember having to stay up really late to watch Michael Jackson videos.
Yo! MTV Raps &. Headbangers Ball
You asked a girl for her number, and she gave you the house number, because nobody had cell phones. anytime you called, a family member picked up. And you were always polite to whomever pickups the phone, because proper manners where essential.
Then we lied about our names so we couldn't be tracked
We in the early 70s actually had a phone etiquette class!
Don't forget, your house was almost never locked & you could play in the yard (neighborhood) w/o adult supervision
@@Ron_EZ we grew up on a dead end street. There were train tracks and high voltage power lines, running behind the back end of the street. My older brother forbid me from climbing the massive tower for the power lines, but we did have fun putting pennies on the train tracks, and watching them get flattened. Now I think back, and say my God, my parents would have been put in jail for us doing shit like that nowadays.
And my voice was so low in middle school, I never had a girlfriend who’s mom was very suspicious.
Another thing: Many radio stations did not have 24 hour programming. Those stations were only licensed to play until midnight. Then you’d hear the national anthem play before those stations went off the air for the night. The same thing happened at midnight on many TV stations, hence the popularity of VHS and movie rentals back then.
The TV stations shut down around 11 o' clock. At least the 2 stations we had did. We watched them on a little 12 inch black, and white with the tinfoil on the rabbit ears.
Being born in the late 80s, I was mostly a 90s kid. But still experienced most of what 80s kids did. My favorite memory took place during an elementary school dodgeball game where I showed my true colors to the other team. I did this by being able to dodge all the balls until I was the last one left on my team! An awkward moment though, as I had all the balls on my side and the other team had none.😂 So, one by one I just kept throwing balls to get my teammates back on the floor. Maybe my greatest sport moment ever!🎉
Who else remembers getting thirsty and drinking from a hot hose on a hot day?
No bottled water for us.
Who doesn't? Especially if you have a well.
George Echeveste I love to do that
Heck yeah
Just remember to let it run first ... otherwise you’d burn your mouth!
Mmm that metal tint.....loved it
when being a musician meant you actually were talented
Reminds me of something I read this week. "Back when even though you were ugly you could still become a famous singer".
I will totally second that!!!
ix Nine
your comment made me laugh out loud actually, after thinking about it for 5 seconds :D now everybody are musicians :p I make some music myself so its not like Im lauging of ya'll, but of the situation. peace and harmony all
Yup and people could actually sing. A computer did not do it fir them or replace the band completely. Now their us no bang. The lip-synchro prerecorded music with no band in the back. It sucks.
Truth Sayer! Yassss!
You glossed right over the MALL, and the MOVIES I remember the uncomfortable seats in the theater and the nasty sticky floors, if you dropped something on the floor at the theatre, then it was dead to you. And the ARCADE, and going to the music store to buy the latest cassette of you favorite rockers!!!!! Hello?!
So much nostalgia. Rolling back the clock, 40 years, it's like we lived in another world entirely. In fairness, some things are a lot better, now, but...some things were a lot better then.
You kind of had to live it to really get it. As great as "Stranger Things" is, most of us just got to enjoy the '80s without, well, supernatural weirdness interrupting our bike rides.
Answering the phone with no clue who was calling lol
Party lines/Private lines
*Phone rings*
5yo me: hello?
Caller: Hi, is [mom's name] there?
Me: Are you a salesman?
Caller: Yes, is your mothe-
Me: my Mom doesn't like salesman *click*
Mom: wtf lolololol
Telemarketing was a thing
Prank calls
@@pdarn27 That was totally one I thought would go on the list.
Born in 68 and grew up in the 70’s and 80’s . You forgot about boom boxes, tape recorders, and the great music of the 80s
I was born in 68 also & remember most of this from the 70's.
Recording mix tapes from songs on the radio.
@@scottyellis3442 '68 was the best year for contemporary music.
80s metal music was awesome.
And great music of the '70's! ✌🏻
lol I'll be 50 in the fall this year and the 80's were totally awesome! I miss the big hair fluorescent colors and the whole 80s style. The music was the best in the 80's even if I'm a 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's to todays music and many genres. My go to will always be the 80's when I need a pick me up.
80's Hair Bands were the best. Long live the 80's!
One of my fondest memories of being an 80's kid is going to an actual Pizza Hut. They had a a pizza buffet, arcade games, and a salad bar. The adults could even get beer. Ahh those were the days.
True
Shakies Pizza?
Book-It!
@@list25 yes
We still had a dine-in PH in my hometown right up until COVID. It was great.
80's kids
sticks and stones may break my bones...
2020 kids
Words are literally violence.
Well yeah bullying and all that
@@Mr_Green52 shut up fool
I literally don't think anyone's opinion matters to me unless I value them in the first place (like friends and family). Some stranger or rude kid at school means nothing to me because they don't know me like those close to me do. Wish my generation (Gen Z) thought the same. Wish I had a time machine to take me to the 80s so I can live there.
To be fair, some words, depending on usage tone, etc were, and still are verbal declarations of war and one responds accordingly ie: racial slurs, disparaging one's mom, sister, grandmother etc. even in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s
@@eatdirtnetwork 😂
I was a 70/80’s kid, the days of party lines where you had to wait your turn to use the phone, I loved to pick up the phone and listen to the older ladies talking, I didn’t have anyone to call, we all just gathered outside and played. Pre VCR days were awesome in certain ways, the excitement build up to Christmas when the kids Christmas shows came on only one time a year, it really was such a wonderful experience leading up to a favorite holiday, speaking of holiday, The Sears Wishbook, this glorious catalog was a huge collection of all of the toys for girls and boys, we would anxiously await the arrival of this book and pick out things we hoped Santa would bring us. I really cherish those days, we had something to look forward to, we were very social and active, we had imaginations.❤😢
This list brought back SO many memories, lol! ♥️
Dont forget.
Be kind please rewind.
Shawn Carr oh yes!!
Here in Europe we had to pay if you didn't rewind VHS when you returned it
Icefyre Dragon same here
Going to the video store was the biggest treat!!! It was so exciting and if you were even luckier a stop at McDonald's or pizza on the way home too! I VERY much miss slumber parties n going to pick out the videos and snacks
I used to tape over it with “be kind please do me from behind”.
Who remembers buying the cereal you didn't like just for the toy inside.
Hell yeah. I hated Count Chocula but his toys were good. Same with Smack (the cereal with the frog on the front and it tastes like styrofoam coated with fake honey). I still see Smack in grocery stores and I can't believe its lasted this long.🤢
OMG yess
I remember that when Microsoft was advertising on cereal boxes. for xbox 360 and had small hand on made in china little games and it around my little sister was born. We found them by accident in a box of corn pops.
Even in the 2010s i miss that
I did
I graduated high school in 1981 and soon was married and had a son who grew up in the 80's. I remember so much of this stuff, but the 60's and 70's had a lot of the same stuff like Saturday morning cartoons, sugary cereals, exploring on your bike, dodgeball, sipping your parents wine, etc. People were a lot more relaxed. Now we have paranoia everywhere. Granted, the cereal was unhealthy but kids got to be kids and not worry so much. I had 3 children and tried to let them be kids as long as possible. Having a great childhood helps us be healthier adults. The playground thing is so true! Thank goodness there were no broken arms.
MTV absolutely ROCKED in the 80s! Now it’s practically back to back to back reality crap, maybe with a few crappy post 80s videos thrown in. Thank goodness for the MTV Classic channel.
Knocking on a friends door to see if they could play.
Playing Knock and run
My kids and their friends do that still.
Lol I still say that 2day. I will send a message 2 a bud on ps4 and be like " hey bud you coming out 2 play 2nite, need 1 more for the raid" and he would send back what r we 10 now".
@@sgtnutnut2466 I'd be like yes! Yes we are! Now get your butt over here! I have hot pockets and jolt!😎🤣
Being able to go all the way across town on foot or bike. You still can. It's different now, though.
Scratch and sniff stickers were a big thing... not much around today. :-)
Yes! And strawberry shortcake and huckleberry Finn dolls that smelled like fruit.
Remember smelly markers.. smh... They had us sniffing markers lol
The scratch and sniff stickers are still around except now there called postage stamps;)
Yes, I had scratch-and-sniff Taco, Etc on my planner.😂
I really miss those. Remember the teachers use to give them out for doing good on quizzes. Oh the good ole days.
I’m glad that as a 90s baby my parents made sure I experienced basically all of this. I was born right before the cusp of things changing, I miss childhood sm
We also knew how to take care of ourselves. We were taught self independence and reliance. We were taught to use our own brains by parents and teachers not who to borrow your neighbor's. We also had important decisions to make like "Is this worth the butt whoopin' I know I'll get for doing this?!?". Don't forget the all nighters at the roller rink. Or Secret Santa's workshops that came around Christmas in elementary school, how exited did you get to be able to buy your family presents at that age😊? I miss back then and wish I could provide that level of security and childhood to my children and grandchildren. There was messed up things back then but it wasn't today that's for sure. Loved this video! Had to ramble😂
46 and proud to be an 80s kid! Goonies never say die!
I’m 14 and love that movie
I'm 46 and I'm still 10 when I watch that movie! Saw it in Michigan summer 85 on a family vacation . great times to be a kid .......80s had it all! New and cool too....not remakes !
@@phildodson6141
I really don’t care, but was I was saying is that kids these days still like the content you 80s kids like
Yeah I know ....i get ya!
@@phildodson6141 𓆏
I miss when "Video Killed the Radio Star" because then MTV was actually 24-hour Music Television!!!!!!...🎶🎸🎹🥁😥😡🤬
And don't forget the 2nd video played on mtv...PAT BENATAR!! Man oh man....life long crush ever since. LOL.
I remember watching Thriller when it premiered... how many nightmares I had after that video. And I had an ET / Michael Jackson promo poster on my wall and covered it up after that as MJ spooked me :P
Marta Quinn,Ggrrrrr!😙
I remember when that song got to number 1,actually back in October 1979. It knocked Message in a Bottle by the Police off the top.
Apart from Top of the Pops,we had shows like Channel 4's The Tube in the 80s. TOTP was never what it was once they moved it from Thursday to Friday evenings in the late-ish 90s. In the 90s there was the Chart Show on ITV,first on late at night in the very late 80s and then moved to Saturday mornings. Cable TV brought us the Box in the middle and late 90s,and stuff like VH1. They still had some music on the Saturday morning children's shows in the late 90s and early 2000s and I did watch a Channel 4 show called Popworld that ran on Sunday mornings between about 2001 and about 2006,the same year an ailing TOTP finally died,maybe just past that. Apart from Later with Jools Holland there doesn't seem to be all that much on terrestrial now.
I loved Carmen SanDiego!🤓 I used watch the tv show and guess along with the contestants…looking back on it, that was a brilliant way to teach geography. Carmen needs to make a comeback…from what I’ve seen, Gen Z REALLY needs her.😬
There was also that awesome "illness" we all caught in the early 80s known as Pac-Man Fever 😂
Missed the days when kids were able to wander outside until it got dark.
Now my parents won’t even let me go for a walk
And it’s not like it’s our parents fault People just have just changed and so as time we have creeps and weirdos and kids going missing nearly everyday so I see why parents would be a bit worried back in the early 2010s for some reason I had a bit more freedom when I was little I’m almost 15 now and I can’t really do anything Like that anymore it’s sad
Yes. Just as long as made it home before the street lights I was good.
Again this is not a good thing you are pointing out.
i was born in 2006 and i used too and still play with the neighborhood kids until its dark we play soccer, hang out or bike racing
We played ghost in the graveyard until really dark. You could play it on the front sidewalk.
Born in 1970 I look back and smile a kid in the 70’s, a teen in the 80’s, and in my 20’s in the 1990’s great time to be alive...
Fk YEAH..The Final Frontier before the pansies era.
I agree joel.
1971 here.....absolutely agree!!
Me too totally agree best time to live.
Lucky !!!
Wow that list makes me feel old. I remember doing 95% of that list. Lots of love from Canada 🇨🇦
And when we weren’t recording playlists in tape decks, we were listening to music on the radio. Before the Walkman was a thing, people in my neighborhood walked around carrying a huge boombox on their shoulder. Those boomboxes were called Ghetto Blasters. Kids laid cardboard down on the sidewalk and breakdanced to the music playing from those Ghetto Blasters. Breakdancing was essentially a precursor to poppin’ and lockin’.
You could literally leave the house at 7am and do pretty much whatever you wanted. as long ss you were home in time for dinner.
Street lights come on = We best be on our way home. Also, the city was treacherous but certainly not dangerous. Maybe there were some stabbings, but I never remember all the fatal shooting that we have now.
Home before the street lights came on
All facts dinner time and street lights was literally a alarm clock for us in the 80’s my fuckin kid wont even leave the damn house let alone come in at a certain time Smfh
I remember my childhood being that way (in the 2000's). I guess in some areas of the US, we hadn't yet moved on to the newer aspects.
Just ride bikes with neighborhood kids all day, buy sodas at the cornerstore (literally on corner lol), play hide 'n' go seek, play tag.
Big difference here, we'd eventually go back to my house or another friends house to play Gamecube games. If you had a videogame system, you were the cool kid 😎
Street lights meant come home
Playing outside in the summer..Unsupervised.. until the Street Lights came on.. running in and out of one another’s houses all day! No one locked their doors!! 😢🙄
No one had valuables either like today lol
@@oo0RECON0oo yes we did.. they were just too heavy to steal back then. Tv’s & stereos weighted 200-500 lbs!! 🤣😁🙏
@@lisade5643 lol lol lol soooo true!!
I heard my dad whistle after the street lights came on, I knew I was in trouble, he could really whistle! I'd be say 10 blocks away and I heard him whistle, ran my ass home so fast lol.
People didn't put so much emotion in material objects then, now a days people love crap human life is basically dog shit to people now.
I went to school all through the 1980s and I graduated in 1989 and I’ll tell you that we used to do some pretty stupid stuff that you could never get away with today.
I miss it all and wish I could take my kids back to the 80’s for a week so they could see just how easy they truly have things
I told my son about the 80s. He wishes he could experience my childhood. He hates this generation. He wishes to be a feral child like we were. The freedom we had was phenomenal.
My favorite thing to do as an 80s kid was riding my bike with all my friends. Good times man, good times.
Me and two neighbour kids used to ride about a half-hour away from home to a bridge where we could catch crayfish and that sort of thing. And in the winter, we'd bring our skates to the middle of the woods and play ball hockey on the ice clearings. Nary an adult in sight.
And NOBODY wore a helmet.
@@charlesritter6640 Exactly! Good point!
Me too with my 4 friends
We actually went on adventures. We would ride all around town or to the woods and hang out. After cartoons on Saturday we would go fishing. I miss those days.
80's kids didn't get offended by every little thing they didn't agree wirh
Ok boomer
That shit started with kids born in the late '90s and early '00s! Thank God I was born in 1990, and was raised like a kid in the '80s!
Right, you knew that you wouldn't always get your way and that everyone wasn't always going to agree or be like you.
Ohhh you got that right. These kids today are a bunch of pansies ( I'm being polite).
Yeah because it was less depression and insecurity
I was a 80s kid, and everything you mentioned was spot on! From riding in the VERY back of the car, multiple kids using 1 seatbelt, and especially the phone cord!! Not only was it fun to get twisted up in the phone cord, but also put it around your finger over and over again! So much fun that sadly isn't safe to do anymore! Especially riding your bike anywhere and told to be home when the street light on the corner turned on!
One of my favorite Christmas presents was a chalkboard that my dad bought from a flea market. It was from a school. My brothers and sister all loved it. That was hours of entertainment. But we quickly realized that bad words didn't erase very easily.😂
MTV actually played MUSIC and it ROCKED!
Remember when History Channel did actual history, or when animal planet did stuff about animals?
how about no war? that was cool
VH1 too
@@wolftitan 90's with Road Rules and the one with all the dumbasses living in the same house was the beginning of the end.
@Chris: Headbanger's Ball was Da Bomb.
The pleasure to see in grade school when the TV cart wheeled in.
I remember the projector! Being half blinded when the film was over and the tape ran out...the brightest light ever!!! 😂😂
That was the 90's in school too
that was early 2000s school too
Right- - the 16mm projector was a pleasure. Or if you were pre-80s the self-contained projector. It was just like a big screen TV on wheels. Our schools used them from the 50s through the 70s. By the early 80s they were gone, replaced by VCRs the size of a small coffee table... When the SLIDE projector came into the classroom we knew it would be instructional & boring 😴
I forgot about this ;)
I was a 90s kid but I remember experiencing most of these
Such nostalgia 😭 but I have to say I’m happy to have had that type of childhood rather than one with technology
I've watched, played, etc with 98% of this stuff, even into the 90s. Granted I was born in 83, so there's that lol. Thank you for the memories 😊😊. I haven't thought of some of these in a long time.
We could do incredibly stupid and inappropriate stuff without the fear that it would end up on the internet.
Today, kids do stupid & inappropriate stuff without fear of it ending up on the internet, only for it to happen anyway.
Today’s kids do stupid and inappropriate stuff TO have it end up on the internet
Somewhat.
Yep! Rarely got caught either!
Lemondude617 Yeah, they eat tidepods.
"Do you want 'Smoking or Non-smoking,' Sir?" (in a sit-down restaurant environment)
Oh man, I STILL catch myself getting ready to ask for ", non-smoking" tables in restaurants. Thank heavens most if the wait staff greeting customers today are in too much if a hurry to get you to table and out of their faces. If given 3 seconds more, I KNOW I would be asking for non-smoking everytime...just ingrained in me.
I remember going into arcades and seeing ashtrays screwed into the games kids were expected to smoke
Cigarette vending machines!
I used to steal ash trays from fast food joints; my one man war against smoking.
Airplanes too. Hospital Rooms too!
I miss playing The Oregon Trail on the computer at school. So glad I snagged up a handheld version a few years ago!😂
There was a lot more freedom in the 80s. That's something that we'll never get back
That sums it up. I wish I could go back, even if it’s just in my dreams. Best days of my life!
True. So true. We could play outside until it was well after sunset🙂
You are only as free as you want to be And no one tells you what you can and cannot do
@@jeanenewatson6124 Well government and social media are always trying to.
My mom told me when family would ask where I was as a kid she'd always reply Idk, she'll be home when she gets hungry! 😂 they never knew where we were cause we didn't know where we were going till we got there ourselves! 😂 just get on our bikes and RIDE!
you forgot about when MTV was actually music videos and not stupid shows like "i'm 16 and pregnant".
Or worrying that your girlfriend would get pregnant at 16 and your Dad would knock you into next week.
yeah.new shows on mtv.im 16 and prolapsed
Amen!
TDM, good rockin tonight, stue jeffries, Samantha taylor.
They had shows but they were like Beavis and Butthead and Headbangers ball the goodshit yo
I was so excited when you did #2 and even did the song with you at the same time lol. Too bad you forgot The Orgeon Trail. I remember it all and even told my kids about what they never got to do like we did. I miss those days
I’m an 80s kid and the saddest part I miss is in our society is #4 that kids can’t bike alone anymore. With all the kidnapping etc it’s just too dangerous.
I also miss arcade video games of the 80s-90s. I miss the music, it was the best then. But what I miss probably most of all even today is seeing kids play outside, like we used to in the 80s.
Who remembers calling collect and when it said say your name you said something like , " mom pick me up from the mall"
Or simply reading the number for the pay phone you wanted them to call back on
@@JamesStec never thought of that
@@rogersepeda4378 My junior high school had a pay phone. If I wanted to spend time with my girlfriend, I'd "miss" the bus and do this for my mom to give me a call back. "Yea, you can just pick me up from Rhiannon's house..." lol
Granted, this was 1999, not the eighties
@@JamesStec fucking genius
We called home from after school activities for a ride home. You couldn't talk without depositing the quarter in the payphone so we just clicked the hangup switch several times and home could hear that.
Parents allowed you to try and fail. That's callled learning.
Learning from experience.
None of this helicoptering then.
That is so true. Back then we actually had three prizes first second and third place and if you didn't win you didn't get a prize. Now with these millennials they get a prize for showing up so they have no idea about what it's like to have strive
THIS
@@tdotsmooth ok then
Dodgeball was popular in school, even in phys-ed classes from the 1960s, 70s, & 80s.
It's sad how 80's kids were so independent and free yet those independent and free 80's kids grew into parents whose kids are not as independent and free . Todays kids in a way are worse off for it. Im so glad i was an 80's kid❤❤❤
yes it drewdiñm beßt
Renember when kids could read and write in cursive
I learned cursive in fourth grade and promptly forgot it. To this day I can barely read the shit but luckily almost no one uses it anymore. We aren't using quills to write anymore so cursive isn't necessary. It's like calligraphy, it may look good (subjective) but it isn't needed.
@@SonOfTheDawn515 most historical documents were written in cursive. Its important to be able to read them
@@matthewsmith2979 Absolutely. Cursive doesn't have a real use today, though. It's more of an elective thing, like calligraphy, and doesn't have modern use.
@@SonOfTheDawn515 true, but it does look good
@@matthewsmith2979 That's subjective. I'm not a fan of it although I like the appearance of some calligraphy.
Remember getting up on Saturday morning and just taking off to meet up with some friends? No supervision whatsoever for the entire day, just being a kid.
Anton Leimbach I remember doing that too. My mom always wanted us to let her know before we just took off or leave a note on the table. I just needed to be home before dinner - if I wasn’t going to be home for dinner I did need to call to let her know if I was coming home before curfew or spending the night at my friends house. That was the rule if broken there would be consequences
Trabug R same here. How many times in the summer did you get up, call some friends to make plans. Your mom gave you $5 if you were lucky. Then took off all day until dusk or 8pm. Whatever came first.
Anton Leimbach: yep, just had to be home when the street lights came on.
I grew up like that in the early 2000’s. I’m a 90’s baby
I'd be surprised if slap bracelets never came back at all. They were fun. Never needed to go away.
Hahahaha
Good old memories.
I did experience all those that you mentioned in the video, but finding Carmen Sandiego.
Thanks for making my day.
I miss the 80's. Leaving the house at 10am and not coming home till the street lights come on and no one knew where you were. No smart phone, cellphone or pager.
I had to be home by the time Dad got home because if he had to come find me it would be very bad
loved those days
Its like the Invasion of the Body Snatchers happened. Kids are not allowed to play outside anymore. How many hold kite fights anymore? . :(
80's had cell phones and pagers.
@@informationoverload2487 ya but not everyone and especially not kids
You forgot riding your bike with NO helmet or safety gear even when jumping homemade ramps. You know, ramps made of scrap planks and cinder blocks all the kids could find.
My dad bent his bicycle pedals when he was a kid doing that. He was the only one who could ride it afterwards. Lol
Lol I gave up ridding a bike when the helmet law came in ...... I didn’t want to mess my hair up 😂😂
I once jumped my friends BMX over my mom's car from a plywood ramp....broke the chain on the landing, but the bike and the car both survived, as did I with no injuries. Let's see em try that one, and there wasn't a helmet in sight.
My youngest son is 14 and still does this
Me and a friend of mine did that all the time ..one time he landed on his front tire...the gooseneck broke and went into his thigh...that was 45 years ago and he still has the scar 😐
The station wagon! 😜 We'd take our baths and get in our pajamas, and GO TO THE DRIVE-IN!😅 we'd lay in the back watching the movie. If we fell asleep, no problem...we were already ready for bed.😂
I was born in 1974, so everything on this list brings me back to my youth.
I'm 42. I don't care how many songs you can stream or fit on a drive. I miss mix tapes!
I still burn cds, but I write on it mix tape, and the date!
I just made that very comment on the comment above this one about mixtapes LOL
In 40s myself, recorded favorite Sat and more cartoons on to VHS in late 80s to have and watch again and keep.
HELL YEAH!!!
Everyone's mixed tapes had the DJ talking over the first and last part of the song or a part cut off because we didn't realize what was coming on until the last second. Unless you were one of those fancy kids who made mixed tapes from tapes and vinyls you actually *bought*?
Recording songs from the radio was our version of torrents.
I was born in '71. I miss everything...all of it. The music, Saturday morning cartoons, After school specials,American Bandstand, Solid Gold. The clothes and hair styles the under age dance clubs, adult dance clubs not having to worry about getting roofied. School, I loved school. It was a safe place. Hanging out in arcades, roaming around the neighborhood. Getting older sucks and our kids these days...I have a 19 year old son and I can't imagine what kind of world he is growing up in. We were so lucky to have been able to be kids when we were kids. Great times!
I hear that ,I totally agree , everything you mentioned is everything I loved and miss today about those times,I personally wished that my kids would be able to enjoy all of those things but it's all been banned,removed ,buried,and steered away from ,these poor kids these days just aren't living,nor are they educated.
As well I was born in 72
I was born in '73, so I feel ya! I think my favorite thing was getting to take offon my bike with all my friends who had bikes, and LITERALLY roam for miles around our side of town! As long as we were home when the streetlights came on, none of our parents cared what we did and where we went, as long as they didnt get any complaints from the neighbors about our "manners"!
Totally agree
I'm with you! I miss all that stuff!
Shopping at Woolworth's with my mom. My jelly sandals. My Rainbow Brite doll. Watching Punky Brewster, Facts of Life, Different Strokes, and Three's Company. Jokes flying over my head, but I still laughed along with the audience. The parties at my parents' house. All the weddings and celebrations we attended where I danced with my father. I loved my childhood.
ahhh yes, the Dewy Decimal System! I have memories of us kids mixing the little cards around in the school library to annoy the teacher librarians. hahaha!!!🤓🤓🤓
waiting all night to record a song off the radio with a cassette
and then when they play the station name or talk over the start grrrrr hahaha
The start(for the first 2 minutes) and the end of the song(last 2 minutes) about the next song, he'd talk through.
Did this a lot especially when I was lucky enough for the dj to announce they were going to play one of my favorite song(s) next
😂Im from the 90s and did that as well lol
oh my god yes
I remember they used to put toys in the cereal box. That was the best!
Cereals back then were awesome.
Man..we are getting old.
i still remember having those. i think they were there until like early 2010's (where i live)
Andrew Maxwell...or whoever else is reading this....Now I think they put people's driver licenses in cereal boxes because of the way people drive...😂...( pulling out in front of traffic), turning without using their signal light, "riding their brakes, lol...i can go on and on but I guess y'all see what I'm saying. Man, I wish I could find the cereal box some people get their license out of......😁😂😂
REAL toys- I was eating some cracker Jack's a couple weeks ago and it had a tiny sticker(big as a fingernail) AND a website address 😡😥
I miss going to the arcades, roller skating (NOT roller blading), slamming the phone down angrily when you hung up on someone and walking the the movie theater. But what I miss most is the music.
We had a 1973 International Traveller, an absolute beast of a station wagon in the era of the North American Land Barge. The "very back" was the size of a pickup bed and held a mattress. We kids would play in there on long trips, and sleep if necessary. Watching hot wheels roll around as the car took corners was a source of entertainment when we got bored of the Wooly Willy magnetic toy.
I miss my dad putting his arm in front of me when he slammed on the brakes in the car. no seat belt, dads arm, all good.
My mom did that. Mom never really cared if us kids sat in front.
Riding in the back window deck 6 in the cab of pickup
Hahahaha.... same... I swear I have a bruise across my chest my entire childhood because of that damn arm... lol
My mom did that and bruised my chest. All good. Yep.
My dad would just let us go.
I was born in the 70's. I got to fully enjoy the 80's. Truly a spectacular time to grow up. Leave with your friends in the morning and come back home after dark. Maybe check in at one of our houses to have lunch. But our parents wouldn't see us for many hours.
TheVosack yep same here. Born in ‘71
Born in the 60's; same deal.
'77 here. Those were awesome times.
So true lol
@TheVosack,
You were allowed to come home after dark!😲 I had to be home before dark...my mom's phrase was if the street lights are on your butt better be in the house! 😂😂😂
I consider my self an 80s kid although i was born in 1965. I was a teenager. Graduated in 1983. I was 17. Turned 18 in October of that year. I miss the and 80s and the 90s were great too.❤
I miss my Mongoose bike, garbage pail kids cards, light off our own fireworks, no parents around( now my kids say I’m strict) just want the best for them.
Saturday Morning Cartoons hand down! If you weren’t there you’ll never know.
And Bob Ross always came on right after!
Growing up in Jordan, I watched Friday morning cartoons. 😁
Saturday morning cartoons were great! i especially liked "The Jetsons, the Flintstones, and Superfriends.
@@susie6301 I love Superfriends!
@Timothy Duffy we watched soul train & home turf
Here's a good one: My cousins and I would run around our neighborhood, through other people's yards, playing hide and seek with realistic looking toy guns and we never got the cops called on us.
Razum I remember when the fucking NRA and the feds outlawed Super-Soaker plastic water guns, claiming these large, bright, multi-colored fake guns were dangerous and could be mistaken for the real thing. Typical hypocrites.
We played outside ALL day and came home when the street lights came on 😂
@@teamcougars same here. We walked or rode bikes all over town and no one thought anything bad of it.
Why would you play hide and seek with the guns?
@@incorporeal7614 Hide and seek/cops and robbers. Kids are creative. They'll mix it up. :) Call it an early form of laser tag, but without the lasers, or the admission fee. :)
6:31 my grandma use to let us take sips out of her wild turkey and Sunkist 😂 great times
Copying cassette tapes with side by side cassette players. Remember going to Blockbuster and the "be kind, rewind" sticker on the tapes? Oh, collecting Care Bears and placing them in a netted holder in the corner. Remember see through phones? LOVE the 80's!
Being a kid in the 80's, and a teen in the 90's... I'll never regret that.
United colours of benneton
Golden
WORD!!!!!
Life wasn't as confusing or chaotic as it is today. It feels like the younger generation/s growing up now has/have a lot more uncertainty and difficulties to contend with, my hat's off to all of you. I'm glad I grew up in the time I did.
Yeah, where I'm from, we are cca 15years behind, so even I'm 90's kid, I still know most of those things very well
Born in 78, I remember the 80's and 90's quite fondly. Growing up as a kid and a teenager in this era, I wouldn't trade it for anything.