GEN Z Kid Reacts ‘If you Grew Up In the 1980s You’ll remember this’ (NO WAY!)

[@randyc1421]

"Video Killed the Radio Star", by " The Buggles", was the very first video ever played when MTV went on-air.

[@FloridaManRacer]

In the US you would be correct. On MTV Europe in 1987, Money For Nothing by Dire Straits was the first video aired...

[@belkyhernandez8281]

Making a mix tape means getting one cassette. Sitting by the radio for days. Waiting for the radio station to play the song you want at some random time. Catching it from beginning to end (because remember you don't know when the radio will play it). Recording it just right. And collecting several of these songs on one mix tape. So it might take you weeks to catch all the songs you want. People would give these away to their sweethearts as presents or share back and forth with their friends. They were really appreciated since we all understood the work, thought, and patience it took to collect the right group of songs. This is why we have such sentimental feelings about our collection of mix tapes.

[@twinklemagic024]

Don’t forget screaming at the DJ, when they talked through the entire intro of a song. 😂

[@laurabailey1054]

I still hve my mixed tapes

[@moonglow630]

Or, the way I did it, was having a boombox or stereo system with 2 cassette decks that allowed you to record from one to another, so you could put all your favs on one cassette, or even songs from your CD player.

[@sddRd68]

Mtv was all we wanted!!! KZbin wasn’t an option, no smart phone, no internet, no instant anything and you wouldn’t have known anything different than we did and it was EXCITING when you heard the song you were wanting to hear. ❤

[@EmmaBadOne]

I guess you didn't have MuchMusic. Sad.

[@DoktorLorenz]

We 80s kids in the didn't get MTV until 1989 when Sky Satellites came on the market and some lucky kids had parents who paid for it and those of us who'd parents were like I'm not putting a dish on my house, so we had just 4 TV channels. My dad finally got sky in 1999 when Sky digital did a deal and by then I was 22 lol.

[@AngelaGoodwin-fh6fw]

I think you'd like "The Breakfast Club".

[@spruce381]

Defo.

[@spruce381]

Very yank. Me and my buddy, both 8, left our road after breakfast, jumped on buses, to the other side of the city, had an adventure, bus back - home at 5pm. So good.

[@gdhaney136]

A defining 80's film about current culture. I recently watched with a younger person and they were shocked by some of the dialogue. I just missed the old days.

[@tdstellar5218]

I was going to suggest that too😂😂😂

[@jenniferclark8051]

Definitely Breakfast Club

[@marcilk7534]

To be clear, Michael Jackson was a star before his videos. But his videos (short films) changed music videos forever.

[@katiemcleod]

Ok to help clear up some confusion, the cassette tape + pencil thing: sometimes the magnetic ribbon that the songs got recorded on would get pulled out of the cassette, and a pencil was the perfect size and shape to fit into the tape reels to wind the tape back into the cassette. So the pencil acted like a sort of makeshift hex wrench. Also you should DEFINITELY watch The Breakfast Club. Hands down, one of the best movies of the 1980s.

[@jennl7099]

Born in 1968, kid in the 70’s, teenager in the 80’s……it was AWESOME ! Love your videos !

[@misslora3896]

1969... It was the best!

[@JimK03.]

I'm a '68 baby too. Being a teen in the 80's was amazing. I feel bad for kids these days. Yeah, they have all the tech, but none of the fun we had.

[@England-Bob]

67 blend here. Who else remembers waking up on Saturday before the tv broadcast started😂 ?

[@harolddorsey9179]

I'm 2 years older than you. I put it as born in 1966, raised in the 70s, partied in the 80s what a time we had.😅😅😅

[@laurabailey1054]

I was born in 1966.

[@timafterhours7062]

5:00- Cabage Patch Dolls When these dolls came out, people went INSANE over them! Grown adults, mothers, grand mothers, aunti's were beating, scratching, biting, pulling hair, total insanity! There were evening news coverages showing adults dogpiled ontop of each other fighting over these dolls at Christmas time! ❤

[@Cocreatewithus]

Lol that's exactly why my family never went Black Friday shopping!

[@Cocreatewithus]

The 1980s was definitely a magical time.

[@GloveGunofficial]

I wrote a song about going back to those days, would you like to hear it?

[@mcm0324]

Graduated from hig😮h school in 1988! I had that hair and loved it! My three kids are all Millenials (the youngest is 27 - she's a mix!) We had so much fun. The 80s were a great time to be a teenager!I'm so glad I grew up then. No cell phones, no internet, no social media! We were actually with our friends all the time with no video of what we were doing! Plus, as long as we came home uninjured when they said - they really didn't care. Most of our parents were Baby Boomers - they were in high school and college in the 60s! They were the best! I really believe growing up in the 60s, 70s, and 80s were the best times!

[@laurabailey1054]

My parents were from the silent generation they were in their 20’s and working. They had me in 1966.

[@GloveGunofficial]

I wrote a song about going back to those days, would you like to hear it?

[@stevenwilson805]

If cassette tapes confused you, 8 tracks and lp albums would blow your mind.

[@KaidenOrgana]

Or a road map. lol The addiction to the phone is worse than being addicted to heroin, and these people are truly useless without a phone.

[@jono8884]

A mix tape is simply a collection of songs that you carefully recorded in order of play....as you do today with Spotify etc.

[@AmyNance-k1n]

I was born September 1st, 1971. I graduated June 3rd, 1989. I left for the United States Navy 36 days after graduation and I am a Desert Shield/Desert Storm veteran! ALL of the good, ALL of the bad, NO changes, I WOULD DO IT ALL AGAIN ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@dana-dane]

I miss those days. I'm not afraid to say I'm in my 50's. The 80's we're awesome❤❤❤❤

[@GloveGunofficial]

I wrote a song about going back to those days, would you like to hear it?

[@phoebewoodruff1101]

Mixtapes are basically what we had instead of playlists before music could affordably be stored digitally. But, like, playlists on old Twitter--instead of a character limit, it was a time limit.

[@lazgen]

The popular cassette tape sizes were 60, 90 and 120 minutes. The longer the tape the more likely it would break. But you could put music on them to hand off to your girl to let her know how you were feeling, since it was unpopular to actually tell her how you felt. I miss the 80's. It really was a wild and crazy fun time.

[@Cocreatewithus]

My husband and i have well over a hundred dvds, and continue buying them. Streaming is something we do very rarely, and didn't exist at all back then. I miss VHS, because back in the day we had soooo many movies, and once VCRs phased out completely, we couldn't watch them anymore.

[@desmien679]

Blockbuster wasn't so popular in the 80s and didn't become so known until the 90s. For video rentals in the 80s, people went to small privately owned "mom and pop" video rental locations or 20/20 Video. The smaller locations started going out of business as more Blockbusters started popping up in the 90s. I honestly preferred the smaller ones over Blockbuster due to the relationship between the customer and the employees that worked in them which only had a few working there, similar to what you'd have at the local market or corner store. It was a place you frequently visited and got to know those working there and better interactions with. This changed with Blockbuster when people started going there for the larger selections and stopped interacting with those working there. This is also something that ended with the 80s and started becoming more frequent in the 90s and 2000s. People used to interact with each other more especially neighbors, now it's less common for people to do this. Garbage Pail Kids were these cards kind of similar to baseball cards or other collectible cards that depicted pictures of cartoon kids in very gross and morbid situations that were also comic. These pictures were also a sticker that could be peeled off the card and put on a door or other surface in your room. I recommend looking them up. Another popular item in the 80s and I haven't seen any videos mentioning these, was a surf clothing line called T&C Surf, the shirts were what was popular with a Ying Yang symbol on the front corner of the shirt and the back having a cartoonish depiction of surfing. This also led to a videogame being made for the NES. Another popular style that kids wore in the 80s and this was from the rigorous activities we did, were jeans that had tears especially at the knees. These tears were treated as a badge of honor from a very active childhood. Later on clothing companies started making jeans with these tears but buying them was frowned upon, the tears had to be earned. Claymation was very different from the animation used in Toy Story (CG animation). Claymation was very time consuming which involved making figures out of clay and taking a photograph. You then slightly moved the figures and took another photograph. A single motion could possibly take hundreds of pictures and hours just to do. A poplar claymation cartoon series was Gumby along with Davey and Goliath.

[@IggyStardust1967]

I was channel surfing the night MTV began broadcasting. They were halfway through the first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star", so I stopped to watch and see what this was. Technically, we DID have "music videos" prior to MTV going on the air, but they could only be seen during specific shows on either Friday or Saturday night. I about flipped when I saw that MTV was going to run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When they debuted they only about 160 music videos in all, so there was a lot of repetition for the first few months. Once the record companies realized that MTV was a hit, they began investing in creating music videos for the bands they had signed to them. Not only were they making advertising revenue each time a song played (like the radio), but it increased sales of both albums and 45 RPM singles. I turned 13 in 1980, and found out that the pool hall/arcade across the street from my house was owned by my friend's parents. I practically lived there from 1980 until it burned down in 1984. I did odd jobs around the place, in order to get free games. After the fire, I helped the family move the games and pool tables out, and into their storage area. For that work, I was given one of the arcade games, "Lunar Lander". It was in the back room the night of the fire, so was pretty much intact with only a light "smokey" odor to it. Many years later (2016), they still had the game "Pole Position", and wanted to get rid of it. If I wanted it, all I had to do was remove it from their garage and off of their property. Needless to say, I still have it. I also managed to find a couple of other games in the 2010s, so I currently have a total of 4 original 1980s arcade games. Lunar Lander and Pole Position from the arcade I pretty much lived at back in the early 1980s, Super Pac-Man, which I bought from my son's friend's parents, and a Dig Dug cocktail table that I found on Facebook for sale really cheap. All 4 cabinets are in my dining room, because there was no other place to put them. If you ever needed proof that my wife loves me, those refrigerator sized games that weigh in excess of 300 pounds each being in our dining room is it. I have a small "walkthrough" video up on my channel, if you doubt me. =D

[@Cocreatewithus]

In about 1986 or 87, my parents gave my sister and I $50 each for Christmas. That was huge back then, especially since we were poor. They told us we could either spend it individually, or combine it. It took 2 seconds for us to announce we would combine it and buy a Nintendo set! It was just under $100, very expensive back then.

[@gdhaney136]

I was a teen all throughout the 80's. Best time ever, and sometimes, a song will come on, and remind me of thoughts and feelings I had back then, and I get teary. Ah, life - enjoy every moment, because in 20 years, you'll have the best nostalgia.

[@johnathansaegal3156]

A mixtape was ONE cassette tape with a mixture of your favorite songs you recorded from the radio. We had many different cassette tapes that had a theme of various songs.

[@madsquishy3410]

A mix tape is a blank cassette tape that you buy from the store, then you record songs onto it from the radio until it's full and can't hold anymore songs. Then you write the names of all the songs on there so you don't forget which songs you already have. That's a mixtape lol. You would sit in front of the radio just waiting for your favorite song to come on so you could hit record real quick and record it onto your tape. If you were really smart, you would start the tape off by hitting record but then immediately hit the pause button. Then when your song came on, you just hit the pause button again to unpause it so it would record the song but without that loud sound at the beginning from hitting the record button. Then you'd pause it again and wait for the next song. That's how you got the smoothest transition from song to song on the tape. 😉

[@Angi_Mathochist]

Didn't have to be from the radio. Many were from albums that you had or borrowed. The radio was a cheap way of getting recordings of songs that you didn't have albums for. It was annoying though, because a lot of the time you'd end up with DJ talk over at least one end of the song.

[@Sadlander2]

I had completely forgotten about this but you're right about the pause button! If you wanted to avoid that noise, you never used to stop button in between songs you wanted to record. Only at the end of the tape.

[@madsquishy3410]

@@Sadlander2 Haha exactly!!!

[@shaughnsimpson441]

The best way Ive described it to the generations that have never used them in my workplace, Its like opening a black picture file, then copy + pasting your favourite other pictures in to make a collage, but with music. They got that.

[@madsquishy3410]

Growing up in the 80s video? Let's GO!!!!!

[@debneuweiler9867]

The thing about the cereals in the 70s-80s was there was always a toy in the box…kids would beg their parents to buy it just for the toy

[@tanyahendricks8465]

Yeah, I know I did. My mom didn’t like buying it because of the sugar…but she usually bought it anyway.

[@amandamccallum6796]

This is my first decade of life, born in 81' and so often I wish kids today could have just a taste of the freedom we had. Also, what parents did to get us those prize gifts like the cabbage patch doll made us appreciate it THAT much more. I still remember that my dad was a long distance bus driver for a company like Greyhound and all the drivers went to the store in their hometown to try and get cabbage patch dolls for the parents of kids that wanted them. I was the only kid in my friend group who was able to get one that Christmas 🎄 there was no online ordering, you had to get to a store that had them before they sold out. Mixtapes: think of making a Playlist for your girlfriend but to do it you have to wait for each song to come on the radio and hit the record button on time. You could have a certain amount of minutes recorded on each side of the cassette tape so you didn't want to run out of tape halfway through a good song.

[@rachelbrown506]

This was kids born in the 80s... I graduated 88. This was mostly my little cousins & kids I babysit. GenX were kids during the 70s - we were more feral. 😂

[@ThornyLittleFlower]

I think you would be interested in looking up the documentary series UP. The "UP" series of documentary films follows the lives of ten boys and four girls in England, beginning in 1964, when they were seven years old. The first film was titled Seven Up!, with later films adjusting the number in the title to match the age of the subjects at the time of filming. The documentary has had nine episodes-one every seven years-thus spanning 56 years. The series was produced by Granada Television for ITV. Its on Yt. as The 7 Up Series documentary by Stone's Adventure and has all episodes right up to 63UP (2019)

[@paulagreen427]

My mom was so happy when I told her that I didn’t want a cabbage patch doll for Christmas and thought they were ugly! Lol

[@raspberrybellini]

Gen X in the UK has differences from US Gen X. Our generation name was Gen X.The Jilted Generation. Some things translate from US to UK like pop culture but our experiences are a little different because being a different culture we had different struggles. However, I think being Gen X felt like being in an exclusive clique.

[@garylogan3640]

I graduated from high school in 85

[@unlikeavirgin]

Your attention would be altered because you would have had less distractions. Music, movies, and malls were our lives.

[@asmrmentalhealth6471]

52 here love the 80s

[@adamnichol4526]

The late 80s saw CDs go on sale. Stereo systems starter to have a cd player, vinyl player and one or two cassette decks. This allowed recording from any of those onto a cassette tape, eliminating the need to await radio playing the song you wanted. It also sparked a whole playground pirate industry in selling copies of the new release

[@AttackChefDennis]

I come from a big Irish family of 7 siblings and I'm the last kid, the baby of the family. So you can imagine: not a lot of Xtra cash around. Saturday night after dinner, entertainment was a 3 hour card game playing session that inevitably ended up being hilarious. I hated being made to play when i was young but now I miss it, since M&D both passed. After I graduated High school, on my summer breaks from the University of Florida, 2 of my friends, Ron and Murph, would come to my house on Fri and Sat,evenings and we'd play at least 2 complete games of "OH HELL!!!!!. A real fun Spades like game where at least 1 person usually gets screwed over every hand. Then we'd say goodnight to my parents and head out for some bar hoping

[@msjackson509]

This was an 80s/90s combo

[@AntaresSelket]

I would really like to see your Dad pop a cassette in a boom box and give you a tutorial on how to use them and wind them up after the ribbon got tangled. I still have a boom box and cassettes from my childhood. I still listen to some of them to this day.

[@Sadlander2]

On MTV, sometimes, they would dedicate a whole weekend to a specific band, show interviews of the band and all their videos...but even then, they also played videos from other bands and this was a great way to discover bands and songs that you didn't know.

[@darthtaiter]

Have questions about the hairstyles in the 80S? Well the higher the Hair, the closer to Heaven baby.

[@mikeorclem]

I spent a lot of time, money and effort childproofing my house... but the kids still get in.

[@reignofbastet]

😂😂

[@Darkphoenix3450]

You got to watch the breakfast Club.

[@adelia988]

I wish there were more of these type of videos but based in Britain as although similar it was quite different in the 1970s and 1980s in the uk

[@misslora3896]

MTV was so awesome in the early years. And it caused a whole new mania in America for British bands that hadn't been seen since the Beatles... Duran Duran were a HUGE one... 1983-85 every inch of my bedroom walls were covered in posters of them. It was truly a great decade to be a teenager. Though I wouldn't have minded at all being a teen during the 70's either... they had some of the greatest music of all time. It's what I've listened to almost exclusively most of my adult life.

[@KaidenOrgana]

Garbage Pail Kids is a series of sticker trading cards produced by the Topps Company, originally released in 1985 and designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, which were popular at the time. The story goes, Topps wanted to make Cabbage Patch Kids cards, but were shot down, thus Garbage Pail Kids were born.

[@AmyNance-k1n]

WOW, they missed a few sitcoms. The Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, Welcome Back Cotter, Silverspoons, Different Strokes, 🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤

[@miguelbotelho2613]

I remember all the video games arcade machines, and ...I’m not sure if this was done in the US or UK, but in Canada at least in my province of Ontario, we use to have $2 dollar Tuesday at the theatres so Tuesday movie theatres were packed, Arcades, movies, partying and Music video, fun times.

[@dana-dane]

I still have my Smurf figurines.

[@tanya_loves_u]

me too xo.

[@AmyNance-k1n]

First music video on MTV? Video Killed The Radio Star, so wish I could go back! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@elizabethseals2001]

I remember working at Movie Gallery when I was in high school. When they first started being in DVDs, I didn't think they would catch on. 😂 I LOVED Sweet Valley Twins books.

[@uncuttfunk]

I remember exactly where I was when MTV came out…we had Friday Night Videos before that🤣 the good ol days…before we all figured out the system has been designed to work against us.

[@AmyNance-k1n]

Parachute pants were 🔥!

[@allenruss2976]

I was a teenager in the 80s. Those cereals are still around and we were just discovering MTV. The cereals still needed a couple of spoonfuls of sugar. Dvds were still years away. These were VHS tapes. Those books were all girls books.

[@tanyahendricks8465]

I just turned 50 last month. And yes, this was also my childhood. I’m so thankful I was able to enjoy the 80’s. It really does seem like a magical time now.

[@torquaymouse2236]

check out the Breakfast club, great film from the 80's

[@edwardlongshanks827]

The Smurfs actually started as a comic by a Belgian going by the name Peyo (Pierre Culliford) in 1958. Watching Saturday morning cartoons was a thing in the '60s and '70s as well, though the merchandising cartoons was nowhere near as big as it got in the '80s. The cereals were also much the same in the '60s and '70s. I ate a lot of Cap'n Crunch for breakfast in the late '60s. Mix tapes were made by playing songs on records or, later CDs, and recording them on to a cassette. Most cassette tapes could hold either 60 or 90 mins of music (30 or 45 min per side). A Sony Walkman was the first truly portable cassette player that was slightly smaller than a paperback book and ran on batteries. It held one cassette and you had to pop it out, turn it over, and reinsert into the Walkman to hear the other side of the cassette. It would be something like listening to a playlist of songs that you created on your phone. That thing with speakers you see by the kid's feet is not a Walkman. It is what was commonly called a boombox though it is a rather small one.

[@BeeHave595]

80s cartoons are the best. Thundercats and the xmen were the best. We had the best cereals, the best mall pizza, We were feral and loved it. The 80s were an amazing decade. I love the music to.

[@The07mustang]

Hey J, I didn’t go through your whole library, but if you’re in to classics, try Bob Seger! Won’t be disappointed. Try Night Moves! You’ll love it. G

[@annastayja]

My favorite bob song is trying to live my life without you babe

[@delikonthree]

"Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles was the very first music video on MTV. Another fun fact is that the tv show and band of the 1960s The Monkees was credited as the precursor and inventor of the music video and MTV.

[@johnpaulbacon8320]

Nice video. There was so much for us to experience. It's hard to imagine not being a part of this time.

[@jamesreese4170]

The biggest difference between the 70s and 80s was media. 70s was radio, 8 tracks, vinyl albums and live concerts and some TV. By the 80s almost every house had a TV. By the end of the 80s a lot of people had cable (still only about 30 channels) video games, and the sound systems became more portable with boom boxes, walkmans with cassettes. While the radio was still very popular it started to lose ground to cassettes and in the 90s even more so CDs. Live concerts became bigger and less frequent as they moved to bigger arenas vs playing school gyms and community centers that was more common in the 60's and early 70s. Then MTV brought the concerts to your living room.

[@trenesarhodes2883]

Life was different for us.

[@evilj1x733]

A mix tape is when you record a playlist onto a cassette

[@dixieland1641]

The 80s dude. Miss it I wanna go back

[@jeremiahrose4681]

Yep, Saturday morning were must watch cartoons. So, fun.

[@ThePoetFury]

These are fun videos, keep them coming!!

[@flamingpieherman9822]

I just got to let you know that there are two types of Gen X... Old Gen. X and those that are around 40 something... To me there are two totally different groups. The younger group still knows what a regular telephone looks like and they got to enjoy some of our shows even on reruns... But unless you were born in the mid-60s to the early '70s, you just don't get the freedom that we had. And it wasn't feral breeding. It was just freedom! It's the same freedom our parents before us had the freedom to be a kid and to explore and then live in a world that was not perfect. But you knew you can pretty much trust next door neighbor and when a person shook your hand, that meant something. We were the very last generation and I would say up to 1973 or 74 that can understand that kind of morality.... Those who are born in 1979 1982 wouldn't understand how how things were

[@b.w.6535]

There was a Garbage Pail Kids movie; it would be soooo entertaining to see you react to it.

[@madyooper8231]

Man, I remember my sister and her damn Aqua Net hairspray, (we're talking spray paint sized cans}, clouding up the whole house just to make her 'big hair'. The front of it always reminded me of a billboard, it was so high. #flexer

[@delikonthree]

You'd just reminded me about the time when I'd watched the Roast of Dee Snider when Mr. Florentine Roasted Lita Ford by saying that she made love to so many 80s rock stars that when she went to her gynecologist he found a can of Aqua Net in her vagina.

[@cup_cuppy_cuppers5817]

RE: breakfast cereal - My favorite cereal as a kid was Quisp, it is pictured @3:47. It's the blue box on the lower shelf. Quisp wasn't any different from Cap'n Crunch except in the shape: Quisp was flying saucers and Cap'n Crunch is squares.

[@glennallen239]

I was born in 1964 the last year of the Baby Boomers. I am 60 years old an I joined the North Carolina Army National Guard on my 17th Birthday in 1981. I graduated High School in 1982. I remember The Rubis Cube. It was everywhere. We even had them in our High School Classrooms.

[@spruce381]

Dig your channel, but can’t believe no one, anywhere hasn’t reacted to - Frank and Walters - after all - marxman/sinead O’Connor - ship ahoy. First Irish, cork Second Irish, Bristol. Three dubs, including Sinead and two Bristolians.

[@gipsy1695]

1980 ties memories 😍🥰😍

[@4505Nicole]

I’m an older millennial and I remember this stuff from early 90’s, I LOVED playing the Oregon trail in school! That was the best! And CareBears was my favorite show lol I definitely had cabbage patch dolls and my brothers loved He-Man! You said play games on a phone in 4th grade? Lol I didn’t get a cell phone until COLLEGE and it was the original Nokia that only had Snake, no internet and no keyboard, you had to sometimes press a number 4 times to get one letter lol definitely had an original Nintendo with super Mario brothers, loved go to rent movies but we were closer to a Movie Gallery than a blockbuster. I forgot about the free book-it from Pizza Hut! This video is bringing back memories! I remember racing home to put a tape in the VCR to be ready to record my favorite music video on MTV lol

[@oshifish2]

I had to do a FULL clean out when I moved from the US to the UK. I found in a bag of ofd memories some Garbage Pail Kids cards! I could not throw them away! They came with me and I was 50 at the time! I still have my little box of memories including puffy stickers we would trade in the late seventies. They were such treasures that even at my age now it seemed sacrilegious to throw them away ha! I think back then, things you could collect were even more important because we could not just pull up things on a screen if that makes sense. x

[@AmyNance-k1n]

I am a 53-year-old gamer woman and there is NOTHING that compares to my love of Zelda and Metroid ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@oshifish2]

It would be worth watching one or all of John Huges movies! They were the fabric of our lives in the mid eighties. xx

[@janetbaker645]

I’m a baby boomer, my parents were the forgotten generation, born in the 1920’s, I was watching pewee’s playhouse and laughing at the 50’s short film they used to show us in school….i was laughing because it looked so out dated…my mother couldn’t understand the humor…

[@Silverfish2910]

Hope this helps... Cassette tape = blank USB stick. Mix tape = USB stick filled with mp3 files, chosen by random selection.

[@upandcomingapparel]

That picture was a "book box" a walkman was just a small little box that played the cassette but it had the headphones. Before that you had to carry that big boom box around. The boom boxes had a radio and cassette. The radio would play the song, and you hit record on the tape to record song

[@DennisPlesz]

I was born 1979 all this brings back memories we cannot wait to go to Blockbuster and rent movies I had Castle Grayskull I had at least 30 He-Man a bunch of Transformers it all changed when we got Atari and I got better when we got Nintendo always love going to the arcades our parents always wanted us outside and we always wanted to be outside I had Garbage Pail Kid cards Mad Magazines comic books baseball football basketball hockey cards we would play Pencil breaks Good Times

[@noself7889]

I would give my life to be able to go back and re live the decade of the eighties. The eighties were truly a magical point in time to be alive. Men were men, and women were women 😊

[@shanaleelmt]

You didn't buy them, you just rented them.. Blockbuster was like Redbox but in person and instead of being next to a convenience store they had candy

[@shanaleelmt]

A cassette tape uses magnets to record sound on a little piece of tape that's wound around. They had varying lengths of time. A mixtape is when you would put a bunch of songs together like a playlist but only in one order and give it to somebody or keep it yourself. The cool thing was that you could record over it.. so if you caught some commercials or you decided you didn't want a song on there or one didn't fit at the end of that side of the tape you could put something shorter and then put the other song as the first song on side B

[@jeremiahrose4681]

Yep, I "pegged" my jeans in the late 80's. You know tight rolled jeans at the bottom.

[@shanaleelmt]

Before you even start I'm having neon parachute pants flashbacks

[@twinklemagic024]

Making a mixed tape, is similar to creating a folder in Windows. The cassette tape is the folder. And the files you put in the folder, are the songs you record onto a cassette tape. Recording one album was easy. It’s like having all the files on your computer, ready to be added to a folder. Making a mixed tape, is like trying to create a folder on your computer, using files from 30 random computers, that you need to track down and find yourself.😖🤨😂

[@Di_678]

To make a mixed tape was One cassette. We recorded songs from a stereo playing our records, Radio and TV. You would have to tape each song individually on the one cassette. If it was a 180 minute tape. That's all you could record on both sides of the cassette. Turning it over and putting it back in to listen to the other side like a record single. Lots of songs on One tape took not hours, but days.

[@jenniferclark8051]

Theme parties are always fun! If nothing else it makes others to research the time to dress accordingly

[@amberburris5674]

LOL I still have my Cabbage Patch doll, Mary :)

[@DesoloSubHumus]

Halfsies, OJ's, Mr. T, Quisp, Cabbage Patch Kids, Cracker Jacks (just the cereal), Donkey Kong Junior, Rainbow Brite, and Sun flakes are gone (and honestly, I never saw them in the 80s either, so they may have been a regional thing), but the rest are still on grocery store shelves now. It's less that the high sugar cereals went away and more that more 'adult' cereals (along with the just-as-suss nutritional claims) have been added to the shelves. Cabbage Patch Kids were a thing, but there were also the Garbage Pail Kids cards you could get in packs of gum and collect (each one had a twin, same picture, different name). While my school only had limited numbers of computers (high school in the 90s, none before then), they were only used for a drafting class that only the wealthier kids (the parents donated money to the school to get computers) could take, so I've only played Oregon Trail once. The game I played the most while growing up was Parsec. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3S2gpdmmq9-h7M Looking back on the whole 'Twink Sprite' thing is amusing. I didn't really have many toys (a Schmuzzle Puzzle and a Capsela set), and never have any of those dolls, or watched the shows, but knowing what twink means now, well, it's pretty hilarious how that ages. Also, Blockbuster rented out videos. You didn't actually buy videos there. This is my first time hearing about any Book It club or free pizza, and I never was into wrestling. Figure, much of that was TV based or involved having to go somewhere other than home, and honestly, I was the kid with no curfew, as I wasn't allowed out of the house except for school most of my childhood, and I was only allowed to watch Wild America with Marty Stouffer and science documentaries, mostly including Carl Sagan after the Watership Down debacle. My parents got me what they thought was a movie about cute bunnies when it came out on video, and I loved it, but once they saw Hazel and the General ripping each other apart, that was the end of most TV for me. Even Sesame Street was out, as my parents didn't want me 'picking up bad grammar from Cookie Monster'. So granted, my childhood was a bit different. Don't feel too bad - Liquid Television came out on MTV and I was able to watch it after whatever kids I was watching went to bed. Hooboy, ok, the thing pictured is a boombox, even though the voiceover is referring to a Walkman, because before you could listen to it on the Walkman, you had to record it on the boombox. You could carry a boombox around (like the guy with the dog mask in that one Daft Punk video) and everyone would hear it, but the Walkman could fit in a large pocket or clip to your belt while you listened through headphones. The cassette tape was what you recorded songs onto, and was became a mixtape when it was full of a mix of multiple songs you'd recorded onto it. 'Limited time' can easily mean 30 minutes on each side. Videotapes like VHS, Betamax (love how Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang gives that word a completely different meaning, btw), and later, Bluray were all limited to recording on one side only, which is why 'Please rewind' was so much of a thing when returning the rented tapes to Blockbuster. As for an 80s disco, good luck. Those were a thing in the 70s, as in it was a Boomer thing. The 80s was more the party at some other kid's house while their parents were away.

[@smylyface]

The Oregon Trail was more of a 90's thing. We didn't have many school computers in the 80's so those of us who graduated before 1986 never had that opportunity. I taught history in the late 90's and I remember being jealous that we didn't have anything like it when I was a student.

[@Cocreatewithus]

It was also 80s. I don't know about early 80s, but the early versions were definitely 80s.

[@susanneg7078]

You should check out the whole John Houghs collection. You’ll even get a young RDJ in weird science.

[@cayreet5992]

First of all, the cassette player on the screen is not a walkman, neither Sony nor others. A walkman is much smaller than that and always has headphones attached for you to listen on the go. A mixed tape is made by putting different songs on the same cassette tape, so you can then put them in the walkman and listen only to your favourites on the go. Or, of course, gift them to someone you like.

[@serepluie]

A mix tape is today’s playlist :) with big BUTs: 1. You only had a limited space to record the songs you wanted (A & B sides of 1 cassette). 2. You only could record them from the radio, so, you really needed patience, time and effort :) Once ready, some of those tapes were gold. I still remember ones I did or ones my friends did. We knew the bits by heart, what song will come after and so on. It’s was priceless! A unique item no one else’s had. That happened cause we couldn’t go and buy every record of every song we like. We needed to choose wisely which albums to buy. They were sold in cassettes too, that was the format before CDs were invented. So, we had a lot of cassettes, that was the only way to have our music. Cassettes we bought with full albums of the artists we like, the ones the discographies sold, and cassettes we made ourselves the way I described you. Radio + virgin tapes made our Spotify, lol

[@wendyoliver2438]

If you had a dual cassette, you could make copies of tapes and if you had a good enough set up, you could make taped copies of records. So it really wasn’t just radio. It was mostly radio, though.

[@adamnichol4526]

80s cartoons segment missed Transformers and GoBots. Breakfast cereals mentioned are American, Brits got Frosties, Coco pops and riceles

[@alishagrossman4080]

11:59 my uncle was there. They thought he was on a treadmill type of contraption.

[@belkyhernandez8281]

I'm old. Why did young people stop using color. Everything seems like a shade of beige, grey or black and white? When I was a teenager and in my 20s wearing a lots of bright contrasting colors was a thing. Pink and green, great! Yellow and purple, awesome!

[@tinabina6846]

OK a cassette was what you bought from an artist (their record), then it got fancy and you could buy a BLANK cassette tape and you would put it in your radio (boombox) and had to hit record and play at the same time to record the sound off of the radio. When you made your own collection of songs into a cassette (tape), you just m made your MIX TAPE. When you hear of the pencil, it is because the radio would sometimes "eat" the tape and the ribbon on the inside would jam up in the gears of the radio and you'd pull it out carefully and wind it back up into the tape using a pencil. Those middle holes were gears that spun it, so you would manually do it Hope this helps

[@billybarnett2846]

Parents didn't take you to the hospital unless you were dying. I feel off some monkey bars. If you could walk, you were okay. We didn't have the Oregon Trail, we took a typing class. We solved the Rubik's cube by taking it apart.

[@laurabailey1054]

I was a teen and young adult in the 80’s and didn’t want any of the toys. I did have a rubiks cube and the pyramid one. Before Blockbuster we rented from our local convenience stores. I read the Judy Blume books in the 70’s. I remember seeing Michael Jackson on tv in the 70’s and he was a star long before the 80’s.