The '80s: The decade that made us

[@Bcroft39]

I was born in 1968, so I got to live out my teenage years and early 20's in the 80's. It was just a decade that will never be captured again. The nation was in harmony and the world was our playground.

[@cheeseebun]

My father was also born in 68, he got me to become very fascinated with this decade, I envy him for having lived his young adult life in the 80s lol.

[@ggousier]

I was born in 75. Child in early years, teen in mid. I agree with you.

[@NoName-jq7tj]

The past is always easier when it's in the past.

[@kiks399]

@Corey Ortiz why do you think that?

[@jasonmillers6941]

@@kiks399 I think it’s because we were lucky to have the 80’s as our backbone, then have the 90’s tech to play with. Tech in the 90 was just right. Not too much, not too little. We had Playstation, but we still rode our bikes and broke into “haunted” houses. It was just a magical time to be a kid. Born 1985.

[@scorpionchris85]

Best decade ever…It may be 2021, but somewhere in the back of my mind I still live in the 80’s.

[@samanthabelle6013]

It may be 2021 I live in the 80's Oh I forgot it's 2022

[@clarissawestbrook2203]

It maybe 2022 but somewhere in my mind I still live in the 1980s!!

[@samanthabelle6013]

@@clarissawestbrook2203 you said it even better

[@clarissawestbrook2203]

@@samanthabelle6013 Thank you we need the optimistic and spirit of the 1980s back in the 2020s.

[@Pluty80]

Facts

[@midnightcrimson122]

it was great living in the 80s....wish I have a time machine. so many great memories

[@jameskng8176]

me might see another decade like the 80s someday

[@joshfilmsstuff9769]

No we won't sadly

[@briankelly9347]

Yes the 2080s

[@johanderuiter9842]

Going back to 1985, and meet up with Doc and Marty getting ready to travel to 1955!

[@annetteslife]

If you build a time machine please take me with you

[@jessicaoledan4422]

i'm nostalgic about a time I never even experienced

[@hornydolphin7953]

Jessica Oledan probably the music and movies we grew up with maybe

[@fouadbenrezzak8398]

You cant deny the 80swere a golden age for this World

[@Ai3r]

Feeling nostalgic to the time i never was born was epic. Atleast i experienced the silver decade or golden decade the 2000s

[@olaoluwafaleye4043]

Same

[@Lauren-kx3iz]

honestly, although i wasn’t even born in that time i just want to experience it. being a teen in this time seems so much nicer. Just everything overall seems nice

[@stevenfrederick8461]

The 80s started it the 90s finished it.

[@evalsoftserver]

steven frederick Kristen DiThomas Oh , So much so , Everything Got where it today from Music , Technology, Business and Fashion, was Inspired by 1980s, Remember Michael Jackson, thriller, David Bowie ,Billy Idol Run DMC, Microchips, the first Personal Computer , Video games, Graphic in films, ET, War Games ,Star wars, IBM, big blue, Apple, Microsoft, Intel , The Space Shuttle, First Mult- Billionaire's, Trump , Gates, Murdoch, Bloomberg, Ronald Regan Greenspan Politics, The Best Fashion, Tommy Hilfiger,Ralph Lauren ,Calvin Klein, All What people Take for granted today Originated or reached its Peak in the 1980s

[@abdikal566]

@@evalsoftserver u stole this comment

[@TheGetmoneyman]

I'll say early 2000s before social media, still good times, i graduated in 2004 by 2010 yeah everything started going downhill

[@1950s_was_da_peak]

​@@TheGetmoneymannah, as a zoomer 2010 was great, 2016 is where it went downhill

[@brandonhaymon3000]

Beautifully written

[@theunknown4570]

Forever an 80's kid!!!

[@evalsoftserver]

Neil Tipton Kristen DiThomas Oh , So much so , Everything Got where it today from Music , Technology, Business and Fashion, was Inspired by 1980s, Remember Michael Jackson, thriller, David Bowie ,Billy Idol Run DMC, Microchips, the first Personal Computer , Video games, Graphic in films, ET, War Games ,Star wars, IBM, big blue, Apple, Microsoft, Intel , The Space Shuttle, First Mult- Billionaire's, Trump , Gates, Murdoch, Bloomberg, Ronald Regan Greenspan Politics, The Best Fashion, Tommy Hilfiger,Ralph Lauren ,Calvin Klein, All What people Take for granted today Originated or reached its Peak in the 1980s

[@johanderuiter9842]

Agreed!, from one 80s kid to another - rock on brother!!

[@annetteslife]

Amen my fellow 80s kids from another 80s kid

[@whitedracarys7613]

Always 🤩

[@shumob4901]

@@whitedracarys7613 did u enjoy the 80s

[@freddiecantdance2043]

The 80's and The 90's are two of the most memorable decades in my opinion..

[@MiguelMrJazzManGarcia]

Exactly, 20 years of a fantastic mood everywhere .... we went to the stars.......... :)

[@julied7546]

90s only because 80s was too dangerous with too much drug.

[@Radoslaw731]

I sure remember them. I was born 9 November 1984😎

[@SteveBerryhill]

The 60's were kind of important...Civil rights. The 70's... that little Vietnam and Watergate thing.

[@1inuyashasgirl]

My dad was a teenager in the 80s. He always tells me stories about the decade and he's always involving me around it with movies, music, ext. So when I saw this on National Geographic, I recorded it for my Dad and I to watch together. Let me tell ya', I had never seen my dad so nostalgic when we watched this. He said it brought back so many memories. I now have this huge feeling of respect for that decade thanks to my dad and National Geographic. This decade is truly amazing!

[@davidjsouth231]

What’s the episode called ?

[@airaero5473]

The 2010s: the decade that destroyed us

[@EscoFlow]

Air Aero yup

[@caleb-ct5vi]

I felt a shift of negativity hit me that one second this decade started. I miss the 2000s sadly I never got to witness the 80s and only a few memories of the 90s.

[@evalsoftserver]

Air Aero Kristen DiThomas Oh , So much so , Everything Got where it today from Music , Technology, Business and Fashion, was Inspired by 1980s, Remember Michael Jackson, thriller, David Bowie ,Billy Idol Run DMC, Microchips, the first Personal Computer , Video games, Graphic in films, ET, War Games ,Star wars, IBM, big blue, Apple, Microsoft, Intel , The Space Shuttle, First Mult- Billionaire's, Trump , Gates, Murdoch, Bloomberg, Ronald Regan Greenspan Politics, The Best Fashion, Tommy Hilfiger,Ralph Lauren ,Calvin Klein, All What people Take for granted today Originated or reached its Peak in the 1980s

[@paulc1014]

@@caleb-ct5vi I felt it too! I was having a tough time in my early adulthood in 2010, barely scraping by, working horrible repetitive low wage jobs, and just overall felt a sense of emptiness and struggled to find success in something. Glad that isn't the case today!

[@jellyfrosh9102]

@@bcnicholas123 The 2010s are all the aftermaths of the problems in the 2000s. Kinda like the 1970s being the aftermath of the problems in the 1960s.

[@eightiesforreals5519]

i fricken cried at this I was born in 2001 and I wish I was alive then

[@doggypaddle4235]

80s and 90s best decades ever

[@quad2265]

Same here

[@roguexxrenegade]

Harri63 same here, born in 2001, in love with the 80s

[@mattharrison9524]

Same here. Born in 2001. Wish I was alive in the 80's

[@ANewWorldDawning82]

I was born in 1982. i graduated high school in 2001. I can't believe that it has been 15 years since then. All of you 2001 babies are now 15 years old. where has time gone?

[@KiryuKazuma4]

I am Russian and I like this video. This is the America that defeated the USSR and thanks to which Russians now live freely. This is the America on whose culture many people in modern Russia grew up. This is the America in which a Russian would like to live. It is very sad that modern America itself is turning into the USSR. Americans, don't let this happen! God bless USA! From Russia with Love.

[@GenocideWesterners]

What are you saying ? Collapse of the USSR was the greatest catastrophe in Russian history. Did you know how much humiliations Russia faced in the 1990s ? Russia was humiliated by the US and was treated as a vassal. NATO expansion and interference in Russian elections were also unacceptable. Russia’s population declined, millions were pushed into poverty while the oligarchs became insanely wealthy. A system which continues to this day was established after the collapse of the USSR.

[@KiryuKazuma4]

@@GenocideWesterners You, from abroad, probably know me better than a Russian person. The greatest catastrophe in the history of Russia was the collapse of the Russian Empire and the October Revolution. The communists destroyed millions of Russian people, deported peoples, and I am glad that this damned regime fell. Sit and rejoice that you did not have the same in the United States and Europe as in Russia. My people were almost completely destroyed by the communists and the Soviet regime. From 5 million before the revolution, the number of my people was reduced to 50 thousand. Come on, tell me now about the delights of the Soviet regime, storyteller.

[@worlddd7777]

@@KiryuKazuma4 But, realistically, it was communism that defeated Soviets, not Americans.

[@bcroft68bc]

@@KiryuKazuma4 Capitalism in America defeated the Socialist/Communist govt of the USSR. Sadly, there are many young Americans that want America to be a Socialist country.

[@KiryuKazuma4]

@@bcroft68bc Oh, I know and it's terrible. In Russia, some young people also want to return the USSR

[@ninoboune4943]

The 80s are the golden era of music, movies and fashion, miss this years 😢

[@shawnmichaels4805]

fashion-not really

[@dominiceckley2527]

I WAS BORN IN 75. I FEEL SAD THE STATE WE LIVE IN NOW. TAKE ME BACK TO THE 80'S ( BUT WITH MY KIDS ).

[@evalsoftserver]

dominic The SariKristen DiThomas Oh , So much so , Everything Got where it today from Music , Technology, Business and Fashion, was Inspired by 1980s, Remember Michael Jackson, thriller, David Bowie ,Billy Idol Run DMC, Microchips, the first Personal Computer , Video games, Graphic in films, ET, War Games ,Star wars, IBM, big blue, Apple, Microsoft, Intel , The Space Shuttle, First Mult- Billionaire's, Trump , Gates, Murdoch, Bloomberg, Ronald Regan Greenspan Politics, The Best Fashion, Tommy Hilfiger,Ralph Lauren ,Calvin Klein, All What people Take for granted today Originated or reached its Peak in the 1980s express Company

[@annetteslife]

I was born in 73 and agree with you

[@ahuman1571]

Your so lucky, I would kill to have been born in 1975

[@george.s.8491]

8-12-75 here! I hear you loud and clear!

[@JMGh95]

I miss the 80's! I was so young then and impressionable! I wish I appreciated more than! That decade had its own style in every aspect, music, movies, style, you name it. Man time flys!!!! The decade unlike any other hands down 🙌🏻!

[@evalsoftserver]

Ernie A Kristen DiThomas Oh , So much so , Everything Got where it today from Music , Technology, Business and Fashion, was Inspired by 1980s, Remember Michael Jackson, thriller, David Bowie ,Billy Idol Run DMC, Microchips, the first Personal Computer , Video games, Graphic in films, ET, War Games ,Star wars, IBM, big blue, Apple, Microsoft, Intel , The Space Shuttle, First Mult- Billionaire's, Trump , Gates, Murdoch, Bloomberg, Ronald Regan Greenspan Politics, The Best Fashion, Tommy Hilfiger,Ralph Lauren ,Calvin Klein, All What people Take for granted today Originated or reached its Peak in the 1980s

[@crimsonskies1445]

I was also born in 1968 turned 12 in 1980 and this decade could only be experienced. Definitely the decade that defined us. Everything was 100 times better then than now.

[@Gigan75pcp]

Going back in time would be so awesome. I just love the 70's and 80's

[@blaney68]

The 80's rock

[@evalsoftserver]

Blane Stapleton Kristen DiThomas Oh , So much so , Everything Got where it today from Music , Technology, Business and Fashion, was Inspired by 1980s, Remember Michael Jackson, thriller, David Bowie ,Billy Idol Run DMC, Microchips, the first Personal Computer , Video games, Graphic in films, ET, War Games ,Star wars, IBM, big blue, Apple, Microsoft, Intel , The Space Shuttle, First Mult- Billionaire's, Trump , Gates, Murdoch, Bloomberg, Ronald Regan Greenspan Politics, The Best Fashion, Tommy Hilfiger,Ralph Lauren ,Calvin Klein, All What people Take for granted today Originated or reached its Peak in the 1980s

[@annetteslife]

Blane Stapleton fuck yes I loved and still listen to hair metal and 80s thrash. Not this KZbin made in your bedroom pop crap

[@J-Boog]

80s was the best decade

[@luciavicente4637]

It certanly was

[@meanwhileinjapan2265]

That's subjective.

[@wweoldschool]

80's the greatest decade of all time!!! the last few decades have been dull and repetitive! the music, shows, movies, cartoons, style and on and on long live the 80's now back to watching Back to The Future ✌

[@cats1087]

Take a rollercoaster ride through the decade that made us! The ‘80s is not about nostalgia; it is about a decade of people, decisions and inventions that changed our future, told from the perspective of unknowing history makers who lived these iconic moments. It was 10 years of nonstop glamour, unchecked excess, ruthless ambition and explosive technological innovation that combined to produce the historic changes and global events that made us who and what we are today..And unchecked is where we are today and are now engaged with the ISIS middle east crap that will eventually infiltrate our own US culture if we let this go UNCHECKED!!!

[@renardfox328]

"It was 10 years of nonstop glamour, unchecked excess, ruthless ambition and explosive technological innovation that combined to produce the historic changes and global events that made us who and what we are today." Great writing Terri! This is an underrated comment! I was born in 89 so I'm a "90s kid."

[@Bobaman5400]

When i think of when i lived in the 80s (i was born in 1978, i like to call myself "All American, full bred 80s kid") the first things that come to mind based on my experiences are these (no specific order) 1. Arcades, Atari/Nintendo: Man, do i miss couch co-op game play 2. Smurfs, Fraggle Rock, Transformers, Voltron, Gi Joe, Star Wars, TMNT, Sesame St., (the cartoon/movie/toy thing could go on forever so we'll just stop there) Saturday morning cartoons with a tray on the living floor eating Count Chocula cereal & watching cartoons for hours 3. Skateboarding & BMX...i mean...the jumps we would build (yes, i said build) were so ridiculous and unsafe is was nuts...but...we survived it. Rode all over the damn neighborhood & were yelled at by baby boomers constantly for riding through their yards. No cell phones...we were told what time to be back and if we werent back at that time...well...youre screwed for the next month. This taught us to respect authority & what a cost/reward system meant. 4. MTV....i dont need to say anymore there 5. HBO.....same thing...speaks for itself (me being the younger child, the amount of times my big bro would say "hit the box button for me!" was uncanny. Only an 80s kid knows what the box button is) 6. Board games: Good Heavens......Checkers, Yahtzee, Battleship, Fireball Island, Crossfire, Clue, Trivial Pursuit, Mouse Trap....this list will also never stop..... 7. Neon lights, loud clothes, baggy clothes, the weirdest sunglasses you could possibly find, freakin colors everywhere on everything. Nothing had less than 10 colors to it...NOTHING! dudes dressed as chicks and banging the hottest chicks ever, women were tomboys and nobody questioned it, Islamic Terror only existed in Indiana Jones movies.....Time Travel WAS possible you just couldn't get your hands on Plutonium, Renting a movie from the local movie store was a night out with your family...everything had charm!!! EVERYTHING!! Ugh, man....so anyways...yeah....God i miss the 80s.

[@annetteslife]

kicker121000 who can remember the hot as fuck playground equipment? I could not go the slide without burning my ass on it.

[@user-ou2ty3ts6k]

Yeah, we had no tubes around our slides either to keep us from dropping 12 feet in the air! lololol!

[@scottthompson2609]

In the summer we would use the wax paper from our lunches to wax that hot slide and then talk the lunch mothers into going down it, screaming as it was like water on ice , as they crashed on there ass at the bottom lol oh man was awesome times .

[@Allen21758]

Being an 80's kid I also think of the time families spent together, the respect we gave to any grown up, all the miles I put on my old huffy, the ridiculous Halloween costumes and every house gave out candy, decapitating myself on the 10 mile long phone cord stretched throughout the house, leaving the couch to control the tv, shooting out the street light in front of my house with my bb gun so I could stay out later (that backfired lol), riding in the back of a truck everywhere, shoveling snow for people in the neighborhood for some money to buy candy and sodas (where I come from we call it pop), little festivals set up all over during the summer, I haven't seen it for years but my favorite cartoon was the real Ghostbusters, ET cereal, the list goes on and on. Good times that went by so fast.

[@FiftyDemons]

I’m 18 now, and I would’ve love to be 18 in the 80s. I envy all of you who got to be teens in the 80s and let me tell you, you guys are very lucky, who got to live the best of the best. I feel like I was born in the wrong generation:(

[@slashingsparrow9790]

Oh great a another "I was born in the wrong generation"

[@FiftyDemons]

Slashing Sparrow and? You got a problem with it lil homie?

[@slashingsparrow9790]

Nostalgia is a powerful drug

[@krisnite05]

me too, born in 2000. I hate society today.

[@ammonlana1681]

Im with you too. Today is very different, back then it was great, wish i had a chance to visit the 80s even just a days

[@peter455sd]

50s,60s,70s,80s,and then CRAP !Political correctness fucked up everything !

[@AndyCarrilloversace]

can't agree more

[@juliearmymom7807]

Yep. SO glad I lived before PC.

[@firgasz2920]

PC started in the 60s with Affirmative Action by the Kennedy and Johnson Administration... so PC it did not fall from the sky in the 90s, altough PC became more aggressive since then.

[@aquaporines]

He tried to blame the internet i believe, not the PC xD

[@TubeScavenger]

The first half of the 90s wasn't too bad.

[@cb2k761]

Best decade of my life (I was born in 76)

[@BigBenEightiesMan]

I was born in '77, and you are so right. Best decade i ever lived in.

[@N4TCM]

Best decade of my life too. I was born 1964. The year the Beatles came to America.

[@mangolover6039]

you guys are so lucky can you please tell us a great story i really like reading people stories from the 80s :)

[@gabrieltdu5780]

cb2k761 dude ur over 40 get tha fuk outta here

[@eugenest]

gabriel TDU You Tube is free for everyone, dude.

[@rossbuchan6593]

My teenage years didn't realise at the time how much I took the 80s for granted ..miss em !!

[@also3254]

September 2024 - LOVING THIS 100%. This is perfect!! Thanks for creating and sharing!

[@xeonvines5365]

Man I really wish I could have been a teen during the 70s or 80s. Instead my teenage years were wasted, because everyone stays inside 24/7 staring at their screen nowadays. Now I finally made it to college, which is being ruined by COVID-19

[@pattypatty07]

80s the best time of my life

[@Sinan97082]

I am so overwhelmed... I was born 1985 but I can remember our little 1-room flat (we are immigrants) and where I was very happy with my 2-4 years... till 1990 came and we moved the first time into a bigger flat... I don´t know I have a unexplainable connection with the 80s especially with the music and the movies :) with the 90s of course too, but this is explainable. Who else has this "weird" emotions linked to the 80s?

[@rcdmilla]

Wow... funny enough i was born the same year, And for some reason i feel the same connection to 80's pop culture, music almost anything in the era, but I vaguely remember a a child, be still feel this "weird connection " as you would put it.

[@ssbpdistributors1288]

Me too but I am more toward 50s but born in 1993

[@zvzsun8555]

Yes the 80s were great. if anyone tells you the 80s weren't great then they didn't know how to have fun. I mean we had Mac Tonight and Max Hedrum.

[@eugenest]

Zvz Sun mac tonight

[@george.s.8491]

How about the 7up guy? “Crisp and clean and no caffeine”👍👍

[@CraigS1124]

The best of times, the worst of times... It was glorious to be young in the 80's. We thought the kids from the '50s were blessed. They were, but not like us.

[@josem588]

Me and all the gen z will say the same of 2010s in 30 years

[@1950s_was_da_peak]

​@@josem588wym 30? i've BEEN saying it😂 2008-2015 was the LAST good era

[@josem588]

@@1950s_was_da_peak I say it for when we have children (I don’t even know if there’s gonna be a future with global warming)

[@us-du44fx4u]

​@@josem588Global warming, climate change, wars and worst of them being inflation making some of the most basic things unaffordable for common men. Our previous generation could somehow afford housing...now we would only live in subscription model.

[@josem588]

@@us-du44fx4u honestly who wants to have children in this world ?

[@robbie007]

Great montage. Born in 60s shaped in 70s partied 80s. We had it all.

[@turdwranglers2517]

I was born in 1964 ..... I was 16 to 26. I miss the 80's. Great music, great people, little to no strife in the world great movies, the fall of communism, Expo 86 was held in my city .... What a time to be alive!

[@Fricasso79]

Little to no strife in the world!? I seem to remember something about a wall...

[@doctorslayer2106]

Born 1976 and I'm a GenX And Still Proud of it.. Cause I was exposed by this Era. The Music, The Movies, The TV shows, The culture and The Events Good or Bad it was my biggest part of my life. The Joy The Grief The Sadness The Triumph The Love All of it.. It made me who I am now..

[@a.c.7069]

Same here. Age 15-25 this decade. The 80's had its share of troubles. But, in comparison to other decades, it was the best time to be alive.

[@STONESGAM]

There was strife in the world but the US had a terrific culture back then. Totally opposite of what we have today. Better movies, music, sports, etc. No social media. People had to interact with each other. No victim mentality we had a sticks and stones mentality.

[@scoobydoo9924]

wish I could've been born back then. everything just seemed so simple and fun

[@wakjob961]

It's like we've been at a stand still since 9/11 or so. Look at 1900's from decade to decade and how drastically music, style, and culture changed. Not so much now since 2000.-ish. Lack of originality, ideas, and fear of being different.

[@derrickforeal]

DeMario Burns 2006 07

[@bcnicholas123]

I agree. The 2000s were the worst years the US has had in a long time. 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina, 2008 economic crisis, beginning of the extreme political division we have today. Absolutely horrible decade.

[@therearenoshortcuts9868]

this is true, there has been cultural stagnation since the early 2000s

[@thunderbird1921]

@@bcnicholas123 I guess to a Generation Z fellow like me, the 2000s seemed pretty tame compared to the absolutely insane, out of control politicization, cancel culture shitshow that was the 2010s. When I see stuff on the 80s, I'm almost like "HUH? THIS was America? It feels like another planet!" People getting along okay, respectful disagreement on politics before then moving on to other discussion topics, no one losing their job because of their beliefs, genuine creativity, people actually wanting to help each other not destroy them, WHERE THE BLEEP DID WE GO WRONG?! I feel like I'm in a lunatic asylum today.

[@aaronsosnoski1017]

We should make it our goal to recapture the optimism of this amazing era.

[@immanuelmitchell1884]

I was born in the 2003 all I can say is now that I'm 18 the 2000s feels like the last time people were fun, daring, and non PC. Just looking at the 80's I feel sad bc I'm trying to figure out how we went from life is an adventure to now life is a living hell?

[@1950s_was_da_peak]

​@@immanuelmitchell1884as a fellow 03 baby, 2010-15 was fun too

[@rabe777]

80s aren't decade. 80s are spirit.

[@CHKhouri]

Absolutely. It's a vibe, a state of mind 💚🩷❤️

[@MarkNante]

Nintendo!!! Simpsons, fucking scarface, Micheal Jackson and the AMERICAN DREAM at his best. Nothing was impossible... I can still smell the freedom! I will never forget. What the fuck happened?

[@cynant2912]

+Mark Nante 2016.

[@firgasz2920]

"Globalization" happened.

[@seeyoulater7255]

Mark Nante and over reacting about ISIS and clowns. Crappy pop and Odel Beckham jr

[@Jnel28]

Mark Nante technology

[@joshfilmsstuff9769]

The internet happened

[@theunknown4570]

i truly believe this was the last great decade. The world seemed to go down hill after this. And has never quite been the same.

[@airaero5473]

80s>90s

[@loganwkl4871]

4 years later: corona hold my beer

[@r3n736]

​@Mehar wolf Ironically sex and the city started airing in 98 so it makes perfect sense what you feel.

[@ShriRamaRamaRameti]

Well actually things depend country by country like in ussr it was 70s and in india it was 90s

[@Ai3r]

Thr last truley great year was 2013 or 2010

[@SoniaGignac]

Missing the 80s ! Awesoem compilation.

[@J-Boog]

The 80s had to be the best decade for style and music I swear. I hate that I was born in 2001 even though I love my parents I wish I was born in 1967 so I can live through the 80s and have fun see movies meet Michael Jackson new edition George Howard Eddie Murphy go to the movies and see Friday the 13th Halloween ghost busters 48 hours back to the future I have so much love for the 80s I swear

[@evalsoftserver]

Jay Cold Kristen DiThomas Oh , So much so , Everything Got where it today from Music , Technology, Business and Fashion, was Inspired by 1980s, Remember Michael Jackson, thriller, David Bowie ,Billy Idol Run DMC, Microchips, the first Personal Computer , Video games, Graphic in films, ET, War Games ,Star wars, IBM, big blue, Apple, Microsoft, Intel , The Space Shuttle, First Mult- Billionaire's, Trump , Gates, Murdoch, Bloomberg, Ronald Regan Greenspan Politics, The Best Fashion, Tommy Hilfiger,Ralph Lauren ,Calvin Klein, All What people Take for granted today Originated or reached its Peak in the 1980s

[@RocketCat525]

I was born in 1988 I wish I could have experienced the 80s longer I love 80s music and movies And culture 🎸🎸

[@irishrover9332]

You never experienced anything in the 80s other than getting your diapers changed! You weren't even a teenager in the 90s LOL...I feel your pain

[@user-ou2ty3ts6k]

Born in 1969 so I went thru my complete teen years thru the 80's. Turned 20 in 1989. BEST decade of MY LIFE! Wish I could go back.

[@djdigital3806]

I'm from the class of 1982. Best music ever. To this day I only play 80's music. We were the first Digital generation for music, the Compact Disk and Digital Synthenzier was made in the 80's. Most fun in my life. Feel sorry for the young generation, all you have is mumble rap and a smartphone.

[@4z-L_Gaming]

its like the 90s decade saw the end of the bunch of decades that were amazing probably from 60s-80s. i wish i was born in 75s so i could enjoy the 80s.

[@Luigi-rp6ur]

I was born in 1971 and let me tell you the 1980's was the best time of my life.

[@4z-L_Gaming]

what was best about it that previous and future decades didn't have? i make old school hip hop beats and when i listen to old music to sample, i watch the music videos and its another life i want to visit but never can

[@4z-L_Gaming]

***** ah I feel for you man

[@Luigi-rp6ur]

Fourz Ell​​​​ people were more respectful back then.you couldn't disrespect your parents. school wasn't as bad,and I made alot of friends. we didn't come out our mouths in a bad way like saying the n word or how young people these days use a lot of slang such as lol lmbo and stuff to communicate. we didn't need social media to talk to anyone which I think is Sad because back then you played and socialize with people in your outdoor neighborhood playing hopscotch,riding bikes pogo sticks and scooters with friends. I used to also go to party's almost every month.because back then we used to have this thing called house party's were you can play games,dance eat lots of snacks and have fun !!!. music videos during that time that was popular were Michael Jackson thriller,Billie Jean and beat it , Madonna's like a virgin and material girl was popular Olivia Johnson's physical etc. and we also had lost of bands and groups at that time such as the clash, guns and roses, pixies and so many more that you should look up and listen to. prince was also one of my favorite artist.pop music like eye of a tiger came out and flash dance were great songs that I can name.television was way better and didn't have the innaporiate mess that's on television today. I used to watch threes a company after school, the facts of life,.the Cosby show family ties,the A-team,happy days,who's the boss,growing pains saved by the bell,different strokes and boy in the 90's senified was popular,friends,the Simpson's ,Martin,the fresh Prince of bel-air,full house,Dawson's creek, New York undercover,the X-Files.on Saturday morning in the 80's we had so many Saturday morning cartoon's and great cereal and commercial's . I used to get up in the morning and watch abc nbc and cbs cartoon's like super friends,Tom and Jerry,mighty mouse,bugs bunny and the road runner show.scooby and scrappy doo,Godzilla and dynomutt,Pacman,the little rascals,Dragon's lair,the super Mario bros. super show ,the real ghosts busters,super man,Alvin and the chipmunk,Beatle juice captain n the game master,Popeye and olive,Garfield and friends,punky brewster etc.and that time it would be so hard for you to do your homework on Saturday.McDonald's chicken MC nuggets were the bomb when I first had them but they just don't taste the same like how they used to. McDonald's and burger king had play houses and games for kids after they were done eating.the video games we had at the time were Atari intelvision ,Commodore,Mr. Game & watch ,Nintendo Entertainment System,game boy.Sega genesis and the master system games I still have today have today.but arcades boy were they popular and kids all the time were trying to skip school to go to them. they call it the golden age of games because Pacman camed in at the time,space invaders,donkey Kong, q-Bert,pole position,dig dug,tempest,Tetris,Frogger, defender,Ms. Pac Man ,double Dragon,bubble bobble,Rally-X,Galaga, baby Pacman and many other's.but those are the main games I were playing at the arcade. and they used to give you so many coins for you to play them.

[@Jojo-bk2pq]

Jump man My god. I would give anything to be born in the late 60s/early 70s like you. You were a kid in the mid to late 70s, a teen in the 80s and your twenties were in the 90s. I think your generation is the luckiest by far, either yours or my moms. She was born in '64.

[@motanelustelistu]

I know right ? You also got the vivid neon color,the AMAZING 80's big hair fashion,the LOVELY BELLY BUTTON REVEALING SHIRTS etc.This combined with amazing music,more down to earth normal mentality and conception and some good old fashion 80's full of energy lives made it AN UNBELIVEABLE GREAT DECADE TO GROW UP IN. I'm born in 1990,in Romania,and just like other central and eastern Europeaun Countries,all this madness of the 80's came into force in the 90's ... and boy life was good.The money still camed till 2003-2004 and combined with everything above,made a superb life. I'm only 24 now,but i feel like i'm retired FGS.It seems like all this happened 100 years ago. Boy i would lock the world into the 1980-1990's period :D P.S. Not to mention the good old video camers,and the semi-colored image,wich added to the amazing live and feeling

[@clarissawestbrook2203]

What an era!! There will never be another decade that will top the 1980s influence and awesomeness!

[@babymammoth34]

Pop culture wise, it rocked for sure! The music and other pop culture aspects of this decade have gotten a bad rap and are always maliciously dismissed as shallow and cheesy. yet the 60's and 70's are put on a tall, tall pedestal as completely amazing with few flaws when they were most certainly not. Sad and baffling TBH.

[@rodneyjohnson7958]

Lucky me I grew up in the 80s and the 80s were awesome the best decade ever next to the fifties

[@thunderbird1921]

Want the perfect America? Merge the faith/virtue, cleanliness, work ethic and emphasis on family of the 50s, with the racial harmony, improved technology, expanded creativity and better transport systems of the 80s. My gracious, if we were to ever do that, America would reach its peak.

[@lauren.7267]

I wish I lived in the 80s. I was born in 2003 and I can say without a doubt that technology has ruined my generation.

[@disoriented1]

Lauren..you are 15 or 16..we had 'technology' then as well!..we didn't live in caves!..our parents thought television..rock music..walkmans..video games..ruined us..and perhaps they did! We stared at tv screens like you do at smartphones..it's just it wasn't as easy to take a tv anywhere!

[@thornimation5492]

I was born in 1997, but I live in Great Britain, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean to all those Americans commenting on this Video. I'm glad that I was old enough that I Learnt to read and write before I learnt to type. Before I started High School in 2009, mobile phones were non-existent amongst Primary school kids and High School teenagers who had mobile phones had Nokia bricks and BlackBerrys. Most people still used Mobile Phones for simply phoning people, texting people and quickly checking the time. No What's App, fewer mobile games and no Instagram back then. It was the invention of the iPhone by Steve Jobs in 2007 that started the touchscreen Smartphone revolution. In my first 4 years in high school, I noticed touchscreen Smartphones becoming more and more commonplace. Nowadays I have seen toddlers and little kids younger than 6, walking around with iPads and most kids ages 12 have Smartphones now. I was actually a bit of late starter when it came to getting my first Mobile phone. I only got my first Mobile phone in 2012, when I was 14, and that was old Nokia brick I think. The first Touchscreen Smartphone I got was for my 17th Birthday in 2014, by which time 90% of my academic year already had a Smartphone and I knew that I had become a bit out of date.

[@nuckymancini7013]

This current generation IS THE END @AMERICA

[@AlyC430]

disoriented1 you weren’t as easily exposed to what kids see nowadays. kids today are exposed to too much too soon

[@leszek5222]

Ohh jeah you're right

[@cedricbennett8932]

I grew up as a kid in the 80's and I absolutely Loved it . Saturday morning cartoons and etc

[@eduardleon9636]

, 80s means youth and rebellion, endless times, great memories forever .........

[@FlightmikeVideos]

This is one of the most epic videos I've ever seen! You're a star. Congrats!

[@tonyguzman6798]

I'm a 90s baby that loves the fuckn 80s idk why

[@ronthatus]

My daughter is he same way. She was born in 2001 and is fascinated about the 80s. Loves all the music and movies from that decade

[@spongekidare]

the 80s was about music and style, you made your own rules with your clothing, the 90s was all about having fun, outside and at home........but after 2007......its like we lost our touch of individuality :(

[@Dimmyboos]

Dude... Same, that's why i searched up "life in the 80s" & i came across this video !

[@rageman2150]

same here man i born in the 90s i'm fucking attached to the 80s life style music historical moment etc my god i will pay or do anything just to live a week or day in that era.

[@ronthatus]

I miss the 80s!

[@nitronorman1491]

I can just feel my spine relaxing watching this. Thanks for putting it up!

[@ralphmelvin1046]

You know we didn't know it at the time in the 80's what a special time this was. With MTV in its prime, it was great!!

[@reginac5488]

I cried through most of this....images so fitting and music is perfect. It was a special time. Oh to go back!

[@demiroz4022]

I am so thankful that I was born 77 and lived with so much joy in the 80s as a kid. I do not think we will be able to see a decade like 80s because of the tech and globalization.

[@123haninhk]

crying watching this video... and the song. this was my decade.

[@Mowerdan]

I was in my 20s in the '80s. A very healthy refreshing decade. But a decade that made us? No way! That is a joke. The late '60s/'70s is what created our modern society. The '80s was the hangover decade.

[@MrZombiejoe]

HAHA I was born in the 80s and I have to agree with you ALL THE WAY on that Mowerdan. 60s and 70s did start us off.

[@jordannelson2014]

60s/70s = cultural/social intensity 80s/90s = technological/economic intensity

[@airaero5473]

Did you happen to watch the documentary first before writing this?

[@kian3540]

Agreed

[@zaidabraham7310]

The 80's were fun, but it ruined America. Reagan shifted America's economic Overton window too far right. And the crack epidemic drove the African American community even further down on the socioeconomic ladder.

[@melihcan7577]

I'm born in '99 but I wish I lived in the 80's. Everything looks better back then. Internet and smartphones ruined everything.

[@annetteslife]

Melih Can sure did. Although I find Facebook is good tool for reconnecting with long lost friends

[@MadaraUchiha-thereal]

Even though I wasn't born in the 80' I can sense life. What a beautiful decade 😆 I wish I could experience it on my own 😊

[@Dead-Historian]

in love with the 80s....Movies, music, disco, life.......

[@coltguy32]

Epic ride for those of us who had the opportunity to live this decade

[@JDemen82]

MTV generation was the best.

[@dariusdark2773]

THE BEST DECADE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD!!

[@luciavicente4637]

I tottaly agree

[@Racerrr684]

I really admire your edits. 👍

[@jackysally4evah]

80s were truly epic.

[@profesorkecil7301]

I maybe not born in 80's or live in America but i think 80 era is so cool.

[@blackman5867]

Nostalgia is a hella drug. It's cool to appreciate the good memories you had, but remember bad things happen all the time even then and now

[@profesorkecil7301]

@@blackman5867 yup you're right 👍, and thank you for reminding me about the bad time and good time will always happends 😊

[@blackman5867]

@@profesorkecil7301 you're welcome! 😊

[@Plexpara]

miss the 80's

[@blackpink.4queens72]

GUYS DELETE SOCIAL MEDIAS, LISTEN TO 80S MUSIC AND WATCH 80S MOVIES.

[@InFltSvc]

This was my time and I would trade it all in to go back and relive it all over ... it was the beginning of the technology boom and the promise but still stuck in the simple times without it. The music was better , life with family was love and together, we still celebrated holidays and special functions together and did not have social media, iPhones , robots and global unrest. It was just a perfect time to be alive in America

[@batmanreborn81]

The 80s will forever be the best decade it brought so many good memories and happiness and so many pop culture and music and I want to everybody to know that I am a 80s guy and always will be no matter what decade it is

[@keithbrooks4198]

We're not defined by the decade we grew up in but by the decade we're trying to repair! I hope everyone has a great 2021!

[@immanuelmitchell1884]

Yea I'm mean thinking about I just hope we as a people can get back to that feeling of how the 80's and hopefully my generation Gen Z can create our own decade to remember just like Gen X and Millennials.

[@AroundTheWorldWithEase]

I love nostalgia. I love the 80s. I was a teenager that decade, and indeed it was 'the decade that made me'. However, there were very serious problems, not the least of which was the constant spectre of nuclear annihilation, which was ingrained in kids at school starting age 5. That really is what made us. The end could happen anytime, so Carpe Diem! That attitude was everywhere. Thanks again for another awesome video.

[@clarissawestbrook2203]

I was born in 1994 but wish I was old enough to experience the amazing 80s!!!!

[@peterbates883]

was born in 1980 , so got to enjoy that decade from the start to the end as a kid. at 42 i still feel my fav movies best music all comes from that era

[@woodygrand1639]

I cry strongly..."

[@yoranw4608]

I never get tired of watching this. *wish i could hit the LIKE button some more 100 times*

[@hal9000xxl]

I was born in 1983 so technically I was there but in reality I'm a child of the 90's since I don't remember much from 80s. I mean I was what 7 years old when they ended. That been said 30 years from now someone will make video just like this one and everyone will say: "Man 2010's were really something!" The point is your childhood or/and teen decade will always have special place in your heart. It is turbulent time when we discover world and it is magic by definition. But yea life was simpler and I long for that life since I wasn't born with iPhone in my hand but for the kids of 21st century this is a simple world. 1980's must be hell of a complicated era for someone born in 1920's.

[@yomotii]

It hurts me how I miss the 80s...

[@saudqureshi3716]

Oh man. Tho I am a late 90s kid. I'm so in love with the 80s. Everything was so vibrant and happy. It was an entirely different world

[@hlavacekk1011]

This mini series is awesome!! Love the bit on Steve Jobs. I hope someone will post it soon

[@poyoAesthetic]

Tbh as someone from the recent generation i have never personally had this great generation. Everything was drama or other issues. The 80's had its problem but from speaking with people who lived there there was never this extreme doomsday shadow on peoples minds. Climate change, decline of the west and the growing domination of social media only isolates my generation and i think that even with its flaws the 80's probably were the latest golden age which i sadly missed. I hope we as a species can make this decade a decade of change in the right direction.

[@billn.1318]

The 80s was a harmonious and "liberated" time for many folks. Now it's just... I don't even know.

[@konscienciadivinus661]

The 80s, the true wonder years of all time, and the shit is, I'm a 90s guy. I wish I was a teen in the 80s.

[@WomanNextDoor]

80's was the best of times to be young. No social media to judge you, no smart phones to record your every mistake, indiscretion. No online shopping, we had shopping malls where shops, arcades, cinemas, food courts catered to thousands daily. The high street still had a pulse with family busineses providing the community and shop keepers knew your name. Papers delivered by kids on bikes, Saturdays kids working for their record/clothes money. TV shows didn't lecture you, films entertained you, music consisted of instruments, voices, oh boy some of the voices. Freddie Mercury, Phil Collins, George Michael, Laura Branigan, Madonna, Richard Marx etc...... Everything in the 80s seemed to be full of life, an explosion of goodness in every area of your young life. To be part of a generation that inspired and experienced such a decade is something I am eternally grateful for. I ❤ 80s.

[@dunkydog1676]

i was born in 71 so enjoyed the 80s was a simpler time to..music was awesome great movies..less bullshit..1980 what a year to start off the decade iron maiden-iron maiden..black sabbath heaven and hell,judas priest british steal..acdc-back in black

[@FredoSantana90]

I feel so much nostalgia for a decade I wasn’t even born in. I wasn’t even thought about. But I feel like I got to experience just a tiny bit of it through music, movies, adverts and videos on KZbin. How I wish I was a teen in the 80’s man. P.S. WE’LL ALWAYS BE TOGETHER. TOGETHER IN ELECTRIC DREEEEEEAMSS

[@irishrover9332]

100% FAUXSTALGIA! Can't be Nostalgic for something you NEVER experienced nor lived. What a typical Zoomer fake Nostalgia comment, you weren't even alive! Wake up

[@yogesaclan4166]

80's the best decade and will never forget...

[@Andrew-el8xi]

Bloody love the 80s ! Just pure passion in sport and music !and the films were class

[@feopew1]

is it me or people back then were more relaxed and happier than they are now?

[@senpaizac4687]

How can you be nostalgic about a time you never lived in!? This video made me cry, wishing I could experience the 80s

[@doctorslayer2106]

The 2020s the decade that will destroy the world

[@kirstenhart423]

The 80’s make me wanna cry, all the movies and All, it just sounds Awesome and I hate living in this decade with all these juvenile delinquents

[@StanshaVevo]

I was born 1992 I wish is was there in the 80s So Iconic and the 60s so Legendary 😊

[@valiumdreaming]

I just had an 80s theme birthday party 😏😏it was amazing

[@evalsoftserver]

Presley Boler Kristen DiThomas Oh , So much so , Everything Got where it today from Music , Technology, Business and Fashion, was Inspired by 1980s, Remember Michael Jackson, thriller, David Bowie ,Billy Idol Run DMC, Microchips, the first Personal Computer , Video games, Graphic in films, ET, War Games ,Star wars, IBM, big blue, Apple, Microsoft, Intel , The Space Shuttle, First Mult- Billionaire's, Trump , Gates, Murdoch, Bloomberg, Ronald Regan Greenspan Politics, The Best Fashion, Tommy Hilfiger,Ralph Lauren ,Calvin Klein, All What people Take for granted today Originated or reached its Peak in the 1980s

[@airaero5473]

Wow that's amazing I should do that too

[@ahmadomar1-v3t]

This was the absolute PEAK of humanity.

[@mr.unbeat9181]

80 s was still better than any decade in my life

[@gigachad69775]

This video brings me nostalgia of a time I did not live

[@nelms78]

The 80s was one big no stop party for me, I was at the perfect age and had a new Z28 went clubbing almost every night, and to think we couldn't wait for the future thinking it was even going to be better, boy was we fucking wrong. I pray I'm in a nightmare and ill wake up in the 80s.

[@sandieharvey4939]

Born in the 50’s, remember history then and now ♥️🙏