passing notes wasn't just for lovers, we passed notes for almost everything. it was texting before texting. Cigarettes weren't allowed in school but it was common for people to go and smoke in the bathroom to try to "sneak" it in, it could be easily flushed if needed. My high school however had a specific smoking section for students to use.
I graduated in 1995 and we had a smoking section for students until 93. Only teachers were allowed to smoke on campus after that. We still smoked though, just ended up going into the woods behind where the shop class was held.
Mix tapes were how we told each other how we felt 🙂 Each song was carefully chosen for it's message or beat. We gave them to all the people who were important to us and each was personalized and spoke to that one person through song. Sometimes it took weeks to get all the songs wanted from recording straight off the radio.
Yeah I'm an 86 kid and my family was poor AF so we didn't actually have a.comoiter in our house until the early 2000s. I was actually resistant to getting one, didn't care that much about the internet, and prefered to go outside and see friends lol. @@Themuffinman1820
@@Themuffinman1820 Generations aren't absolute to the year. Many Gen X kids came out up till 90 given the age, attitude, and financial status of their parents. Likewise there are Millennials that were 25 before 2k, simply affording to be in the know about all the new tech and schools of thought.
I think gen x high school was great. We experienced everything without trying to film everything and there are no incriminating photos. It's just a rumor. Maybe it happened... maybe not.
As a Gen Xer I think cell phones would’ve been great to have for communication, but social media would’ve been a nightmare. So glad many of our cringiest moments don’t exist beyond our memories lol 💚
You mean our non law abiding shenanigans. I tried dying every weekend on jungle juice or Jack. Thank God there were no cameras around when we were kids. 😂😂
I see negatives & positives in both. I love how my generation connected in person.. how our mistakes in highschool & early adulthood weren't captured for all eternity- never to live down. But i love that I can now find any information I want at my fingertips, and how I can speak to and learn from ppl all over the world. I think we gen xers need to give gen z a break- there was a time when nobody understood us, either. A time when our metal or rap musicians were criticized and literally demonized. They're experiencing the same. And if boomers think back to the days when nobody understood the Beatles or Elvis.. and maybe criticized your social justice movements, you might soften and try to understand what changes are important to gen z. Because this is now THEIR time. It's not bad. It's just different.
Passing notes was as normal as sending a text/DM today. Imagine 30 years from now the youth asking if you really sent messages over your phone, was that really a thing???
That scene where Kurt Cobain gets up and drops his guitar was a badass moment. He saw a woman in the crowd being attacked and got up to call out the two guys assaulting her. He had security get them out of his show and made sure she was safe.
I still have my notes from high school. Every once in a while I'll pull them out and read them. A lot of times I have no idea what they were about because we would put them in code in case anybody else found them. 😅
i had a box full of them, i got rid of it when i was in my second serious relation (i was like 33) when she was looking through my old stuff, when we read those notes, i barely remembered any of them but the peoples faces just flashed through my mind
Meeting in the bathrooms and telephones also existed. Word of mouth was another of having your friends tell something to others. Shit, dude, we even had telegraphs set up between our houses for some of us.
There are good things about now, like calling when I have car trouble etc. But, growing up when we did, we had to use imagination create our own fun, meet up with friends constantly (Live) and spend hours and hours out in nature and not sitting in a room just staring at our phones. So, I would never want to have grown up like Gen Z. But, I do like a lot of the convenience we have now.
I'm 45. I miss growing up in the 80's. It was a much simpler time. We had to make plans. Ride our bikes to go to a friend's house, regardless of the weather. We hung out without cell phone distraction. When my kid and his friends hang out, I swear they're texting each other while sitting next to each other. 🤦♂️
Passing notes wasn’t just in class. When passing your bestie or a crush in the hall, that was your opportunity to give them that note. I still have notes from high school from my female friends, and notes and poems that guys wrote me. 😁
On the subject of mixed tapes: Back in the day is was extremely common for teenagers to buy (and/or reuse) cassette tapes to make their own mix. But it wasn't just as simple as adding a song to your playlist like it is now. Then, you would have to spend HOURS listening to the radio for the songs you wanted and be quick enough to hit the RECORD buttons on your stereo so you could copy it. Basically, it was a form of piracy, back when kids rarely had any money to actually go buy albums at the store. The biggest frustration for 80s/90s kids doing this was when the dang DJ cut in before the song ended.
All of it is very familiar to most of us. I was in high school a little later in the 80s than this but notes were passed and cigarettes were smoked in the bathrooms. The jelly stuff on the lunch tray is Applesauce (very common here).
I have heard that some apps are letting you make a "mixed tape" on their app (so the person you send it to has to use the app). And yes, the mixed tapes would be a mood or feeling maybe. Also, just owning a car was a status symbol at most schools. We passed notes and folded them in weird ways for any number of reasons even just to gossip or make plans for after school or the weekend. I'm GenX and I use to check my phone and scroll in the morning, but I started to feel I was a slave to this device and social media sites. I still check the phone, but it's more for the weather, see if I had text messages from family and that's it. It is weird they say avocado toast is GenZ because I thought that was a Paris Hilton thing. I only wish we had better computers at my school. I am a younger GenX so we had computers, but they were only for certain classes and not widespread use. Personally I feel for all of GenZ desire for connectivity, they become less social by relying on electronics and media for these connections. To make real connections interacting is the best even if it is just for a couple of hours a day. Twitter is not really interacting with others.
We wpuld literally sit by the radio with a cassett recorder... or if you were lucky youd have a "boom-box" woth a record feature. And if you missed a song, you'd have to wait for the station to play it again. Both girls and guys would give each other mixed tapes to let them know how they felt. True Story...
In High School the electronics club had an illegal radio station that broadcasted all over the school campus and surrounding neighborhoods. At lunchtime they played the latest album of the day from Styx, Foreigner, Boston, Heart, Kiss, Ted Nugent, Dire Straits, Luther Vandross, War, Michael Jackson, etc.etc. This made the lunch room quiet and self managed because you couldn't rewind what you didn't hear and play it again.
Gen Xer, Class of '89. The 80s were a time of some pretty strict categories of cliques and each clique had their own "uniform" or preferred fashion sense. Preppies, jocks and cheerleaders, alternative kids (the proto-Goths and Emo youth), metalheads ,"freaks", brains (honor roll students aiming for Ivy League colleges/universities), "holdover hippies and deadheads" (those were the tie-dye and love-bead wearing kids who listened to 60s music and/or were huge Grateful Dead fans and they later on went on to become Grunge fans and/or Phish heads)... there was some little bit of overlap and a few sub-groupings (those of us who were alternative but in art club or drama were called "artfags" by those who really hated us, for instance)... And music was VERY much a signifier of what your style was, back then. If a metalhead also liked, say... Madonna or Duran Duran or The Cure, they never even whispered it or they would risk ridicule or bullying. It was scandalous for someone of one clique to date or be close friends with anyone of another clique.
At first, I didn't understand why others called ALL of us 'Art Fags.' I think I figured it out a few years after graduating. And I was a mix of enjoying the alternative/modern/college rock most of the high school kids wasn't even listening to; the moldy oldies classic rock, & then finally able to blossom in the 90's as a full fledged hippie goth, immediately after my grunge moments. Though I still liked some pop music, like Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, & Prince. I really appreciate my artfag friends introducing me to the darker, or unusual side of things with U2, REM, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Dead Milkmen, The Cure, & so on. I already graduated when Nine Inch Nails took over my life.
Took a typing class in high school. I was the only guy in the class. Lots of notes were passed my way. Other guys were like, why you taking typing class, lol. Because computers are the future, numb-nuts.
Our school system had different career tracks that determined what courses you could take or not. The only people allowed to take typing were business/clerical students, I was college preparatory. I had to petition the school board for special permission to take typing. I pointed out that within 10 years it will be more important to know how to type than it will be to know how to drive because everyone will be using computers for work. I also quoted the policy manuals of several major universities that I was applying to which required research papers, essays, theses and dissertations be typewritten only. That did the trick and they let me in.
Aside from the ceiling light in my sisters bedroom, there wasn’t a single surface that didn’t have a Michael Jackson poster, article or magazine clipping. She even wrapped her light switch plate in MJ. We always passed notes. We never snuck a cigarette in school unless you didn’t care if you got suspended, but the school did have a designated smoking area on campus. We often recorded several mixed tapes with music that spoke to us or for different moods. No different than play lists of today.
The thing i appreciate more than reliving some great nostalgic moments is seeing how much you seem to enjoy watching and learning about past generations. Your thoughts , attitude and comments on the videos as you watch you can see you are enjoying what you're learning rather than just posting another random video and slapping a clickbait title on it. Your dedication to understand others from generations to lyrics in songs is marvelous for anyone at any age. I'm happy to be part of your journey. ❤
I was born in 67, the magical year, because we turned 13 and became teenagers at the beginning of 80's and were teenager's thru the whole decade. What a great decade.
Absolutely yes, we would pass notes to friends every single day. Many of our friends we would only see a couple of times per day and have different classes, so we would describe teachers and students in our classes to one another, write about crushes and activities, etc.
My high school had a smoking area, in the courtyard outside the cafeteria We prayed before football games and at the flagpole Had a "Bible Club" just like they had FFA, Latin Clubs or FHA We had no idea the things we were taking for granted. And yes, we did WRITE notes to our crushes and pass them strategically, trying to not get caught - resulting in it being taken and not reaching its destination. How the notes were folded, also a huge deal - And decorating the covers of our textbooks with paint/glitter pens ❤❤
I do also, but mine is a notebook me and my best friend had between each other. When we had the same class after each other we left the notebook under the chair in the holder.
My day started with my favorite cassette, a shower, a pop tart and off we went and met in the corner to walk together to school, about 15 all together…. I loved my childhood❤❤❤❤
💚 I've passed so many notes in school. From elementary school to high school in my schools days it was a big thing. Notes could range from gossip to do you like check the yes or no box lol. Those were some good old days.
Haven't had a chance to go to the Patreon yet, but hope you've done a reaction to Golden Girls. Been seeing a lot of younger people getting a huge kick out of it. 😁
I had a laugh at your comment about the phone cord. The reason is that my job just hired a 24 year old. We have old desk phones and I happened to be next to him the first time he got a call. Poor guy almost panicked. I had to tell him to lift the receiver, say "hello" and ask what you can help with It was like the guy had never actually spoken in his smartphone either. Can that be? I mean, how does he maintain contact with grandma without that?
These poor young people... They think that the internet is somehow their friend. Being in high school in the 80s was so real. Not saying it was always fun but it was about being with others and knowing that you could trust in what you saw and heard. Gen Z will never know what they are missing and that's the sad part.
When I got my driver's license at 16, in 1982, my parents gave me their Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. It was pretty scruffy but my two best friends did not get their driver's licenses until they were 18 yrs old so they bummed rides off me.
I would love to go back to the gen x times before electronics. Electronics has dumbed down everyone. No one has to rely on there own brains to remember anything anymore. No one wants to get together and just hang out anymore. Social get togethers are almost never anymore. If you can't do it online no one wants to do it at all. It has made people weaker, mentally, and physically. Damn I miss the good days.
I was blasting a very old performance of its a long way to the top just today it looks like they're in a very small school gym I love the clothes he wore, I dress like him today
When I started high school in 1997, I was worried about the smoking in the girls' room (at least that was the rumors). At my 9th grade high school orientation, my Mom asked the school nurse if I could go into the bathroom in the nurse's office instead. I remember talking to a guy friend for hours on my house landline phone in the late 90s/early 2000s. The late 90s/early 2000s were similar to the 80s, with the exception of the beginning of the internet.
Me youngest gen x 1980 and was listen music on walkman during 90s and 00s 😊😊😊😊cindy lauper, Scorpions, guns and roses. Gen Z can't live without internet, to much looking at screen bad for eyes
Yes, passing notes during class happened all the time. Sometimes that was the only time you could communicate with someone all day because classes were often very far apart and time between lessons was very limited. We started in elementary school with notes “Do you like me? Circle Yes or No.”This continued throughout high school. We often had a splitter for the Walkman Jack where we could connect an additional set of headphones and later just sharing the corded earphones. Mix tapes we songs often recorded from the radio or if you were lucky, you had a dual cassette deck for dubbing. Each song was carefully selected to express your feelings about the recipient. Cars were a status symbol. We often hung out in the parking lot to see who was driving what and to admire our favorites. On the lunch tray, the mystery item was apple sauce. Very common in high school lunches. I’m so glad I grew up when I did.
It's not jelly. It's apple sauce. Mix tapes were tapes filled with recorded tracks from either the radio or albums. Check out the movie "High Fidelity" for a real insight into a Gen-X mix tape.
Notes were the only way to communicate in class. Most of the time they were just regular notes. Rich kids didn't drive old muscle cars. They simply drove new cars. The only school lunches that were edible was pizza and the fried chicken meals. Everything else was nasty. Double headphone personal stereos also worked with a passenger on a motorcycle
I was lucky when it was pizza day. There was a pizza place across the street from school, so on Fridays, pizza was delivered and lunch ladies just heated it up. The rest of the lunches were gross. The macaroni tasted like wall paper paste. School gave a choice of hot or cold lunch. Cold lunch was usually a ham sandwich.
Jr High (middle school now) I experienced my first food fight in the cafeteria. It started when the song; 'Another One Bites The Dust' by Queen was playing. The drums sounding like a machine gun and food flying everywhere.
Boomers: Brought up taught success in your workplace is your Identity. Women couldn't even get a bank account or a loan without a man cosigning at a bank. 1970's the economy tanked, Inflation skyrocketed, and women went into the workforce. (Work is so very important). Hence we have Gen X where both parents were now working very hard and long hours -> Gen X or latchkey kids. More independent and adventurous as they had to learn much on their own and become more independent faster. Most also embraced and learned as much as they could about technology.. Technology was the future .... -> Millenials. Amazing how each generation actually "Makes" the next.
@@jrafel1707 my husband is on the young side of boomer & I’m Gen X. He got a city job with a union and pension because that’s how he was raised. I became an independent contractor with my own business because working a job for someone else didn’t work for me. I was more rebellious & anti authority. There’s a 5 year difference between us and we’re complete opposites! It’s worked for 30 years so far though.
Muscle cars weren't rich kid cars (unless they were brand new). However, a lot more guys had them because they were powerful used cars they could work on. I knew quite a few people who bought those when they didn't run, and spent a lot of time getting them running and then some.
A mix tape was made by putting a blank audio cassette tape in a recorder, and waiting and praying the radio station would play the song you wanted so you could quickly hit that "record" button. A mix tape was a successful hunt. If you could catch it without the DJ speaking over the song, it was victory. You would build these tapes with strictly love songs for your crush, or maybe dance music to get ready for fun, etc. The object of your desire was often the recipient of the love song mix tape. You prayed they didn't reject it. Often it was given to a new boyfriend or girlfriend, as well.
Getting caught passing a note = getting caught passing state secrets...... Cause if you got caught, you had to stand at the front of the class and read it in front of everyone....
We always used to put our notes in code. That way if anybody found them no one would know what they were talking about. Everybody had code names and various activities had code names.
Im an 86 baby BUT with a 1980 brother, i became a create of hus design, enjoying all the toys and fun ofnthe 80s on moms orders! Since we had to "share" all the time. Lol The oace of life was slower than it is now, and i miss being able to sit back with a good book and not have anyone bother me for hours. You could stay home for longer or be gone for longer before anyone thoight anything was up, because life was more about going outdoors and not staying inside all the time like it is now. Flying folded notes were called "footballs" and you could flick them with a really good range of precision instead of having to trust other people to get it all the way across the room to your person. 😆 Saturday nights at the local skate rink or bowling alley were the bomb! And we had to hurt each others feelings in person!! Lol.
Pass notes? Heck yeah! We folded them up in ways you wouldn't understand and passed them quietly through the classroom to it's recipient. It was the only way to communicate when not in between classes.
💚 Very fun watching you remember our youth😂😂😂 The pictures are amazing, and many times those snapshots were followed by “Why do you take candid pictures of me? I’m NOT READY!”
So SAD the kids of today have NO REAL Friends ! They don't even know how to talk to each other and just hang out .. Seems like an empty life - Lonely .
Now he took me back with that Love's Baby Soft. 😂 Passing notes was so normal! We folded them to create a fancy pull tab. My friends and I actually had a notebook we wrote in since we shared a locker. We'd check to see if there was a new note added.
Mix tapes: before digital music, you had to live with whatever the radio stations played, or the order of songs on the artist's album. You couldn't just jump from one song to the next, except by changing radio stations. So a mix tape was on cassette, the first medium that most people could easily record at home. You could arrange songs in whatever order you liked, the first time you could create your own playlist. But you still couldn't skip songs, you just played your playlist straight through. So you'd come up with a list of songs that told a story, maybe a rehash of your past relationship where it starts with songs about falling in love, then cheating, then breakups, then getting over a bad love. Or another playlist you'd play for your girl that would convey what a great guy you were.
Gen X teens and Gen Z teens are not that much different... except for the conduits of communication. We didn't have connected computers and cell phones, so the folded up notes passed back and forth or slid into a locker to get info to your friends next hour was our "DM" or "Email". We didn't have Spotify playlists or Instagram reels, so we used Mix-tapes to string together a playlist for driving, working out, partying, or romance. Even the social aspect of video games... we would spent hours and quarters getting good at a game in a local bowling alley or Pizza place so we could later drive to the big arcade downtown or at the mall to get our high scores with our initials up on the leaderboards for everyone to see. ☮💜🎶
I do my morning scroll too😊 This channel does great videos, thanks for putting us on to them💚 If you want the names of the bands, i could go on forever 💚 Oh definitely notes were passed💚 We had a smoking section outside the back door in highschool 💚 Apple sauce, on the food tray, top left I never ended up dating in highschool ☺️ We made mixed tapes from songs we wanted to share, and gave them💚 Gen X didn't really sit on the sidelines either, at least my circles💚 Sign o' the times💚💜 ✌️🌞💕
At my school we had what was called "The Rail" it was the spot in between the main school building and the gym. It was a metal gaurd rail that was designated for smoking students because the janitor got tired of dealing with cig butts in the urinals, toilets, sinks, and floor.
As a Gen X I might look at my phone to check the time but other than that I usually forget about my phone. In fact I don't even know where it is right now. If someone calls I guess I'll find it.
Aside from the ceiling light in my sisters bedroom, there wasn’t a single surface that didn’t have a Michael Jackson poster, article or magazine clipping. She even wrapped her light switch plate in MJ. We always passed notes. We never snuck a cigarette in school unless you didn’t care if you got suspended, but the school did have a designated smoking area on campus.
Wassup, Jay! Regarding note passing in class, yes, this was very normal growing up. You would fold the note in either a triangle or simple square, then ask the classmate next to you to pass it along if your friend was not next to you. Some of the notes would even be passed to a girl/boy you like and ask them "do you like me or friend's name" and put a "yes" or "no" check box for them to fill out and pass back.
It's funny.... we grew up having to know programming just use a computer starting, we literally invented basically everything that is now out, and yet Gen Z and Alpha like to act like we're clueless online and don't know how to do literally everything online forward and backwards. My kids from both those Gens find that out all too often!! 🤣🤣🤣
Right, I was in 6th grade when Computer Labs came into school, 1985, my dad bought a Commodore Plus 4 in 1987, he was a Computer Programmer for Caterpillar, that's an entire 11 years before my son was born😂I often remind him, the smartest guy I know is my dad😂a high school dropout, I was the first to graduate from high school but my son got a degree from University of South Carolina, I tell him dad was still smarter and he agrees cause he knew him.
Mixed tapes were usually done by the person who owed the tape, u put on it whatever u liked, so u didn't have all the shit songs only what u wanted on the tapes.
Passing notes during class (SoCal.1988) was common. It was a normal form of communication back then. If you were caught by the teacher passing notes, the teacher would read the note aloud to the class. I never saw any smoking of cigarettes in the school bathrooms. The music, movies culture were awesome! It was a great time to grow up!
Did we pass notes? Hell yea! We had like an elaborate underground networks! Everyone new everyone's schedule so if you didn't have a clas with them you'd know where to pass them in the hall. Or you'd master which teachers were more serious about notes. It's like we were all training to be Jason Bourne without all the violence.
In 1983 I was writing code on the first Macs in our h.s. Gen X was the beginning of the expanding digital age. When computers became cheap enough for common people. My favorite music controller is my Roland JD-Xi analogue/digital synth hybrid. This generation got the best of both worlds.
Our folded notes (I didn't see any in the images when it was first mentioned, but you do see them at about 9:45) were not in envelopes.😂 And yes, we used them all the time. They weren't just love notes though. They were our texting. However, if a teacher caught you passing them, he or she might take it from you and read it out loud to the class. One of my friends passed me a note with the details to a byob party, but it got intercepted by a teacher who did this. We canceled the party for fear the teacher would narc on us. Teachers were also more apt to call the parents back then. We only had recess in elementary school, and we didn't really pass notes in elementary school. Teenagers go to Jr high/middle school and high school. That's where notes were passed.
💚 Unfortunately, I think the Gen Z social & environmental consciousness they talked about is now swinging in the opposite direction & being replaced by an endless craving for external validation (clout) and being envied by others. For Gen Z, it’s now out with Greta & in with Andrew Tate
Have you seen Stranger things? Think of how the characters favorite song kept the bad guy away. Music lyrics is a sort of poetry. And a mixed tape, was something that took A very LONG TIME to do. So you did that because of how strongly you felt about that friend, or crush boyfriend/girlfriend or whatever. Passing notes was for everything. You just made sure not to get caught. 😅
Passing notes was the same as sending texts. Very common. It was the only way to silently communicate with a friend several desks away, putting trust in your classmates to sneakily pass it along, & not keeping it for themselves to read things not meant for them to see. Most of the time, the teachers seemed to be oblivious, or didn't care too much, but disciplinary actions were taken if caught. Though I don't really remember what happened. Possibly detention. I've been in detention for things I don't remember. Probably that. Or maybe talking quietly, when there was zero tolerance for speaking to other classmates. Honestly, school wasn't always a fun place. The system sucks away every innate natural behavior kids need to grow up as better people, which involved socialization. They twisted it around to suit their own needs, which made kids like me unnaturally introverted.
Hell ya we passed around notes in class to either friends or boys. We even left secret admirer notes in lockers! My high school had a dedicated smoking area on school property for students. I also had a Walkman with wired headphones where I played all my mix tapes I made from recording songs off the radio.
7:40 EVERYONE passed notes. Sometimes, to spread news, you would spend time in class writing the same note a bunch of times to had to as many people as possible during break. It was the old school group text 😂
I had one class my senior year where three friends and I would pass a spiral notebook between us and we filled it in only a few weeks. My friend typed it out and printed a section of it on her dot matrix printer so we could all have a copy. That was 1991 and I still have it.
I passed a notebook back and forth with a guy I had a crush on. I wish I still had that notebook! We didn’t think the teacher saw us, but at the end of the year she said she just never said anything to us because we both had good grades. 😂
I never shared a Walkman with a love interest. But a friend and I shared one too listen to INXS on a bus trip once. Mostly the love thing that was mention was when we made a mixed tape of love songs that we have our love interest (we didn't record our own voice). Mixed tapes were often songs recorded from the radio. I did have one guy include one of his garage band's songs, but that wasn't typical. We didn't share a Walkman. Most people didn't have one with 2 headphone jacks or the adapter.And there was no Bluetooth back then.
💚 the passing of notes were definitely a thing whether it was a crush or pledging friendship to your best friends. They were folded in intricate designs like oragami. Mix tapes were when you put together a tape of your favorite songs to express how you felt. Different mixtapes for different people based on how you related as friends. There was definitely the intention of sharing emotions and being vulnerable when doing this.
We had a actual smoking area at my high school. I live in Ontario, Canada. We called it the ‘V’ based on the location and it was actually allowed until around 1990. The whole ‘V’ was a meeting area because it was also a huge grassy area that we all met at in the springtime with blankets during lunch to eat, throw footballs and talk. Good times. 😊❤
Passing notes was how we talked to each other during class!! But don't get caught by the teacher, because the teacher would take that note and read it to the entire class :)
A lot is so true regarding the Xer's experience in high school. I was bullied in high school and got through it. Today's social media would have made that very hard to survive the "abuse". As an only child, I used the road "yacht" (a large Ford auto) to get to school, I had posters all over my room and '45s hanging from the ceiling, the stereo, a desk and two bean bags - my bedroom was a room for sleeping. Because of social media and always being connected, I prefer, good and bad, the experience of the X years. Oh! two bands in the music shown, The Cure and Talking, I still listen to - you should give them a try!
My Freshman year of High School, there was actually a “smoking section” where the students over 18 could go & smoke. They got rid of it though. So by the time I was a Senior & 17 & started smoking, we smoked in our cars in the parking lot during break trying not to get caught, when we went off campus for lunch, or yes, even in the bathroom between classes.
mix tapes of emotions were our version of a sad playlist or an upbeat playlist - but we had to wait by the radio for hours to hit the button to record it ourselves onto our mix tapes. I remember getting blank tapes as gifts so I could make mix tapes. It was the best thing to get.
I’m from 🇨🇦 and hell yes notes were constantly passed (I was usually a link in the postal chain). They could be about romance, questions, parties, lunch or weekend plans. There was always at least one message moving around.
What you're not catching about the "notes" thing; is this was when phones were latched to the wall in the kitchen where your parents (if home) inevitably spent their time... There was no text messaging and if you wanted a private conversation with ANYBODY, you had to go somewhere away from people or write it down. There was no form of instant or text messaging yet. Email wasn't even a thing till the mid 80's. Love notes were only maybe half or less of notes passed. Most were about where to meet between classes/after school or conspiratorial activities, such as pranking the teacher, or a fight happening after school.
I wouldn't give up living in the 70's and 80's for anything. I'm so thankful to be born when I was. It's been a ride!
Amen! I second that emotion!
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passing notes wasn't just for lovers, we passed notes for almost everything. it was texting before texting. Cigarettes weren't allowed in school but it was common for people to go and smoke in the bathroom to try to "sneak" it in, it could be easily flushed if needed. My high school however had a specific smoking section for students to use.
I graduated 1986. Went to high school in Texas & California. Both schools had smoking sections. Not allowed inside, but a certain area outside.
My junior year 84/85 they tried to make our highschool a closed campus and gave us the downstairs bathroom and baseball field to smoke.
I graduated in 1995 and we had a smoking section for students until 93. Only teachers were allowed to smoke on campus after that. We still smoked though, just ended up going into the woods behind where the shop class was held.
Hell we had a teacher that was an old hippie and used to go outside and smoke with us
@@TheReluctantCarnivore 85 here Wow will be 40 years this coming June
Mix tapes were how we told each other how we felt 🙂 Each song was carefully chosen for it's message or beat. We gave them to all the people who were important to us and each was personalized and spoke to that one person through song. Sometimes it took weeks to get all the songs wanted from recording straight off the radio.
This video is dead on from 1994 back..❤
I feel so Sorry for anyone born after Gen X....... technology took over and they miss out on nature and real connection with others!!
The digital revolution has done more damage than the industrial revolution.
I would say anyone after like 1990. I was born in 88 and most of our tech till hell 2006 was 80s or older. We didn't get a computer till 2000
Yeah I'm an 86 kid and my family was poor AF so we didn't actually have a.comoiter in our house until the early 2000s. I was actually resistant to getting one, didn't care that much about the internet, and prefered to go outside and see friends lol. @@Themuffinman1820
@@Themuffinman1820 Generations aren't absolute to the year. Many Gen X kids came out up till 90 given the age, attitude, and financial status of their parents. Likewise there are Millennials that were 25 before 2k, simply affording to be in the know about all the new tech and schools of thought.
I think gen x high school was great. We experienced everything without trying to film everything and there are no incriminating photos. It's just a rumor. Maybe it happened... maybe not.
Sharing the headphone with someone special WAS THE POINT... & making a MIX TAPE was HUGE.
💚Gen X highschool was a blast. But I would be wrong not to admit that I am jealous of how easy research projects are now versus then.
Soooooo many hours in the library after school, for major projects.🫤
The Dewey Decimal System 🥴
As a Gen Xer I think cell phones would’ve been great to have for communication, but social media would’ve been a nightmare. So glad many of our cringiest moments don’t exist beyond our memories lol 💚
Can you imagine looking at all the Glamour Shots lol
Not having a phone was awesome! We weren't in trouble until we got home. No mom calling spoiling all the fun. 😁
You mean our non law abiding shenanigans. I tried dying every weekend on jungle juice or Jack. Thank God there were no cameras around when we were kids. 😂😂
I see negatives & positives in both. I love how my generation connected in person.. how our mistakes in highschool & early adulthood weren't captured for all eternity- never to live down. But i love that I can now find any information I want at my fingertips, and how I can speak to and learn from ppl all over the world.
I think we gen xers need to give gen z a break- there was a time when nobody understood us, either. A time when our metal or rap musicians were criticized and literally demonized. They're experiencing the same.
And if boomers think back to the days when nobody understood the Beatles or Elvis.. and maybe criticized your social justice movements, you might soften and try to understand what changes are important to gen z. Because this is now THEIR time.
It's not bad. It's just different.
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Passing notes was as normal as sending a text/DM today. Imagine 30 years from now the youth asking if you really sent messages over your phone, was that really a thing???
TOTALLY agree!
Passing note= the original text message and going to the library was the original Google lol..
That scene where Kurt Cobain gets up and drops his guitar was a badass moment. He saw a woman in the crowd being attacked and got up to call out the two guys assaulting her. He had security get them out of his show and made sure she was safe.
Passing notes was the only form of communication
I still have my notes from high school. Every once in a while I'll pull them out and read them. A lot of times I have no idea what they were about because we would put them in code in case anybody else found them. 😅
i had a box full of them, i got rid of it when i was in my second serious relation (i was like 33) when she was looking through my old stuff, when we read those notes, i barely remembered any of them but the peoples faces just flashed through my mind
Exactly! I still have a ton of notes from my best friend in Junior High and High School and boyfriends.. it was extremely normal.
Meeting in the bathrooms and telephones also existed. Word of mouth was another of having your friends tell something to others. Shit, dude, we even had telegraphs set up between our houses for some of us.
There are good things about now, like calling when I have car trouble etc. But, growing up when we did, we had to use imagination create our own fun, meet up with friends constantly (Live) and spend hours and hours out in nature and not sitting in a room just staring at our phones. So, I would never want to have grown up like Gen Z. But, I do like a lot of the convenience we have now.
I'm 45. I miss growing up in the 80's. It was a much simpler time. We had to make plans. Ride our bikes to go to a friend's house, regardless of the weather. We hung out without cell phone distraction. When my kid and his friends hang out, I swear they're texting each other while sitting next to each other. 🤦♂️
Passing notes wasn’t just in class. When passing your bestie or a crush in the hall, that was your opportunity to give them that note.
I still have notes from high school from my female friends, and notes and poems that guys wrote me. 😁
Passing notes was very common. My Dad found some of my notes from the day, and he asked me why he has such a potty mouthed daughter.
I absolutely feel you on this one. My folks asked me the same thing.
Lol
On the subject of mixed tapes: Back in the day is was extremely common for teenagers to buy (and/or reuse) cassette tapes to make their own mix. But it wasn't just as simple as adding a song to your playlist like it is now. Then, you would have to spend HOURS listening to the radio for the songs you wanted and be quick enough to hit the RECORD buttons on your stereo so you could copy it. Basically, it was a form of piracy, back when kids rarely had any money to actually go buy albums at the store. The biggest frustration for 80s/90s kids doing this was when the dang DJ cut in before the song ended.
Passing notes absolutely. This was also when handwriting meant something and most people could write in cursive
A lot of Gen Z do not know how to read or write in cursive
All of it is very familiar to most of us. I was in high school a little later in the 80s than this but notes were passed and cigarettes were smoked in the bathrooms. The jelly stuff on the lunch tray is Applesauce (very common here).
I have heard that some apps are letting you make a "mixed tape" on their app (so the person you send it to has to use the app). And yes, the mixed tapes would be a mood or feeling maybe. Also, just owning a car was a status symbol at most schools. We passed notes and folded them in weird ways for any number of reasons even just to gossip or make plans for after school or the weekend.
I'm GenX and I use to check my phone and scroll in the morning, but I started to feel I was a slave to this device and social media sites. I still check the phone, but it's more for the weather, see if I had text messages from family and that's it. It is weird they say avocado toast is GenZ because I thought that was a Paris Hilton thing.
I only wish we had better computers at my school. I am a younger GenX so we had computers, but they were only for certain classes and not widespread use. Personally I feel for all of GenZ desire for connectivity, they become less social by relying on electronics and media for these connections. To make real connections interacting is the best even if it is just for a couple of hours a day. Twitter is not really interacting with others.
We wpuld literally sit by the radio with a cassett recorder... or if you were lucky youd have a "boom-box" woth a record feature. And if you missed a song, you'd have to wait for the station to play it again.
Both girls and guys would give each other mixed tapes to let them know how they felt.
True Story...
Yes, we sent love notes. So did Boomers and Millennials.
In High School the electronics club had an illegal radio station that broadcasted all over the school campus and surrounding neighborhoods. At lunchtime they played the latest album of the day from Styx, Foreigner, Boston, Heart, Kiss, Ted Nugent, Dire Straits, Luther Vandross, War, Michael Jackson, etc.etc. This made the lunch room quiet and self managed because you couldn't rewind what you didn't hear and play it again.
Gen Xer, Class of '89. The 80s were a time of some pretty strict categories of cliques and each clique had their own "uniform" or preferred fashion sense. Preppies, jocks and cheerleaders, alternative kids (the proto-Goths and Emo youth), metalheads ,"freaks", brains (honor roll students aiming for Ivy League colleges/universities), "holdover hippies and deadheads" (those were the tie-dye and love-bead wearing kids who listened to 60s music and/or were huge Grateful Dead fans and they later on went on to become Grunge fans and/or Phish heads)... there was some little bit of overlap and a few sub-groupings (those of us who were alternative but in art club or drama were called "artfags" by those who really hated us, for instance)...
And music was VERY much a signifier of what your style was, back then. If a metalhead also liked, say... Madonna or Duran Duran or The Cure, they never even whispered it or they would risk ridicule or bullying.
It was scandalous for someone of one clique to date or be close friends with anyone of another clique.
Class of 89! I was a new waver, but had goth and metal head friends. Depends Mode was my favorite, so I was into a lot of synth bands.
At first, I didn't understand why others called ALL of us 'Art Fags.' I think I figured it out a few years after graduating. And I was a mix of enjoying the alternative/modern/college rock most of the high school kids wasn't even listening to; the moldy oldies classic rock, & then finally able to blossom in the 90's as a full fledged hippie goth, immediately after my grunge moments. Though I still liked some pop music, like Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, & Prince. I really appreciate my artfag friends introducing me to the darker, or unusual side of things with U2, REM, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Dead Milkmen, The Cure, & so on. I already graduated when Nine Inch Nails took over my life.
@@jujut5655 Depends Mode...Enjoy the Dryness
Took a typing class in high school. I was the only guy in the class. Lots of notes were passed my way. Other guys were like, why you taking typing class, lol. Because computers are the future, numb-nuts.
Our school system had different career tracks that determined what courses you could take or not. The only people allowed to take typing were business/clerical students, I was college preparatory. I had to petition the school board for special permission to take typing. I pointed out that within 10 years it will be more important to know how to type than it will be to know how to drive because everyone will be using computers for work. I also quoted the policy manuals of several major universities that I was applying to which required research papers, essays, theses and dissertations be typewritten only. That did the trick and they let me in.
i was told i didnt need to type,,, because secretaries where women
till this day i would rather talk or handwrite over text/typing
Aside from the ceiling light in my sisters bedroom, there wasn’t a single surface that didn’t have a Michael Jackson poster, article or magazine clipping. She even wrapped her light switch plate in MJ. We always passed notes. We never snuck a cigarette in school unless you didn’t care if you got suspended, but the school did have a designated smoking area on campus. We often recorded several mixed tapes with music that spoke to us or for different moods. No different than play lists of today.
The thing i appreciate more than reliving some great nostalgic moments is seeing how much you seem to enjoy watching and learning about past generations. Your thoughts , attitude and comments on the videos as you watch you can see you are enjoying what you're learning rather than just posting another random video and slapping a clickbait title on it.
Your dedication to understand others from generations to lyrics in songs is marvelous for anyone at any age. I'm happy to be part of your journey. ❤
I was born in 67, the magical year, because we turned 13 and became teenagers at the beginning of 80's and were teenager's thru the whole decade. What a great decade.
Same here exactly how i feel.67 rocks
Absolutely yes, we would pass notes to friends every single day. Many of our friends we would only see a couple of times per day and have different classes, so we would describe teachers and students in our classes to one another, write about crushes and activities, etc.
My high school had a smoking area, in the courtyard outside the cafeteria
We prayed before football games and at the flagpole
Had a "Bible Club" just like they had FFA, Latin Clubs or FHA
We had no idea the things we were taking for granted.
And yes, we did WRITE notes to our crushes and pass them strategically, trying to not get caught - resulting in it being taken and not reaching its destination.
How the notes were folded, also a huge deal -
And decorating the covers of our textbooks with paint/glitter pens ❤❤
I STILL have notes from friends in High School & I graduated 35yrs ago!!
... 35 years ago ! , that would make your age?........ Just kidding...
@ I graduated at 17. I just turned 53…….and most ppl think I’m in my mid 30’s.
@@moonglow630 Lol, I'm 57. I love our generation.
I do also, but mine is a notebook me and my best friend had between each other. When we had the same class after each other we left the notebook under the chair in the holder.
As someone who was born in 1971, the Gen X portion was spot on.
My day started with my favorite cassette, a shower, a pop tart and off we went and met in the corner to walk together to school, about 15 all together…. I loved my childhood❤❤❤❤
💚 I've passed so many notes in school. From elementary school to high school in my schools days it was a big thing. Notes could range from gossip to do you like check the yes or no box lol. Those were some good old days.
Haven't had a chance to go to the Patreon yet, but hope you've done a reaction to Golden Girls. Been seeing a lot of younger people getting a huge kick out of it. 😁
I had a laugh at your comment about the phone cord.
The reason is that my job just hired a 24 year old. We have old desk phones and I happened to be next to him the first time he got a call. Poor guy almost panicked. I had to tell him to lift the receiver, say "hello" and ask what you can help with
It was like the guy had never actually spoken in his smartphone either. Can that be? I mean, how does he maintain contact with grandma without that?
These poor young people... They think that the internet is somehow their friend.
Being in high school in the 80s was so real. Not saying it was always fun but it was about being with others and knowing that you could trust in what you saw and heard.
Gen Z will never know what they are missing and that's the sad part.
Yes, we did pass notes. It was our form of texting. We also would make codes, so if someone else got it, they wouldn't know what it said
When I got my driver's license at 16, in 1982, my parents gave me their Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. It was pretty scruffy but my two best friends did not get their driver's licenses until they were 18 yrs old so they bummed rides off me.
The very first time I was asked out on a date was in Trigonometry when the boy in front of me passed me a note
I would love to go back to the gen x times before electronics. Electronics has dumbed down everyone. No one has to rely on there own brains to remember anything anymore. No one wants to get together and just hang out anymore. Social get togethers are almost never anymore. If you can't do it online no one wants to do it at all. It has made people weaker, mentally, and physically. Damn I miss the good days.
I completely agree!
12:20 By his arm is a poster with the original lead singer of AC/DC, Bon Scott.
I was blasting a very old performance of its a long way to the top just today
it looks like they're in a very small school gym
I love the clothes he wore, I dress like him today
When I started high school in 1997, I was worried about the smoking in the girls' room (at least that was the rumors). At my 9th grade high school orientation, my Mom asked the school nurse if I could go into the bathroom in the nurse's office instead.
I remember talking to a guy friend for hours on my house landline phone in the late 90s/early 2000s. The late 90s/early 2000s were similar to the 80s, with the exception of the beginning of the internet.
I prefer the simple high school days of Gen X because my Millennial high school experience was very similar.
Me youngest gen x 1980 and was listen music on walkman during 90s and 00s 😊😊😊😊cindy lauper, Scorpions, guns and roses. Gen Z can't live without internet, to much looking at screen bad for eyes
Yes, passing notes during class happened all the time. Sometimes that was the only time you could communicate with someone all day because classes were often very far apart and time between lessons was very limited. We started in elementary school with notes “Do you like me? Circle Yes or No.”This continued throughout high school. We often had a splitter for the Walkman Jack where we could connect an additional set of headphones and later just sharing the corded earphones. Mix tapes we songs often recorded from the radio or if you were lucky, you had a dual cassette deck for dubbing. Each song was carefully selected to express your feelings about the recipient. Cars were a status symbol. We often hung out in the parking lot to see who was driving what and to admire our favorites. On the lunch tray, the mystery item was apple sauce. Very common in high school lunches. I’m so glad I grew up when I did.
It's not jelly. It's apple sauce. Mix tapes were tapes filled with recorded tracks from either the radio or albums. Check out the movie "High Fidelity" for a real insight into a Gen-X mix tape.
Yes everybody passed notes. Especially if someone wanted to find out if someone 'liked' them
Notes were the only way to communicate in class. Most of the time they were just regular notes. Rich kids didn't drive old muscle cars. They simply drove new cars. The only school lunches that were edible was pizza and the fried chicken meals. Everything else was nasty. Double headphone personal stereos also worked with a passenger on a motorcycle
I was lucky when it was pizza day. There was a pizza place across the street from school, so on Fridays, pizza was delivered and lunch ladies just heated it up. The rest of the lunches were gross. The macaroni tasted like wall paper paste. School gave a choice of hot or cold lunch. Cold lunch was usually a ham sandwich.
Jr High (middle school now) I experienced my first food fight in the cafeteria. It started when the song; 'Another One Bites The Dust' by Queen was playing. The drums sounding like a machine gun and food flying everywhere.
Boomers: Brought up taught success in your workplace is your Identity. Women couldn't even get a bank account or a loan without a man cosigning at a bank. 1970's the economy tanked, Inflation skyrocketed, and women went into the workforce. (Work is so very important). Hence we have Gen X where both parents were now working very hard and long hours -> Gen X or latchkey kids. More independent and adventurous as they had to learn much on their own and become more independent faster. Most also embraced and learned as much as they could about technology.. Technology was the future .... -> Millenials. Amazing how each generation actually "Makes" the next.
@@jrafel1707 my husband is on the young side of boomer & I’m Gen X. He got a city job with a union and pension because that’s how he was raised. I became an independent contractor with my own business because working a job for someone else didn’t work for me. I was more rebellious & anti authority. There’s a 5 year difference between us and we’re complete opposites! It’s worked for 30 years so far though.
@@TheReluctantCarnivoreAwwww!
Muscle cars weren't rich kid cars (unless they were brand new). However, a lot more guys had them because they were powerful used cars they could work on. I knew quite a few people who bought those when they didn't run, and spent a lot of time getting them running and then some.
💚 Gen X. I appreciate our old style tech. Might have been slow but it sure taught us patience! 😂😂
💚💚gen x
GenXer here and we hung out at the arcade or Del Taco (fastfood) not a diner.
We didn't have a Del Taco until after 2010 where I'm from. We did arcades during the day but hung out on and cruised the "Ave" where I'm from.
A mix tape was made by putting a blank audio cassette tape in a recorder, and waiting and praying the radio station would play the song you wanted so you could quickly hit that "record" button. A mix tape was a successful hunt. If you could catch it without the DJ speaking over the song, it was victory. You would build these tapes with strictly love songs for your crush, or maybe dance music to get ready for fun, etc. The object of your desire was often the recipient of the love song mix tape. You prayed they didn't reject it. Often it was given to a new boyfriend or girlfriend, as well.
my dude highschool notes was an art form it was origami
Getting caught passing a note = getting caught passing state secrets...... Cause if you got caught, you had to stand at the front of the class and read it in front of everyone....
We always used to put our notes in code. That way if anybody found them no one would know what they were talking about. Everybody had code names and various activities had code names.
Im an 86 baby BUT with a 1980 brother, i became a create of hus design, enjoying all the toys and fun ofnthe 80s on moms orders! Since we had to "share" all the time. Lol
The oace of life was slower than it is now, and i miss being able to sit back with a good book and not have anyone bother me for hours.
You could stay home for longer or be gone for longer before anyone thoight anything was up, because life was more about going outdoors and not staying inside all the time like it is now.
Flying folded notes were called "footballs" and you could flick them with a really good range of precision instead of having to trust other people to get it all the way across the room to your person. 😆
Saturday nights at the local skate rink or bowling alley were the bomb!
And we had to hurt each others feelings in person!! Lol.
Pass notes? Heck yeah! We folded them up in ways you wouldn't understand and passed them quietly through the classroom to it's recipient. It was the only way to communicate when not in between classes.
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Very fun watching you remember our youth😂😂😂
The pictures are amazing, and many times those snapshots were followed by “Why do you take candid pictures of me? I’m NOT READY!”
Always passed notes! If I was in a class where the teacher would try to snatch the note we would write notes on our sneakers.
I’m an older Gen-Xer. Some of my longest lasting friendships were formed in chat rooms 25 years ago. Don’t pretend it’s a Gen-z thing.
what you had chat rooms as a teenager?
So SAD the kids of today have NO REAL Friends ! They don't even know how to talk to each other and just hang out .. Seems like an empty life - Lonely .
Now he took me back with that Love's Baby Soft. 😂
Passing notes was so normal! We folded them to create a fancy pull tab. My friends and I actually had a notebook we wrote in since we shared a locker. We'd check to see if there was a new note added.
Mix tapes: before digital music, you had to live with whatever the radio stations played, or the order of songs on the artist's album. You couldn't just jump from one song to the next, except by changing radio stations. So a mix tape was on cassette, the first medium that most people could easily record at home. You could arrange songs in whatever order you liked, the first time you could create your own playlist. But you still couldn't skip songs, you just played your playlist straight through. So you'd come up with a list of songs that told a story, maybe a rehash of your past relationship where it starts with songs about falling in love, then cheating, then breakups, then getting over a bad love. Or another playlist you'd play for your girl that would convey what a great guy you were.
Passing notes is like today's texting. Notes were going back and forth all day lol.
As much as you text in a school day, we passed notes and if you were caught during class the teacher would read it out loud.
Gen X teens and Gen Z teens are not that much different... except for the conduits of communication. We didn't have connected computers and cell phones, so the folded up notes passed back and forth or slid into a locker to get info to your friends next hour was our "DM" or "Email". We didn't have Spotify playlists or Instagram reels, so we used Mix-tapes to string together a playlist for driving, working out, partying, or romance. Even the social aspect of video games... we would spent hours and quarters getting good at a game in a local bowling alley or Pizza place so we could later drive to the big arcade downtown or at the mall to get our high scores with our initials up on the leaderboards for everyone to see. ☮💜🎶
I do my morning scroll too😊
This channel does great videos, thanks for putting us on to them💚
If you want the names of the bands, i could go on forever 💚
Oh definitely notes were passed💚
We had a smoking section outside the back door in highschool 💚
Apple sauce, on the food tray, top left
I never ended up dating in highschool ☺️
We made mixed tapes from songs we wanted to share, and gave them💚
Gen X didn't really sit on the sidelines either, at least my circles💚
Sign o' the times💚💜
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At my school we had what was called "The Rail" it was the spot in between the main school building and the gym. It was a metal gaurd rail that was designated for smoking students because the janitor got tired of dealing with cig butts in the urinals, toilets, sinks, and floor.
As a Gen X I might look at my phone to check the time but other than that I usually forget about my phone. In fact I don't even know where it is right now. If someone calls I guess I'll find it.
Aside from the ceiling light in my sisters bedroom, there wasn’t a single surface that didn’t have a Michael Jackson poster, article or magazine clipping. She even wrapped her light switch plate in MJ. We always passed notes. We never snuck a cigarette in school unless you didn’t care if you got suspended, but the school did have a designated smoking area on campus.
"I don't think I recognize a single person on this screen." LOL! Most of them are famous Brits! 5:37 🤣🤣🤣🤣💚
Wassup, Jay! Regarding note passing in class, yes, this was very normal growing up. You would fold the note in either a triangle or simple square, then ask the classmate next to you to pass it along if your friend was not next to you. Some of the notes would even be passed to a girl/boy you like and ask them "do you like me or friend's name" and put a "yes" or "no" check box for them to fill out and pass back.
It's funny.... we grew up having to know programming just use a computer starting, we literally invented basically everything that is now out, and yet Gen Z and Alpha like to act like we're clueless online and don't know how to do literally everything online forward and backwards.
My kids from both those Gens find that out all too often!! 🤣🤣🤣
Right, I was in 6th grade when Computer Labs came into school, 1985, my dad bought a Commodore Plus 4 in 1987, he was a Computer Programmer for Caterpillar, that's an entire 11 years before my son was born😂I often remind him, the smartest guy I know is my dad😂a high school dropout, I was the first to graduate from high school but my son got a degree from University of South Carolina, I tell him dad was still smarter and he agrees cause he knew him.
Mixed tapes were usually done by the person who owed the tape, u put on it whatever u liked, so u didn't have all the shit songs only what u wanted on the tapes.
Passing notes during class (SoCal.1988) was common. It was a normal form of communication back then. If you were caught by the teacher passing notes, the teacher would read the note aloud to the class. I never saw any smoking of cigarettes in the school bathrooms. The music, movies culture were awesome! It was a great time to grow up!
In an 80s high school parking lot, it wasn't only the type of car you drove, but HOW you drove it. And, does it rumble...
I work at a high school. These kids now are really interested in vinyl albums, buying turntables and a lot of vintage things from gen x generation.
Did we pass notes? Hell yea! We had like an elaborate underground networks! Everyone new everyone's schedule so if you didn't have a clas with them you'd know where to pass them in the hall. Or you'd master which teachers were more serious about notes. It's like we were all training to be Jason Bourne without all the violence.
In 1983 I was writing code on the first Macs in our h.s.
Gen X was the beginning of the expanding digital age. When computers became cheap enough for common people.
My favorite music controller is my Roland JD-Xi analogue/digital synth hybrid.
This generation got the best of both worlds.
Our folded notes (I didn't see any in the images when it was first mentioned, but you do see them at about 9:45) were not in envelopes.😂 And yes, we used them all the time. They weren't just love notes though. They were our texting. However, if a teacher caught you passing them, he or she might take it from you and read it out loud to the class.
One of my friends passed me a note with the details to a byob party, but it got intercepted by a teacher who did this. We canceled the party for fear the teacher would narc on us. Teachers were also more apt to call the parents back then.
We only had recess in elementary school, and we didn't really pass notes in elementary school. Teenagers go to Jr high/middle school and high school. That's where notes were passed.
Passing notes was very common. This is how we communicated to friends in class.
💚 Unfortunately, I think the Gen Z social & environmental consciousness they talked about is now swinging in the opposite direction & being replaced by an endless craving for external validation (clout) and being envied by others. For Gen Z, it’s now out with Greta & in with Andrew Tate
Have you seen Stranger things? Think of how the characters favorite song kept the bad guy away. Music lyrics is a sort of poetry. And a mixed tape, was something that took A very LONG TIME to do. So you did that because of how strongly you felt about that friend, or crush boyfriend/girlfriend or whatever. Passing notes was for everything. You just made sure not to get caught. 😅
I had my wall covered in posters and pictures from teen magazines lol - before pictures were saved on the internet you had to put them somewhere
We also passed notes to friends - meet me in the hallway between classes - etc.
Yes, passing notes was how we communicated in class, because we weren't allowed to talk during classes.
Passing notes was the same as sending texts. Very common. It was the only way to silently communicate with a friend several desks away, putting trust in your classmates to sneakily pass it along, & not keeping it for themselves to read things not meant for them to see. Most of the time, the teachers seemed to be oblivious, or didn't care too much, but disciplinary actions were taken if caught. Though I don't really remember what happened. Possibly detention. I've been in detention for things I don't remember. Probably that. Or maybe talking quietly, when there was zero tolerance for speaking to other classmates. Honestly, school wasn't always a fun place. The system sucks away every innate natural behavior kids need to grow up as better people, which involved socialization. They twisted it around to suit their own needs, which made kids like me unnaturally introverted.
Hell ya we passed around notes in class to either friends or boys. We even left secret admirer notes in lockers! My high school had a dedicated smoking area on school property for students. I also had a Walkman with wired headphones where I played all my mix tapes I made from recording songs off the radio.
7:40 EVERYONE passed notes.
Sometimes, to spread news, you would spend time in class writing the same note a bunch of times to had to as many people as possible during break. It was the old school group text 😂
I had one class my senior year where three friends and I would pass a spiral notebook between us and we filled it in only a few weeks. My friend typed it out and printed a section of it on her dot matrix printer so we could all have a copy. That was 1991 and I still have it.
I passed a notebook back and forth with a guy I had a crush on. I wish I still had that notebook! We didn’t think the teacher saw us, but at the end of the year she said she just never said anything to us because we both had good grades. 😂
I never shared a Walkman with a love interest. But a friend and I shared one too listen to INXS on a bus trip once. Mostly the love thing that was mention was when we made a mixed tape of love songs that we have our love interest (we didn't record our own voice). Mixed tapes were often songs recorded from the radio. I did have one guy include one of his garage band's songs, but that wasn't typical.
We didn't share a Walkman. Most people didn't have one with 2 headphone jacks or the adapter.And there was no Bluetooth back then.
💚 the passing of notes were definitely a thing whether it was a crush or pledging friendship to your best friends. They were folded in intricate designs like oragami. Mix tapes were when you put together a tape of your favorite songs to express how you felt. Different mixtapes for different people based on how you related as friends. There was definitely the intention of sharing emotions and being vulnerable when doing this.
We had a actual smoking area at my high school. I live in Ontario, Canada. We called it the ‘V’ based on the location and it was actually allowed until around 1990. The whole ‘V’ was a meeting area because it was also a huge grassy area that we all met at in the springtime with blankets during lunch to eat, throw footballs and talk. Good times. 😊❤
Passing notes was how we talked to each other during class!! But don't get caught by the teacher, because the teacher would take that note and read it to the entire class :)
A lot is so true regarding the Xer's experience in high school. I was bullied in high school and got through it. Today's social media would have made that very hard to survive the "abuse". As an only child, I used the road "yacht" (a large Ford auto) to get to school, I had posters all over my room and '45s hanging from the ceiling, the
stereo, a desk and two bean bags - my bedroom was a room for sleeping. Because of social media and always being connected, I prefer, good and bad, the experience of the X years. Oh! two bands in the music shown, The Cure and Talking, I still listen to - you should give them a try!
My Freshman year of High School, there was actually a “smoking section” where the students over 18 could go & smoke. They got rid of it though. So by the time I was a Senior & 17 & started smoking, we smoked in our cars in the parking lot during break trying not to get caught, when we went off campus for lunch, or yes, even in the bathroom between classes.
mix tapes of emotions were our version of a sad playlist or an upbeat playlist - but we had to wait by the radio for hours to hit the button to record it ourselves onto our mix tapes. I remember getting blank tapes as gifts so I could make mix tapes. It was the best thing to get.
They tend to always pick THE most extreme and kooky looking high school photo headshot for these sorts of videos.
I’m from 🇨🇦 and hell yes notes were constantly passed (I was usually a link in the postal chain). They could be about romance, questions, parties, lunch or weekend plans. There was always at least one message moving around.
What you're not catching about the "notes" thing; is this was when phones were latched to the wall in the kitchen where your parents (if home) inevitably spent their time... There was no text messaging and if you wanted a private conversation with ANYBODY, you had to go somewhere away from people or write it down. There was no form of instant or text messaging yet. Email wasn't even a thing till the mid 80's. Love notes were only maybe half or less of notes passed. Most were about where to meet between classes/after school or conspiratorial activities, such as pranking the teacher, or a fight happening after school.