I used 1980s technology for a week

On day 6 I accidentally wore Crocs - arguably the greatest technological invention of all time, and one which was NOT available in all its glory in the 1980s. Please accept my most humble and heartfelt apologies for this irredeemable travesty.
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[@warhammer_studios]

Brother, I am 55 years old. I graduated High School in 1986. You have no idea the memories that flooded back into my head watching this video. It was a time full of innovation and technological advancement, and the one thing we didnt have that you did was the knowlege that ther was something more advanced. So for us kids back then, all of this was the cutting edge of technology. When I got my first PC (in 1991) it had a hard drive capable of holding a whopping 350 megabites...lol. Thanks for this video dude, it really took me down memory lane to a time that I really hold dear. Rock on bro!

[@SechsFluegel]

350 megabites = 350 million bites, wow, what an elaborate meal. Okay, I get it, it's megabytes. My first computer, the ZX Spectrum, used cassettes as storage devices. A 48 kB program loaded in roughly 5 minutes so a 90 minute cassette could hold 860 kB of data. Not bad back then. In 1988 IIRC I got a hard disk for the Amiga 500, SCSI and generous 80 megabytes of storage capacity. In 1990 I split that up in two partitions of 40 MB each, one for the Amiga and one for the DOS PC inside it (vortex ATonce). Operating systems, several utilities, development environments and games stored on that space and guess what: I never got close to remotely filling either partition. The setup is still here and every once in a while I have to check whether it's still working.

[@Cybolic]

@@SechsFluegel That's funny, I was just about to comment that my first experience with storage was my ZX Spectrum (without any storage and the terrible keyboard) followed by an Amiga with an 80MB SCSI drive! Of course, I also still have my Amiga and yes, it's still running (though now equipped with a compact flash drive adaptor).

[@tunit6458]

+

[@punkealize]

woah only 350 megabytes?? i guess back in the day files were not as big as they are nowadays

[@fs0cieety]

Ok boomer

[@inauroeled1794]

this video is a work of art. it made me feel nostalgic for a time when i didn’t even exist. the 80s seem like they were so simple

[@tomclaytonmedia]

Yep, I agree. I just wanna go there :(

[@FranciscoPinto-bz9vl]

Real 😭

[@belindaweber7999]

It was my childhood - I'd happily have that level of calm and peace back again if I could.

[@iamboredfor2months]

same

[@ZEPHYRENDUM]

yea, i think this was mostly due of the camera

[@miamoberg827]

I'm born in 1972 and grew up in the 80s. My memory is that the Walkman and VHS player (VCR?) were the things that brought me the most joy. That is whenever I could get a physical copy of the music or film I was interested in. The computer and mobile phone didn't impress me much. That totally changed when Internet came. Today I find it hard to explain to my kids how we managed to get around back then. Can't even remember myself. Applying for a job, finding the bus timetable, paying for stuff etc. Everything just had to be physical and you always needed a bag and a wallet. And change to call home!

[@insidethemirrorstudio]

No one would have known that the '80s would become a film aesthetic. You've created a nostalgically beautiful video, bro.

[@kirayany1704]

The fact that this was filmed on an old camera is amazing 😂

[@be_couragous]

shows a effort to detail that not a lot of other creators have

[@mirzadakobilic6440]

He forgot to rank his camera...😂

[@WW_Studios]

IKR!!

[@yoursalmashowz]

Fr

[@Psythik]

It looks amazing for an 80s camera, too. I've recorded footage that looks *way* worse than this in the 2000s. Phone cameras in those days were especially bad.

[@Ihavenohandle665]

The fact that it takes him a month or two to create a video shows how hard he works, also this video was very aesthetically pleasing 😌

[@Dan-Dman]

How hrs he works? Also I agree good stuff but I'm sure finding all that tech and then learning how to use it and properly edit old film probably took to long for this video 😂

[@everestsanchez3549]

I hate you

[@Ihavenohandle665]

@@Dan-Dman my keyboard rlly hates me sometimes 🤦‍♀️

[@KornBirdOne]

aesthetically pleasing indeed

[@goldenexperiencerequiem7733]

​@@Dan-Dmani think he has other work? He can go his pace he wants

[@DaedalusYoung]

I used 1980s technology for an entire decade and lived.

[@hankscorpio42069]

You reading through the Macintosh manual kindof proves a point for me. If someone is bored enough, they'll read through that manual back to front and maybe even learn to code.

[@mxloverman2898]

Liam has the Pizza hut phone number memorized, I just want everyone to acknowledge that.

[@j_fpoint9815]

The funny thing is, this number also exist in germany but it‘s not Pizza Hut.

[@CallMeJoy_wastaken]

Doesn’t everyone?

[@fazbearanimations2622]

I am the 500th like on this comment lol.

[@mightyyeji]

@@CallMeJoy_wastakenno cuz it tastes like a$$

[@ExternalScientificCorporation]

im the 547th like on the comment

[@arrigillett7276]

Editing 10/10, Vibes 100/10, Effort 1980/10 All in all a fantastic video. Round of applause for Liam👏

[@hoihuman1003]

Wooow so funny hahahaha

[@aryz_kfc_fr]

Why's this comment so underated?

[@niranjinbox8512]

​@@aryz_kfc_fr wym underrated, overrated asf

[@ElectricoGamez]

​@hoihuman1003 the wonderful magic of *Sarcasm!*

[@ericawangsa7671]

👏🏻

[@foreignparticle1320]

The 80s: No notifications, and pizza. Yep, that was pretty much my experience growing up. It was the best.

[@timtaylorphotovideo6144]

I’ve seen a lot of videos about outdated tech where people didn’t know what a VCR was or how to use a Thomas Guide, but what shocked me was when you stated that you’ve never bought a newspaper in your entire life. Something about that statement speaks volumes about the generational shift in technology.

[@alonepotatoes]

Just to think that in the 2060s there will be similar videos like "Spending a week using 2020s technology" was a reality shock for me

[@sasorah6414]

Even in the 2030s... because look, the 2000s was just 20 years ago but people already using it for videos like this

[@10kCrows]

Omg

[@Invictia]

then ill be there reminiscing at age 53 on how iphones used to be a thing 😂

[@rebecasaboia9]

it might be a video of a robot telling how it is like to live like a human

[@RetroDawn]

You've got more than one huge assumption in that realization of yours. ;)

[@redironproductions5579]

This man went out and beyond, the fact he filmed it all on an old camera makes it an infinity times better and the fact he was sad to leave the 80s shows that they really were good times.

[@Sophie-vw5ol]

He can stay there. At least for a part. In the end we can all decide how we live. I have to say, I have such a love hate relationship with my phone and when I didn't had it after a week it was so nice. Less stressfull. Now you always have the feeling to miss something on KZbin or else where. And guess what you you do. But it's less stressful and more chill to just cherish the moment

[@darthdmun]

@@Sophie-vw5ol i still live like we are back in the 80's as i do not own or want to ever own a stupid smart phone...i reject all smart tech crap. do not do social idiot media, KZbin is as close as i will go to social media. yes, i have a PC....but i had them back in the 80's. modern day stuff sucks!

[@BionicAnimations]

80s kid here. This brings back old amazing memories of growing up in the best era ever. Technology is definitely more advanced nowadays, but boy, I miss the 80s. The kids who came after the 80s have no idea how wonderful it was to be a kid back then.🥰

[@MaskRobloxOfficial]

Reading all the comments from the older folks here on KZbin really made me feel way more grateful for the technology I was able to grow up with. Not only that but overall this video was the highlight of my evening because its simply the best video I've seen today :DDDD I 100% subscribed to your channel and I hope you keep producing bangers like this in the future!

[@squirrelvert]

I grew up with both this technology and the newer kind -- Xennial in the house! My only high school friends were people I met online, but through all my childhood and middle school years all we had (all anyone in the world had) was the stuff in this video.

[@JennFrank]

@@squirrelvertsometimes I truly believe I chose what era to be born in, based solely on what age I’d get online (fellow Xennial, lol)

[@user-ix6nk4hy8b]

The only thing that would make this video 100x better would be if he had played on the NES

[@Bens963]

I actually forgot how much slower life used to be. If you wanted to find something out you'd hit up the encyclopedia, and you'd have to actually read and remember stuff as the information was never at hand like it is now. Watching movies used to be so much better in some ways, like you'd check out the TV guide and if something good was coming on then the family would watch it, Home Alone would show up around Christmas time. Now everything is instant and on demand, nothing feels special anymore really, it's kinda sad

[@Sophie-vw5ol]

I guess nowadays we can make moments and things special with consciousness. Than we can really cherish and be grateful about them. Moments had always pass and will always pass. Sometimes it's sad. That feeling just goes to show how it is nowadays that we want to have it all at the same time. But we can't ever. We can give that slowness to ourselfs. By saying that I now close KZbin and trying to get some work done and just live

[@zkdr6278]

People don't realize that the effort to acquire something is part of what makes it valuable

[@renatocorreaarrieche]

Mainstream is dead, but spdcific niche communities are flourishing!

[@placeholdier]

​@@renatocorreaarriechethis so much this. Some people do not even realize that youtube videos could be unconcievable in some decades ago!

[@VerbWithMe]

Perfect summary. I miss how slow things were when I was younger back before smart phones, etc.

[@_danielromao]

He had the experience of living a life without notifications. Incredibly, we never realized how cell phone notifications make us sick and living in an anxious society.

[@sex4ladies]

Right which is one reason why my notifications have been off for 2 years now. Ppl have to literally work to reach me now lol

[@Letsall_lovelain1998]

Technology ruined us

[@alobosk]

My phone gives me no notifications. I turned them all of several years ago. I live happier. I'm back in the 80s. Try it. It's amazing.

[@HeDoMo3r]

​@@alobosk, true, it is amazing. Untill you realise that everyone you know/work with use ONLY Whatsapp (or any other way of contacting others online) to contact each other and/or notify of something important. If only everyone at once said "no" to being glued to the phone...

[@jennosyde709]

@@Letsall_lovelain1998 People are not better or worse today than they were in the 1980s. There are plenty of problems in the modern day, but there were issues back then too. Aside from that, probably the most toxic element of modern technology are certain forms of social media, which are specifically designed to be addictive. Otherwise, technology has offered a great deal of good.

[@elitebutters0220]

I'm only 21 and I find cassettes and VHS an absolute treat to own!! I recently acquired a few Walkmans, some of which are the WM-F1, a Sports Walkman, a CD Walkman and 2 tape decks!! All are repaired and I love them so so much!!! 80s tech is so underrated! ❤

[@ShinryuZensen]

Don't forget the obligatory "I give it a whack when the batteries are dying and the sound is slowing down , so I can at least finish to hear the song!" .

[@danieltapiajuarez3738]

Cassettes are Good. I still recording Some Of My own DJ mixes on it

[@FREEFILMSALEX]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I'm from the 80's! You made me laugh so many times by your reactions to 80's technology! It truly was a different world 44 years ago. Enjoy the present you all!❤

[@CRITTERBUSTERS]

Honestly, we lived like the 80s right up until the early 2000s and then the internet really started to become more powerful. But it was when KZbin, Social Media and Smart Phones came about when people’s lifestyles started to change dramatically. I’d say until about 2005 at the latest we still lived relatively simple. I think the future of vacations should be going to small towns that live like the 80s. Just so people can get the experience and take a break from the excessive technology, social media and inter-connectivity.

[@davidshepherd265]

I recently took a 2 week holiday up in regional Queensland. Swapped my iPhone for a basic Nokia dumbphone and avoided all news outlets like the plaugue. Loved it.

[@Derek_Wyld]

You should have way more upvotes you're deadass

[@-OBEY-]

@CRITTERBUSTERS I disagree, it wasn't until 1996 when the internet was the norm and people started buying computers, the late 90s practically felt like a whole new world was coming.

[@CRITTERBUSTERS]

@@-OBEY- To each their own.

[@BryPazReacts]

I’ve been wondering about this too. A 90s retreat or something. Where the only available tech is only like back then 😂

[@wilsonfleite]

It's amazing how filming using an old camera makes everything look 80s, even modern scenes.

[@joelpichette]

The video recorder and vhs tape were made for a crt tv which were displaying round pixels and gaps between them, not for a 1080p or 4k lcd or oled tv.

[@aceman0000099]

​@@joelpichetteyes, so?

[@razhorblahd]

@@aceman0000099 so it looked much better on a crt tv...

[@aceman0000099]

@@razhorblahd everything does, but the VHS quality looks cool on digital as well

[@LordDeBahs]

@@razhorblahd or plasma tv

[@caitlynm.9413]

"Quick draw! Random crap!" is now the universal slogan for smartphones, from now until forever. This was a great video, and perhaps more profound than you think. I think there is a great deal of value in putting tech in its proper place and having boundaries, vs having 24/7 access to everything that exists ever.

[@Conquistador629]

This comment isnt really necessary but walkmans was my interest a few years back and im just itching to delve into this for those that are also interested. the walkman this chappy has is the WM-F66 released in 1987 (i did some research as i originally thought it might have been a 90s walkman as the radio functionality was more common on them ones). he does say "released in 1979" here he is referring to the portable cassette walkman brand which did debut in 1979 with the TPS-L2 (these days best known for being used in guardians of the galaxy). just wanna say this comment isnt to split hairs as I know collecting these, especially rare ones is expensive and also a matter of chance as well, i honestly just wanted to nerd out a wee bit

[@user-jc1kg4ss6n]

This should be a series, 90s and 2000s would be awesome. Liam being amazed by a payphone working is definitely what I needed.

[@marcusfridh8489]

It should be a series, but he should go back in time, to the 70's, 60's, 50's and so on

[@versatileduplicity9313]

No

[@thedbcooperforum]

@@marcusfridh8489 Disneyland already did it, not sure if it's still running.. carousel of progress...

[@jacobdovel4276]

Could not agree more.

[@yakyakgaming1027]

Cant watch, my Tamagotchi needs me right now

[@elenas9125]

Honestly, that was an amazing video! It made me feel nostalgia even though I did not exist back in the 80s

[@victoria58]

Same here!

[@glitchingbee]

Same!

[@aujlaglory]

Same!

[@dnieto1466]

Same

[@PrincessHonk]

Same

[@user-eb8rs5pm2s]

i wish technology back to 1980

[@Zooropa1992]

Dude, you inspired my friend and I to try this and for two teens who grew up in the 21st century it was the coolest thing ever. We realized how modern technology is starting to affect the way people interact with each other, and even though we didn’t live in the 80s some how we miss it. Awesome video keep up the good work.

[@LucasND]

I just love the joy he shows as he participates in these challenges he creates himself. He seems like such a positive and fun person and it makes these videos so wholesome to watch

[@mysterycheez]

I know what you mean! His laugh is sooo infectious!

[@brittanyhyatt3407]

He’s so bubbly and happy it’s hard not to be in a good mood watching this 😂

[@buzzardbeatniks]

A couple things - First having a landline phone would have been the more common 80s experience. Second, this video reminded me how quiet and empty time alone felt back then. I have ADD and found it very hard to entertain myself, often attempts at reading just led to starring at the wall, I was however able to sit through movies, often the same few repeatedly (I never rewatch movies now) but I would usually get up and just walk or drive around aimlessly to fill the time. I was extremely antsy and agitated which led to heavy drinking, which provided the relief of an overactive, but unfocused mind. I had to go out all the time because the silence of my home was at times unbearable. I'm 50 now and absolutely love the convenience and diversion that modern technology has brought. A lot of people my age romanticize their youth, but although I'm grateful social media wasn't a thing when I was a kid, I don't see the 80s or 90s as the glory days. Being young is in itself the glory. Honestly, I would hate to go back to a world without streaming, KZbin and smartphones. The internet has both exacerbated my ADD and also provide the cure. I don't miss having to drive all over town to take care of things, I especially don't miss having to physically go into the bank or remembering to write checks to pay bills and the late fees that compounded the debt thanks to my horrible time-management skills. Thanks to the internet I've not missed a payment in 20 years.

[@youraverageintrovert1990]

As a kid born in 2010, its cool to see someone who has been around for much longer than I still enjoy modern technology, and not put me down for enjoying what I like. I have ADHD and Autism, and although the internet can be a tad overstimulating for me sometimes, it typically just flicks the right switch in my brain for me to actually not be stressed 24/7. This comment genuinely made me smile, it's super cool seeing someone not put modern tech and the people who use it down because it's convenient.

[@wkromhout8532]

This is such a great perspective on ad(h)d in earlier times.. Me (30) and my dad (62) both have add, and this comment really makes me wonder how he experienced this time. I know he struggles immensely with all the distractions life now gives, he locked his laptop for example so he can only use it during office hours. I'm curious if he experiences some positive sides of nowadays technology as well though.

[@mysterycheez]

Interesting perspective. Thank you for sharing. 🙂

[@Sugurain]

I'm pretty sure you could pay stuff via internet in the 90s, but yeah, I get it. I'm a 90s kid, I love technology, but I don't like depending on it too much. Streaming WAS great, Netflix was a blast on it's early years, but now there are like 999 streaming services, and none has all your favorite movies, they all take them out of the catalog without notice. I would collect physical media if I could, Blu-rays specifically, but living in third world country that's kinda hard to get. What I do is I download all my movies and music, store them in my PC (that has an absurd amount of storage). Except for movies, which I used to rent in the 90s on video rental stores, I could download my music online in the 90s, it would take ages, but was doable. hahah I kinda miss visiting the local Blockbuster, I would usually rent some movies and a game for my Nintendo 64 every week. I remember they also sold popcorn, sweets, soda, etc, so you could really have a "cinema" experience at home. haha For someone in the US and Canada that could be a bummer because of suburbia, where you need a car to go anywhere, but that's not really a problem anywhere else on the planet. Right now, I have clothes stores, hair saloons, a supermarket, 2 hardware stores, 3 restaurants, and much more at 1-2 blocks of distance away, so no need to go "downtown" for anything, nor I need to order simple stuff from the internet. Back then it wasn't different, there was a video rental store like 50 meters from my house lol Banks are also at walking distance to this day, I don't miss the lines though. If technology just kept improving, that's one thing, but now it seems to be specifically designed to keep us apart. As I mentioned, I had a nintendo 64 in the 90s, I would invite friends and neighbors to play, 4 player LOCAL multiplayer? That basically doesn't exist anymore. If I'm a 2023 kid, and wanted to play with friends and neighbors, I would need to play online, even if they live next door. That's just sad. Social media was the worse thing technology has brought, I must say, that was the nail in the coffin that cemented the trend of keeping everyone apart. We had messengers and we could chat online with everyone in the 90s, but we would still meet friends and family on a very regular basis. Now it seems everyone is too busy to do anything with anyone, or just lack the social skills to do it. Depression has raised to sky high levels, never before seen. I've fell ill from that myself. I'm not against technology, I have all the latest gadgets, I just wish it wasn't specifically designed to be so cold.

[@buzzardbeatniks]

@@Sugurain I didnt get a computer till 2004. I did like going to independent video stores and record stores. I still have a large VHS collection and all my old cassettes and CDs. When streaming services started censoring everything I made a point of buying physical copies of every movie or TV show that I thought might be in danger. I'm definitely a physical media collector. I do believe the internet has it's draw backs for a lot of people and maybe on a societal level, but for my personal use its been a net good. I have thought that if all social media was outlawed for five years it might do everyone a lot of good but I still really enjoy it myself. Its certainly complicated issue and everyone has to figure out the right balance of usage for themselves and their children.

[@sarahmunromaddonna6264]

I hope after you got over the pain of not having things we are all addicted to, you saw how much that simplicity could offer. I'd love to see you do this for a month. Seriously. I would love to hear the revelations you came to. Also, a physical book will always be a superior experience. Having all the digital copies jammed on a device is a nice space saver, but a book is a complete experience that cannot be replaced. ❤

[@gil5233]

While watching the video I was about to say that you probably going to film the process using modern technology.. then I saw that you did not make this mistake. Great work!

[@darrenosborne8252]

I'm 40 and I shed a tear on the nostalgia. I used cassettes till 1998, VHS till 2004, and didn't get my first flat screen till 2012.

[@justpaul899]

Dude, cassette tapes are cool again! Thanks to videos by Techmoan and others, I rediscovered how fun it is to make mix tapes. Quality really isn't bad, either- I need to listen back-to-back to tell a difference in quality in original vs recording.

[@darrenosborne8252]

@@justpaul899 I was thinking about giving my friend a mix tape for the nostalgia.

[@stevonwhite8933]

My family didn’t get our first flat screen until 2012 either😂

[@DrBamWam]

I use to have good hard sex with my sister but unfortunately she is married now and she doesn’t want to have sex any more ….. tears running down my face

[@Anyaeversong]

@@justpaul899 they are! I'm 30 and i got to use tapes and walkman in my early childhood. Recently I got one again and a bunch of tapes to listen to and it brought back memories!

[@FilCanJay]

I say do every decade from the 1990s next. Why not? It would be a great series. Great video.

[@AmazingStudios01]

No. Go backwards. It would be more interesting

[@mkdeath2539]

​@@AmazingStudios01I don't think he's gonna find anything to record with, even if he used his modern camera it still would be boring, what is he gonna do all day... Read books idk. Imo going forward is more entertaining..

[@alvhawk4461]

@@AmazingStudios01 technology did not change as much as it does recently and as mkdeath said, theres not really cameras and stuff going backwards

[@gandalf_thegrey]

​@@alvhawk4461that you guys actually think "there aren't any cameras to get" when you go backwards shows how hilariously confident y'all believe your imagination. My brother in Christ, Cameras are not a modern invention of the past 50 years. We have literal video footage of both world wars. The oldest video that still survived to that day is from fcking 1888. And yes, you can buy functional cameras. But already he has at least 3 decades (50s, 60s, 70s) going backwards where this isn't a huge problem and not more financially burdening that buying a Mac from the 80s. One could also ask why it's more intersting in going forward when literally everything that happens is that several pieces of technology become one as much as asking what's so interesting about seeing a 60s style TV. That you want to make it like Books where the only piece of tech is also hilarious. You can't he that ignorant about something your parents haven seen with their own eyes, man.

[@arzuozturk6460]

yall got to be kidding, he can just (probably alot of work) but record on film, then record the film on his normal camera like dang, cameras arent new the first photo is soon gonna turn 200 years old

[@Ray_of_Light62]

I typed my doctoral dissertation with Word 2.0 on a 486 computer with Windows 3.1. The computer froze every time I inserted an equation as Word object, it was a bug in Word 2.0.. And I had a library in my car for paper maps and music cassettes everywhere on the back seats. The '80s were low tech compared to today; each of us has guaranteed connectivity everywhere every time, this was a dream back then. Every morning, with coffee, cornetto and cigarettes, I bought the newspaper.

[@Swindle1984]

Playing on an old Gameboy during a roadtrip, hoping the batteries lasted, barely able to see the screen unless the light was just perfect... Popping a new cassette into the tape deck and listening after the previous tape ended... Having half a dozen Tamagotchis, Giga Pets, Digimons, etc. on a chain hanging from my belt loop... Buying my first cd (Weird Al's Bad Hair Day) with piggy bank money... Beating Mega Man 6 on NES, then turning on the Playstation for the first time a week later... Dial up modems and AOL cd's... reading Calvin and Hobbes in the funny pages of the newspaper... knowing what the hell "the funny pages" even were... having a tv that got 13 channels and had a UHF/VHF knob and rabbit ears... Indiglo wrist watches... all the girls wearing hot pink tube socks, hair bobbles, slap bracelets, and flavored chapstick... going to the mall and spending all day there having a blast with your friends... video arcades that ate your hard-earned quarters you mowed a dozen lawns for... brick phones and car phones... wearing a trench coat and not immediately being associated with the Columbine shooters... roller rinks... The 80's and most of the 90's were a magical time.

[@Swindle1984]

Oh, and who could forget having to go out into the woods to find trash bags full of porn magazines? Yeah, we found our porn in the woods instead of online. It came in the form of magazines, always in trash bags, always abandoned in the woods, sometimes the pages were stuck together, and we could never figure out "why dump your porn stash in the woods?"

[@Jaw0lf]

It is great seeing you do this, at 55 I grew up through this amazing age. Everything was new and exciting. In the UK we had just 3 TV channels with a fourth by the end. I still use a CRT TV for my old computers that I still have, my ZX Spectrum 48k and Commodore Amiga 500. Still have working video tapes and in fact have some sealed Hi 8mm tapes and audio tapes sat next to me. You just arrived in my recommended and loved it. I also help at at a Retro Computer Museum in Leicester UK. No google so we had encyclopedias, Maps were our sat nav, internet didn't really exist and we were totally analogue! The great thing of the 80's was that you a home phone. If you were not at home, no one could annoy/get hold of you. No nagging messages or emails to sort out. Amazing how far tech has moved on in just 40 years. Thank you for doing this fun experiment of time travel.

[@RichieReportsUK]

I still have 2 working old CRT TVs, keeping them, knowing I will still be able to sell them to the vintage gaming community!

[@peterfunnyyou7965]

I actually LOVE how the camera and VHS tapes make the video look

[@starc0w]

This!

[@TommyGee.]

Hands down, the best video you've ever made

[@acelmusadetorres6447]

As a vintage guy, I love the quality. It gives me more like 80's-90's. Even thou I was born in 2010's, I love vintage stuff since my family use them when I was a kid, so I kinda adapt the vintage stuff they had. I even bought a portable cassette tape player. For now, I wanted to get a Portable Vhs Player so I can watch all the vhs tapes here in our house. At the time, I played my Grandparents's cassette tape. They sounded good.

[@ZMDE]

This was such a cool idea. Storytelling was elite. Would be cool to see more videos like this on KZbin. Subscribed!

[@BoiiBlu]

YO MR AMONG US WHATTUP but fr i used to love you in 2020

[@Bluebirdfalling]

LOL!

[@historyman1652]

Wow! I’ve been into Zmde and Liam for a long time, so it’s good to see you here!

[@redhotphoenixgamer6009]

😢

[@seekchan-gc8pg]

My brother watches you

[@JessicaKuhns-zs9ci]

I love how the old camera really made it seem like the ‘80s😄

[@Rosie82333]

It seemed more 90s than 80s. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@planetofthegapes]

He's used a filter on a modern camera. No way he would have fit a chunk 80s camcorder on the dash. It suits the video but it IS a bit of fakery.

[@purplemist7]

​@@Rosie82333How so?

[@miraggg]

it is interesting to see the 80s style footage with modern editing techniques that we are so used to we don't notice them anymore, but then with the 80's camera they are a lot more obvious like the timing of the jump cuts

[@bricktasticanimations4834]

@@planetofthegapes You'd be surprised at how small they could get. Also, he may have angled it.

[@Phoxygamer2113]

the pure excitement for ordering a pizza hut pizza from a payphone was fantastic ^_^

[@charliebear154]

We should honestly bring back 80s cameras. The aesthetic is just somethin else ✨

[@Willpower-74205]

As someone who grew up in the 80s, I found your enthusiasm for my generation's technology to be both amusing and heartwarming. The Macintosh SE, VCR with analog TV (mine was much bigger), and push-button office phone (I never had a first-gen cellphone; too expensive and inefficient). These were the things I grew up with. Seeing them again is like encountering someone who looks like an old friend I haven't seen in many years. Thanks for the nostalgia! You're a good kid. 😎👍

[@j.elizabeth4621]

It really was so nostalgic. I miss my mind be bored and having the space and time to let it wander. The Walkman in particular was fantastic!

[@easycake3251]

Exactly. Especially the Nokia phone was insane expensive. Still wanted it as a kid tho. Fast forward 30+ years and id pay to be rid of my phone.

[@dennisp8520]

@@j.elizabeth4621you know now that you meantion it I have not been bored since I was a kid. I didn’t grow up in the 80’s but I grew up in a rural small town that didn’t even get DSL internet till late 2001 so we had dial up before that. While looking back at time can have some charm I still wouldn’t want to go back either. Working from home wouldn’t be a viable thing for example which I enjoy personally. Modern medicine is also a miracle of its own, we have come a very very long way medically speaking. Pros and cons though I suppose

[@angusrumplemeyer1791]

It would’ve been hilarious to watch him figure out how to use a rotary phone

[@zetor2K]

@@angusrumplemeyer1791 i suppose there are tutorial videos on KZbin. But if you have to wait a dialtone for a long distance call... :D

[@PCGeines]

I would gladly transition to an 80-ish tech lifestyle. It was all so simple and beautiful. No social media, no shortening of attention span. These were the times.

[@devo076]

Most kids now could not stomach paper maps and having to order and pick up their own food on the phone lol.

[@tycanuck]

@@devo076 Because paper maps and ordering over the phone are inefficient. Duh.

[@birgerhovda8773]

It's almost as if technology actually IMPROVES our quality of life if you don't let social media rot your brain.

[@PCGeines]

@birgerhovda8773 It certainly improves a lot, but the social media problem is a big one. Almost everyone uses it for fun, family, or work, so it's almost impossible not to use it and absorb its culture. We're literally putting a never-before-seen digital mediator between the world and ourselves. One can make only good use of social media. However, it's easier said than done.

[@Strong_Libra_Scales]

STOP lyinggggg

[@DjShadowsound265]

Seeing this makes me realize how sad people 20 and under rely entirely on technology....my childhood was dial up, VHS/DVD and flip phones, not 80s but def not what is it today, and im grateful.

[@alicefurquim2359]

This is the first time I'm watching your channel but I couldn't leave this video without commeting on how great it is. Congrats! Loved every second

[@fernandogutierrez8357]

the most incredible thing is, after 30 years or so, those devices still work. Actually they were produced to last.

[@Cloud_Strife0811]

It's called cyclical consumption. Nothing is built to last anymore, just to keep the money consistently flowing. Everything is built with the cheapest parts by the lowest bidder. We had my grandmothers washer and dryer up to about four years ago. Only thing I ever had to replace were the belts. The washer and dryer we bought four years ago is already starting to break. Everything now is electrical nothing is mechanical so it gives out faster and is almost impossible to fix. It was a simpler time back then. Times didn't change for the better.😢

[@LazyWeasel]

It's also the survivor bias - you only know about the things that still work,. none of those that broke down.

[@markmuller7962]

"Produced to last" cough unintelligible VHS cough cough

[@PatrickWiens82]

Some people blame the fall of the gold standard.

[@chascapwell2041]

@@markmuller7962 Thank you. Magnetic tapes suck balls compared to digital storage.

[@fuji302]

As someone that grew up in the 80’s I appreciate you getting Pizza Hut for watching movies. Quite accurate.

[@OldManPhil]

What about little ceasers?

[@fuji302]

If you weren’t partying with the Hut you were getting Dominoes because Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[@OldManPhil]

@@fuji302 Ok. In that scenario Pizza Hut is best.

[@saberx08]

Nah... you couldn't avoid the noid unless you ordered from Dominos! He could have pulled up to a Wendy's and asked them "where's the beef" as well.

[@thehermit761]

yes me too THey were really big during my childhood, this was before Dominos and papa johns arrives on the scene

[@Mr._Zachtastic]

Now I challenge you to drive older cars for a week. Like a car from the 1980s. It'd be cool to see you use 1950s technology for a week!

[@mildlyconcerning]

I love that this video's in 1080p anyway

[@VinciWare]

Sometimes I am envious of how much more simple life must have been back then.

[@DarkFaken]

People will say this about our lives in 40 years... I remember growing up with people making remarks about kids always listening to their walkmans, kids watching too much TV instead of playing outside, then when aol and MSN came around, kids are always on the computer. Every generation people complain about the current generation and their technology and reminisce of previous generations.

[@smarmar400]

@@ness7342 You nailed it. Life in the '80s had a different feel, for sure. I think every decade does. Although I was just becoming a teen in the mid-80s, it felt less stressful and more relaxed-natural, like you said.

[@crownfc2023]

it was simple if you only consider the tech aspect, however for me life was "fuller" back then. u had to get your ass up to go do things and not everting was a touch away. i grew up in the 90s but still have a feeling like most of my days now is just clicking, scrolling, tapping. back then u actually had to interact with people, go places, sacrifice time and effort to get something done.

[@Flip.713]

back then was awesome, im a 90´s kid and was the best era.

[@InXLsisDeo]

It really wasn't. The internet, the cell phone and the GPS completely changed everything, mostly for the better. Much more time wasted back then. Meeting with friends at some unknown place meant preparing well in advance to make sure we would find the others easily. There was no way to communicate if there was a delay on the road. Everything took longer and was subject to more randomness. It is easy to have the advantages of the 1980s without the inconvenients: turn off the notifications, delete all your social media, and you are basically done. Having no internet meant less access to basic information like the train timetable. Preparing a vacation required you to go to a travel agency for them to book a flight and an hotel for you. It was not necessarily easier than doing it yourself with an internet connexion, but it meant you had little choice, and prices were higher because that service wasn't free. Very low cost flights didn't exist back then. If you travelled abroad (which was less common), everything was more difficult for the same reason. The fastest way to get information was by phone, but some calls were costly. There was, of course, no KZbin, no wikipedia, no discussion forums, etc, so learning new skills was much slower, or involved hiring a teacher.

[@LiterallyHaz]

I love seeing how happy he is throughout this challenge. It really shows how as we have technologically advanced, our expectations have gotten so high, that we don’t appreciate the small things like he does during this challenge anymore. If I had the money, I would love to do this challenge one time!

[@Stargun-vj1uh]

If you didn't do it quite as extreme or didn't necessarily have a *need* to use things like the internet or texting, you could. Cheaply too. Most things from the era, or 90's instead, can be had cheaply at thrift stores or online. Estate sales, the VHS recorder was probably the most costly thing next to the phone and macintosh.

[@JACKHARRINGTON]

@@Stargun-vj1uhOn saying that, I got my player for $10, unless we're talking about a particular one.

[@gabrielnascimento126]

Eu desejo desenvolver uma relação melhor com a tecnologia,acho interessante tem equipamentos separados para as tarefas s não gosto muito da ideia de ter tudo conectado,ter apenas as informações necessárias dos aparelhos.

[@JimD77]

Honestly as someone who has lived thru all the change, the biggest improvement is typing a term paper on a computer. Really SUCKED to do assignments on a mechanical typewriter with having to use white-out or start the whole page over! I had to do a report in the Army weekly and used my own Radio Shack Coco-2 to avoid having to re-type the entire header paragraph each week. This was mid-80s and the S2(intelligence officer) had to examine it to make sure it was not a spying device. LOL I guess understandable during the Cold War era.

[@thedbcooperforum]

Don't forget in 2050 you will be laughed at with today's technology..your turn is coming😂😂😂

[@MattyLoves91frfr]

My #1 Favourite Video on KZbin, and I was born 2010.

[@Kenneth-Correa]

Genius! Amazing the KZbin editing with the 80s camera! The script as well!!

[@cameronward9443]

I think this is a really funny idea. Imagine a whole series of these kinds of videos. Life in the 1920s, 30s, 40s etc...

[@CountScarlioni]

A few years back there was a great BBC documentary called "Electric Dreams" where they took a modern family and had them adopt the lifestyle of 70s, 80s and 90s households. It was a great series full of this kind of clash of the eras and old tech. Looks like there's copies of it floating about on KZbin.

[@zwz.zdenek]

Such vintages might prove too difficult to replicate. You can't just install a coal stove and start a farm for a KZbin video. Well, you technically could, I guess.

[@anakhanair_]

Nah nah

[@unnam3d__]

90s

[@justpaul899]

@@CountScarlioni Thank you for the referral! Looks like a great series!

[@SamuraiGuy]

The scene of going to get pizza from pizza hut convinced me that anything can look nostalgic if you film it with an old camera.

[@Wilmer778]

Really interesting, yes!! That's what I asked my dad a couple of years ago whilst watching a Pink Floyd documentary: "did the 70's really look like that?" His answer: "of course not!! Yes, those cars and phones; etc did, but apart from that and fashion-wise, nothing's changed really." What he meant (of course) was that, in the 70's, a tree didn't really look like it's filmed with a VHS cam/recorder. :P

[@mariomaniac581]

It's interesting to think of how our perception of the past got shaped by the ability to document we had available at the time. Of course the world wasn't in black and white in the 30's, and ancient Egyptians weren't actually stick people doing funky dance moves all the time. But it does seem to be how we collectively remember it. I wonder if in a century, we will be remembered trough a snapchat filter or something

[@SamuraiGuy]

@@mariomaniac581 I didn't even think about how we'll be perceived. I assume we'll be perceived through our 2D videos. Obviously, we aren't living in 2D, but it's the only way most people can currently record their lives.

[@nathan_408]

@@Wilmer778 your dad is right, even the architecture is the same, It would be a big change to go to 1920, not the 70's or 80's

[@wasaaapdroid9477]

It's not filmed with an old camera. The rolling shutter is obvious and 80s camera's didn't have those.type of sensors. Also 80s video camera's were seriously bulky. No way the in-car shots could have been made with a 80s camera. This video is largely fake, presumably to make a point. But it is fake. For instance the smoke on top of the tv is just stock smoke and the mozart music is taken from a digital source, not a walkman.

[@JonatasAdoM]

I inherited most of those technologies. This video is like going back to the past.

[@gorgeollion4310]

I was born in 2000 but this retrowave content makes me feel kind of nostalgic for something I never saw.

[@HitPointX]

Probably from all the millennials/gen-y doing whatever they can to keep some of the 80's/90's vibes alive (the music alone still holds up). Now you have zoomers bringing back the baggy retro attire of the 90's.

[@muzakkiwangjoo93]

Early 2000 belongs to 90s

[@yurukiiOWO]

1999 here. same thing, grew up in the 2000’s but i always feel nostalgic for the 80s despite never living them.

[@GabrielFariaOQue]

I'm from 1994, but as a poor guy from a third world country, I had the CRT TV, watched some Video K7 in my cousin's house and I even had an ATARI videogame. So I feel the nostalgy by myself. I even had a walkman in early 2000s, that really was really good.

[@ShiroCh_ID]

2003 here,still somewhat feels nostalgic

[@HitPointX]

I grew up in the 90's but most of my family kept everything from the 80's (hell even the 70's) and let me tell you, some of the wonky "pre-internet" age tech was a joy to behold. Simplicity perfected. Music unmatched. Everything had an aura about it that can't quite be put into words, but Liam here came pretty damn close! Please put this into a series and do 90's next :D

[@windyhawthorn7387]

I grew up in the 90s and we where still using the TV that my dad grew up with. And he was born in the 50s. My parents said if it's not broken don't replace it. Eventually around 2000 we had to buy a TV because our TV repair man could no longer fix it.

[@parkmallbaby]

Heck our 90s was basically the 80s. 1990s finally came to me in 1996.

[@playlistenthusiast]

​@@parkmallbabyIt seems like every first half of a decade is like that. Early 2000's felt like the 90's. It's 2023 now but my tech is all from pre-2020.

[@parkmallbaby]

@@playlistenthusiast The early 2000s was different for me though because I was a teenager and we really tried to be "cool" and hip with the times 😄 but I see your point. Techwise it was still all very much an extension of the 90s.

[@Kotifilosofi]

I feel like the tech of every decade had an individual aura: - 80s: tech is the real businessmen business - 90s we're making everything smaller and more practical, all the cool kids gonna have all the gadgets! - 2000s: the era of decorative tech with that playful future space time vibe. Every gadget getting microscopic. - 2010: you know what, we actually want it to look cool and simple, and bigger is better! - 2020: actually it was nice to have smaller clap phones back in the days. But guess what, still gonna make it a smartphone! Tech is everywhere, you breath it, you live it, don't even notice it.

[@jackblack7850]

A couple of things that would’ve made your life a little easier: 1) phone book. They used to dump books on your doorstep that had everyone’s number printed inside so you could order that pizza in comfort 2) moviefone. There used to be a phone number you called to get movie showtimes. It was listed in the aforementioned book of phones 3) broadcast TV. We used rabbit ears to pick up channels broadcast over the air for free. 4) Nintendo Entertainment System. C’mon man, no NES?

[@christinawatkinsyoutube]

The childlike joy that you have ordering buying the stuff and getting pizza and watching a movie is exactly why I really think we should all just still live in the 80’s 😂

[@fastica]

I’m 43 and I remember playing a lot of board games and all kind of card games in the 80s. Visits to the video rental stores to pick my movies for the weekend were awesome too. Also, I read a LOT of magazines… and I remember people smoking everywhere, even on planes and cars with the windows shut. Oh, man, nostalgia is kicking in…

[@tapikoBlends]

wait ) "smoking everywhere, even on planes" what ? )

[@johnl1685]

@@tapikoBlends Yes. You could smoke on planes, trains, busses and even in movie theaters.

[@nirmalsuki]

@@johnl1685 Pregnant women smoked and drank in the 80s. The Tobacco companies hid data that smoking was bad for you from the 60s onward.

[@MrCobalt]

@@tapikoBlends Yup! There even used to be little ash trays built into the armrests.

[@tapikoBlends]

@@Luke5100 i am from post -soviet Georgia . it's weird to read this )

[@EchoBravo370]

Put away your cell phone, your internet, your flat screen TV. We are living in the land of landlines, ancient personal computers, boxy TV's with 5 channels, radio and library cards As a Gen X, can I say the 80's was still amazing and we had a GREAT time.

[@burnt_bagel2489]

Man as a Gen Z I can only DREAM of being raised during the 80's. Looked like a blast ngl

[@carlinkag2525]

Five channels? Bruh, I was born in 1997 and we only had four channels 😅 I am South African though

[@cupidfrr]

id rather not

[@lennystudios3.14]

Man, even as a gen Z (saying that hurts lmao), I can say most of this stuff is as good or equally as good as ours. It has a great charm to it, and I love it. I own an apple II+, an SNES, and some other collectibles. All bangers.

[@lesser-known9012]

L take, anything before the 2010s seems like a horrible time period, you just miss your childhood, stop lying to yourself.

[@edumcl2607]

At 10:42 I swear I heard "The Power of Love" coming ! Great video, bro! Thanks!

[@kaylaa2204]

“I love this keyboard” welcome to the world of mechanical keyboard supremacy. There’s a reason mechanical keyboards are so popular amongst people really into computers. It’s just very nice to use a mechanical keyboard. It’s also very easy to clean and repair, that’s very big advantage

[@NosebleeddeGroselha]

I love this. It's shot as an 80s VHS of a lonely teenager messing around in his house with a camera he shouldn't be using, but he has Gen Z energy. You look like a time traveler, this is so great LMAO

[@WalterWhite34654]

Yeah his videos are cool

[@BeanGuy01]

why he can't use it?

[@user-pb8ej4et4p]

Gen Z × energy??

[@WalterWhite34654]

@@user-pb8ej4et4p he said he has "gen z energy"

[@caitlynm.9413]

I actually thought he had 80s kid energy! A certain happiness we grow up with until the internet beats it out of us. Lol.

[@littlelonny]

I feel like usually KZbinrs are either really talented (when it comes to videography and editing) or have a banging personality. How does it feel to tick all the boxes?

[@jeebus022]

I guess my house is somewhat stuck in the past. Still got cassette tapes, still got books, I gave my old VHS player to my mom last year, I still have that 80s alarm clock/radio that everyone had, still have physical media, etc. Maybe that's why this video didn't hit me that hard.

[@speakstheobvious5769]

1:17 The clock even says 12:00 AM. Just like all of our VCRs did in the '80s... Yeah, no one could figure out how to set it. If figured it out, they would have forgotten how to do it after the first power outage.

[@kenfreeman8888]

As someone who experienced the 80s as futuristic (it was all new at the time), this was a fun video to watch.

[@Thispersonhere82]

As an 80s kid, I found this so nostalgic. I was smiling the whole time 😝 💕

[@dback50]

Finally someone from the 80’s who can testify 😂😂😂

[@belindaweber7999]

I laughed when I felt emotional nostalgia about the video cassette inserting sound!

[@andaurora1174]

Haha! I will also have to show my mom, she’s from the 80’s as well!

[@venkatprasad1102]

We never really realise how easy technology has made our lives easy and we take it for granted . The tech and the creators of the tech are really super heros

[@WulfricTheRed]

The primary difference between the 80's and today is that everyone was comfortable with long streachs of silence, and being alone with just their thoughts to keep them entertained.

[@theFLICKpick]

I wish this was still our reality...

[@aruvielevenstar3944]

This was so much fun! I am 52 and I was 17 in 1987. I didn’t have a computer in those days, but I learned programming at school, ( Basic, MS Dos, Pascal) but forgot everything. Because I never used it afterwards. I learned to type on a typewriter, a computer was very unpractical in those days. Something for games. In my work as a nurse we didn’t use a computer at all. The Walkman was really the thing in the 80’s, aearobics was in the early ‘80’s very popular. We listened to Madonna, and Depeche Mode, OMD Etc. We read books, and wrote in our diaries. And hang out with friends or watched movies indeed. In the cinema or VHS 😊

[@aruvielevenstar3944]

@@Luke5100 YES everybody did that, except me, I never liked it and thought it was gross. At work they smoked constantly and you were stupid if you say something about it. Even when my colleagues were pregnant they kept smoking!

[@domdominique2603]

We are Gen X! 😊

[@aruvielevenstar3944]

@@Luke5100 true, I was born in 1970, everybody smoked. When my mom was in labor of me, ( in the Netherlands home birthing was normal) the doctor smoked a cigarette when I came out my mom. Those were the days 😵‍💫. I actually never saw my grandfather, he smoked heavily and I only remember him sitting in his chair with smoke all around him. Arguing with everybody.

[@highbyedd]

its so nice when you have memories of something fun, TELL ME HOW PLEASE I BEG YOU I WANT TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING RAFNEWFNENFAENFEWNFNAEFN EFPEALSE PELAS EPLEASE

[@khansamadine252]

omg my mom was 21 in 1987!

[@jcortese3300]

This was so nostalgic, but I admit I was laughing and loving it right up until you said "40 years ago," upon which point I was like SH*T I'M OLD.

[@gereksizbirisii]

Lmaoo😂❤

[@ChickenSandwich-vi8bz]

Me watching my early gen z stuff:

[@miamitten1123]

1:53 _"That's a problem for future Liam"_ I give my future self soooo much unnecessary issues.

[@MashiloMagongoa]

😄😄😄😄

[@da9elbP]

1987 is 40 years already?

[@MK-xd5wg]

This is the real reason why we have so many asmr and fidget gadgets...people miss the 80s.

[@chrisjames8997]

A year ago I was transferring family VHS recordings to my M1 Mac mini and editing those videos. That was a blast to the past, just like this. I appreciate how technology has evolved. The fact I can watch Star Wars or type documents on a phone or tablet while riding a bus and still take pictures is a remarkable testament to progress. Netflix destroyed the video rental store market and ironically destroyed its original means of doing that in 20 years. And again, I can use Netflix on my device.

[@shannonfeaver452]

Please make this a series! I’d love to see 90s or 00s. I know things aren’t greatly different but it’s still cool to watch and it feels nostalgic

[@bluefungi]

Just go thru all the decades. 1910s 1920s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 00s.

[@Bumbaclot213]

Skip the 00s

[@bricktasticanimations4834]

@@Bumbaclot213 Is that because it's from the 21st century?

[@commenter4368]

@@Bumbaclot213Nooo the 00's are cool

[@commenter4368]

⁠@@bluefungiI don't even know if any decade later than the 40's/50's would be possible! But that would be really cool.

[@itskoder]

love how the sony walkman still holds up to this day. honestly a genius invention.

[@hometownscenes3711]

The best time to be alive! 🥰 I loved the end of the 80's, the 90's and the beginning of 2000's❤

[@Mono_117]

11:41 "yeah, yeah Ill be right there hunny!" This had me dying 🤣

[@mountstneonstudios]

First time viewer here. A friend sent me the link, and I'm glad he did. As someone who grew up in the 80's, I can honestly say that the stresses and anxiety of the time was definitely a LOT different compared to today. It "wasn't a simpler time," but it was definitely a time that thrived via in-person exchanges. I feel as though things were a bit more magical then. More mechanical. Maybe kids that grew up in the 2000's feel the same magic with there childhood as well. It IS crazy to think that the 1980's are the equivalent of 1940's for teenagers now. Time is weird, and nostalgia is more addictive than any hardline drug. Wonderful work here, mate. Looking forward to more.

[@StarkWhisper872]

02/2001. You're correct; I reminisce about the noughties probably a lot more than I should, all the things we used to do, but don't anymore, at least not for many, many years.

[@anakhanair_]

​@@Luke5100you really painted a picture with your description of the 80s , that's exactly how i picture the 80s to have looked like. Mostly I know about the 80s fashion ,colourful maximalist makeups and hair dos ,mullets and punk music. Lots of cool things originated from the said era.

[@Kotifilosofi]

Nostalgia as a phenomenon is actually one of my greatest interests in life. I wonder why the things we had in the childhood hit so different. Is it something about the childhood development itself, or will everything look equally nostalgic when enough time has passed? Also, it's super interesting how they use nostalgia in marketing, especially lately.

[@Robertscorner1]

Being born in 1980, I have some insight on this .If you had a question in the 80's the place to go was usually the library or someone who knew more then you. Pretty much no one had cell phones, just land lines. At 6pm the tv would be on the news, for one it was of the few way to get the weather report. The newspaper was vital, good for finding upcoming events, yard sales, tv guides, ect. Want to invest in stocks, the wall street journal was a must. Friday was a common time to run down to the video store. 7pm you are likely watching whatever the hit show was. FYI, that camcorder is more like 90's tech then 1980's. 1980's camcorders took full size vhs tapes.

[@ambientsounds321]

I well remember full size VHS cameras, I was the proud owner of a Panasonic M7. It came in its own handy dandy suitcase for your convenience and you couldn't record long enough to fill a three hour VHS tape without a spare battery that was big enough to run a motorcycle lol. On the plus side you could stick your favourite tv channel logo on the side and look like a news camera man

[@gxc90]

...and if one is fortunate enough, a Betamax VCR.

[@DrakusRecords]

My dad rented a camcorder in 1985, it was just the camera, you needed to hook up your vcr to it to record it to tape, so we would have to drag the vcr around on a rolling table with chords hooked up to the handheld camera to film anything. In 1988 he bought camcorder that had the vcr built into it. That was really cool to play with. Me and my sisters would make movies with it. Lots of fun. The 80s was the golden age for video games too. We had Atari, Collecovision and eventually a Nintendo Entertainment System. It came with the zapper (for duck hunt) and the robot for gyromite. I still have it and it works and my nieces and nephews love playing with it, but it only works on a CRT tv so I keep one around just for that purpose. Our first computer was a Tandy 1000 my Dad bought in 1987. It came with "The Black Cauldron" a 1986 Sierra game based on the 1985 Disney film no one remembers. This was one of the old Sierra graphical adventure games (like King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest and Leisure Suit Larry). Those games were Dark Souls hard before Dark Souls and the narrator would make fun of you for dying. The internet was around, but we didn't get hooked up to it until 1994 when my Dad subscribed us to prodigy. So we basically had to rely on our own brain power to solve some of the most logic defying puzzles you could think of, and often you'd unknowingly wind up in a loss state by missing a crucial item earlier in the game, or crossing a bridge one too many times. My dad didn't let us call into the sierra hint line because it was a 900 number that costed a fortune and I didn't start buying hint books and strategy guides until I was older and had bit more money to spend in the 90s. I didn't beat The Black Cauldron until I got the hint book over five years after getting the game. Another fun thing to do in the 80s was make mix tapes. We would try to record off the radio, but this was imperfect as we'd often miss the beginning of the song. My family had a decent record collection so we would record off of those, but sometimes the records would skip or have too many "crackles". So when we bought a new record, we would often record it to tape immediately so that it would capture the sound before the record got worn down and we could play it in the car or our walkmen. In 1988 we got a Compact Disc Player. This was much better as CDs had a much cleaner sound and didn't skip as much. I had a lot of fun making all sorts of crazy mix tapes using CD's and was doing it well into the 90s until I got my CD burner and started making mix CDs instead. MP3's kind of killed the artform though. Sure you could create playlists, but you couldn't really give it to someone the same way you could give a mix tape or mix CD to someone. And giving your mix tape to a friend was sort of the whole point of making them.

[@EV-wp1fj]

Dewey decimal system! Know it, love it, rifle through the many many index cards!

[@user-wz9vp8pu3q]

0:49 his voice. That voice makes him sound mental.

[@ultimatebg6010]

I LOVE THE CAMERA QUALITY 😮😮😮😮😮

[@aseretbrown]

Even though I'm a 2000's kids, both my parents were teens in the 80s and so much of their technology I grew up with in my childhood. Most of my first movies were on VHS tapes, and my first songs were from prime 80's. Thanks for the nostalgia. : )

[@FXG4MERR]

I'm the same as you, but 90s/ mid 2000s as well as 80s. I don't think I really interacted with post-2005 media until i was 10 or so.

[@user-vp8mu5fj7o]

I was born mid nighties, most things were still VHS even in 2004-2005... Most of us born after the 80s were still using 80s tech because it was still about for quite a while before we moved on to higher tech.

[@aeughcarrot]

You are officially a human being!!! Unlike these 2010 kids

[@glaxb17]

The only thing that had changed in the early 2000s, were smaller cellphones and the beginning of the internet (56k, nobody really used it, so pretend it didn't exist) the rest of the widespread technologies were the same as in the 80s... (I'm from '87 so I remember it well, this is the stuff I grew up with) obviously I'm talking about Europe (maybe it was different in the United States, but I don't think so...) as pc my father had an amiga, sometimes he made me play with it (with the knob joystick, like the knob of an arcade station but only two buttons, one on each side, probably to allow use by a left-handed person as the second button was impossible to use) Q-bert, pac-man,another world, and much more games...(real social change came with smartphones and tablets,and above all social networks) this has changed the priority in the very young, growing them totally addicted to the internet, today tablets and social networks are the new babysitters

[@user-10021]

This always makes me feel so weird, also being a 2000s kid but my parents are from the 60s 💀💀 I was always jealous of everyone as a kid, having cool young parents while I had grumpy fossils

[@LauraGYoung]

"This is the first time I've bought a newspaper in my whole life...." "It's making a sound...do I just dial a number?" As someone who experienced the 1980s firsthand as a teenager, this was fascinating. P.S. I think younger people are getting "cell phones" confused with "cordless phones" that they're seeing in the films of the era. In the 80s, cell phones were super rare and seen as toys for rich corporate executives. I didn't use one myself until well into the 90s. Best wishes, L

[@SO-ym3zs]

Very true. You might see a tycoon use a cell phone in a movie, but no "normal" person had a cell phone in the 80's. It was all land lines.

[@jonathan3141]

Coverage was also poor. I remember phoning (using my landline) someone who was using one - must have been late 80s - and it was frustrating as the quality of the sound was so rubbish and his signal was dropping in and out

[@derekheeps1244]

Indeed , we had cordless phones back then , usually with the telescopic aerial you pulled up , and initially there was just one base set and one cordless handset ; later you had one base set and several cordless handsets . Cellular ( or mobile as they are called here in Scotland ) phones didn't really exist here in Scotland ; there were VHF radio carphones for corporate use, such as Air Call , where you called an operator and they connected you ( my father had one for his business back then ) , but it really was the very late 80s before cellular phones became a thing here , and it must have been the early 90s before I got my first one , the Motorola MR1 on the Orange network ( known as the Star tac flip phone in the US ) , before moving on to a series of Nokia handsets , and eventually to a Handspring Treo 600 , and then a Palm Treo 650 , which were my first smartphones , and which i still have in a drawer somewhere . I remember going on holiday to italy with the Treo 650 and being able to access the internet whilst on a boat going down Lake Garda , thinking this is cutting edge !

[@nickthaskater]

This was beautiful. Thank you, algorithm. ❤

[@warriorlink8612]

"No notifications and pizza", welcome to the 1980s! In your video, I know that you mention some days were boring, and you didn't have a smartphone to just whip out when needed. So, imagine that everyone else around you was in the same boat. You might go outside more, talk to people more often in person, make plans with friends several days in advance. You trusted people more, and relied on other people more. You didn't have everything delivered to your door. You had to plan, make a list, go out shopping and interact with others more. To understand if a product was good or bad you talked to other people about it. When you open your newspaper on a park bench there is someone else next to you with their paper opened up, and it was fine just to discuss some of the headlines with them (no comment sections, just people talking). If you went for a run in the park with your Walkman, you might see someone else running. After a few days of seeing each other, one of you would likely start talking to the other and asking if they wanted to run together. You ask them what they listen to, and that's how you hear of new bands and albums. People were so much more connected in the 1980s and 1990s. As someone who has lived through the 1980s and after, I can tell you it is a fact that the internet and smartphones have divided and isolated all of us in ways that it would take me too long to type here. Make efforts to connect with other people. Disconnect from social media and digital media and go out boldly into the wide and real world. Talk to people, see people in person, make new friends, and you may find that you treasure those relationships more than you thought you would.

[@daniel22zz22]

I may show this to my students in a Media Literacy class. The only two things I would add as a 1981 baby is that we wouldn't have used a cell phone even if it was available, we would have used land lines for everything, and second, that in the 1980s we didn't sit in a house by ourself all day like we do today. We would go out and meet friends because that was more interesting that sitting in front of a smoking TV.

[@nachgeben]

Speak for yourself. Just because you were fucking lame and had lame parents, that doesn't mean we all missed out on being horrifically bullied to a point we hid inside with our VHS's and game consoles, until school saw our parents with their brick cell phones and realized we were wealthy, and took on sucking up to us but it was too late because the trauma was set, so we kept locked inside with Labyrinth and other frightening 1980s materials in our formative years. I'm completely normal and my parents had the brick goddammit.

[@dylanshimmi851]

back when our cities were walkable

[@monumento.f.501]

@@dylanshimmi851 the cars were smaller, one could jump over them.

[@drgnarm]

We spent our summers at the public pool or rode our bikes to the lake. Both parents were at work and didn't have a clue where we were, but they trusted that we'd be home at the end of the day. lol

[@ninjagaming3k]

Sitting in front of a smoking TV while smoking* 🤣

[@s109apache7]

This just shows that we can live normal lives without having to have all these crazy technologies with you today unfortunately all people do is sit in screens all day

[@pagejames8754]

Those of who are more than 25 years old already knew that ... We lived it 😆

[@timothywyatt72]

I did. It was nice. I miss when I could leave me house and be gone. I really really do.

[@manchesterexplorer8519]

@@pagejames8754 more like 35 years old

[@cantin8697]

You could, as long as other people allowed it. That's the problem. It's so expected to be on your phone all day that we're starting to need them to access basic things. Also, ironic for someone sitting on their screen typing this comment (and likely hundreds of others) to say. Also, is being on social media all day really worse than sitting in front of the TV all day? I'd say the latter is actually less productive.

[@danb1618]

@@timothywyatt72😂😅

[@starrimoss7377]

in 20 years there will be videos like this of the 2020s 😭😭

[@le_mon_ade]

I love how all this 80s tech stuff looks

[@TheMarkShenouda]

Bro, 80s video recording relied soo much more on story telling, that's why it was more quality. None of this gimmick stuff. Pure entertainment. Good job

[@macadelic2492]

Most kids will never know the joy of collecting physical copies of music 😂

[@PotterPossum1989]

I still do. I'm 34 and if the Internet goes down, everything is lost.

[@dragon13304]

I'm 29 and I have a collection of 300 plus CDs and about 20 Vinyl

[@ENOINN]

Maybe it isn’t as common when it comes to western artists anymore but physical copies still prevail in kpop and jpop.

[@Rr0gu3_5uture]

Around 80% of music is still streamed, but last year vinyl sales overtook CDs. The first time since 1987.

[@Dorelaxen]

The fact that I can now go into Wal-Mart and Target and buy brand new vinyl records is absolutely mind blowing to me.

[@DOSputin]

"Crocs - arguably the greatest technological invention of all time" could not agree more.

[@MsZoombye]

It was heartwarming to see you working on the Mac se. That was my first computer at my first job after college! I miss the 80s!❤

[@rob-time]

From those of us who were your age in the 80's, thanks. It was exciting to live it as much as it was to see it re-lived through you.