Who would gladly give up their cell phones,wifi,interweb,etc to go back to those much cooler times when people actually talked to and hung out with people and life was simpler ?
That is definitely a big one that we all used. We still have a number that we can call in my area but it's like a minute of ads before it and I've wondered who actually calls it? Thank you for watching TopGunAce23!
The good Thing here in Europe is many Kids are stil go outsite or meet they friends because patents let them Play but teens and all the adults are hung up too much on they phoned
There's a playground with a baseball field right down the street where I live, when I was younger that playground would have been full, now every time I walk by its empty, so sad
Honestly never had that happen when I lived in northern Virginia. Especially on the weekend. Even now that I in Massachusetts it still pretty busy during the weekend.
There was a time when EVERYWHERE rented VHS movies. Your local 7-11...grocery stores..all rented movies in addition to all the many mom and pop VHS rental places that existed. That's all gone now.
Even more, video games were also EVERYWHERE! I remember there being such a surfeit of arcades, some of them didn't even bother having a name! Just toss a bunch of cabs in an unused storefront. step 3, profit :P
Kids today will never know what it was like back in the day. Growing up "WE" was the remote control before the remote control. I have ' you've got mail ' notification on my phone mailbox. I remember calling the ' time and temperature ' Kids today would not survive our time..
And you would form a relay chain if the outside antenna needed to be turned when you changed the channel! I quickly learned to turn the antenna VERY slowly! Then I marked it and the base for quicker tuning! 😂
Yeah I think simpler and also more complicated. But when you look back you know the difference. We didn't back then so we were just used to things like having to find a pay phone and remembering to have a dime, or running out of film on your camera at a family get together, deciding which program the family was going to watch that night on TV, etc.
Yes definitely the phone book and yellow pages. Delivering paper routes for extra money on our bikes...jeez they would be like " No Way "Rhetty thanks for the great old memories 😀
I was born in 06 but we still got phone books, enough to where I remember in my memories of turning the yellow pages🤷♀️ some of this stuff i didn’t experience but some I did
But every call cost money, so telemarketers were as rare as fairies. Even if you had a flat local rate, calling the next city or state was long distance and expensive. Telemarketers are strictly a function of cell phones with no per-call charges.
The number 92 was the code for biographies in the Dewey Decimal system. Remember taking a small slip of paper to copy the number from the card catalog at the library? You then went to the right shelf to find the book based upon the Dewey Decimal system.
I remember putting funny messages on the answering machines and laughing our butts off at the angry responses people left when they called. Ahhh the good old days.
What ever happen to those days when Life was so much simpler and fun,and things were cheaper then,I wish we could go back,the kids of today have no idea of what we we had,and we had great cars,were they did not cost a fortunate,
My favorite time in the 80s was going to the pizza restaurant and playing video games at the arcade and going to the movie theater..This was the time to be young...❤❤❤🍕🍕💻
I miss the old fashioned phone. When you hung up on someone, they _knew_ they'd been hung up on. Somone I know went to pick up a friend from work, this was the late 90's or early 2000's. And the friend was showing him a 45 record that someone had left behind. And while he was doing that some kid said, "Wow! A black CD! Where'd you get that?"
Kids today will never know what using a pay phone was like, or only having 12 channels to watch television and no remote to change the channels. I sure miss the good ole day.❤
If cursive is obsolete how will anyone be able to read old or historic documents after all of us who can read cursive are dead. I guess we'll have historians that can't read the primary sources. How do you sign legal documents? With printing? Printing is much too easy to forge.
I guess they will have cursive historian experts lol. I remember in 3rd grade learning cursive. And everyone had to memorize times tables up to 12×12. Now forget about it. I realized they stopped cursive teaching 15 years ago when my son was in 3rd grade. Now I have an 8 year old entering 3rd grade in the fall and the math like everything else unless you teach your kids yourself they only seem to teach them far left politics. Such a shame.
Was going to say that kids will never know what it's like to go into a music store and see their favorite artist in CD, Cassette and vinyl all sitting together but that actually came back! Even VHS is getting a little bump. What's old is new....
I was a very, very late smart phone adopter. What finally broke me was being lost on foot an hour outside Louisville, trying to get to a job interview. I found a Circle K and went and asked where the maps were. They looked at me like I was crazy.
A few funny things: My mother sometimes acted as a rudimentary caller ID, kind of like a receptionist. As kids, we didn't always want to take calls, so before she answered the phone, she would holler out "Who's here?" I learned the slide rule as an extra-credit project in seventh grade. It was pretty dead technology even then (1973), as this was when Texas Instruments pocket calculators started appearing on the belts of kids we were not yet calling "nerds." In high school, I developed a keen interest in photography, partially because I was in a hiking club and liked to take nature photos, but mostly because a girl I liked worked in the little Fotomat hut at a nearby shopping plaza.
I remember being wrapped like a mummy with the cord!🤣 I was on the phone so much as a teen my dad would say "You're on the dang phone so much it's going to become another appendage."🤣🤣
Cars without radios 😂. My grandfather always got the "radio delete" option and kept a little transistor AM radio in his car. "What do you need a radio in your car for when you already have a portable radio?". He's been gone 23 years now, but I still have pop's old radio to this day and still use it occasionally.
I grew up in the early 2000s mainly 2001 and looking back at how simple things were back then is nostalgic, I'd rather go back in time and relive my childhood again
The Hersheys with the paper and foil wrapper. I had forgot all about that. It's so true that time flies and we don't even notice it till years later. looking at this made me realize just how long ago that's been, but now a days the technology is changing at a much more rapid pace.
Everyone says kids of today wouldn’t know how to use the things we had back in the day. Truth is I can’t keep up with all the new technology that they find so easy. 😬 Wonderful video Rhett, I miss those times. 😢- ❤Jodie 🇦🇺- Hi Paul 👋🇺🇸
Things kids of today will never experience - watching MTV when they actually played music videos, watching your favorite artists perform on American Bandstand, Soul Train or Solid Gold, and listening to Casey Kasem count down the biggest hits every weekend on American Top 40!
My wife and I are surrounding ourselves with old items for nostalgia's sake. We're both children of the '70's, and we'd go back and live in a recurring loop of the '70's-'80's-'90's forever if we could. The internet has brought a lot of impactful positives, but it's brought a lot of painful negatives too. For every person it educates, it also enables a loon to hurt somebody. At least when people weren't connected it wasn't quite so easy to spread hate and pain in bulk. I'll use a card when I'm picking up things for the house or food, and of course to order stuff online, but I always keep a few hundred in cash on me for deals I run up on from individuals. I also pay any home contractors and my mechanics in cash so they don't have to let the government know what they make off me through bank reporting. The government steals and wastes way too much of our $$$ as it is.
I miss my childhood so much. I think of the 80s daily and prob more often then I should. Makes me sad as those days are gone forever except in my mind 😢
With all the technology that kids are exposed to these days, I'm not surprised to learn that a lot of children lack true imagination. If they wonder about something they don't have to imagine it in their head or dream about it. Just ask the internet and it will do that for you. Visionaries are being replaced by programmers. I'm so glad I grew up in the 50's/60's. Great time to be a kid.
Rhett, I really enjoyed your video, things kids will never experience anymore. This video brought back a lot of memories of days gone by. Today's kids will never know what its like to receive personal mail aka "snail mail," because they can easily text or email messages. Have a fantastic week. Take care 🐎
Kids will not experience the smell of ink from the ditto machine when teachers passed out papers. I still teach cursive handwriting in my classroom, and I want to thank you for having a photograph of a fountain pen. I use them in class, and if my students meet my cursive writing expectations, then they will also receive a fountain pen. Thank you for this video presentation. Take care.
My nephew is always up to the minute on soccer scores from wherever they originate. He’d be nuts at having to wait for that 5 min sports segment on the nightly news (which probably wouldn’t cover it) then wait for the morning paper. Even then it might be the NEXT day’s paper or worse, the weekly “Sports Illustrated”. I can’t imagine going back to that; the world was so small
I remember back in my day when a pinball machine game cost a dime and we would collect pop bottles to turn in at the corner store to get the dimes we needed to play them.
I worked 10 years in the check processing dept at PNC Bank. We used to sort probably a million checks each day back when you got your checks back in the mail. Best job I ever had. Unfortunately as that slowly stopped happening, I lost my job to technology. 😮
I remember when "children" and "adults" where like, two different worlds. Like everything was sperated between the two. Then that border disappeared. I have siblings who are ten years younger than me and they view the world completely different.
I miss road maps!! Picking one or two up at highway gas stations whenever we'd travel to other states. Finding some at your grandparents' house that were 10 years old or more.
I remember the Nightmare it was to fold them up again!🤣 As soon as Mapsco came out my parents switched to that. I still have my 2000 Mapsco for my city. It's fun to see how much the highways and roads have changed.
My 1985 Buick Riviera, Red leather interior. A 2 door vehicle had 4 ash trays and cigarette lighters. One under radio, one on passenger door and 2 on each side in back seat. Also it had a power telescoping antenna. Great Video!👍🏻🇺🇲
You know, I'm just glad that I was able to relate to everything in this video. It seems like everything used to be an event or an outing. That is something that this new generation doesn't get the chance to experience often since everything is at your fingertips through a download. One of the great joys I had in life was going to a record store to go get the latest CD and opening the jewel case and reading the booklet on the inside.
My grandparents had a rotary phone up until the late 90s in the kitchen. Man i miss those days. Born in 80. We had the best toys, cartoons, movies. We had it made!!
My son says he was born in the wrong era after I told my stories about growing up in the 80’s. I was 15 in 1980. 😂 Yes, I’m kinda obsolete like these items are. I’m ok with that, I had a great run. XD. I was just describing what a Rolodex was 2 days ago. Hahaha 😆 He didn’t know what that was.
Our phone was centrally located for first response from the quickest, lol We had a party line, shared phone phone number with several neighbors, each of us had to really listen, everyone had them own ringing pattern, and people would get angry if you tried to make a call and they were already using the phone. I don't miss that,lol😊
I was born in 1983 in Las Vegas.. Im happy i caught the tail end of the good ol days..I use 2 play in the arcades at casinos in the 90's when my mom went gambling..
God I miss the 80s and 90s😢 the older I get the more I want the world to go back to the good old days sometimes I wonder and wish technology would crash so that everyone today would have to revert to the old ways that I miss a lot sure things took longer sure things were harder but you know what I would trade it in a heartbeat if I could go back in time one way or another
Your video today really hammered this home for me; although technology can be helpful, it certainly took away the eager anticipation of all things good, exciting, and wonderful. Who was calling on the phone; who's going to win that ball game; I can't wait to get my pictures back; you get what I'm saying. I still use a dictionary and, if I had the yellow pages, I would use it too! I still have my VCR...actually it was Dad's first one. Still brand new. That tells you how many movies I watched! The simplicity of arcade game themes just reminds me of how laid back we were. It didn't take much to make us happy and, we had an appreciation for so much...unlike today. I guess the greatest memories sometimes brings a bit of sadness. But, thank you so much, Rhetty! Your video made my Sunday! I hope you and all of yours are doing well!
57 year old GenXer here. Today's kids will never be able to order a Domino's pizza with "free" Cokes in styrofoam cups delivered by a Domino's driver in Domino's labeled company car.
I was telling my mom just yesterday that my 2005 model Eureka vacuum had finally called it quits. She smiled proudly and asked if I wanted to use her 25 pound, 1975 model, bagged Kirby. Not sure which is more shocking, the Kirby is still running or Mom (in her 80's) is still able to push that monster around. lol
I never even grew up in the 80s, but I feel somewhat of a strange nostalgia for it even though I’ve never lived then. I would give anything to have live through the 80s and 90s
I did spend a lot of time at arcades. Arcade games were everywhere. When my mom dragged me to the store, I would make my way to whatever one they had there and play it until my mom was done shopping.
Kids today will never know the joy of walking into an old school toys r us. Miles of shelves with every toy, game, model kit, and piece of sports equipment for kids imaginable... The new stores are stores within stores like Macys, and they take up a lot of space with paid displays, not an unimaginable variety of everything.
You always make cry with this wholesome videos. I’m 51 years old and I feel so grateful and blessed that I had the chance to experienced all that and to lived in a time when life was so simple and awesome. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING ME BACK WITH YOUR VIDEOS! God bless 🥹😊
Mom had a home business, and printed a quarterly newsletter on a mimeograph printer. Those chemicals would make you see things 😂 Also, I grew up in a "test market" city. Our family was chosen to test phone services, like call-waiting and call-forwarding.
dawg, roombas are still weird to me. Give me my Oreck anyday. Also remember calling in on a landline to see when movies were playing. That was like 15 years ago. we were late on tech in my house.
I can remember this question coming at me in 1975. Dad, what the hell has happened to this generation? It happens every generation, ya just got to go with the flow! Of course we did have the best music, no cell phone's and Pong which I played until the dials fell off lol
I lived above a Video rental shop We used to walk downstairs and rent movies on VHS, then go up and watch them, then bring them back downstairs and get more. We have an actual arcade by my house now. Kids and adults are going there and playing actual video games and pinball with quarters again, and I think that’s awesome.
Wow Rhett, that really took me back. Our first computer was huge. I think the best thing was a Microwave. Hope you are all well.We are freezing in Africa. Keep safe 🙏 ❤️.
I was a kid in the 70s and enjoyed everything presented here, but I'm compelled to point out that kids today will experience things I can't even begin to imagine. My grandfather was a WW2 vet and we gifted him an Apple II computer in the mid-80s. He was not a stupid man by any means, but he was utterly baffled and never did learn to really use it. We all live in our time. Napoleon once said that "to really understand a man, you have to know what the world was like when he was 20 years old." That is even more true today than it was 200 years ago.
Omg I remember those old HEB bags from when we first moved to Texas. Also Dell still uses DOS as a legacy tool, also still works better than the newer programs
I never used a slide ruler. We had to use our brains until Geometry in 7th grade. I remember loading the Commodore 64 with a cassette!!!! HA!!! Yes, the good old Dewey Decimal system!😂😂😂
Many fun and interesting times back then and the paper map was a adventure for sure. I love that retro game stores some not all still have classic arcade cabinets for the new generation of gamers can experience the many wonderful games from back then. Cool video. ^_^
Who would gladly give up their cell phones,wifi,interweb,etc to go back to those much cooler times when people actually talked to and hung out with people and life was simpler ?
In a heartbeat.😊
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I would 😊
We were much more patient and kinder people then. 😊
@@Wil_Liam1 ~ahem~ I would.
Who remembers calling in for the time and weather on the phone?
That is definitely a big one that we all used. We still have a number that we can call in my area but it's like a minute of ads before it and I've wondered who actually calls it? Thank you for watching TopGunAce23!
Or dialing popcorn?
Haha I actually called it the other day for a local forecast. Forgot my phone and was lost at work 😆😂
I remember this. I don't know why it was fun to do but it was
This nostalgic feeling of the older days makes me tear up because I lived through it and remember feeling so happy and content with very little.
Thank you for watching Sabrina!
Nearly everyone, usual the silly ones, say that about their particular “older days”.
The good Thing here in Europe is many Kids are stil go outsite or meet they friends because patents let them Play but teens and all the adults are hung up too much on they phoned
OMG!!! Calling into the theater to hear the showtimes!!! Yaaassss!!! I totally forgot!
Thank you for watching charlestonpinballarcade!
I still do that. Whenever they complain, I just wait for them to finish, and ask again
Hmm have to think of pin ball machines. They swallowed a lot of pocket money!
There's a playground with a baseball field right down
the street where I live, when I was younger that playground
would have been full, now every time I walk by its empty, so sad
Honestly never had that happen when I lived in northern Virginia. Especially on the weekend.
Even now that I in Massachusetts it still pretty busy during the weekend.
Local softball leagues were huge deals at least through the 1980s. I remember people parking their cars 5 blocks away from the field!
There was a time when EVERYWHERE rented VHS movies. Your local 7-11...grocery stores..all rented movies in addition to all the many mom and pop VHS rental places that existed. That's all gone now.
Even more, video games were also EVERYWHERE! I remember there being such a surfeit of arcades, some of them didn't even bother having a name! Just toss a bunch of cabs in an unused storefront. step 3, profit :P
Yes, all of the grocery stores here used to have a VHS rental department.
There was a place a couple blocks from me that had 50 cent rentals, but it was mostly older or lesser known movies.
Who cares that they’re gone? What a dumb thing to lament. I remember when there was no such thing as VHS movie rentals.
I remember the local movie rental store with the "back room" draped in a black opaque curtain where they kept the naughty videos 😂
Kids today will never know what it was like back in the day. Growing up "WE" was the remote control before the remote control. I have
' you've got mail ' notification on my phone mailbox.
I remember calling the
' time and temperature '
Kids today would not survive our time..
And you would form a relay chain if the outside antenna needed to be turned when you changed the channel! I quickly learned to turn the antenna VERY slowly! Then I marked it and the base for quicker tuning! 😂
Is it really their fault that they were born when they were born though?
@@lainiwakura1776Yes,all on them,and gen X 😆
@@edwardaustin740 for sure 🤣🤣🤣👍👍
i have "youve got mail" as by text notification!
i still remember the time/temp number!!!
God I missed the 70s and 80s those were the best times of my life 😃👍👍
I never thought of using a card catalog as a hassle. It was just the way you did it.
Remember looking at old newspapers at the library on micro film.
That's Michael Anthony in front of the Pac Man game @0:12😃He was the Bass player in Van Halen😁ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
Scrolling thru to see if anyone else noticed that! Looks like it could be Alex V. H. behind him too!!
Yup, I went straight to the comments to see if anyone else noticed.
I’m glad I was not the only one to notice that.
@@pitman6992I don’t think that is Alex.
@SRV3433 Yeah, impossible to tell!
Life was so much simpler back then 😢
Yes and No.
I think we had to plan things out more due to limited communication and didn’t have the same level of access to information.
@@1massboy which was GREAT 👍
😢 👍🏻
@@julialaw6471 I miss those days so much.
Yeah I think simpler and also more complicated. But when you look back you know the difference. We didn't back then so we were just used to things like having to find a pay phone and remembering to have a dime, or running out of film on your camera at a family get together, deciding which program the family was going to watch that night on TV, etc.
Yes definitely the phone book and yellow pages. Delivering paper routes for extra money on our bikes...jeez they would be like " No Way "Rhetty thanks for the great old memories 😀
I remember the phone book
@@TheInkPitOx Then your one smart person. Kids today don't have a clue.
Now the Mexicans do the paper delivery.
Right !! For a Payso.....They took our jobs for cheap labor 😂 @@AVEXentSUCKS
I was born in 06 but we still got phone books, enough to where I remember in my memories of turning the yellow pages🤷♀️ some of this stuff i didn’t experience but some I did
I couldn't imagine just answering the phone all willy nilly now😂 thanks for the memories 👍
But every call cost money, so telemarketers were as rare as fairies. Even if you had a flat local rate, calling the next city or state was long distance and expensive. Telemarketers are strictly a function of cell phones with no per-call charges.
I let my kids answer scam calls and mess with them. It’s funny and my youngest has a dark, quick wit!😅
@erinmalone2669 love your Daria pfp
Kids today wouldn’t last when we only had like 4 or 5 channels to watch. no internet , no cable or streaming. Great video Rhetty
Thank you for watching Anita and I'm happy to hear you enjoyed this video!
And TV stations went off the air at night!
The landline ringing & my dad yelling at me to get off the phone 😅
doo Doo DOO!
That number...is busy
Thank you for watching and mentioning a memory Jenn!
Kids now day will never know what it is like to look up pizza places in the yellow pages and look up numbers in the white pages now days
Or look in the paper to see what movies were showing at the theater.
Much less remember a phone number!
The Dewey Decimal system 😂
😔
The number 92 was the code for biographies in the Dewey Decimal system. Remember taking a small slip of paper to copy the number from the card catalog at the library? You then went to the right shelf to find the book based upon the Dewey Decimal system.
@@johnlopez3996 it was a horrible process 😂
We DID understand the dewey decimal system!
I remember putting funny messages on the answering machines and laughing our butts off at the angry responses people left when they called. Ahhh the good old days.
What ever happen to those days when Life was so much simpler and fun,and things were cheaper then,I wish we could go back,the kids of today have no idea of what we we had,and we had great cars,were they did not cost a fortunate,
I do miss my childhood
My favorite time in the 80s was going to the pizza restaurant and playing video games at the arcade and going to the movie theater..This was the time to be young...❤❤❤🍕🍕💻
I miss the old fashioned phone. When you hung up on someone, they _knew_ they'd been hung up on. Somone I know went to pick up a friend from work, this was the late 90's or early 2000's. And the friend was showing him a 45 record that someone had left behind. And while he was doing that some kid said, "Wow! A black CD! Where'd you get that?"
Kids today will never know what using a pay phone was like, or only having 12 channels to watch television and no remote to change the channels. I sure miss the good ole day.❤
If cursive is obsolete how will anyone be able to read old or historic documents after all of us who can read cursive are dead. I guess we'll have historians that can't read the primary sources. How do you sign legal documents? With printing? Printing is much too easy to forge.
I guess they will have cursive historian experts lol. I remember in 3rd grade learning cursive. And everyone had to memorize times tables up to 12×12. Now forget about it. I realized they stopped cursive teaching 15 years ago when my son was in 3rd grade. Now I have an 8 year old entering 3rd grade in the fall and the math like everything else unless you teach your kids yourself they only seem to teach them far left politics. Such a shame.
It'll be like hieroglyphs.😂
I heard they're reviving it
@@TheInkPitOxHopefully so. It should be mandatory. It is easily learned.
If you can read printed text you can read cursive. Don’t be ridiculous.
Was going to say that kids will never know what it's like to go into a music store and see their favorite artist in CD, Cassette and vinyl all sitting together but that actually came back! Even VHS is getting a little bump. What's old is new....
And the arcades were fun - we liked Asteroid’s and could keep our quarter going a longggg time
My dad has asteroids. Can't even sit on the toilet somedays.
That really was a fun game! Thank you for watching slwtgf!
@@c.c.7687that's hemorrhoids.
Asteroids was a video game.
@@c.c.7687 hahaha omg
I was a very, very late smart phone adopter. What finally broke me was being lost on foot an hour outside Louisville, trying to get to a job interview. I found a Circle K and went and asked where the maps were. They looked at me like I was crazy.
They will never experience being able to do something stupid without it being recorded and put up for the world to see
You're right about that. Thank you for watching displacedyankee7819!
A few funny things: My mother sometimes acted as a rudimentary caller ID, kind of like a receptionist. As kids, we didn't always want to take calls, so before she answered the phone, she would holler out "Who's here?"
I learned the slide rule as an extra-credit project in seventh grade. It was pretty dead technology even then (1973), as this was when Texas Instruments pocket calculators started appearing on the belts of kids we were not yet calling "nerds."
In high school, I developed a keen interest in photography, partially because I was in a hiking club and liked to take nature photos, but mostly because a girl I liked worked in the little Fotomat hut at a nearby shopping plaza.
Ahh the old Fotomat hut, I remember those :)
I did photography in college in the mid-90s we developed our own film and prints.
Back when I was a kid in the 80s, being "on the phone" was literal.
!Yes it was. Thank you for watching jwb52z9!
I remember being wrapped like a mummy with the cord!🤣 I was on the phone so much as a teen my dad would say "You're on the dang phone so much it's going to become another appendage."🤣🤣
Writing in cursive was dropped when my kids were in elementary school around 2007-ish?.… we ended up teaching them cursive at home.
I'm glad that you went ahead and finished teaching them how to write in cursive. Thank you for watching Brian!
0:13 - Kids today will never experience Michael Anthony this thin.
Thank you for watching crashburn3292!
@@RhettyforHistory Thank you. Channels like this is why I love YT.
I bet most people didn't recognize him. I definitely did!
I remember when ATMs closed for the night. It made no sense to me.
Thank you for watching 3DJapan!
I think it was to prevent vandalism
Cars without radios 😂. My grandfather always got the "radio delete" option and kept a little transistor AM radio in his car. "What do you need a radio in your car for when you already have a portable radio?". He's been gone 23 years now, but I still have pop's old radio to this day and still use it occasionally.
Wow you just reminded me that my grandfather has been gone 14 years nearly! Time flys. Here’s to the memories 🍻
I grew up in the early 2000s mainly 2001 and looking back at how simple things were back then is nostalgic, I'd rather go back in time and relive my childhood again
I'm 46 yrs old and watching this video makes me happy and sad in the same time.
The Hersheys with the paper and foil wrapper. I had forgot all about that. It's so true that time flies and we don't even notice it till years later. looking at this made me realize just how long ago that's been, but now a days the technology is changing at a much more rapid pace.
Everyone says kids of today wouldn’t know how to use the things we had back in the day.
Truth is I can’t keep up with all the new technology that they find so easy. 😬
Wonderful video Rhett, I miss those times. 😢- ❤Jodie 🇦🇺- Hi Paul 👋🇺🇸
@@swansfan6944 👋😁🇦🇺 Hi Jodie!
Things kids of today will never experience - watching MTV when they actually played music videos, watching your favorite artists perform on American Bandstand, Soul Train or Solid Gold, and listening to Casey Kasem count down the biggest hits every weekend on American Top 40!
KFC was so much better then. It’s practically inedible now. Same can be said about a lot of other fast food/restaurant franchises…
Thank you for watching mcorleonep!
KFC gravy was wonderful, not sure what they did to it, but its awful these days.
Yes, I remember them being more tasty myself when i was a kid.
My first teenage job was at KFC in 1977, the food was good.
Prices went us, quality went down, and restaurants got absorbed into one another by bigger and bigger conglomerates.
My wife and I are surrounding ourselves with old items for nostalgia's sake. We're both children of the '70's, and we'd go back and live in a recurring loop of the '70's-'80's-'90's forever if we could. The internet has brought a lot of impactful positives, but it's brought a lot of painful negatives too. For every person it educates, it also enables a loon to hurt somebody. At least when people weren't connected it wasn't quite so easy to spread hate and pain in bulk.
I'll use a card when I'm picking up things for the house or food, and of course to order stuff online, but I always keep a few hundred in cash on me for deals I run up on from individuals. I also pay any home contractors and my mechanics in cash so they don't have to let the government know what they make off me through bank reporting. The government steals and wastes way too much of our $$$ as it is.
I miss my childhood so much. I think of the 80s daily and prob more often then I should. Makes me sad as those days are gone forever except in my mind 😢
Not gonna lie. I love that we have GPS. I would never want go back and live without it.
I still love having a driver's almanac. It's so fun to plan a road trip that way.
With all the technology that kids are exposed to these days, I'm not surprised to learn that a lot of children lack true imagination. If they wonder about something they don't have to imagine it in their head or dream about it. Just ask the internet and it will do that for you. Visionaries are being replaced by programmers. I'm so glad I grew up in the 50's/60's. Great time to be a kid.
Makes me think of WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Rhett, I really enjoyed your video, things kids will never experience anymore. This video brought back a lot of memories of days gone by. Today's kids will never know what its like to receive personal mail aka "snail mail," because they can easily text or email messages. Have a fantastic week. Take care 🐎
Kids will not experience the smell of ink from the ditto machine when teachers passed out papers. I still teach cursive handwriting in my classroom, and I want to thank you for having a photograph of a fountain pen. I use them in class, and if my students meet my cursive writing expectations, then they will also receive a fountain pen. Thank you for this video presentation. Take care.
My nephew is always up to the minute on soccer scores from wherever they originate. He’d be nuts at having to wait for that 5 min sports segment on the nightly news (which probably wouldn’t cover it) then wait for the morning paper. Even then it might be the NEXT day’s paper or worse, the weekly “Sports Illustrated”. I can’t imagine going back to that; the world was so small
He would learn about delayed gratification 😀
I remember back in my day when a pinball machine game cost a dime and we would collect pop bottles to turn in at the corner store to get the dimes we needed to play them.
I worked 10 years in the check processing dept at PNC Bank. We used to sort probably a million checks each day back when you got your checks back in the mail. Best job I ever had. Unfortunately as that slowly stopped happening, I lost my job to technology. 😮
Technology definitely changed and I haven't gotten any checks back in decades. Thank you for watching and sharing what you used to do Joe!
I remember when "children" and "adults" where like, two different worlds. Like everything was sperated between the two. Then that border disappeared. I have siblings who are ten years younger than me and they view the world completely different.
I don't think the border ever disappeared.
As I watch this I am nodding my head with a smile on my face.
I miss road maps!! Picking one or two up at highway gas stations whenever we'd travel to other states. Finding some at your grandparents' house that were 10 years old or more.
Maps were fun because it meant you were going somewhere different. Thank you for watching Murrlin27!
I remember the Nightmare it was to fold them up again!🤣 As soon as Mapsco came out my parents switched to that. I still have my 2000 Mapsco for my city. It's fun to see how much the highways and roads have changed.
My 1985 Buick Riviera, Red leather interior. A 2 door vehicle had 4 ash trays and cigarette lighters. One under radio, one on passenger door and 2 on each side in back seat. Also it had a power telescoping antenna. Great Video!👍🏻🇺🇲
Great video Rhett! I’m not one who dwells I’m the past but it’s fun to look back for a bit! ❤
I remember what life was like back in the 1990s and the 2000s.
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You know, I'm just glad that I was able to relate to everything in this video. It seems like everything used to be an event or an outing. That is something that this new generation doesn't get the chance to experience often since everything is at your fingertips through a download. One of the great joys I had in life was going to a record store to go get the latest CD and opening the jewel case and reading the booklet on the inside.
My grandparents had a rotary phone up until the late 90s in the kitchen. Man i miss those days. Born in 80. We had the best toys, cartoons, movies. We had it made!!
Thank You for the Video (and the memories) 😀
My son says he was born in the wrong era after I told my stories about growing up in the 80’s. I was 15 in 1980. 😂 Yes, I’m kinda obsolete like these items are. I’m ok with that, I had a great run. XD. I was just describing what a Rolodex was 2 days ago. Hahaha 😆 He didn’t know what that was.
Our phone was centrally located for first response from the quickest, lol We had a party line, shared phone phone number with several neighbors, each of us had to really listen, everyone had them own ringing pattern, and people would get angry if you tried to make a call and they were already using the phone. I don't miss that,lol😊
I was born in 1983 in Las Vegas.. Im happy i caught the tail end of the good ol days..I use 2 play in the arcades at casinos in the 90's when my mom went gambling..
Seeing how fast electric tools and whatnot are growing, perhaps pull-starting?
Thanks Rhetty. Excellent as always. I remember dialing the operator to get a phone number.
That is a great one to mention Laurie! I completely forgot about doing that.
Japan still has working rotary phones! I seen them when I was over there in 2018. For emergency purposes I’m thinking.
Having a cortelco in a hotel room was a long time stable with a big phone book. Good memories from the 90s on US roadtrips.
That is very interesting and I did not know that. Thank you for watching!
God I miss the 80s and 90s😢 the older I get the more I want the world to go back to the good old days sometimes I wonder and wish technology would crash so that everyone today would have to revert to the old ways that I miss a lot sure things took longer sure things were harder but you know what I would trade it in a heartbeat if I could go back in time one way or another
yes renting movies ,what a treat,sat nite,when CREATURES FEATURES WAS NOT ON THE TABLE THAT NITE............
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Your video today really hammered this home for me; although technology can be helpful, it certainly took away the eager anticipation of all things good, exciting, and wonderful. Who was calling on the phone; who's going to win that ball game; I can't wait to get my pictures back; you get what I'm saying. I still use a dictionary and, if I had the yellow pages, I would use it too! I still have my VCR...actually it was Dad's first one. Still brand new. That tells you how many movies I watched! The simplicity of arcade game themes just reminds me of how laid back we were. It didn't take much to make us happy and, we had an appreciation for so much...unlike today. I guess the greatest memories sometimes brings a bit of sadness. But, thank you so much, Rhetty! Your video made my Sunday! I hope you and all of yours are doing well!
57 year old GenXer here.
Today's kids will never be able to order a Domino's pizza with "free" Cokes in styrofoam cups delivered by a Domino's driver in Domino's labeled company car.
Thank you for watching and sharing a memory Rick!
I was telling my mom just yesterday that my 2005 model Eureka vacuum had finally called it quits. She smiled proudly and asked if I wanted to use her 25 pound, 1975 model, bagged Kirby. Not sure which is more shocking, the Kirby is still running or Mom (in her 80's) is still able to push that monster around. lol
I never even grew up in the 80s, but I feel somewhat of a strange nostalgia for it even though I’ve never lived then. I would give anything to have live through the 80s and 90s
👍❤️ keep up the great work Rhett !! Your channel rocks !!
Thank you Lisa! I appreciate you always watching and commenting!
I did spend a lot of time at arcades. Arcade games were everywhere. When my mom dragged me to the store, I would make my way to whatever one they had there and play it until my mom was done shopping.
80’s Vintage Vibe
Kids today will never know the joy of walking into an old school toys r us. Miles of shelves with every toy, game, model kit, and piece of sports equipment for kids imaginable... The new stores are stores within stores like Macys, and they take up a lot of space with paid displays, not an unimaginable variety of everything.
My vacuum still uses bags. It's pretty old.
I have not seen one for sale with one it a long time. But the old ones are still running.
Greetings from the UK, this video brought back some great memories, i still have a video player, and all the videos 😲 thank you for this video 👍👍👏
The Price Club used to sell a map book that was had all the streets in the state. It was awesome. I loved that book.
You always make cry with this wholesome videos. I’m 51 years old and I feel so grateful and blessed that I had the chance to experienced all that and to lived in a time when life was so simple and awesome. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING ME BACK WITH YOUR VIDEOS! God bless 🥹😊
00:14 Was that a picture of Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony at the Pac Man game??
What will kids in 30 years from now be making nostalgic videos of? I can’t imagine
Lunch boxes made of steel, often with images of our favorite TV shows or characters.
Mom had a home business, and printed a quarterly newsletter on a mimeograph printer. Those chemicals would make you see things 😂
Also, I grew up in a "test market" city. Our family was chosen to test phone services, like call-waiting and call-forwarding.
dawg, roombas are still weird to me. Give me my Oreck anyday. Also remember calling in on a landline to see when movies were playing. That was like 15 years ago. we were late on tech in my house.
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Amazing how fast technology changes. I never thought that 35mm film would ever be replaced.
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I didn't think it would ever go either. It really is a nice medium to use. Thank you for watching Paul!
I miss the old days that’s for sure
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I can remember this question coming at me in 1975. Dad, what the hell has happened to this generation? It happens every generation, ya just got to go with the flow! Of course we did have the best music, no cell phone's and Pong which I played until the dials fell off lol
I lived above a Video rental shop
We used to walk downstairs and rent movies on VHS, then go up and watch them, then bring them back downstairs and get more.
We have an actual arcade by my house now. Kids and adults are going there and playing actual video games and pinball with quarters again, and I think that’s awesome.
Wow Rhett, that really took me back. Our first computer was huge. I think the best thing was a Microwave. Hope you are all well.We are freezing in Africa. Keep safe 🙏 ❤️.
Couldn’t agree more! Millennial here!
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Miss thes dayes
Forget writing in cursive, people today don't even know what an apostrophe is for or when to use one.
You even forgot how to use a comma.
@@jeltoninc.8542 More like I forgot to use one.
I was a kid in the 70s and enjoyed everything presented here, but I'm compelled to point out that kids today will experience things I can't even begin to imagine. My grandfather was a WW2 vet and we gifted him an Apple II computer in the mid-80s. He was not a stupid man by any means, but he was utterly baffled and never did learn to really use it. We all live in our time. Napoleon once said that "to really understand a man, you have to know what the world was like when he was 20 years old." That is even more true today than it was 200 years ago.
I still remember saving up for a Mac IIcx, and how jealous some of my friends got when I saved up and had it upgraded to a BLAZING 90 mhz 😂.
Thank you for watching and sharing a memory with us abrakahocus!
This was a great video!
Thank you and I appreciate you watching Scooby!
Omg I remember those old HEB bags from when we first moved to Texas.
Also Dell still uses DOS as a legacy tool, also still works better than the newer programs
The development of pictures from film was a real struggle 😅
It sure was quite the process. Thank you for watching masteryoda394!
I never used a slide ruler. We had to use our brains until Geometry in 7th grade. I remember loading the Commodore 64 with a cassette!!!! HA!!! Yes, the good old Dewey Decimal system!😂😂😂
Many fun and interesting times back then and the paper map was a adventure for sure. I love that retro game stores some not all still have classic arcade cabinets for the new generation of gamers can experience the many wonderful games from back then. Cool video. ^_^
Rhetty! You do such a great job! Your videos refresh my memory and put a smile on my face!
Thank you for watching and I'm happy to hear you are enjoying the videos shnibby69!
When I was a little kid, we had a party line. I'd love to hear what kids today would give as the definition of that. ☎️😄
Thank you for watching and bringing that one up! I'm sure they wouldn't like it!