Streets of London, June 1998

Mostly Regent Street from the BBC to Oxford Circus to Piccadilly Circus

[@jasonf777]

Better times, better music, no smartphones, before Technology, 9/11 and Covid 19 changed the world.

[@rampageclover9788]

I long for those days again...in theory it can be done as people choose to let technology run their lives

[@The-Great-Brindian]

So you're anti 'moving with the times' then. The world wasn't meant to 'change', or ought not to have done so is what you're saying. Today's new minds that didn't exist in 1998 mean nothing to you. The lessons we've learned through history especially since 1998 mean nothing to you. In fact, mans great accomplishments post 1998 mean nothing to you. All you care about is what you see in a video dated back from 1998. Most bizarre. I struggle to understand why 1998 was 'better times' that's all..

[@jeff4362]

No problem. You can still CHOOSE to listen to old music and not use a smartphone, today.

[@sopyleecrypt6899]

@@The-Great-Brindian people tend to look back on their youth wistfully. They were young, had fewer problems and responsibilities, life seemed simpler, mainly BECAUSE they are looking back at it, looking at their past life, when everything that happened to them is now known. The unknown is scary for people, and that’s now and the future. Ask anyone what was the best decade, and almost all of them will say the one when they were a child or in their teens or twenties. Whether that was the 1940s, 1950s, 60s, or 90s, whenever. Even if there was war and strife at the time - it’s almost certainly a time when they felt happier than now.

[@liquidgeorge]

@@The-Great-Brindian I see your point. But they were infinitely better times. 2022 is the nadir of human existence.

[@sf2explus184]

man some time back i was 15 finishing secondary school. miss them days feels like yersterday here i am a 40 year old looking back the good times

[@MeysamMokhtarifard]

like me !

[@nikaa4237]

Great video. I lived in London from 1996-1997, it was amazing. Very local and truly cool. It's different now. I wish someone could put me into a time machine.

[@jeff4362]

It could be nostalgia speaking. I feel very nostalgic of the Glasgow I grew up in... despite the fact deep down I know how utterly bad the city used to be.

[@lbukem4259]

Apart from the fact that people aren't clamped to phones, 22 years ago doesn't look all that dated. I remember in 1998 looking at 1988 and thinking that DEFINITELY looked dated!

[@accountuser5588]

Really? Because I look at 2009, 11 years ago and it looks almost exactly the same whereas in 2009, I looked back at 1999 and thought wow, looks completely different.

[@ajs41]

@@accountuser5588 Most of the big changes happened between about 1975 and 1990. Not so much since then.

[@seansmith445]

Love seeing all the old routemaster buses.

[@ellen5276]

I miss how "plain" everyone looked. Still beautiful, but more authentic. Less hair extensions/make-up etc. Back then people found celebrities fun but didn't really dress to look like them (didn't know how to! no KZbin tutorials!). It was okay to just look like you. Now there is no difference between a celebrity and someone walking to the supermarket to buy milk.

[@lmusima3275]

I was 20 years old back then. I was born and raised in London. Regent street is my favourite hot spot

[@26beatboy]

Before track suits, social media and wireless headphones took over.

[@ppppickup]

shell suits and tracksuits were bigger early 90s than they ever have been

[@KamLovesArsenal]

Tracksuits were a thing in the UK in the 90's but I hear you on the social media and phones.

[@nicky29031977]

No smartphones left, right and centre!

[@ok2760]

That's because they hadn't been invented then

[@user-mc1yd9bp5x]

Good because it was simpler times without alien tech

[@dannymyint1898]

Exactly when I left London for New York after graduating, brings back many great memories, London's really beautiful amazing city to live in!

[@anthonymee2599]

Things look a Hell of a lot cleaner and looked after..........no roadworks........litter.........scaffolding........building works etc

[@chello70]

3 years before the end of the World as we knew it, in 2001.

[@abc33944]

9/11 was the game changer Tyranny went into overdrive

[@bobritasue]

@@abc33944 2019

[@user-mc1yd9bp5x]

911, technology and covid

[@smd4246]

I was 5 in '98 and just remember cable tv back in those days,, whats crazy is that my mum was 30 in 98 2 years older than i am now, time flies

[@nguyendailam6703]

Certainly takes me back to my youth.

[@_pjd]

Before the social media cancer.

[@scottmcfadden5341]

I moved to London in 1998 from London, Canada. Thank you for posting this video. London has been good to me and I'm still here with a new family to boot. Cheers!

[@williamwilson7857]

happy for you really

[@Fubar1462]

London Ontario?

[@robtyman4281]

I'd forgotten about those ubiquitous 'Golf Sale' signs that peppered Oxford and Regent Streets! lol. They were a common sight during the latter part of the 80's and all through the 90's. Think the last time I saw one was about 20 years ago (2001). They disappeared soon after this. Also remember a guy who used to stand in Oxford Circus with a megaphone and talk about Jesus, and repenting. He had a Scouse accent. Must have been late 90's or early 00's!! ....ah, memories!

[@elinat2414]

I was only 3 in 1998 so don’t remember much of anything. But it’s so interesting to see how much the world has changed. And what a different world we will have when the 3 year olds of today are grown up.

[@LG-ro5le]

The only major change is that smartphones came out and ruined society

[@vincentdeguard4726]

...makes certain people feel old watching this

[@jamescrisp9621]

half of me thinks this looks really old, but the other half thinks it doesnt really look old at all

[@LG-ro5le]

Because its not, look up video footage of london in the 1890’s, thats old

[@kataka64]

2 people (out of 10,000) actually *phoning* with mobile phones.

[@RealSweetTom]

These people. Why aren't they looking at their hands? 😂

[@r_unner_G]

Generally, people appeared to be slimmer back then. Goes to show what excess sugar and vegetable oil consumption has done to society today.

[@pagethreemodel]

Vegetable oil??

[@muk8804]

@@pagethreemodel it's used in almost all ready meals , microwave rice etc

[@marktaurus206]

Mc Donald's is the answer .

[@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb]

I lived in Muswell Hill north London at this time after moving down from the north to work as a journalist. I also passed my driving test in Wood Green London on June 4. However my long-term relationship broke up on June 24, so I was going through a lot of life at this time.

[@machiavelli6996]

I was 18 and always use to meet my on Regent Street, Toni and Guy. We split up in 2001. I saw her 5 years ago at a festival. 😢 lol she cheated on me. John Hartson played for west Ham. I could go on and on😅

[@susiachmady]

very interesting you still have documentation about London in 1998...

[@studas2011]

Nice to see some happy people walking about.

[@emiLydad]

i was born in June 1998..wanted a feel of what the world was like Love this not much changed in my opinion

[@I______2004______I]

As someone who was also born in June 1998, I undoubtedly agree!

[@andrewkendall7814]

1:47 Suddenly recalled "Golf Sale". That was a weird phenomenon back then. I used to see those signs all the the time.

[@hermanthetosser4219]

I remember trigger happy tv... was filmed around this year and had episodes with the golf sale signs

[@BassicVIC]

Covent Garden Dr. Martens shop was still open then. 😢

[@tuberic]

Which way to the Golf Sale?

[@Naturelady-rf5zx]

People still didnt know how to cross the road, even before smartphones.

[@Putner]

Apart from the motors and the trousers, it looks exactly the same.

[@lapamful]

The change isn't so much in what I'm seeing, but the tech used to record this. Must've been quite a big, expensive camera, and look at the result. Today, we have Go Pro's that easily fit into your pocket and picture quality viewable on a cinema-sized screen!

[@thehitman6963]

It’s funny because 30 years from now. Our children would be thinking how much things Changed

[@richardsingh5827]

1:41 number 12 bus I used to get all the time

[@tilerman]

Has the golf sale ended yet.

[@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb]

No, it's still going and going and going.....

[@Vonononie]

Never!

[@securityrobot]

It’s still doing the rounds.

[@shinoorrahman8799]

WOW! Not a smartphone in sight. Back when people are talking to each other and people walked alot faster back then. This was filmed when I was 16 years old now I'm 36 years old. The good times has come and gone. Now we're stuck with generation of idiots who can't perform a simple task like getting off the phone.

[@zivkovicable]

Pretty much everyone thinks that life was better when they were 16 compared to 36. 16 year olds today will think the same in 20 years time, just as the generations before ours did..

[@SweetT79]

3:07 is so significant as they have in the past 5 yrs narrowed the road so much its only 3 single lanes & 1 going up.

[@jackmeeellleee4896]

I was in London for a week in 2008, just as a typical tourist. It was only ten years after this video was made. The video brings some memories to the fore.

[@livelifewithmaya1903]

1998 year when i was born

[@liuyao8141]

I studied in London from 2017 to 2018. Not too much different with 1998.

[@PeteS_1994]

It actually looks more functional to me than nowadays with all the road barriers. However it's also less photogenic. I think nowadays it's designed for picture taking.

[@abdurahmanmohamed3378]

Bingo

[@I______2004______I]

I was born in June 1998 😁😁😁

[@borderlord]

When they got rid of the Route Masters they lost half the charm of the streets of London! Ken Livingstone terrible decision!

[@GEricG]

borderlord routemasters were awesome.

[@JayJay-nc7pr]

Well he did say whoever got rid of the routemaster was a dehumanised moron, I think he looked the mirror an awful lot

[@sundayakpan2663]

Completely different about this old video

[@stuartcook2464]

Golf sale still on

[@dean-oh2nq]

at 1.38 that sound of bus brakes

[@marcotrigo3182]

que diferencia un mundo sin el celular no se ven tan estresados estos humanos del video como los de hoy

[@prp3231]

El mundo del wallio

[@Yasin_2312]

80% of the comment section after taking how smartphones affect people lives. Am i the only ‘05 watching this video and feeling bad that I was born into a new generation

[@sopyleecrypt6899]

It’s just different now, that’s all. Life was different before cars too, and I bet at the time people complained that cars made life too noisy, dirty, too fast and dangerous etc. I think there’s no point in looking back wistfully all the time. We can’t go back, it’s better to make the most of what we have now. There were some good things about not having smartphones: people tended to pay more attention to their surroundings and each other. But having so knowledge at our fingertips is so powerful. If you wanted to know something back then, e.g. a piece of history, how something worked, or who someone was: you had to work a lot harder to find the answer. Go to a library, find someone who knew, go to a museum, make some calls. Knowledge was much less democratic and harder to obtain for those who didn’t have the time or resources. Meeting up with someone could be a complex nightmare if you got delayed or lost, if you had no way of telling the person who was waiting for you.

[@ellen5276]

@@sopyleecrypt6899 When was the last time you used your phone to check a piece of history? People weren't in the library every week with a long list of things they needed checking! And we had internet at home. Big difference between access to the internet and access to it on a smartphone.

[@86kid.]

fuk time flys.

[@AndreiPetunin]

School years :-)

[@SA786.comChannel]

I was only 1 years old at this time XD i would've turned 2 by early october though XD i wonder how the world will be in 2100 when all of us 1900's generation people are all gone!! XD just like those people from the 1800's generation back when life was a western/cowboy/wild west period with no cars and everyone had to travel from horses and streets were always rough and dirty!! man life has changed a ton!!

[@shawnmccori]

My mountain bike went boom back then on some guys trying to steal it.

[@nakul1966]

France 98 World Cup started this mth.

[@AnneWhyte]

Seems so messy compared to my life. amazing.

[@stuartwray6175]

Seems so messy? - The hustle and bustle of London?

[@adamfull3181]

Seems world was better then that it is now end of greatness 20thcentury

[@maccagrabme]

I cant think of much that has improved since.

[@MrBenmanning]

How come there are mobile phones ? I don't remember them then

[@MrVidification]

Many people had phones. By the late 90s they were getting much smaller. You could get a Nokia for around 30 usd eur gbp. Their aim was to make phones fashionable. Look at where we are now

[@emmanueladeyosoye3607]

They had brick phones

[@georgeorwell-il2wz]

​@@emmanueladeyosoye3607Not in 1998. Mobiles were quite small by then, easily fit in your jeans pocket.

[@davidhookway514]

Saw a mobile phone!

[@georgeorwell-il2wz]

Pretty common in 1998 tbh.

[@sapphirelatina]

Listen - people still had TV/magazine/radio addictions, just cos they didnt have a smartphone to be glued to in the street, many people were still obsessed with the media and brainwashed by a lot of shit. It wasnt a different planet. And as far as the internet and social media, there was still chat rooms and message boards where ppl would publicly comment and talk about themselves or a range of topics. Future generations need to be aware of this and not think it was like a completely different world.

[@wonderglory]

Actress Ryan Newman was born two months earlier than this video.

[@Chris-ln6so]

Who? 😂