Between my miserable life, the loss of most of my family, and too much digital technology, there's *NO* way I can be happy in today's world. If anyone wants me to be happy again, then get me a time machine and let me go back to the 1980s. That's it. That's all. Thank you in advance.
I’m not quite where your at but certainly feel that when I was happiest, looked my best, and healthiest (all without even trying) was years gone by, late 70’s and ‘80’s….im not unhappy or miserable now or the last few decades, just resigned, to the fact that it will never be the same or equally as good…..hang in there
I often say I wouldn't mind going back to the 80s or 90s. I think most of us we're happier then with more human connection and without all the technology, identity theft, isolation, wokeness, etc
So true. Streaming contents can also suddenly disappear from the streaming platform. Quite often the contents are not available abroad. Physical media also protects us against advertisements and censorship (making the contents suitable for modern audiences).
We have an ice cream truck that comes by our neighborhood everyone in a while i live in a restricted access sub division so we think the ice cream truck man lives here ]
I think the cellphone 📱 was our downfall. It has brought unhappiness to the world. That's why most of us, including me, would love to go back to the 80s. Best decade ever.....
Yes, it was better to be able to disconnect, people understood that and didn't get upset when you couldn't answer back the second the message was sent. I sometimes don't answer a voicemail straight away, just to show that my time is important too.
1980'S THINGS : @00:45 : VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDERS ( VCR'S ) ( ALSO BETAMAX AND VHS TAPES AND VHS TAPE REWINDERS ) ( ALSO BETAMAX AND VHS VIDEO CAMERAS : BIG AND BULKY ) @01:30 : "SONY WALKMAN" PORTABLE CASSETTE PLAYER ( AND AUDIO CASSETTES ) @02:55 : POLAROID INSTANT CAMERAS ( AND ROLL FILM CAMERAS ) @04:15 : FAX MACHINES @05:14 : TELEPHONE ANSWERING MACHINES @06:32 : MINI DISC PLAYERS ( NEVER CAUGHT ON ) @07:25 : DIGITAL WATCHES WITH CALCULATOR FUNCTIONS @08:34 : NON DIGITAL ALARM CLOCKS @09:35 : SEGA GENESIS AND NES VIDEO GAME CONSOLES ( ALSO ATARI ) @10:35 : MALLS WITH ENTERTAINMENT CENTERS AND ARCADES @11:33 : CABBAGE PATCH KIDS @12:42 : RUBIK'S CUBES @13:33 : CITIZEN'S BAND RADIOS ( C B RADIOS ) @14:45 : LAWN DARTS ( JARTS ) @15:38 : BETAMAX TAPES @16:44 : TIFFANY BLUE BOXES @17:34 : PAGERS @18:22 : FANNY PACKS @19:12 : SODA CAN PULL TABS ( NOW STAY TABS ) @20:03 : PET ROCKS @21:00 : ICE CREAM TRUCKS WITH JINGLE MUSIC @21:48 : LAVA LAMPS @22:48 : CERAMIC CHRISTMAS TREES @23:22 : BUTTERFLY CLIPS AND SCRUNCHIES ( FOR FEMALES ) @24:08 : SPIRAL BOUND COOKBOOKS @25:02 : CABLE TV BOXES @25:45 : DISKETTE DRIVES ( ALSO FLOPPY DISCS ) @26:34 : FUR LINED SLIPPERS @27:20 : DOLL HOUSES WITH WORKING LIGHTS @28:07 : PHOTO ALBUMS WITH PLASTIC SLEEVES NOT MENTIONED : ENCYCLOPEDIA BOOKS HAND CRANK MIXERS LARGE BOOKSHELF SPEAKERS
faxes are still widely in use.. I work in the hotel business and they SCREAM when the fax machine doesnt work on their new VoIP service... still lots of them out there
Some of these memories are still here where I live in the UK today. I still go to a mall or shopping centre/precinct as we call them and I go tenpin bowling with a group of up to 6 other service users from the care agency company who support me in the community most weekdays. You have to navigate through an amusement arcade full of things like, air hockey tables, pool tables, table tennis, punch machines, a motorbikes racing thing, Grand Piano Keys machine, hamster wheel machine, pacman machine, Etc. The list goes on. Its always busy, even on Schooldays. a lot of the shops are closing or have closed down though, since the chains or companies in there went bust, be its a big place and it also hosts things like a cinema, soft play area for the kiddies, sadly not the adults and it runs some stay and playgroups, baby sensory, yoga, Etc, on the ground floor level where the arcade and tenpin bowling alley is situated. That has just undergone a big refurb and they put in a new karaoke and video suite and they moved Laser Tag and the lounge bar area. The layout is a bit less spread out than it was.
I remember growing up in the 80s I missed those good old days growing up as a teenager back then I used to be into music and every time I want to hear a song I have to either listen to the radio to hear it or watch MTV to see the video or go by the tape but now today you can just go on your phone and look it up and there you go things are easier today than back then we have to walk into a store and buy your favorite album I haven't bought a CD for a long time to I don't even know they still sell them but back then as a teenager I always had a stereo a vcr and a TV or a DVD player I was happy with that now today as an adult I have a Bluetooth speaker and my cell phone
I lived in a small city in SC 2 years ago and every summer an ice cream truck came by my neighborhood (and after a while the repetitive music annoyed me to no end!).
The banking industry still heavily uses fax machines instead of email to exchange legal documents or acquire valid signatures between shared parties involved.
@@honestone490they are also considered HIPAA compliant where a lot of electronic options are not. I used a fax machine almost daily when I worked in retail pharmacy.
CB is making s huge comeback with better equipment more advanced than ever and better there are manyCB radios that Bluetooth and workwithyourphone, further connections to each other the Citizens Band will be what it was in the 80s by 2050.
I can still remember what my mom would put on our family answering machine mainly if winter was over and spring was here she would always say spring has sprung and I'm out getting some sun we can't come to the phone please leave a message after the beep if we was lucky and still on school break mama every year made it a family day where we all would spend the day at the local zoo what wonderful memories kids now days would have no clue the fun and how important family time was back then.
I have soft body cabbage patch dolls from my childhood. The latest cabbage patch doll I was gifted was a the hard body variety. Pretty ,Crimp and Curl!!!
@@zam023Pharmacies, doctors and hospitals in Europe and US/Canada still use Fax machines as it is widely accepted as safer than e-mail. Businesses has stopped using them. Last Ive seen/used one was in early 2010…
@@maples328 hotels too.. I work in the hotel business and every time we move a hotel over to VoIP from old phone lines we have 1 or more fax machines that need to be set up to work.. some of our big hotels have 7 or 8 faxes...
I remember in high school everyone would get mass produced copies of tests and school newspaper from photocopy/fax machines and the first thing everyone did was smell the paper, a deep breath and hold it in with our eyes closed, like it was a bag of weed or something. It had a weird smell that everyone liked, that sweet, sweet photocopy/fax paper odor was one of the main reasons kids even bothered showing up to class.
When I moved from my former home, I left behind so MANY of those old videotapes that I made on my VCRs. Gosh, I left HUGE TRASH BAGS of those things behind because they're totally USELESS now.
Isn't it true that because everybody threw all this stuff away that when somebody saved one of these now useless things in a never opened box, it is called memorabilia and worth some money? Like comic books, etc.etc.? Or no?
The banking industry still heavily uses fax machines instead of email to exchange legal documents or acquire valid signatures between shared parties involved. It's because of the greater safety measures for which they offer versus potentially intercepted emails. Home loans and powers of attorney documents are one good example where faxes are typically used exclusively.
The old QUADRAPHONIC SYSTEM of the mid 1970's got replaced by today's 5.1 home theater system . I bought a REALISTIC QUADRAPHONIC AMPLIFIER back in 1974 . REALISTIC is the old RADIO SHACK brand name .
Remember also when everyone bought separate equalizers when they wanted to properly set up their premium home stereo system. I still own a cassette to cassette player for dubbing which I haven't used in years.
I still have one, new in the box, but it's not the OG one. Reissue. Damn if it was though. It's not even 20 years old but you don't have to blow in cartridges
Some of these items were from the 70's and went into the 80's. Like the Pet Rock, VHS tapes and players, lava lamps were around in the 60's as well. The One Step Polaroid camera was first out in the 70's. I had one. Polaroid just changed the name and a different film to sell them again in the 80's.
I think video recorders were a bigger thing back then i remember if you missed a film at the cinema in the u.k it could take about 4 years to get to t.v and you had to be in to not miss it.
Ice cream trucks are not rare in NYC. There are still many of them driving the streets of Brooklyn with their nauseating melodies. Also, many of these items were products of the 70s. Digital alarm clocks either radio and snooze functions were in full swing by 1980.
The Pet Rock was from 1975. I mean 10 seconds in and you have already proven you have no clue whatsoever what the hell you are talking about. Do better. MUCH better.
I had that exact Casio calculator watch from Grade 12 until about 1992, it came in handy when grocery shopping as a trade school student on budget with a wife and couple of kids. I did all the cooking too, my wife's idea of cooking was ordering pizza. You weren't supposed to use your fingers on those tiny buttons, they were designed for the tip of a pen or pencil.
6:50 The Mini-Disk system was a boon for community radio stations! The stations could have all their corporate sponsorship acknowledgements, programme promos and station Idents all on just one or two disc cartridges, the tracks could be rearranged and deleted as necessary. Such a device should *STILL BE IN USE!*
I used a VCR up until I think 2009 but I stopped using it after it ate a tape after I was trying to record an episode of the TV show 7th heaven. Not long after that I got a DVD recorder with hard drive that I used for several years. And now most people have DVRs
Nothing has changed we just use upgraded tech to do the same things I work in a charity shop ... And all of those items are worth a small fortune now ... A Tiffany Blue Box would be a dream find in a donation ... I have sold 3 Lava Lamps this week, they are Gold Dust
an answering machine is more private as it's recording in your house, not on the exchange side and easier to use as you don't have to enter PINs and go though an annoying IVR.
Still proudly have, and use, my combo vhs/dvd player….but more prized is my marantz stereo that sounds better than anything today, good music deserves to be listened to properly, and respected.,,not through a mono .5” phone speaker!
I consider VCRs, walkmans, and cassette players tape eating devices, as I had VCRs eat and ruin tapes. That would be especially bad if I had a rental tape that was eaten by my VCR.
I had a pet rock, his name was Stoner. Then I got a Rubik's Cube and neglected Stoner, he sadly died of starvation but you couldn't tell he was dead because he didn't have eyelids and his dead stare just followed you around the room like old portraits of dead people.
at my school (Marshall University) someone had an illegal answering machine. the voicemail system marshall had was included in tuition. adding an answering machine screws up the voicemail.
Cb radios are far from obsolete! Granted the average Joe doesn't dabble with them like we used to, truckers still use them quite regularly. The commercial marine industry still uses VHF radios just as they ever did.
Between my miserable life, the loss of most of my family, and too much digital technology, there's *NO* way I can be happy in today's world. If anyone wants me to be happy again, then get me a time machine and let me go back to the 1980s. That's it. That's all. Thank you in advance.
I’m not quite where your at but certainly feel that when I was happiest, looked my best, and healthiest (all without even trying) was years gone by, late 70’s and ‘80’s….im not unhappy or miserable now or the last few decades, just resigned, to the fact that it will never be the same or equally as good…..hang in there
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I understand you're every feeling, you're not alone buddy. I miss past times very much too, simple times but happy times
I feel you
I often say I wouldn't mind going back to the 80s or 90s. I think most of us we're happier then with more human connection and without all the technology, identity theft, isolation, wokeness, etc
Simpler times. I miss the 80s!!
I do too and life was more simple and better.
Still have my VHS and Sega genesis 😊
Nice! Wanna play some contra hard corps?
still have vhs, atari, NES and Genesis
@@johndrews206nice
nice
Still have Coleco Vision
Digital streaming is cool, but what happens when your Internet goes down? Always good to have physical media and something to play it on.
I agree. You also don't really own the streaming content. Digital files also offer limited sources of use.
So true. Streaming contents can also suddenly disappear from the streaming platform. Quite often the contents are not available abroad. Physical media also protects us against advertisements and censorship (making the contents suitable for modern audiences).
I have my VHS and DVD player and way to much money invested in media lol
And a rotary phone
We have an ice cream truck that comes by our neighborhood everyone in a while i live in a restricted access sub division so we think the ice cream truck man lives here
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I think the cellphone 📱 was our downfall. It has brought unhappiness to the world. That's why most of us, including me, would love to go back to the 80s. Best decade ever.....
Yes, it was better to be able to disconnect, people understood that and didn't get upset when you couldn't answer back the second the message was sent. I sometimes don't answer a voicemail straight away, just to show that my time is important too.
I think we should've stopped at Flip phones, that was the peak
1980'S THINGS :
@00:45 : VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDERS ( VCR'S )
( ALSO BETAMAX AND VHS TAPES AND VHS TAPE REWINDERS )
( ALSO BETAMAX AND VHS VIDEO CAMERAS : BIG AND BULKY )
@01:30 : "SONY WALKMAN" PORTABLE CASSETTE PLAYER ( AND AUDIO CASSETTES )
@02:55 : POLAROID INSTANT CAMERAS ( AND ROLL FILM CAMERAS )
@04:15 : FAX MACHINES
@05:14 : TELEPHONE ANSWERING MACHINES
@06:32 : MINI DISC PLAYERS ( NEVER CAUGHT ON )
@07:25 : DIGITAL WATCHES WITH CALCULATOR FUNCTIONS
@08:34 : NON DIGITAL ALARM CLOCKS
@09:35 : SEGA GENESIS AND NES VIDEO GAME CONSOLES ( ALSO ATARI )
@10:35 : MALLS WITH ENTERTAINMENT CENTERS AND ARCADES
@11:33 : CABBAGE PATCH KIDS
@12:42 : RUBIK'S CUBES
@13:33 : CITIZEN'S BAND RADIOS ( C B RADIOS )
@14:45 : LAWN DARTS ( JARTS )
@15:38 : BETAMAX TAPES
@16:44 : TIFFANY BLUE BOXES
@17:34 : PAGERS
@18:22 : FANNY PACKS
@19:12 : SODA CAN PULL TABS ( NOW STAY TABS )
@20:03 : PET ROCKS
@21:00 : ICE CREAM TRUCKS WITH JINGLE MUSIC
@21:48 : LAVA LAMPS
@22:48 : CERAMIC CHRISTMAS TREES
@23:22 : BUTTERFLY CLIPS AND SCRUNCHIES ( FOR FEMALES )
@24:08 : SPIRAL BOUND COOKBOOKS
@25:02 : CABLE TV BOXES
@25:45 : DISKETTE DRIVES ( ALSO FLOPPY DISCS )
@26:34 : FUR LINED SLIPPERS
@27:20 : DOLL HOUSES WITH WORKING LIGHTS
@28:07 : PHOTO ALBUMS WITH PLASTIC SLEEVES
NOT MENTIONED :
ENCYCLOPEDIA BOOKS
HAND CRANK MIXERS
LARGE BOOKSHELF SPEAKERS
Fun fact: Lava lamps are still used today in order to create random digits.
Anyone remember buying a compass to attach to your car front windshield? Pretty much that trend ended back in the 1980's.
In my humble opinion, kids should always have hands on play!!
I have VCR's, walkmans, 400 vinyl albums, 4 stereos, and cameras from the 80's
faxes are still widely in use.. I work in the hotel business and they SCREAM when the fax machine doesnt work on their new VoIP service... still lots of them out there
Some of these memories are still here where I live in the UK today. I still go to a mall or shopping centre/precinct as we call them and I go tenpin bowling with a group of up to 6 other service users from the care agency company who support me in the community most weekdays. You have to navigate through an amusement arcade full of things like, air hockey tables, pool tables, table tennis, punch machines, a motorbikes racing thing, Grand Piano Keys machine, hamster wheel machine, pacman machine, Etc. The list goes on. Its always busy, even on Schooldays. a lot of the shops are closing or have closed down though, since the chains or companies in there went bust, be its a big place and it also hosts things like a cinema, soft play area for the kiddies, sadly not the adults and it runs some stay and playgroups, baby sensory, yoga, Etc, on the ground floor level where the arcade and tenpin bowling alley is situated. That has just undergone a big refurb and they put in a new karaoke and video suite and they moved Laser Tag and the lounge bar area. The layout is a bit less spread out than it was.
I still have a DVD/VCR combo.
My main alarm clock is actually a small analog clock.
I remember growing up in the 80s I missed those good old days growing up as a teenager back then I used to be into music and every time I want to hear a song I have to either listen to the radio to hear it or watch MTV to see the video or go by the tape but now today you can just go on your phone and look it up and there you go things are easier today than back then we have to walk into a store and buy your favorite album I haven't bought a CD for a long time to I don't even know they still sell them but back then as a teenager I always had a stereo a vcr and a TV or a DVD player I was happy with that now today as an adult I have a Bluetooth speaker and my cell phone
I still have my sony yellow walkman and I'm using it every day, I miss the 80s thought
Ice cream trucks are still a thing in the uk and they still have jingles.
that's awesome
They are in the US too
I lived in a small city in SC 2 years ago and every summer an ice cream truck came by my neighborhood (and after a while the repetitive music annoyed me to no end!).
I am in Malaysia, in my neighborhood we have ice cream motorcycles, and they play jingles too.
@@billyclub9733Yup, we still have ice cream trucks.
Truckers still use CBs...
Fax machines are still in use
They linger on here and there, but are getting few and far between
The banking industry still heavily uses fax machines instead of email to exchange legal documents or acquire valid signatures between shared parties involved.
@@honestone490they are also considered HIPAA compliant where a lot of electronic options are not. I used a fax machine almost daily when I worked in retail pharmacy.
@@honestone490yup, and fax machines are still in use and preferred in many cases.
CB is making s huge comeback with better equipment more advanced than ever and better there are manyCB radios that Bluetooth and workwithyourphone, further connections to each other the Citizens Band will be what it was in the 80s by 2050.
These things as they were in the video just advanced over the years which means their still around
Many of these things were more of the 70s than the 80s. Lawn darts, lava lamps, pet rocks. Also, who the heck said "groovy" in the 80s?
Not even my parents who were young adults in the 50s said groovy in the 80's 😁
I was thinking the same. I lived trough the 70's and 80's. A lot of these are 70's
I can still remember what my mom would put on our family answering machine mainly if winter was over and spring was here she would always say spring has sprung and I'm out getting some sun we can't come to the phone please leave a message after the beep if we was lucky and still on school break mama every year made it a family day where we all would spend the day at the local zoo what wonderful memories kids now days would have no clue the fun and how important family time was back then.
I have soft body cabbage patch dolls from my childhood. The latest cabbage patch doll I was gifted was a the hard body variety. Pretty ,Crimp and Curl!!!
Fax machines were still fairly common by the time I was in high school.
Last time I heard they are still in use by businesses in Europe and East Asia.
@@zam023Pharmacies, doctors and hospitals in Europe and US/Canada still use Fax machines as it is widely accepted as safer than e-mail. Businesses has stopped using them. Last Ive seen/used one was in early 2010…
@@zam023they are still used in every hospital 🏥, doctors 🥼 office & medical record office.
A lot of it is mandatory rules.
@@maples328 hotels too.. I work in the hotel business and every time we move a hotel over to VoIP from old phone lines we have 1 or more fax machines that need to be set up to work.. some of our big hotels have 7 or 8 faxes...
To think that our smart watch and phones will become a novelty in the future.
What a old days
Peaceful time
I STILL HAVE A VCR 😂😂
Cabbage patch kids will NEVER be useless to me!!!!!
I still have mine she's 38 years old. I received her on Christmas Eve so I call that her gotcha Day.
Many of them are worth lots of money now.
I loved my mini-disc player
Right. I had a full sized one and a 4 track recorder. I thought they would hang around longer because they were great.
I remember in high school everyone would get mass produced copies of tests and school newspaper from photocopy/fax machines and the first thing everyone did was smell the paper, a deep breath and hold it in with our eyes closed, like it was a bag of weed or something. It had a weird smell that everyone liked, that sweet, sweet photocopy/fax paper odor was one of the main reasons kids even bothered showing up to class.
When I moved from my former home, I left behind so MANY of those old videotapes that I made on my VCRs. Gosh, I left HUGE TRASH BAGS of those things behind because they're totally USELESS now.
You wanna know why the youngest generation can't do math in their heads calculators and no child left behind.
Isn't it true that because everybody threw all this stuff away that when somebody saved one of these now useless things in a never opened box, it is called memorabilia and worth some money? Like comic books, etc.etc.? Or no?
Absolutely. I always say that were it not for the pack rats of this world antiques would not exist.
Fax machines are still used sometimes. I have one.
And most printers and scanner combos have them included. Mine does and its brand new.
@RazLynfel true
The banking industry still heavily uses fax machines instead of email to exchange legal documents or acquire valid signatures between shared parties involved. It's because of the greater safety measures for which they offer versus potentially intercepted emails. Home loans and powers of attorney documents are one good example where faxes are typically used exclusively.
@@honestone490 Very good examples, thank you!
I’m only 48 I can still remember all this
My ceramic Christmas tree is doing just fine, thank you!
😂
I’d tape me and my then girlfriend’s favorite shows throughout the week and Friday night was original Netflix and Chill
Who even says that anymore?
Owning a floating candle was also a popular item back in the 1980's. At one time it even rivaled the lava lamp.
The old QUADRAPHONIC SYSTEM of the mid 1970's got replaced by today's 5.1 home
theater system . I bought a REALISTIC QUADRAPHONIC AMPLIFIER back in 1974 .
REALISTIC is the old RADIO SHACK brand name .
Remember also when everyone bought separate equalizers when they wanted to properly set up their premium home stereo system. I still own a cassette to cassette player for dubbing which I haven't used in years.
Contrary to popular belief, lawn darts aren't fully banned in the US. You're allowed to sell lawn darts as long as they have blunt plastic tips.
LOVED my NES!
Wish i still owned it!
Blowing in the cartridge to make it work. Good times
I still have one, new in the box, but it's not the OG one. Reissue. Damn if it was though. It's not even 20 years old but you don't have to blow in cartridges
Some of these items were from the 70's and went into the 80's. Like the Pet Rock, VHS tapes and players, lava lamps were around in the 60's as well. The One Step Polaroid camera was first out in the 70's. I had one. Polaroid just changed the name and a different film to sell them again in the 80's.
My uncle used to build these dollhouses by hand ; so cool!!❤❤
I think video recorders were a bigger thing back then i remember if you missed a film at the cinema in the u.k it could take about 4 years to get to t.v and you had to be in to not miss it.
Ice cream trucks are not rare in NYC. There are still many of them driving the streets of Brooklyn with their nauseating melodies.
Also, many of these items were products of the 70s.
Digital alarm clocks either radio and snooze functions were in full swing by 1980.
The Pet Rock was from 1975. I mean 10 seconds in and you have already proven you have no clue whatsoever what the hell you are talking about.
Do better.
MUCH better.
You're right. Suzanne Summers did say from 75, like the videos. But he said 80s still
I had that exact Casio calculator watch from Grade 12 until about 1992, it came in handy when grocery shopping as a trade school student on budget with a wife and couple of kids. I did all the cooking too, my wife's idea of cooking was ordering pizza.
You weren't supposed to use your fingers on those tiny buttons, they were designed for the tip of a pen or pencil.
8m35s, that wood panel tv, I had that exact model too.
6:50 The Mini-Disk system was a boon for community radio stations! The stations could have all their corporate sponsorship acknowledgements, programme promos and station Idents all on just one or two disc cartridges, the tracks could be rearranged and deleted as necessary. Such a device should *STILL BE IN USE!*
I remember one of the arcades in the malls
Lawn darts is Kewl, but if you want safer then you want another fun lawn game Bocce Ball
It's a lot like lawn darts, but 1 white ball 6 colored usually 3 Blue & Red. The object is get your ball closer than your opponent.
I used a VCR up until I think 2009 but I stopped using it after it ate a tape after I was trying to record an episode of the TV show 7th heaven. Not long after that I got a DVD recorder with hard drive that I used for several years. And now most people have DVRs
you can still find CB signals today. They are in the lower HF band. You can even get a CB that used the FM band.
Love cbs n lawn darts aka Jarts! ❤😂
You think slippers are a thing of the past ... ?????????????????????????????????????? ....?
C.B. Radios were popular in the late 70s but was becoming obsolete by the 1980s
All of these technologies still work today unlike cloud services
5:31 What is that footage from? the one with the pretty woman in it?
I loved the 70s and 80s
Nothing has changed we just use upgraded tech to do the same things
I work in a charity shop ... And all of those items are worth a small fortune now ... A Tiffany Blue Box would be a dream find in a donation ... I have sold 3 Lava Lamps this week, they are Gold Dust
Walkman useless!? Maybe you didn't notice the massive comeback of analog music, including cassettes, decks, and Walkmans.
Polaroid is also making a comeback.
They evolved into the MP 3 players and the ear buds or blue tooth we all use today. Advancements yes but the root source is still the same.
Alarm clocks have been around decades before I was born in the 80s. I know I have a few.
an answering machine is more private as it's recording in your house, not on the exchange side and easier to use as you don't have to enter PINs and go though an annoying IVR.
The pet rock was as useless than as it is now. Lava lamps are still awesome.
Still proudly have, and use, my combo vhs/dvd player….but more prized is my marantz stereo that sounds better than anything today, good music deserves to be listened to properly, and respected.,,not through a mono .5” phone speaker!
Ha. I've still got most of these things. :)
"Hitting record on a Friday night.." what record was that then?
those clocks you have just shown are the battery operated clocks, the older clocks were mechanical, a wind up clock not batteries
18:31 I don't think fanny packs ever really disappeared because they're certainly making a comeback now....
This title is ridiculous. These products aren't useless. And many are still used today. Not as popular but still used.
I got a view master plus disks remember those
All those thing are still around , just updated
I consider VCRs, walkmans, and cassette players tape eating devices, as I had VCRs eat and ruin tapes. That would be especially bad if I had a rental tape that was eaten by my VCR.
I had a pet rock, his name was Stoner. Then I got a Rubik's Cube and neglected Stoner, he sadly died of starvation but you couldn't tell he was dead because he didn't have eyelids and his dead stare just followed you around the room like old portraits of dead people.
Minidiscs were great but they were not an 80s item. They were first announced and introduced to the market in 1992.
at my school (Marshall University) someone had an illegal answering machine. the voicemail system marshall had was included in tuition. adding an answering machine screws up the voicemail.
Fanny packs 😂 as a british person is amusing.
you think truckers dont still use cb? plenty of log trucks around here that do, one of the local dirt roads even tells you to use for your safety.
We are still so amazingly primitive we think digital watches are still pretty neat idea
Cb radios are far from obsolete! Granted the average Joe doesn't dabble with them like we used to, truckers still use them quite regularly. The commercial marine industry still uses VHF radios just as they ever did.
Without even watching this I can tell the answer is becomes we can most if not all this stuff can be done ok our phones lol
*I got married in the 1980's* ---------------- I know the feeling ---------------- *My wife says I'm completely useless* 😑🤨🙂
The sound of a ice cream truck gave anxiety some reason
So many of these things started in the 70s 😅
i loved minidisk they were awesome
Loved 80s that's how life should be today
Miss the 80s
In 🇦🇺 ice creams trucks still around all yr aroun
I cant say that CB is a relic. In EU they are still very popular.
It cannot pronounce Rubiks cubes or brain-teaser either.
LOL 6:18 I still got one of them!
ice cream trucks are rare huh? we dont have any, never did, but i know someone who has a fleet of his own.
You can't leave out the snow cone trucks either.
It supposed to be upgraded freely to those who owned it. And production should be still ongoing. Bit idk why it's stop and become relics.
answering machines lol😂
Be Kind Rewind
pet rocks were from the 70s
Fanny pack is something I use today. I keep my smart phone in it
alarm clock, polaroid and fax machine is still a hit they still booming
In Japan, fax machines are still in common use 😅
You forgot to mention he V2000 video format too