Things Kids Will Never Experience Anymore!

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  • Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
  • Technology has propelled us forward but it has also created a little gap. There are experiences that we once had that will never be shared with the younger generations. In this video we will look at some of the things kids will never experience anymore.
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  • @Wil_Liam1
    @Wil_Liam1 8 дней назад +89

    Who would gladly give up their cell phones,wifi,interweb,etc to go back to those much cooler times when people actually talked to and hung out with people and life was simpler ?

  • @sabrinapittsley2304
    @sabrinapittsley2304 8 дней назад +26

    This nostalgic feeling of the older days makes me tear up because I lived through it and remember feeling so happy and content with very little.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  8 дней назад +1

      Thank you for watching Sabrina!

    • @williamwilson6499
      @williamwilson6499 7 дней назад

      Nearly everyone, usual the silly ones, say that about their particular “older days”.

    • @borntoclimb7116
      @borntoclimb7116 5 дней назад

      The good Thing here in Europe is many Kids are stil go outsite or meet they friends because patents let them Play but teens and all the adults are hung up too much on they phoned

  • @charlestonpinballarcade
    @charlestonpinballarcade 8 дней назад +31

    OMG!!! Calling into the theater to hear the showtimes!!! Yaaassss!!! I totally forgot!

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 дней назад +1

      Thank you for watching charlestonpinballarcade!

    • @SJHFoto
      @SJHFoto 7 дней назад +2

      I still do that. Whenever they complain, I just wait for them to finish, and ask again

  • @norwoodwildlife9849
    @norwoodwildlife9849 8 дней назад +38

    There's a playground with a baseball field right down
    the street where I live, when I was younger that playground
    would have been full, now every time I walk by its empty, so sad

    • @1massboy
      @1massboy 8 дней назад +2

      Honestly never had that happen when I lived in northern Virginia. Especially on the weekend.
      Even now that I in Massachusetts it still pretty busy during the weekend.

    • @Matt_from_Florida
      @Matt_from_Florida 7 дней назад +3

      Local softball leagues were huge deals at least through the 1980s. I remember people parking their cars 5 blocks away from the field!

  • @TopGunAce23
    @TopGunAce23 7 дней назад +12

    Who remembers calling in for the time and weather on the phone?

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 дней назад +2

      That is definitely a big one that we all used. We still have a number that we can call in my area but it's like a minute of ads before it and I've wondered who actually calls it? Thank you for watching TopGunAce23!

    • @erinmalone2669
      @erinmalone2669 7 дней назад

      Or dialing popcorn?

    • @aaronak2005
      @aaronak2005 2 дня назад

      Haha I actually called it the other day for a local forecast. Forgot my phone and was lost at work 😆😂

  • @cxwe090
    @cxwe090 8 дней назад +49

    There was a time when EVERYWHERE rented VHS movies. Your local 7-11...grocery stores..all rented movies in addition to all the many mom and pop VHS rental places that existed. That's all gone now.

    • @Murrlin27
      @Murrlin27 8 дней назад +4

      Even more, video games were also EVERYWHERE! I remember there being such a surfeit of arcades, some of them didn't even bother having a name! Just toss a bunch of cabs in an unused storefront. step 3, profit :P

    • @Someone-kg8qf
      @Someone-kg8qf 7 дней назад +5

      Yes, all of the grocery stores here used to have a VHS rental department.

    • @3DJapan
      @3DJapan 7 дней назад +3

      There was a place a couple blocks from me that had 50 cent rentals, but it was mostly older or lesser known movies.

    • @williamwilson6499
      @williamwilson6499 7 дней назад

      Who cares that they’re gone? What a dumb thing to lament. I remember when there was no such thing as VHS movie rentals.

    • @digitalfootballer9032
      @digitalfootballer9032 6 дней назад

      I remember the local movie rental store with the "back room" draped in a black opaque curtain where they kept the naughty videos 😂

  • @Tiberiotertio
    @Tiberiotertio 8 дней назад +39

    Hmm have to think of pin ball machines. They swallowed a lot of pocket money!

  • @edwardaustin740
    @edwardaustin740 8 дней назад +37

    Kids today will never know what it was like back in the day. Growing up "WE" was the remote control before the remote control. I have
    ' you've got mail ' notification on my phone mailbox.
    I remember calling the
    ' time and temperature '
    Kids today would not survive our time..

    • @sirtango1
      @sirtango1 8 дней назад +6

      And you would form a relay chain if the outside antenna needed to be turned when you changed the channel! I quickly learned to turn the antenna VERY slowly! Then I marked it and the base for quicker tuning! 😂

    • @lainiwakura1776
      @lainiwakura1776 8 дней назад +2

      Is it really their fault that they were born when they were born though?

    • @Wil_Liam1
      @Wil_Liam1 8 дней назад

      ​@@lainiwakura1776Yes,all on them,and gen X 😆

    • @ryulee458
      @ryulee458 8 дней назад +1

      @@edwardaustin740 for sure 🤣🤣🤣👍👍

    • @anonymousYTviewer69
      @anonymousYTviewer69 7 дней назад +1

      i have "youve got mail" as by text notification!
      i still remember the time/temp number!!!

  • @MrMegaFredZeppelin
    @MrMegaFredZeppelin 8 дней назад +26

    That's Michael Anthony in front of the Pac Man game @0:12😃He was the Bass player in Van Halen😁ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻

    • @pitman6992
      @pitman6992 8 дней назад +3

      Scrolling thru to see if anyone else noticed that! Looks like it could be Alex V. H. behind him too!!

    • @Not-Great-at-Gaming
      @Not-Great-at-Gaming 8 дней назад +2

      Yup, I went straight to the comments to see if anyone else noticed.

    • @SRV3433
      @SRV3433 7 дней назад +1

      I’m glad I was not the only one to notice that.

    • @SRV3433
      @SRV3433 7 дней назад +1

      @@pitman6992I don’t think that is Alex.

    • @pitman6992
      @pitman6992 7 дней назад +1

      @SRV3433 Yeah, impossible to tell!

  • @mikemancini3907
    @mikemancini3907 8 дней назад +22

    Yes definitely the phone book and yellow pages. Delivering paper routes for extra money on our bikes...jeez they would be like " No Way "Rhetty thanks for the great old memories 😀

    • @TheInkPitOx
      @TheInkPitOx 8 дней назад +1

      I remember the phone book

    • @mikemancini3907
      @mikemancini3907 8 дней назад +2

      @@TheInkPitOx Then your one smart person. Kids today don't have a clue.

    • @AVEXentSUCKS
      @AVEXentSUCKS 8 дней назад

      Now the Mexicans do the paper delivery.

    • @mikemancini3907
      @mikemancini3907 8 дней назад

      Right !! For a Payso.....They took our jobs for cheap labor 😂 ​@@AVEXentSUCKS

    • @Ariel-lol
      @Ariel-lol 6 дней назад +1

      I was born in 06 but we still got phone books, enough to where I remember in my memories of turning the yellow pages🤷‍♀️ some of this stuff i didn’t experience but some I did

  • @ryulee458
    @ryulee458 8 дней назад +12

    God I missed the 70s and 80s those were the best times of my life 😃👍👍

  • @rayhume1971
    @rayhume1971 8 дней назад +19

    I never thought of using a card catalog as a hassle. It was just the way you did it.
    Remember looking at old newspapers at the library on micro film.

  • @TammieR-B
    @TammieR-B 8 дней назад +20

    I couldn't imagine just answering the phone all willy nilly now😂 thanks for the memories 👍

    • @grizwoldphantasia5005
      @grizwoldphantasia5005 8 дней назад +1

      But every call cost money, so telemarketers were as rare as fairies. Even if you had a flat local rate, calling the next city or state was long distance and expensive. Telemarketers are strictly a function of cell phones with no per-call charges.

    • @erinmalone2669
      @erinmalone2669 7 дней назад

      I let my kids answer scam calls and mess with them. It’s funny and my youngest has a dark, quick wit!😅

  • @julialaw6471
    @julialaw6471 8 дней назад +49

    The Dewey Decimal system 😂

    • @ladytinag4276
      @ladytinag4276 8 дней назад

      😔

    • @johnlopez3996
      @johnlopez3996 8 дней назад +1

      The number 92 was the code for biographies in the Dewey Decimal system. Remember taking a small slip of paper to copy the number from the card catalog at the library? You then went to the right shelf to find the book based upon the Dewey Decimal system.

    • @ladytinag4276
      @ladytinag4276 8 дней назад +1

      @@johnlopez3996 it was a horrible process 😂

    • @Murrlin27
      @Murrlin27 8 дней назад +2

      We DID understand the dewey decimal system!

  • @julialaw6471
    @julialaw6471 8 дней назад +76

    Life was so much simpler back then 😢

    • @1massboy
      @1massboy 8 дней назад +8

      Yes and No.
      I think we had to plan things out more due to limited communication and didn’t have the same level of access to information.

    • @julialaw6471
      @julialaw6471 8 дней назад +11

      @@1massboy which was GREAT 👍

    • @kamt3212
      @kamt3212 8 дней назад +3

      😢 👍🏻

    • @TamiJoeris-ge5dg
      @TamiJoeris-ge5dg 7 дней назад

      @@julialaw6471 I miss those days so much.

    • @ybe7011
      @ybe7011 7 дней назад

      Yeah I think simpler and also more complicated. But when you look back you know the difference. We didn't back then so we were just used to things like having to find a pay phone and remembering to have a dime, or running out of film on your camera at a family get together, deciding which program the family was going to watch that night on TV, etc.

  • @kimberleyannedemong5621
    @kimberleyannedemong5621 8 дней назад +28

    If cursive is obsolete how will anyone be able to read old or historic documents after all of us who can read cursive are dead. I guess we'll have historians that can't read the primary sources. How do you sign legal documents? With printing? Printing is much too easy to forge.

    • @bedman2124
      @bedman2124 8 дней назад +8

      I guess they will have cursive historian experts lol. I remember in 3rd grade learning cursive. And everyone had to memorize times tables up to 12×12. Now forget about it. I realized they stopped cursive teaching 15 years ago when my son was in 3rd grade. Now I have an 8 year old entering 3rd grade in the fall and the math like everything else unless you teach your kids yourself they only seem to teach them far left politics. Such a shame.

    • @shannondore
      @shannondore 8 дней назад +5

      It'll be like hieroglyphs.😂

    • @TheInkPitOx
      @TheInkPitOx 8 дней назад +3

      I heard they're reviving it

    • @thelittlegreenball6813
      @thelittlegreenball6813 8 дней назад +3

      ​@@TheInkPitOxHopefully so. It should be mandatory. It is easily learned.

    • @williamwilson6499
      @williamwilson6499 7 дней назад

      If you can read printed text you can read cursive. Don’t be ridiculous.

  • @AnitaLonski
    @AnitaLonski 8 дней назад +6

    Kids today wouldn’t last when we only had like 4 or 5 channels to watch. no internet , no cable or streaming. Great video Rhetty

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  8 дней назад +1

      Thank you for watching Anita and I'm happy to hear you enjoyed this video!

  • @Tim_the_Enchanter
    @Tim_the_Enchanter 8 дней назад +24

    A few funny things: My mother sometimes acted as a rudimentary caller ID, kind of like a receptionist. As kids, we didn't always want to take calls, so before she answered the phone, she would holler out "Who's here?"
    I learned the slide rule as an extra-credit project in seventh grade. It was pretty dead technology even then (1973), as this was when Texas Instruments pocket calculators started appearing on the belts of kids we were not yet calling "nerds."
    In high school, I developed a keen interest in photography, partially because I was in a hiking club and liked to take nature photos, but mostly because a girl I liked worked in the little Fotomat hut at a nearby shopping plaza.

    • @abrakahocus
      @abrakahocus 8 дней назад +3

      Ahh the old Fotomat hut, I remember those :)

    • @3DJapan
      @3DJapan 7 дней назад +2

      I did photography in college in the mid-90s we developed our own film and prints.

  • @mightymike19848
    @mightymike19848 8 дней назад +60

    Kids now day will never know what it is like to look up pizza places in the yellow pages and look up numbers in the white pages now days

    • @jenniferhansen3622
      @jenniferhansen3622 8 дней назад +7

      Or look in the paper to see what movies were showing at the theater.

    • @Jen0714
      @Jen0714 8 дней назад +10

      Much less remember a phone number!

  • @jerrywebb2717
    @jerrywebb2717 8 дней назад +9

    What ever happen to those days when Life was so much simpler and fun,and things were cheaper then,I wish we could go back,the kids of today have no idea of what we we had,and we had great cars,were they did not cost a fortunate,

  • @slwtgf
    @slwtgf 8 дней назад +15

    And the arcades were fun - we liked Asteroid’s and could keep our quarter going a longggg time

    • @c.c.7687
      @c.c.7687 8 дней назад +8

      My dad has asteroids. Can't even sit on the toilet somedays.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 дней назад +1

      That really was a fun game! Thank you for watching slwtgf!

    • @willhorting5317
      @willhorting5317 7 дней назад +1

      ​@@c.c.7687that's hemorrhoids.
      Asteroids was a video game.

    • @slwtgf
      @slwtgf 2 дня назад

      @@c.c.7687 hahaha omg

  • @BrianMcKnight68
    @BrianMcKnight68 8 дней назад +7

    Writing in cursive was dropped when my kids were in elementary school around 2007-ish?.… we ended up teaching them cursive at home.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 дней назад +2

      I'm glad that you went ahead and finished teaching them how to write in cursive. Thank you for watching Brian!

  • @jwb52z9
    @jwb52z9 8 дней назад +6

    Back when I was a kid in the 80s, being "on the phone" was literal.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  8 дней назад

      !Yes it was. Thank you for watching jwb52z9!

    • @muzerhythm2242
      @muzerhythm2242 День назад

      I remember being wrapped like a mummy with the cord!🤣 I was on the phone so much as a teen my dad would say "You're on the dang phone so much it's going to become another appendage."🤣🤣

  • @Jay-ql4gp
    @Jay-ql4gp 8 дней назад +2

    I miss the old fashioned phone. When you hung up on someone, they _knew_ they'd been hung up on. Somone I know went to pick up a friend from work, this was the late 90's or early 2000's. And the friend was showing him a 45 record that someone had left behind. And while he was doing that some kid said, "Wow! A black CD! Where'd you get that?"

  • @displacedyankee7819
    @displacedyankee7819 8 дней назад +5

    They will never experience being able to do something stupid without it being recorded and put up for the world to see

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 дней назад

      You're right about that. Thank you for watching displacedyankee7819!

  • @mcorleonep
    @mcorleonep 8 дней назад +40

    KFC was so much better then. It’s practically inedible now. Same can be said about a lot of other fast food/restaurant franchises…

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 дней назад

      Thank you for watching mcorleonep!

    • @ericteneyck8691
      @ericteneyck8691 7 дней назад +1

      KFC gravy was wonderful, not sure what they did to it, but its awful these days.

    • @mrsjackbauer1
      @mrsjackbauer1 7 дней назад

      Yes, I remember them being more tasty myself when i was a kid.

    • @HM-ec5vi
      @HM-ec5vi 7 дней назад

      My first teenage job was at KFC in 1977, the food was good.

  • @angeliarichardson8976
    @angeliarichardson8976 3 дня назад +1

    Kids today will never know what using a pay phone was like, or only having 12 channels to watch television and no remote to change the channels. I sure miss the good ole day.❤

  • @crashburn3292
    @crashburn3292 8 дней назад +4

    0:13 - Kids today will never experience Michael Anthony this thin.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  8 дней назад +1

      Thank you for watching crashburn3292!

    • @crashburn3292
      @crashburn3292 8 дней назад

      @@RhettyforHistory Thank you. Channels like this is why I love YT.

  • @theonlyonestanding8079
    @theonlyonestanding8079 2 дня назад +1

    My favorite time in the 80s was going to the pizza restaurant and playing video games at the arcade and going to the movie theater..This was the time to be young...❤❤❤🍕🍕💻

  • @digitalfootballer9032
    @digitalfootballer9032 6 дней назад +2

    Cars without radios 😂. My grandfather always got the "radio delete" option and kept a little transistor AM radio in his car. "What do you need a radio in your car for when you already have a portable radio?". He's been gone 23 years now, but I still have pop's old radio to this day and still use it occasionally.

  • @johnlopez3996
    @johnlopez3996 8 дней назад +1

    Kids will not experience the smell of ink from the ditto machine when teachers passed out papers. I still teach cursive handwriting in my classroom, and I want to thank you for having a photograph of a fountain pen. I use them in class, and if my students meet my cursive writing expectations, then they will also receive a fountain pen. Thank you for this video presentation. Take care.

  • @brendaholliday6866
    @brendaholliday6866 8 дней назад +2

    Rhett, I really enjoyed your video, things kids will never experience anymore. This video brought back a lot of memories of days gone by. Today's kids will never know what its like to receive personal mail aka "snail mail," because they can easily text or email messages. Have a fantastic week. Take care 🐎

  • @brandiwynter
    @brandiwynter 8 дней назад +3

    I remember putting funny messages on the answering machines and laughing our butts off at the angry responses people left when they called. Ahhh the good old days.

  • @jimmmount3287
    @jimmmount3287 7 дней назад +2

    I was a very, very late smart phone adopter. What finally broke me was being lost on foot an hour outside Louisville, trying to get to a job interview. I found a Circle K and went and asked where the maps were. They looked at me like I was crazy.

  • @ITIsFunnyDamnIT
    @ITIsFunnyDamnIT 8 дней назад +1

    The Hersheys with the paper and foil wrapper. I had forgot all about that. It's so true that time flies and we don't even notice it till years later. looking at this made me realize just how long ago that's been, but now a days the technology is changing at a much more rapid pace.

  • @JohnnyEvilsVids
    @JohnnyEvilsVids 8 дней назад +4

    Was going to say that kids will never know what it's like to go into a music store and see their favorite artist in CD, Cassette and vinyl all sitting together but that actually came back! Even VHS is getting a little bump. What's old is new....

  • @pj-fx7gx
    @pj-fx7gx 8 дней назад +4

    My nephew is always up to the minute on soccer scores from wherever they originate. He’d be nuts at having to wait for that 5 min sports segment on the nightly news (which probably wouldn’t cover it) then wait for the morning paper. Even then it might be the NEXT day’s paper or worse, the weekly “Sports Illustrated”. I can’t imagine going back to that; the world was so small

    • @lainiwakura1776
      @lainiwakura1776 8 дней назад +3

      He would learn about delayed gratification 😀

  • @k.b.tidwell
    @k.b.tidwell 8 дней назад +5

    My wife and I are surrounding ourselves with old items for nostalgia's sake. We're both children of the '70's, and we'd go back and live in a recurring loop of the '70's-'80's-'90's forever if we could. The internet has brought a lot of impactful positives, but it's brought a lot of painful negatives too. For every person it educates, it also enables a loon to hurt somebody. At least when people weren't connected it wasn't quite so easy to spread hate and pain in bulk.
    I'll use a card when I'm picking up things for the house or food, and of course to order stuff online, but I always keep a few hundred in cash on me for deals I run up on from individuals. I also pay any home contractors and my mechanics in cash so they don't have to let the government know what they make off me through bank reporting. The government steals and wastes way too much of our $$$ as it is.

  • @kathyracine1903
    @kathyracine1903 8 дней назад +4

    Our phone was centrally located for first response from the quickest, lol We had a party line, shared phone phone number with several neighbors, each of us had to really listen, everyone had them own ringing pattern, and people would get angry if you tried to make a call and they were already using the phone. I don't miss that,lol😊

  • @gmwcfhg
    @gmwcfhg 8 дней назад +1

    Things kids of today will never experience - watching MTV when they actually played music videos, watching your favorite artists perform on American Bandstand, Soul Train or Solid Gold, and listening to Casey Kasem count down the biggest hits every weekend on American Top 40!

  • @swansfan6944
    @swansfan6944 8 дней назад +1

    Everyone says kids of today wouldn’t know how to use the things we had back in the day.
    Truth is I can’t keep up with all the new technology that they find so easy. 😬
    Wonderful video Rhett, I miss those times. 😢- ❤Jodie 🇦🇺- Hi Paul 👋🇺🇸

    • @paulstan9828
      @paulstan9828 8 дней назад +1

      @@swansfan6944 👋😁🇦🇺 Hi Jodie!

  • @rick3747
    @rick3747 8 дней назад +2

    57 year old GenXer here.
    Today's kids will never be able to order a Domino's pizza with "free" Cokes in styrofoam cups delivered by a Domino's driver in Domino's labeled company car.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 дней назад

      Thank you for watching and sharing a memory Rick!

  • @3DJapan
    @3DJapan 7 дней назад +3

    I remember when ATMs closed for the night. It made no sense to me.

  • @squidwardwithoutaclue
    @squidwardwithoutaclue 8 дней назад +4

    I remember when "children" and "adults" where like, two different worlds. Like everything was sperated between the two. Then that border disappeared. I have siblings who are ten years younger than me and they view the world completely different.

    • @TheInkPitOx
      @TheInkPitOx 8 дней назад

      I don't think the border ever disappeared.

  • @jennfitz0189
    @jennfitz0189 8 дней назад +3

    The landline ringing & my dad yelling at me to get off the phone 😅

    • @TheInkPitOx
      @TheInkPitOx 8 дней назад

      doo Doo DOO!
      That number...is busy

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  8 дней назад

      Thank you for watching and mentioning a memory Jenn!

  • @thetruthstand
    @thetruthstand 8 дней назад +1

    You know, I'm just glad that I was able to relate to everything in this video. It seems like everything used to be an event or an outing. That is something that this new generation doesn't get the chance to experience often since everything is at your fingertips through a download. One of the great joys I had in life was going to a record store to go get the latest CD and opening the jewel case and reading the booklet on the inside.

  • @sonhuynh8222
    @sonhuynh8222 8 дней назад +2

    I miss my childhood so much. I think of the 80s daily and prob more often then I should. Makes me sad as those days are gone forever except in my mind 😢

  • @Rositasparks
    @Rositasparks 7 дней назад +2

    Great video Rhett! I’m not one who dwells I’m the past but it’s fun to look back for a bit! ❤

  • @lalilulelothepatriots7228
    @lalilulelothepatriots7228 8 дней назад +3

    I'm 46 yrs old and watching this video makes me happy and sad in the same time.

  • @dvet91
    @dvet91 8 дней назад +3

    I was telling my mom just yesterday that my 2005 model Eureka vacuum had finally called it quits. She smiled proudly and asked if I wanted to use her 25 pound, 1975 model, bagged Kirby. Not sure which is more shocking, the Kirby is still running or Mom (in her 80's) is still able to push that monster around. lol

  • @ZMAN_420
    @ZMAN_420 8 дней назад +2

    My 1985 Buick Riviera, Red leather interior. A 2 door vehicle had 4 ash trays and cigarette lighters. One under radio, one on passenger door and 2 on each side in back seat. Also it had a power telescoping antenna. Great Video!👍🏻🇺🇲

  • @dennisdean7366
    @dennisdean7366 8 дней назад +5

    I remember what life was like back in the 1990s and the 2000s.

  • @davidfield6223
    @davidfield6223 8 дней назад +7

    Miss thes dayes

  • @joeheid2776
    @joeheid2776 8 дней назад +3

    I worked 10 years in the check processing dept at PNC Bank. We used to sort probably a million checks each day back when you got your checks back in the mail. Best job I ever had. Unfortunately as that slowly stopped happening, I lost my job to technology. 😮

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  8 дней назад

      Technology definitely changed and I haven't gotten any checks back in decades. Thank you for watching and sharing what you used to do Joe!

  • @passerby107
    @passerby107 8 дней назад +2

    With all the technology that kids are exposed to these days, I'm not surprised to learn that a lot of children lack true imagination. If they wonder about something they don't have to imagine it in their head or dream about it. Just ask the internet and it will do that for you. Visionaries are being replaced by programmers. I'm so glad I grew up in the 50's/60's. Great time to be a kid.

    • @sird2333
      @sird2333 7 дней назад

      Makes me think of WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin

  • @Lizablue0608
    @Lizablue0608 8 дней назад +6

    My son says he was born in the wrong era after I told my stories about growing up in the 80’s. I was 15 in 1980. 😂 Yes, I’m kinda obsolete like these items are. I’m ok with that, I had a great run. XD. I was just describing what a Rolodex was 2 days ago. Hahaha 😆 He didn’t know what that was.

  • @Laurie81560
    @Laurie81560 8 дней назад +2

    Thanks Rhetty. Excellent as always. I remember dialing the operator to get a phone number.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  8 дней назад

      That is a great one to mention Laurie! I completely forgot about doing that.

  • @lurkerrekrul
    @lurkerrekrul 7 дней назад +1

    Forget writing in cursive, people today don't even know what an apostrophe is for or when to use one.

  • @guilty-of-being-right
    @guilty-of-being-right 8 дней назад +2

    I was born in 1983 in Las Vegas.. Im happy i caught the tail end of the good ol days..I use 2 play in the arcades at casinos in the 90's when my mom went gambling..

  • @wrestlingwithjay3770
    @wrestlingwithjay3770 7 дней назад +1

    80’s Vintage Vibe

  • @TheUluxian
    @TheUluxian 7 дней назад +1

    US: "Kids today will never know..."
    KIDS TODAY: "Thank God we never had to go through that."

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 дней назад +1

      Yeah there are no tears shed over it. Thank you for watching!

  • @salemslotandmore8278
    @salemslotandmore8278 7 дней назад +1

    Thank You for the Video (and the memories) 😀

  • @jim437
    @jim437 8 дней назад +3

    Seeing how fast electric tools and whatnot are growing, perhaps pull-starting?

  • @BrianMcKnight68
    @BrianMcKnight68 8 дней назад +3

    00:14 Was that a picture of Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony at the Pac Man game??

  • @JeffMeadowsOutdoors
    @JeffMeadowsOutdoors 8 дней назад

    Great video Rhetty, These kind of memories are what attracted me to your channel. I will never forget the sounds, and smell, of a video arcade. Dialing a rotary phone. Taking pictures with a film camera with no idea how they would come out. I still remember the feeling of dread when I was in the checkout at the grocery and the person in front of me would whip out the checkbook and start the slow process of writing it and then the cashier copying the numbers off their drivers license.

  • @kojikicklighter371
    @kojikicklighter371 8 дней назад +2

    Mom had a home business, and printed a quarterly newsletter on a mimeograph printer. Those chemicals would make you see things 😂
    Also, I grew up in a "test market" city. Our family was chosen to test phone services, like call-waiting and call-forwarding.

  • @murdock8068
    @murdock8068 7 дней назад +1

    My grandparents had a rotary phone up until the late 90s in the kitchen. Man i miss those days. Born in 80. We had the best toys, cartoons, movies. We had it made!!

  • @Jen0714
    @Jen0714 8 дней назад +1

    Your video today really hammered this home for me; although technology can be helpful, it certainly took away the eager anticipation of all things good, exciting, and wonderful. Who was calling on the phone; who's going to win that ball game; I can't wait to get my pictures back; you get what I'm saying. I still use a dictionary and, if I had the yellow pages, I would use it too! I still have my VCR...actually it was Dad's first one. Still brand new. That tells you how many movies I watched! The simplicity of arcade game themes just reminds me of how laid back we were. It didn't take much to make us happy and, we had an appreciation for so much...unlike today. I guess the greatest memories sometimes brings a bit of sadness. But, thank you so much, Rhetty! Your video made my Sunday! I hope you and all of yours are doing well!

  • @amazona72072
    @amazona72072 7 дней назад +3

    You always make cry with this wholesome videos. I’m 51 years old and I feel so grateful and blessed that I had the chance to experienced all that and to lived in a time when life was so simple and awesome. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING ME BACK WITH YOUR VIDEOS! God bless 🥹😊

  • @paulstan9828
    @paulstan9828 8 дней назад +2

    Amazing how fast technology changes. I never thought that 35mm film would ever be replaced.
    Hi Jodie! 👋😁🇦🇺

    • @swansfan6944
      @swansfan6944 8 дней назад +1

      Hi Paul 👋😁🇺🇸

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 дней назад

      I didn't think it would ever go either. It really is a nice medium to use. Thank you for watching Paul!

  • @yvonnepetty3400
    @yvonnepetty3400 8 дней назад +2

    Wow Rhett, that really took me back. Our first computer was huge. I think the best thing was a Microwave. Hope you are all well.We are freezing in Africa. Keep safe 🙏 ❤️.

  • @EmoBoii333-po9fk
    @EmoBoii333-po9fk День назад

    I never even grew up in the 80s, but I feel somewhat of a strange nostalgia for it even though I’ve never lived then. I would give anything to have live through the 80s and 90s

  • @jchow5966
    @jchow5966 7 дней назад

    Tthis was another great episode! Fun!!!

  • @shnibby69
    @shnibby69 8 дней назад +1

    Rhetty! You do such a great job! Your videos refresh my memory and put a smile on my face!

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 дней назад

      Thank you for watching and I'm happy to hear you are enjoying the videos shnibby69!

  • @monikameza4107
    @monikameza4107 6 дней назад

    Miss the old phones when you could dial a number to get the correct time or someones phone number. Thanks Rhetty for the memories.

  • @shnibby69
    @shnibby69 8 дней назад +7

    The car cigarette lighter came in handy if one forgot papers or a pipe!😊

  • @brucemartini2288
    @brucemartini2288 8 дней назад +1

    2:00 minutes in, you had me laughing! 🤭

  • @rastusbojangles
    @rastusbojangles 8 дней назад +2

    dawg, roombas are still weird to me. Give me my Oreck anyday. Also remember calling in on a landline to see when movies were playing. That was like 15 years ago. we were late on tech in my house.

  • @Mach11976
    @Mach11976 7 дней назад

    I can remember this question coming at me in 1975. Dad, what the hell has happened to this generation? It happens every generation, ya just got to go with the flow! Of course we did have the best music, no cell phone's and Pong which I played until the dials fell off lol

  • @oldmanretro949
    @oldmanretro949 8 дней назад +4

    Japan still has working rotary phones! I seen them when I was over there in 2018. For emergency purposes I’m thinking.

    • @Canleaf08
      @Canleaf08 8 дней назад

      Having a cortelco in a hotel room was a long time stable with a big phone book. Good memories from the 90s on US roadtrips.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 дней назад

      That is very interesting and I did not know that. Thank you for watching!

  • @xxNinjaclanxx-id9rs
    @xxNinjaclanxx-id9rs 8 дней назад +5

    I wanna go back! 🥹

  • @ZMAN_420
    @ZMAN_420 7 дней назад +1

    Great Retro Content! If you were a kid back the yah know lol

  • @saltyassassins5816
    @saltyassassins5816 6 дней назад

    Lunch boxes made of steel, often with images of our favorite TV shows or characters.

  • @3DJapan
    @3DJapan 7 дней назад +1

    My vacuum still uses bags. It's pretty old.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 дней назад

      I have not seen one for sale with one it a long time. But the old ones are still running.

  • @PHBRNTGGR2
    @PHBRNTGGR2 7 дней назад

    The Price Club used to sell a map book that was had all the streets in the state. It was awesome. I loved that book.

  • @AKayfabe
    @AKayfabe 8 дней назад +1

    I lived above a Video rental shop
    We used to walk downstairs and rent movies on VHS, then go up and watch them, then bring them back downstairs and get more.
    We have an actual arcade by my house now. Kids and adults are going there and playing actual video games and pinball with quarters again, and I think that’s awesome.

  • @aariley2
    @aariley2 7 дней назад

    I never used a slide ruler. We had to use our brains until Geometry in 7th grade. I remember loading the Commodore 64 with a cassette!!!! HA!!! Yes, the good old Dewey Decimal system!😂😂😂

  • @elgato894
    @elgato894 8 дней назад +2

    yes renting movies ,what a treat,sat nite,when CREATURES FEATURES WAS NOT ON THE TABLE THAT NITE............

  • @dockholiday06
    @dockholiday06 8 дней назад +1

    God I miss the 80s and 90s😢 the older I get the more I want the world to go back to the good old days sometimes I wonder and wish technology would crash so that everyone today would have to revert to the old ways that I miss a lot sure things took longer sure things were harder but you know what I would trade it in a heartbeat if I could go back in time one way or another

  • @kmstins
    @kmstins 8 дней назад +2

    When I was a little kid, we had a party line. I'd love to hear what kids today would give as the definition of that. ☎️😄

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 дней назад +1

      Thank you for watching and bringing that one up! I'm sure they wouldn't like it!

  • @pheona1164
    @pheona1164 8 дней назад

    Awesome video. My junior high life was spent on newspaper movie listings and on the movie trailer phone. lol I miss the feel of pressing down the chunky buttons on a personal cassette player/recorder. I don't remember the function, but there was always pain when 2 buttons had to be pressed down at once.

  • @nightswatch8659
    @nightswatch8659 7 дней назад +1

    I did spend a lot of time at arcades. Arcade games were everywhere. When my mom dragged me to the store, I would make my way to whatever one they had there and play it until my mom was done shopping.

  • @bradm2687
    @bradm2687 8 дней назад

    TV Guides I thought you would have brought that up. I was waiting to hear that LoL. And you had to get off the couch to change the channel😂

  • @brianquilty687
    @brianquilty687 3 дня назад

    I remember back in my day when a pinball machine game cost a dime and we would collect pop bottles to turn in at the corner store to get the dimes we needed to play them.

  • @scoobydoodle5473
    @scoobydoodle5473 7 дней назад +2

    This was a great video!

  • @bennetfox
    @bennetfox 8 дней назад +1

    My dot matrix printers never screamed, they sounded like they were chiseling words into stone!!

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  8 дней назад

      They were definitely loud. Thank you for watching bennetfox!

  • @brucemartini2288
    @brucemartini2288 8 дней назад +1

    tried to bring up "BILL & TED", other day in a store. guy said "whats that?"
    me:😳😮‍💨
    didn't consider myself THAT old- till then😆

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  8 дней назад

      It's funny how that happens. I have done things like that a lot.

  • @billwalker5623
    @billwalker5623 8 дней назад +3

    I probably spent a million dollars playing paperboy at the arcade

    • @1massboy
      @1massboy 8 дней назад +2

      Omg. I forgot about that game.

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 дней назад +2

      That was a fun game Bill! Thank you for watching!

  • @markdraskovics5274
    @markdraskovics5274 8 дней назад

    HEY,..RHETTY How's everything Going Hope all is Well.. Ya ! I just got to Keep telling you how Much I Enjoy the
    video's It brings Back so many Great memories
    So Thanks again
    please Take care and Stay safe 🙏

  • @jennfitz0189
    @jennfitz0189 8 дней назад +2

    Road trips with family, reading the paper map, and having the skills to refold it 😅

    • @RhettyforHistory
      @RhettyforHistory  7 дней назад

      It was certainly a skill to be able to fold a map back up. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!