20 Things From The 1980s, Kids Today No Longer Do!

20 Things From The 1980s, Kids Today No Longer Do!
Take a nostalgic trip back to the 1980s with our video highlighting "20 Things From The 1980s, Kids Today No Longer Do!" From playing with classic toys to experiencing technology limitations, we explore the unique experiences and activities that defined childhood in the 80s but are now unfamiliar to today's generation. Join us as we reminisce about a simpler time and rediscover the forgotten joys of growing up in the 1980s.
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[@3Storms]

DJs talking over a song you're trying to record is definitely one of the greatest sources of rage in the 80s. Then when you finally get a perfect recording, the tape player eats the tape. THE STRUGGLE WAS REAL.

[@wintersprite]

It was the same in the 1990s. VCR tapes also getting eaten was awful.

[@triplejazzmusicisall1883]

Awesome comment because it rings so absolutely true and clear. In ways we had to use ingenuity to get pleasure and a sense of reward from our own initative. We were lucky. Nay sayers will say otherwise but they can whinge if they wish. We know just what a community of friends in the street was and we all had FUN TOGETHER.

[@CarsandCats]

We had a DJ that would ramble so much that my brother and I would take turns calling him and requesting songs like: "You suck!" and "Quit your job!" followed by the sound of a flushing toilet. He would cuss us out and hang up. It was pretty fun! The DJ's name? "Slammin'" Sam Jackson. He thought he was some kind of basketball star.

[@4444-LV]

OMG I miss the 80's, things were so much simpler! I do love watching KZbin but would give it all up to time travel back to the 80's. Things suck now!!

[@Curious_Skeptic]

YES! We had it so good! I think we took this into the 90's and even early 2000;s with our own kids. I even see my kids now, passing on the simple to my new grandchild. Hands on toys, lots of books, lots of love, and imagination! Full time mom and dad. Dad goes to work, mom stays home and loves baby 24/7. It warms my heart to at least see some of the good o'l days were passed on. We all knew that friends and time were more important than more stuff. We had STUFF, but, nothing beat the time with friends, crushes, and dreams!

[@endofsociety]

The 80s were def the innovative decade. Meanwhile, we were still doing everything the 70s kids did, 80s kids also saw things coming to life like home gaming consoles, we saw wealthy people with car phones, and home computers were introduced. Before the iPad, we had the Walkman. 😂

[@amandap6278]

I'm 45 years old. Met my best friend to this very day in 1985, first grade. We experienced these things well into the 90s. We are still very close and will be friends until we croak.

[@jskelly1979]

croak is such an old person word lol

[@postersm7141]

I was thinking the same thing but then again I am old I’m 52

[@JamesWilliams-jj6su]

I'm 46 and still wanting a 69 Schwinn... what a bike😢 and my GI Joe aircraft carrier back.. good days😊❤

[@motorcitywestauto4674]

I'm totally stuck in the 80s. I loved it. Best time of my life. I have an original unmolested Pac-Man arcade and an original High Speed pinball machine. I miss the 80s every day. Life was as good as it gets.

[@postersm7141]

Yes, I have a couple of full-size arcades as well as a 1965 jukebox where you can actually see the record being played. I also have a slot machine coin up. I pretty much like anything coin up. That’s because of the late 70s and 80s.

[@motorcitywestauto4674]

@@postersm7141 We're working on a jukebox and slot machine ourselves. We moved from Detroit to Phoenix 5 years ago and had to wait over a year for our house to be built. I wanted a totally original Pac-Man, and I found this one in Pennsylvania and had it shipped. I got lucky with the High Speed, found that one locally. We're doing the whole basement in an 80s theme except for the 2 bedrooms. I'm going to hang the 4 guitars on the wall I got in the mid and late 80s but quit playing 25 years ago. People that didn't live through the 80s just don't get it. If you ask someone about culture in the 80s the list is endless. Hair bands, arcades, loud clothes, jukeboxes, roller rinks, wood paneling all over the house and on and on. What's culture about the 90s? Um .. Nirvana and the Gulf War I served in? Can't think about much else. The 2000s? 9/11 is the only thing that comes to mind. But the 80s.... What an amazing time to live through. The only other decade I would have liked to be a part of is the Roaring 20s.

[@JimbobZ17]

Same here. Stuck in the 80s. Listen to 80s music everyday while I am working. Restoring a 86 I-ROC. Sucks getting old.

[@mattiemcmicker4360]

That's so cool. I'll be 43 in May and still have an atari 2600. And being left handed makes it a struggle, but worth it lol Pardon my English, but f c k modern life

[@motorcitywestauto4674]

@@mattiemcmicker4360 I'm 54, and we drove cars from the 60s, 70s and 80s. I currently have a 66 Lemans and a 70 Chevy Wagon. I've had more gen II F body cars than I can remember. Next project will probably be another bandit Trams Am. But I like the IROCs. Those were extremely popular when I was in HS. A few students had them because cars weren't stupid expensive like they are now and if you had a decent job in HS paying 6 dollars an hour you could actually afford it.

[@Xiy114]

Remember spending your time in an arcade putting your quarter (.25¢) on the machine you wanted to play in line with others that wanted to play too while watching an unknown master play a game and figuring out and watching them play a game and trying to remember all the moves they made so you could beat the game too? It could sometimes take 10 to 20 minutes of waiting. TIMES WERE MAGICAL THEN! I miss those times!!!! BIG TIME!! 😢 Will times like these EVER come back?

[@darrellhagan6124]

".....Will times like these EVER come back?". Sadly, no they will not.

[@Nille0212]

Literally a 1980 baby. I remember doing all this and it made childhood magical. I miss simpler times, but I’m just glad I got to experience them!❤❤❤

[@J_Bwn]

As an 80’s kid, this video brought back some great nostalgia. It also made me very sad for how the world is today.

[@eggy4152]

I miss those days, now were grandparents. 👋💕🇦🇺

[@josebro352]

I'm 55. No kids. No grandkids. Still feel young and adventurous and still hold so many fun memories of childhood in the 70s and 80s in my heart. They say I never grew up. Hahaha! That's fine with me. Peace. 👍 😊

[@berteisenbraun7415]

I would agree kids spent lots more time outdoors, We had 3 TV channels, Public TV, ABC,NBC. We did not have a TV Remote.

[@elijahshabazz1806]

The recording on the cassette tapes is something I remember dearly. I love it and used to listing to all types of music. I had soo many of them. Back in the 90's I was doing all of this in the 90's and even early 2000's. Don't even get me started on the bikes lol.

[@karleenjohnson2174]

Ah the memories...😊

[@Xiy114]

I think many of use thought that these times would never end. How nieve we were.

[@michaelmcfarland1716]

Things today kids no longer do: Get out and run around, which was a great way to stay fit, not fat

[@adammiller2246]

Miss those days....

[@Makoto03]

This was very nostalgic. Especially the mix tapes.

[@wmalden]

Especially since he talked about them twice!📼📼

[@bryduhbikeguy]

Would it be considered sad that I still have some cassettes i made back then? I like to think that they bring back the times I listened to them with friends, and in making them.When I can remember ;)

[@midcenturymodern9330]

Remember The Wonder Years? Kevin Arnold, Winnie Cooper and so on?

[@sonhuynh8222]

One of my favorites

[@kristenellsworth9621]

I was born in 1975, and I remember all of these. Those days were so awesome, miss those times.

[@Xiy114]

"Have you seen the lastest video or heard the latest song from....." was... The GREATEST!

[@myplane150]

What I miss the most on this list is getting a movie at the video store. I remember being annoyed so many times when I had to take a family member to get a movie but now I really miss that experience. Funny how time plays with memories.

[@cyclenut]

The 80s was the last real social decade, Afterwards, cable TV and Internet keep people from interacting face to face. More so now because of cell phones The encyclopedias were fun to read, unlike the internet, one could go from subject to subject with ease till ones head was creamed full. Also dictionaries were fun, too. Letter writing, pen pals were common. Putting an ad in personals from a newspaper form a different part of the US was a good way to find pen pales. Before the internet, people,, sometimes strangers would talk about something that was on TV, sometime news or even some TV show. Mix tapes, great way to make a new fried, just give someone you don't know a mix tape. Today,, it seems to me that social behavior is in a downward spiral.

[@davinp]

The last time I used a typewriter was in high school typing class in 1995.

[@Nille0212]

Same here! I was in typing class and my last time using one was 5/14/1995, which was my last day of my freshman year. I remember the date because I had an emergency surgery on the 15th and didn’t finish the school year. 😂😂😂

[@crystalkauffman3322]

Electric typewriter in 1987! After that, I used the computers in the Computer Science Lab at my college!

[@scottthomas3792]

The Doctor Demento Show...the full three hour version you needed two 90 minute cassettes for. Some malls had " courtesy phones" you could use for quick calls ( like getting a ride home)... Those weird oval plastic coin holder things that held coins for the pay phone, and most had a bead chain for keys.

[@deborahchesser7375]

I’m not sure if this made me happy to remember or sad because it’s gone

[@Nille0212]

Just be happy we got to explore it and look back at it with joy. Everything has to come to an end. So we have to find ways to make it just as joyful for ourselves in the present and future. ❤❤❤

[@josebro352]

I had all the Star Wars toys when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s. My mom bought me all the action figures. I remember throwing my little Han Solo down the laundry chute and pretending it was the trash compactor in the Death Star lol. Ah! The joys of childhood back then.

[@davinp]

The only encyclopedia still printed today is the World Book Encyclopedia

[@lauratroxel24]

When we were kids, the World Book is what we had. The whole set on the rack. We even had the atlas. We used them too. That was the 70s.

[@FoxRivers778]

I could have sworn the last time I was at the mall, there was a video arcade in there. You talked about mix tapes twice. When talking about floppy disks you mentioned the 5.25" size but instead showed the 3.5" version. Alot of those activities like roller skating, date back to the 50's. I would watch a few TV shows from the 50's and would be amazed how many things still existed. The internet and related technology changed everything in the new millennium.

[@Xiy114]

The 1980s were magical times in MANY WAYS that are gone but still effect things today?

[@Xiy114]

Remember JADORACH AND SASSON JEANS?

[@KnightRanger38]

While most 1980s kids might consider themselves lucky to have access to a typewriter at home, the very lucky ones had a computer with an early word processing programs like WordStar and Word Perfect. One of my friends in 1983 was in this category. Home Computers and game consoles had started gaining a foothold in the late 1970s with the Atari 2600 (one of the most popular game consoles of it's generation) being released in 1977. Granted, neither were anywhere close to being as popular as they are now.

[@bunnysb2587]

I'm a 1981 baby and remember all this

[@jhonsiders6077]

I did so much on this vid ! had a TRS 80 computer in the early 80s had all the expansion cards for it including the modem had one with a cradle for the phones handset 3 inch floppy 5 inch ones and the cassette drives ;later came zip drives was quite the machine back then .upgraded to a IMSAI it was like 6K !! If I remember it had just a 12 Meg hard drive . but was state of the art Yes riding our bicycles everywhere !! and Mopeds ! even after getting a car . could go bar hopping on the bike or Moped no getting a DUI LOL did so much out side if you look the kids were not overweight today they just sit here at the keyboard and turn into zombies wish more discovered the free range lifestyle and interacted in person with one another .

[@mattm1686]

god I miss my 80’s childhood! Gen X is awesome!

[@MarkRDKing]

Bring back Feather Pens!!! Walkman's Rule!!! Hindsight will always be 20/20❤

[@Technotranceism]

I remember before a blockbuster was around, we had to go to a literal zenith appliance store, to rent VHS movies.

[@Harpo77]

My mom used a TV guide every week. Wow I’d forgot about that.

[@Curious_Skeptic]

THIS IS AWSOME! LOL. Perfect timing. Going down memory lane. After 32 years, getting divorced. Weirdly, I find myself returning to my life before marriage. Even though 52 now, my mind reverts to being 18-19 ish. IT's like a reset! You wake up and your like, WTF just happened? 30 years ? How? Now, alone, just some friends, looking for new love, very much feel like I'm a young stupid teen again looking for love and life, hope and happiness. Except this time, I have money, no parents, and no one to answer to. Let the games began. LOL.

[@endofsociety]

Lmfao! I remember sitting there waiting for the dj to shut up so i can hit record hoping he wouldn't interupt the end of the song as well. 😂 Hell, as a gen xer, i still express my emotions through song choices.

[@lisaland2890]

Born in 1972, it is unbelievable how times have changed. I got lucky my son born '98' didn't get into video games until he was almost 16. And we lived in a closed off neighborhood with his cousins and grandparents down the road. I remember I had to stop the neighborhood boys from digging a hole it was getting to deep afraid in would cave in. Bikes and toys litter my yard. Ran through the sprinkler during the summer. ❤

[@Xiy114]

We have to do EVERYTHING Physically! Things weren't brought to us.

[@annelizabethcarroll3396]

And , we wonder why kids and adults are so unhappy, fat, and lonely. (Humans have always needed physical contact with others, and we are losing that more and more each day).

[@dgwaters]

In the 80's I grew up with a Commodore 64 computer. They had these huge disks that were 5" x 5" and had big holes in the center. I still have mine and the disks STILL work!

[@Xiy114]

I remember that the sony walkman was sold for $250.00 dollars!!! What??? Now you cant give them any.

[@user-hb6vn9ym6e]

80s best decade ever I'm an 80s baby born 1986

[@josebro352]

You grew up in the 90s then.

[@user-hb6vn9ym6e]

​@@josebro352yes

[@josephjocson1385]

I wasborn on 1987 and my child was on 90s, why do I feel this are happier and simplier.

[@moonfire41]

I wish somebody would bring the Foxmoor and Fredericks of Hollywood stores back.

[@BoneBullet]

I was cleaning out the attic and found my old tape recorder. For old times sake i decided to plug it in to see if it still worked, I was then reminded that waiting for a tape to rewind was very boring.

[@Xiy114]

"ARE YOU SEEING SOMETHING ON A '25 INCH SCREEN AT HOME?!!?! YOU MUST HAVE BEEN RICH TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!"

[@jeffreyscott5799]

I remember punching the correct series of numbers on a pay phone to get it to spit out coins and then scurrying away on BMX bikes, coins falling out of our overstuffed pockets and racing to the nearest arcade, weaving in and out of traffic to the orchestral sound of car horns! Like ferrrr sherrrrr dude!

[@gottadutch]

Blackbox tones in the handset tricked the payphone to think quarters were inserted in the coin slot for free calls. That was cool for a while before they got smart and started muting the handsets. I would stuff tissues up in the coin returns on payphones, so I could come back later with a coat hanger to remove em and collect all the coins that got stuck on top of em... Then go blow it all at the arcade playing video games and pinball. Good times I'll never forget.

[@LeeThatcherlcthatch]

We had fewer guard rails due to larger family’s and more moms working away from home.

[@griseldaguerrero7199]

I lived all those wonderful experience. I have a son who is 4 and I want him to enjoy his childhood and remember it as fun, so he let him play outside for hours, he rides his bike and scooter or play in the mud with his toys supervised of course. It sucks that there aren't many children outside playing enjoying theie childhood.

[@TurboTarg]

The teddy bear at 16:50 looks a lot like mine minus the head wrap. I still have it. 😺

[@rachelburton8689]

I remember all this

[@christopherbaker9676]

I would give anything to go back to being a kid in the 80s. Better days

[@rickpowell252]

So are you saying (through your rose tinted spectacles) that times were better back then??

[@Nille0212]

I am!😂😂😂

[@forestghost7]

Hell yeah they were! Guess you weren't around yet huh . You missed everything, too bad

[@Retr0racin]

I always played the racing games for hours and hours now at 62 and retired I have a thousands of dollars racing simulator in my living room:-)

[@MarcusElliot]

A beautiful era, 💯👍

[@queenofscots839]

Be kind rewind

[@triplejazzmusicisall1883]

These videos are fun but I do think it a bit silly tom include footage from the fifties,sixties and seventies in a video about the 1980's. Of course what has been included is true but a lot of it came before the 1980's. Maybe that;s being a bit picky of me but I just would use footage from the decade itself. What a great time to be growing up. Never will children have such genuine interactions again.

[@postersm7141]

8:24 oh yes, the hair of the 80s

[@GoofyOldGuyPlays]

Good vid, but two versions of mix tapes and adding Pokemon as a trading card was a bummer (Pokemon cards were first released Oct 20, 1996). I remember the 80's well, since I'm a really old fart. To give you an idea, I remember using 8 inch floppy discs, and loading computer programs with a cassette tape, or saving one I created back to a cassette tape. This brought back a lot of great memories. Thank you.

[@gottadutch]

State of the art with a 486DX66 MSDOS a keyboard and a black n green monitor... Then we get a mouse , WINDOWS 3.1, color monitor, and a modem and were really high tech... 14.4 then 28.8 to 33.6 and 56Kbps dialup mannnnn we're flying now! Hahaha... Had a drawer full of 3.5in AOL floppy's 💾 reformatted and ready to go . Hahaha

[@JennNHPL]

Just found your channel and I am really enjoying your videos! I would love to see a video similar to this one for what kids did in the 1990's. That would be great! Thanks for your entertaining videos!

[@cmlmonstar007]

Late 80s baby here! I’d love to go back to that era but things would be a little different like there be power ranger toys in that era.

[@yamil.343]

Sigh….the era of my childhood..it’s so fleeting.

[@CarsandCats]

You CAN go back to 80's technology if you really want to. Most of the devices still exist and work perfectly because they were built with quality.

[@BastianBraille]

😢 missing my childhood world it was the best of all best now this world is controlled by technology and big brother who controls us and in the future the chips inside of us so they know where we r and what we doing 😱😱😱

[@vx4982]

If I had kids I’ll make them read an encyclopedias instead of buying them a $1200 iPhone.

[@mowilderness8505]

I do not miss card catalogs!!!!

[@davinp]

The Library of Congress uses the Library of Congress classification system

[@annettevillain4352]

The title should be, "Things that went out with the 1980s" most on this list were activities from decades before the 1980s.

[@user-pi9gd1jd8k]

My favorite thing was making mix types

[@Tam-20113]

I tried explaing to my son we used to snap little square bulbs onto the top of a camera in order to take four pictures.....lol

[@amandahiggins4342]

In the town i grew up in had acarde place now it is legal gambling which is nuts if you ask me. All my husband and I do is laughing cause anyone born after the 1990s don’t understand and of the 1980s or before way of thinking

[@RMD-uw5np]

Getting dark meant switching from riding bikes to playing kick the can or Manhunt

[@TheStuffMade]

We've gone downhill since the 80s.

[@berteisenbraun7415]

I used that type of Pen in the 80's, I mean the 1780s.

[@Harpo77]

The problem with the world today’s is technology. Kids never learn patience or waiting in line. Everything is now right now my way me my mine it’s destroy the common sense and imagination of humanity.

[@Xiy114]

Watching ON BETA OR VHS!

[@rachelburton8689]

I got stuck in a pay phone booth

[@gottadutch]

I couldn't walk by a payphone or cigarette machine without pulling the coin return lever and checking to see if I scored! It was an obsession 😂

[@rachelburton8689]

@@gottadutch lol me too

[@andresmorales4104]

I grow up parts of the 80s a man life sore was different back then

[@HappyQuailsLC]

Not "tombs", "tomes"...

[@bonchidude]

14:00

[@danielelise7348]

And scabby knees 🩹🩹😁

[@postersm7141]

We would look at the encyclopedia to see pictures of boobies. That and National Geographic. It’s the only thing you can get your hands on when you were a kid.

[@gottadutch]

If you found the right channel on TV and adjusted the antenna and fine tuning knob just right, you could catch some multicolored nudity between the squiggly lines. Hahaha. Was at a friend's house using the bathroom and panic set in when I ran out of toilet paper. Imagine my surprise when I check the cabinet underneath the sink and find a roll of TP and his Dad's bathroom reading material (Playboy Magazine)... Hahahaha...

[@Clearanceman2]

Go outside

[@csnide6702]

so please explain how recording songs off the radio was any different than NAPSTER....?

[@gottadutch]

Because you had to listen and wait to hear your favorite song and then have perfect timing in order to get the whole song on tape... Napster and limewire were game changers since you could search any songs you wanted and download the entire tracks. I was on a 33.6K or 56K modem dialup connection that would tie up my landline.. I remember loading up a bunch of albums and random tracks in my download queue before going to sleep and letting it run all night. Wake up for school in the morning and be lucky to have a good bit of new music downloaded successfully without errors. Then I'd use an awesome old windows program called winAMP to play those songs on my PC. winAMP whipped the llama's ass! Hahaha

[@coryrohrbaugh1208]

I'm first for once

[@linebrunelle1004]

wow, third vid from you. Far off to left field. 👎

[@2strong2blac]

I’m second

[@justmeandjustme5772]

The 80’s that years ever had I been in ride bike hang out neighbors friend play basketball and play baseball we do a lot outdoor all day and late night.

[@mediamike693]

.......🐸🦘...I ...I 🦭 REMEMBER ❓❓❓ AND LOVED 😊 THE 80'S...⁉⁉⁉...1982 IT WAS ALL HAPPRNING...😗...IT WAS A GOOD ERA😄...LOVED IT...

[@Xiy114]

"Have you seen the lastest video or heard the latest song from....." was... The GREATEST!