20 Things From The 1980s, We Can No Longer Do

20 Things From The 1980s, We Can No Longer Do

In this captivating video, we explore 20 things that were once everywhere in the 1980s but have since disappeared into history. From outdated technologies to societal changes and legal shifts, we look back on activities that are now either obsolete or banned. Join us on a nostalgic journey through time to see how much the world has changed.

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00:00 Intro
00:26 Renting VHS Tapes at Video Stores
01:25 Using Floppy Disks for Storage
02:25 Using Pagers
03:25 Developing Film at Photomats
04:18 Playing Music on Walkmans
05:14 Smoking in Airplanes
06:29 Watching LaserDisc Movies
07:40 Making Mix Tapes
08:42 Using Payphones
09:43 Playing with He-Man and She-Ra Action Figures
10:51 Watching MTV for Music Videos
11:55 Using Typewriters
12:49 Taking Road Trips with Paper Maps
13:43 Programming in BASIC on Home Computers
14;36 Using Cassette Answering Machines
15:29 Watching Educational Filmstrips in Class
16:33 Driving Without Seatbelt Laws
17:36 Using Phone Books
18:28 Shopping from Catalogs
19:22 Participating in Aerobics Classes

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[chrisdavis]

2:01 - "You had to slide the metal shutter". Obviously the author never used a floppy drive.

[davel]

You didn't have to slide the metal cover on a floppy, in fact you were advised not to touch

[comancheviperrrr]

I have to make a slight correction here. On the 3.5 floppy disks you did not have to slide that metal piece over by hands. When you slid it into the desk drive, it would automatically push the metal piece over. In the video you said that you would have to move it by hand.which you absolutely did not. Otherwise, pretty damn cool thanks for posting.

[comancheviperrrr]

The only other thing I would’ve added to your list is Saturday morning cartoons. Millions of children woke up Saturday morning to catch cartoons like a funder or the barbarian or the Littles or the Wuzzles. You wake up early get your big bowl of cereal sit down in front of the TV and there you stay till about noon when all the cartoons would go off. And then your mom would make you get out and go outside lol

[duane]

Live a free and happy life is what we can't do anymore like we did in the 80's.

[strayferal]

08:21 he rewinds an audio casette with a Sharpie, but in reality a BIC crystal pen would do it far better and faster. This is how we did it. Sometimes I would keep an old BIC pen just for that purpose.

[eupher]

I still use Floppy Disks today. Mostly for transferring small files to my old computer, but I still use them. In fact I have a bunch of disks over 35 years old and they still work just fine.

[Butchcub]

untangling a phone cord. party lines, saturday morning cartoons, playing outside on metal jungle gyms...

[jesspirito]

The walkman and the VCR gave me life 😍

[FingalPersson]

I miss the video store man! too many memories of it!

[chrisdavis]

The disk shown at 7:23 (Star Wars) was not a laser disc - it was a CED disc. A CED disc is not read with a laser, it is read with a stylus similar to a phonograph.

[johncasey]

I was born in 1969, my teens almost perfectly spanned the 80's. On the one hand everything we lost was replaced with something better or more convenient. Movies and music, you can stream or download any content you want, often for free. Music videos, you can watch them all on YouTube on demand. Mixtapes, we now have playlists. Floppies, we now have USB, larger hard drives, etc. We no longer have to wait 2 weeks for our pictures to be developed. I could go on, but fact is nothing has been lost, just made better. Just the same, we lost something. Because everything is so plentiful today, we don't have the same connection with it today as we did yesterday. In the 80's, you had a few albums and you played the crap outta them. If you took the time to rent a movie, you watched it. You scheduled your life around when the next episode of your favorite show was airing... now we just binge in a day or so and it is forgotten.

[glennso]

You can’t just buy a plane ticket and fly like you did back in the 80s. Now there’s a whole lot of security you have to go through.

[neilvanrooyen]

What do you mean you HAD TO slide the metal piece of the floppy disks?! BS. I assume you never used one. You also make it sound like the 80's was the last time we used these items. They were still available well into the 90's.

[shou]

So glad they banned smoking on planes. Was absurd it was allowed in the first place.

[MartyrKomplx]

Most of these things persisted well into the 90s.

Also, who bonded over learning to & reading maps? Nobody that I knew at least.

[kevinbarnard]

Love how you show the absolute scariest 5.25 floppy drive ever made. The commodore always sounded like it was grinding right through the disk.

[gitrekker]

Got news for you -- He-Man and the Masters od the Universe is still around. Mattel brought it hack a few years ago and it's readily available at Walmart and Target. :)

[dave]

12:38 in the eighties they had electric typewriters with functions like auto correct and spell check.
13:00 How come all these photos are from long before the eighties?
13:49 Well, we don’t use basic anymore but many people still program, plus spread sheets still require a certain level of programming.
15:49 by the eighties classrooms had VHS tapes and big tube television sets.

[Devo_gx]

You wouldn't slide the cover on a floppy disc to use it. The drive itself did that when you put it in. Also, at 1:57 that's a Zip 250 drive, not a floppy drive.

Also, 7:23 is the RCA Capacitive Electronic Disc; an inferior format to Laserdisc that used a stylus.