class of 1999, last day at School 14th May 99

[@vxrdrummer]

Watching this again. School on the 90s was amazing. No phones or social media. Just go to school, go home and go out to play all day long. It amazing how negative social media is.

[@ccccaaal]

Yet you’re still using it

[@KingMikeUK]

@@ccccaaal Gotem

[@karate_girl_ibiza]

I hate SM. I wish with all my heart theyd ban Facebook d TikTok.. I absolutely despise them and the stupid, weak sheep that use them

[@vxrdrummer]

Yep. Just because I said how negative it is in the majority, doesn't mean all of it is...like this video for example. Nothing negative at all. Influencers chasing clicks or focusing on the negative to clicks is the problem. Making a mockery of people to get clicks. I enjoy the parts of social media I choose to use as it's positive and fun. No poor example set by it. In some ways life is worse by having it due to what it has become.

[@xx_sugarcube_xx8170]

Oh 100% they made it too addicting, but their is a lot of benefits too like how am I supposed to contact long distance heheh

[@retrojimmyx]

This reminds me how self-assured young people were in the 90s (I left school in 99 myself) and kids were generally happy. Later in life I retrained as a teacher: There seems to be a lot self-criticism, uncertainty and anxiety among young people nowadays. I've witnessed kids refusing to attend school, being sent death threats, being victims of sexual exploitation (incl. having nude pics sent to them), selling vapes/drugs, having constant panic attacks, having body dysmorphia and just a general disillusionment or low self esteem. I even started to spend my lunches in the learning support unit because the staff were overwhelmed with the number of kids in there that were just simply unable to cope. What changed?

[@biohazard3375]

You forgot that! The kids of today are disrespectful have no manners and need a good slap! And they don't no the meaning of consequences due to bad education practice 😂

[@retrojimmyx]

@@biohazard3375 Trust me on this, 100%, all kids behavioural issues originate from outside of school. Education is now expected to take up the slack for parents/carers. Education establishments are not there to teach respect and behaviour but sadly academic education is not possible if these things are not in place. We only need look abroad to see that UK children's behaviour is a social problem and not one caused by schools. The mystery is why are there so many social issues. Poverty? Social media? The cognitive dissonace from living in a post-Thatcher individualistic consumer-capital paradigm that conflicts with the basic human need for togetherness? Whatever reason, it's sad that children seem to bearing the brunt of scoiety's dysfunction.

[@KingUsyk]

social media

[@natty-zxa]

@@biohazard3375not everwhere, just in America

[@chinaser121]

@@biohazard3375 you're disillusioned

[@RatchetMonkey]

Not sure how I stumbled across this video but it's amazing. I started secondary in 99 and left in 2004. Times were so different back then and felt so real. Quite emotional really, totally different world we live in now.

[@jamespicking1140]

I'm the same age as you then, it was definitely a different time. Watching this brought back memories of my last day, I've lost the shirt with all the signatures now though.

[@RatchetMonkey]

​@@jamespicking1140same, I remember seeing it about 10 years ago but it had all started to fade 😭

[@DG72149]

Your lucky. I'm still in secondary and every person in my school is a social media addict. I like to run around outside and play the better games like tag, hide and seek, etc. Everytime somebody rings my doorbell for me I'm ecstatic to go outside and play. I'm basically not even apart of this generation of kids and I agree with you when you said it's a totally different world we live in. It might be after 2019 but after that year it seems like everything changed. Maybe it's tiktok but idk, I don't use that app

[@1murkeybadmayn]

@@DG72149 lol seeing your comment here, you're like a baby given how young you are. I left secondary in 08. But I get what you mean, because I always think I'm from an older generation compared to those in mine. But yh, I feel sorry for your generation, I won't lie.

[@DG72149]

@@1murkeybadmayn I'm nearly finished school, and I'm nearly and adult. Just maturing slower lol. But yes my generation is practically a lost cause

[@LovelyMallie]

I was born in 99 and was one month old at the time of this vlog. It's pretty cool to see what life was like at the time I came into the world. The 90s really do seem like such a cool decade, I kinda wish I could've experienced it!

[@Omer698]

I was in Year 7 when you were born. Honestly life was a lot more pleasant back then. I remember the days were longer. Now the years are flying by. It's crazy to think I'm now closer to 50 than I am to 20

[@trenta.958]

I was 28 when this video was recorded, about to turn 29. You didn't miss much if you were just recently born. Except maybe a memory of what you think the 90s should have been.

[@GeorgeKershawBMX]

This is evidence that we’re going in the wrong direction. Look how happy everyone is, you can just tell everyone was friendly even beyond their friendship group. This is so wholesome 😅

[@ocnb]

People interacting and socialising - they haven't got their heads buried in their smartphones!

[@mr.person4050]

​​@@ocnbPeople still interact and socialise today. Even when they're on their phone, chances are they're interacting and socialising with other friends who aren't with them.

[@theoclutterbuck]

British school in the 90s was a bear-pit. There's a lot to be said for the fact it was a simpler time. But it was also a much more brutal time for kids. Some snippets from a last day at school aren't enough to make grand statements about "going in the wrong direction".

[@mr.person4050]

@@theoclutterbuck "yEaH bUT aT lEaSt i DidNT hAvE tHE AdULT resPonsibIlitIES i DO nOw. sO sHUT uP hATER!!1!1"

[@theoclutterbuck]

@@mr.person4050 "We had no mental illness in my day! Our previous generations were all so tough! Why, I fondly remember my grandfather crying autistically in the corner because I accidentally placed his Admiral Nelson 17th edition collector's stamp 4.3 millimetres due east of its original shelf location."

[@Jackson-nq2kh]

This is actually a fantastic film! Her romance for the boy is palpable, and the end cut of the children playing who still have their school career ahead of them is touching

[@ktgame2640]

It's real tho

[@Jackson-nq2kh]

You can still create a short film out of real events. It's almost like a hybrid documentary. I know that wasn't really the creator's intention but I'm saying that's how it appears when cut together. @@ktgame2640

[@kf9926]

@@ktgame2640?

[@andrewholland2390]

So glad you filmed this. My school was in wales but the 90s was so special. Our teachers were only human and our streetwise has got us all to grow up. Thank you so much. So special and cherished memories alike.

[@eddiehimself]

Sorry, but I missed the point in the last 25 years where teachers were suddenly apparently replaced by robots?

[@kevinotoole885]

I left in 97 and looking at this brings back so many memories. Looking at this you realise that kids of that age now soooooo different. The effects of social media is going to be more detrimental than any of us can comprehend.

[@kyphshs]

my mom was 97 :)

[@avawarwick8249]

I go here in 2017 and no joke, everything looks exactly the same. I hall, The field, the science rooms, EVERYTHING!!

[@isabellesawyer3085]

Ava Warwick and now I’m 2020 it still looks ... exactly the same

[@zharauwaibi6991]

what school is it woodbridge ?

[@soukokusheart]

@@zharauwaibi6991 same

[@claras5087]

@@zharauwaibi6991 it’s Leventhorpe

[@healingandgrowth-infp4677]

I had a concrete ground as a field. I envy that grass. Our p.e field was 20 mins away by school bus.

[@RMetsy]

Born and raised in London. I left primary school in 1999. I miss those days. Very special. I'm glad you filmed this. Kids these days are finished. I worry about the younger generation

[@echoanddandelion8890]

This is so cute! I feel nosey watching this but I'm enthralled, I wish school was like this for me. I didn't see anyone be mean to each other in this video and I'm about halfway through, this is so wholesome

[@RBASB10]

How I stumbled across this video I will never know? Everyone seems so happy. Filmed in 99, it just shows you how fast time flys past. Time doesn’t wait for nobody. Never underestimate the value of time as it’s so precious. If somebody didn’t like you, who gives a %hit? lol 😂. Hope everyone in this video is having a great quality of life in 2023. Great video. Thanks for the upload. 🙏

[@ThomasCorfield-r4n]

The passage of time is illusion. There is only now. Jesus told me. He knows shit.

[@Emma-sq1kn]

I loved this video. I left in 1995 but the feel was the same. A lot of the lads have the “curtains” hair style which was all the rage then. I’m surprised that there wasn’t many swearing, maybe because they were being filmed. I like how being on video was a special thing back then and some people were shying away from it. Nowadays there’s videos everywhere and everything is filmed. Crazy. The kids look so old though, especially the girls, I don’t remember everyone looking that old. The last day of school was fab. Some of the teachers sounded a bit frustrated by Donna’s camera 😂

[@DarkAngel2512]

I left in 95 too. When girls were wearing quiffs and boys were wearing bowlcuts and curtains.

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

I left school in 97. Had the curtains from the early 90s until 95. Then I grew it out for the Liam Gallagher look.😂

[@hrafnofthule5962]

Born in 84. This brings back memories. The world made sense.

[@Dewsta26]

Agreed kidda

[@realeyesrealisereallies97]

That's just nostalgia and you were a kid back then. Shit was still pretty fucked back then too, you just didn't know it as much. Ignorance is bliss

[@Dewsta26]

@@realeyesrealisereallies97 really?

[@realeyesrealisereallies97]

@@Dewsta26 yes sir

[@Dewsta26]

@@realeyesrealisereallies97 hmm... Idk

[@weekender8839]

Probably the last generation where kids of a working/lower middle class background in London and the immediate suburbs spoke like this. Brought back some good memories.

[@sutty85]

Nah not really. 2003 was the last. Immigration spiraled since then

[@neniaemm6127]

This was such a nostalgia trip despite not going to the same school etc. I was also the class of 99, it was a really optimistic time in the 90's, I suppose every generation looks back on it with rose tinted glasses, but there was something about the 90's that was special.

[@Lilly-leaf]

As a 90s teen I may be biased, but growing up in this era really was amazing for us!

[@Bertiesghost]

Good economy, left learning sensible government in power, relative world peace..all went to shit after 9/11

[@daimsaeed]

​@@Bertiesghostnot really wasnt much different till 2015, until then social media was mostly used to keep in touch

[@MrHastygamer]

At least you recognise it - it is normal to feel nostalgia but reading through the comments people don’t realise how common it is for every generation to look down upon the newer generations. Back in university I noticed it a lot in pre first world war newspapers. I think it is the tendency to view different as bad and not consider that almost every change has positives that come with the negatives.

[@Starrybluegal]

People were looking forward to the year 2000 and the future was positive. People were happy and excited about the future!! I remember it all too well!! 9/11 killed it all. The world has changed so much!!

[@gigixdor]

it’s so crazy that most of these people are now parents with kids

[@charleepanda]

I was born in 98 and have a 4 year old. Some are probably grandparents

[@planetstrength8798]

@@charleepanda most of these lot are born in the early 80s which puts them in their early 40s today most people are parents in their early 40s not grandparents…

[@yusra5609]

@@planetstrength8798 are they not in their early 20s… this was when they was 15/16 and it was 6 years ago

[@xMilozz]

@@yusra5609 did you not read the title? this is 1999 silly

[@healingandgrowth-infp4677]

They were only about 5 years older than myself if they are 16 here same as a sister of mine in their early 20s when I was their age n leaving school really not all that old. Are kids today seeing them as people from the 60s or something lol.

[@vxrdrummer]

I left this year as well. That last day was incredible. The 90s was incredible.

[@summere22]

it looks like so much fun, id love to experience something like this

[@healingandgrowth-infp4677]

I started secondary in 2000. So while you n they were leaving they were making room for my year it’s so weird to think.

[@vxrdrummer]

​@healingandgrowth-infp4677 it's crazy how the world makes room for new. I hope school was as good for you as it was for me. We never knew which h would be our last day until we went in and they sent us on study leave. Our last day was in April as our exams started in May, so it was slightly different to this as far as I remember. I wish we had known in advance what our last day would have been like this. August 25th or something like that was when we collected our exam results though. I'm pretty sure we all met at the park on the last night though and got drunk on cider!

[@11111uewfh]

It's because of woke society and identity politics. It's fried young peoples minds.

[@miamitten1123]

@@vxrdrummer People say that about every decade

[@caleighm3lissa]

i am obsessed with watching these videos, i wish i was in high school around these years, i was only born in 2006 so i'm 17 now and school is so different. life seemed so much more simple back then

[@kylec.8350]

It was people actually went out and didn't sit on there phones.

[@johnross2924]

​@@kylec.8350before social media took over our lives, we actually went outdoor and met up with friends.

[@11111uewfh]

It's because of woke society and identity politics. It's fried young peoples minds.

[@peanutdust1053]

Yeah, everyone used to make arrangements on the bus home, ie meet at 4.30pm at the pitch for football, crowds used to show up and play until 10pm..Class of 2000

[@randomcomment232]

it's secondary school, i hate these weird americanisms entering british english

[@eddt430]

Social media has ruined the world. This is just amazing.

[@awentimes]

A glimpse of the old world. Thank you.

[@donna-elizabeth]

1990's - before the world went tech-mad! This video is adorable! So many great characters and friendships. I can relate to this era as I left school in the late 90's (and I'm Donna too!). You did so well capturing this at that time. Did you ever stay in touch with your friends?

[@EdiDrums]

Remember the 2020s ... before the world went artificial-intelligence mad?

[@FelipeSpadoni-nt8mc]

I left school in 2014 but I lived through all those times in the video in the 2000's it was so incredible everyone was together no one in the year 2000's was on the cell phone everyone was talking eye to eye face to face no one was on the cell phone it was perfect perfect generation same thing as the 1990 generation.....

[@EdiDrums]

I would say the early 2000s had quite a lot of mobile phone use, but it wasn't internet based or dominated. It was dot-matrix Nokia phones and early Blackberries, with lots of playing snake and text messaging.

[@ReelFilm2016]

This is amazing. So glad you were able to capture your memories.

[@skeletalwreck]

Good times all lol. This was the year I graduated secondary school in Northern Ireland. Super similar vibes, floods back loads of memories from the era. Nice upload - thank you ! !

[@9inchsnails829]

Me too lol happy 40th 😭😂

[@sarahgreen3663]

whoa i graduated in 1999 in America and you guys definitely knew how to have more fun than us 😂😂 we were so subdued, bored and ready to go home lol. you guys are nuts

[@_boracic_atreus_23]

They're also two years younger than you would have been. British high schools finish at 16.

[@paareth]

If you can't have fun at the end of it all, when can you have fun.

[@healingandgrowth-infp4677]

@@_boracic_atreus_23 nope 18 16 is 4th year

[@AL-PAKA]

@@healingandgrowth-infp4677 you left at 16 then though it was called year 10

[@billybobjocrabb7095]

You leave at 16 and it’s called year 11. Average drinking age of the common Brit is 13, smoking is 14

[@TheMiniLives]

Thanks for posting, also left school in 1999. Brings back many memories of that time. Seems so long ago now, how the world has changed!

[@tasha1123455]

I left school in 2005 and I always feel so grateful that we didn't have any social media whilst we were at school. It's such a difficult time for kids, finding themselves and learning about the world and social media just puts a significant extra pressure onto these young people. It must be so stressful for them, I feel so sad for them.

[@starchild352]

Left school in 98 honestly there isn’t a day that I don’t think about how happy those years were To be a teenager during the 90’s was amazing The music the clothes the cars walking home hearing a dog barking Miss them days ❤

[@Javiation77]

Amen bud 🤌🏻

[@colbyandbrennen3543]

I hope all of these people are doing well. It's so cool to look back at times like this and compare it to now.

[@JS-pf8wq]

Sad thing is the person recording is now not here anymore

[@rachal4685]

@@JS-pf8wq how do you know

[@jamiehav0k62]

@cirodimarzio659 shes commented a few times since this video blew up a few weeks ago tho. someone called her donna in the video. so its her filming...?

[@paulmidsussex3409]

One friend left to sell clothes, one works down by the coast One had two kids but lives alone, one's brother overdosed One's already on his second wife and one's just barely getting by.

[@JBG-AjaxzeMedia]

@@paulmidsussex3409 alright ed sheeran

[@RUFU58]

I would have been on my last day on the same day same year just a different school! It’s strange to think that elsewhere in the country at the time of your recording, I was going through the same thing with my school friends. Almost brings a tear to the eye, the nostalgia is real. ❤️

[@zkevzwalshz]

and then u got attacked by a scarecrow in the field

[@mysticjen379]

I left school in Liverpool in 95, but you guys are only four years younger than me so it was so much fun to watch! The Head bag on one of the boys 😆 I had just started a new job 4 days prior to that lol (I was 20 then) so I remember that week well!

[@bobbiec6074]

Not a mobile phone in sight! What a time to be alive. I’d go back and do it all again in a heart beat. ✌🏼❤

[@jamesbarker2567]

Same Here!!

[@Stringer13ell]

The vast majority of people seem to be English too

[@Duesvult87]

​@@Stringer13ell yup. Fact!

[@WookieWarriorz]

I finished school in 2012, most of us were depressed and couldnt wait to leave school, beyond burnt out (grammar school) no one talked to each other like this so enthusiastically.

[@Livingreciever]

So good to see a english version of last day of school, 99 was my last day of junior school in Brighton. The 90's were incredible,

[@DarkAngel2512]

Hey dude. Im fom Brighton. Infant/Juniors was St Lukes and secondary was Stringer. Where did you go. I left Stringer in 1995.

[@KatieWilliams1990x]

UK school in the 90s and the early 00s was once hell of an experience, much different to what school is like now. Looking back at my time in school in the 90s and early 00s, it seems like the wild west compared to today haha but I wouldn't change it for the world. I feel so fortunate to have been young in the 90s/early 00s as it was an incredibly optimistic time to be alive with AMAZING pop culture. I feel so sad for children/teens today as the times are really bleak/oppressive and they have so many pressures placed on them that we didn't have to deal with (tech, internet, social media etc...) We had so much freedom compared with teens today.

[@4_qu]

as a person who's had to grow up nowadays, yeah i kinda wish i grew up back in the 90s to early 00s.

[@spursp2321]

Amazing pop culture lmao. Early00s was shittest time going

[@retroafro1]

we definitely had more freedom back then - todays kids have a false sense of freedom nurtured into them - but its straight up oppressive

[@SlimHandle]

Smartphones = way of escape from a shitty school day writing essays on irrelevant old subjects. KZbin channels = helps shy people forge an identity which couldn't happen before tech. And helps teens meet at weekends. Far too easy for them since 2011 onwards.

[@retroafro1]

@@SlimHandle the delusion is s art mate.... It ain't helping you

[@Rosco-P.Coldchain]

I left in 87 I so wished someone would have filmed our last day this is so cool for the memories of the people in it thanks ❤..Hope you are all moving mountains now

[@otocan]

This is giving me such second-hand social anxiety. I was at school about the same age in roughly the same part of the country, but I was the nerdy kid sitting quietly in the corner, and these are the popular kids who scared the hell out of me.

[@pebbles8677]

Same, oh what it must have been like to be popular only started getting accepted in the last year when it was too late 😂

[@thirteentimes365]

Yeah, I wasn't one of the popular kids either. I had huge Lego hair and messed up teeth when I was in secondary school which affected my confidence massively. I wasn't a nerd and wasn't bullied; I was just invisible if that makes sense. I have some good memories and some bad ones, like most people. I used to get hung up on my school experiences and wish they were different and that I'd made more friends and had more positive interactions with everyone, but hey, it was what it was.

[@DTOLL9000]

@timjohnson2235 The gobbiest kids are usually the most popular. All of these kids are loud mouths.

[@keynesianeconomics4113]

@timjohnson2235 They're not - they're sociable and popular.

[@donglegs]

⁠​⁠@timjohnson2235There are moments when you can see the more normal or less popular kids behind them. Totally different vibe, demeanour, look. They didn’t come to school with Britney bunches and thigh highs.

[@ThisisDaniel]

Wow, I left school in the year 2000 and wish I had a recording of my last day. Time really flies, I'd definitely go back in a heartbeat 😊

[@Deleted11100]

Omg I’ve liked this and I haven’t even watched it, seen the first few seconds. This means absolutely everything to me, being from England born in the late 90’s but old enough to remember exactly how everything was. The nostalgia I have for how simple these times were actually east away at me. Dial up, slow internet, gatecrasher, sky red button games, fat computers, touching the glass on the telly and feeling the static, mona the vampire, recess, old computer art renders, (my parents are aliens?) think that was 2000’s, but even the early 2000’s was still just at 90’s as the early 90’s 🤣 horrible carpet and furniture designs, it was a different world. This video will stay in my likes forever, Thankyou!

[@K-a-n-d-i-s]

The PlayStation start up noise !

[@Deleted11100]

@@K-a-n-d-i-s both 1 and 2!

[@1murkeybadmayn]

I'm probably only a few years older than you so when you say the early 2000s was still just as 90s as the early 90s, i get what you mean. I think that's because in the UK in the 2000s, a lot of the kid tv shows were American and we always seem to get them some years later than when they first aired lol. Saved By the Bell, My Wife and Kids and Recess are a few good examples of that.

[@AngusJones]

I did my GCSE’s in 2016, and did A levels in 2018 at the same school. It’s crazy to think that those days will once be 20-something years ago too.

[@ivybrownseco-cleaning4775]

It will happen quickly too 😅😢

[@jimijames6449]

Will go fast ha I left school in 2008. Feels like yesterday

[@DJreeik]

I’m doing my first year of a level. Maths, further maths, physics. I’ve looked at all the content for the subjects and physics by far seems the hardest, and probably is the hardest thing in this world.

[@hypermangi8265]

lmao@@DJreeik

[@tanymastey]

I went to this school in 2018 too, mightve seen u there

[@HansensUniverseT-A]

I freaking loved the 80s and 90s, they both had their unique bikes, both were colorful wild decades, certainly challenges like any other time in history but culturally and socially it was perfect, economy was better too, it's more than just innocent nostalgia, i genuinely miss simpler times, i find my self longing back more and more for each passing year, now the world has gone off the rails, everything just turned crazy in the last years.

[@jamesbarker2567]

I Know I So Much Want To Go Back In Time To The 90s And Good Old Days. Do You Think That There Is Any Hope Left For Humanity?? I Really Try To Optimistic But Pessimissm Takes Over.I Would Really Like The Thought Of A Time Machine Coming Into Being

[@MrFrancisehughes]

It's crazy how we're all in our 40s now. The amount of rebellious things we done in the 90's, some good and some bad. I guess it's a privilege too make it this far, that some sadly didn't make.

[@kae2762]

Love this! I was in year 8 at this point and you lot would have scared the shit out of me 😂

[@hollytab]

what an incredible group of people. so fun and chill and just having a great time 🩵

[@GregGNP]

Jeez how the World has changed since then. I left school at the end of the 80's and it wasn't much different to this but definitely happier times. Someone once said, less is more and I agree. We had less and therefore less to worry about and socially people were different. Another thing that got me watching this video is how fast the time has passed. It won't be long from now until this video will be a quarter of a century old. Maybe some day I'll make a video on the subject.

[@hetbet3879]

Im interested in how your school experience was. I left secondary school in 2021, and I am currently at college. Interested in how it was different. Our days are generally: Wake up Go school Come home Go on phone / computer Eat Sleep. I assume urs was probably more physical? and more kicked out the house for the day, park / swings, then go home to eat dinner and sleep?

[@adamkhan3421]

​@@hetbet3879I left 2014 so no much different from you

[@markmorris7123]

​@@hetbet3879I left school in 1996..It was way different than life today.. I promise you,, life was far better..You would always see people outside playing football or climbing trees,, people didn't play victims, mental health issues were virtually non existent. I believe everything began to change around 2010 ish

[@hetbet3879]

​@@markmorris7123 Yeah. I think it's got a lot worse. I mean there is still the different roles. You got the sportier kids outside playing football, or bulldog or rugby. Some of the nerdier kids just sit inside during break on laptops/phones, or outside on the floor. Some just eat and talk to friends while sat outside. Nobody climbs trees because at any school you're always told off for doing that, so nobody made any attempt to. Some people smoking and vaping. Well these were at least at secondary. Outside of school hours nobody goes outside. I mean sleepovers or going to friends houses sure, some parties too, but nobody really meets up in the parks. It's a shame. Lot of mental health issues, LGBTQ+ issues, racism issues brought up today. Also doesn't help with people sharing each others nudes, and all that. I've seen 3-4 cases when I was 11-16 of girls having their nude pictures and videos exposed by the boys they sent it too. It's a shame.

[@DarkAngel2512]

​@@hetbet3879I left school in 1995. When I came home we didnt have a computer to go on. We got home about 4pm and put th tv on which had 4 channels and kids programs when we got in. We'd relax eat and wait for our parenta to come home from work and make dinner. Id go to my room and read magazine and listen to music. Maybe make up a dance routine or phone a mate. Go to a friends house and watch a film. When your whole is replaced with social media all that is lost. When I left school until 2010s when social media and smartphones took over I went clubbing and hung out with mates, I was into dancing so would practice that and go to the gym. Write lyrics and walk my dog or go to visit family. Watched movies etc

[@gemma2195]

I miss the days when i walked to school with my walkman (for all you young ones thats a cassette tape) recording songs off the radio for free..i left school in 2001..thankyou for uploading this video and anyone in the video please leave a comment

[@darealpapajon]

This has to be very nostalgic looking back

[@Javiation77]

It is mate🥹

[@embisonjones4996]

My sister finished school exactly the same day back in 99 at Copland High School in Wembley. This brings back memories. Thank you for uploading.

[@GoldmineVideoLoot]

Thanks for uploading this. I left school in 1998, the world went downhill after the 90s. This is a special time capsule

[@DarkAngel2512]

Id say it was around late 2000s it went downhill. When smartphones came out

[@Mike-jv9cl]

@@DarkAngel2512 Yea that was definitely an impact, misuse of them, but a lot of other things went wrong then. 9/11, Iraq war, 2008 financial crash, to name a few.

[@obsidianwinters5857]

I don't know why the YT Algorithm decided i needed to see this, but I really did. Basically it's my school memories condensed in video form. Huge thanks from me to your past self for taping this!

[@metageist666]

three years after me in a different city but this could have been us. wow. so cool that you made this. I had a camcorder in '96, which was rare, but didn't ever think to bring it into school.

[@adamson786bi3]

OH MY GOD, This is so nostalgic and amazing...... Good production..... Like a movie... Really well done. As a pakistani born in Britain I have to say.... I noticed not one foreign person.. Not a bad thing,... Just saying.

[@folksurvival]

The genocide of the indigenous people has greatly accelerated since the 90s.

[@TrueNativeScot]

Shame about the ethnic cleansing done by you and your kind

[@vikinginspace4881]

This was the date I left High School in the UK. It brings back so much nostagia it's unreal. I can remember it was a gorgeous sunny day where I lived too

[@chidieberenwadike4165]

I'm a 2000s person and I know how bad social media has affected us

[@AllTheFours]

Damn, same time as me. I miss those days so much. That first year after leaving school and going into the big wide world was petrifying. I'd go back to these times in a heartbeat! ❤

[@hermanthetosser4219]

Many never caught these memories on film around the country... this is a taste of how it was before all the phones, social media etc

[@Javiation77]

So true 🤌🏻

[@smitajky]

How little things change. This could just as easily have been my last day at high school more than 30 years earlier. Everything looks so much the same. But I can remember the combination of feelings of a) freedom and b) the security blanket had been ripped from me and now I would be on my own.

[@ihopeicanchangethisnamelat7108]

Fucking finally someone isn’t talking about how everything’s different, when it all feels so familiar to me. Like the hairstyles are completely different but other than that this could be my last day of school this summer. It’s the most random things as well, like the writing on shirts especially, idk why that shocked me that that’s such an old tradition, but also the uniform modifications are exactly the same with the short tie and untucked short over the long skirt, the fucking science lab desks I feel like are exactly the same across every uk school to ever exist. AND THE TAPS the design is exactly the same across decades?? The windows on that other block that were just a series of large rectangles. Like my school got rebuilt a couple years back and they added those specific windows like is that some kind of necessity in all secondary schools everywhere? That moment where the teacher goes “can you stop the shouting now?” and they all start shouting louder. Like how is that half my mum’s lifetime ago and it’s all exactly the same.

[@markmorris7123]

​They said how it was the same as when they went to school 30 years earlier..Not today.. Schools and life in general is completely different today..To say otherwise is to be delusional

[@gitman3486]

@@markmorris7123 did you miss the part where ihopeicanchange~ said it could be this last summer too? Clearly they have only just finished school and they say it feels the same to them, so that's 50 years of familiarity if you add in smitajky's comment I get how people being always online has changed things but other than that kids are kids and have been the same forever.

[@mindedchaos]

@@ihopeicanchangethisnamelat7108 if you wasnt around before the internet you wouldnt understand

[@jeongbun2386]

That’s what I’m saying! The “good old days” are just older people wanting to go back to when they were teens and were happier, it all still exists for us teens now. This “social media” panic is so overstated.

[@May-gr8bp]

Blast from the past. School hasn't really changed now, in 2023 this video is still incredibly familiar to me. It's so odd that all of these teens from this video are adults in their 40's now.

[@Anonymous-kq8oh]

It’s scary how fast life goes. I am 40 now so I would be the same age as this lot. Definitely got to be in Essex, proper cockney English accents…..I felt like I was watching a scene from Grange Hill 😂

[@donna-elizabeth]

​@@Anonymous-kq8ohI remember Harlow college was mentioned in the video 👏

[@folksurvival]

​@@Anonymous-kq8ohMany cockneys moved to Essex but obviously cockney is not an Essex accent.

[@Anonymous-kq8oh]

@@folksurvival I know the original cockney accent came from the east end of London….around Whitechapel etc. sound of the bow bells.

[@Anonymous-kq8oh]

@@donna-elizabeth calm down love….no need to get a bit sarky with “👏🏻” I didn’t see it the Harlow bit in there 😂

[@grahamkelly8662]

I left school this year. Hits hard. Wish I could go back to this time. Life was much better.

[@jamesbarker2567]

So Do I So Do I

[@gavinstuart3446]

you were so present in the moment. No phones or scrolling on tiktok. You just made daft conversation, and you actually read books. Asking my brother if i could turn off the lights and hed always say one more chapter. Its so sad how its nearly impossible to replicate that now. When you watch these you realise just how much social media has had an impact. Like you came home and you were so chill, running about outside knocking on your mates door constantly, not a are in the world, not worrying about an instagram pic or how you looked.

[@MrBubbles-lt8sv]

Dont know about you but thats exactly how it is today (except for the reading books part😂) A lot of schools dont allow phones unless its a special day. Everybody still does the things you say pal😂

[@gavinstuart3446]

@@MrBubbles-lt8sv what are you on about? People don't just hand there phones in. They keep them in there pockets. Their evenings spent scrolling on social media. You just need to book at a graph and see the upshoot in depression and stress since social edia was introduced. Now when in their own rooms instead of reading they'll be scrolling to midnight. Also no one is present anymore more. You sit down to watch a movie and everyone still stares at their phones. So no, life is very different pal.

[@gavinstuart3446]

just look at the rest of the comments. @@MrBubbles-lt8sv

[@MrBubbles-lt8sv]

@@gavinstuart3446 take it from the one who's still in school instead whatever things you come up with in your head. Yeah people have phones but they aren't on them all the time. All kids still do the exact things you described in your original comment, just with the addition of phones. Everyone goes out and plays and has daft conversation and whatever else you used to do, admittedly phones and other devices take up a lot of time, but it isn't like we're all zombies forever locked to our phones unable to move and if we are we have a mental breakdown 😂 And people still cared about what they looked like back then too so I don't know what you're on about with that😂😂

[@gavinstuart3446]

@@MrBubbles-lt8sv Take it from someone who has lived with out phones and now has a smartphone. You have no idea how diferent it was.😂😂😂 And just how beter it was to. You'll never know because you have grown up with a screen in your face😂😂

[@galaxytb147]

When KZbin, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok were not a thing. Man how times have changed

[@NicolasPetrosLanning]

What about Facebook, Pinterest, Twitch, Reddit and Discord?

[@Thebrightonexplorerxc]

My God, I miss my youth I remember graduating school around June 1999 and I have very fond memories of my school years. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@loganblackwood2922]

Around the same for me, we had a lad from Preston in our class. Lol

[@TheGebs24]

I left school in 1999 too. I hope everyone in this video is doing well and happy

[@grahamkelly8662]

Same here. I see your name and was like, ah I know you. Well on KZbin. I’ve watched a fair amount of your gaming videos in the past. Do you agree that back in the 90’s life was much better? My main problem with modern times, is the bloody internet and phone plus internet, makes us all brain dead morons. When I was a teen in the 90’s, I’d go school, come home, play videogames, watch tv, go out with friends. I remember meeting up with friends on weekend and having a great time. Like back in the day, I did stuff. If I was bored, I do the rhings I listed, above but nowadays, I’m addicted to my iPhone and it’s really getting me down. Like I can’t concentrate, I can’t sit and watch tv without constantly picking up my fone and I only realised that I have a problem, recently, due to seeing phone addiction videos on KZbin. Anyway sorry for the life story. Hope you’re doing well. 👍

[@d4wdl3]

@@grahamkelly8662 I've never been a teen in the 90s, but I'd argue that it wasn't as good of a time as you think. Maybe you're biased. The 90s looked cool, sure. But the resurgence of racism certainly kills the vibe, don't you think? Especially after the Rodney King case in 1991. Slow internet, too, really slow. Those rotary phones don't look all that fun either, especially with all those telemarketers you'd have to ring back to get put on a "no call" list. Also, what was up with the rise of chronic illness? Seriously, allergies, eczema, asthma, diabetes and other chronic illnesses decided to skyrocket. Also, the economic depression didn't seem so great. Other than that, I'm sure it was a lovely time to be alive. Unless you were a minority.

[@grahamkelly8662]

@@d4wdl3 how old are you? I can assure you, it was great and FYI in my whole 5 years in secondary school and I never heard any racism. Back then people just got on with each other and in person. Now people act tough online . Rotary phone? Please 😁

[@d4wdl3]

@grahamkelly8662 Right! I forget that everywhere was predominantly white, so why would you hear of any racism? I assume you're not gay either so, homophobia is off the table. So, no rotary phone either? Must've had a landline, though, and those telemarketers would've been ringing a bunch. I think it sucks that if you didn't get someone's number, you might never speak to them ever again. I'm glad I have instagram.

[@grahamkelly8662]

@@d4wdl3 erm no! Why so angry and argumentative? London has always been multicultural and if you must know, most of my friends wasn’t white. A mix of Indian, Pakistani,Chinese, and black , Do you want names of my non white friends? Ok, sure Chan Wing wing Alex Peter Ruhel Abdul Salam Abdul Kalime Thomas Justin There is probably a few more. As my secondary school was actually mixed race and mainly ASIAN. You really need to stop spreading misinformation and lies.

[@GeminiDrive]

6:42 "Is this for your own private viewing?" "Yep." 😆

[@martin_the_artist_]

Damn, this is crazy. I also left in 99, good times. The Essex accents make it feel like it could almost have been my school

[@daztastic147]

The effort it must have taken to carry a camcorder all day and manage the batteries, credit due 🙌

[@bls3746]

I always took my camcorder to school lol loads of people did. Mine was only a small one

[@healingandgrowth-infp4677]

They plug in too and there is always spare batteries on hand, never known a camcorder to go down so fast as they make out in movies tho. They usually last many hours. Many aren’t that heavy either just uncomfortable to hold.

[@bodazephyr6629]

Camcorders were already pretty small and light by 1999.

[@mjaf03]

Hairstyles to die for…. proper 90s 😂

[@1murkeybadmayn]

i swear it was like every one was in a boyband back then 😆

[@nickg2117]

Lol the curtains. I had curtain hair cut in 95 😂😂

[@peachesmcgee4795]

Aw,i enjoyed this.Looks like a really friendly class. The lads reminded me of the ones to went to school with (80s and early 90s)clowning about and doing silly voices!

[@0292-q3l]

bet most of these dont even talk to eachother anymore.. at least its this way for me, sad reality is when you leave school, you're on your own, in this totally different world to the one you see when you go to school. What id give to go back in time and do it all again and make the most of it. Miss my old school friends, I hope they're all doing ok.

[@thedappercook]

Absolutely magic times. You could say and do anything without people being offended or butthurt. The 90s were incredible.

[@Novakii]

its crazy i finished school 10 years ago and this is honestly almost a 1 to 1 of how my last day of school was, its like a weird blast from the past haha

[@Chris-bd6uc]

Definitely wouldn't be anywhere ear what your last day of school was like lol

[@Novakii]

it absolutely was, i went to a school in the same sort of area, the literal only difference was that we were recording on mobile phones, everything else was basically the same, right down to the behaviour @@Chris-bd6uc

[@ShaylaLove21]

Looks cool! Sadly my experience of school was very negative with a lot of bullying and anxiety . I really hope my kids have a last day like this x

[@TheCrusader1000]

Best school video ive seen. I was of the class of 91. School was a buzz back then. Just think all of them students there will be near 30 now. Id love a follow up to this video. Back in the day when you filmed stuff on camcorders and not phones 😂

[@SuperYtc1]

40 lol. I take it you didn’t like maths at school. xD

[@charliecharliewhiskey9403]

Time flies faster than that, I finished school in 2007 and I'm 32 now. These kids in the video are pushing 40 now.

[@DarkAngel2512]

They will be 40

[@lindseyscott3011]

The Spice Girls influence is real.

[@kamtheo9774]

I love footage of the 90’s it brings you back to a time of bliss

[@garethcantrill2449]

I know exactly how I found this video, and I come back and watch it once a year, just to remind me what life was like at school. This is one week before I left. Brings back memories. Oh to go back.

[@mathewnicholls5881]

That old guy she said hello to near the park is probably long gone. Doubt his family even knows this recording exists.

[@grumblekin]

I graduated a couple of years before and the naïve innocence really was how we were. God I miss those days

[@May-gr8bp]

I finished year 11 two months ago... looking back at the same kind of thing 23 years ago is mental

[@healingandgrowth-infp4677]

Year 11 I think schools today are mental grades are a b c too what grading is that ? Why has schools today turned into America. It’s year 4 not 11.

[@Twilight.xchange]

@@healingandgrowth-infp4677what?

[@EthanolEnthusiast]

A load of shite now isn't it!

[@royalheratik2726]

Depression in the 90s especially at school age wasn't really a thing,yes we got sick of the system but never got depressed or anxious,unlike now,with phones and social media...im from the 90s school and this is very comforting.

[@joemcconnell2674]

The reason for that is bad news did happen but nobody knew about it as much. The reason teens don't watch the news. But now with tablets and laptops every time you put these devices on it hits you in the face. This is going to happen. Then another disease from China.

[@campbell4show]

4:26 20+ years now hope she's doing well.

[@Charliestrife01]

5:35 how fucking cruel. Literally everyone commenting how these were better times and idiots. It was still fucked up in its own ways back then it’s just different now.

[@willbentley8856]

People were meaner back then. Ask any teacher who's taught for more than 20 years and they'll tell you how bad it used to be.

[@Christ4King]

Who cares, at least they knew what gender they are.

[@gaulstonedog4633]

Grow a pair

[@nintenpowah]

@@Christ4King and why are you bringing something up that's completely irrelevant???

[@ThomasCorfield-r4n]

Exaclty. In thirty years' time they'll be saying the same things about today.

[@charlwants2]

Real people in real times 😢😊 Being authentic was respected 🎉 gone are those real days baby! ❤

[@CHRISlovesENGLAND]

I didnt leave until the year after i hated school but i miss it now so much. Before your 18 you cant wait to grow up then you turn 18 it flys by and you wish you could go back. I hope these girls are successful or simply happy in life 😊

[@Mike-jv9cl]

Know your feeling 100%. I’m early 30s, when I was 18 primary school was the distant past, now the days of being 18 seem like such a short time ago

[@runninrebel1520]

I want to go back to 1980 and live on from there.

[@Draftspike]

id rather be born in 1968 and spend my teens in the 80s

[@paareth]

I did but time still ticks on :D Good time to be a kid though. You got to be a kid without all the targets, tests and hoops they have to jump through now.

[@summere22]

@@Draftspike my dad was born 1966, and he has so many great stories (also he looked amazing when he was 19 LMFAO)

[@8valve]

@@Draftspike Yes, that would be great or teen in the 70s

[@healingandgrowth-infp4677]

@@summere22 crazy someone famous was born 66 n mights looked amazing at 19 …

[@JLee..]

This video is gold ❤ made me smile :) such great memories of school, I was 13 in 1999

[@Devineintention]

Emotional. The simpler times. Before everything changed. Videos like these are so important.

[@folksurvival]

@@stefen4134 "What on Earth a terrorist attack in America, or immigration, has to do with how technology has evolved and how society has changed in the last 3 decades, i'll never know" You mean you're pretending not to know.

[@YOUTHOCD]

@FinbarrOSleibhin Good lord, how old are you? Do you genuinely believe “large-scale immigration” began in 2000? 😂

[@kevvo26]

This is brilliant , I left school in 97 so was pretty much identical to this . Wish i had footage of my last days at school.

[@Javiation77]

Yup🤌🏻

[@PhoenixReturns]

Really hope you regret and have grown from being disgusting towards 'ugly people' was surprised when the camera turned around on you and you had the cheek to say stuff about others tbh. Apart from that, amazing that you captured this from the 90's, so little footage like this around, really was the spitting image of my own school years, almost felt like the same school even though it wasnt.

[@kathleendowner6506]

Agree

[@TheOnlyBiodude]

We be talking like old grannies already. Back in my days there was no fridge, we just dug a hole, piled it in and hoped for the best!

[@carlmaster9690]

I was only three years old in 1999, and I, who started primary school in 2001, generally feel like this occurred in 2013, when I left school! Other than updates to technology between 1999 and 2013, it is exactly how my school looked and all the kids, who all seem extremely familiar, despite not knowing any of them, act exactly like me and my friends! Nostalgia!

[@roxy7528]

Exactly and they're saying we came from monkeys 😆💀🙏✝️

[@ColinHammond94]

How did you finish school in 2013? I'm born in 1994 and finished school 2012 and I stayed back 1 year

[@mawangshallhang]

@@ColinHammond94I was born 97 and finished 2013

[@ColinHammond94]

@@mawangshallhang I'm in ireland we do 8 years in primary school then 5 years in secondary

[@MP-mr8rj]

So nice you have this footage, I left school in 97, 90s was sooo cool!❤

[@pennybunny]

I left school in 96 and this brings back memories

[@TheFunfairfan]

Don’t know how I found this but I was born in 1984 so left school the year after!! Back in the day no one was glued to their phone!

[@Rumblenuk]

Last of the cockney style London before everyone started to sound like Topboy. I left in 98 and noticed it started to arrive by the time I started uni in 01

[@easiers]

I wish I could've paid to relive my life and grow up in an area where everything was like this, no need for phones n such just everyone getting along having a good time with amazing energy.

[@wheedler]

If only every day could be the last day of school.

[@spuddy98]

Meeting up with friends after school, going down to the park or round a friends house to play N64, ah the good old days.

[@bensmithkent22]

Proper lower middle class suburbs judging from those detatched and semi yards. Lots of greenery but Laaaandaaan accents. What area is this

[@royfr8136]

why does everyone look about 25?

[@AL-jo2vp]

I was still in primary school in 1999, but this video takes me back to the pre social media, pre-smart phone days. Pre 9/11 even. We had the choice of Myspace or Bebo during our GSCES, maybe some of us in Year 11 had moved from CD players to basic mp3 players. Still remember my teacher saying we wouldn't have advanced calculators in our pockets...then basically around that time the iPhone was released 😆

[@Mike-jv9cl]

I remember MySpace and Bebo! Had a MySpace although I mainly used MSN Messenger. Social media has its perks but there is so much discrimination there sadly, and sometimes it’s just completely unavoidable.