GEN X CHANGED HIGH SCHOOL FOREVER! | GEN Z Kid Reacts

[@andreavaughn854]

I wouldn't give up living in the 70's and 80's for anything. I'm so thankful to be born when I was. It's been a ride!

[@DaughterofDarkness]

Amen! I second that emotion!

[@aliciasavage6801]

passing notes wasn't just for lovers, we passed notes for almost everything. it was texting before texting. Cigarettes weren't allowed in school but it was common for people to go and smoke in the bathroom to try to "sneak" it in, it could be easily flushed if needed. My high school however had a specific smoking section for students to use.

[@TheReluctantCarnivore]

I graduated 1986. Went to high school in Texas & California. Both schools had smoking sections. Not allowed inside, but a certain area outside.

[@amydameron3928]

My junior year 84/85 they tried to make our highschool a closed campus and gave us the downstairs bathroom and baseball field to smoke.

[@nininoona]

I graduated in 1995 and we had a smoking section for students until 93. Only teachers were allowed to smoke on campus after that. We still smoked though, just ended up going into the woods behind where the shop class was held.

[@RobertBreedon-c3b]

Hell we had a teacher that was an old hippie and used to go outside and smoke with us

[@RobertBreedon-c3b]

@@TheReluctantCarnivore 85 here Wow will be 40 years this coming June

[@eugenettemorin4893]

Mix tapes were how we told each other how we felt 🙂 Each song was carefully chosen for it's message or beat. We gave them to all the people who were important to us and each was personalized and spoke to that one person through song. Sometimes it took weeks to get all the songs wanted from recording straight off the radio.

[@Renkk17]

I feel so Sorry for anyone born after Gen X....... technology took over and they miss out on nature and real connection with others!!

[@EmmaBadOne]

The digital revolution has done more damage than the industrial revolution.

[@Themuffinman1820]

I would say anyone after like 1990. I was born in 88 and most of our tech till hell 2006 was 80s or older. We didn't get a computer till 2000

[@Gargamel19]

Yeah I'm an 86 kid and my family was poor AF so we didn't actually have a.comoiter in our house until the early 2000s. I was actually resistant to getting one, didn't care that much about the internet, and prefered to go outside and see friends lol. ​@@Themuffinman1820

[@xxlordbelxx1368]

@@Themuffinman1820 Generations aren't absolute to the year. Many Gen X kids came out up till 90 given the age, attitude, and financial status of their parents. Likewise there are Millennials that were 25 before 2k, simply affording to be in the know about all the new tech and schools of thought.

[@j.m.3460]

As a Gen Xer I think cell phones would’ve been great to have for communication, but social media would’ve been a nightmare. So glad many of our cringiest moments don’t exist beyond our memories lol 💚

[@deathwisp1]

Can you imagine looking at all the Glamour Shots lol

[@yvettebeck6367]

Not having a phone was awesome! We weren't in trouble until we got home. No mom calling spoiling all the fun. 😁

[@mystiwyatt2783]

💚Gen X highschool was a blast. But I would be wrong not to admit that I am jealous of how easy research projects are now versus then.

[@kennethsmith6367]

Soooooo many hours in the library after school, for major projects.🫤

[@yvettebeck6367]

The Dewey Decimal System 🥴

[@RhinoaLunar]

That scene where Kurt Cobain gets up and drops his guitar was a badass moment. He saw a woman in the crowd being attacked and got up to call out the two guys assaulting her. He had security get them out of his show and made sure she was safe.

[@victorclemente-mt4to]

Passing notes was as normal as sending a text/DM today. Imagine 30 years from now the youth asking if you really sent messages over your phone, was that really a thing???

[@jenchem42]

TOTALLY agree!

[@serratedchimera3871]

Passing note= the original text message and going to the library was the original Google lol..

[@noizynaybah5827]

Passing notes was the only form of communication

[@hgoodin1013]

I still have my notes from high school. Every once in a while I'll pull them out and read them. A lot of times I have no idea what they were about because we would put them in code in case anybody else found them. 😅

[@stoffel880]

i had a box full of them, i got rid of it when i was in my second serious relation (i was like 33) when she was looking through my old stuff, when we read those notes, i barely remembered any of them but the peoples faces just flashed through my mind

[@curlygal7315]

Exactly! I still have a ton of notes from my best friend in Junior High and High School and boyfriends.. it was extremely normal.

[@DreidMusicalX]

Meeting in the bathrooms and telephones also existed. Word of mouth was another of having your friends tell something to others. Shit, dude, we even had telegraphs set up between our houses for some of us.

[@KatyFaulkner-f6c]

There are good things about now, like calling when I have car trouble etc. But, growing up when we did, we had to use imagination create our own fun, meet up with friends constantly (Live) and spend hours and hours out in nature and not sitting in a room just staring at our phones. So, I would never want to have grown up like Gen Z. But, I do like a lot of the convenience we have now.

[@makingchanges64]

Passing notes wasn’t just in class. When passing your bestie or a crush in the hall, that was your opportunity to give them that note. I still have notes from high school from my female friends, and notes and poems that guys wrote me. 😁

[@ginaheller333]

Passing notes was very common. My Dad found some of my notes from the day, and he asked me why he has such a potty mouthed daughter.

[@nininoona]

I absolutely feel you on this one. My folks asked me the same thing.

[@ginalouise1985]

Lol

[@TheAwetist802]

Gen Xer, Class of '89. The 80s were a time of some pretty strict categories of cliques and each clique had their own "uniform" or preferred fashion sense. Preppies, jocks and cheerleaders, alternative kids (the proto-Goths and Emo youth), metalheads ,"freaks", brains (honor roll students aiming for Ivy League colleges/universities), "holdover hippies and deadheads" (those were the tie-dye and love-bead wearing kids who listened to 60s music and/or were huge Grateful Dead fans and they later on went on to become Grunge fans and/or Phish heads)... there was some little bit of overlap and a few sub-groupings (those of us who were alternative but in art club or drama were called "artfags" by those who really hated us, for instance)... And music was VERY much a signifier of what your style was, back then. If a metalhead also liked, say... Madonna or Duran Duran or The Cure, they never even whispered it or they would risk ridicule or bullying. It was scandalous for someone of one clique to date or be close friends with anyone of another clique.

[@jujut5655]

Class of 89! I was a new waver, but had goth and metal head friends. Depends Mode was my favorite, so I was into a lot of synth bands.

[@Dark_Harmony]

At first, I didn't understand why others called ALL of us 'Art Fags.' I think I figured it out a few years after graduating. And I was a mix of enjoying the alternative/modern/college rock most of the high school kids wasn't even listening to; the moldy oldies classic rock, & then finally able to blossom in the 90's as a full fledged hippie goth, immediately after my grunge moments. Though I still liked some pop music, like Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, & Prince. I really appreciate my artfag friends introducing me to the darker, or unusual side of things with U2, REM, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Dead Milkmen, The Cure, & so on. I already graduated when Nine Inch Nails took over my life.

[@seaprincesshnb]

@@jujut5655 Depends Mode...Enjoy the Dryness

[@UGSLive]

Passing notes absolutely. This was also when handwriting meant something and most people could write in cursive

[@marlomchenry1784]

A lot of Gen Z do not know how to read or write in cursive

[@ThatOldTV]

Yes, we sent love notes. So did Boomers and Millennials.

[@madhatter734]

Sharing the headphone with someone special WAS THE POINT... & making a MIX TAPE was HUGE.

[@KatyFaulkner-f6c]

All of it is very familiar to most of us. I was in high school a little later in the 80s than this but notes were passed and cigarettes were smoked in the bathrooms. The jelly stuff on the lunch tray is Applesauce (very common here).

[@richardbast7243]

Took a typing class in high school. I was the only guy in the class. Lots of notes were passed my way. Other guys were like, why you taking typing class, lol. Because computers are the future, numb-nuts.

[@BeerHeart]

Our school system had different career tracks that determined what courses you could take or not. The only people allowed to take typing were business/clerical students, I was college preparatory. I had to petition the school board for special permission to take typing. I pointed out that within 10 years it will be more important to know how to type than it will be to know how to drive because everyone will be using computers for work. I also quoted the policy manuals of several major universities that I was applying to which required research papers, essays, theses and dissertations be typewritten only. That did the trick and they let me in.

[@michaelhorvath4471]

i was told i didnt need to type,,, because secretaries where women till this day i would rather talk or handwrite over text/typing

[@nininoona]

On the subject of mixed tapes: Back in the day is was extremely common for teenagers to buy (and/or reuse) cassette tapes to make their own mix. But it wasn't just as simple as adding a song to your playlist like it is now. Then, you would have to spend HOURS listening to the radio for the songs you wanted and be quick enough to hit the RECORD buttons on your stereo so you could copy it. Basically, it was a form of piracy, back when kids rarely had any money to actually go buy albums at the store. The biggest frustration for 80s/90s kids doing this was when the dang DJ cut in before the song ended.

[@melissas4874]

I have heard that some apps are letting you make a "mixed tape" on their app (so the person you send it to has to use the app). And yes, the mixed tapes would be a mood or feeling maybe. Also, just owning a car was a status symbol at most schools. We passed notes and folded them in weird ways for any number of reasons even just to gossip or make plans for after school or the weekend. I'm GenX and I use to check my phone and scroll in the morning, but I started to feel I was a slave to this device and social media sites. I still check the phone, but it's more for the weather, see if I had text messages from family and that's it. It is weird they say avocado toast is GenZ because I thought that was a Paris Hilton thing. I only wish we had better computers at my school. I am a younger GenX so we had computers, but they were only for certain classes and not widespread use. Personally I feel for all of GenZ desire for connectivity, they become less social by relying on electronics and media for these connections. To make real connections interacting is the best even if it is just for a couple of hours a day. Twitter is not really interacting with others.

[@moonglow630]

I STILL have notes from friends in High School & I graduated 35yrs ago!!

[@SpringScapes]

... 35 years ago ! , that would make your age?........ Just kidding...

[@moonglow630]

@ I graduated at 17. I just turned 53…….and most ppl think I’m in my mid 30’s.

[@SpringScapes]

@@moonglow630 Lol, I'm 57. I love our generation.

[@GodSmackGoddess1]

I do also, but mine is a notebook me and my best friend had between each other. When we had the same class after each other we left the notebook under the chair in the holder.

[@KevinKaufhold]

Yes, passing notes during class happened all the time. Sometimes that was the only time you could communicate with someone all day because classes were often very far apart and time between lessons was very limited. We started in elementary school with notes “Do you like me? Circle Yes or No.”This continued throughout high school. We often had a splitter for the Walkman Jack where we could connect an additional set of headphones and later just sharing the corded earphones. Mix tapes we songs often recorded from the radio or if you were lucky, you had a dual cassette deck for dubbing. Each song was carefully selected to express your feelings about the recipient. Cars were a status symbol. We often hung out in the parking lot to see who was driving what and to admire our favorites. On the lunch tray, the mystery item was apple sauce. Very common in high school lunches. I’m so glad I grew up when I did.

[@jeffpowers7517]

In High School the electronics club had an illegal radio station that broadcasted all over the school campus and surrounding neighborhoods. At lunchtime they played the latest album of the day from Styx, Foreigner, Boston, Heart, Kiss, Ted Nugent, Dire Straits, Luther Vandross, War, Michael Jackson, etc.etc. This made the lunch room quiet and self managed because you couldn't rewind what you didn't hear and play it again.

[@hildajensen6263]

I had a laugh at your comment about the phone cord. The reason is that my job just hired a 24 year old. We have old desk phones and I happened to be next to him the first time he got a call. Poor guy almost panicked. I had to tell him to lift the receiver, say "hello" and ask what you can help with It was like the guy had never actually spoken in his smartphone either. Can that be? I mean, how does he maintain contact with grandma without that?

[@tennpsyc0316]

My high school had a smoking area, in the courtyard outside the cafeteria We prayed before football games and at the flagpole Had a "Bible Club" just like they had FFA, Latin Clubs or FHA We had no idea the things we were taking for granted. And yes, we did WRITE notes to our crushes and pass them strategically, trying to not get caught - resulting in it being taken and not reaching its destination. How the notes were folded, also a huge deal - And decorating the covers of our textbooks with paint/glitter pens ❤❤

[@djpaeg1]

Absolutely yes, we would pass notes to friends every single day. Many of our friends we would only see a couple of times per day and have different classes, so we would describe teachers and students in our classes to one another, write about crushes and activities, etc.

[@latoyalee2620]

💚 I've passed so many notes in school. From elementary school to high school in my schools days it was a big thing. Notes could range from gossip to do you like check the yes or no box lol. Those were some good old days.

[@arcky508]

I'm 45. I miss growing up in the 80's. It was a much simpler time. We had to make plans. Ride our bikes to go to a friend's house, regardless of the weather. We hung out without cell phone distraction. When my kid and his friends hang out, I swear they're texting each other while sitting next to each other. 🤦‍♂️

[@tjcuillier7024]

Aside from the ceiling light in my sisters bedroom, there wasn’t a single surface that didn’t have a Michael Jackson poster, article or magazine clipping. She even wrapped her light switch plate in MJ. We always passed notes. We never snuck a cigarette in school unless you didn’t care if you got suspended, but the school did have a designated smoking area on campus. We often recorded several mixed tapes with music that spoke to us or for different moods. No different than play lists of today.

[@paigeallen4899]

These poor young people... They think that the internet is somehow their friend. Being in high school in the 80s was so real. Not saying it was always fun but it was about being with others and knowing that you could trust in what you saw and heard. Gen Z will never know what they are missing and that's the sad part.

[@Wandering_Moonchild]

My day started with my favorite cassette, a shower, a pop tart and off we went and met in the corner to walk together to school, about 15 all together…. I loved my childhood❤❤❤❤

[@gerrygatzke5232]

It's not jelly. It's apple sauce. Mix tapes were tapes filled with recorded tracks from either the radio or albums. Check out the movie "High Fidelity" for a real insight into a Gen-X mix tape.

[@allenruss2976]

Notes were the only way to communicate in class. Most of the time they were just regular notes. Rich kids didn't drive old muscle cars. They simply drove new cars. The only school lunches that were edible was pizza and the fried chicken meals. Everything else was nasty. Double headphone personal stereos also worked with a passenger on a motorcycle

[@sharonrinkiewicz3940]

I was lucky when it was pizza day. There was a pizza place across the street from school, so on Fridays, pizza was delivered and lunch ladies just heated it up. The rest of the lunches were gross. The macaroni tasted like wall paper paste. School gave a choice of hot or cold lunch. Cold lunch was usually a ham sandwich.

[@Eniral441]

Muscle cars weren't rich kid cars (unless they were brand new). However, a lot more guys had them because they were powerful used cars they could work on. I knew quite a few people who bought those when they didn't run, and spent a lot of time getting them running and then some.

[@SpringScapes]

I was born in 67, the magical year, because we turned 13 and became teenagers at the beginning of 80's and were teenager's thru the whole decade. What a great decade.

[@rustydube1682]

Same here exactly how i feel.67 rocks

[@jennifercockrell7149]

The very first time I was asked out on a date was in Trigonometry when the boy in front of me passed me a note

[@jrafel1707]

Boomers: Brought up taught success in your workplace is your Identity. Women couldn't even get a bank account or a loan without a man cosigning at a bank. 1970's the economy tanked, Inflation skyrocketed, and women went into the workforce. (Work is so very important). Hence we have Gen X where both parents were now working very hard and long hours -> Gen X or latchkey kids. More independent and adventurous as they had to learn much on their own and become more independent faster. Most also embraced and learned as much as they could about technology.. Technology was the future .... -> Millenials. Amazing how each generation actually "Makes" the next.

[@TheReluctantCarnivore]

@@jrafel1707 my husband is on the young side of boomer & I’m Gen X. He got a city job with a union and pension because that’s how he was raised. I became an independent contractor with my own business because working a job for someone else didn’t work for me. I was more rebellious & anti authority. There’s a 5 year difference between us and we’re complete opposites! It’s worked for 30 years so far though.

[@ginalouise1985]

@@TheReluctantCarnivoreAwwww!

[@Booboo_7577]

I would love to go back to the gen x times before electronics. Electronics has dumbed down everyone. No one has to rely on there own brains to remember anything anymore. No one wants to get together and just hang out anymore. Social get togethers are almost never anymore. If you can't do it online no one wants to do it at all. It has made people weaker, mentally, and physically. Damn I miss the good days.

[@richardbast7243]

Jr High (middle school now) I experienced my first food fight in the cafeteria. It started when the song; 'Another One Bites The Dust' by Queen was playing. The drums sounding like a machine gun and food flying everywhere.

[@kristinnama1391]

When I got my driver's license at 16, in 1982, my parents gave me their Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. It was pretty scruffy but my two best friends did not get their driver's licenses until they were 18 yrs old so they bummed rides off me.

[@Cocreatewithus]

Pass notes? Heck yeah! We folded them up in ways you wouldn't understand and passed them quietly through the classroom to it's recipient. It was the only way to communicate when not in between classes.

[@MarySmith-fe9vt]

I had my wall covered in posters and pictures from teen magazines lol - before pictures were saved on the internet you had to put them somewhere

[@sasapetroski981]

Me youngest gen x 1980 and was listen music on walkman during 90s and 00s 😊😊😊😊cindy lauper, Scorpions, guns and roses. Gen Z can't live without internet, to much looking at screen bad for eyes

[@dawnmarieallenkent2495]

We wpuld literally sit by the radio with a cassett recorder... or if you were lucky youd have a "boom-box" woth a record feature. And if you missed a song, you'd have to wait for the station to play it again. Both girls and guys would give each other mixed tapes to let them know how they felt. True Story...

[@MellyGoodrock]

💚 Gen X. I appreciate our old style tech. Might have been slow but it sure taught us patience! 😂😂

[@baimun]

Gen X teens and Gen Z teens are not that much different... except for the conduits of communication. We didn't have connected computers and cell phones, so the folded up notes passed back and forth or slid into a locker to get info to your friends next hour was our "DM" or "Email". We didn't have Spotify playlists or Instagram reels, so we used Mix-tapes to string together a playlist for driving, working out, partying, or romance. Even the social aspect of video games... we would spent hours and quarters getting good at a game in a local bowling alley or Pizza place so we could later drive to the big arcade downtown or at the mall to get our high scores with our initials up on the leaderboards for everyone to see. ☮💜🎶

[@amydameron3928]

GenXer here and we hung out at the arcade or Del Taco (fastfood) not a diner.

[@ReAllyT1978]

We didn't have a Del Taco until after 2010 where I'm from. We did arcades during the day but hung out on and cruised the "Ave" where I'm from.

[@QwarkE1]

my dude highschool notes was an art form it was origami

[@deathwisp1]

A mix tape was made by putting a blank audio cassette tape in a recorder, and waiting and praying the radio station would play the song you wanted so you could quickly hit that "record" button. A mix tape was a successful hunt. If you could catch it without the DJ speaking over the song, it was victory. You would build these tapes with strictly love songs for your crush, or maybe dance music to get ready for fun, etc. The object of your desire was often the recipient of the love song mix tape. You prayed they didn't reject it. Often it was given to a new boyfriend or girlfriend, as well.

[@clocke52]

Getting caught passing a note = getting caught passing state secrets...... Cause if you got caught, you had to stand at the front of the class and read it in front of everyone....

[@hgoodin1013]

We always used to put our notes in code. That way if anybody found them no one would know what they were talking about. Everybody had code names and various activities had code names.

[@richardbast7243]

12:20 By his arm is a poster with the original lead singer of AC/DC, Bon Scott.

[@gwendolenyoung4198]

I was blasting a very old performance of its a long way to the top just today it looks like they're in a very small school gym I love the clothes he wore, I dress like him today

[@diannad8933]

Yes, we did pass notes. It was our form of texting. We also would make codes, so if someone else got it, they wouldn't know what it said

[@NerdyNanaSimulations]

Mixed tapes were recorded off the radio ... not an easy task timing wise. I think if you told me I was going back but not to my generation which way did I want to go I'd go back farther rather than forward. A time of less stress, and more family interaction. A time when we didn't just talk about nature but interacted with it.

[@merfwriter]

When I started high school in 1997, I was worried about the smoking in the girls' room (at least that was the rumors). At my 9th grade high school orientation, my Mom asked the school nurse if I could go into the bathroom in the nurse's office instead. I remember talking to a guy friend for hours on my house landline phone in the late 90s/early 2000s. The late 90s/early 2000s were similar to the 80s, with the exception of the beginning of the internet.

[@merfwriter]

I prefer the simple high school days of Gen X because my Millennial high school experience was very similar.

[@angelaarsenault]

You need to know the bands. . . OMG. The Cure and Kate Bush are just AMAZING!!!

[@sopdox]

I’m an older Gen-Xer. Some of my longest lasting friendships were formed in chat rooms 25 years ago. Don’t pretend it’s a Gen-z thing.

[@savax1551]

what you had chat rooms as a teenager?

[@evildoom2862]

💚💚gen x

[@clairedeluna3585]

Have you seen Stranger things? Think of how the characters favorite song kept the bad guy away. Music lyrics is a sort of poetry. And a mixed tape, was something that took A very LONG TIME to do. So you did that because of how strongly you felt about that friend, or crush boyfriend/girlfriend or whatever. Passing notes was for everything. You just made sure not to get caught. 😅

[@j.m.3460]

💚 Unfortunately, I think the Gen Z social & environmental consciousness they talked about is now swinging in the opposite direction & being replaced by an endless craving for external validation (clout) and being envied by others. For Gen Z, it’s now out with Greta & in with Andrew Tate

[@Gargamel19]

Im an 86 baby BUT with a 1980 brother, i became a create of hus design, enjoying all the toys and fun ofnthe 80s on moms orders! Since we had to "share" all the time. Lol The oace of life was slower than it is now, and i miss being able to sit back with a good book and not have anyone bother me for hours. You could stay home for longer or be gone for longer before anyone thoight anything was up, because life was more about going outdoors and not staying inside all the time like it is now. Flying folded notes were called "footballs" and you could flick them with a really good range of precision instead of having to trust other people to get it all the way across the room to your person. 😆 Saturday nights at the local skate rink or bowling alley were the bomb! And we had to hurt each others feelings in person!! Lol.

[@revivahealing8437]

Always passed notes! If I was in a class where the teacher would try to snatch the note we would write notes on our sneakers.

[@amydameron3928]

As much as you text in a school day, we passed notes and if you were caught during class the teacher would read it out loud.

[@melisiasays]

As a Gen X I might look at my phone to check the time but other than that I usually forget about my phone. In fact I don't even know where it is right now. If someone calls I guess I'll find it.

[@russb24]

Mix tapes: before digital music, you had to live with whatever the radio stations played, or the order of songs on the artist's album. You couldn't just jump from one song to the next, except by changing radio stations. So a mix tape was on cassette, the first medium that most people could easily record at home. You could arrange songs in whatever order you liked, the first time you could create your own playlist. But you still couldn't skip songs, you just played your playlist straight through. So you'd come up with a list of songs that told a story, maybe a rehash of your past relationship where it starts with songs about falling in love, then cheating, then breakups, then getting over a bad love. Or another playlist you'd play for your girl that would convey what a great guy you were.

[@TheStefan6969]

It's funny.... we grew up having to know programming just use a computer starting, we literally invented basically everything that is now out, and yet Gen Z and Alpha like to act like we're clueless online and don't know how to do literally everything online forward and backwards. My kids from both those Gens find that out all too often!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@seansimms8503]

Right, I was in 6th grade when Computer Labs came into school, 1985, my dad bought a Commodore Plus 4 in 1987, he was a Computer Programmer for Caterpillar, that's an entire 11 years before my son was born😂I often remind him, the smartest guy I know is my dad😂a high school dropout, I was the first to graduate from high school but my son got a degree from University of South Carolina, I tell him dad was still smarter and he agrees cause he knew him.

[@Mem-pq8xi]

Mixed tapes were usually done by the person who owed the tape, u put on it whatever u liked, so u didn't have all the shit songs only what u wanted on the tapes.

[@ItsLaurenE]

The thing i appreciate more than reliving some great nostalgic moments is seeing how much you seem to enjoy watching and learning about past generations. Your thoughts , attitude and comments on the videos as you watch you can see you are enjoying what you're learning rather than just posting another random video and slapping a clickbait title on it. Your dedication to understand others from generations to lyrics in songs is marvelous for anyone at any age. I'm happy to be part of your journey. ❤

[@Profalllright]

So SAD the kids of today have NO REAL Friends ! They don't even know how to talk to each other and just hang out .. Seems like an empty life - Lonely .

[@kerriniemi9525]

I do my morning scroll too😊 This channel does great videos, thanks for putting us on to them💚 If you want the names of the bands, i could go on forever 💚 Oh definitely notes were passed💚 We had a smoking section outside the back door in highschool 💚 Apple sauce, on the food tray, top left I never ended up dating in highschool ☺️ We made mixed tapes from songs we wanted to share, and gave them💚 Gen X didn't really sit on the sidelines either, at least my circles💚 Sign o' the times💚💜 ✌️🌞💕

[@tdstellar5218]

💚 Very fun watching you remember our youth😂😂😂 The pictures are amazing, and many times those snapshots were followed by “Why do you take candid pictures of me? I’m NOT READY!”

[@Destyn2B]

Now he took me back with that Love's Baby Soft. 😂 Passing notes was so normal! We folded them to create a fancy pull tab. My friends and I actually had a notebook we wrote in since we shared a locker. We'd check to see if there was a new note added.

[@ronsuper100]

Passing notes during class (SoCal.1988) was common. It was a normal form of communication back then. If you were caught by the teacher passing notes, the teacher would read the note aloud to the class. I never saw any smoking of cigarettes in the school bathrooms. The music, movies culture were awesome! It was a great time to grow up!

[@mystiwyatt2783]

I had one class my senior year where three friends and I would pass a spiral notebook between us and we filled it in only a few weeks. My friend typed it out and printed a section of it on her dot matrix printer so we could all have a copy. That was 1991 and I still have it.

[@Julieroo28]

I passed a notebook back and forth with a guy I had a crush on. I wish I still had that notebook! We didn’t think the teacher saw us, but at the end of the year she said she just never said anything to us because we both had good grades. 😂

[@Dark_Harmony]

Passing notes was the same as sending texts. Very common. It was the only way to silently communicate with a friend several desks away, putting trust in your classmates to sneakily pass it along, & not keeping it for themselves to read things not meant for them to see. Most of the time, the teachers seemed to be oblivious, or didn't care too much, but disciplinary actions were taken if caught. Though I don't really remember what happened. Possibly detention. I've been in detention for things I don't remember. Probably that. Or maybe talking quietly, when there was zero tolerance for speaking to other classmates. Honestly, school wasn't always a fun place. The system sucks away every innate natural behavior kids need to grow up as better people, which involved socialization. They twisted it around to suit their own needs, which made kids like me unnaturally introverted.

[@jackiemiles5981]

Passing notes is like today's texting. Notes were going back and forth all day lol.

[@tjcuillier7024]

Aside from the ceiling light in my sisters bedroom, there wasn’t a single surface that didn’t have a Michael Jackson poster, article or magazine clipping. She even wrapped her light switch plate in MJ. We always passed notes. We never snuck a cigarette in school unless you didn’t care if you got suspended, but the school did have a designated smoking area on campus.

[@xxlordbelxx1368]

What you're not catching about the "notes" thing; is this was when phones were latched to the wall in the kitchen where your parents (if home) inevitably spent their time... There was no text messaging and if you wanted a private conversation with ANYBODY, you had to go somewhere away from people or write it down. There was no form of instant or text messaging yet. Email wasn't even a thing till the mid 80's. Love notes were only maybe half or less of notes passed. Most were about where to meet between classes/after school or conspiratorial activities, such as pranking the teacher, or a fight happening after school.

[@rogerboltin4508]

Did we pass notes? Hell yea! We had like an elaborate underground networks! Everyone new everyone's schedule so if you didn't have a clas with them you'd know where to pass them in the hall. Or you'd master which teachers were more serious about notes. It's like we were all training to be Jason Bourne without all the violence.

[@aallen1234]

"I don't think I recognize a single person on this screen." LOL! Most of them are famous Brits! 5:37 🤣🤣🤣🤣💚

[@susanphelps9674]

I work at a high school. These kids now are really interested in vinyl albums, buying turntables and a lot of vintage things from gen x generation.

[@cherylmaclean4349]

We had a actual smoking area at my high school. I live in Ontario, Canada. We called it the ‘V’ based on the location and it was actually allowed until around 1990. The whole ‘V’ was a meeting area because it was also a huge grassy area that we all met at in the springtime with blankets during lunch to eat, throw footballs and talk. Good times. 😊❤

[@christopherwanamaker828]

First off the cafeteria lunch, that cup that you thought was paste was actually apple sauce and those deep fried potatoes are called potato wedges or in the Pacific Northwest they are also known as Jo-Jo's. Second what is a mixed tape? A mixed tape was first created with a cassette tape and then later with CD-RW's CD discs, they were pretty much old school pick and choose playlist's of all your favorite songs from different musicians and albums mixed together on a pre-record cassette tape or CD disc but you can only fit a small amount of music on each. For mixed cassette tapes you could fit several to maybe a dozen songs on them. For mixed CD discs you might be able to fit 13-24 different songs, so the amount of storage space was limited. It's not like the days of IPOD's, Zunes, or Smartphones with unlimited data storage so you can create a digital playlist of 100,000-1,000,000 songs from hundreds of albums. And why would you create these mixed tapes or discs either for yourself to create your own personal playlist albums of all your favorite songs or to create them for friends, family members, partners, or even romantic crushes as a deeper form of passing a love note and yes when we were younger passing love notes to your crushes was a sweet but nerdy thing to do. As for what generation would I prefer, I would say my "Millennial" generation, I was born in August of 1985, which to me is a perfect blend of both Gen-X lifestyle and world with the slow development of technology that Gen-Z's grew-up with. Millennial's saw the rise of box floor TV's with channel turn knobs to more compact desk box TV's with remotes to Flatscreens, PC Computers to Laptop's to IPAD's, Cassette Tapes to CD's to IPOD's to digital platforms like Spotify, VHS tapes with VCR's to DVD's with DVD players to downloading digital movies and TV series on external hard drives to now online streaming platforms, Vehicles with stick shifts and clutches to automatics to hybrid cars to electric cars to now self-driving AI cars, the big brick first cell phone to large flip phones with pullout antenna's to smaller compact phones to blackberries to now smartphones. So Millennial's got a bit of both worlds. My current curiosity as a Millennial 9 months aways from hitting 40, wonders about Gen-Zer's and Alpha's knowing they grew up as digital natives, do any of you actually go out into the wilderness every now and then, go hiking, camping, mountain biking, horseback riding, and detox from all things digital every now and then for several days? I myself used to be a big gamer, but once I went military active duty and had some money saved up, I more wanted to go out into the world and conduct indoor/outdoor activities and travel around seeing and exploring what this world has to offer rather than stay at home all the time playing video games. Once I got really busy back in 2017-18, conducting full-time college classes, homework, part-time Lyft rideshare driving, and sleeping constantly I pretty much put down the XBOX controller and never picked it back up again because I'm always busy doing something to keep myself busy to make more of myself and my life. So, I haven't touched a video game in 6-7 years. I've never even played an online game before, only a disc game console game like Halo or Tomb Raider games. Heck I've never even used DoorDash or UberEats before, I always either cook my own food, go grocery shopping, or go pick something up myself and bring it home. So do Gen-Zer's and Alpha's ever go outside and walk away from their digital devices for a decent amount of time? Do they have any interest to actually explore and experience what this world has to offer?

[@Mimi_yaheard]

💚 the passing of notes were definitely a thing whether it was a crush or pledging friendship to your best friends. They were folded in intricate designs like oragami. Mix tapes were when you put together a tape of your favorite songs to express how you felt. Different mixtapes for different people based on how you related as friends. There was definitely the intention of sharing emotions and being vulnerable when doing this.

[@ron5934]

We made fun of, and talked down school lunches, but they were actually good. The staff in the kitchen were actually cooking, not boiling a bag of…something and pouring it into a serving pan. By the way, I think what you were wondering about on the tray was applesauce.

[@Eniral441]

Our folded notes (I didn't see any in the images when it was first mentioned, but you do see them at about 9:45) were not in envelopes.😂 And yes, we used them all the time. They weren't just love notes though. They were our texting. However, if a teacher caught you passing them, he or she might take it from you and read it out loud to the class. One of my friends passed me a note with the details to a byob party, but it got intercepted by a teacher who did this. We canceled the party for fear the teacher would narc on us. Teachers were also more apt to call the parents back then. We only had recess in elementary school, and we didn't really pass notes in elementary school. Teenagers go to Jr high/middle school and high school. That's where notes were passed.

[@MarySmith-fe9vt]

We also passed notes to friends - meet me in the hallway between classes - etc.

[@Eniral441]

I never shared a Walkman with a love interest. But a friend and I shared one too listen to INXS on a bus trip once. Mostly the love thing that was mention was when we made a mixed tape of love songs that we have our love interest (we didn't record our own voice). Mixed tapes were often songs recorded from the radio. I did have one guy include one of his garage band's songs, but that wasn't typical. We didn't share a Walkman. Most people didn't have one with 2 headphone jacks or the adapter.And there was no Bluetooth back then.

[@Ankon-zi6bf]

Hell ya we passed around notes in class to either friends or boys. We even left secret admirer notes in lockers! My high school had a dedicated smoking area on school property for students. I also had a Walkman with wired headphones where I played all my mix tapes I made from recording songs off the radio.

[@kierstenridgway4634]

If I could choose one thing that you have now, it would probably be easily portable music.

[@Cocreatewithus]

After youtube became a thing, I started putting together playlists of music videos that would convey my feelings well to someone, and email them. Modern version of our Gen X mixed tapes. It is only natural. Whether that's love, or anger, or rebelliousness, or whatever, it's going to be sent eventually.

[@maricepelletier2107]

A lot is so true regarding the Xer's experience in high school. I was bullied in high school and got through it. Today's social media would have made that very hard to survive the "abuse". As an only child, I used the road "yacht" (a large Ford auto) to get to school, I had posters all over my room and '45s hanging from the ceiling, the stereo, a desk and two bean bags - my bedroom was a room for sleeping. Because of social media and always being connected, I prefer, good and bad, the experience of the X years. Oh! two bands in the music shown, The Cure and Talking, I still listen to - you should give them a try!

[@RobertBreedon-c3b]

I had 73 Chevy Impala 2-door as my first car. I bought it for 100 bucks in 1984 lasted 3 years the best 100 bucks I ever spent I fixed it up of course but that's what auto shop class was for I was 17 then Man we had the best times unlike today we were never home

[@moonglow630]

My Freshman year of High School, there was actually a “smoking section” where the students over 18 could go & smoke. They got rid of it though. So by the time I was a Senior & 17 & started smoking, we smoked in our cars in the parking lot during break trying not to get caught, when we went off campus for lunch, or yes, even in the bathroom between classes.

[@charleanastasia5557]

I love being a GenXer... my GenZ kids grew up in a digital bubble with no real connections. We grew up cruising in our souped up cars hanging out with everyone face to face. At McDonald's sharing 3 LG fries and 3 Sodas between 8 kids. No parents around. Keg parties at the lake or the beach. We spent so little time indoors.

[@sharonrinkiewicz3940]

Passing notes was very common. This is how we communicated to friends in class.

[@michelleenglishpaiser6743]

Yes, passing notes was how we communicated in class, because we weren't allowed to talk during classes.

[@MarySmith-fe9vt]

mix tapes of emotions were our version of a sad playlist or an upbeat playlist - but we had to wait by the radio for hours to hit the button to record it ourselves onto our mix tapes. I remember getting blank tapes as gifts so I could make mix tapes. It was the best thing to get.

[@somersetcace1]

In my high school they actually had a smoking area for students just outside the cafeteria. It was shut down and banned before I graduated in 1983, but interestingly it's not because they decided cigarettes were unhealthy, but because kids were smoking pot out there.

[@claudiacolmorgan2894]

Passing notes was not just about boys, it was our text messages. I would not trade my 80s high school with today's HS. We smoked and much more, but we were responsible enough to keep everything on the down low. Most of the adults had no clue nor did they want to know. We ran our own lives at a very young age.

[@ARCADER-1999]

Yes! We actually passed notes! I wasn’t even Gen X! I was Born in 94! And during my time in middle school because I didn’t have a cell phone! I would pass notes! We still had a big mixture of passing notes and texting in school during my time after Gen X! It’s real! And it’s horribly embarrassing if the teacher finds out and takes it! Because they will read it in front of the class if you don’t do it yourself 😭😭😤😤