UK TV Adverts from 1999

[@Rulegram]

When you watch 9 minutes of ads but still skip the ads that come up in between

[@yomilemondragon1721]

In another 20 years we'll be looking up compilations of those ads!

[@peteinessex5025]

I kept going to skip parts of the video before remembering I was watching a video.

[@SousTerre1]

i'm going to ASDA now and if the prices don't match those shown in this advert. then I will ask them to define 'forever'

[@nikkijackson2981]

Did you get a refund?

[@SousTerre1]

@@nikkijackson2981 I was thrown out.

[@nikkijackson2981]

Lol 7 years on I'm surprised you even recollect typing this!👌👍

[@tshelby5212]

That's a point actually

[@tmuxor]

We need to start a class action law suit against ASDA

[@VanillaSkyx]

Ahh, the days where people on the Asda adverts used to smack their ass

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

VanillaSkyx Tap their bum. It’s because their slogan was ‘pocket the difference’

[@sgl0d10n]

They still do

[@giftheck]

The Pocket Tap (as they told me when I worked there) comes and goes as they see fit. About the only thing constant from this ad is the Roll Back - even Permanently Low Prices does an occasional vanishing act from ad campaigns.

[@SkavenUK]

I mean, I still slap asses when I go into Asda. Unfortunately the police usually end up carting me away.

[@Spoonbill_88]

Those were the days when we could slap a woman’s arse to let her know we were interested.

[@hannahc2102]

It’s terrifying how much of this my brain has chosen to store for 22 years. April 2021.

[@yooochoob]

I’m gay

[@aviationin4k258]

@@yooochoob ok?

[@yooochoob]

@@aviationin4k258 yes

[@jtaylor9562]

Absolutely true. Commercials are something you don't really pay attention too, but you would probably have seen some of these a couple of hundred times during their run. Basically they were internet cookies, BEFORE the internet was big.

[@ryanh361]

Yeah hanannah

[@Airtrooper719]

i dont know why this brought a couple tears to my eyes, maybe it just reminds me of when life was so much simpler, and happier.

[@johnhogan6563]

Better days.. diversity not shoved down your throat!

[@Nintendo3DSdude1]

It’s weird to think that this compilation video is now older than the adverts were back when this compilation came out! Time flies.

[@dianavickers92]

Hilarious how we are willingly watching these old ads but probably hated them when they were actually shown lol....all for the sake of nostalgia haha

[@HailZod]

Diana Vickers Fan I’ve always loved watching adverts if they’re entertaining like most of these ones. We’ve had some truly iconic adverts over the years aha

[@philmitchell909]

@@HailZod u loved watching adverts.. u having a laugh there's nothing I hate more than adverts.. people like you make me sick

[@steve_ire321]

@@philmitchell909 Makes you sick? Seriously fella, wise up.

[@sparkymufcriley2544]

I was never in as a kid I was too busy playing out, and if was in I was playing on my Sega mega drive or sega master system lol, so I’m catching up on them now.

[@philmitchell909]

@Jack jones child abusers and rapist don't piss me off on a daily basis

[@jaywest3734]

I miss the hell out of the 90s, especially 90s Britain. Wish I could go back sometimes.

[@jamstrings100]

Only real bad thing was a lack of technology. Simpler times though for sure. I know I miss my childhood.

[@timgoodwin4424]

Jay West feels like yesterday. Everything seems more colourful back then

[@TheKonga88]

Y K Lack of technology in 1999? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@berliner965]

Late 1990s/early 2000s was the best time for tech. We had enough of it to be able to communicate instantly, but not smart phones that suck your life away, awful social media that fuels hatred, bullying and vanity, apps that spy on you and stupid things like apple watches etc. The balance was right. Tech was convenient, affordable and not intrusive or distracting. The pause button should have been hit then. Nowadays tech has over taken the capacity of human intelligence. We have people buying drones and flying them near planes, we have people climbing towers to post a selfie on instagram and people videoing minor events in order to shame one another. None of that crap in the 1990s. The early 1990s and before were the wrong side of the balance. Tech was expensive, clunky and didn't function that well.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

I was born in the UK in 1984. I left the UK in 1995. I've lived in New Zealand for 24 years.

[@markj.a351]

Watching a 10 year old youtube video about adverts from 20 years ago...

[@niviamaeva]

Right? 🤪

[@johnathantaylor5913]

Reading a year old youtube comment on an 11 year old video about adverts from 21 years ago...

[@thebrightsided136]

@@johnathantaylor5913 Your not alone.

[@Ryan-mr9bx]

@@xander5678 reading a day old comment about a day old comment about a year old comment on an 11 year old video from adverts 21 years ago....or 22 years ago 🤔

[@StuartQuinn]

@@johnathantaylor5913 replying to a one week old comment about reading a one year old comment about watching a ten year old video of adverts from 22 years ago.

[@syteanric1868]

this wasn't that long ago, yet it was an age ago.... shows how fast life goes!

[@sshep86]

Terrifying

[@Lakota_Wolf]

Yes! 😣🤷‍♀️

[@rmg5111]

22 years ago is too long bro

[@JohnnyPaton]

I used to joke about how different the 70s looked compared to the 90s back then. I recently watched a home video of my local area from 1999 and it looks like a million years ago yet feels like yesterday. 1996 is now 25 years ago. In 1996 1971 was 25 years previous. It’s terrifying.

[@buckbumble]

We’ll all be dead soon.

[@MaquiladoraIII]

"Because Life's Complicated Enough"': just you wait until smartphones and social media, son.

[@AidanMillward]

Yellow Pages. 19 years later we just google it.

[@ihathtelekinesis]

JR Hartley would be over the moon.

[@godzamoongus]

So this is why I've been suggested this, hi Aidan

[@MrChimpeh]

Aidan popped in to check out the Primera Advert

[@dianeharrison4975]

Exactly it's crazy

[@mittfh]

Somewhat surprisingly, the search engine featured in the collection (Lycos) still exists, despite several changes in ownership. They also own 1990s Web hosting services Tripod and Angelfire, which also still exist.

[@SugarLemonPants]

I was 14! Had no mobile phone, no social media and no internet and happier for it! Miss the 90s

[@Hellwyck]

No, the internet was a product of the 1960s. you mean the world wide web which houses didn't have until mid 1990s.

[@alexmckee4683]

@@Hellwyck normally I would be the pedant pointing that out but Emily did not say no one had the internet, she said she didn't which is probably the case.

[@Fordnan]

@@Hellwyck It was very unusual for anyone to have internet access in the mid 1990s. I had a friend at school whose dad was connected to the internet. He was like some kind of celebrity.

[@whynot6950]

“Connected to the internet” 😂😂

[@emmastephenson5097]

@@Fordnan connected haha! The good old dial up tone. I remember being allowed to use it for 1 hour every saturday 🤣

[@underneonloneliness2]

Anyone else get sad when we look back on things? The past is hard to ignore. The 90’s just seemed more chilled out and less PC nonsense! Better music definitely. Toys that lasted years too.

[@MJN_SEIFER]

As awesome as it was back then, I can honestly say that I still find it awesome now. I really don't see that much "PC nonsense" these days to be honest (though the meaning of it seems to have changed now - I thought it was telling people not to say things?) no more than I saw growing up, which was mostly the 2000s, but there would have been some in the 90s as well - they'll always be people taking offense to something that they don't need to. I like all music, and to be honest, most of the songs I hear today could have easily come out back then, or at least sound like they evolved from back then - to me, there is no decade that had "better music" - it's all good. Hope you didn't mind me sharing my opinion, I respect yours.

[@s.andrewchandler-byrne4611]

The 1990's were good times. I can't believe it's been 22 years. Goodness....

[@Irishgui83]

1999 honestly feels like about 5 years ago to me. I did my GCSEs and remember my parents telling me to enjoy being young as life goes very quickly. I'm now the same age they were in 1999. How the fk did that happen?!

[@14KShadow]

Well that's made me depressed lol

[@Irishgui83]

@@14KShadow haha me too!!

[@mikeh2006]

It's like the years pass by quicker the older you get. I'm 33 but the last 5 or 6 years seem to hsve just merged in to one. I'll be 40 before i know it.

[@SamuelBlack84]

I just wish I had something to show for my life as I reach the dreaded 40😖It's just me. My family used to be huge, now they've all but gone and one day before I know it I'll be all alone 😔

[@mrchico2621]

@@SamuelBlack84 Bro

[@echomemory]

This feels like a different world

[@robtyman4281]

2017 feels like a different world.....

[@iamra8826]

It was a different world

[@jbcentral1545]

@@robtyman4281 2017 was an amazing year for me!

[@numan2985]

@@jbcentral1545 me too!

[@jazzbox24]

2024 feels like a different world from 2017…

[@johnboycooper4914]

Suspect: "Take that, Mr. Policeman!" Policeman: "Ouch, that hurts!"

[@lucylocket4740]

Such a priceless line!

[@johndickson76]

Legendary advert

[@AH-be6bu]

To be honest I would watch the shit out of that programme.

[@tibsie]

"Just you wait until I get out of these nasty handcuffs, they really chafe you know."

[@rowgli]

@@AH-be6bu you mean "watch the excrement"

[@_LilacRoses]

Watching this and remembering my 7 year old self, what a different world that was.... ahh the bittersweet pain of nostalgia.

[@AmaanStorm]

0:21 a quick reg check says that the Ford Fiesta in this advert only lasted four years after the ad. RIP 🙏😁

[@fishmeister2625]

Those Fiestas looked old, even when they were new.

[@joeynebulous816]

@@fishmeister2625 To be fair that's a J reg (1991) fiesta, it was 8 years old when the advert was broadcast

[@STUDENTPROTESTLONDON]

I remember every ASDA had one of them boulders at the entrance!

[@chr2810gt]

It's interesting to think that I remember most of these ads even when I was fresh off the boat in 1999 and did not speak English. 25 years later and look and watch everything between 1998 and 1999. Time flies!

[@sshep86]

Oh memories. How great it was when one was young. Shit went downhill from 2000 onwards.

[@kpskips]

Maybe the Mayans were right?

[@steve_ire321]

@George Corbul Yeah, I feel the same. I think things like film and music really started to decline by those years, but still had good stuff being made. Around 2010 onwards, that's when it really did start to go to fuck, and its no coincidence that's when smart phones and social media really started to have a detrimental effect on everything.

[@nickpink25]

Blair

[@paulgilson2347]

Yeah 2005, the year skinny jeans, indie music and social media took off.....end of days shit right there.

[@ElZilchoYo]

everyone says that about every new generation

[@biggib8]

Massive difference is no betting ads. A innocent era. Before mobiles, u had ask parents to use landline or load 20p for pay phone. Some had directories chained to phone boxes. From cassette Walkmans to carrying big cd players that skip every step lol.

[@synaesthesia2010]

the year i left school. can still remember some of those ads like they were on yesterday

[@Retrohertz]

Yes, especially that Vauxhall Zafira advert for some reason.

[@edwardhartz1029]

Wish I could turn back time to the good old days

[@dangale123]

Edward Hartz I hear what you're saying but they weren't all great. Savile was still alive, everything was analog and *everyone* thought climate change was a myth, not just the President.

[@VileCAESARB]

@@dangale123 It's not a myth, it's a socially created construct to get/force people to accept lower living standards: which you will see in the next 10 years. See how your opinion has changed/remained the same in ten :)

[@pianoman1396]

Hah, I remember the Tesco adverts with Prunella Scales :D

[@gregoryroberts6387]

I pay for KZbin premium so that I can watch adverts, uninterrupted by adverts.

[@MancstaSam]

Just download Brave browser and watch KZbin for free with No Ads lol

[@WinchesterDiamond]

Just get adblock

[@jonny5777]

I mute adverts on TV so I can watch them in 20 years on KZbin

[@leighdappa]

@Gregory: You're paying for nothing; Use an AdBlocker.

[@Future-Classic-Cars]

​@@leighdappacan't download KZbin music/vids offline without premium though.

[@jigglypufflove]

That scwheppes ad with the leopard and alligator feels like it was only a few years ago. Can’t believe that’s 21 years ago wtf?!

[@tozzilil]

I miss the 90s so much. Great era.

[@ironknee3887]

Wow didn’t realise that the woman in the Tesco ad was Sybil from Fawlty Towers till now. Interesting 🤔

[@YorkshireNutte]

Yep, the great Prunella Scales herself.

[@JFrizey]

I knew I recognised the voice!!

[@LeeHJButterfield]

And the man was later in Pirates of the Caribbean 😂

[@JonnyInfinite]

That floating AOL woman's head..

[@lucylocket4740]

It's so 1990s!

[@SDRockman]

I loved seeing her head float onto the TV COOORRRRRRRRRR!

[@judgedottaylor7565]

Hahahaha "floating head woman". I'm pretty sure she was called Connie. When I was 15 I was so thick I thought that she owned the Internet

[@ecaepevolhturt]

I can remember a few of these. Fun trip down memory lane. I was 13/14 years old in 1999.

[@kathrynpitt4973]

Hair dye commercials haven't changed a bit, they just make up more gobbledygook to sell more units. Glad to see Yowie listed here, massively nostalgic.

[@kadiebeex]

All the adverts pre 2000 seem so entertaining, they make you want to watch them to the end. Alot of thought put into them, they're just generally fun to watch. All adverts nowadays are horrible, pointless, misleading...

[@Onmysheet]

True. The Yellow Pages ad is almost Oscar worthy.

[@bluesrocker91]

They're often deliberately annoying too, to make sure you remember them.

[@cornishphilosopher]

Well, most people skip ads these days anyway

[@redyellowpink01]

How are these so much more persuasive than modern ads?

[@ThisisDaniel]

Who else completely forgot about Lycos! When seasrch engines were like the most exciting discovery in the world.

[@davefd9594]

Im still in the 90s

[@timgoodwin4424]

Dave Fd it feels like yesterday

[@TheBlazingDead]

One minute I'm 7 years old, with very few cares in the world. The next minute, I'm pushing 30, working every hour, all my grandparents are dead, my parents are getting visibly older.. I want to go back.

[@soundseeker63]

Lycos and AOL "Connie"... how the internet used to look back in the late 90s/early 00s! Good times. So different to today! It all seemed so positive and exciting back then. A far cry from the reality of how things were to actually turn out.

[@dodgeman777]

I remember the hopefulness and excitement for “the year 2000” as if we were suddenly going to arrive in the future...

[@ravs332]

You can't beat the 90s!! Those were the best days of my life, then I had to bloody grow up!!

[@djharry2821]

Got to agree, another 27 year old here and I never realised just how lucky I was

[@kingshearer2]

ravs332 My decade was the 80's the adverts were even sexier back then.

[@gilgammesh1]

27 now. Im glad i grew up before the age of the internet and smartphones tbh. When you actually had to knock on your mates doors, and just do stupid shit. My mates in work tell me all their sons and daughters just stay indoors now glued to their phones. A shame really.

[@marcusphoenixish]

ravs332 you can beat the 90’s the 80’s were better

[@TheKonga88]

Chef Excellence 27? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 You definitely grew up in the days of hi tech.😂😂😂

[@Oli3TB76]

The nostalgia! I remember my mind being blown by the Zafira lmao and Yowie Power.... talk about a blast from the past!

[@adilonline8289]

I’m so lucky to be born in the 80s! So much was going on and everything was still “Analogue”. It was a very very exciting period all the way up to 2005! It was down hill from there on :-( I blame Facebook and smart phones.... Anyone agrees?

[@sofiadeentravelvlogs4813]

If anything life has improved.

[@underneonloneliness2]

Sofia Deen Travel Vlogs how?

[@zitzong]

I was born in the 80s too!

[@francisr8563]

Not really, I’m sure the generation above you said the same about the 80s and 90s. I’m sure I’ll look fondly on the late 2000s and 2010s

[@Lakota_Wolf]

Yup 😣

[@Drawyah]

That McDonald's oil rig one made me chuckle, good joke! 😂 I was born in 1999. Interesting that my parents will have been watching these while I was only a few days old!

[@gloryofthe80s]

Love the Kelsey Grammar Schweppes one. "Christopher!"

[@louiseogden1296]

I love the ITC ad. I use it on writing forums occasionally to show how dialogue has to fit the story people are writing :).

[@sir_lanian]

This is a true representation of what VHS quality was like. Not like they try and make it seem like with the more modern VHS filters you see on some videos

[@JoelJoel321]

When the BBC shows a news report from like 5 years ago they put a filter on it like we didn't have HD in 2016. Also Tai'shar Malkier.

[@Isabellecherry13]

Now we can literally block ads lol. So good going back in time !

[@olis87]

The real thing that surprised me was that we had the Mcrib in the UK.

[@R.F.9847]

Whoa. In the USA, we also have the Yellow Pages and the logo was exactly the same. I had no idea it was international.

[@tiberius5245]

Is it just me or does watching all these adverts remind you of when you know we had a strong sense of British culture and identity. It just to me feels like the 90's were the Bronze age finally dying and now 2000's are the dead age.

[@desertrose1226]

Dead age is right with all these "Coronavirus" deaths

[@chrisbuckley5657]

Growing up in the 90's had most of the best vibes of my life. 2020 is just like 'yeah whatever' tbh...

[@MrFuzzwuzzle]

Me: I'm not paying to watch live TV and sit through all these bloody adverts Also me: ooo 10 minutes of adverts

[@jordanhunt4867]

Bloody hell, the Tesco advert takes me back, I remember that ad so well and I pretty much ate all the stuff that woman did back then as I was a very fussy eater!

[@so_bendy]

haha RIP yellow pages

[@xsm5525]

I'd still use it now if it was around, f*** the internet

[@v8cool231]

I was 21 in 1999 and was living in the countryside and by the sea. I miss the 90's :-( My life seemed simpler then but having said that , it often is in your teens and early 20's.

[@desertrose1226]

Your 30s is when you grow up, you get your first wrinkle and your parents die.

[@dianeharrison4975]

Yellow pages,,now we just look everything up on our phones,crazy

[@markwilliams7054]

ahh man I remember those AOL trial packs

[@jakedawson3324]

I was only 7 but jeez I still miss the 90s, what a vibe

[@CallemJayNZ]

Don't even know why I'm watching these, I've never been to the UK so it's not like I can look back with nostalgia 😂

[@jimbobmedog]

Lol

[@fionawalsh1007]

So much nostalgia,so many memories of how life used to be. Fantastic video 😀

[@verkaforever]

The ITC advert was so cool! Never seen it before- thanks for sharing.

[@22point8]

One of those guys was in an episode of Taggart with Amanda Redman about a hypnotist.

[@Taporeee]

​@@22point8There was a Madddarrr?

[@sparklywarkly89]

Seen them all before and funny I remember them was only 10 at the time... The ITC one is brilliant

[@LloydEWatson1983]

Great nostalgia. I left high school in 99, feels like a lifetime ago now.

[@redalbatross5649]

I was just 8 and not a care in the world. Late 90s and early 00s was the best time with best cartoons.

[@GullyFoyleTerra]

The leopard is voiced by Kelsey Grammar from the sounds of things.

[@lesbian_amy_pond8633]

+Simon Fraser Yes he did :)

[@lucylocket4740]

Don't forget Stinky Pete from Toy Story 2! 😂🤣

[@davidhanley1962]

1999 best year of my life

[@paulinegenner2588]

Yes 20 Years Now.

[@crashfan9997]

Cheers mate I was born that year 😀

[@stevieblackburn1589]

Genuinely still think about Yowies on a regular basis. rip.

[@jamesbailey9007]

I think now 42 was the last now album I bought, I don’t remember any of theses ads

[@ricjuk]

1999 - Just before it all went wrong...

[@benjamiah]

ricjuk that's because 999 is 666 backwards

[@Grayvorn]

ben Shady That makes way too much sense.

[@crozwayne]

I quite agree!

[@golgotha3938]

That's because adverts were just, that adverts. Now it's propaganda.

[@tommyclifford6796]

@anomie nous orrrrr it’s just the Mandela effect and we’ve all gone inter dimensional

[@danielstrangeway3840]

Great music

[@kevw9016]

Can’t believe the amount of ad interruptions..... skipped! Ironic though, we might be voluntarily watching those same skipped ads in 22 years!

[@andyreynolds6194]

I love how confident the AOL lady is with her parental controls boasts when every 10 year old had already learned how to get round them.

[@maaththecreator]

1999- all downhill from here on ...

[@PhiWeaver]

Yeah I wrote a whole thing about it: www.reddit.com/r/natureofreality/comments/3knb0h/my_collected_thoughts_on_1999/

[@circle2867]

@@PhiWeaver you know when you was talking about clothing style and what not? i've been thinking this for a long time. when i watch some tv shows from 99/00 there are some slight differences such as the gelled hair and combat trouser combo. but nothing drastically different. i don't think the music is that different either, apart from more styles

[@reallyryan_]

How 🤔

[@West.Ham1964]

I'd forgotten all about Lycos. Had to google it to see if it was still around, done a search for dinosaurs but it wasn't as exciting as they made it out to be back then.

[@berliner965]

They still have the black dog logo though!

[@woolenhat5796]

hold on... the asda roll back forever ad.... are the items still the same prices. imma contact asda.

[@circle2867]

i noticed that on the beers lol. not much difference which is mad

[@TheKonga88]

@@willnicholson18 So you're a plastic dolly then?

[@unpopularsoul]

@@willnicholson18 so they lied! Lol “permanently low prices - forever”

[@JoelJoel321]

People watching this in 2087 are gonna be so mad.

[@ssss-df5qz]

No woke, no PC, no pontificating celebrities.... I miss those times. @5:50 - whatever happened to the ITC anyway? Do they know about youtube?

[@mikebird7161]

the amount of AOL CD's i had was unreal.

[@Spitfiregirl01]

I was 4 and I still remember this

[@morkofork]

Lycos & AOL made me actually lol.

[@MrStewToobe]

lol, I fondly remember that Lycos advert, this was back before everybody used Google. Altavista was king of the search engines then, well at least that was what I used back in the 90's

[@TheForgottenWatcher]

I still find it funny of how the internet is viewed as the magical new device :P

[@craigj.davies1983]

3:05 Oh my god, I remember this advert, can't believe it was out nearly 20 years ago. I was 16 then and now Patrick Moore, you did not know that.

[@Lakota_Wolf]

18-19 here

[@TheMusicTimeMachine.]

oh for god sake adverts again.. me now watching adverts from 21 years ago

[@kellie5476]

Nothing wrong with that, we're all depressed and miss the past here lol

[@CodeDeb]

Obsessed! I left England in 1997 - before any of these even aired!

[@nickusher4676]

5:25 A tv advert for a search engine, why does that seem so odd.

[@RoHuMemes]

When TV was more popular. Now it would be the internet telling you about a TV show

[@dnakatomiuk]

90s and early 00s best years of my life, people met and talked to each directly now smartphones have stuffed everything up. KZbin is good but Facebook and Instagram etc have just destroyed socialising and I think increased mental health issues

[@tommanserable]

I think I was smoking dope every day of the whole year in 1999. I don’t remember any of these adverts.

[@NoddyAlba]

Back when we couldn't skip adverts ahh nostalgia 😂

[@Eddie-lm3jf]

That itc advert was about 6 or 7 years old at the time.

[@ultrapurple111]

I cant believe I'm watching the ads.

[@jtaylor9562]

I was 19, just started my first real job. Nobody had Mobile phones, people still communicated, you wrote letters, no internet and porn to fuck with your head. Great, great times. Technology and the political and cultural landscape had just gone totally downhill from here.

[@sniffmatip3865]

My dad got me the beastie boys album back in the day, bringing back memories seeing these ad's

[@oo1721]

Amazing how many of these brands no longer exist now.... Lycos, Abbey National, Kitecat

[@tosspot1305]

Well KiteKat became whiskers which is still going

[@jennytaylor3324]

It's amazing how little hair goals have changed over 20 years on!

[@sleepyrasta420]

I miss the 90s

[@ianwebster3489]

7:15 Wow.. imagine it - COMPLETE access to the internet!

[@Pixiedust8399]

Bloody hell look how young Allen Davies looks.

[@markyh88]

Wow. This really took me back to being 11. That's mental to think it's been 20 years. I agree with most of the people on here, it was a much simpler time and technology really has ruined the world in some ways. I realise it's hypocritical to say that as I type on my smartphone searching KZbin but I just think there was something way more wholesome about the 90s? Maybe because my experience was that of a child but it was magical and exciting. The tech we had was brilliant but didn't take over our entire being. Nowadays people are just consumed by technology. Very sad way for the human race to go really.

[@visionist7]

I was born in September 88 and I'd kill to visit 1999

[@mikeh2006]

@@visionist7 spend the day watching mtv. Hope mum would let us have mcdonalds for dinner, but it never happened. Repeat the next day.

[@SamuelBlack84]

Ironically, without modern technology I never would have had two girlfriends

[@emmastephenson5097]

Couldnt agree more with everything you just said! I was born in 89 and i am so grateful to have the memories from being a child back then

[@joetri10]

When we were kids, we went to parks, went down the road, played on bikes, climbed on trees and walls, with little to no safety concern, or worries about contacting our parents. Knowing to stay clear of roads, and get back before dark. After school, it was the corner shop owned by a family, buying things for under a pound and watching whatever was on Cbbc, or CITV or if we felt brave, what came on after 5:30. Our parents didn't have to worry about what was on our tv because what was their to be worried about? Paul O'grady? Simpsons? Eastenders? Sneaking in an hour of gaming before bed; and when we say gaming, we mean an actual kids game. Mario, or Zelda, or a bit of Spyro. Dare we play that edgy game we talk about at school, like Doom! oooo Then we'd hide under he covers with our chunky record players or CD players if we were lucky, and replay those 10 songs we had over and over again, but that's ok, because they were our songs. Sadly..... Kids can't go to parks, or down the road, play on bikes or climb on trees and walls due to bad drivers, crime rates, drug users... but that's ok, because they don't feel like doing it anyway... and even if they did, they'd stay out over dark because they have their smart phone to call. After school, it's that 5 pounds for a chocolate from Tesco, and jumping onto their phones or laptops to watch youtube or play online games. Watching music videos and dangerous videos they somehow came across or heard about from their friends. Parents barely find out though, and it's too late otherwise. Sneaking in those hours of online games till 12 and kicking screaming if their parents dare take the device away; sucking away their sleep and ruining their learning at school. Name the poison. GTA online with Voice chat. League of Legends with filters off. CS:GO with a debit card number tucked away. Maybe even some sex games because google is now a thing. Then they'd hide under the covers till even later, scrolling through TikTok for the next music trends, or Spotify listening to the new explicit Grime, Trap, Mumble rap music over and over because they have too or they're not cool at school ....

[@GreenBananaz]

Was born In 88 so I actually remember some of these adverts It’s so weird & nostalgic!

[@schteeve4759]

That's Matt King who plays Super Hans in Peep Show voicing the Nissan advert at 1:25. He's poshed his voice up for it but you can tell it's him.