The '80s: The decade that made us 

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.

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

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

@Corey Ortiz why do you think that?

@@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.

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

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

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

Same

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

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

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

@@clarissawestbrook2203 you said it even better

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

Facts

me might see another decade like the 80s someday

No we won't sadly

Yes the 2080s

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

If you build a time machine please take me with you

Air Aero yup

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.

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

@@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!

@@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.

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

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

Amen my fellow 80s kids from another 80s kid

Always 🤩

@@whitedracarys7613 did u enjoy the 80s

fashion-not really

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

@@evalsoftserver u stole this comment

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

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

Beautifully written

80s and 90s best decades ever

Same here

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

What’s the episode called ?

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

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

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

Nostalgia is a powerful drug

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

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

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

I was born in 73 and agree with you

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 .

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.

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.

@@KillerofWestoids 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.

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

@@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.

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

It certanly was

That's subjective.

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

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

@@70s_GenLover I say it for when we have children (I don’t even know if there’s gonna be a future with global warming)

​@@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.

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

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?

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

"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."

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

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

***** ah I feel for you man

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.

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.

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

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

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

cb2k761 dude ur over 40 get tha fuk outta here

gabriel TDU You Tube is free for everyone, dude.

80s>90s

4 years later: corona hold my beer

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

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

Thr last truley great year was 2013 or 2010

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

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 :(

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

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.

I miss the 80s!

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

Wak Job 2000-2004 was still kinda similar to 90's. Everything did not become like it is now until 2005ish.

DeMario Burns 2006 07

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.

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

@@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.

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.

Zvz Sun mac tonight

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

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

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..

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

This current generation IS THE END @AMERICA

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

Ohh jeah you're right

can't agree more

Yep. SO glad I lived before PC.

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.

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

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

+Mark Nante 2016.

"Globalization" happened.

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

Mark Nante technology

The internet happened

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

ChasingHeaven 1975 Lucky bastard I was born far too late (2003)

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.

I tottaly agree

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.

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

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

Agreed

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.

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

The 2020s the decade that will destroy the world

I'd say that mid 90s was the true crossover

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

Wow that's amazing I should do that too

The best decade

ronthatus One of my favorites, I still like the 60's a bit more.

+ronthatus Agreed.