20 Things From The 1980s, We Can No Longer Do!

[@Dracula926]

I was born in 1977 and I feel so blessed to have grown up in the 80s. Late 70s to early 90s, best childhood ever!

[@alexandraeverafter1015]

I agree, as long as you were at least middle class (I.e., your family had the means to live in a house where you had your own room, buy you toys on your wish list (not necessarily all of them, although it would have been awesome!), take you and your friends out to movies, travel…), neurotypical, and not the target of bullying.

[@johnclaybaugh9536]

@@alexandraeverafter1015 and not disabled in any way.

[@alexandraeverafter1015]

@@johnclaybaugh9536 that’s right . Or racially discriminated (even though it still exists).

[@truth_hunter]

Same, I was born in 79. I just think in some ways technology has ruined us. Especially, people who never played outside regularly and come up with ways to be busy. We were very social and going to roller skate rinks like every weekend in high school. Renting movies at blockbuster. Had some friends that liked going for long walks. My parents got me a typewriter because I wanted one knowing I’d be using that soon. Playing games in class on the computer Oregon Trail and Number Cruncher. Playing the snack game on the cellphone. I predicted that we would be able to watch movies on our cellphones someday and my friends thought that I was crazy. I feel like teenagers are missing out on so many things in life. Even my husband is glued to his iPhone or computer.

[@josephfigueroa4024]

SAME

[@robtech341]

The 80's was a perfect balance of technology and simplicity. Cheers!

[@maximos905]

You could say the same for the 90s except the 90s was better

[@crowe668]

Yes it was

[@edwardharrison9714]

The 70s for a perfect mix of drugs and music..😵‍💫

[@dellcoc]

That would be the 90s. The 80s had no balance and was all about excess.

[@lp1043]

Bring back blockbuster video!

[@pdmullgirl]

This almost made me cry. I miss those days so badly. Life seemed so much more fun and simpler. ❤️💜💚

[@robertkay9871]

It was a simpler time..

[@kerry-j4m]

I truly miss BlockBuster and Hollywood video stores and even the little moms & pops video stores too.

[@AudioReplica2023]

Simpler? Ok

[@darquequeen]

The mix tape, part of the fun was having to work to make it. Patience truly was its own reward.

[@the_kombinator]

I still have mine - labelled Grade 8 tape lol. I play it occasionally in my classic car.

[@popeyejones9256]

You can still do it record songs off the radio or internet on to audio cassette tape if you want to.

[@wendyhamm9722]

I just found one today! I always hated it when the DJ would talk over parts of the songs!

[@Kaethor819]

There was just something special about giving a crush a mix tape that took weeks to make compared to just sending them a playlist you can make in 5 seconds today

[@sarahosborne7477]

Yes we had more patience then

[@CoolDudeClem]

The 21st century is so depressing. Someone take me back to those simpler times!

[@Dadsezso]

I want to go back to the 50s when I was a kid.

[@hrdley911]

Save me a seat!

[@Snarkyhippie]

Do you really miss dial up intent, watching movies on laser disk, flipping through a card catalog, listening to your Walkman, using leaded gas, using a typewriter, or going to aerobics class?

[@CoolDudeClem]

​@@Snarkyhippie Some of those things I never did. I wouldn't want to go back to dial up though, or the kind of computers we had back then. But, among today's mainstream music sucking balls, crime rates at an all time high, nothing good to watch on TV with everything going over to streaming services, software becoming subscription based, games having micro-transactions, Microsoft spying on you if you use Windows, bad parenting, corrupt governments, my country being filled with immigrants making me feel as if I am a foreigner in my own country, internet being filled with brain rot and cringe, rising prices for the cost of living, taxes, bills, wars, climate change and the fact that I'm now a fat, old and very ugly bastard, smartphones are also something that really depresses me. I HATE the fact that everyone is on them 25 hours a day and that they've basically "replaced" all the tech I grew up with. It's like my childhood didn't exist because everything I grew up with is done on a f*cking smartphone now and everything is geared towards them. It's not normal to me, it's not how the world used to be, it's not the world as I remember it when growing up. I am way out of my comfort zone in this modern world. Is it any wonder I hate this modern world and chronically am depressed? And yes, I DO miss the days of when we recorded TV shows on VHS or Betamax (another part of my childhood I'll probably never have back).

[@BiologyBabe]

Unfortunately every generation feels this way. I remember my parents wanting to go back to the 60s during the Rodney king riots etc. the world isn’t as different as you think, and those beautiful things you loved about the world are still here, you just have to look harder to find S 80-90s kid too, so I get it, but there is still beauty out here…I promise.

[@cvdixon29]

I miss a lot of these things but most of all I miss from the 80s is my grandma and my mom. I would trade the last years of my life to go back and live it all again just because they would be there.

[@PeachRap]

Your memories keeps them alive in the infinite universe, they might have lost their human forms, but shall their spirit bring you comfort

[@2sweet4life2]

Damn dude 🤗🤗🤗

[@robtech341]

As great as streaming can be, going to Blockbuster to pick out a couple of movies on Friday night was a little like a mini Christmas. Especially when you got the last copy of whatever movie you were looking for. Cheers!

[@googleuser868]

I don't miss it at all.

[@AarayKyramud]

And renting a game cause you didn't save enough up with your allowance to buy it

[@redlaz01]

Getting a movie and getting Chinese food and snacks.

[@RictusHolloweye]

Unless your family made the mistake of investing in a betamax. Our little corner of the video library got smaller and smaller until they stopped bothering to cater to us at all 😞

[@relicdad88]

​@@RictusHolloweyebetamax that's was b4 even my time I heard bout em but nvr seen 1 lol I've got a huge DVD collection tho so in case internet ever goes down me n my son will always have something 2 watch. I miss going 2 places like blockbuster n flick video so fun jus walking round for hrs wit ur friends n family tryin 2 find great movie 2 watch usually jus renting same movie over n over again good times.

[@Daehawk]

A lot of these things we had and did well into the 90s.

[@TheGlovener1985]

there's still some of these things that happen today, they've not entirely disappeared

[@DA-BROWN-STOIC]

❤️

[@truth_hunter]

Yes, it should say 80s and 90s.

[@BarrowedtimeBrian]

80s and 90s up until columbine started the decline

[@TheGlovener1985]

@@BarrowedtimeBrian mate columbine was isolated to Americans, didn't affect the rest of the world

[@LuteFrontier]

I miss the 80s

[@Graceology101]

Me too 😢😢😢😢

[@MyownpersonKeta]

Me too

[@desperadox7565]

Me too

[@Dancerlayla-z6g]

You can have them. I liked the 60s, 70s and 90s and 00s all better

[@desperadox7565]

@@Dancerlayla-z6g I'm sorry that you are probably the only person who didn't have fun in the 80s.😎

[@Broughton1128]

*The 80s was the BEST decade EVER!*

[@vincentpritchett1231]

I liked the 70s too

[@ZoruaZorroark]

i'm glad to have experienced much of these in the early 90's

[@luisreyes1963]

Especially for hot babes in neon Spandex...🤤

[@steveferguson823]

Yes. There. We’re.

[@rexbentley8332]

Most bland decade yet

[@yardleyj9391]

57 years of age sure takes one on a very long memory lane.

[@mikeywid4954]

Lol Imagine what it's like for me at 74! I love the nostalgia these types of channels brings.

[@yardleyj9391]

@@mikeywid4954 😂😂 Now, you make me feel like a Spring chick ❤️

[@mikeywid4954]

@@yardleyj9391 😊

[@navret1707]

@@mikeywid4954 - I’ll see your 74 and raise you 4. I agree with you about these types of channels. Sherman, set the Wayback machine to the 1950’s.

[@mikeywid4954]

@@navret1707 The best of times back then. I wouldn't trade it for anything. Thank goodness for KZbin.

[@michaelbruns449]

#21 - Living Happier. #22 - Less Control. #23 - More Freedom. #24 - Better Music. #25 - Better Movies. #26 - Better Cars. #27 - Nicer Women. #28 - Nicer Men.

[@SeverityOne]

Dude, you just watched a video from some random person, who published it for the entire world to see. How do you think this would have worked in the 1980s? Not an awful lot of freedom if producing content is very expensive, and out of reach of almost everybody.

[@Nickc86]

I would say we are over all better off physically now than ever with advancements but I miss the human component to life

[@hulynchow8505]

@Nickc86 better off physically? How do you figure that? 90% of people are obese now. You NEVER saw that in the 80s. Everybody was slender. Pharmacys had 1 person working in them. Didn't have to wait in line and there weren't 1000s of prescriptions waiting to be picked up. Kids played outside. All day. Now you very seldom see kids playing in the outdoors. Neighbors knew their neighbors. It was like 1 big, ginormous family.

[@SeverityOne]

@@hulynchow8505 It's true that obesity rates have gone up, but one reason that pharmacies are doing more business is because people live longer, but they still get infirm at the same age. And as a guy who was a teenager in the 1980s, I can tell you that in the mid 2020s, things will hurt that you never imagined could hurt. Just from getting out of bed. 😃 But medicine has made enormous strides since the 1980s. Take, for example, the Covid-19 pandemic. Had this occurred in the 1980s, the effects would have been much more severe. There wouldn't have been mRNA vaccines: they've only existed for a couple of years. It wouldn't have been possible to map the genome and come up with a reliable test so quickly. Also, I think that your memories of the 1980s may come from tinted glasses. There were plenty of fat people back then. Not as many as today, but 'everybody was slender': nope, not if I think back to what my aunts looked like.

[@Lisa-m4j]

​@@SeverityOne Dude don't think he was writing about sitting on a computer and being able to watch something someone made for the whole world to see when he's talking about freedom,even though it is cool.

[@gdoll835]

I remember blockbuster. I remember boom box, cassettes, walkman.. Yes im an 80s baby. Who remembers the items i listed ?

[@kerry-j4m]

I do.

[@karami8844]

90s kid here, I remember messing with my brothers’ Walkmans throughout the mid-90s. They still have them and they still work. 😃

[@tsmith5586]

I remember when blockbuster, boom boxes and Walkman's didn't exist. We didn't have cassette players, we had 8 track players and record players.

[@hulynchow8505]

My sister had a 45rpm record player for your car. It worked pretty good till you hit a big bump. It mounted under the dash and would pull out to play the record.

[@leolordful]

90s kid, I remember all of these. My first Walkman was given to me by my mother. She also gave me a whole bag of cassettes including Queen, the Police, Jimmy buffet, and Bill cosby.

[@lancerevell5979]

I miss many of these. I loved cassettes, and VHS movie tapes. And the big book stores. 😢 And, I miss people actually learning and using what they were taught back in early Elementary School English. Today, there is so much illiteracy prevalent online.

[@vivianblack2951]

"Your" right. These people "could of" "payed" more attention in school

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@vivianblack2951 Indeed.

[@Ron-lx7sc]

The old formats still work (mostly). I have noticed that DVDs and CDs are starting to fail they're starting to oxidize and get holes in them so that's a bad thing

[@mchenrynick]

Dial Up Internet was primarily in the 90s, NOT the 80s. AOL climbed in popularity in '92-'93 and the World Wide Web wasn't established until 1995.

[@SirenaSpades]

100%

[@seadog915]

Facebook is only about 20 yrs. old! Remember Windows 98?

[@mchenrynick]

@@seadog915 Facebook didn't go public until 2012. It was only accessible in colleges before that.

[@n8spL8]

we were online w/ a commodore 64 in 1983. Phone in a cradle modem, mostly University/gov't databases, but chatrooms did exist.

[@mchenrynick]

@@n8spL8 I bet it was slooooow as hell! 300 & 900 Baud modems existed then.

[@DNB9999]

Gen x here. I'm amazed at just how many things were replaced by cell phones alone

[@jbsears8836]

Scary really! Also a fellow Gen X brother! Loved the 80s!

[@r.morris5589]

The cell phone has not replaced anything as far as I am concerned. Cell phones are a sucky tech.

[@joshuamountz6891]

Taking out all of the phone booths sure puts Superman in a difficult situation. Where does he change when Metropolis is in danger

[@billmurray7473]

He sometimes does a quick spin , a la Wonder Woman.

[@tikihutdweller5944]

Don't forget about UnderDog

[@kevincoad607]

Well public nudity is practically normal now.

[@jondoe2k]

He can come to England, we've turned a large amount of our phone booths into Defibrillator storage for emergency 😅

[@timeman1966]

The Drive Ins that are still around do great business. Usually you pay one price for 2 movies. I have seen a bunch of the Marvel movies at a Drive in. The one I go to the food is cheap and for what you pay for Popcorn at a normal theater, I can get popcorn, a drink, a couple of hot dogs and BBQ sandwich for the same price at the Drive In.

[@squirrelnasty]

Sounds like the Georgetown drive in. In indiana.

[@VonOutlaw]

I know some hospitals actually still has their medical staff use pagers because the equipment can be interrupted by the cell phone signals, or they just don't have the cell service inside the hospital so they use the pagers that way no matter where they are within the hospital they can be reached.

[@manifestmyfuture]

This video is combing 80’s AND 90’s. A lot of these things didn’t come out until the mid 90s or later and they’re acting like they were common in the 1980s.

[@lancecharley8822]

I remember when some gas stations and grocery stores had movies for rent as well

[@elultimo102]

My local Wal Mart just took out the Red Box video rentals a few months ago.

[@lancecharley8822]

​@@elultimo102Walmart needs to bring back their $5.00 deals if their going to pull something like that it's no fun shopping for entertainment there anymore

[@Lux_Lethal]

That's what we had until my small town finally got a Blockbuster Video in the mid 90s. They left the VHS sleeves out on shelves so customers could see what movies were available. Once you made your choice you'd take the empty sleeve up to the counter, and they'd give you the actual VHS tape/movie in a clear case with their store's info on it. Also, can't forget the "Be kind, rewind" stickers.

[@BrianClarkpharmd]

I worked at a grocery store in the late 80s. We had a video rental store and they would sell the used vhs tapes after some time. I had quite a collection at the time :)

[@juliejohnson7394]

I remember when gas stations had attendants who would fill your car up, check your oil and wash your windows.

[@robertmatthews2009]

Another thing I used to be able to do in the eighties that I can't do now is touch my toes.

[@MichaelLopez-o3c]

Lol

[@2sweet4life2]

😆😆😆

[@loisruthstrom8143]

Road maps are so much better than GPS! They allow you to plan your route ahead of time and help you to familiarize yourself with new areas. GPS can tell you to turn when you are in the wrong lane or past the turning point, encouraging drivers to drive more wrecklessly. Plus, it can be very distracting to listen to and try to drive in unfamiliar city traffic. I'll take a real map over GPS any day!!!

[@truth_hunter]

I never got lost using a map or printing out directions. But GPS has taken me several miles in the wrong direction both terrifying and wasting my time. GPS has improved since that incident, but I think physical maps are good to make sure the GPS isn’t taking you to another street with the same name but in a different location.

[@LilyBecca]

Trying to read a map while driving is super dangerous. I find GPS way easier and safer.

[@Snarkyhippie]

@@LilyBecca you should put effort into planning a trip. Know your environment, alternate routes, and shortcuts. Technology will fail you one day, learn how to read a map.

[@RandyGentry-i6w]

80s was the best decade ever wish it would have stayed the 80s forever!!!! Miss it terribly simple time so much fun to be alive

[@johnclaybaugh9536]

The past was the worst.

[@ledbus36]

100%

[@greasylimpet3323]

I remember being in hospital in the early 80s. The nurses offered to get smokes for us, and there was no big deal about smoking in the ward. It made you feel a bit more normal!

[@bunnysue6660]

I miss going to the mall to play games. It was such a great social experience. My husband and I had our first date at a game arcade.❤❤❤

[@nissateague1996]

Getting with your friends and being mall monkies as my mama called us. We basically spent the whole time walking up and down the mall looking at boys ....we would be like if u can get ur mama 2 take us I can get mine to pick us up 😁😢

[@jeffm9770]

I used to love the arcade. That's one thing I like about going to the beach. They still have arcades on the boardwalk.

[@josebro352]

I go to York Beach in Maine a lot and there's a huge one there that's located directly on the beach. It's been there since I was a kid in the 70s and it hasn't changed one bit. Still looks the same.

[@Eric-qo8vv]

I can’t tell you how much I took for granted going to the video store and get a movie or game

[@analyticalhabitrails9857]

That is americas problem. It tooks things for granted, but now america is paying for that dearly.

[@kranwa15]

0:56 Video Rentals 1:48 Pay Phones 2:48 Cassette Tapes 3:44 Network TVs 4:47 Smoking on Planes 5:45 Pagers 6:49 Arcade Games 7:52 Physical Maps 8:55 Dial-Up Internet 10:12 Library 11:27 Laser Discs 12:33 Type writers 13:39 Walkman 14:37 Film Cameras 15:53 Leaded Gasoline 16:55 Drive-in Movies 17:57 Aerobics Classes 19:01 Newspapers 20:05 Spandex 21:10 Floppy Disks

[@millyrodriguez2065]

Bless you❤😅

[@commonsense8012]

Looking back, we were WAY smarter than the younger generations of today.

[@AJ72281]

For sure….. we actually had to figure things out then. Today they just google it……

[@Tu_Carnalxiii]

So true. I was listening to a news radio show and they mentioned how people today don't think. If they have a question or want to figure something out all they do is Google it. Back then we had to figure it out. We exercised our brains.

[@justout75]

And we were more socially interactive. We talked to each other and congregated. I mean there are no more arcades, drives ins, public pools, neighborhood boys and girls clubs, amusement parks to even go to or hang out at. Heck, even the malls are going away.

[@commonsense8012]

@@justout75 ohhh....the drive ins 👌

[@DavidSilvia-ms7tk]

Not as lazy then too

[@JosephArvay-m1i]

I LOVED the smell of leaded gasoline whenever my father went to the gas station to fill up the old Chevy and when I went to cut the grass when I filled up the lawnmower. I also miss the smell of old Testers model glue and the glue that came with the bicycle tire repair kit to fix the tire tube for flat tires.

[@frenchabortion]

Try huffing contact cement (like shoe glue) You’ll like it just as much.

[@j2-Desperado]

Leaded gasoline was discontinued in the 70s not the 80s in the United States.

[@duudsuufd]

Lead in the environment can lead to brain problems. Now there is no lead spread everywhere, how is it possible that every new generation is dumber than the ones before?

[@Mrnovanova]

You sound like someone who started getting high real early.😕

[@the_kombinator]

The other day I was close to a cammed Monte Carlo from the early 80s. The sound and smell of unburnt hydrocarbons sent me right to the 80s and early 90s ;)

[@dankranz586]

I so miss the 80'a

[@cpeast]

So do I! Better times.

[@BrianJNelson]

I've often said I could "Groundhog's Day" from 83 to 88 and never get tired of it. Those were peak 80s years.

[@patrickgomes2213]

The disappearance of card catalogs is why I stopped using libraries. I am not a luddite. Using them led to happy accidental discoveries and more people could use them at a time than the one computer my library replaced it with. I know I'm in the minority and I also know we're not going back to the way things were. This is why money was invented: I'll buy the book I need online. Use my own computer and get what I want with far greater ease than the digital book inventory at the library. Having said that, libraries are about far more than books and I will always support them. As institutions they should never disappear. They're just no longer a place for me.

[@Smithpolly]

Can't you look up and reserve books from your library online?

[@wellIdiditagain]

I think they need to bring back the card catalog.

[@janellcrews6108]

I liked the card system too. They could have kept them for people that want to use them. I do like the fact you can rent a book to read on your phone or tablet. I have to have them help me with it but they never have a problem with that fact.

[@kevincoad607]

Now they function as homeless shelters.

[@maddierodriguez8569]

The ashtray in the cockpit is absolute 80s gold😭🤣🤣

[@suheylaa1769]

As the clock hit midnight, year 2000 everything changed. I felt it.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Y2K and they said it didn't have any impact.

[@janellcrews6108]

I felt something happened but it was more toward 2012.

[@KingRaiders]

2001 is where everything changed for the worse.

[@josebro352]

​@@KingRaidersNot until September though. The first part of 2001 was just like 2000 and the 90s.

[@lagodifuoco313]

We still have a drive-in theater here in Warren, Minnesota. It's open in the summer with one screen showing the most popular movie currently in cinema's. It's great!!! Still a very popular place for the locals to go hang out.

[@FreddyKurganNimmo]

1:08 - There were hardly any tv shows available to rent on VHS in the '80s

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Yes, mostly films and a very few music video compilations.

[@paulsarnik8506]

Heck, I remember the Mom and Pop start-up VHS rental stores! 🤓😎✌🏼

[@thedoncrazephaze5375]

I would spend tons of time reading the movie sleeves/boxes at video stores. I'm a movie buff, it was like going to the library for me.

[@pawprintz7166]

Looking through the rows & rows of videos to find the ones to watch was the best & most fun for me.

[@Zetto-n9e]

The downside of streaming and binge watching is that it gets a lot of good network shows canceled because many people don’t watch until they can binge watch the whole season. I’m guilty of that.

[@googleuser868]

Easy habit to form. Waiting for the next episode or season is annoying once you watch the entire Game of Thrones at will.

[@MrBlockice22]

Was born IN 1980!! Fair to say, I got here just in time. My Childhood Blueprint was this one word.... Simple. Playgrounds were fun, movies, music, and WOOOO the cartoons was the best!! From the richest folks, to the hood where grew up IT DIDNT MATTER!! We ALL ENJOYED. Big difference from what is known now!! Thats why I love not to know but one thing.... Peace!!

[@silverfoxchain]

I was born in 88. I would have loved being born in 1980 instead. I'd would reach milestones and some big changs would happen. At least I enjoyed the 90s.

[@Norm475]

Maybe they no longer allow smoking on planes, but I would not say flying has gotten more pleasant. With long lines going through security, carrying bags on planes to avoid outrageous checked baggage charges, seats spaced too close together, to name but a few. I hate flying.

[@RictusHolloweye]

The security theatre is certainly annoying and pointless. No terrorist has ever been caught by metal detectors or X-Ray (only by alert staff who have been trained on what to look out for).

[@flagbabygirl]

The space that used to be for each seat was awesome back then, now they cram people in like sardines. It’s greedy and disgusting!

[@Dobie_ByTor]

Today, it’s like riding a large crowded metro city bus. Pay up for food, water, storage space and even leg room! I used to fly a lot in 2000-2010. It’s so much worse now. Back in the 80s-90s, it was an adventure!

[@Proto_HYP]

14,4K was the first commercial dial-up on mainstream internet in the early 90s.

[@victornovak8558]

Somebody get me a God damn time machine! I want to go back home!

[@LightOfReason7]

So glad you can't smoke on a plane; I do miss rental stores, but not the lines, rewinding and returning videos.

[@lorihallenbeck8781]

Blockbuster. "Be kind,rewind".

[@Ease54]

You just listed all the reasons they failed.

[@natalieduarte5683]

The fees for not rewinding 😅😂

[@paulm749]

Yeah, I had a dedicated re-winder to save wear and tear on my video player. Good times! LOL

[@vivianblack2951]

And then later trolling people because they haven't rewound the CD's!

[@xitsmedianax]

Not all payphones have been removed! There are some at rest areas.....i know one that is on I-26 in SC. No longer works but definitely nostalgic! My niece picked up the reciever to make a pretend call and i asked "do u even know what that is?" Lol.

[@macman1469]

In Western Australia we got rid of most of our Phone Boxes but those we kept were converted into Free Phones and WI FI hubs .

[@DingyHarry59]

There are still working pay phones in parts of Montana. Up in the mountain valleys you can't always get cell service. Tourists visit Glacier National Park and take pictures of the pay phones.

[@kidkarate420]

the one where they connected the telegraph lines and the rail roads is lonely and surreal.

[@NPC2_4_U]

You can't slam down a cell phone in anger.

[@RictusHolloweye]

You can... once.

[@josebro352]

You also can't pick up an extension line and secretly "listen in". That was so 80s!!!

[@marilyncunningham3216]

My 3rd job was at a video store. It was a real experience . . . and I got a lot of cool movie posters for my dorm room.

[@frankbrodie5168]

My dear long departed mother ran our local video store / corner convenience store. I was well served with films to watch each night. As she would just grab a handful of films that hadn't been checked out for the night and bring them home with her. Because she was also the one opening the store in the morning. So just returned them as she opened up.

[@ginarae5739]

❤.. Are you the real "Chip Matthews"..?? 🧐🙏

[@largol33t12]

I always bribed the clerk with a buck or two so he wouldn't check my ID for R rated movies. Back then $1 was more than most people think. Could almost buy a gallon of gas for that much.

[@ginarae5739]

"A person after my own heart" ❤ nice work.!! Indeed $1-2 would probably have afforded a BIG Mac Meal in the 80s 🎉 UK is now $10 or so.!! 😮

[@RFToob]

Enjoyed this. I definitely don’t miss all the smoking everywhere.

[@ktm42080]

I'm 47. I wanna go back to these simpler and better times. I hope Betamax tapes make a comeback.

[@johnclaybaugh9536]

I'm 50. The past was the worst. Being educated and not privileged helps give someone a more realistic view of life.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

So sad that VHS won the video cassette war. Betamax was superior and smaller.

[@largol33t12]

@@Thurgosh_OG Do you remember the early days of Blockbuster when there were two sides of the store? They had a sight pointing left and it said "Beta" while the other sign pointing right said "VHS".

[@flagbabygirl]

I am also 47 and I would go back tomorrow if I could , there are so many things we took for granted but now they are long gone :( makes me sad for my daughter. She loves everything 80’s and 90’s and she wishes she could experience these things.

[@johnclaybaugh9536]

@@flagbabygirl romanticising the past is evidence of ignorance. Thankfully we have a better world now. Educate yourself.

[@marceld6061]

Most of these items from the 80s show how far we've come and how little patience we now have. Dial-up internet. Pay phones and pagers. GPS. Waiting for your show to air on TV. Video rental stores. Now we just sit around and do all that without getting off our rears. From what I remember of the 80s we spent more time with *people* . If we called someone, their house phone might be busy (no call-waiting!) We would have to wait & try again later or ride over to knock on their doors.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Dial up internet only came out in the early 1990s.

[@tikihutdweller5944]

There was a time in the town of bedrock when people would chisel out stone tablets and deliver them personally.

[@austindavis1984]

Im 25, not all of these but many of them I grew up with myself. I know I am a youngster to most of you guys but I had went to video stores, recorded music off the radio, I used a payphone a couple times before but it's been a while, watched network TV for showtimes, had to run to the bathroom during commercials to make sure I didn't miss what I was watching, played arcade games at the mall, I printed directions off map quest but never used a map, watched movies on laser disc, used film cameras and took photos, used a rotary phone, been to a drive in movie years ago, read newspapers and back of cereal boxes at breakfast, and used a floppy disk. I didn't have a cell phone until I was 12 which it was a flip phone for emergencies only, didn't have internet until I was probably 12 or 13. I grew up drinking from a hose out in the country, playing outside and being a kid. today, kids don't go outside and are so stuck in their phones and electronics. me included now but I remember alot of the older things and how I was brought up.

[@geraldhubbard7791]

At least you got the experience. Not many your age can relate.

[@austindavis1984]

@@geraldhubbard7791 very true. I'm still young but I definitely do not act like most of these Gen Z or whatever they are. I'm proud to say I got experience and some of the normal way of growing up.

[@michaelbaucom4019]

Pay phones, while not as prevalent, still exist, usually in public transit hubs, airports, and government offices, especially in large cities

[@patrickspalding8045]

Definitely the best decade for movies

[@ginarae5739]

Love this.!! ❤ There are some things we'd NEVER want to do again: Smoking in Enclosed spaces, Payphones, Typewriters.. However Video rental stores, Game Arcades and Scheduled TV are a BIG Losses IMHO, Why?? - because it brought Humans Together..🎉❤

[@karlfonner7589]

I miss people keeping their eyes on the road while they’re driving. too many distractions in today’s cars along with cell phones. Half the time I look at cars coming at me in the opposite direction. The person is looking at something other than where it is they are going.

[@kidkarate420]

you are too lol

[@amoses11]

I remember turning on the tv to watch a particular show that came on at a particular time growing up in the 90s and early 2000s. If you missed it, you just missed it and hadda hear about it from somebody who seen the show. Sometimes i would use a vhs tape to record a show i knew i was gonna miss. Now you can download or subscribe to streaming apps that will have live tv available on ur cell phone or u can download them apps on ur tablet or laptop and look at that stuff on the go. And with these streaming services, most ppl dont even watch live shows on tv together as a family because of this on the go lifestyle or the need to be in separate rooms of the house to watch your favourite shows on ur cellphone or iPad.

[@shawnhuff3920]

I was born in April 1974 I'm fifty years old now I remember when children went outside to play sports 😅

[@bryonwatkins1432]

The newspaper 📰!!!! i’m 52-years-old and most times, i get the local paper and two other’s!!!! The looks i get, TOOO funny!!!! When asked, “You read those?”, the monotone in their voices, TOOOO funny!!!!

[@kidkarate420]

its the ritual, you know? buy the paper, go right to your favorite section, dissect the rest.

[@Zetto-n9e]

….and all it will take is just ONE Carrington event and its all over. Back to the early 1900s. And it’s not a case of if will happen it’s when and we’er totally unprepared

[@danlabok7117]

And to think we just got clipped by a weak CE and a so-so solar storm. A side of me would love to see a BIG CE wallop us or a Kessler Syndrome Event just to see if anyone younger than Gen-X could survive without a computer telling them what to do.

[@madmattdigs9518]

It just happened. That wasn’t a little one we just experienced. It was a big one. Comparable to the Carrington event. It’s not fully understood why we didn’t have serious disruptions.

[@Zetto-n9e]

@@madmattdigs9518 it was no where near a Carrington event. Not even close.

[@madmattdigs9518]

@@Zetto-n9e why would you say “not even close”? The northern lights were seen as far south as Puerto Rico. That’s not a minor event. I’ll admit, I don’t know how exactly to measure the strength of a solar storm, but just from different scientific sources I watched, it seems like it was a big one. And it was predicted such a storm would cause major disruption. Which it did not…

[@danlabok7117]

@@madmattdigs9518 we get solar storms all the time at various levels. I'm 54 and have seen the northern lights when I lived Rhode Island, Arizona and now in Colorado. Don't know how old you are but I'm sure you'll see plenty more in the lower 48 in your lifetime.

[@jeffweber8556]

I do have to admit one thing I don't miss is cameras with film. Long gone are the agonies of being selective of what you photographed because you only had a limited amount of pictures to take, accidently opening the camera and exposing your film, not getting the film threaded right and not getting any pictures and then having to mail off the film to get developed and the eternal wait for the pictures to come back and only then knowing if you pictures actually came out

[@johntracy72]

I still have a Laser Disc player.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

They are almost as popular today as they were at launch. Particularly in Japan and the US.

[@largol33t12]

My dad had one with a carousel for CDs. When DVDs first hit the market, he bought a movie for it and tried it. Unfortunately, the LD player brought up a "read error" message. What I find interesting is that it TRIED to "read" the DVD! You could hear the clicking and the sound of the arm with the laser scanning the disc for a solid 20 seconds. My dad was surprised that it didn't immediately spit the DVD out. We gave up and bought a real DVD player six months later, LOL. It was not cheap: about $7-800!! Nowadays, you can buy one for your computer for under $40!

[@wendyhamm9722]

I worked at my city's library in high school. I knew that place like the back of my hand. If not, I was a wiz at the card catalog! We also need to bring back drive-ins! I loved going to them. As far as I know, there is only one in my state left active. I also wore runner's spandex on a regular basis. Just your basic black. They were very comfortable.

[@dragoonseye76]

Safely allow our kids to play outside

[@BrianJNelson]

7:40 there are actually a lot of arcades out there that have popped up in the last few years because people that grew up in the 80s are trying to recapture that vibe. The ones I've seen are actually pretty popular. Might also have to do with the fact that a bunch of them serve alcohol now as well, something that you didn't find in arcades of old.

[@marymoscardini5203]

I miss recording songs from the radio on cassette tapes

[@zahemi914]

Carrying walkman was a must for college students back then.... While back packs could be filled with cassettes & rechargeable batteries

[@brianc2595]

Actual title of this video: "Things from the 80s now obsolete." We can still do most of these things, rip blockbuster

[@Wendy-Williams-NC]

I remember SMOKING in hospital rooms being allowed!! It was a small, rural hospital but still!

[@luisreyes1963]

Going to the Video Arcade gave my life meaning, I miss those days. As for Dial-up Internet... I don't miss it at all. 🤓

[@amoses11]

I remember when the laundromat me and my family used to go to had two video arcade games. As a kid growing up in the 90s i sometimes look forward to going washing at the laundromat with my mother because me and my siblings could get quarters that were left over after my mother washed and dried the clothes. Now that laundromat dont even have the arcade games there no more.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Dial-up Internet is from the 90s though.

[@mikesuch9021]

Live streaming and KZbin have ruined a TV experience for the family. We used to get together in the 60s on Sunday night and watch World of Disney

[@toddjensen692]

Some things need to come back.

[@JDoe001]

Full-service vs self-service gas stations. I remember you paid extra to go to the full-service pumps when gas stations were transferring to completely self-service.

[@garrettgiuffre7298]

The current sucks

[@billhanscomb1119]

I agree!!! I miss the 80's/90's.

[@vesnadzebic8735]

I agree

[@executenwordusers]

You made it this way

[@bullets1x99]

I miss it too still 😅I play my Super Nintendo more than my Xbox

[@TJ-kk5zf]

we knew what a woman was

[@GP950mAh]

Grew up in the 90's, and can definitly remember alot of this. Sure miss those days...

[@brandybrown6574]

Remember getting aggravated when people didn't rewind the VHS tapes 😂

[@Thurgosh_OG]

I was a manager in a branch of Scotland's biggest video chain. Blockbuster were the 2nd biggest. We got annoyed by that too but had a dedicated rewind VCR, which helped.

[@justout75]

⭐"Be Kind. Please Rewind"⭐

[@flagbabygirl]

Who remembers when the power would go out at home , getting out the candles and a board game and when it came back on being a little disappointed because the whole family was hanging out, then you would call 411 to get the time so you could reset your clocks all over the house.

[@brasmussen81]

Dial up internet in the 80s? I guess we were further behind around here than I thought, because I never heard of it until the mid 90s

[@lancerevell5979]

It existed in the late 1980s, but the 300 baud modems were glacially SLOW!

[@felixtcy]

Personal PCs in the 80s cost as much as most new cars. Not a typical household item until the 90s.

[@kidkarate420]

it was more of a dial up local network.

[@snoopu2601]

When I was a kid an Arcade place was where we met friend's and met new kid's those were fun day's right across the street was Foster freeze ice cream dinner, that sold ice cream cones and hamburgers. This new generations wil never know how fun the 70's and 80s were.

[@matty3221]

I'm an Aussie, we still have payphones mainly as a public service/safety thing, their free now. Do you other guys not have payphones now?

[@tracymccool1587]

Oh no..they were nice when in emergency

[@squidly2112]

The 80's were AWESOME!! .. I am so glad I got to experience the 80's the way I did .. best times of my life, by far!

[@Rkenton48]

The loss of payphones was a bad idea. During a blackout, payphones still worked, cell phones did not.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

In the UK, the phone companies are replacing all of the powered copper wires with fibre. Better for internet speeds but worse for those types of emergencies.

[@kevincoad607]

Crank calls!

[@Biomass1]

The "adult movies" are in the back, usually behind a curtain.

[@stevesmith8399]

Ending every other section with the intro of the following section and then repeating it drive me crazy through this video, lol.

[@Atheist7]

fact checked: TRUE!

[@SirenaSpades]

agree

[@Thurgosh_OG]

How to extend the running time of your video. Repeat the headline, 2 or 3 times.

[@jimm9577]

10:06 Checking Books Out Of The Library Using A Card Catalog, Come On Man! It's Called The Dewey Decimal System.

[@thatguy6645]

One thing I miss the most is smoking on a plane, those were the days 😢

[@josebro352]

I miss smoking in the mall food court when I was 17 in the 80s. I'd buy my posters at Spencer Gifts, my records and cassettes at Sam Goody, and my cigarettes at CVS when they used to sell cigarettes. The world is so different now. The US is anyway.

[@Van1018s]

My top 3 1. Talk 2. Be happy 3. Afford anything

[@TennantMary]

Drive in movies still exist and they use them in winter too 😊

[@janellcrews6108]

Yep we have 1 in my city.

[@tolik5929]

List all the Freedoms we have lost sense the 80's..........................

[@googleuser868]

Choice to wear a seat belt, choice to smoke in many places, reasonable prices.

[@eljefemccarron2567]

Going everywhere without constantly being recorded.

[@georgeharris6851]

Recording mixed tapes from the radio started in the 1970's. There was a local radio station that always played the same 2 songs back to back, which made it easier for me to record the second song in its entirety, after I learned the combos.

[@edwardharrison9714]

I remember a line going out the bar and around the building just to get a shot at this new space Invaders game..

[@josebro352]

I remember a line stretching around the corner and up three flights of stairs to see The Empire Strikes Back in 1980.

[@DanielRundellpnw833]

I was an 80s 90s kid miss those days

[@BrianClarkpharmd]

The 80s rocked

[@Disgusted_Cat]

I remember these in the early and mid 90s as a kid. 👍👍

[@globalfamily8172]

WHY doesn't GPS or google maps have the city/town name on the map when you are driving? It would be nice to know when you cross the town line!

[@michelletaylor7333]

That’ll come next

[@nuzzoification]

Notice how most of these facilities and past technologies listed in this video have all been replaced by the smart phone

[@pastbehind25]

I remember my mom smoking in stores as she shopped

[@monteforeman5213]

Me too!

[@angelad3347]

I remember my coworker smoking in the college office, and she was pissed when that changed!

[@talltayls21]

Soooo moral of the video: this one single 5-7 inch touch screen device in our pockets has replaced like over half this list lol

[@maxmaham]

I feel like pay phones should still be a thing just incase of emergencies and your phone is dead or stolen