DavidAWA unless they call back😒

Or if you had an answering machine.

Unless..... however he is right.

what would it matter if it was important and a needed call they would call back anyways.

DavidAWA In the 80s the biggest fears where AIDS and nuclear power stations that might be exploding.

Mr51Caveman if society fell apart in the 2000s wouldn’t that make most of the people making major decisions in government around your age?

To be fair, I think Mr51Caveman is saying that the 80s/90s were the pinnacle of our culture/society and that it has been in decline ever since. And honestly I agree with him. Prior to the 50s until the beginning of the 2000s in America, there had never been a period of more freedom, economic prosperity and technological advancement. For a brief window in time, the Cold War was over, capitalism had won, Civil Rights had won, wages/employment were great, and technology was booming and increasingly affordable. We didn't have a care in the world. Then the dot-com bubble burst. Then 9/11 happened. Then the War on Terror. A generation raised on pure unadulterated optimism was sent off to war. For the first time, we realized that the blind optimism instilled in us by our parents could no longer be justified. Then the housing bubble burst and the recession began. Unemployment skyrocketed and wages stagnated. We may not be in our death throes quite yet as a culture, but we are absolutely 100% on the decline.

I'm not sure what you're getting at i, rob. I fear that the development of true AI (as with most technology) will only quicken the pace of our inevitable destruction. Because the more technology we have, the more we depend on it, the fewer skills we will possess, the less freedom/autonomy/privacy/independence we actually have, and the less fulfilled we will feel about our lives.

Yup, agreed. We will eventually collapse and nobody will know how to do anything anymore. This is kind of a weird thing to suggest, but if you haven't read the manifesto written by Ted Kaczynski (the infamous Unabomber), it's actually quite good. Of course his methods were absolutely nuts and there's no excuse for going around bombing people, but he hits the nail on the head when he talks about how technology has enslaved mankind and how we are all weaker as a result. I think the essay was called "Industrial Society and It's Future".

Wait till driverless cars come out then you see lazy

lol did you ever trip on the long phone cord or wrap it around yourself or dance with it or wave it in the air? I did all these things

Heck I remember the first cordless phones from back in the day. You could actually hear your neighbors telephone conversations back then If they were on their phones at the same time as you.

Wait what..........i still do all that!

No caller ID.

Millenials did this too. I was born in 87. A millennial is actually anyone born in 1981 and 1996.

Just means they came of age or turned adult in the early 2000s.

@@joshuatraffanstedt2695 I heard it was to 94.

true

Troy And don't leave it on the dashboard of your car in the summer. Melted and twisted.

Only missing the "get off my lawn" instruction.

KevinBacon, you're a ledge. You, and your Missus, too.

... and he got nuked! LOL

LOL!!!

So funny! Very clever.

rdskn4eva 😂😂😂😂

1983 are Millennials. We definitely remember Blockbuster WTF

"damn commies" lmfao

Was extremely close to happening

Yeah, I miss that. And record stores. A high school friend of mine and his family owned a video store back in the day. Then Blockbuster hit town and drove all the little shops out of business. Then the internet drove Blockbuster out of business. Now what?

Yes i do!! Good times

Deciding what to watch on Netflix from your sofa and then stopping it if it's rubbish really doesn't live up to the experience of walking or driving to the video rental, carefully choosing what to watch, then sitting and watching it throughout no matter how bad it was because you'd paid to rent it and there was little else to watch anyway. You were sort of stuck with your choice. The number of movies I now love because I stuck with them rather than turning them off after a boring first 20 minutes makes me wish I wasn't so fast to judge now. But Netflix allows that arrogance.

And a speeding ticket was $35 bucks and didn't go on your record!

epa316, great post. Lived those days also-the best!

Security cameras, everywhere

Not to mention the 1950's revival going on....

And they made millenials

Brother picks up phone, man that was even worst.

Aww damn, brothers always knew what was up, and they made sure you knew that they knew >.>

I can remember being summoned to my girlfriends brothers work (small town grocery store) to basically interview for the position and being told in no uncertain terms that kissing and first base was it or I would get smashed and no alcohol or drugs or I would get smashed - Once I "stole" second and was sweating bullets for a few days-lol

"bring the phone to your room" ...lol, remember sometimes people would have an extra long cord from the wall to the phone, and they'd take the phone all over the house?

So much truth. Class of 92.

Yes! We waited around until the song came on the radio and recorded it on cassette tape.

I remember being impressed when Sony came out with really small Walkmans.

domjal --- I remember doing that!

Cassettes? not even cd's? I'm lucky that I had iPod when i was young and click away downloading ur favourite song from online. today we stream

Maybe my stupidity let me to 50s rock n roll. I guess I should switch to millennial pop culture right? yeah right

The first "walkman" cassette player had only 3 buttons. Play. Stop. and Fast-Foward. Yo had to FLIP the tape over to "rewind" the side you wanted. Thats crazy shit right there folks.

Slinkbomb It was extremely labor intensive, that's for sure

Jeff and Ghost of Reagan Oh come on, you mean you didnt buy the WHS tape re-winder machines? LOL Member, so you could save wear and tear on your VHS machine by simply ejecting the tape, then popping it into the rewinder.

I think another reason for the re-winder was that you could start watching the next movie instead of have to wait for it to finish to put the next one in. My friend's machine was super slow at re-winding. I was working at Radio Shack, part time while in college, when DVD's started to hit the market. My colleagues would call over to Best Buy and ask if they had DVD re-winders.

Jeff totally! Yeah, if you were going to watch movies back to back, yeah I forgot that - watch one while rewinding the other. And I forgot about BestBuy - I worked there for a small stint and I remember we had like 3 of them we would have to check in the movies, make sure they were rewound before putting them back up on the shelves. It would be very common to hear "Call the Naperville store, ask them if we can have one of their rewinders. We are down to one"

I was also born in the late 70s and it seems like we have similar experiences and outlook on life. The older I get, the more I love the 80s.😊

You made my nostalgia explode :'(

Yes yes yes. I graduated hs in 84 best decade ever!

@Silver Chariot Ready Player One is very 80's nostalgic. The creator of the game in the story filled said game and the clues to his secret were all 80's galore! Songs, movie references, everything. If you get the audiobook, it was read by Will Wheaton, an 80's kid and total pop culture geek! LOL

MTV began broadcasting at 12:01 am on August 1, 1981.

i had a GREAT time in the 80's!

back when you had to insult some1 to their face, the risk of a fist fight

Talking to someone like actual talking? No tnx. I prefer texting with emojis

@Millennials Pop Culture yw 👍😀😜😎🤠

It was real

@@millennialpopculture669 Me too :v

i was born in 83.. but i got to watch and be a part of pc technology growing... it was amazing and i wouldnt trade it for anything... i was taught about the card catalog in school and ordered books from magazines... i suppose i will never know what a teenager went through in the 80's but i didnt have a cellphone til 2007

Yep, you had your choice between green and orange on your monitor. The memory on the hard drive was less than what we have on our phones now. lol

formerevolutionist I was born in 1964, The first computer I used in school was a mainframe in another building clear across town, and you had to use a dial up modem and it had no screen or keyboard, we had to use punch cards!

formerevolutionist really my dad in the 80's got the Amiga 1000 and that was colour, not all computers were Green or Orange on a black screen

Douglasville Darling the Amiga computers nor the Apple computers were like that

"hey, can I bum a dime for a phone call?...thanks."

Hack the phone. Remove the microphone cap and touch the 2 screws together with something metallic. Make a free call

What sort of loser would break the law for 10 cents?

It was 25 cents here in Canada You could buy a small bag of chip for 25 cents. You are 10yo with a choice hack the phone and get a chip or be "good".

So YOU are a loser who would break the law for 25 cents. Bottom feeder.

& 90s

Leathurkatt: Eeek! I was born ten years earlier! Are you telling me I 'lived' the 70's. LOL!

1978 here man right behind you damn the 80 were great to me !

1971, Not a day goes by when I don't miss the era.

'76 er here ......

dinobravo23 Massive strikes, possible nuclear war & pretty shitty music... no thanks.

b zanon Nice try, but I remember all of the eighties. The vast majority of music was shit - thankfully some of the worst of it is largely forgotten. But all that synth-laden rubbish, Stock, Aitken & Waterman manufactured pop was rubbish. Unfortunately, some dreadful 80s artists are still on the go like Madonna and Elton John (yes, he's seventies but he's been stuck in the same rut for at least thirty years). By the way, stop using "retarded" as an insult, it is a medical term, and you show yourself up by using it. I'm considerably better read and educated than you probably are.

b zanon The Clash, Fleetwood Mac, Bowie etc started out in the seventies. The first two had their best material behind them. As for Foreigner, you must be joking - corporate AOR shite. ps You really don't know what "retarded" means do you?

they all were very active in the 80's,you're full of crap.. what about the funk disco and motown? how old are you?

b zanon Dance music moved on from disco pretty early in the eighties. Unless you were American but they're slow on the uptake.

Jay McD So get the fuck off KZfaq you ignorant hypocrite

@@ggallintedtalk Yo calm down lol

Isay Hi go fuck irself

Born in '85. Ditto.

I was born in 1991 and I don't own a smartphone only a 2007 era Nokia cell phone. the 00s was the best decade ever. MySpace was better than Instagram

2005 Trollz were the best

I guess it is kinda off topic but does anybody know a good place to watch new movies online?

@Kenzo Misael i would suggest Flixzone. You can find it by googling :)

@Leighton Sonny yea, have been watching on Flixzone for years myself :)

@Leighton Sonny Thank you, signed up and it seems like a nice service =) I appreciate it!!

You had to be there man

skip darius No lie on the cost of VHS tapes, I had to pay that after renting Robocop and then left it on top of my car leaving a friends house and had to buy it.

I lost it at that point. laughed my ass off

Holy cow man, not returning a video was like $100, back then, which is what, about $1000 today? You're much better off just never going back to that video store ever again.

Haha funny because that's sort of the same threat America in 2017 today we still face that same issue except instead of it being from Russia, it's from North Korea now lol

joseph lepage it doesn't make a difference tight jeans still killed their sperm count

I disliked because he's generalizing a group he knows literally nothing about.

themurph2000 - Kevin Bacon for prez... we'll take him for PM here in Canada.

Mr. Cuttystabby You get that it's satire, right? You get that it's virtually (the word you should've used) impossible to know "literally" nothing about a subject, particularly one as subjective as this one, do you not?;)

We Gen X'ers have the ability to adapt overcome and invent as were Millennial s have a hard time using a manual can opener or change a tire. I fear the day the idiots rise to power.

Josh Luther "by doing activates" what the hell is an "activate"? Activities?

Caleb Johnston We didn't have grammar nazi's back then either.

+Caleb Johnston Yes, we did, they were called teachers.

i love this

I was rich growing up, so we didn't have that problem. Completely joking. But my parents ( my dad's a gemini...) Would go through phases. Sometimes, we'd have all kinds of channels (w/ blocks on some, that I'd crack), satellite, a combo, or not, or basic cable,. But if you switched through those channels, I'm pretty sure the movie channels would come in fractions at a time frame. Like as a idk how to explain it. Just to get ppl to jump on the package. But I never really knew when they'd come on. But if you could catch it, it was free, sometimes. I accidently walked in on my dad watching porn before 🤮. The code was 6969🤮🤮🤮

Parachute pants! MUAhahahahahaha

Awesome.I wear my safety-pin induced ankle scars with 80s pride.

Kevin Bacon, the 80's and good times. Yes, I remember it well.

Logan Cracraft "there was NO hashtagging" And there's no good grammar in the 2010s.

RonJohn63 Right, when English was English, not some ghetto messed up language that you can't even comprehend anymore.

at the series "the following"

Facts

lmaoo

Lol

Grew up in Greece in the 90s. All my pictures as a kid look like publicity stills from the set of Family Ties.

gold comment

we don't need people like you in the comment section

Yeah. Schools taught you that hiding under desks would save you from a nuclear blast. So much common sense.

+chemistryguy : I still have mine, but the old tube TV that I used as the display died.

+Texman All you need is about 500 adapters to match it to HDMI input.

Pssss... I'm watching this on my 80's typewriter.. darn it just ran out of the ribbon... lol

Keyboard still works on my ZX81

@Stug < I'm glad it ain't sticky ;)

I was told to stop drop and roll by my mom... That was her solution for everything, RIP... She was a Doberman! I was the runt of her litter... :'(

Seriously? your post made me cry because it is so true. I had friends from Iran and Israel and we all hung together.

A great time for music as well. While I am a gen z, I appreciated music from before my time not because it was popular or "fire" (as retards say) but because I actually enjoyed it. It's also sad that hip hop went from social issues in America to,"hey, I just smoked a joint!" What the fuck are we going to do as a society.

so true about how over sensitive everyone is nowadays about everything. Insecure generation messed up with plenty and technology

Exactly!!! I was a white chick with junk in the trunk before it was cool....I caught nothing but hell for it, but the black dudes all wanted to take me out. I married and we had biracial children. Back then I was called an "N-Word" lover, and now I am a racist. I always got along with everyone and so do my kids now.....wtf has happened to the world? I would go back in a heartbeat so I could go back to the drive-in movies, the bowling alley, play mini golf, have keggers in the park. We did it all and it was a blast!!!

@@toots810usa6 LOL, wait they call you racist? I guess you cant do the ole "Im not racist, my husband is black" right cause thats like the "I have black friends" LOL!!! You cant win, girl.

everyone but me gotta learn thats bullshit.

Joke, everyone, don't panic :)

Unqualified Gamers People are naive.

You can still wear them lmao no one is stopping you. It's 2016, gay marriage is legal and there are more genders than Pokemon, you can wear whatever the fuck you want xD

a.k.a flight pants

I wanted parachute pants SO BAD

And the other day I saw some pants in Wal-Mart that look just like parachute pants. They are bringing the 80s back little by little.

Except for '70s music. :)

One idea - think on this one - THEY BANNED Starsky and Hutch from TV because of 'depicting excessive VIOLENCE', when in reality, it was as true-to-life of what cops actually did at the time, as the 'semi-documentary COPS' showed you in the late '90's).

Try explaining the FIFTIES! Or the SIxties.... I grew up before computers. That makes everything so different. We had PRIVACY! We could think and listen to silence if we wanted. Walk to school alone. Drink water from the outdoor tap and SURVIVE!.... very funny Kevin.

I was just going to do a post about growing up in the 70s but there didn't seem any point after reading your post Barbara Lee.

Junah Moreau: the 60's was pure cancer. The 60's is what turned half a generation into multiculturalists and social justice warriors. The entitled millenials of today are the children of the doped up hippies from the 60's, spewing hatred towards "white america" and voting democrat.

Unchecked Capitalism is what built this country, at least, at the start. The idea that Capitalism will ruin itself is silly. A monopoly will only exist as long as the monopoly holder is providing quality goods or services at reasonable prices. If there becomes a void, the free market will fill it. As soon as a government bureaucracy begins to regulate a good or service, it becomes ruined. Social Justice is a farce. Individual justice is what we should strive for. We had it, once. If we strive for individual justice, then society becomes more just. And if society is just, well, social justice is achieved. However, you cannot take from one portion of society, and give those proceeds to another portion, without violating the individual rights of some people. That is not justice, social or otherwise. And what the hell is up with knocking the wealthy? I love wealthy people. Wealthy people buy goods and services. When they are confident in their wealth, they buy goods and services that they don't need. That means people who are not wealthy are able to go to work to provide those goods and services. Then, they make some money, and they buy stuff, too. I used to get all my playing money from side work that I did for wealthy people. That gave me an excuse to hang out with them, and harvest pearls of wisdom from them. In recap: Capitalism is a good thing. It breeds competition, which then brings about a rise in quality and a decline in pricing. Socialism is evil in any form. It's all theft. It removes any incentive to be productive, Why work and have your profits stolen from you, when you can NOT work, and receive monies stolen from those who do work. And wealthy people are good to have around. They stimulate the economy buy spending their wealth, but only if they are confident in their wealth.

They were real back then unlike kids now so fake and always on their phones 24/7 glued

We would be outside all day, especially in the summer, and our parents would have no clue where we were or what we were up to, and they accepted it, hahah - it was the kind of freedom we took for granted back then.

Just give Up. Don't even try. This is a battle you cannot win. These humorless, soulless motherfuckers are everywhere, and they will have the last...well, not laugh, but you know know what I mean.

TastycakesLol thank you captain obvious.

Captain obvious over here.lol

+TastycakesLol net is full of manic depressives, you get used to it :)

A joke yet oh so true. These babies have no idea how good they got it and have no appreciation for how it got there

New Coke. And Clear Pepsi. Just, no.

+Sarah Metsa Ninja Gaiden.

Max Headroom

New Coke, no doubt. One threatens the end of the earth, the other was the end of the earth.

Thats when it switched back and became "Coca-Cola Classic".

There are some conflicting theories on when the millennial's generation began, with dates ranging from 1981 to 1989. Personally, I think it largely comes down to your local subculture and the environment you were raised. I'm 1986 and I share very few traits with millennial's at all- I best identify with people from the so-called 'Generation X' and tend to associate with people 5-10 years older than me. Some of the people I went to school with, however, are the opposite- they are very much part of the millennial generation, despite birth years from 1986-1987. So, it can vary. Personally, I was more into books and K'nex though. ;)

Twosocks42 I had books and K'nex, too. Those were a lot of fun. I just preferred LEGOs because you could do so much more with them. Especially if you knew how many I have.

Hey fuck tard JJ you don't know what the military is like and that of what you posted in Five Finger Death Punch - Wrong Side Of Heaven you are fucking wrong you are wrong the veterans that are everywhere they fight because that is sometimes the only choice they have left and you are a fucking tard man you will never understand what war is or being a veteran is like unless you are in war or a veteran. fuck you. and have a great day

nash dierman Lol, you're the moron who's leaving me messages on other videos. You got trolled so hard! Problem?

jjaapp18 no one cares

No, they don't. I have nothing in common with 90s kids, so please don't generalize, especially when you are not born in the 80s. Speak for your own age group. I can totally relate to what Kevin beacon is preaching as I vividly remember my upbringing and from an early age. I fall into the Xennial generation, which I understand but still feel closer to the xers.

Agreed. I was born in 81 and aesthetically love the 90s. But definitely an 80s baby

This comment made me laugh too hard

We still a have a radio shack in Gatlinburg tn.

To be honest thats where society started to go downhill.This generation is the evolution of that negativity. Too Superficial.

B P & very selfish

@@B..P.. Am i hearing a millennial complaining

It was much simpler then but now you have to look too perfect like the best photo fitlers and everything being high class

Remember Zubas? I'm proud to say I refused to wear them when they were a fad.

ditto.

Are they talking about mc hammer pants or what

1971 a.k.a flight pants with all the pockets

HA! Cell phones? We didn't have cell phones in the 80's! And we didn't have any damn flip phones until the late 90's! I mean, sure, they existed, but there were no damn networks anywhere! You were lucky if your carphone had reception a quarter of the time on a major interstate! Well, at least you know the joy of magnetically encoded taped entertainment, and the meaning of "be kind, rewind". Maybe you kids will be okay after all.

Yours is one of the biggest bullshit stories I've ever heard. I'm 54 years old, and you have absolutely no idea what it is you're talking about. You live a popular trend. Next week, red will be the new green, and you'll want the latest auto-tuned hack album. You want a designer cellphone, *sticks finger down throat* Someone hang me PLEASE! How about NO CELLPHONE! How about also a designer computer so you can type comments on KZfaq? How about NO INTERNET either ! Hey little millennial... There's no turning back! You're stuck where you are. You live in the 2014, you'll never be able to talk the talk, much less walk the walk of those that lived before you. But I can tell you with certainty, life in the 70's-90's was a whole helluva lot more fun than it is now. Today, you're data-based, surveilled, profiled, categorized, bombarded with ridiculous advertizements, confined with ridiculous laws & legislation, etc.. We were free for a while, we knew the cops by name, they were our friends. We street raced and NO ONE EVER GOT HURT! We had a ton of fun while we cruised the boulevards WITHOUT INCIDENT, EVER! We hung out wherever we wanted without fear of being shot or assaulted. Crack cocaine, what the hell was that? TSA, what the hell was that. This is just the tip of the great fun iceberg we called the 70-80s. Don't get me started on the music, I will evicerate you with that topic. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To all you bleeding heart, soft bellied idiots that think I'm being too rough on the poor little millennial. GO POUND SAND! That's what we did in the "days" when truth reared it's ugly head.

I know there weren't that many cell phones in the '80s. I just really like the aesthetic of the early '90s flip phones ^=^ Plus, I don't need a phone to be a computer, I have an actual pc, lol. I can't speak for other teens, but I'm saturated with the essence of the mid - late 20th century and will always exude it, not in a kitchy/nostalgia/novelty way (that's very cheap), but in a very substantial way I can't quite subtilize.

Mike Folgers Believe me, I'm not one of these asshole douchebags who think the 80s were about wearing poufy hot pink skirts and leggings, or something else ridiculous. I have almost no friends my age, I can't relate to any of them. Everyone is so politically correct and disgustingly wrapped up in their insipid mobile devices. They don't even want to read real books anymore (and I'm not just referring to their idiotic e readers, 99.9999% of contemporary writers are absolute SHIT)! You're part of the fantastic generation of people like Robert Smith, Depeche Mode, Ultravox...a million other wonderful artists. I'm not turning back at all, I'm looking at the climax of the 20th century so that I can perpetuate its essence because culture has been sliding into a pile of barf since the 80s started to wind down :( I know there weren't cell phones everywhere in the '80s! I think they're very useful and it infuriates me that they can't just be phones and nobody cares about design at all. All of these paragons of graphic design were completely ubiquitous in the '70s and '80s!

***** You're not 14. But you're grammar and command of the English language is quite impressive.

i pity the fool who dont eat my cereal

Not only is it a run-on, it's nonsense. Girls who were breastfed by Facebook and Twitter can't be any older than 10 years old, barely 1% of them having reached reproductive maturity by now. Let's put the blame where it really lies. The black Muslim homosexual agenda.

AND MTV actually played Music Videos.

StopDropNScroll Please tell me you aren't serious.

Technically he didn't say there were higher rates of teen pregnancy in the 80s.

what daddy?

Me too

Those kinda things are for girls.