101 Facts About The 1980s 

I've always been nostalgic about the 80s, and since the world is unfolding in so many bad directions, I've become even more nostalgic of that golden decade.

Yeah, a lot of messed up stuff happened but it's still one of the most amazing decades ever.

I'm 55 years old. The 80's was the future. The Digital keyboard synthenzier was invented in 1983 changing the sound of music. (Michael Jackson for example). Music was so good in the 80's, that's all I play as a DJ. I graduated high school in 1982.

The 80s were dope.

'Previously music-based channel - MTV...' - funny and sad at the same time :-)

The 80's were awesome. I miss the 80's.

The 80's were a larger-than-life decade that I'm glad I got to live through during my pre-teen and teenage years. So many memories from that time that I will always cherish -- getting cool toys for x-mas like Transformers, Star Wars and A-Team action figures, hanging out with my cousins in the summertime and swimming in their pool, playing little league baseball, eating all kind of junk food like hot dogs, candy, soda, etc., playing video games in the local arcade and at home with my gaming systems, acting in the annual high school musical production, listening to so many cool rock and metal bands on my cassette player, and the list goes on and on. It was the last really joyous time in my life before the responsibilities, burdens and stresses of adulthood set in the following decade. It felt like getting the plug pulled on an awesome shindig, and everybody got a rude awakening that the good times were over. Anyone who's been through that transitional period between the exciting 80's and the dreary 90's will tell you it wasn't a pleasant transition. The Seattle grunge scene replaced the fun heavy metal bands, AIDS forced itself into the public sphere with the death of rock icon Freddie Mercury, and by-and-large, everything 80's was considered obsolete and out-of-touch with the serious, dull, dreary 90's. I kept flying the flag to support all things 80's, but people like me were few and far between. Granted, I got with the times like everyone else, but I liked what I liked, and a change in trends wasn't going to change that for me. There will never be another time as wonderful and fun as the 80's! Those of you who weren't fortunate enough to live through that time surely missed out on something special!

The 80's gave us Personal Computers, The Sony Walkman, and The Safety Dance. And also Mr. Crazy Hair from A Flock of Seagulls, and the incredible band Haircut 100. I mean, up until that point, I had no idea where we were going from here.

You forgot to mention, that when the Challenger exploded, there was a teacher on board and the whole nation to include her classroom watched.

I graduated high school in 1981, got married, and had two daughters during this decade! My favorite decade!

I was born in the 1990s but i’ll love to live in the 1980’s for a year

I was 20 in 1985 so I was in the middle of the 80's. I loved it. Loved the 90's even more. Culturally, America flat-lined in 2000.

Was in high school and college both in the 80s decade. Wow such memories. Woohoo

The 1980s was a colorful, bright, highly influential and optimistic era. We need its energy now in 2022!!

I was born in 1964. Best years of my life was in the 80's. I'm a 80's DJ and only play 80's music. The 80's was the first Digital generation. The Compact Disk, Digital Synthenzier and Personal Computer was made in the 80's. We had Michael Jackson too

The 80s were a great decade. TV was awesome especially primetime.. there were video games, arcades, some of the things we have today, but kids still spent most of their days outside (especially in the summer). Man, I wish it was still like this.

The 80s were an cool decade back then and still my dad loves that decade.

I Love the 80s Wish I Can Comeback That Time

I so loved the 80s..That's where I grew up.

I was born 3 years before the 90s ended and I have been so nostalgic about other golden eras

It is so strange to hear how the 80's are talked about today. My wife and I grew up with the Duck and Cover drills in schools, Mr. Fred Rodgers was the first celebrity to kiss a child with AIDS on the head in front of reporters, and the fall of the Berlin Wall still brings tears of joy to my eye. Funny how it's history book stuff to the current youth and colored with nostalgia of those my age.

Wow I was in my 20s in the 1980s. Ah memories.

How was Miami Vice not mentionned????? It WAS the 80's incarnate

Yay - my decade! Born in the 70s, but grown in the 80s! Thanks!

The 80s really were rad for lots of different things. It was my decade, I would like to revisit the 80s for all the "rad" stuff.

I was born in the 90's, but grew up in a household that never really came out of the 80's. The 80's were great

You missed an important thing that happened back in 1983. Before the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System), there was the Atari 2600, 5200, Colecovision, Odyssey and the Intellivision. The console market back then was flooded and what's worse is that theydidn't make games that were good. The prime example of this is the video game adaptation of E.T and the port of Pac-Man for theAtari 2600. It took two years for someone to fix the video game market and that was Nintendo that made the NES. BTW, I was born 2000. Pretty weird, huh?

Proud to having grew up in the 80s.

Halley's Comet 1990s Hale-Bopp was an unusually bright comet that swung near Earth in the late 1990s, reaching its closest approach to the planet in 1997. It was most spectacular in the Northern Hemisphere and visible to the naked eye for about 18 months. Hale-Bopp was probably one of the most viewed comets in history.

The Shroud of Turin was carbon dated as 700+ years old. About ten years ago, it was discovered that the edge where the sample was taken was not part of the original shroud. The shroud has been handled so much through the years that seven hundred + years ago, it was mended with cloth of that same time period. This discovery began when a historical seamstress was restoring worn areas. She noted that the sewing method used was from the first century. The cloth was then examined and the added areas were noted for the first time. Since then, noninvasive techniques were done to date the shroud. ( no more cutting the cloth). Pollen was lifted that came from the first century. The original shroud photographer, who never quite accepted the date, was the one to tell one of the original scientists. That scientists agreed to meet him but told the photographer would not change his mind. Well, he was dumbfounded and yes, he did change his mind.

MY 80S HEART IS EXPLODING RIGHT NOW love the video 101 facts

I'm so thankful I was an 80s kids the best..

I grew up in the 80s 😍. I was also there the day Mount St. Helens blew. It was an incredible thing to see and also one of the scariest things I've even witnessed. The news footage doesn't even begin to convey what it was like to see half a mountain side suddenly explode the sound was deafening and it just happened so fast. I still have small vials of Ash and debris that fell that day and cover us and our cars as we escaped the devastation.

I was born in 97 but the 80s have awesome music and movies

i love the 80´s so much, even though i wasn't born in the 80´s

I LOVE the 80s My parents raised on 80s movies, music, television and videogames

I remember the Reese's Pieces thing being a big product placement/tie-in for ET. Baskin Robbins even had a limited edition ice cream in honor of it with the candies mixed in :)

I’m glad I got to experience the 80s. I still remember I was born in 1980

Let's remember some ridiculous 80's phrases: -"Oh, that was so funny I forgot to laugh." "-Smooth move, Exlax." -"Whaaaaaat?" -"See ya! Wouldn't wanna be ya!"

I grew up in the 80s and I find myself going back to thus time these days with the way the world is... it's kinda an escape from reality currently!!!

how did you not mention Back to the Future?!

guys, i love you... BUT how did you NOT mention the commodore 64? released in 1982 is the best selling home computer of ALL TIME. It deserved a fact. And, also, the CD!!! How could you forget that? :)

President Reagan was shot in the rib and had a collapsed lung. Brady was permanently brain damaged, and two other people were injured. So in no way did Hinckley miss with all six shots. Enjoyed the video otherwise though!!

Why were they using modern songs in a episode about the 80's?? Why not use songs from the decade itself??

Amazing to think I lived through this decade. Still, I was in my 20's and the best time of all the decades after the '80s.

Absolutely LOVED being in a video with you Sam! ❤️

This was uploaded on my moms birthday :D Great video!

Whaaat? A 101 Facts video about the 80's without mentioning one of your national treasures, Depeche Mode?! :D Loved the vid, like always. Keep up the good work!

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You got a thumbs up for including "Weird Al" in the video although it is a little odd that you didn't include a single 80s picture of him in all those photos. Sure, he's much better looking now, but it is a video about the 80s.

I was born on 2008 but i love 80s songs especialy michael jackson's songs

I love the 1980s, i wish I was born in the 80s

Totally skipped over John Lennon's murder

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

But, You forgot about 1981: The Launch of Nickelodeon’s Silver Ball Logo, 1983: The Launch of The Disney Channel, 1984: The Launch of Nickelodeon’s Iconic Shape-Changing Orange Logo, 1985: The Launch of Nick at Nite, 1986: The Premiere of Nickelodeon’s Double Dare, 1988: The Launch of Nick Jr. and Premiere of Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon, and 1989: The Death of Mel Blanc!

What about 8675309 and all the prank calls of people asking for Jenny?

Wow, a lot of facts! Great video! Didn't know Robert Downey Jr. was on SNL! Loved the graphics you used in the video too as well as the transitions!

Yay! What a great time I had with this one! Thanks Sam and crew at 101 Facts! 💝

The 1980s is the most used decade theme on American Idol.

"Number 11 da da da da da" Stranger Things Theme with eleven lol. BTW I was a teen in the early to mid 1980's so a lot of this I do remember and even though some of the facts are not accurate, it's very nostalgic.

"Once we get out of the Eighties, the Nineties will make the Sixties look like the Fifties." -- Dennis Hopper, FLASHBACK

The 1980s was a unique and original decade. Unlike the bland and boring 1990s.

Dougal McNugget??!! That part almost killed me, man! I was not at all ready to laugh that hard. Brilliant joke

No mention of the video game crash of '83 or the success of the NES?

Fuc-man... There, I said it

You forgot that in 1989 Colonel Sanders passed away at the age of 99. He died due to leukemia.

Born in 1980, I consider myself growing up in the same period than those who were born in 1981, 82, and 83. I really am a 90s kid

The Chernobyl nuclear reactor put out a fatal dose of radiation within a minute in 1986, now it takes about 2 hours to get to that level.

Most people used word perfect 5.1 before word.

great vid sam! absolutley love your channel!

The 80s were the best time to grow up in.

ELL-A-NOY - when you deal with living in and around Chicago enough anyone that pronounces the S at the end drives you insane lol

To live in the 80s was TO LIVE💙

Yay! I was born just TWO MONTHS before the Fall of the Berlin Wall: 9-19-1989!!!

"On December the 19th, 1984, Maggie Thatcher signed a declaration to return leadership of Hong Kong....After gaining the territory at the end of the first opium war in 1942, Britain had control of the colony for over 150 years." That checks out. Pfft! It was only 142 years, which is....not even 150 years, much less more than 150 years, according to the actual dates.

The carbon dating on the shroud of Turin was taken from fabric sewn onto the shroud after it was partially destroyed in a fire. It didn't come from the shroud itself. That's common knowledge.

I was in my 20's in the 80's. It's been all down hill ever since.

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Brother made an awesome word processor. I was the only kid that had one and it printed using an old school type writer. I would do the assignments for my typing class and made good money. I got away with it until the last week of school when I made a mistake. The whole class had the same mistake. I was ratted out, but still got an A for the year.

#20 incorrect information Reagan was struck by a single bullet that broke a rib, punctured a lung, and caused serious internal bleeding, but he recovered quickly.

MJ's Thriller was released in November 30, 1982 not 1983. I thought this was supposed to be facts. :(

Though the eighties do make up a ten-year period, actual decades of a century begin with a year ending with a 1 because the calendar begins with the year 1, not 0.

80s I was a kid and everything was so interesting back then. Technology, fashion, music etc

How to make time travel a good idea 1. Invent time machine. 2. Travel to the 23rd century. 3. Invent a device that can change the odds in the 23rd century. 4. Use probability device to make the odds certain that time travel is a good idea.

I’m a child of the 1980s, though I was born near the end of the 1970s.

Alabama will never change..... I know I live here

Watching the 80’s makes me appreciate the 2020’s even more.

That’s the Winter Olympics, Canada, you’re good at snow!!!

Sweet

1981: First flight of the space shuttle program. 1986: Challenger disaster.

@ 85 the dominos pizza story. My dad has the newspaper article cut out and hanging on his wall in the basement because it was so crazy. He also has others that are just as bad.

Wow, no mention of Blade Runner

I’m from the 80’s... 1982! 😘🤟🤓

Never gonna give you up

Early popular word processors before MS Word were Display Write, PFS Write, XYWrite and the funniest one WordStar.

That Hong Kong segment made me check if I was high on crack cocaine or not.

70s

You failed to talk about the murder of John Lennon

Fire beats Ice, melts it... Ice: "You fool! You have just unlocked my ultimate form, your main weakness... Water!!"

Class of 1985 here. San Diego (Poway), California. Sure was fun back then.